Midnightsun stories

One of our projects which we will do is called MIDNIGHTSUN. We will stream the local midnightsun in realtime to the city of Linz/Austria where the sun will appear on the media facade of the Ars Electronica Center when the local sun in Linz leaves for the evening.

The camera was mounted about a month ago on top of Saana mountain on an antenna of the Digita phone company and is connected to the network of the biological research station via a wlan bridge.

When I arrived last week I had to find out the hard way that a storm was moving the antenna of the subscriber unit on top of the mountain which resulted in a heavy signal loss, so we barely have a connection with the camera now. we need to wait a few days for the technician of the phone company to arrive as we are not able to climb up the mast ourselves (obviously).

What I sum up here was a process of several days to find out what really happened including a 7 hour walk up to the antenna and down again. Our guide was Oula the stations technician and who is immensely supportive. On the way he drove his car a bit to rough and we ended up with a broken oilfilter – well he has 4 cars so it did not bother him to much ;-) .

here a few impressions of the walk and pics of the dammed antenna thingy out of angle: