The Transparent Beehive Notebook

Fig.7 - To help the new colony building up their nest I gave them some food. Making wax and building honey comb is an energy consuming activity. As a starter I put some sections of comb with sealed honey cells from another hive, and I added two

The Transparent Beehive Notebook

Published on Jul 30, 2014

annemarie maes

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The Transparent Beehive Notebook gives an overview of the Transparent Beehive Project. It describes in words and images the intense process of Bee Monitoring and the close collaboration with numerous fellow artists, scientists, engineers and beekeepers. The relation 'bees and flowers' is an evident one and is never far away in this notebook. In an artistic way and starting from hands on experiences as a beekeeper, I give an account of the building of monitoring systems and their implementation in the beehives at the open field labs. Working with the collected open source data is explained, and most important: the disclosure to a public in a set of transdisciplinary art forms: photographs, films, sculptures and the Bee Archive.

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