Sunpendulum

Sunpendulum is an art, science and technology projectcite web |url= http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/10_3/hofstetter15.htm |title= The Sunpendulum Concept |format= html |date= 1993 |work= [http://www.inst.at/english/index.htm INST] Research Institute for Regional and Transnational Processes |quote= ] devised by Austrian media artist Kurt Hofstetter.cite web |url= http://www.basis-wien.at/cgi-bin/browse.pl?t=fipo.tpl&fipoid=15994 |title= Kurt Hofstetter, Member of Parallel Media. |format= html |work= Basis Wien [http://www.basis-wien.at/index.php?id=28&L=2 Kunst, Information und Archiv] (in German & English) |quote= ]

Concept

;"Watching the sky: "Inplusion" phase"Twelve video cameras 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 hypothetical "sun clock" which spans the entire planet.cite web |url= http://www.sunpendulum.at/-inplusion.html |title= Inplusion: 12 time-eyes around the earth watch the sky |format= html |work= Project website |quote= ]

;"Installations"
* 1999 Maui, Bermuda and Granada fact|date=June 2007
* 2000 Cairo, New Orleans and Ensenada fact|date=June 2007
* 2001 Azores fact|date=June 2007
* 2002 Dubai cite news |url= http://www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/ktarchive/130202/uae.htm#story12 |title= ZU selected as site for Sunpendulum project |author= Staff reporter |format= html |work= Khaleej Times |date= 13 February 2002 |quote= ]
* 2003 Hong Kong cite web |url= http://www.ust.hk/en/pa/e_pa030314-722.html |title= "Time-Eye" at HKUST Puts Hong Kong on Global Hi-Tech Media Art Scene |author= |format= html |work= Hong Kong University of Science and Technology website |date= 13 March 2003 |quote= ]
* 2004 Kolkata cite news |url= http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=16&id=63741&usrsess=1 | title= Solar Power |author= Anisha Baksi | format= html | work= The Statesman | quote= ]
* 2005 Tokyo cite web |url= http://www.kitnet.jp/news/2005/17-2-2.html |title= February News: Media art of terrestrial scale: The Kanazawa Institute of Technology future design laboratory (Tokyo) |author= |format= html |work= KITnet.jp news |language= Japanese |date= February 2005 |publisher= (A google search for Kanazawa sunpendulum will yield a link which can be translated into English.) |quote= ]
* 2006 Marshall Islands cite web |url= http://www.yokwe.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1522 |title= Sunpendulum Project - International video monitoring, one at CMI, Majuro |format= html |work=yokwe.com |date= 3 October 2006 |quote= ]

;"Viewing the results: "Explosion" phase"→ " Note: This section describes "pavilions" which have not been constructed or installed."

At a location to be determined within each time zone, twelve screens are intended to be arranged in a circle within a pavilioncite web |url= http://www.sunpendulum.at/explosion/pavilion2/pavilion2-model.html |title= Sunpendulum pavilion #2, Station F / model |format= html |work= Project website |quote= ] meant to remain open for visitors twenty four hours per day. The screens, connected online with the time-eyes, transmit the images from the twelve time zones.cite web |url= http://www.sunpendulum.at/-explosion.html |title= Explosion: 12 time-screens transmit the sunlight from around the earth |format= html |work= Project website |quote= ] As the earth rotates, the images transmitted by the time-eyes move within a pavilion's circle of screens where day and night may be vicariously experienced in parallel. Each pavilion, a circular structure of twenty four pairs of half cylinders, each pair of which resembles in horizontal cross section the Hopi symbol ⁽ ₎ for universal brotherhood, [Carl G. Liungman, "Dictionary of Symbols," 1991, p 175] is intended to allow twenty four points of entry for visitors while preventing local light from reaching the screens. An arrangement of rooftop solar cells is hypothesized to produce the necessary energy.

Kernel team

The kernel team consists of scientists (chiefly from the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms at the Vienna University of Technology) and artists. Its primary tasks are ongoing technical developments which maintain the integrity of the project and its hardware and software.

Collaboration partners

The collaboration partners are scientific and academic institutions which host the time-eye cameras, hardware and servers and participate in the project's international cross-cultural cooperation.

* University of Hawaii and Maui Community College Fact|date=June 2007
* Autonomous University of Baja California Fact|date=June 2007
* University of New Orleans Fact|date=June 2007
* Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute fact|date=June 2007
* University of the Azores Fact|date=June 2007
* University of Granada Fact|date=June 2007
* Ain Shams University Fact|date=June 2007
* Zayed University
* Jadavpur University cite news |url= http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=16&id=63741&usrsess=1 | title= Solar Power |author= Anisha Baksi | format= html | work= The Statesman | quote= ]
* Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
* Kanazawa Institute of Technology
* College of the Marshall Islands

References

External links

* [http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/ Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms] (ICGA) website.
* [http://www.buei.org/ Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute] (BUEI) website.
* [http://www.kanazawa-it.ac.jp/ekit/ Kanazawa Institute of Technology] (KIT) website.