Live-projections of the observatory Sonneberg at the ACC-Gallery Weimar

i.A. (on behalf of)

two new projects of the New Patrons.

Three video projections are installed in the exhibition space of the ACC-Galerie. Every projection transmits the live-image of a network camera that is installed at a fixed position in the observatory Sonneberg. One can see static images from the observatory that are automatically updated every minute.

Network cameras, media player, video beamer, poster with image of stars, black and white photographs, light box out of the observatory’s inventory, portrait of Cuno Hoffmeister

© Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth 2012
 
Artists and patrons are introduced in an exhibition at the ACC-Galerie Weimar.

Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth | 4pi Systeme – society for astronomy and information technology mbH Sonneberg

Henrik Schrat | Naumburger Bürgerverein e.V.

New Patrons Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt are part of the network New Patrons e.V. Germany and is supported by the Fondation de France. In 2010 New-Patrons-Projects have been promoted within a pilot phase in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education to introduce and establish the programme in Germany.

Curator: Frank Motz

The live-transmission of the static video images relates to the sky monitoring of the observatory by rephotographing the night sky in long intervals, in order to examine variable stars.
----> Work state concept for the observatory
----> The observatory Sonneberg
----> 4pi Systems / Observatory Sonneberg (external)
----> www.newpatrons.eu (external)