moss experiments

TIK in cooperation with Ms. Baltazar's Laboratories organized a few working labs on windclocks in summer of 2011. As the windclock development was longer on a hold, the building of actual devices was picked up in summer 2011 to boost the output of windclocks. COL-ME went to Vienna several times to work together with the balt-labs on creating more clocks and prototypes.

We tried several approaches - a lot of versions didn't work or the technology turned out not to be too useful for us. So the feather clock as well as the moss clock were dropped in the end and not researched further.

Please see a report on Stefanie's windclockblog on our common wiki:
Stefanie's WindclockBlog

The soundlab in Graz was a short interference within the TIK project and served the development of COL-ME's soundworks so far. In cooperation with our TIK partner and the local organisation ESC a lab for experimenting with sounds was organized.
The aim was to see, whether we can build and how to build an exhibition device to represent soundworks.
After two days of experimenting with new materials like PLAAST, a material you can form in any shape when it is heated up to 60° we went thru several prototypes.
The original idea was to create 'soundshowers' - mechanical devices that would direct sound in space - basically like a laserbeam for sound. After several unsatisifying experiments with funny shaped things we turned to use PLAAST to see how sound and water would interfere. After creating several underwater soundboxes in all kind of shapes, we came to the conclusion that swimming speakers would give the best results in the question of directed sound in space.

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Wind and time

Where: ASIL Gallery, Štefánikova 13, Bratislava, Slovakia
Opening: 5.9.2011, 19:00
Duration: until 11.9. 2011
Opening hours: Tuesday till Friday 15:00-19:00

The exhibition (part of the TIK project) deals with the (im)possibility to measure time by wind. Along the prototypes of windclocks, it will present works dealing with time and its measuring in general, or its relation to radio, broadcast and sound.

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Wind and time

Kde: ASIL Gallery, Štefánikova 13, Bratislava, Slovakia
Otvorenie výstavy: 5.9.2011, 19:00
Trvanie výstavy: do 11.9. 2011
Otváracie hodiny:utorok až piatok 15:00-19:00

Výstava (súčasť projektu Time Inventors Kabinet) skúma (ne)možnosť merať čas pomocou vetra. Okrem prototypov veterných časostrojov predstaví práce, ktoré sa zaoberajú časom a jeho meraním vo všeobecnosti, alebo prepojením na rozhlas, vysielanie a zvuk.

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Listen to our new permanent Windsoundstream. Add a Windsound by putting it on the padma multimedia platform or send it to callme AT col-me DOT info.

Record the wind or synthisize it and it becomes part of the TIK Windsound stream:

http://col-me.info:8000/windsounds.ogg.m3u

COL-ME in cooperation with the KitchenBudapest.

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In Budapest aim of the workshop was to see, which boxes are still open and we slowly but surely have to start closing. It turned out, that we worked a lot on the windclocks, on a perfection of the javascript for visualizing the data and on creating audiotours. In the end even our radio transmitter tree, that we planned to build since February and several approaches have been (more or less) successfully made worked out.

We decided to have two workshops, to have time to finalize also a proper documentation on the clocks as well as - after months of testdrive - debug the hard- and software. This article covers both workshops - the first one in July 2011 and the second one in October 2011.

Visualization

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COL-ME (Bratislava, Slovakia) invites radio makers, collectives and radio stations to take part in an art radio experiment with wind-time from 6 - 11 September 2011.

TIK Radiodays is part of TimeInventorsKabinet, a project dealing with alternative time control systems, investigating time relations within biological and circumstantial ecologies. Within the framework of this project wind-time was established, that we take as a base for measuring a new time.

Radio makers and collectives
Pre-prepare or develop a live radioshow, code a patch using data from the wind-time clocks.
The adventurous approach: the start and/or length of your show will be announced by wind steered time
The cushioned approach: the show will start at a given (classical) time and will be of a given length

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The TIK Radiodays II took place from the 14th to the 18th of March 2011 in the local hacklab progressbar in Bratislava. We welcomed guests from our partnerorganisations KitchenBudapest and Yo-yo, Prague to participate.

To the list of content and participants

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The second part within our Visegrad circle was concentrating on the content of our get-together, which was time. Our furthermost problem was how to make time audible, how we could talk about it and how to create something within the area of our workshop.

After long talks we took a walk through the city to look for certain areas to record, that we would connect with key words, we mentioned before. Hazy time, shortcuts, subjective time, eco-time zones just to name a few.

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Tento týždeň bude v bratislavskom Progressbare patriť rádiu a netradičným formám vysielania. Od pondelka 14. marca do piatka 18. marca tu budú účastníci workshopu vytvárať rozhlasovú reláciu inšpirovanú alternatívnymi meraniami času, pomocou softvéru pre výmenu audio nahrávok. Workshop bude prebiehať pod vedením dvoch lektoriek - profesorky Vereny Kuni z Univerzity Johanna Wolfganga Goetheho vo Frankfurte mediálnej umelkyne a teoretičky Niny Czegledy z Budapešti. Výsledky workshopu budú predstavené v piatok počas verejnej prezentácie v priestoroch Progressbaru, ktorá sa začne o 18:00 a budete si ju môcť pozrieť aj cez stream. Počas nej odznejú v angličtine aj krátke prednášky od účastníkov workshopu.

Rozhlasové dni TIK sú už druhým pokračovaním workshopu. Ten predchádzajúci sa venoval technologickej stránke vysielania – okrem iného budovaniu mikro-vysielačov. Aj na druhú časť podujatia sme opäť prizvali tri partnerské organizácie - Kitchen Budapest (Maďarsko), Kronika Bytom (Poľsko) a Yo-yo Praha (Česká Republika). Ich zástupcovia sa zúčastnia aj na Rozhlasových dňoch TIK II.

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14. - 18. marec
Progressbar, Cukrová 14, Bratislava
denne 11:00 – 18:00

Cieľom druhej časti workshopu Rozhlasové dni TIK bude vytváranie rozhlasovej relácie, tentokrát so zameraním na obsah. Opäť sme prizvali tri partnerské organizácie - Kitchen Budapest,Kronika Bytom a Yo-yo Praha, aby vyslali na workshop svojich zástupcov. Workshop budú viesť hostia z Nemecka a Budapešti - profesorka Verena Kuni z Univerzity Johanna Wolfganga Goetheho vo Frankfurte a mediálna umelkyňa a teoretička Nina Czegledy.

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14-18th of March in progressbar, Bratislava, Cukrova 14;
daily from 11:00 – 18:00

SCHEDULE CHANGE!!! - Monday we start only at 14:00 at progressbar

The second workshop of the Visegrad funded event - the TIK Radio days, deals with creating a radio broadcast. Content and production are in the foreground of this workshop.
Supported by Visegrad, our three partner organisations are involved in the course of the whole development and are invited to participate in further TIK workshops throughout the year.
KIBU, Budapest, KRONIKA, Bytom and Yo-yo, Praha send for each workshop artists to participate and develop parts for the project.

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Dni rádia TIK
Progressbar, Cukrová 14, Bratislava
7. - 10. február 2011

Na mesiace február a marec ohlasuje COL-ME "Dni rádia TIK", sériu workshopov s audiovizuálnymi tvorcami zo Slovenska, Čiech, Maďarska a Poľska, ktorí budú vytvárať kolaboratívne rádio. Začíname technológiami - počas štyroch dní (od 7. do 10. februára) bude v priestoroch bratislavského hacklabu Progressbar vznikať infraštruktúra v podobe zariadení a nástrojov na tvorbu, vysielanie a archiváciu rádia. Pre širšiu verejnosť je určený štvrtok 10. február, kedy budú od 18:30 v Progressbare prebiehať prezentácie výsledkov workshopu a samotných partnerských organizácií.

Každý z pozvaných tvorcov prichádza na "Dni rádia TIK" s rôznymi predstavami o podobe rádia, ktoré spája záujem o experiment: transformácia dát z prostredia, ekologické prístupy, alebo nové určenie času a jeho meranie (workshopy sú súčasťou európskeho projektu Time inventors kabinet, ktorý tieto prístupy zastrešuje).

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In two workshops, we will start up the TIK radio programme. COL-ME's involvment in TIK (Time Inventors' Kabinet) is to a very high extent focused on radio. Because of this, we organize two follow up workshops, that tune into each other and give us a lot of time, to develop technical needed devices as well as content ideas about the coming up radioshows.
Supported by Visegrad, our three partner organisations are involved in the course of the whole development and are invited to participate in further TIK workshops throughout the year.
KIBU, Budapest, KRONIKA, Bytom and Yo-yo, Praha send for each workshop artists to participate and develop parts for the project.

7th of February til 10th of February 2011
14th of March til 18th of March 2011

both times in progressbar, Cukrova 14, Bratislava. The workshops are free of charge and will take place in english language. Please register at: callme@col-me.info

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Network and Programming Workshop
24th of January 2011 til 29th of January 2011 in Brussels

COL-ME in cooperation with OKNO organizes the workshop 'Network and Programming' at OKNOs place in Brussels, where the long-awaited Windtime protocol will finally be made concrete. The Windtime protocol is what we will connect our WindClocks to and form the new time that will become the basis of TIK developments.
The Windclocks have been developed during the workshop in Korcula (HR) end of September at Grey)(Area - our associated partners. Please see here for Windclock pictures of Korcula.

The workshop is not about teaching, it is about putting our heads together and getting our hands dirty with code. Our aim is, to bring the movement of the wind finally into a virtual sense-giving form for ourselves and to the rest of the world.

Erwan Queffelec has been working on the protocol and will present it, while Geraldo Kogler is making front-end tools to make WindTime more concrete.

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After a few months of work, COL-ME is going more public with its work within the TIK project. Our first presentation about what happened and a further discussion about the future of the project will take place on the 2nd of December at 19:00 in the Hacklab Progressbar in Bratislava.

Coming back from the padma workshop taking place in Brussels at Nadine, a lot of development has been done on this project, which will be introduced as well.

http://padma.okno.be
http://progressbar.sk

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Date:  Mon, 2010-11-22 10:30 - Fri, 2010-11-26 18:00

The TIK project is using the experimental online media database Pad.ma as a core tool for documenting the project. In this workshop the developers (Jan Gerber, Sebastian Luettgert and Sanjay Bhangar) will be present. We are making a program that will appeal to both the technical artists who are involved in the set up and further development of the program, and the users throughout the project.

Practical Info: 

workshop location:

22/23/24/25/26 november from 10:30 till 18:30 Nadine/Plateau - Herdersstraat 30 rue du Berger - Brussels 1050

Please contact us before end of the month at steklo ❥ okno.be, when you are planning to participate, for logistic purposes.

linked project:  Time Inventors' Kabinet [TIK] computed_date:  Mon, 2010-11-22 10:30 - Fri, 2010-11-26 18:00 computer:  2010-11-26T17:00:00

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Date:  Wed, 2010-11-17 11:00 - Fri, 2010-11-19 19:00

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

Practical Info: 

OKNO - Koolmijnenkaai 30 - 1080 Brussels

17/18/19 november from 11:00 till 19:00, every day online/CHAT update at 17:30

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

linked project:  Time Inventors' Kabinet [TIK] computed_date:  Wed, 2010-11-17 11:00 - Fri, 2010-11-19 19:00 computer:  2010-11-19T18:00:00

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This workshop was set up to achieve a better understanding of two central, intertwined TIK concepts, WindClocks and WindTime. The outset of the workshop was WindTime research through the joint construction, measuring and connection of actual WindClocks.

Weight:  1 linked project:  Time Inventors' Kabinet [TIK] related project:  OpenGreen

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The TIK launch event took place 14,15 and 16 July 2010 at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels. OKNO organised a meeting between the participating and associated partners (OKNO, ESC, COL-ME, yo-yo) and the several invited artists.  This offered a first opportunity for future project proposals and a redefinition and further fine-tuning of the existing project outlines and perspectives through various interdisciplinary group discussions, working sessions and presentations. Hereby the partners, and participating guests, all agreed on the emphasis on process through collaboration.

Weight:  1 linked project:  Time Inventors' Kabinet [TIK] related project:  OpenGreen

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images:  linked project:  Time Inventors' Kabinet [TIK]