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bee biology & ecology

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BEE BIOLOGY & ECOLOGY

Bees can be seen as acting at the border between culture and nature. Their role can be defined as carriers and collectors of information.

permaculture

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“Permaculture is a way of living which promotes a harmonious
balance between all forms of life within the ecosystem.”

Permaculture is an approach to everyday life that integrates plants, animals, landscape, structures; people who purposely design all the facets of their lives to enhance environmental sustainability within a permanent, sustainable agricultural and cultural system - a diverse, complex eco-system, where the all of the elements interact in mutually beneficial ways to produce a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts.

Data Harvest

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The Open Green is an artificial environment, a hybrid of nature and culture. The Harvest is about scraping data of any kind from the garden and using it for media applications. We'll try to make autonomous sensing devices that network and connect to the internet.

These pages are very much in progress, so incomplete and wildly inaccurate at best ; )

watch & listen

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The new bee colony is arriving in the week of June 28th-July 4th

We are eagerly awaiting the birth of a queen and the delivery of our very own colony.

The hive has been prepared. It is outfitted with a camera and custom sensors so we can track and collect data from the life of the bees.

DATA HARVEST

opening of okno's open_green

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Date: 
Saturday, 16 May, 2009 - 15:00 - 19:00

okno's open_greenokno's open_green

After a year of research and preparations the open_green structure is ready to receive public and participants!

Introduction of Alien Species to the Green

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The Art Pollution Kit

Posted by bezdomny
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Date: 
Tuesday, 30 June, 2009 - 19:00

The Art Pollution Kit is a project geared at providing easy access to environmental data by using Arduino open source acquisition boards and specialized environmental sensors. Arists Michal Kindernay and Gívan Belá experiment with perceptual ideas about sound and visual pollution (using noisiness, speed of movement/change, and spectral spread). Currently they are working with humidity and temperature and working towards including readings of air quality, ozone, pressure, and windspeed.

Connecting Arduino's -- I2C

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To make a network of Arduino's, we'll use the Two Wire (I2C) bus-system. A bus is a way to connect things, not unlike a network, but simpler.
There's a libary for I2C included with Arduino called Wire and the examples get us up and running. I2C is commonly used, simple and lightweight. There are many other devices that speak I2C, we'll deal with them when they end up in the garden.

Instead of sending data out all the time, I2C works with a request system.
A master device sends a request to a device with a certain address, the device will respond by sending back the data requested.

Bend, sew, touch, feel, read

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Date: 
Saturday, 25 July, 2009 - 10:00 - Sunday, 26 July, 2009 - 18:00

A workshop on soft sensors and flexible electronics
Workshop · Fo.am - Okno, Koolmijnenkaai 34 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels (in collaboration with Fo.am, Nadine en Constantvzw) ·
http://www.kobakant.at

To explore the possibilities of bringing electronics closer to bodies and plants we are organizing a workshop with the artists Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi in which you will learn how to use textiles and electronics to interact with humans and plants.

opening composition

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opening composition

A series of photographs made by Kyd Campbell at the presentation/concert by the Art Pollution Kit project...

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