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+ | In April 2018, Dirck Möllmann was appointed as the new independent city curator of Hamburg. His program Hamburg Maschine (Hamburg Machine) brings together individual artistic positions, art activism, and discursive elements that establish a tangible and accessible artistic practice. By drawing on the history of public art, the program will open up new paths for urban art in Hamburg.
Why should Hamburg be called a machine? In the twentieth century, the current city was a representative stage, a productive factory, a planned infrastructure, | ||
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+ | The commissioned version of ElbBienen is a bio-tech installation customized for public space in Hamburg. The ElbBienen-beehive will be populated with a living bee colony and the beehive will be installed on top of a pile mooring in the Elbe river at the Entenwerder Golden Pavilion. The beehive will remain on the spot for at least 1 bee-season (up to 16 months).
The Golden Pavilion itself is an architectural artwork from the internationally acknowledged outdoor-exhibtion Skulptur Projekte in Münster, 2007. The transfer was made possible with public and private fundings. The new location in Hamburg is a place to be for visitors of the harbour, and stands in close view of the famous Elbphilharmonie at the river banks. There is a café visited by thousands of people during the year, even in winter times many visitors and ramblers are passing by. The location is ideal for the beehive-sculpture, | ||
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+ | For the first time in Maes’ career, and after more than ten years of artistic and proto-scientific research towards an organic beehive equipped with monitoring systems and enhanced with artificial intelligence, | ||
+ | Maes already observed the behaviour of a bee colony monitored with cameras, microphones and sensors in the protected conditions of her outdoor laboratory on the rooftop of her studio. In Hamburg, at the chosen location Entenwerder, | ||
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+ | Die Elbbienen-Projekte überwachen die Entwicklung von zwei Bienenvölkern: | ||
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+ | =====concept of the artwork===== | ||
The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive is a research project on the edge of art and science. It evokes issues of sustainability and biodiversity, | The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive is a research project on the edge of art and science. It evokes issues of sustainability and biodiversity, | ||
The commisioned version of the IGB (working title) is a bio-tech installation customized for public space in Hamburg. The IGB will be populated with a living bee colony and the beehive will be installed (with reservation) at the Entenwerder1 at the Golden Pavillion on the banks of the Elbe. | The commisioned version of the IGB (working title) is a bio-tech installation customized for public space in Hamburg. The IGB will be populated with a living bee colony and the beehive will be installed (with reservation) at the Entenwerder1 at the Golden Pavillion on the banks of the Elbe. | ||
The IGB will remain on the spot for at least 1 bee-season (1 year). The behaviour of the bee colony will be monitored with a camera and the images will be streamed to a monitor that is placed in the exhibition displays (in the Golden Pavillion house). The conditions (Temperature and Humidity) in the bees’ habitat as well as outside in their foraging fields, will be recorded and the data will be streamed to and displayed in the exhibition. The beehive will act as a cradle to cradle device, meaning that it provides its own energy from solar panels placed on top of the beehive, and that it is made out of materials that are renewable. The solar energy will be stored in a battery before powering a microcomputer on which the camera and sensors are connected. A second (?) microcomputer will take care of the streaming of the camera- and sensordata. | The IGB will remain on the spot for at least 1 bee-season (1 year). The behaviour of the bee colony will be monitored with a camera and the images will be streamed to a monitor that is placed in the exhibition displays (in the Golden Pavillion house). The conditions (Temperature and Humidity) in the bees’ habitat as well as outside in their foraging fields, will be recorded and the data will be streamed to and displayed in the exhibition. The beehive will act as a cradle to cradle device, meaning that it provides its own energy from solar panels placed on top of the beehive, and that it is made out of materials that are renewable. The solar energy will be stored in a battery before powering a microcomputer on which the camera and sensors are connected. A second (?) microcomputer will take care of the streaming of the camera- and sensordata. | ||
The Golden Pavillion will host a small exhibition, where artifacts from different phases of the installation research will be displayed. | The Golden Pavillion will host a small exhibition, where artifacts from different phases of the installation research will be displayed. | ||
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- | //Connected Open Greens: ein Dialog zwischen Elbe und Brüsseler Bienen// | ||
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- | =====Connected Open Greens===== | + | =====2 (online) |
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The synonyms for an OpenGreen are many: the experimental Hortus, the OpenAir Laboratorium, | The synonyms for an OpenGreen are many: the experimental Hortus, the OpenAir Laboratorium, | ||
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- | =====possible titles===== | ||
- | BienenFrequenz | ||
- | Das Bienenhaus auf dem Wasser | ||
- | Connected Double Dance | ||
- | Witnessed Double Dance | ||
- | The honeybees' | ||
- | Waltzing Honeybees - der Walzer der Bienen | ||
- | Bees on the Water | ||
- | Elbbienen / Elbe Bees | ||
- | Bienen an der Elbe / Bees on the Elbe | ||
- | A dialogue: Elbbienen und Brüsselbienen | ||
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=====exhibition in Golden Pavillion===== | =====exhibition in Golden Pavillion===== | ||
- | elements of the exhibition: | + | The whole system (beehives on location, technical set-up, streaming and visualisation) |
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flatscreen streaming: bees from camera hive, Hamburg + Brussels | flatscreen streaming: bees from camera hive, Hamburg + Brussels | ||
flatscreen sensors in hive and outside environment (temperature and humidity) Hamburg + Brussels | flatscreen sensors in hive and outside environment (temperature and humidity) Hamburg + Brussels | ||
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foraging fields, plant samples, herbarium | foraging fields, plant samples, herbarium | ||
books in context: Beuys Gesammkunstwerkt Hamburg, Maurice Maeterlinck (the life of the Bees), other books | books in context: Beuys Gesammkunstwerkt Hamburg, Maurice Maeterlinck (the life of the Bees), other books | ||
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4. the introduction of the bees in the hive, on Workers’ day - the fist of May. | 4. the introduction of the bees in the hive, on Workers’ day - the fist of May. | ||
Maybe we can ask Oliver to read out loud from his CD/books Das Kapital???? A performance? | Maybe we can ask Oliver to read out loud from his CD/books Das Kapital???? A performance? | ||
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+ | =====meeting at Entenwerter dd. 27/ | ||
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+ | - Dirck: Follow up different production meetings, brassband, communication (posters, flyers) | ||
+ | - Gunnar: No time to be involved, but will deliver the bee swarm for the first of May | ||
+ | - Dodger: in contact with Guido Lucassen. Waiting for quote. Will work with 1 helper, on Tuesday 16/4. | ||
+ | Put ethernet cable, adjust streaming installation, | ||
+ | - Mr. Bätjer: preparing the dalbes, put the hive with crane on top of the dalbes on 17/4. We start at 13pm. High water will be at 16pm. Welding the leg platforms to the dalbes. | ||
+ | Size leg platforms!!! Size solar panel !!! | ||
+ | - Carsten: Will take care of the bees. Put them in the hive on May 1st. Will build exhibition showcase. | ||
+ | => ask also for welded structure for solar panel, in right solar angle (Hamburg Lattitude = ±53°, so top angle should be ± 30°) | ||
+ | - Golden Pavillion resp. (Alexandra, Jennifer, ...): check if they will be involved in the inauguaration performance on May 1st | ||
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+ | =====Bees after 1 season at Entenwerder===== | ||
+ | Photos bottom: ElbBienen 1 year later. They survived winter well above the water! (photo Carsten Stöppler 2020 03 11). ElbBienen rooftop garden Brussels, 2020</ | ||
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+ | Imkern unter erschwerten Bedingungen, | ||
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+ | =====possible alternative titles===== | ||
+ | BienenFrequenz | ||
+ | Das Bienenhaus auf dem Wasser | ||
+ | Connected Double Dance | ||
+ | Witnessed Double Dance | ||
+ | The honeybees' | ||
+ | Waltzing Honeybees - der Walzer der Bienen | ||
+ | Bees on the Water | ||
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+ | Elbbienen / Elbe Bees | ||
+ | Bienen an der Elbe / Bees on the Elbe | ||
+ | A dialogue: Elbbienen und Brüsselbienen | ||
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=====literature===== | =====literature===== | ||
* D'Arcy Thompson: On Growth & Form | * D'Arcy Thompson: On Growth & Form |
elbbienen.txt · Last modified: 2020/08/16 13:12 by ami