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“2010”: Celebration of space exploration
Table of contents ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS.......................................................................................... 2 ABOUT PEEK&POKE: RETRO COMPUTER CLUB .................................................. 5 2010: THE PROJECT ...................................................................................................... 6 THE TESLA ORCHESTRA ............................................................................................ 7 PROJECT JUSTIFICATION .......................................................................................... 8 EVENT SCHEDULE AND AUDIENCE.......................................................................... 9 BUDGET BREAKDOWN ...............................................................................................10 APPENDIX A: LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE BY THE TESLA ORCHESTRA...........11 APPENDIX B: VISUALISATION OF THE MONOLITH.............................................12 APPENDIX C: LETTER OF SUPPORT OF THE CITY OF RIJEKA..........................13 APPENDIX D: LETTER OF SUPPORT OF THE CROATIAN NATIONAL
THEATRE RIJEKA (IN CROATIAN)...........................................................................14 APPENDIX E: LETTER OF SUPPORT OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY ART (IN CROATIAN) ..................................................................15 Udruga građana "Calculus", Dubrovačka 6, 51000 Rijeka
matični broj: 2217902 • žiro-račun: 2340009-1110274631
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e-mail: [email protected] web: www.peekpoke.hr
RETRO COMPUTER CLUB RIJEKA
About the organizers
The event is organized by Peek&Poke Retro Computer Club, the only dedicated computer history museum in
Croatia, and the largest such museum in the region. The museum is operated by not-for-profit organization
“Calculus”, founded for this sole purpose. Operation of the museum is financed by the City of Rijeka, several
sponsor organizations, and partly by own revenue from tickets, souvenirs and Internet cafe operated by the
Museum.
The address of the Museum is:
Peek&Poke
Ivana Grohovca 2b
HR-51000 Rijeka
Croatia
phone: +385 51 680770
e-mail: [email protected]
web: http://www.peekandpoke.org
“Calculus” is headquartered at:
Udruga “Calculus”
Dubrovacka 6
HR-51000 Rijeka
Croatia
The “2010” event team are:
Mr. Svetozar Nilovic, president of «Calulus», head of organization
Mr. Tomislav Ribicic, in charge of international relations
Mr. Hrvoje Dogan, in charge of logistics
Mr. Goran Paulin, in charge of finances
Mr. Davor Pasaric, in charge of public relations
Mr. Jusuf Sehovic, in charge of media production
Mr. Aleksandar Stancin, in charge of sponsor relations
Curricula vitae of the event team follow.
Udruga građana "Calculus", Dubrovačka 6, 51000 Rijeka
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Svetozar Nilovic
[email protected] | +385 91 780 5709
Born in 1971 in the Rijeka, Croatia, where he completed his primary and secondary education in the year 1990.
In the same year he enrolls the Maritime Faculty, but does not finish it until the present time. He has been
permanently employed since 1996. With the emersion of first home computers in 1985, he finishes a computer
programming course, at the time part of Rast-Yu. He has been involved with information technology and
multimedia since its beginnings.
ACTIVITIES
- President of the association Calculus that was founded with the purpose of establishing the first Croatian
computer history museum
- one of the founders of the PEEK&POKE project, the first museum of information technologies in this area
- founder of the Peek&Poke museum together with Tomislav Ribičić, Goran Paulin and Davor Pasarić, program
leader and organizer of numerous cultural and entertaining events at the museum
- enthusiastic and ambitious
Tomislav Ribicic
[email protected] | +385 98 431304
Born in 1972 in Rijeka, Croatia. Graduated from the University of Economy in Rijeka with a degree in Business
Sciences. Cherishes an interest in technology from the early days. Started experimenting with computer modem
communications in early nineties, and founded a non-profit community site for Apple users, www.jabucnjak.hr.
Co-founder of the PEEK&POKE Club, which he extensively uses to experiment with old and new technologies
and share the knowledge with others. Passionate about anything that is unusual and non-mainstream, especially
if it involves electricity. Currently working around Europe as a storage consultant for EMC Corporation.
Hrvoje Dogan
Hrvoje Dogan was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1977. He has been involved with different IT-related not-for-profit
organizations for over 15 years. After being one of the founders and the first president of Croatian Linux Users
Group, he is now member of the board of advisors of Croatian Linux Users Group and Croatian Informatics
Clubs Association, member of the executive board of DIR gifted computer professionals association and part of
the core team of PEEK&POKE computer museum at Calculus.
He is employed as a Consulting Systems Engineer for security products at Cisco Systems. Hrvoje's vocational
interests include IT security, networking and systems integration. As it is his mission to make things work, he
believes in life-long learning and using every opportunity to broaden his horizons. In his free time, he tries to
spend as much time possible to explore the wonderful undersea world. Hrvoje lives and works in Rijeka, a city
on the Adriatic coast of Croatia, and if his name gives you trouble, just address him as «Harry.»
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Goran Paulin
Born in Rijeka, Croatia in 1975. Graduated from the University of Economy in Rijeka with a degree in Business
and Computer Sciences. Since 1992, Goran has been working with computer graphics, animation and
programming. During the last ten years, he has been in charge of video production. He is responsible for
technological procedures, control of creative process and leads 3D projects, including Urban Jungle (educational
traffic simulation) and Hyperviz (interactive visualizations). Goran is the secretary of the Association of Gifted
Computer Professionals of Rijeka since 1997 and as such he is highly experienced in project management and
financial planning for non-profit organizations.
Davor Pasaric
Born in Rijeka, Croatia, in 1970. Involved with computer graphics since 1992. Worked on the first independent
TV station in Rijeka. For the past ten years, performs video production and TV and press design. Member of the
executive board of Association of computer talents of Rijeka. Graduated business informatics at the Faculty of
Economy in Rijeka. For the past five years, serves as the general manager of award-winning market
communications and multimedia production agency “Kreativni Odjel”.
Jusuf Sehovic
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1968, Jusuf graduated from the New York Film Academy, and is an Apple Certified
Trainer. He has seven years of experience in video editing for Croatian Radio And Television, and another seven
years of experience on non-linear editing at Kanal Ri. He currently works at Kreativni Odjel, where, additionaly
to his producer role, he is also specializing in editing and post-production.
Jusuf is a computer enthusiast, and his video production skills have helped promote PEEK&POKE from day
one. He is recognized as editor of many award-winning documentary films, TV shows, news reports and music
videos.
Aleksandar Stancin
Aleksandar Stancin was born on 1978 in Rijeka, Croatia. After getting his B.Sc. in Economics, he currently
works in the IT industry as VP of Sales of Mack IT, a local security VAD, member of Groupmack, an
international holding headquartered in Switzerland. IT and computers have always played a role in his life, both
as a hobby and professionally, especially in terms of security.
Since his specialization covers various sales related activities, planning as well as marketing, his role within
PEEK&POKE is a consulting one to coordinate and help reaching more possible sponsor organizations as well
as access marketing funds. Assisting the team that runs PEEK&POKE is Aleksandar's way to give something
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back to the ICT community, as well as to make the new generations aware of history of technological heritage.
His other hobbies include scuba diving & photography.
About Peek&Poke: Retro Computer Club
The “Calculus” association was founded in the beginning of 2007, with the aim of establishing the first Croatian
museum of computers and information technology equipment. The museum, named “PEEK&POKE”, was
formally opened on September 22, 2007, in the presence of a large number of guests and news reporters. The
museum’s specific fund as well as theme has placed it among rare of its kind in the world and as such, it
represents a unique and inevitable touristic destination in the center of the city of Rijeka. It spreads on two floors
across 300 square meters. Two thirds of the area is used for exhibits while the remaining third is dedicated to
education. The museum’s exhibits display the development of computers and information technology from its
beginnings till present time, and also some exhibits showing the latest technological achievements are displayed
for comparison purposes. Although some computer history artifacts have been irrevocably lost, over 1.000 of the
displayed exhibits are worth seeing. Within the museum there is an active library and reading room, retro
playroom, presentation hall, classroom (workshop), an inevitable gift shop and NetCorner.
NetCorner is one of the most modern in town and enables visitors to access the Internet. In the library, visitors
can read the latest Croatian and foreign computer magazines, review old computer magazines as well as new
literature. The retro playroom offers entertainment on forerunners of today’s game consoles, as well as the
educational traffic simulation “Urban Jungle” – Rijeka’s popular product in which PEEK&POKE has a notable
position in the virtual world. The presentation hall is intended for different kind of manifestations and events,
with an emphasis on the presentation of new products (hardware, software and literature…) and events
promoting cyberculture or other computing culture related events.
During its first two years of operation, PEEK&POKE hosted the celebration of 15h anniversary of IBM’s
presence in Croatia, presented the latest edition of the computer game “Urban Jungle”, photo session by Damir
Spanic, participated at “Museum nights” and organized a two month program to honor the anniversary of the
landing on the Moon – PEEK@MOON. Every day more visitors are coming to the museum, and so far over
4500 visitors have been registered. A considerable number of visitors are foreign guests and highly positive
reviews can be read in the Impressions Book.
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2010: The Project
After a successful two months program “PEEK@MOON”, in 2010 we plan to organize an even more ambitious
and attractive program that would include even more international educational, cultural and artistic partners. The
case for the program is the year 2010 – the year of the Second space odyssey, and the theme would be used to
promote Rijeka as an intelligent digital city and a city of knowledge!
A black Monolith would draw public attention to the program on Rijeka’s Korzo thoroughfare. Monolith is a
universal cosmic symbol of intelligent life forms (its proportions 1:4:9 can’t incur incidentally by natural forces,
but only by action of intelligent life). From the legendary novel by Arthur C. Clarke and the cult movie classic
by Stanley Kubrick, we know that the Monolith is the symbol of creation, a symbol of new life and tolerance of
diversity.
In agreement with the City of Rijeka, this installation would be done “secretly” during the night, and no
information would be issued the following day, to create an aura of mystery about how the Monolith from the
movie found itself in Rijeka. Certainly, a lot of media interest would be raised, and we believe that the press
would cover this story, since such an advent is extremely visually attractive and at the moment most
recognizable. Viral promotion through YouTube and other similar services is also guaranteed.
Symbolizing the human curiosity, the drive for knowledge and research, the effort to move the boundaries of our
civilization, two “non-life” characters are present in the entire “Odyssey” saga – the HAL computer as artificial
intelligence (whose replica was already made at the computer museum – and during 2010 we plan to additionally
improve it) and the legendary Monolith as the universal symbol of knowledge, intelligence, openness and
tolerance.
The entire event would be turned into a cultural attraction by performance of the works of Richard Strauss and
other classical composers featured in Science Fiction literature or motion pictures, in cooperation with the
philharmonic orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre of Rijeka. During the final night, on the Korzo, the
event would be additionally enhanced with the unusual performance by the Tesla Orchestra – a world attraction
that during its performance uses a 2-megavolt Tesla coil that plays music with “lightning bolts”! After the
closing of the events on the Korzo, the Monolith will be transferred to the University Campus in Rijeka, as a
permanent monument to knowledge and intelligence.
The computer museum PEEK&POKE (Calculus Association) is the bearer of the project, sponsored by the City
of Rijeka, promoted by the Rijeka Tourist Board and co-organized with the Association of gifted computer
specialists Rijeka, the multimedia studio Kreativni odjel (Creative department), the Astronomical center Rijeka,
Art Kino Croatia (movie theatre), the Croatian National Theatre Ivan Zajc, the bookstore RiBook, Antikvarijat
Mali neboder (antique shop), STeP-Ri (Science and Technology park of the University of Rijeka) and numerous
volunteers that have been involved also in the PEEK@MOON project.
The program will last for one full month, with a rich program at the computer museum (workshops, lectures,
exhibitions, presentations, competitions…) as well as movies at Art Kino Croatia, literary discussions and
concerts. Various manifestations – including the grand finale featuring The Tesla Orchestra will also take place
on the Korzo, making the events available to the widest possible audience.
The intended audience of the project are all of Rijeka’s citizens, as well as any visitors happening to be in the
city at the time of the program happenings – considering the current timing places the events in the tourist
season, this will guarantee a very international audience.
With the exception of the Monolith that takes the role of monument, all other products of the thematic creation
within the project, realized through different workshops at the museum PEEK&POKE remain part of the
holdings of the museum and permanent exhibit setup (as was the case also with PEEK@MOON).
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The Tesla Orchestra
In 2009, engineers Ian Charnas and Ed Burwell teamed up with performance artist Zachariah Durr and an
ensemble of dancers and musicians to create the Tesla Orchestra, an entertainment group based around a 2million volt musical tesla coil. The Tesla Coil is a high-voltage device capable of generating enormous arcs of
raw electricity. Using advanced high-power electronics, it is possible to modulate these arcs of electricity so that
they produce tones at differing frequencies, which is where the music comes from. The arcs of electricity
actually produce the music, without the aid of any speakers or amplifiers.
The Tesla Orchestra's first performance was at a large-scale arts and technology festival called the Ingenuity
Festival, located in Cleveland Ohio USA. A comedic musical was presented, featuring futuristic dance and
music routines, exploding ribbon dances, electrified stage props, and a 2 megavolt tesla coil hidden inside a
large 4-meter tall stage prop that transformed into a lightning-bolt-spewing robot. The final scene showcased Ian
Charnas in a special high-voltage suit, battling the lightning bolts produced by the tesla coil.
Currently the Tesla Orchestra is designing a much larger tesla coil, which will be amongst the world's largest
musical tesla coils to date. During the 2010 performance season they plan on performing at corporate events,
music concerts, sporting games, and other events.
Performers' biographies:
Ian Charnas | +1 (216) 402-4994 | [email protected]
Ian Charnas graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2005 with dual-degrees in computer and
mechanical engineering. In addition to running a profitable web technologies company for the past decade,
he has also spread out into the world of art. Ian blends art and technology in his wildly-themed parties and
fundraisers, stand-up comedy shows, and public tech-themed performances such as Boltz, the 2009 Ingenuity
Festival performance under the name Tesla Orchestra, incorporating a 2-megavolt musical Tesla Coil. In his
spare time, Ian works tirelessly on issues of poverty and the environment. As part of his non-profit work, he has
organized budgets as small as one hundred dollars and as large as a quarter million dollars, and always comes in
under budget. Ian has lived in all corners of the world, from New York to New Orleans, from India to Nepal, but
always finds himself back in Cleveland, where he believes the clay is moist for anyone looking to change the
world.
Ed Burwell | +1 (216) 212-9399 | [email protected]
Ed Burwell's engineering career has included the design and construction of low-atmospheric rockets, highpower laser design, radio-frequency electronics, micro-controller engineering, power electronics, chemistry, and
optics, just to name a few. In addition to multiple degrees in theoretical physics, electrical engineering, and
industrial electronics, Ed also commands an encyclopedic knowledge of practical engineering methodologies.
High-voltage experimentation has long been one of his hobbies, including Tesla Coils in particular, and he is
currently designing and building one of the world's largest musical tesla coils to date, for use in the Tesla
Orchestra. Ed currently lives in Cleveland Heights with his wife Deanna and his two sons.
Zachariah Durr | +1 (440) 212-2727 | http://zartdart.com | [email protected]
Zachariah Durr is a New-York based Filmmaker and Performance Artist, who recently finished directing a
television series for the Independent Film Channel called “Food Party”. As with much of his work, Zachariah
called upon his background in stand-up comedy and theatre to create the fantastical, peewee-herman-meetsrachel-ray scripts used in the TV series. Graduating in 2005 with a Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute
of Art, he maintains strong ties to his hometown of Cleveland Ohio, and often travels back to help orchestrate
performances with groups such as Red (an orchestra) and The Tesla Orchestra. Currently Zachariah is back in
New York, script-writing and directing for several independent television pilots.
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Project justification
The question that comes to mind is: why put on such an ambitious, diverse project. In our minds the actual
question is, why aren't more of these multi-discipline, multi-cultural, multi-media programs presented to the
public.
It may seem that combining elements of urban art (the Monolith installation), film projections, music concerts,
physics lectures into a single event makes little to no sense. After all, we, the public, are used to singularly
themed festivals, film festivals, book festivals, art festivals, theater ... etc. So how could a cornucopia of events
have any mass appeal?
When we started our museum PEEK&POKE, the underlying fear was that we were creating a space where only
a select few would find anything of interest. We thought the museum would only attract the stereotypical
"geek", that is an expert in clock speeds and how 80's soldering techniques led to increased reliability in
computers. But, in the subsequent 2 years, our patrons have been and are as varied as the people who live and
visit this city. From kindergarten, high school, and university students, to international web artists, to art and
history professors, and yes ... the occasional “geek”.
What we have found, through our museum, is that the the computer is a grand unifier of our culture. That the
exclusive room sized machine can now fit in our pocket and is within reach of all.
With this event we want to show our city and the world, that space exploration, science fiction, science,
technology, and art are not that different, and within reach for all. And of course, that you don't have to be a
“geek” to enjoy it.
We have already done this on a smaller scale with PEEK@MOON. We can, and want to do it again with
“2010”.
So you may wonder, what does this event in Croatia have to do with the USA. With PEEK@MOON, we
celebrated an event that changed humanity, an event that was wholly American, but belonged to the world.
Similarly, with “2010” we will again celebrate those topics that are originally American, space exploration,
science, technlogy, not to mention american performer T.C.O., american films Space Odyssey 2001, 2010. Last
but not least, Croatian born inventor Tesla, whose residence in the USA proved to be his most productive.
In essence, we are creating an event that celebrates the accomplishments, innovation, and the ideas of the USA,
maybe not by waving the US flag, but by sharing some of the best of what the US has to offer.
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Event schedule and audience
Date
10 May 2010
21 May 2010
22 May 2010
23 May 2010
24 May 2010
25 May 2010
26 May 2010
27 May 2010
28 May 2010
29 May 2010
30 May 2010
Event
The Monolith setup at the Korzo
Opening Ceremony: 2010: The Year of Odyssey Two
Concert: Sinteza
Location
Rijeka Korzo
PEEK&POKE
PEEK&POKE
Lecture: Korado Korlevic, astronomer
Spray Art workshop and presentation
Movie showing: «2001: Space Odyssey»
Theme evenings @ RiBook
Lecture: Ivo Orlic, physicist
Concert: AZOT, Zagreb
PEEK&POKE
PEEK&POKE
Art Cinema «Croatia»
RiBook bookstore
PEEK&POKE
PEEK&POKE
31 May 2010
Retrospective exhibition of Arthur Clarke's works
01 June 2010
02 June 2010
03 June 2010
04 June 2010
05 June 2010
06 June 2010
07 June 2010
08 June 2010
09 June 2010
10 June 2010
11 June 2010
12 June 2010
13 June 2010
14 June 2010
15 June 2010
16 June 2010
17 June 2010
18 June 2010
19 June 2010
20 June 2010
21 June 2010
21 July 2010
Opening of themed exhibition by Nikola Nenadic
Movie showing: «2010: Odyssey Two»
Lecture: SETI
Concert: Putokazi
«Mali Neboder» antique
bookstore
PEEK&POKE
Art Cinema «Croatia»
RiBook bookstore
PEEK&POKE
PEEK&POKE
Lecture: Miroslav Ambrus Kis, Croatia's space traveler
Movie showing: «Space Odyssey: From Venus To Pluto»
Observation of Jupiter and lecture
Space Jazz @ Jazz Bar «Tunel»
Concert: Manofon
PEEK&POKE
PEEK&POKE
Astronomic Centre Rijeka
RiBook bookstore
Jazz Bar «Tunel»
PEEK&POKE
Lecture: Michio Kaku, physicist
Movie showing: «The Dark Side of The Moon»
Theater Rubikon performance
Presentation of Croatian electrical car
Concert: Father unplugged
The Grand Finale
Excursion to Smiljan, the birthplace of Nikola Tesla
Salute to summer equinox: Tesla Orchestra and rock bands
Relocation of the Monolith to Rijeka University Campus
PEEK&POKE
PEEK&POKE
PEEK&POKE
Rijeka Korzo
PEEK&POKE
Rijeka Korzo
Lika region
Hartera (Old Paper Mills)
University Campus Trsat
The nature of the events will attract various audience: Obviously, the concert performances will draw more to
the younger generation, where we tended to invite popular but different bands from the region. The lectures will
appeal to all age groups. We are counting on achieving international audience at most of the events, because in
summer many foreign visitors to Rijeka and Croatia frequent PEEK&POKE.
The Grand Finale performance, by taking place on the Rijeka Korzo on Saturday, will undoubtedly attract
thousands, of all age and ethnic groups. We will promote the program throughout the country, and try to
organize group visits from schools to select events.
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Budget Breakdown
Budget breakdown for the whole project:
Task / Event
Construction of Monolith
Monolith transportation and setup
The Tesla Coil Orchestra
Lecture: Korado Korlević
Lecture: Ivo Orlić
Lecture: Mitchio Kaku
Concert: Sinteza
Concert: Manofon
Concert: Father (unplugged)
Concert: Putokazi
Concert: Azot (Zagreb)
Excursion to Smiljan
Spray Art Event
Hiring of stage, audio, lighting and accessories
Other expenses
Total:
Cost in HRK
50.000,00
20.000,00
200.000,00
1.000,00
1.000,00
10.000,00
4.000,00
4.000,00
5.000,00
5.000,00
2.000,00
10.000,00
10.000,00
30.000,00
50.000,00
400.000,00
Budget breakdown for The Tesla Orchestra arrival and performance:
Task / Event
Airfares for performers
Accommodation for performers
Performers’ fee
Air Cargo Transportation of the Tesla Orchestra equipment
Transportation and assembly at the event venues
Total:
Cost in HRK
30.000,00
25.000,00
50.000,00
80.000,00
15.000,00
200.000,00
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Appendix A: Letter of acceptance by The Tesla Orchestra
From: Ian Charnas <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Performing overseas? Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:43:04 -‐0400 To: Riba <[email protected]> Hello Tomislav. PEEK&POKE looks like a great place, just the right audience for the Tesla Orchestra. Also, Croatia is a beautiful country that I would personally love to visit. We have several different shows, ranging from a one-‐person show with a 2-‐megavolt tesla coil and a performer in a high-‐voltage suit, to a complete theatrical performance involving dancers, live musicians, explosions, and video projection. Usually, we are willing to perform additional shows without increasing the price. For example we just did 2 shows (friday and saturday night) for a festival here in the USA, and we only charged for one show. Let me know if you want more information, or if you would like to book a performance date. Looking forward! Ian +1 (216) 402-‐4994 Udruga građana "Calculus", Dubrovačka 6, 51000 Rijeka
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Appendix B: Visualisation of the Monolith
A 160''x71''x18'' monolith set up at Korzo, Rijeka's main pedestrian thoroughfare
Visualisation courtesy of Kreativni Odjel d.o.o.
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Appendix C: Letter of support of the City of Rijeka
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Appendix D: Letter of support of The Croatian National Theatre Rijeka (in Croatian)
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Appendix E: Letter of support of the Museum of Modern And Contemporary Art (in Croatian)
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