1. [TIK] project definition, background & approaches
Guy Van Belle, COL-ME/OKNO/yo-yo
www.timeinventorskabinet.org
The Time Inventors' Kabinet is an interdisciplinary, collaborative project combining ecology & media art. An ecological approach will be used to observe patterns in time and time control systems, creating tools to generate future artworks with. The presentation will focus on Wind Clocks or Time Inventors and Connected Open Greens or the Kabinet.
2. Wind Time
Isjtar & Marcio Domingues, OKNO
Wind Time, being a key concept in [TIK], will be defined, and discussed how to make it connected. How can Wind Time be generated? Which form does it have? Physical and artistic concepts of time are very wide and abound so during this working session we will try to narrow it down by defining our take on time, how we want to formalize it, and build the [TIK] skeleton.
3. ATKN, A Tribute to Karl L. Nessler
Gert Aertsen, OKNO
www.atkn.org
ATKN is an artistic research on the fundamental precondition of wireless communication. Windmill energy is used as energy source, thus also as the defining factor of the quality of established communication. Sound and image are being sent back and forth from one location to the other. Karl L. Nessler (1872-1951) was a pioneer in waves experiments, inventing a hair curling device.
4. [TIK] Radio & Metrics
Barbara Huber, COL-ME
www.emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/index.shtml
Radio broadcasts will be scheduled after wind clock time. The used metrics will be those of calendar systems, specifically connected to the context wind clocks. The presentation will include possible working proposals for future workshops.
5. [TIK] Clicks, Granular Synthesis Working Session
Isjtar, OKNO
Granular Synthesis is the most developed form of time-based sound generation. It offers myriad possibilities of control and expression, and at the same time it is an excellent tool for performance and generative works. This session will offer a short overview of some basic and advanced techniques followed by a blueprint sketch of the Time Inventors' Granulator.
6. Eco Movies: Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan, Une histoire de vent, 1988.
selection by Lenka Dolanova, COL-ME/OKNO/yo-yo
Une histoire de vent is an ‘auteur’ film combining fantasy and documentary. It can be read as an artistic attempt to film the invisible, the wind, on location in China. The film won a Golden Lion at the 1988 Venice Film Festival.
1. pad.ma, Public Access Digital Media Archive
presented by Barbara Huber, COL-ME & Annemie Maes, OKNO
www.pad.ma
pad.ma is an online archive for text-annotated video material initiated & developed by oil21.org, Berlin (associated [TIK] project partner); Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore & Chitrakarkhana/CAMP, Bombay.
2. Calendar systems as part of the time inventing machine
Barbara Huber, COL-ME
www.emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/index.shtml
www.timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/radio
Wind clocks will be approached as time measuring machines. The research will consider various time measuring tools, focusing on calendars on a macro, clocks on a micro scale. Calendars give measurements by physical and cultural parameters as religious holidays, counting and week cycles. The 1950s calendar reform and 'World Calendar' will be discussed. The book Calendrical Calculations offers an overview of world calendars in use, their algorithms and cultural impacts including an own LISP implementation for a calendar calculation tool. The project aims at the implementation of wind clocks, their times and measurements, into a system, on which new time could be based.
3. Workshop Subjective Time
Edith Doove, OKNO
Even big expensive watches are not capable to catch time. There simply is no such thing as objective time. Or is there? And is time a human thing? Does time actually exist?
During the workshop different perceptions of time, in science, philosophy and visual arts will be examined, raising more questions
3. TBC/Time Bending Clock project
Verena Kuni, OKNO
www.under-construcion.cc/tbc
www.timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/time_bending_clock
TBC is a distributed system and network based project involving collaborative work
This theoretical & praxis research includes problems and questions of time measurement, individual and collective perception(s) of time, utopias and realities of alternate times. The research is situated in various scientific disciplines and domaines, as art/cultural history, history of science, and intersections between arts, science and popular culture. TBC has nodes in physical space and various media (Internet, radio, hybrid media) and applies a broad spectrum of technologies and practices (site-based, apparatus/media enabled, analogue, digital, immersive, physical, psychological, meditative, social/communicative, ludic, …)
4. Creative Content Gathering, On Time & Temporality
Anja Kanngieser & Manuela Zechner, presented by Annemie Maes, OKNO
www.futurearchive.org/static/p_activismandactivistspeech.html
During the project conversations and or interviews will be conducted and taken in collaboration with various organizations and individuals involved on site. This will allow the examination of time flow at those locations and in those contexts. The project includes workshops and reflection through a future publication. The methodology at hand is the appliance of different mapping layers related to temporality & time.
5. Silence/Breathing Project
Danielle Roberts, OKNO
This project is a research on the interaction between the human body and time perception. Does the state of the body influence how we perceive time? Can you control your time perception by your breathing? How does it relate to clock time? The project will focus on ‘Breathing clocks’.
6. SIR Informal Discussion
moderated by Isjtar, OKNO
Marcio Domingues, Isjtar, Erwan Queffelec and Ofer Smilansky will reboot the Symbiosis Interface Research [SIR]project, the development of a music oriented computing device for live performance.
1. Connected Open Greens (Rooftop Gardens): Media Ecologies
Annemie Maes, OKNO
Through the digital examination of natural phenomena the real will be opposed to the digital or artificial, and nature will be opposed to culture. How can these phenomena be generated, controlled, enhanced or imagined in and through artworks? The project includes a database of open greens and a domes and sunflower/sensors workshop. Connected Open Greens can be considered as a one-year work in progress, with round up evaluation in December 2010. The project has three parts: a garden construction with public access, a Media Ecologies workshop focusing on tool creation and the implementation of those tools in future artistic projects, talks and lectures.
2. City Honeybees, Bee Observatory project
Annemie Maes, OKNO
The project idea is the suggestion of the transformation of two urban roof top gardens into interfering, communicating entities by installing bees into both spaces. The two rooftop gardens, and locations for the beehives, are situated at about 400 m from each other: at Koolmijnenkaai 30 (OKNO) and at Vlaamsesteenweg 66, Brussels. The distance between the locations can be metaphorically bridged by the bee’s presence and natural activities. Each colony will be active in a radius of at least a few km from their housing hive. Trajectories, areas of floral visits and individual territories will be overlapping establishing hives and gardens interference. A new encounter space or mutual area of existence could be defined, creating a new perception of neighborhood.
3. Biotope City/Urban Biotopes project
Verena Kuni, OKNO
www.under-construcion.cc/ub
Biotope City is an interdisciplinary project and laboratory researching urban spaces as shared living environments. The project aims at widening the perspective of a “biotope” as an area characterized by environmental conditions such as geology, climate, land use and development. Different factors relevant for the co-existence of different species within an area, such as non-human & human influences and relationships, social, economical & political conditions, communication infrastructures, etc., will be studied. The laboratory will focus on remaining and reclaimed spaces, waste lands and other “heterotopias” using various methods and techniques (scientific, artistic, on-site, media based, performative, …). Urban biotopes can be considered as possible sites for future community based research; learning, education and skill sharing; knowledge transfer; cultural memory and sustainable development.
4. Kravin/Hranice preparatory workshops
Lenka Dolanova, yo-yo
yo-yo-yo.org/summer_workshops_kravin.html
The workshop will focus on the case study of the transformation of a former cow-house in rural Czech Republic into an ecological media space. Raising the question how to interconnect local histories with emerging ecological aesthetics. Topics to be explored during the workshop are beekeeping, local radio broadcast, windmills and art pollution.
5. Ongoing installations Congres Clock & Just One Fall, 16mm
Els Van Riel, OKNO
Artist statement: I consider film as a recipient for time, using the moving image as container for some very precise details of a piece of time and operating cameras to hunt down and capture these pieces. I examine and explore details from various points of view, comparing them to similar synchronized pieces, thus allowing these pieces, in a different construction, to be perceived as something new. Congres Clock, Brussel Congres train station is an ongoing game with oneself, visualised through an encounter with an old railway clocks with a 'real' seconds. In history, the division of the world in time zones is linked to the invention and the development of the railway and train travel. Just One Fall questions the possibility to see an apple falling from a tree, recorded with two synchronized cameras, using the recording as proof.
6. Discrete Sounds Performance
Isjtar & Ofer Smilansky, OKNO
Isjtar and Ofer Smilansky will give an improvised performance. The public is invited to join them and participate. ’After all the discussions one needs a bath of abstract sonic waves.’