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| - | ======Scientific Inquiries Istanbul: the Transparent Beehive project====== | ||
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| - | =====concept and background===== | ||
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| - | 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 ' | ||
| - | The Transparent (or see-through) Beehive is an observatory, | ||
| - | 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' | ||
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| - | 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, | ||
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| - | **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 " | ||
| - | 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 " | ||
| - | AnneMarie Maes has exhibited widely in international contexts, including in various European countries (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, etc.) as well as the US (New York), Syria, India and Brazil. | ||
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| - | I asked 6 scientists from KoC University to look and link into the Transparent Beehive installation from their personal position. Inspiration for this contribution comes firstly out of their own work and research domain, but can be inspired by an experiment carried out by a colleague or by an historical figure. The aim is to present a range of viewpoints on the experiment, inspired by different methods, procedures and techniques. | ||
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| - | email to Beyza (Koç University responsable for the exhibition project (+Basak + Begum) | ||
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| - | =====presentation of the installation===== | ||
| - | The scenography focuses on the research- and documentary character of the project. There are several elements that relate to one another and that are mostly complementary. The media used are as diverse as sculptural objects, wall-covering drawings, photo' | ||
| - | ====1. transparent beehive: the central sculpture + sound + scent==== | ||
| - | presentation of the sculpture with sound. Speakers are incorporated in the sculpture, but the mp3-player needs to be connected to the speakers. | ||
| - | //⇒ Sculpture beehive needs to be transported by DHL// | ||
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| - | In the Transparent Beehive, the honey bees are the main performers. The bees create in real time a sonification of their actions, and as such they design a subbtle soundtrack that illustrates the life in the hive. | ||
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| - | ====2. interaction with the surrounding ecosystem: the wall==== | ||
| - | the wall: : wall paper with black/white lines representing the environment | ||
| - | //please communicate me ASAP the plans of the space. I need a big wall, at least 8 meters long// | ||
| - | //⇒ wallpaper print brought by Annemie but I need from YOU 2 or 3 people to help me putting it on the exhibition wall// | ||
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| - | On the wall, from floor to ceiling, a map of Brussels Inner City, marked with the foraging areas of the bees. Botanical specifications and comments enrich the map. | ||
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| - | ====3. the photo' | ||
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| - | Stylized botanical drawings from flowers and SEM photography of pollen. Index cards give more information on the species. | ||
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| - | there are 2 x 3 video' | ||
| - | The flatscreens will be hung in a vertical row (see below) | ||
| - | //⇒ 6 DVD's will be brought by Annemie | ||
| - | ⇒ I need from YOU 6 flatscreens and 6 DVD players + 1 set of speakers. | ||
| - | (Only 1 of the videos will play sound - not loud)// | ||
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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// | ||
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| - | //3D design of OpenStructures show cases for bee monitoring archives// | ||
| - | The archives .... make pictures + description of all items in the show-cases. | ||
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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. | ||
| - | This notebook gives background info by the bee monitoring project. Scientific experiments, | ||
| - | 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, … | ||
| - | ⇒ a cosy corner with an easy chair for the public to browse the notebook | ||
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