the PEEPHOLE (dancing bees), installation

name: Bee Monitoring, installation, year start: 2014, year end: 2014, techniques: bird cage – bee nest, webvideo, pandora open source video database, thanks to: Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert

Bee Monitoring. The raw material is an 8 TerraBytes stream of images. During 10 months I studied a colony’s development from scratch: from a late-spring swarm till the new spring one year later. Two (2) webcams filmed continuously in the beehive, at 15/fps, day and night. The videofiles were accelerated and compressed into 1 file of 11hours 35 minutes.
For the FIELDS exhibition in Riga, this long videofile was presented in a box with a peephole, in respect to the private life of the honeybees and their actions inside the beehive.

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The Peephole, video installation, side – front and detail.

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Slitscan representation of the 11:35 minutes Bee Monitoring video. The full length video is available in the opensource video database pandora

The Peephole (dancing bees) was presented
– as part of the Foraging Fields installation in the exhibition FIELDS, Riga – Latvia, from 15 may 2014 to august 4 2014.