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1<?php
2        $seiten_id = 'sonstiges';
3        $version = '$Id: miscellaneous.php 355 2013-03-08 08:51:21Z heribert $';
4        $title = 'Miscellaneous';
5       
6        require "../lib/technikum29.php";
7?>
8    <h2>Miscellaneous</h2>
9
10    <h3>Pianola</h3>
11    <p>The technikum29 is quite versatile &ndash; beside all the communication
12       and computer technology we also show very special exhibits: This is
13       a fully executable pianola, year of manufacture about 1910-1915.</p>
14
15    <p>
16       It's a great experience see and hear such old jukeboxes, typically made
17       only of natural materials like leather, gum, wood, bone glue, felt, metal, paper,
18       ivory and glas.
19       <br/>By assembling these elements on an intelligent way, one could
20       build a simple mechanical machine which is especially impressive
21       for today's people. Here at the technikum29, we will show you how
22       this device works, we will explain the basic functionality and
23       play challenging compositions. While having covers removed, you can
24       even see the fascinating mechanics working.<br>
25           <br><a class="go" href="/en/devices/functional-explanation-pianola.php/"><b>Functional explanation of the pianola</b></a></p>
26    </p>
27
28     <div class="box center">
29       <img src="/shared/photos/kommunikationstechnik/pianola.jpg"
30         alt="Picture of the Pianola" width="700" height="618" class="nomargin-bottom" />
31     </div>
32
33        <h3 id="leander">Art in the Museum</h3>
34
35<p>The technikum29 motivates activities that get awards and prices. The latest
36example is that of the young artist Leander A. Schwarzer who transforms
37everyday things into pieces of art. He has developed pictures made from zippers
38that can be opened thus giving the viewer the opportunity to modify the picture
39itself.<br>
40 His latest visit to the technikum29 has inspired him to make art from
41and with punch cards which were the basis of industrialization in the 20th
42century. First the "Terzett" (Trio) was created which consists of three punched
43cards with these irreversible sentences:</p>
44
45<div class="box left">
46        <img src="/shared/photos/start/lk.jpg"  width="250" height="350" class="nomargin-bottom" />
47                <p class="Bildtext small">Picture 1: 3 punch cards with text</p></div>
48               
49        ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE<br>
50        IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING<br>
51        IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE<br>
52        <div class="box right">
53        <img src="/shared/photos/start/leander.jpg" alt="Leander Schwarzer" width="313" height="239" class="nomargin-bottom" />
54                <p class="Bildtext small">Picture 2: Leander A. Schwarzer punching cards on an IBM key punch</p>
55               
56                </div>
57
58<p>These cards were hanged on a wall at a distance of 1-2 cm. During the day sun
59rays create shadows of the punched and coded text on the wall behind the cards.
60This work of art was awarded a price at the 32th grafics competition in Austria
61(Innsbruck, 2011). This in turn motivated Mr. Schwarzer to continue his work
62with punched cards. He spent several days at the technikum29 punching excerpts
63from Marx' "Capital" thereby creating a pile of several hundred cards. These
64were shown in the exhibition "A Symbol of Freedom" in Piacenza (Italy). Punched
65cards transform contemporary slogans into visual paradoxes when they create
66their unique shadows.</p>
67<div class="box left">
68        <img src="/shared/photos/start/lk-musik.jpg" alt="Musik aus Lochkarten" width="336" height="188" class="nomargin-bottom" />
69                <p class="Bildtext small">Picture 3: Punched cards running through a "musical clock"</p>
70                </div>
71
72<p>Another work, "Fetish Character of commodities", concatenates the cards
73containing Marx' text fragments. This string of cards is then pulled through a
74mechanism like a musical clock that generates sounds controlled by the holes in
75the cards. So, finally, the "Capital" is transformed into atmospheric sounds.</p><br>
76
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79         
80    <h3>Movie projector  "Dresden 1"</h3>
81
82     <div class="box left clear-after">
83        <img src="/shared/photos/kommunikationstechnik/kinomaschine.dresden1.jpg"
84           alt="Photography of the movie projector Dresden 1" width="350" height="630" />
85
86                <div class="bildtext">
87          <p>The technikum29 has a movie projector from 1951 (there are
88             more and even older projectors from the 1930s that are stored in the
89             archive for lack of space).</p>
90          <p>
91             Movie projectors have always been very complex devices. At that time,
92             the bright picture projection was archived with an arc light which was
93             generated between two carbon pencils. The waste heat was deflected via a
94             chimney pipe! <!-- stupid mode... -->
95             Since the pencils got shorter and shorter while the movie went on, they
96             had to be moved continously closer together for producing a constant
97             luminosity. Otherwise the light goes out.
98             <br/>We will repair this device to show an original newsreel from the 1960s.
99         </p>
100           </div>
101        </div>
102               
103       
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