C light pendulum [ tokyo ||| azores ] by Hofstetter Kurt
media installation, 2005

In Tokyo and on the Azores, 12 hours apart, videocameras are directed towards the sky and connected online to the Internet. Two videocameras – time-eyes – watch the sky in parallels. The images from both time-eyes are constantly sent to a screen, where a central circular field of one sky is superimposed on the other. With the rotation of the earth, that means over time, the light of the sky in the inner circle is changing complementary to the light of the sky surrounding it, 12 hours distant. Two moons circulate around this field and their position shows the local time, simultaneously correct for both time zones. The realisation is based on the collaboration with the Kanazawa Institute of Technology and the University of Azores using the respective Sunpendulum Time-Eyes as well as the www-client software by Herbert Schwabl and supported by the Sunpendulum Kernel team.

http://www.sunpendulum.at/clp