Sunpendulum
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Sunpendulum is an art, science and technology project devised by Austrian media artist Hofstetter Kurt.[1]
Sunpendulum concept
- "Inplusion" phase
Twelve video camera called "time-eyes" are connected to the internet in twelve locations in twelve time zones around the Earth, observing the sky twenty four hours per day, continuously creating a "sun clock" which spans the entire planet.[2]
The first Sunpendulum time-eye was installed in 1999 [3] on Maui, Hawaii at the Maui High Performance Computing Center, being transferred to the Maui Community College in 2005.
- Installations
- 1999[3] Maui, Bermuda and Granada
- 2000[3] Cairo, New Orleans and Ensenada
- 2001[3] Azores
- 2002 Dubai[4]
- 2003 Hong Kong[5]
- 2004 Kolkata[6]
- 2005 Tokyo[7]
- 2006 Marshall Islands[8]
- "Explosion" phase
At selected locations within each of the twelve time zones, twelve screens are arranged in a circle within a pavilion[9] hypothesized to remain open twenty four hours per day. The screens, connected online with the time-eyes, transmit the sunlight from the time zones.[10]
A circular structure of twenty four pairs of half cylinders, each of which viewed in vertical cross section resembles the Hopi symbol ( ) for universal brotherhood,[11] each pavilion allows twenty four points of entry for visitors while preventing local light from reaching the screens. As the earth rotates, time-eye-transmitted sunlight moves within the pavilion's circle of screens where day and night may be vicariously experienced in parallel.
A rooftop "iris" of solar cells is hypothesized to produce the necessary energy.[10]
Kernel team
The Sunpendulum kernel team consists of scientists (chiefly from the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms (ICGA)[12] at the Vienna University of Technology) and artists working together to maintain the integrity and functionality of the Sunpendulum project on a permanent basis. Its primary tasks are ongoing technical developments to meet the artistic intention of the project and maintaining the hardware and software elements.
Collaboration partners
The Sunpendulum collaboration partners are scientific and academic institutions which participate in the project by hosting the time-eye cameras, hardware and servers on-site and by signalising and actively participating in international, cross-cultural co-operation.
- University of Hawaii and Maui Community College[citation needed]
- Autonomous University of Baja California[citation needed]
- University of New Orleans[citation needed]
- Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI)[13][citation needed]
- University of the Azores[citation needed]
- University of Granada[citation needed]
- Ain Shams University[citation needed]
- Zayed University[4]
- Jadavpur University[6]
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology[5]
- Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT)[7][14]
- College of the Marshall Islands[8]
References
- ^ Hofstetter Kurt (1993). "The Sunpendulum Concept" (html). inst.at.
- ^ Hofstetter Kurt. "Inplusion: 12 time-eyes around the earth watch the sky" (html). sunpendulum.at.
- ^ a b c d "Kurt Hofstetter" (html). basis-wien.at. 19 March 2007.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b A staff reporter (13 February 2002). "ZU selected as site for Sunpendulum project" (html). Khaleej Times.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b ""Time-Eye" at HKUST Puts Hong Kong on Global Hi-Tech Media Art Scene" (html). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology website. 13 March 2003.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b Anisha Baksi (21 January 2004). "Solar Power" (html). The Statesman.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b "February News: Media art of terrestrial scale: The Kanazawa Institute of Technology future design laboratory (Tokyo)" (html) (in Japanese). (A google search for Kanazawa sunpendulum will yield a link which can be translated into English.). February 2005.
- ^ a b "Sunpendulum Project - International video monitoring, one at [[College of the Marshall Islands|CMI]], [[Majuro]]" (html). yokwe.com. 3 October 2006.
Press event / Majuro
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); External link in|quote= - ^ Hofstetter Kurt. "Sunpendulum pavilion #2, Station F / model" (html). sunpendulum.at.
- ^ a b Hofstetter Kurt. "Explosion: 12 time-screens transmit the sunlight from around the earth" (html). sunpendulum.at.
- ^ Carl G. Liungman, Dictionary of Symbols, 1991, p 175
- ^ "Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms (ICGA)" (html).
- ^ "Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI)" (html).
- ^ "Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT)" (html).