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--- beehave [2018/01/02 12:20] – [film: the Variation Games] ami
+++ beehave [2018/01/22 11:04] (current) – [totem installation: Locus Delicti, Distopia of the Senses] ami
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 All samples are collected in the Urban Bee Lab, my apiary and rooftop garden laboratory in the center of Brussels. I made the images with a Scanning Electron Microscope at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), in the lab of chemical engineering, with the kind help of Dr. Alexander Lutz.
-{{:beehave:sala17-amma_modified_33.jpg?271x273|}} {{:beehave:sala17-amma_modified_44.jpg?271x273|}} {{:beehave:paravan_perspectief1_web.jpg?332x250|}}
+{{:beehave:sala17-amma_modified_444.jpg?271x273|}}
-//sala 17 (plan) and Bee Agency photos (paravan), perspective
+//sala 17 (plan) and Bee Agency photos
 Panels: 190 x 244 (large), 150 x 244 (small)
 Photos: 160 x 213 (large), 80 x 80 (small)//
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 =====totem installation: Locus Delicti, Distopia of the Senses=====
+A group of brightly coloured totems display a range of plexiglass boxes with objects and materials relating to the endangered Apis melifera species and to their vanishing ecosystems. The combination radiates an uncomfortable feeling of forensic investigation, a crime-scene in a world long gone.
 {{:beehave:goldenbeehive.jpg?128x100|}} {{:beehave:b-agency_objects2.jpg?513x250|}}
 //objects for the totems: Locus Delicti, Distopia of the Senses//
-{{:beehave:alltogether3.jpg?367x300|}}
+{{:beehave:alltogether4.jpg?367x300|}}  {{:beehave:colors2.jpg?400x300|}}  {{:beehave:policarbonato.jpg?300x300|}}
-. Piece of Comb (140x15x15)
+. Piece of Comb - RAL 4003 (140x15x15) - Heather Violet
-. Golden Beehive (50x38x38)
+. Golden Beehive - RAL 4007 (100x38x38) - Purple Violet
-. Wax Hexagon (150x30x31)
+. Wax Hexagon - RAL 3001 (150x30x31) - Signal Red
-. Tree Trunk (110x15x16)
+. Tree Trunk - RAL 3014 (110x15x16) - Antique Pink
-. Dead Bees (140x16x15)
+. Dead Bees - RAL 2010 (140x16x15) - Signal Orange
-. South|East|West (130x25x16)
+. South|East|West - RAL 3004 (130x25x16) - Purple Red
+. Honey Batteries - RAL 4006 (130x30x15) - Traffic Purple
-A group of 6 brightly colored totems is installed in the middle of sala 17. The totems vary in height, ranging from 110cm high to 150cm high. The primary material of the totems is wood, painted white. This basis is clad with all kinds of fluorescent transparent plastics (orange, bright red, luminous blue) and bright colors representing the attractive colores of flowers. On the pedestals is a range of plexiglass boxes on display. All boxes contain bee/plant-related materials, representing the endangered species and vanishing ecosystems. The whole radiates an uncomfortable feeling of distopia, a place delict.
+A group of 6 brightly colored totems is installed in the middle of sala 17. The totems vary in height, ranging from 110cm high to 150cm high. The primary material of the totems is wood, painted white. This basis is clad with all kinds of fluorescent transparent plastics (orange, bright red, luminous blue) and bright colors representing the attractive colores of flowers. On the pedestals is a range of plexiglass boxes on display. All boxes contain bee/plant-related materials, representing the endangered species and vanishing ecosystems. The whole radiates an uncomfortable feeling of distopia, the atmosphere of a crime-scene..
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+The bee's eyes, like those of other insects, differ greatly from human eyes. They consist of a pair of compound eyes made up of numerous six-sided facets. They also have three simple eyes. Despite this, their vision is believed to be sharp for a distance of only about 1 m (3 ft.).
+Bees, however, are capable of seeing ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans. The bee is capable of navigating by ultraviolet light, which even penetrates cloud cover. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) also use the sun as a reference point to communicate to other bees the angle of flight to be followed to arrive at newly discovered nectar-bearing flowers.
+Compound eyes are composed of a great number of facets. Below each facet is an individual light gathering structure called an Ommatidium. The facet on an ommatidium acts as a cornea. Like our own cornea this serves to focus the light. The focused beam moves through a crystalline matrix and shines on Retinula Cells which convert it to an electrical impulse. This impulse can be carried to the brain for interpretation. The brain is able to put all these tiny pictures together into a mosaic. While a compound eye cannot register the fine detail of our own eyes, it is particularly good at detecting and following motion.
+[[http://andygiger.com/science.html|B-eye]]
+{{:bee:responses-to-light.pdf|Responses to light under varying magnetic conditions in the honeybee, Apis mellifera}}
+[[http://apisuk.com/Bees/2011/02/pollination-how-flowers-appear-to-bees/|how-flowers-appear-to-bees]]
+{{:bee:bee-spectrum.jpg?264x150|bee spectrum}}{{:bee:bee-vision.jpg?261x150|bee vision}} {{:bee:sunflower.png?452x150|}}
+//bee spectrum vs. human spectrum, bee vision, regular sunflower and ultraviolet sunflower//
+Flower colour is of great importance in various fields relating to floral biology and pollinator behaviour. However, subjective human judgements of flower colour may be inaccurate and are irrelevant to the ecology and vision of the flower's pollinators. For precise, detailed information about the colours of flowers, a full reflectance spectrum for the flower of interest should be used rather than relying on such human assessments.
+[[http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014287|FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour]]
+[[http://jeb.biologists.org/content/213/4/593.abstract|bees and face recognition]]
+[[http://www.beyondvisible.com/| beyond visible]]
+[[http://www.howplantswork.com/2008/11/30/flowers-what-you-see-versus-what-the-bees-see/|plants and bees, how to make photos with UV filter]]
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 =====film: the Variation Games=====
-The video is an edit of a year long audiovisual observation material on the behaviour of a honeybee colony. The recordings are made with an infra-red camera and with contact microphones inside the beehive. The content of the film focuses on the first 6 weeks of observation: the building of the nest. It shows how the bees are scanning the empty space and how they start organizing their building activities to appropriate the locus as their own territory. The images demonstrate and reveal decision making, networking, collaboration, collective intelligence.
+Variation Games are games where the set of rules is constantly adapted by the players. The video is a condensed edit of a year-long audiovisual observation of the behaviour of a honeybee colony in the private environment of their nest. The recordings are made with an infrared camera and contact microphones inside the beehive. The content of this video focuses on the first 6 weeks of the observation, when the bees start the building of their nest. The images show how they first scan the empty space and detect all foreign objects (in this case paper pasted on the back of the hive), which they propolize and eventually tear down, thus appropriating their territory. They start organizing their activities to design the locus as their home. The images demonstrate and reveal decision-making, networking, collaboration and collective intelligence.
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