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the
ASUNET center
in the campus of the Ain Shams University on
the roof the
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Ain
Shams, the arabic translation for Heliopolis or "Own", which was the oldest
university in history,
meaning "the eye of the sun" |
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the emblem of the Ain Shams University an obelisk and two hawks, a link between the name and the history of the university |
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the
obelisk stands for the house of life at the city of "Own", and the two
hawks are symbols of Horus, the Egyptian God at that time
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the sun disappearing in the raised sand of the desert and the smog of cairo |
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special
hospitality - a smile and a mocha, tea ... |
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| Prof.
Dr. Ahmed Badr,
head of ASUNET, Hofstetter Kurt, Dr. Karam Hassan, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rushdy talking about details of the time eye installation |
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Ain Shams University Information Network |
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first time
on the roof |
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first
impressions
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Cairo
Tower,
187 meters high (613 ft), opened in 1961 |
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Hofstetter
Kurt
looking for the perfect position for the time eye of Cairo |
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with
the compass
looking for the exact direction to the east |
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symbols of the sun everywhere |
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the
position
has been found directed
to the east
towards the sky |
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the position of the time eye on the roof according to the Golden Mean |
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Aten, depicted as a disk with rays reaching to the earth, a being who represented the god or spirit of the sun and the actual solar disk |
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Eye of Horus, also a symbol of the sungod Re |
| mounting the bracket of the camera on top of the front |  |
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the
Citadel
(1171 - 1193), the most prominent landmark on Cairo´s eastern skyline |
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running
the video- and power cables
from
the camera to the time eye's computer-system
downstairs
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the Mosque of An-Nasir Muhamed, one of the finest arcade style mosques in Cairo |
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begun
in 1318, finally finished
in 1335 |
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soldering
the cables
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the Mosque of Muhamed Ali. He is responsible that one of the obelisks of Luxor could be set up in the Place de la Concorde in Paris in 1833. |
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| the fine and final adjustment |  |
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one
of the thausends of taxis
in the enourmous traffic of Cairo |
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most of them are very individually equipped |
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adjusting
the inclination of the time eye
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finally
fixing the cables
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the
taxi drivers
are artists in a special way |
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the time eye of Cairo is installed, catching the sky over the Ain Shams (University), "The eye of the Sun" |
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one
of the first
pictures coming from the time-eye of Cairo |
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the moving picture from the sky over Cairo is transmitted online via InterNet |
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| Hofstetter Kurt is very happy to have the time eye of Cairo installed at the Ain Shams University, "The eye of the Sun"- University, 12 hours opposite to the time eye of Hawaii, catching the sky over the "House of the Sun" |  |
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an
other eye
protecting people |
| a new mark in Cairo |  |
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an older mark |
| the sunpendulum pressconference in the Ain Shams University organized by the University and the Austrian Embassy in Cairo |  |
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Prof.
Dr. Ahmed Zaki Badr, head of ASUNET and coordinator of the time eye installation,
opening the pressconference
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the Pyramids of Gizah near Cairo, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that is still intact and a landmark hard to miss |
| Prof. Dr. Hassan Ahmed Ghalab, President of the Ain Shams University |  |
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the
Cheops Pyramide, the largest in Egypt, originally 146 meters (480 ft) high |
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Dr.
Ferdinand Trauttmansdorf, Austrian Ambassador
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and contains an estimated 2.3 million stone blocks |
| the Austrian Ambassador receiving an emblem from President Ghalab, a mark of respect by the Ain Shams University |  |
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about
4500 years old |
| Prof. Dr. Mohamed Tag-Eldin, Vice-president for graduate studies and research of the Ain Shams University |  |
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| Hofstetter Kurt, media artist and director of the sunpendulum project, presenting his project |  |
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a
short scientific talk about the sunpendulum software by Dr.Christoph Traxler,
representative of the Institute of Computergraphics / Vienna University
of Technology
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the Sphinx, a remarkable statue with the body of a lion and the face of King Khafra |
| Dr. Karam Hassan translating during the pressconference |  |
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| one of the camera teams of Sat TV stations |  |
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directed towards the sky - very impressive - the sculptures on the roofs of the buildings in Cairo |
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the
time eye of cairo in the opposite light
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light inside the Mosque of Muhamed Ali |
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the
back of the
time eye of cairo |
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relaxing with a waterpipe |
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some
stormy days -
a hidden white sun and a lot of sand in the air coming from the desert |
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the
sunpendulum team of Cairo
Hofstetter
Kurt Barbara Doser Christoph Traxler Karam Hassan
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a
mystic white sky, everything is enveloped in a special atmosphere
like a fog in Europe |
| many thanks for the great collaboration to the staff of the Ain Shams University | the impressions will ever last |
