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tb:presentation_istanbul [2013/09/24 14:27] – [concept and background] amitb:presentation_istanbul [2014/07/06 10:03] – [5. archives of a bee-monitoring season: the show-cases] ami
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-======Scientific Inquiries Istanbul: the Transparent Beehive project======+======Scientific Inquiries Istanbul : the Transparent Beehive project======
  
 =====concept and background===== =====concept and background=====
-abstract: +**abstract:** 
-My work is situated on the interstices between art, science, and community. As part of the Open Greens project, I got heavily involved in city bees. I became a beekeeper and studied the botanical conditions in which bees thrive.  I want to help raise awareness and combat the threats to bee colonies.  Bees exhibit amazing, very original solutions to the challenges that social insects face. They are an endless source of visually stunning images and sounds and their remarkable collective behavior provides inspiration and metaphors for the functioning of human society. I use them as a way to investigate the role of the aesthetic for ecology, and vice versa to explore whether an 'ecological art' is possible. +My work is situated on the interstices between art, science, and community. As part of the Open Greens project, I got intensely involved in city bees. As beekeeper I studied the botanical conditions in which bees thrive. Bees exhibit very original solutions to the challenges that social insects face, e.g. on the level of communication and collective decision making. They are an endless source of visually stunning images and sounds and their remarkable collective behavior provides inspiration and metaphors for the functioning of human society.  
-The Transparent (or see-through) Beehive is an observatory, a living laboratory to study how a bee colony evolves. The hive has been installed on a Brussels rooftop connected to an urban garden laboratory. I made an original design and used different ways to monitor the hive: through camera and audio recordings, measurements of humidity, temperature, CO2, etc. I also introduced the means to study interaction with the local environment: examination of pollen, analysis of honey, tracking of flight routes. +The Transparent (or see-through) beehive is an observatory, a living laboratory to study how a bee colony evolves. The hive has been installed on a Brussels rooftop connected to an urban garden laboratory. I made an original design and used different ways to monitor the hive: through camera and audio recordings, measurements of humidity, temperature, CO2, etc. I also introduced the means to study interaction with the local environment: examination of pollen, analysis of honey, tracking of flight routes. 
-The installation in Istanbul is a re-enactment of the research process in Brussels. The life in the hive and the interaction with the ecosystem will be reconstructed for the time slice April 2012 - June 2013, with data, sound and images. Additional materials include objects from the project's archive.+The installation in Istanbul is a re-enactment of the research process in Brussels. The life in the hive and the interaction with the ecosystem will be reconstructed for the time slice April 2012 - June 2013, with data, sound and images. Additional materials include everyday objects from working with the bees and from the project's archive.
  
 +**link to Koç scientists:**
 Invitations were sent to 6 Koç scientists to contribute with text, commentary, notes, or objects from their personal position. Many different scientific disciplines touch on bees, most obviously biology and ecology. But there is also sociology because it helps us think in novel ways about social networks, self-organisation and distributed intelligence, complex systems science, because behaves like a complex adaptive system that can be studied using techniques from statistical physics, and economy because bees have enormous value as pollinators. There are also fascinating connections with art history and archeology. The Bee-Queen culture was already important in the Anatolian Neolithic settlement of Catal Huyuk. Finally, electronical and mechanical engineering researchers find inspiration for building new types of robots or robot behaviors. Invitations were sent to 6 Koç scientists to contribute with text, commentary, notes, or objects from their personal position. Many different scientific disciplines touch on bees, most obviously biology and ecology. But there is also sociology because it helps us think in novel ways about social networks, self-organisation and distributed intelligence, complex systems science, because behaves like a complex adaptive system that can be studied using techniques from statistical physics, and economy because bees have enormous value as pollinators. There are also fascinating connections with art history and archeology. The Bee-Queen culture was already important in the Anatolian Neolithic settlement of Catal Huyuk. Finally, electronical and mechanical engineering researchers find inspiration for building new types of robots or robot behaviors.
  
-bio: +**bio:** 
-**AnneMarie Maes** (1955, Brussel) studied a masters in fine arts at the Sint-Lucas Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, a masters of cultural studies at the University of Brussels, and a specialisation in anthropological documentary film at the Institute for Sound Image Culture in Brussels.+AnneMarie Maes (1955, Brussel) studied a masters in fine arts at the Sint-Lucas Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, a masters of cultural studies at the University of Brussels, and a specialisation in anthropological documentary film at the Institute for Sound Image Culture in Brussels.
 She has played a major role in organising the multi-media art scene in Brussels. She founded the Pix and Motion Experimental Animation and Short Movies Film Company, the artist-run "Looking Glass" exhibition space, and more recently, the international artist collective OKNO, which brings together artists and art spaces from different European countries to engage in workshops and open research labs. She has played a major role in organising the multi-media art scene in Brussels. She founded the Pix and Motion Experimental Animation and Short Movies Film Company, the artist-run "Looking Glass" exhibition space, and more recently, the international artist collective OKNO, which brings together artists and art spaces from different European countries to engage in workshops and open research labs.
 Her artistic work shows several interwoven threads. One line of work focuses on multi-media installations. For example, in the No2pho (from noice to voice) installation (2006-2008) spectators shape a sound scape by moving around sound sources based on literary texts. Another line takes a social and anthropological dimension. Examples are the "People Database" project (1998-2002) which collected life narratives triggered by found pictures, and the "Politics of Change" project (2008-2010) which documented the grassroots activism of women in India. Her most important current line of work focused on ecological issues, as in the on going Open-Greens project (2009-2013) which sets up laboratories of urban gardens and art works based on working with bees. Her artistic work shows several interwoven threads. One line of work focuses on multi-media installations. For example, in the No2pho (from noice to voice) installation (2006-2008) spectators shape a sound scape by moving around sound sources based on literary texts. Another line takes a social and anthropological dimension. Examples are the "People Database" project (1998-2002) which collected life narratives triggered by found pictures, and the "Politics of Change" project (2008-2010) which documented the grassroots activism of women in India. Her most important current line of work focused on ecological issues, as in the on going Open-Greens project (2009-2013) which sets up laboratories of urban gardens and art works based on working with bees.
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 ====3. the photo's==== ====3. the photo's====
 the photos's: SEM microscope pictures of the pollen and bee parts the photos's: SEM microscope pictures of the pollen and bee parts
-the photos's will be presented on the wall (2), there are 18 photo's of 26x26 to be presented. +the photos's will be presented on the wall, there are 18 photo's of 26x26 to be presented. 
-//=> photo's brought by Annemie (mounted on aluminium)// +the photo's are mounted on aluminium
  
 +{{:tb:pollensem01.jpg?797x133|}}
  
 Stylized botanical drawings from flowers and SEM photography of pollen. Index cards give more information on the species. Stylized botanical drawings from flowers and SEM photography of pollen. Index cards give more information on the species.
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-====5. archives of a bee-monitoring season: the show-cases==== 
-the bee-archive in the show-cases 
-The show cases will be filled with all labelled items from the archive (see pictures below). This will be done by Annemie once I am in Istanbul. 
-3 showcases has to be made in Istanbul once I will be there. 
-//⇒ I have send all detailed plans to Basak & Begum in a mail dd. 16 september 2013. 
-⇒ Basak will contact someone to make the show cases, Annemie will supervise when in Istanbul//  
  
-{{:presentation:showcase.jpg?690x250|3D design of OpenStructures show cases for bee monitoring archives}}+====6. the Transparent Beehive Notebook===== 
 +[[http://annemariemaes.net/works/bee-laboratory-works/transparent-beehive-notebook/|the Transparent Beehive book can be downloaded on this page, please click the image]]
  
-//3D design of OpenStructures show cases for bee monitoring archives// +The Transparent Beehive Cabinet gives an overview of the Transparent Beehive Project. 
-The archives .... make pictures + description of all items in the show-cases. +It describes in words and images the intense process of Bee Monitoring and the close collaboration with numerous colleague artists, scientists, engineers and beekeepers. 
-{{gallery>:tb:archive?&random }}+The relation bees and flowers is an evident one and is never far away in this notebook. 
 +In an artistic way and starting from hands on experiences as a beekeeper, I give an account of the building of monitoring systems, their implementation in the beehives in the apiaries on the open field, the working with the collected open source data and most important: the disclosure to a public in a set of transdisciplinary art forms: photographs, films, sculptures and the Bee Archive. 
 +A bee colony is a sophisticated instrument, the super organism demonstrates a feat of collaboration through communication. 
 +Working with honeybees is absolutely fascinating and the job they do for the sake of mankind is certainly underevaluated.  
 +It is a shame that they go through such difficult times. I will continue to support them where I can.
  
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-====6. the Transparent Beehive notebook===== 
 A digital version of the book will be available for the public during the exhibition, presented on a computerscreen. A digital version of the book will be available for the public during the exhibition, presented on a computerscreen.
 This notebook gives background info by the bee monitoring project. Scientific experiments, artistic drawings, articles,texts, artistic impressions , … etc. This notebook gives background info by the bee monitoring project. Scientific experiments, artistic drawings, articles,texts, artistic impressions , … etc.
-The notebook will be gradually updated during the timespan of the exhibition. every week I will send a link where the new and updated version of the notebook can be downloaded, to be presented on the screen in the exhibition.+
 //⇒ notebook is presented on a computer screen or tablet, iPad, … //⇒ notebook is presented on a computer screen or tablet, iPad, …
 ⇒ a cosy corner with an easy chair for the public to browse the notebook ⇒ a cosy corner with an easy chair for the public to browse the notebook