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Artificial environment

If there is any idea behind post futurism in art, then it would be the urge to create work for the surface of Mars. I just read a e-mail in my mail inbox about non-fiction, these days fiction and non-fiction are very hard to distinguish, if you imagine that thirty years ago some fiction considered as fake or something out of a imaginarium.
In this temporary society we are descending a period of changement, a change that goes far beyond the thinking capacity of children that were raised and born in the twentieth century. What was once something futuristic and unthinkable, is already happening in our perception of the truth. This is the point that i would like to discuss, Mars became a possible environment to exhibit, although the context stays very important, if we are able to make work meant for Mars then it would fit. A fellow student of mine just made me aware that I life in a artwork, the Netherlands is manufactured by human hands and therefor shaped and structured for the common people, within this artificial elements human creativity again reshaped and recreated this particular environment. Being conscious of the environment makes you aware of the endless possibilities, in that sense the possibilities of a remote area is the ultimate playing ground for a new format within human existence. Examples like colonization and creating land out of sea, just to increase. This is what we think of it now; to discover planets in the same solar system or other solar systems like Earth. Mars is maybe one of these planets, and humanity is thinking of inhabiting it.
Instead of just exploring this planet with robots, it would be a very symbolic idea to put a tree or plant in a artificial environment on the surface of Mars before the first humans arrive.

Although creating involves usage of materials and by that money, but without exposure there will be no financial support. These day's as artists we need to operate international.
This is the reason that I will send letters to ESA, NASA and to other space agencies, to help me to develop a artificial environment. But not only to develop, also to make a statement. Human existence is made possible by nature, by our ecological environment, the interaction among organisms and their environment, the interaction that organisms have with each other and the interaction with the abiotic environment.

Probably many scientist are already busy with artificial environments, and the creation of an artificial ecology.
In is one of the most intriguing questions that we have, how we can survive after a apocalypse, or if this is never going to happen and life happily with one bung on one planet, how to expand?     


Self sustainable ecosystems are the key to success, if we are able to create an artificial environment with a self sustainable ecosystem. we can implement this in the most hostile environments on earth, or anywhere within human reach. This can change our global view, the entire problem of food shortage/supply.
This remembers me of a documentary about rice, a researcher out of Sweden infested millions of euros  in a project to genetically manipulate rice plants. He succeeded to implement vitamin A , "Golden rice" is a variety of Oryza sativa rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible parts of rice  

Golden rice was designed to produce beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible part of rice, the endosperm. The rice plant can naturally produce beta-carotene in its leaves, where it is involved in photosynthesis. However, the plant does not normally produce the pigment in the endosperm, where photosynthesis does not occur. A key breakthrough was the discovery that a single phytoene desaturase gene (bacterial CrtI) can be used to produce lycopene from phytoene in GM tomato, rather than having to introduce the multiple carotene desaturases that are normally used by higher plants.[6] Lycopene is then cyclized to beta-carotene by the endogenous cyclase in Golden Rice

Eventually no country wanted the rice, because the most Asian countries are scared to lose all local species of the rice plants. If you ask me the had a good reason, if genetically manipulated plants crosses with other similar local rice plants, there will be hybridization, this can cause diseases or a plague. Examples of human interference in ecosystems often resulted in damage, the vulnerability of a ecosystem is also his strength to adapt and overcome destruction. To mutate and to recreate. If a ecosystem stays untouched it will flourish, by that strong and flexible within his own environment. Interference of another species from another environment can take over the balanced ecosystem and create a shift, the ecosystem restores and adapts the species. survival of the fittest, also it will increase the possible fact that a disease takes natures toll.

Myxomatosis (sometimes shortened to "myxo" or "myxy") is a disease that affects rabbits and is caused by the myxoma virus. It was first observed in Uruguay in laboratory rabbits in the late 19th century. It was introduced into Australia in 1950 in an attempt to control the rabbit population.       

The cane toad in Australia is regarded as an exemplary case of a "feral species"—others being rabbits, foxes, cats, and Giant Mimosa. Australia's relative isolation prior to European colonisation and the industrial revolution—both of which dramatically increased traffic and importation of novel species—allowed development of a complex, interdepending system of ecology, but one which provided no natural predators for many of the species subsequently introduced. The recent, sudden inundation of foreign species has led to severe breakdowns in Australian ecology, after overwhelming proliferation of a number of introduced species for which the continent has no efficient natural predator or parasite, and which displace native species—in some cases these species are physically destructive to habitat as well. Cane toads have been very successful as an invasive species, having become established in more than 15 countries [3] within the past 150 years. The Australian Government placed cane toads in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as a "key threatening process"

Rumble strip Roadway Music

A Highway could be a perfect playing ground to experiment with sound and speed, emergency lane is separated from the carriage road by a white stripe, if you drive over it, it will make a sound.

Rumble strips, also known as sleeper lines, audible lines[1], and growlers are a road safety feature that alert inattentive drivers to potential danger by causing a tactile vibration and audible rumbling, transmitted through the wheels into the car body. A rumble strip is usually either applied in the direction of travel along an edge- or centerline, to alert drivers when they drift from their lane, or in a series across the direction of travel, to warn drivers of a stop ahead or nearby danger spot.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_strip

 But this rumble strip can be used in other ways, I think if we change the distance between the spacing of the grooves there is an way to create other frequencies and by that musical intervals

Of course I'm not the first who thought of this, while making this I found several examples.
But visually I had another idea more like an organ book, and for the left and right wheels.

Asphaltophone

The first known musical road, the Asphaltophone, was created in October 1995 in Gylling, Østjylland, Denmark, by Steen Krarup Jensen and Jakob Freud-Magnus, two Danish artists. The Asphaltophone is made from a series of raised pavement markers, similar to Botts' dots, spaced out at intermittent intervals so that as a vehicle drives over the markers, the vibrations caused by the wheels can be heard inside the car.

Melody Road

In Japan, Shizuo Shinoda accidentally scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer and drove over them, and realised that it was possible to create tunes depending on the depth and spacing of the grooves. In 2007, the Hokkaido National Industrial Research Institute, which had previously worked on infra-red lights to detect dangerous road surfaces, refined Shinoda's designs to create the Melody Road. They used the same concept of cutting grooves into the concrete at specific intervals and found that the closer the grooves are, the higher the pitch of the sound; while grooves that are spaced farther apart create lower pitched sounds.

There are three permanently paved 250 m stretches of Melody Roads;[4] one in Hokkaido, another in Wakayama where a car can produce the Japanese ballad "Miagete goran yoru no hoshi wo" by Kyu Sakamoto, and a third in Gunma, which consists of 2,559 grooves cut into a 175 m stretch of existing roadway and produces the tune of "Memories of Summer".The roads work by creating sequences of variable width groove intervals to create specific low and high frequency vibrations. The pavements were designed so that the songs were heard right only when a car drove at a certain speed, encouraging drivers to observe speed limits.
Singing Road

The Singing Road can be found close to Anyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea, and was created using grooves cut into the ground, similar to the Japanese Melody Roads. Unlike the Japanese roads, however, which were designed to attract tourists, the Singing Road is intended to help motorists stay alert and awake – 68% of traffic accidents in South Korea are due to inattentive, sleeping or speeding drivers. The tune played is "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and took four days to construct.
Civic Musical Road

The Civic Musical Road was built on Avenue K in Lancaster, California, United States, on 5 September 2008. Covering a quarter-mile stretch of road between 60th Street West and 70th Street West, the Musical Road used grooves cut into the asphalt to replicate part of the Finale of the William Tell Overture. It was paved over on 23 September after nearby residents complained to the city council about noise levels.

After further complaints from city residents about its removal, work began to re-create it on 15 October 2008 on Avenue G between 30th Street West and 40th Street West — this time, two miles away from any residence. This road is named after the Honda Civic. It opened two days later. The new section on Avenue G is only in the far left lane of the westbound side of the road.

The road appears in Honda Civic commercials. The rhythm is recognizable, but the pitches are so far off that the melody bears only a slight resemblance to the William Tell Overture. The intonation is not affected by the design of the car or the travel speed. It is likely the designers made a systematic miscalculation which affected all the groove spacings.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road

Artificial environment

An artificial environment is an environment that has been created with the intention
of being separated from any real-world environment for some purpose, such as experimentation.

I would like to experiment with an artificial environment or better an ecosystem within a artificial environment. To grow plants, to include a ecology and forms of organisms. Inevitable is the fact that without organisms there can be no ecology, and if i create a  artificial environment i have to deal with abiotic factors too.

In ecology and biology, abiotic components (also called abiotic factors) are non-living chemical and physical factors in the environment, which affect ecosystems. Abiotic phenomena underlie all of biology.
In biology, abiotic factors can include soil acidity, light, radiation, temperature, water, atmospheric gases, and soil. The macroscopic climate often influences each of the above. Pressure and sound waves may also be considered in the context of marine or sub-terrestrial environments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology

For wind directions, i will use computer ventilators, to create differences in climate, i will use components out of cooling systems, boilers or heating systems.
Water aggregation states are of importance within changing climate or artificial climate control.
This to create an world within an world, to make this work i have to use several techniques to imitate nature in a sense. for example irrigation is used to assist in the growing of plants, it's a artificial way to water the plants, but copied from rivers that overflow.  

As a concept it's an very interesting topic, are we indeed in seek for new technology's to use this for aerospace engineering, in case we indeed want to go to Mars and create a ecosphere.
See picture below: www.sodahead.com
To make a tiny model of Mars and to create Terra forming to create a self-regulating anaerobic biosphere.


I compare this with the foolishness of Cornelis Lely  a dutch civil engineer and statesman. He oversaw the passage of an act of parliament authorizing construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a huge project – designed to his own plans – that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake and made possible the conversion of a vast area of former seabed into dry land. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Lely

Cornelis Lely is honored, for example a city in the Netherlands and in Suriname is named after him.
This man is honored because of engineering and creating, but what never came to discussion is the fact that he destroyed a complete ecosystem, to turn a sea in to a sweet water lake is the biggest ecological disasters of the Dutch history. 

One of most notable features of the Netherlands was the Zuiderzee. The name meant "Southern Sea" in Dutch, but it was actually a shallow bay of the North Sea that ran 60 miles (100km) inland and was about 30 miles (50km) wide. Despite its great size covering almost 2000 square miles it was only about 15 feet deep.

While the Zuiderzee was a resource for fishing and allowed access for trade, it could become dangerous whenever one of the frequent North Sea storms would push water through the bay's inlet. Dikes would fail and the resulting floods would kill hundreds or even thousands of people. In 1421 a seawall on the Zuiderzee dike broke during a storm and flooded 72 villages killing about 10,000 people.

In the 17th century the first plans to address this problem were drawn up. It wasn't until the 19th century, however, that the technology to actually do the job was developed. Cornelis Lely, a Dutch civil engineer, came up with a plan that proposed building a long dam that would close off the Zuiderzee and turn it into a lake. The plan also included building four polders in the lake that would be drained and used mainly for agriculture.

Lely became Minister of Transport and Public Works in 1913 and tried to push his plan forward. Not everybody agreed with his ideas, however. Fishermen along the Zuiderzee were concerned that they would lose their livelihood. Others were worried that such a project might create higher water levels at other places along the coast. The government was also alarmed about the enormous price tag of the project.

In 1916 during a winter storm, however, several dikes gave way along the Zuiderzee and the result was more damaging floods. After this disaster Lely's bold plan gained much public support. On June 14, 1918 the Zuiderzee Act was passed and the project was officially started. Its goals were to protect the region against floods from the North Sea, increase the country's food supply by creating polders that could be turned into farmland and use what remained of the Zuiderzee to improve water management.

http://www.unmuseum.org/7wonders/zunderzee.htm

One century ago, the present Flevoland was just a patch of water in the Zuiderzee. Only the former

islands of Schokland and Urk, which are now part of the province of Flevoland, have a longer history. The history of Flevoland begins with the words spoken by Dutch Queen Wilhelmina during her speech of September 1913: ‘I consider it time to initiate the enclosure and reclamation of the Zuiderzee. This will result in an improvement to the water management infrastructure of the surrounding provinces, expansion of the habitable land area and a permanent increase in employment.’

The Zuiderzee was then a dangerous inland sea that penetrated right into the heart of the Netherlands. Cornelis Lely’s plan to enclose the Zuiderzee and partially drain it was accepted in 1918. Lely’s objectives for impoldering were manifold: better flood protection, improved water management, faster transport links between the west, north and east of the Netherlands, and more farmland and employment. Construction of the 2.5 kilometre long dike from North-Holland to the Wieringen island was completed in 1924. The 30 kilometre long Afsluitdijk from Wieringen to Friesland was finished in 1932, turning the Zuiderzee into a lake – the IJsselmeer. Five years later, reclamation of the Northeast Polder was initiated. In 1957 Eastern Flevoland fell dry, and in 1968 Southern Flevoland also became land.

http://www.flevoland.nl/english/from-past-to-present/

Making optimal use of the available resources are characteristics that are typical of the Dutch people. Much of the country borders the sea and there are many internal waterways and lakes. The Dutch people have clearly put this to good use, reclaiming land from water.

Cornelis Lely reclaimed a significant part of the Zuiderzee to create polders. The largest polder, Flevoland, is now home to around 400,000 people.

Jer Wenmaekers, thought of reclaiming land from water not only with the Zuiderzee but also the Waddenzee.
From disaster point of view, both plans, that from Cornelis Lely and Jer Wenmaekers have excluded the possible lost of the most important function of these seas. The Zuiderzee and Waddenzee functioned as womb, the water was shallow and were excellent breeding grounds. Not only for fish, but for the entire ecology like mammals, birds, molluscs, plants and insects.

But to show off how good we are by creating land, and without thinking about the possible risks, we like experiments and act when new things occur.
(I will add later more...)   

Today, the Dutch are deploying the same techniques in Abu Dhabi to create new artificial islands off the coast. They are also helping to construct robust dykes in New Orleans

http://www.studyinholland.nl/why-study-in-holland/be-a-pioneer.

In a way there are a lot of people that thought of creating worlds within the world.
The World Islands at the shore of Abu Dhabi is an artificial archipelago consisting of about 300 small islands constructed in the rough shape of a world map, located 4.0 kilometers off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The islands are composed mainly of sand dredged from Dubai's shallow coastal waters. 321 million cubic meters of sand and 31 million tons of rock were used to build the islands that cover an area roughly 6 by 9 kilometers, and is surrounded by an oval-shaped breakwater island.
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/10/dubai-enormous-world-artificial.html

 
   

Artificial environment

Some dreams are beautiful, but sometimes in society hard to realize.
The dream to life abroad in a remote area, where a self-sustaining life is necessary is far from realistic at this moment, I'm fully enclosed in the dutch society, everywhere, and in the most things I do, there are rules to follow and money to spend. Although society gives a lot security, like by paying health insurance to have the possibility of all possible health-care that you can imagine and until now it's also almost impossible to have no basic income, thats means a roof above your head. But if you look at the bureaucratic part you need almost for every little thing approval from a government institution. This can be a nine to five job, off course I exaggerate, but if you start to think about it, it will consume a lot of energy.     

Sometimes there is the will to create your own world, a world for yourself. It can be mentally but also putting it to practice can be a way to relieve yourself from all remaining thoughts.

In a way I always have been interested in nature, the big diversity of vegetation, bird, mammal and insect life, the seasons, the cycle of life, how things grow, change and renew.
Why a stable ecology is so important, what the human interaction can cause in a positive and negative sense  
I'm fascinated by the painting of  Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights.
The outer wings, when folded, show a painting of the earth during the biblical narrative of Creation.
Despite the presence of vegetation, the earth does not yet contain human or animal life, indicating that the scene represents the events of the biblical Third Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

In an attempt to create an artificial environment, i would like to refer to The Garden of Earthly Delights.
A world with presence of vegetation, no animals or human life.
Creating the vision of those who thought and claim centuries ago that the earth was flat.
The Hebrew cosmology pictured a flat earth, over which was a dome-shaped firmament, supported above the earth by mountains, and surrounded by waters.
I believe that this thought was important for the church, because of the idea that the earth was the center of the universe also known in astronomy, as the geocentric model or the Ptolemaic system.
A description of the cosmos where Earth is at the orbital center of all celestial bodies.

Persectives of Anaximander's universe

An artificial environment is an environment that has been created with the intention
of being separated from any real-world environment for some purpose, such as experimentation.

                          one of the first sketches, an  artificial environment as center of the universe

Samsung Swiss (Remix)

Remix is the act of taking existing artistic work or anything in a form of media or an object and altering it to suit your purposes.

Samsung Swiss

Everything in one, the Samsung Swiss is a multi-tool, such as daily useability requires.

Often we have problems finding the right tool, for example with cutting your nails, opening a beer bottle, taking a kork out of the bottle, to search on internet, to make a picture or movie, open a can of corn or to light your cigarette with the USB battery lighter.

(Also included is a built in track and trace so abuse can be punished)