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bee-devices [2015/04/11 15:43] – [BEE DEVICES & curious observations] amibee-devices [2016/01/13 17:48] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-=====BEE DEVICES other curious observations===== +=====Bee Monitoring Devices Curious Observations===== 
-The artistic work of AnneMarie Maes, media artist and beekeeper, is already since more than six years based on a rigorous research into bees. AnneMarie Maes set up the Brussels Urban Bee Lab in 2009 and the artistic laboratory installed several beehives on garden roofs in the centre of Brussels. The artists and technicians of Brussels Urban Bee Lab designed sophisticated equipment to monitor and measure the bee colonies, process the data and disseminate these via streaming. +The exhibition BEE DEVICES //and other curious observations// is the starting point for the presentation on the research and artistic work of AnneMarie Maes and the Brussels Urban Bee Lab. The work of AnneMarie Maes, media artist and beekeeper, is already since more than six years based on a rigorous research into bees. AnneMarie Maes set up the Brussels Urban Bee Lab in 2009 and this artistic laboratory installed several instrumented beehives on garden roofs in the centre of Brussels. The artists and technicians of Brussels Urban Bee Lab designed sophisticated equipment to monitor and measure the bee colonies, process the data and disseminate these via streaming. 
 This research so far instigated a series of installations, objects, graphic works, sound works and workshops that were shown in galleries, festivals and public spaces. It induced an intense interaction with scientists and technologists, partly to build and install the measuring equipment but also to investigate the reasons for the urgent problem of bee colonies starting to die out in all industrialised countries. This research so far instigated a series of installations, objects, graphic works, sound works and workshops that were shown in galleries, festivals and public spaces. It induced an intense interaction with scientists and technologists, partly to build and install the measuring equipment but also to investigate the reasons for the urgent problem of bee colonies starting to die out in all industrialised countries.
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-De exhibition BEE DEVICES //and other curious observations// is the starting point for the presentation on the research and work of AnneMarie Maes and the Brussels Urban Bee Lab. 
-The immersive multimedia installation //the Scaffolded Sound Beehive// consists out of a reproduction of a Warré beehive on human scale. Installed in the roof of the hive is an eight-channel spatialised sound installation of which the sounds were recorded with eight microphones in a real beehive. Visitors can stand or sit inside the beehive and will have their heads thus literally in a bees’ nest.  The installation Scaffolded Sound Beehive also incorporates two videos. One shows the behaviour in the hive of a bee colony as recorded during 365 days with an infrared camera, the other is an artistic visualisation of the sound data collected in the beehive.  
  
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 description of the elements of the installation: description of the elements of the installation:
-  * we will build a multiplex wall in - 1 à 2m front of the back wall of the IBE space +  * we have to build a multiplex wall - 1 à 2m in front of the back wall of the IBE space 
-  * multiplex panels are a standard size: 244cm x 122cm +  * the multiplex panels are a standard size: 244cm x 122cm 
-  * for the wall, we will use 3 panels, which makes a total wall-surface of 244cm High x 366cm Wide +  * for the wall, we will use 3 panels, concatenated, which makes a total wall-surface of 244cm High x 366cm Wide 
-  * the panels are mounted on a wooden grid, made from wooden beams of 6cmx6xm (or a similar standard size, can also be 5cmx5cm) +  * the panels are mounted on a wooden grid, made from wooden beams of 6cmx6xm (or a similar standard size, can e.g. also be 5cmx5cm) 
-  * the panels are mounted starting 30cm off the floor-level => the total height of the wall will thus become 244+30=274cm +  * the panels are mounted on the grid, starting 30cm off the floor-level => the total height of the wall will thus become 244+30=274cm 
-  * the thickness of the woosden panels can be 12mm (or more or less?=> should be strong enough to keep the wall up, and it must be possible to fix 3 LCD monitors in the wall+  * the thickness of the wooden panels can be 12mm => should be strong enough to safely keep the wall up, and it must be possible to fix 3 LCD monitors in the wall/grid 
 +  * the electricity cables of the monitors should disappear through a whole in the wall. The only electricity plug in the room is in the lower right corner (window seaside) in the back of the space 
 +  * the electricity cable for powering the speakers in the Scaffolded Sound Beehive (audio equipment is hidden in the top of the hive) can be supplied via the grid and directly to the top of the beehive 
 +  * the six lightboxes will be presented in a vertical row on the metal column at the entrance of the space. The column needs to be lined with multiplex wood. Electricitiy needs to be supplied via the grid and than via the ceiling up to the metal column.
  
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-=====BEE devices=====+=====Monitoring Devices=====
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-The Bee Devices (from left to right): +//Monitoring Devices (from left to right): the Warré beehive, the Sound Beehive, the Scaffolded Sound Beehive, a cluster of speakers, the Transparent Beehive// 
-the Warré beehive, the Sound Beehive, the Scaffolded Sound Beehive, the Transparent Beehive+ 
 +The installation at IBE will be centered around the multimedia installation //the Scaffolded Sound Beehive//. This immersive sculpture is a reproduction of a Warré beehive on human scale. Installed in the roof of the hive is an eight-channel spatialised sound installation of which the sounds were recorded with eight microphones in a real beehive. Visitors can stand or sit inside the beehive and will have their heads thus literally in a bees’ nest.  The installation Scaffolded Sound Beehive also incorporates three videos. One shows the behaviour in the hive of a bee colony as recorded during 365 days with an infrared camera, the other is an artistic visualisation of the sound data collected in the beehive, a third video is an artistic interpretation of the life in the hive. 
 +Next to //the Scaffolded Sound Beehive// the real-size //Warré SoundBeehive// will be shown. This is the instrumented observation beehive which served to make all audio and video recordings inside the beehive. 
 +A third bee-device is //the Transparent Beehive//. This sculpture housed a bee colony during an entire bee-season, in the studio of the artist. The bees were connected to the outside world via a plexi tube. 
  
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-{{url>http://pandora.okno.be/VP/editor/00:03:42,00:00:00,00:03:42#?embed=true 300px,169px noborder}}+{{url>http://pandora.okno.be/VP/editor/00:03:42,00:00:00,00:03:42#?embed=true 300px,169px noborder}} {{url>http://pandora.okno.be/VO/editor/00:04:50,00:00:00,00:04:50#?embed=true 300px,169px noborder}} 
 Inside the beehives, monitoring with infra-red cameras Inside the beehives, monitoring with infra-red cameras
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 =====LIGHT BOXES===== =====LIGHT BOXES=====
 {{gallery>:bee-devices:lightboxes }} {{gallery>:bee-devices:lightboxes }}
 +The lightboxes are 26cm by 26cm. I would like to present them in a vertical row, on a wooden shield that is made around the metal beam at the entrance of the room (to the left).
  
  
  
-=====WOOD=====+=====WOOD & LCD screens=====
 {{gallery>:bee-devices:wood}} {{gallery>:bee-devices:wood}}
-Wood (multiplex panel) for the back wall, can be 12mm or 18mm thick.+Wood (multiplex panels) for the back wall, can be 12mm or 18mm thick. Can be any finish, what the carpenter has in his stock, the cheaper the better :) - doesn't need to be birch  - but a light color, with not too much design (as in pine) would be nice. 
 +We also need wood to cover the metal column (till a certain height, lets say same height as the wall). 
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 +LCD-screens: we need 3 LCD-screens with folowing features:  
 +- a USB stick connection 
 +- a pixel resolution of 1920 x 1080 (= full HD) 
 +- a 'repeat'-function (the videos need to be played in loop, continuously) 
 +- the screens should be between 70cm and 80cm (mostly this is measured in diagonal way) - if it is 81 or 69cm it is also OK. 
 +- the screens should have a possibility to hang tham on the wall. Therefore we probably need to buy a supplementary wall-mount kit (34€ in the Mediamart, screens should be between 250 and 350€) 
 +- I checked at the Mediamart and I found a Samsung, a Philips and a LG, all corresponding to these requirements 
 +- we will need a lot of electricity cables - normally the electrician of CSIC should be able to provide power to the place where we need it.
  
 +{{:bee-devices:wall_web.jpg?350x226|}}
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