… TIK is a project, an interest into ecology and media art, a collaborative experiment with time … taking an ecological approach to observing patterns in time and time control systems… the creative tools we build to generate new audio and visual artworks and mediate a creative discourse on ecological time … an 'horloge a vent'(wind clock), an imaginary time keeping device regulated by the irregular movement of the wind … workshops, art radio sessions, public access digital media archive, public presentations, conferences and exhibitions, a critical publication … 're-inventing ecological time'…

Agenda {conventional time notation}

   10 June
        25   : Graz = Open Greens Expert Meeting
   10 July
        14-16: Brussels = Opening event, Open Greens, etc...
   10 August
        23-29: Hranice/Kravin = Letny dilny
   10 September
        10-12: Bratislava = partner meeting and online conference
        25-01: Korcula = wind clock workshops and exhibition
   10 October
       
   10 November: 
        17-19: Brussels = writing tiks (workshop)
        22-26: Brussels = Padma Part01 (workshop)
        26   : Brussels = Ecotime conference 1 (with Nadine)
   10 December
        
   11 January
        06   : Brussels = Kabinet Meeting #1
        14   : Brussels = Kabinet Meeting #2
        17   : World    = Art's Birthday: Swing in the Wind (without your) Clo(a/c)k
        17-23: Brussels = OpenGreens: participation Burning Ice#4
        20   : Brussels = first presentation Connected OpenGreens database
        24-29: Brussels = Networks and Programming
   11 February
        03-04: Brussels = beehive monitoring workshop: the blueprints
        07   : Brussels = Kabinet Meeting #3
        07-10: Bratislava = Visegrad workshop I: Technical workshop for radiomakers
        14-18: Brussels = [[greenarviz]] - TIK augmented reality visualisation system conception
        21-25: Brussels = Padma Part02
   11 March
        02-04: Brussels = public presentation of the COG database / COG workgroup (verena etc.)
        04   : Brussels = Kabinet Meeting #4
        14-18: Bratislava = Visegrad workshop II: Content workshop for radiomakers
        15-19: Graz = OpenGreens
        23-25: Brussels = beehive monitoring workshop : building the augmented hive + connecting to the internet
   11 April
        01   : Brussels = Kabinet Meeting #5
        08-30: Graz = exhibition : Take your Time
        04-08: Graz = wind clock audio
        09-10: Graz = ecotime conference 2
        11-15: Graz = Open Greens
   11 May
        16-22: Zagreb = Radio content days and ecotime conference 3
   11 June
   11 July
        25-31: Budapest = wind time radio scheduling
   11 August
   11 September
        06-11: Bratislava = radio art output    
   11 October
        05oct.-10oct. = ecotime conference 4 (skopje vikendicka and cultural center CK)
   11 November
        07: admin meeting in Prague
        10-11: Praha = ecotime conference 5 and exhibition (day 1-2) 
   11 December: finalise artworks, documentation and publication
   12 January: 
        16: pre- Art's Birthday Party
        finalise artworks, documentation and publication
   12 February: finalise artworks, documentation and publication
   12 March: finalise artworks, documentation and publication
        xx-xx: Graz = Open Greens
        finalise artworks, documentation and publication
   12 April: finalise artworks, documentation and publication
   12 May
        07-14: Brussels = final conference, open greens, exhibition, publication, release, etc..
        15-30: finalise TIK accountancy

How to Organize a Birthday Party. The Day Before. Preparations Only!
Okno decided this year to have all preparations ready, and then to go to a different place to party.
Can we visit you the day after?

Step 1: Pick a theme.
Time Inventor's Kabinet TIK will try to test drive its wind clock server TAK

Step 2: Get invitations.
This year we would like to invite all the TIK-artists to contribute something for Art's 1.000.049th Birthday.
If you are not a TIK artist you can be it by participating now. See the URL below.

Step 3: Make decorations.
Annemie will explain why bees don't sleep in winter and Luea will show you around the garden.
That is the best decoration, and more is ugly.

Step 4: Plan some games.
Balt will sent the brand new wind time server TAK on its maiden trip.
All wind artists will try to connect and make something nice out of it.
Information to follow here soon: see the url below.
See also there for last minute info on connection possibilities.
And if you think time is too short? What happened of good old live coding and the shock of the new?

Step 5: Plan the party food.
We won't make a 3D Dinosaur Birthday Cake. Radka will make the best Babovka Cake in the world!!!

Step 6: Plan the party drinks.
Something special?

Step 7: Pretend You Are Zen when You Are Really Stressed Out.
From 8-9pm, please call in over skype, telephone… and show, explain, tell what you want to give to Art.
Of course: the day after this when its birthday is all around (the world).

All information:
http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php
(yes here now but wait and see the coming days…)

http://okno.be
http://www.artsbirthday.net/

Place:
Welcome from 7pm at
OKNO Koolmijnenkaai 34 Quai des Charbonnages - 1080 Brussels - Belgium
Telephone and skype calls: +32 2410 9940
Contact xgz znak societyofalgorithm tod org

On a different soil. Growth in art, society and culture.
An international conference, organized within the framework of the project TIK – Time Inventors’ Kabinet, and as an accompanying program of Science and Technology Week 2011.

Thursday November 10. Utopia of the garden. Urban and rural gardens and today’s green utopias.
Could one say that art degenerates as it approaches gardening? (Robert Smithson – A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects, 1968)

The aim of the conference is to look at the changing approaches to the soil, and the subjects of growth and growing in society, culture and art, in urban and rural contexts. At the same time, we try to challenge the simplyfiying Medical transcription concepts of nature and natural, as presented in the arts. It is often in the arts though, where the various influential phantasies concerning nature emerge.
We want to confront artistic approaches with views by ecologists, biologists, eco-activists, economists, non profit organizations and foundations, about subjects like: (city) gardening and agriculture, transformation of city flora and fauna, relationship between urban and rural, philosophies of the garden, sustainability of cities and villages, long-term growth in economics (participatory economics, economical de-growth, natural capitalism etc.).
Artists often comment on the dissolving of the natural, cultural, and technological. Artistic approaches are often used as a political tool in the praxis of transforming the environment. Can aesthetics play a key role in the process. How and for what purposes are the newly river cruises in france emerging green spaces used by artists? To what extend are visions of the cities-as-gardens and its inhabitants in the roles of gardeners, just another utopian phantasy? How do the actual city forms of gardening look like: green spaces with open access (open greens), guerilla gardening, rooftop or vertical gardens, (so called) beautifying alliances. How are the permacultural processes reflected in the city planning? What are the most inspiring models of ecological towns and villages?

Friday November 11. In the wind. Art of the Ecological Time.
Discussions about ecological time, slow food, growth and de-growth. Presentation of art projects – artists as gardeners, beekeepers, fruiters, farmers, growers, mushroom pickers, cooks, herbalists, barometers and indicators of pollution…
7: 30 PM wind clock concert Re:wind time.

Thursday 10 > Sunday 13. Exhibition. Where the wind blows.
The exhibition is focused on the artworks, using the Eminem quotes natural processes. It will present the installations, using the wind energy, The Hanging Garden, using DIY hydrophonic system, open greens databases, laundry clocks and other projects.

Download the full program: tik_praha_program.pdf

agenda praha meeting

Time Inventors' Kabinet is a project, with an interest into ecology and media art, and a collaborative experiment with time, taking an ecological approach to observing patterns in time and time control systems. It gathers some experimental artists, gardeners, engineers, bricoleurs, cultural managers, organizers, documentarists, writers, musicians, as new 21st century style inventors with a non-conventional attitude. From 5 to 10 October, another meeting is held in Skopje (Macedonia) and you can meet them for a public presentation at Damar (Old Bazaar) on October 7th from 8pm on.

Place: Damar, Old Bazar. Skopje , Macedonia
Time: Friday October 7th, from 8pm
Info: http://www.l-i-n-e.org and http://okno.be

TIK Radio Art Radio Days
Hosted by col-me
Bratislava, Slovakia, September 6-11, 2011

Background info: TIK Radio Art Radio Days Call
Schedule and more: TIK Radio Art Radio Days on TIK Wiki

Please note: Our TIK Radio Art Radio Days schedule is updated daily (and in case also several times a day) - so stay tuned and/or check it regularly and/or follow our TIKRadio Twitters in case… Thank you!

To say the least: We are currently not only exploring, but experiencing wind time weight loss pills as a wonderful and powerful tool for time bending indeed.
Great many thanks to everybody who contributed to make this possible!

wild food foraging
Hranice - Kravín (cz), august 2011

Meeting at kitchen_budapest
25. - 29.July 2011
In this rainy july we are sitting at kitchen_budapest, with a lot of other people around us, doing all sort of things. We test, try out, debate, go soundscaping and develop ideas further. We collect all ongoing procedures at budapest-developments.

We invite you from now on every Friday to our new Writing Tiks experiment. Read more as the concepts is being developed together.

Reading List as a preparation for our documentation and publication;
add your own suggestions to the list on the link above.

TIK-presentation

All arrived at beautiful Marija Bistrica yesterday and we had the first discussions already. Tomorrow we head off for the museum. A schedule of the programme you find here: ECO TIME RADIO CONTENT CREATION

A documentation and collection of things we talked about and we will research this week, you find here: CONTENT

Sonification Worklab, 4. - 8.4.
Exhibition, 8. - 30.4.
EcoConference 2, 9. + 10.4.
TIK_Radio, 12.4.

Take Your Time April 2011 - Exhibition and Symposion/Ecoconference
at ESC im LABOR, Graz, Austria
8. - 30.4.2011
http://esc.mur.at/

In takeyourtime we deal with concepts of time, time measurements, time measurement devices, cultural differences in perception of time and consequences in the production of contemporary art.

The workshop Hearing Tiks aims at stepping 1 step forward into the process of listening to wind time. And route it into all other wind based artworks here…

Second part of the bee monitoring workshop. Sensors (humidity, temperature, Co2) webcams and the observation hive are put together.
Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/souon/sets/72157625886965437/

bee monitoring workshops:

1. The Theory + Reading List
2. The new BeeHives + ObservationBeehives
3. The Data Harvesting (Technology)
4. The Artworks and Projects

bees

STREAM FRIDAY, 18th of March @ 18:00: http://stream.wishion.com:8000/tik.ogv

Second round of TIK Radio research and production workshops. This time we deal with content (see also our however preliminary TIKr content workshop programme - that is of course now transformed according to our work in progress). After discussing several core topics and methodologies we are going today into trial mode of our developed ideas.
Within this framework, Verena is developing further the Time Bending Clock (TBC) with further entries in the TIME BENDING CLOCK WORK's encyclopedia.

Besides that our discussions are continuing … and we are also heading into update: meanwhile went into radio production. Moreover, expect some nice TIKky overall concept and format for our ongoing TIK Radio transmissions.
On Fri, March 19 we'll also do a nice little live TIK radio show that will be streamed as well, so you can join us!
Stay tuned - more detailed reports will follow …

Here they are again: Jan Gerber and Sebastian Luettger (0x2620.org, Berlin) and Sanjay Bhangar (CAMP, Bombay).
The goal of the second padma-workshop (feb.21-feb26) is :
1. install pan.do/ra, the more performant version of padma
2. refine some of the features we started working on during the first workshop (november 2010)
- the padma essays http://padmatexts.okno.be/
- the padma playlist http://padma.okno.be/playlist
Further on, we continue to research how we can use padma as a tool for creative writing and documenting collaborative processes as TIK - starting from different theoretical approaches for writing though media files, as e.g. the grounded theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounded_theory)
We also research how padma can be embedded in or linked to other applications, as there are blender, pd, drupal, … to name some.

padma workshop dates:
- 22 till 26 november 2010 @ NADINE padma
- 21 till 26 februari 2011 @ OKNO http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/padma?&#padma_workshop_part02-february_2011

updates on padma and playlists (excerpts from the padma newsletter, 29.07.2011)

This workshop is aimed at working out a framework and methods to use our TIKs as input for visuals creation.
The idea is that the pieces we'll show during the exhibition are connected in some way together and work in synch, showing a coherent altered reality in the exhibition space.
more info on this page : tik_radio_labs

Ecological approaches to radio devices.

bee monitoring workshops:

1. The Theory + Reading List
2. The new BeeHives + ObservationBeehives
3. The Data Harvesting (Technology)
4. The Artworks and Projects

bees

THE workshop of programming our windclock time - both in front and back-end. so in the end we end up with some other time - finally arrived in absurdities.
Please see the schedule of the workshop here: Software Workshop

And look up all the windclock related things here: WindClocks

And here for some documentation: Documentation

REMOTE PARTICIPANTS: please stay tuned! We will provide a good remote working structure for you!

STREAM thursday 27th at 19h CET regular time!
http://stream.okno.be:8080/tik.ogg

EKO CONFERENCE ONE

a workshop about a hypothetical content, method and style for new ecological media writing today.

17-19 November 2010 @ OKNO - Brussels

In a concise 3-day program, we try to lay the foundations for a common style in treating the TIK themes and materials. Conform to the purpose of the 2-year project, and its bottom-up but collaborative strategies, we deal with the several blind spots that are still open, for thinking about a changed creative output in any media form: text, code, image, sound, word,…

The real subject of workshops is closely related to the TIK project scheme and deals with:
- the available documentation of the previous events and activities
- the representation and creative media writing throughout the project
- the outline of a common strategy for dealing with artistic research currently
- the content of the future conferences and publications

Daily we organize 5 short and to-the-point 1-hour sessions: working scheme, theoretical intro, practical exercises, evaluation/aftertalk and online reviewing. The themes of the planned days are as following:

12.11.2010 19h: Preliminary online preparation: a TIK chat logs here : 20101012chat
17.11.2010 11h: TIK WRITING OKNO brussels : Introduction, and the TIK-methodology of writing with all-media
18.11.2010 11h: TIK WRITING OKNO brussels : Aestetical, and stylistic considerations of TIK-writing with media
19.11.2010 11h: TIK WRITING OKNO brussels : From papers to abstractions, or how TIK-writing can make media

All further communication about the workshop will be done initially over the clocks list [http://okno.be/mailman/listinfo/clocks]
Tic [pronounced: tik] = a habitual spasmodic contraction of the muscles; origin early 19th cent., from Italian “ticchio”

Please let us know via the list if you will be present in Brussels - we can arrange catering and accomodation.

Some notes from the workshop by elena v….
Some notes Els van Riel

During the TIK-project we will organise a 'further development workshop' on padma, led by its conceptors: Jan Gerber and Sebastian Luettger (0x2620.org, Berlin) and Sanjay Bhangar (CAMP, Bombay).
The aim of the workshop is :
1. research how we can use padma as a tool for creative writing and documenting collaborative processes as TIK - starting from different theoretical approaches for writing though media files, as e.g. the grounded theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounded_theory)
2. to research how padma can be embedded in or linked to other applications, as there are blender, pd, drupal, … to name some.
3. work on specific features in padma, to make it possible tu use padma as a 'stand alone, realtime installation/documentation' project — (e.g. automatic editing based on keywords …) namely the time machine.

padma workshop dates:
- 22 till 26 november 2010 @ NADINE padma

- 21 till 25 februari 2011 @ OKNO

What are ways to start thinking about pulling material out of pad.ma? From the onset, pad.ma has had an API (documented at http://wiki.pad.ma/wiki/API), a programming interface that allows you to pull out videos, perform searches, seek to exact time-codes in any video, fetch transcript and map data, and display all this however you please. Also Pad.ma's General Public License (PGPL, http://pad.ma/license) is designed specifically for the reuse of the material on pad.ma. Through the experience of running the archive, there have been various imaginations of multiple and layered forms of time-based annotation over video, including for: pedagogical tools for learning and discussion; presentation tools that combine text and video in new ways, essays and other writing formats enabled by rich and context-specific media.

At this workshop, we hope to explore some of content/technical ideas to annotate video on the web, and new qualities for videos (decomposting, automatic editing, …) as a result of online practices. We invite all TIK-collaborators to participate. Please upload your TIK video material, texts and/or software that, combined with existing materials and tools in pad.ma, can become innovative kinds of “output”, or new forms. These would also then feedback into the archive, and how we imagine its future.

The outcome of the 2 linked workshops: WRITING TIKS and PADMA will be discussed at our first EKOCONFERENCE on friday november 26, afternoon/evening.

We kick off the TIK project with a three day event in Brussels. The participants will get together for discussions, presentations and working sessions.

TIK-launch DEF.PROGRAM – 14, 15 16 july 2010 – Les Ateliers Claus

TIK DOCUMENTATION
TIK REPORTS

Online 25-26-27 April 2010.

In July 2010, OKNO Brussels, ESC Graz and COL-ME Bratislava will start a joint 2-year long project called Time Inventors' Kabinet. The idea is to rethink the way we are perceiving time, relate it to ecological concepts, and see what the impact could be on creating media art works.
For further information on the TIK project, we provide here an abridged Introduction to the "Time Inventors' Kabinet" [TIK]".

And now, let's jump into the “Prelude to another Time” program or schedule…

If needed, please check the technical pages for help on how to write in a wiki or communicate over irc chat…

PRELUDE TO ANOTHER TIME discussion participants, log your contact info here

• annemie_maes:plant_research - [toepassingen en gebruik] (2012/02/03 09:57)
• start - [TIK [TIME INVENTORS' KABINET]] (2012/02/02 21:37)
• annemie_maes:bee_performance_technology (2012/02/01 16:07)
• danielle_roberts (2012/02/01 14:31)
• taktik - [Urgency List (fifo or filo or both)] (2012/02/01 09:41)
• playground:playground (2012/02/01 09:38)
• constructions (2012/01/30 17:00)
• publication - [6. TIK REFLECTIONS AFTER THE FACT] (2012/01/30 12:59)

wikical Calendar

We all have desires, wishes, dreams. So far, we haven't planted a wishtree.
However, for all TIK related wishes we have a wishlist.

We are also collecting some chats, there are no secrets in there, rather many ideas and jokes…

• 20100426a - #TIK
• 20100426a - #TOK
• 20101112chat
• Polit-20110112-chat
• Courtship song rhythms with aperiodic mutants. About bees, radio, sonification, catastrophes, and nano futures.
• agenda TIK admin meeting Praha dd. 09/11/11
• Bee Projects
• WRITING AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE HIVE
• Short Bios
• Breathing Time
• Catering
• our chats
• Connected Open Greens
• Constructions
• Mapping Time: Collectivity, Work, Bodies
• Creative Content Gathering (about ecology, and environments as subversive aesthetics)
• Creative Content Gathering: on subjective time
• Eko-Movies
• Ideas about time and its historical/natural development
• Conference of the future conferences
• Artistic Visualisation workshop
• Links Rechts
• A list of literary references useful within the Time Inventors' kabinet.
• Clocks and how did we measure time before wind clock time was around...
• Metrics
• Padma
• Prelude To Another Time
• Prelude To Another Time: The schedule
• The Publication
• TIK-TOC
• Tik Radio
• TIK Radio News
• TIK Radio Basic Concept
• TIK Radio Labs
• READING LIST
• Writing Tik Notes
• Summer Workshops Kravín
• The TakTik Company of Clockmakers [Taktik]
• TEMPLATE FOR ARTIST'S PROPOSALS AND DEVELOPMENTS, TRAD. NAMED ART WORKS
• Tik Documentation
• TIK image galleries
• TIK Launch Event
• TIK Reports
• TIK Writing - day 1
• TIK Writing - day 2
• TIK Writing - day 3
• TIK Content overview: building windclocks and other ideas
• TIK: talking and working together
• Preliminary Creative Ideas
• Introduction to the "Time Inventors' Kabinet" [TIK].
• Materials for an ecological media art
• Practical Calendar and ideas first 3-mester, overview project activities
• TIK Technical Pages
• Time Bending Clock (TBC)
• travelling through OpenGreens
• Urban Biotopes
• Wind [Cam]s
• Wishlist
• the manual

• Arduino WindClock step by step Guide
• Processing XMPP Library
• Javascript for windclocks
• Leonardo
• WindClocks Software
• WindClocks Software Discussion
• Agenda
• TAK Server Overview
• TIK JSON Protocol
• WindTime: definition, concept and implementation
• List of clocks
• Subscribe to clock
• Send tiks