Time Inventors' Kabinet
is an investigation into time relations within biological and circumstantial ecologies, through the lens of system aesthetics. Using media technology and electronics as research tools in our shared laboratories, we will collect data from various ecosystems over a period of time. The artistic output of this data collection process will be the creation of electronic interfaces that will then be used to reinterpret the data with goal of exploring time related poetics such as synchronicity and (ir)regularity through electronics, and of developing a common language about time.

- develop tools and interfaces (tik-server, COG database, windclocks, the kabinets, processing and supercollider)
- reinterprete the gathered data and explore time related poetics (make the works)
- develop and document a common language about time (padma, wiki, creative writing)

about Windtime, definitions and implementations:
http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/windclocks/windtime#windtimedefinition_concept_and_implementation

brussels windclock example in padma:
http://padma.okno.be/Vtolhiyi
This is a windclock model we made during the TIK workshop in Korcula. It's based on the 15th century anemometer model of Leonardo Da Vinci. After the workshop I installed the windclock in the rooftopgarden in Brussels. Following video is a shows the working windclock on a windy day. The clock is connected to an arduino and computer, and the max patch lists the plants in the garden and renders as such a textual garden in which the fontsize is related to the windforce.

korcula windclock example in padma:
http://padma.okno.be/Vhm0nrj8/00:00:32.961-00:01:01.638
Test of wind mills prototypes assembled during workshop in Korcula. There is some analysis and visualisation running on two laptops reading windmills through arduino.
The first windmill is using the light sensor for measuring. The wind is analysed and speaks through simple patch using “morse code”.
The second windmill is using bend sensor for measuring.

korcula lens-windmill:
http://padma.okno.be/Vhn08tsn/00:00:00.000-00:00:51.000

the Connected OpenGreens database:
http://opengreens.okno.be
Nature and Technology. Open Air Labs.
Rooftop Gardens, manmade nature vs. Edgelands, Wastelands and other Urban Biotopes.
- monitoring
- archiving
- comparing
- inspiration for artworks
start okno rooftopgarden, compare hanging garden st.nazaire:
http://opengreens.okno.be/garden.php?id=9 (okno)
http://opengreens.okno.be/garden_compare.php?start=9&cb=25 (okno + jardin suspendu)

Patterns and Shapes:
- voronoi
- fibonacci

the Bee Monitoring workshops:
http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/bee_monitoring_workshops
http://opengreens.okno.be/bee_colony_timeline.php?id=437

the OpenGreen Robots:
http://opengreens.okno.be/project.php?id=463

the silent Wasteland Soundwalk:
http://opengreens.okno.be/garden.php?id=23

http://padma.okno.be/Vfruyrkp/00:00:11.424-00:00:53.376
the Topographic garden: generating the gardens' surface map in realtime.
measuring the windtime and describing the OpenGreen rooftop garden in the center of Brussels. The wind-values, registrated by the photosensor, are linked to the list of plants growing in the rooftop garden. The stronger the wind blows, the more present the plantnames appear - expressed in fontsize.

the Bees in RealTime:
http://193.93.114.238:8090/?action=stream (open in VLC)
http://so-on-seethrough.okno.be/ (open in Safari or Chrome)

bees-piezo.ogv (inside/outside) ⇒ open in VLC

Bees as inspiration: waxbuilding patterns
http://padma.okno.be/Vfsom73j/00:01:15.000-00:01:36.646