Images from the 2009 research throughout Foxe Basin

Please see the project specific website of API for complete details, projects, events and news

The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations, founded by Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman, whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region. Its aim is to work with, learn from, and empower the North and Arctic Peoples through open source technologies and applied education and training. By creating access to these technologies while promoting the creation of shared communications and data networks without costly overheads, continued and sustainable development of autonomous culture, traditional knowledge, science, technology and education opportunities for peoples in the North and Arctic regions is enabled.

The project aims to bring closer to a wide audience the urgency of the problems emerging in the Arctic with particular clarity: the changing cultural landscape of the region, the potential for new intercultural dialogue, conflicting economic and territorial interests, ecological problems, climate change, and the effects of ecological changes on the life of the Inuit and other circumpolar peoples.

Exhibitions Include:
Sea, Tundra and Ice Papers - Lyon Biennial (2011)
Coded Utopia - Moderna Gallerija, Ljubljana (2011)
3rd Culture - HMKV Phoenix Halle, Dortmund (2010)
Arctic Perspective - Canada House, London (2010)