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the
campus of the University of Baja California in Ensenada (UABC) located
at the Pacific Ocean
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on
the roof of the Faculty of Engineering the Sunpendulum
Time-Eye of Ensenada |
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M.C.
José de Jesus Zamarripa Topete, director of the Faculty of Engineering
and UABC coordinator of the Sunpendulum project, talking to Hofstetter
Kurt
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| first impressions |  |
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the coastline to Ensenada, just a one hour drive from the US-Californian border |
| up to the roof |  |
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| looking for the perfect position |  |
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| checking the direction to the east with the compas |  |
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the old lighthouse |
| measuring the front wall of the building |  |
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it is not uncommon to find a lot of ready-mades in the surrounding of a Time-Eye |
| calculating the position of the Time-Eye on the roof according to the Golden Mean |  |
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the
exact position
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recording the moments in parallels |
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| Gerardo Segura, Laboratory of Electronical Engineering, responsible for the technical installation of the Time-Eye |  |
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| mounting the camera |  |
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| closing the weatherproof case |  |
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the
adjustment of the Time-Eye
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preparing
the time- eye's computer system
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the white sky in the morning |
| soldering the cables |  |
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seen
on the
UABC campus |
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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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Tobias
Gogolin adjusting a web - cam, which broadcasts the construction of a new
building of the
Faculty of Engineering |
| the Time-Eye of Ensenada is installed, capturing the sunlight from the sky over the University campus |  |
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another sculpture in the campus |
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the
moving picture from the sky over Ensenada and the desert of the Californian
peninsula is transmitted online via InterNet
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Hofstetter Kurt is very happy and satisfied to have the sixth Time-Eye installed |
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| a new mark in Ensenada |  |
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Ensenada |
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an international port city with fishing industry and tourism |
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Sunpendulum press conference at the UABC/Ensenada
on June 21, 2000 |
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located in the north of the Baja California Peninsula |
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C.P.
Victor E. Beltran Corona, Rector of the University of Baja California,
coming from the University's head office in Mexicali
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a 1000 mile long strip of land, surrounded by the ocean and a mediteranian sea, crossed by mountains, deserts, sierras and costal lagoons |
| M.C. José de Jesus Zamaripa Topete, director of the Faculty of Engineering and UABC coordinator of the Time-Eye |  |
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Hofstetter
Kurt presenting his international media art project Sunpendulum
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| Hofstetter
Kurt presented the Rector an art work, his "vision of the Sunpendulum";
in the middle: Alberto Limón Rojas, Austrian Honorary Consul of Baja California |
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Ingeniero
Martinez Sabadeni, representative of the UABC, moderating the pressconference
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| Lic.
Hans Jörg Hörtnagl,
representative of the Austrian National Tourist Office - Mexico, coming from Mexico
City
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| a
short scientific talk about the sunpendulum software by Dr. Christoph Traxler, Vienna University of Technology; right: M.C. Humberto Cervantes De Avila / UABC |
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| Hofstetter Kurt talking with Santiago Alvarez, Laboratory of Electronical Engineering, UABC, about the successful Time-eye installation |  |
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spectacle in the west |
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the
Sunpendulum - team of Ensenada: Hofstetter
Kurt Barbara Doser Christoph Traxler
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| many thanks for the great collaboration to the staff of the University of Baja California, Ensenada | the impressions will ever last |
