• "polar m [mirrored]", an installation by professor Marko Peljhan, in collaboration with Carsten Nicolai, and MAT students Wesley Smith and Danny Bazo, is being exhibited at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in Yamaguchi, Japan. November 13, 2010 - February 6, 2011.
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  The premiere presentation of the situation polar m [mirrored] by Carsten Nicolai and Marko Peljhan will be presented on Saturday November 13, 2010, at the YCAM Center in Yamaguchi, Japan. The installation explores natural radiation phenomena and confronts them with the limits of human sensorial perception. Our understanding of the basic indeterminancy and the non-linear intelligence that one finds in nature's apparent randomness and noise, is limited by the physical characteristics of our senses. The installation offers an unusual insight into the complexity of those natural structures. Like its predecessor project, polar, that was created at the Canon Artlab in Tokyo in 2000 and that won the Prix Ars Electronica for Interactive Art in 2001, polar m [mirrored] was created by the German artist Carsten Nicolai and the Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan. The exhibition is curated by Yukiko Shikata (guest curator) and Kazunao Abe (YCAM).

  The project is part of the demonstration initiatives of the UCIRA Integrative Methodologies ART/SCIENCE series and was in part supported by the MAT program at UC Santa Barbara.