Sunpendulum

Concept

Twelve video cameras called "time-eyes" are connected to the internet in twelve locations in twelve time zones around the Earth, observing the sky twenty four hours per day, continuously creating a hypothetical "sun clock" which spans the planet.

The installations were located in:

• 1999 - Maui, Bermuda and Granada
• 2000 - Cairo, New Orleans and Ensenada
• 2001 - Azores
• 2002 - Dubai
• 2003 - Hong Kong
• 2004 - Kolkata
• 2005 - Tokyo
• 2006 - Marshall Islands

The kernel team consists of scientists (chiefly from the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms at the Vienna University of Technology) and artists. Its primary tasks are ongoing technical developments which maintain the integrity of the project and its hardware and software.

Collaboration partners

Scientific and academic institutions which collaborated on the project, hosting the time-eye cameras, hardware and servers, and participating in the project's international cross-cultural cooperation, included Zayed University, Jadavpur University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, and the College of the Marshall Islands.

References

References

1. (1993). "The Sunpendulum Concept". INST Research Institute for Regional and Transnational Processes.
2. "Kurt Hofstetter, Member of Parallel Media". [[Basis Wien]].
3. "Inplusion: 12 time-eyes around the earth watch the sky". Project website.
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5. (13 March 2003). ""Time-Eye" at HKUST Puts Hong Kong on Global Hi-Tech Media Art Scene". [[Hong Kong University of Science and Technology]] website.
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7. (February 2005). "February News: Media art of terrestrial scale: The Kanazawa Institute of Technology future design laboratory (Tokyo)". (A [[Google Search.
8. (3 October 2006). "Sunpendulum Project - International video monitoring, one at CMI, Majuro". yokwe.com.