紀要No.16 野上文天

ブックの説明

GPSシステムを使った時間同期
インスタレーションプロジェクト2008
Installation project 2008 in the time Synchronization used GPS systems

野上文天
NOGAMI Bunten

We (human been) beings have archived inside
our own memories one blink-of-an-eye physical
phenomenon to another and the relationships
between one person and systems, systems and
systems, one person and people. Thus, we have
accumulated the grand data of time called
history on the whole. Each people have developed
and used various temporal measurements,
such as solar calendar, in the rise and fall of
each civilization as we have kept observing the
heavenly bodies and found the constant cycles of
their movements.
The standard calendar used by many of us
today is Gregorian Calendar. There is a standard
to measure and manage time accurately on earth
and the length of time unit is set by electronvibration.
Also, there is a system called GPS
(Global Positioning System) to measure time at
arbitrary places on earth with about 24 satellites
that orbit around earth, and, with a GPS reciver
module, the infrastructure for anyone of us to
utilize it to a certain degree has been arranged
already. GPS satellites and their base stations on
earth are operated under the management of the
U. S. Department of Defense. All the satellites
and the base stations on earth equipped with the
synchronized clocks, the location of a GPS receiver
module is detected by the time deviation between
the GPS receiver module and the each satellites
when they receive the radio wave transmitted by
the satellites.
This project, to be stated later in detail, is
the installation to try to output the accurately
synchronized signals from several places on earth
using the systems that are available to us today.
Specifically, we will build up the system to output
the synchronized signal, with high accuracy, from
the 5 points on earth on December 22^nd of the year
2012.
Although the main focus of this project will be
on this GPS system, we will develop and expand
the synchronous system every year till 2012 by
using the internet and the radio techniques
for the infrastructure of debugging check and
synchronous support. This year in 2008, we
plan to take this GPS used system to India and
endorse the operation, check the concept and
infrastructure.
We have held the annual art exhibition series
called Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven, Earth and People)
every year since 1999 on the day of and around
December 22^nd, and interacted with the artists of
various fields. This event has been held focusing
on the day to come in the future, 20121222. I am
not able to write about Mayan Calendar here;
it is just way beyond the capacity of this space
here and myself but I am certainly excited about
this moment to come, being able to experience it,
stepping beyond time and space, gives me bliss.
I also think that it is just beyond individual joy
but there should be something to explore inside
human beings’mind that, to aim at one moment
of time to come and focus my consciousness on it,
it inspires me about what I should do now.
From 1999 to now on, with 5 years left till 2012,
we have come about understanding how we should
get along with the system now. Here, I’d like to
report the outline of the project, introduction of
this system itself between India and Japan, and
what we did in India this time.