See also: http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=earth_code_core_litany but keep this page for planning and discussion. ====== locations ====== update 28 July Mines/Quarries: DAY 02 -LOCAL GREATER HOBART SITES- *Lutana - suburb of Hobart, old Zinifex zinc works (defunct 2009??) *Giblin Street Quarry, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - disused quarry - calcite related minerals (map: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147118.html) *Tolosa St Quarry, Glenorchy, Hobart - disused - Permian limey mudstones, containing some phosphate nodules. (map: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147118.html) *Cygnet - poss, Galena in a dyke to south DAY 03 - *MONA - 5.58–6.32AM start with [LIGHT Exhibition at MONA DAWN/DUSK] http://www.mona.net.au/james-turrell/* *Avoca - 2 old tin mines http://www.mindat.org/loc-126571.html http://www.crocoite.com/locationbulletins/part1/avocaarea.pdf approx. 2 hours from Hobart **REALLY GOOD WEATHER PERMITTING / RISK ASSESSMENT permitting** *Mathinna - 99 miles from Hobart - old gold mines x 3 (some new operation attempted) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathinna,_Tasmania http://www.mindat.org/loc-234509.html https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3879 **M- of these the Mathinna location looks the most promising!** *(Mount Lyell, Queenstown area is rich in minerals/metals but 3.5 hrs from Hobart) *Tarkine NW Tasmania incl. Savage River iron ore deposits (approx. 5hrs away) **Nancy and Maria - ALL THESE ABOVE 4 hour drive at least there and more of an over night thing - SO UNLESS WE SPENT both days its probably too far ** ***Maria and Nancy will LOCK THESE INTO schedule AFTER we do a RISK ASSESSMENT over the coming weeks*** NB: we don't have autobahns/ very rough roads in comparison to EUROPEAN standards | Weather is also very sketchy. **RISK ASSESSMENT** will take place via Maria and in consultaition with geo-expert and Jason Thursday 06 AUGUST **Plan to head to Avoca and if going is good on to Mathinna!** ====== schedule Earth Code/Core Litany 24-29 August ====== _DAY 01_ **Introductions** All Plimsoll Gallery 24 August 10.00 - 15.00 _DAY 02-03_ **Earth Code** Field Work 25–26 August dawn to dusk | Sites under discussion / pending risk assessment please see [locations] _DAY 04_ **Rough Presentation of project responses**, **Gallery set up** Schedule Lock in 27 August 9am - 5pm _DAY 05_ **Core Litany** **12 hour event** - Friday 28 August: 09.00 - 21.00 [9am - 9pm] _DAY 06_ Break down **Core Litany** **12 hour event** - Saturday 29 August: 09.00 - 12.00 [9am - 12 noon] =====FULL SCHEDULE===== **DAY 00 23 August:** 15:50 Martin, Katie, Jonathon Arrive Tasmania Hobart Airport **DAY 01 Monday 24 August** 10.00 - 15.00 Location: Plimsoll Gallery. Introductions by all. Including Questions / admin / invoices / payment issues / house keeping project mandate and expectations //DAY 02-03 Earth Code Fieldwork// **DAY 02 Tuesday August 25 LOCAL GREATER HOBART SITES** **ALL MEET** 05.00am Hunter Street – Centre of the Arts drive together **5.58–6.32AM** MONA LIGHT Exhibition at MONA DAWN http://www.mona.net.au/james-turrell/ Then on to: //POSSIBLE LOCATIONS// - TBC after risk assessment and weather forecast pending. Lutana - suburb of Hobart, old Zinifex zinc works (defunct 2009??) Giblin Street Quarry, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - disused quarry - calcite related minerals (map: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147118.html) Tolosa St Quarry, Glenorchy, Hobart - disused - Permian limey mudstones, containing some phosphate nodules. (map: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147118.html) Cygnet - poss, Galena in a dyke to south //Doug Kahn Arrives 25 August Tuesday 15.55// **DAY 03** – Wednesday August 26 Regional Tasmania Avoca - 2 old tin mines http://www.mindat.org/loc-126571.html http://www.crocoite.com/locationbulletins/part1/avocaarea.pdf approx. 2 hours from Hobart/ //OR / REALLY GOOD WEATHER PERMITTING / RISK ASSESSMENT permitting// Mathinna - 99 miles from Hobart - old gold mines x 3 (some new operation attempted) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathinna,_Tasmania http://www.mindat.org/loc-234509.html https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3879 **DAY 04** Thursday 27 August 9am - 5pm - Plimsoll Gallery 27 //Rough Presentation of project responses Gallery set up Schedule lock in// **DAY 05** – Friday August 28 09.00 - 21.00 [9am - 9pm] //Core Litany 12 hour ritual in III ACTS// //ACT I// Anarchaeology of Media //ACT II// Networked Aesthetics //ACT III// Ecologies of Performance Current workings [[http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=earth_code_core_litany#core_litany]] **Day 06 Saturday 29 August 09:00 – 17:00** Breakdown Plimsoll Gallery (attendance essential) //DAY 07 SUNDAY// Martin/Kati/Jonathan Depart Sunday - 30 August 8:40 Hobart Airport. Doug Depart 30 August Sunday 12.05 Hobart Airport. ====== activities ====== - voltaic pits - 2 pits filled with mine water && recovered ores from field trip -> at Plimsoll spawn various electrolytic-chemical excitations with collected materials ***(Nancy: can we use eg. the garden area near Plimsoll patio doors for digging?)*** *** discussing with Maria - she thinks there may be a little alleyway just near there that might be possible since we can probe courtyard but not too much relandscaping *** - voltaic rock piles (see images) - diy kiln smelting - for processing collected fieldtrip rocks - ie. metallic ores cf. Mathinna - charcoal/air/earth voice furnace - mineral/acid distillations following alchemical recipes (oil of vitriol, aqua fortis, spirit of salt) and their workings on fieldtrip rocks. ====== equipment ====== - field trip *buckets for rock collection *water containers for any tailing water collection (eg. 2x 25L) eg. Mathinna *rock hammers and chisels, protective plastic goggles, gardening gloves *spades and trowels - infrastructure for electronics/etc - *500g - 1kg each reels of copper wire of thicknesses 0.15mm, 1mm or close to these dimensions *standrad plumbing copper tubing/plate plumbing scraps/copper, nails *soldering stations (3 or 4) *1 or 2 power supplies (12v) *1 or 2 cheap multimeters *junked electronics which could be useful such as transformers, computer mainboards, processors, RAM/memory, harddrives *hand tools such as cutters, handsaws, hammers *thick metal rods/tubes for grinding minerals - steel plate/similar to grind on *gaffer tape *plastic cups - portable speaker for outside use (this should have its own battery): eg. http://www.ebay.de/itm/Yamaha-Monitor-Amplifier-AA5-Strassenmusiker-Ubungsverstaerker-portable-/131554646993?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item1ea1449bd1&nma=true&si=94LtzbvTbZtL6yyvNkrOLoAfwKA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 (JK HAS CRAPPY ONE!) - PA, mixer for inside, beamer, lots of paper (a4 or suitable for printer, a1 for designs and brainstorm), pens, a4 laser printer or dot-matrix with suitable computer/laptop connection (usb/serial) - some kind of outdoor research-construction kit (to be specified) so 2x large 6v batteries such as http://www.ebay.com/itm/COMBO-OF-2-6V-12Ah-6-Volt-12-amp-hour-Sealed-Lead-Acid-Battery-UB6120-/121021726529 *electric drill, masonry bits (small and big) ====== materials ====== - DIY kiln-furnace: *old working microwave oven (8-900watts+ ideal) [nancy has 1] *alumina 'bubble' pizza oven bricks (x4) (cf. http://shop.vitcas.com/insulating-fire-bricks-vitcas-grade-28-826-p.asp) - would need to ask for similar in Hobart from these ppl http://www.firebrick.com.au/industrial_products/industrial_products *ceramic insulation (enough to fill microwave oven approx 2m+ x 50cm) - perhaps offcuts of http://www.firebrick.com.au/high_temperature/high_temperature_insulation) (3m x 1m) JK BROUGHT *silicon carbide or magnetite powder (1-200g) JK BROUGHT *sodium silicate (waterglass) (100ml) JK BROUGHT *hard alumina sheet JK BROUGHT *lime/chalk/seashells as flux - rock/pit voltaics/electrolysis (use clay etc from below) *gelatin (from baking section) 4x 10g packets * iron & copper sulphide ores - fieldtrip?? * sea salt (pure salt) - 1-2kg - charcoal/air/voice furnace: *4x fire bricks/stones each around 50cm x 20cm *regular barbeque charcoal (not briquettes) and fire lighters *10kg of potters clay *plastic tubing (clear, flexible (10mm-20mm) and regular plumbing around 40mm say 1 to 2 metres, scraps also) and various sizes of plastic funnels *cement and sand for casting concrete (25kg) **Chemicals and chemistry equipment: some to be specified more clearly** *Sulphur (500g): eg. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400g-Sulphur-high-purity-finest-powder-High-grade-Best-value-on-EBAY-L-K-/111668260855?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19fff26ff7 *Hydrochloric Acid (36-38%) 500ml-1L *sodium oxide 200g (used in ceramics) *4 boxes of Firework/christmas sparklers *Aluminium powder (very fine - pyro grade) 1kg: eg. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ALUMINIUMPULVER-PYRO-DARK-ALUMINIUM-PULVER-POWDER-ALUMINUMPULVER-200g-/252000175401?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_212&hash=item3aac618529 (jk BROUGHT approx. 300g) *Black iron oxide and magnetite each 1kg: eg. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-8KG-BLACK-IRON-OXIDE-FE304-FINE-POWDER-/271935330683?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f509bd97b (jk BROUGHT approx. 200g) *local silica sand (find it on site) *sea shells and/or bits of chalk/limestone *saltpeter/potassium nitrate 1kg *ammonium chloride powder 1kg *sea salt (pure salt) - 1kg *ferrous sulphate/ferrous sulfate/iron pyrites 1kg *fuller's earth powder 1kg *blowtorch - (Map Pro gas torch/canister) http://www.screwfix.com/p/rothenberger-super-fire-torch-map-pro-gas-cylinder/92347 *pyrex cooking dishes of various sizes (random) http://www.amazon.com/Pyrex-Bakeware-8-Inch-Square-Clear/dp/B00004SZ7K *roundbottom pyrex flask (500ml 1 litre, NS29 standard connection at top to distillation tube/condensor) *distillation tubes eg. liebig or west condensor 200-400mm long: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Glass-West-Condenser-14-20-400mm-/221803485586? but NS29 *collecting flasks (any lab-style flasks) 500mL to 1L size (erlenmeyer, round flasks) (all of this is for basic distillation setup so the sizes of the connections need to match eg. see:http://www.glasswaresforlab.com/prd_gall.php?cat_id=78 but we don't need thermometers and where thermometers are we would need glass stoppers) *tube of silicone grease to seal glass joints of distillation apparatus *plastic tubing to fit distillation tube for cooling water *small pond pump to fit tubes *glass cleaning/bottle cleaning brushes *old tin cans of various sizes *tin foil *test tubes *sieves (cheap) ***Health & Safety stuff** *2x vapour masks; *nitrile gloves (x15 pairs), *heavy duty rubber gloves (x2) *welding gloves - JK BROUGHT ====== questions ====== some kind of outdoor research-construction kit - ** please elaborate** - nancy has large batteries and rechargers ** nancy - any links/specs? ** ALL HERE: http://www.miss-hack.org/?batteries-plimsoll/ Please note _ I WILL HAVE TO TEST these to see if they work - as i haven't used them for eaons... : ( : / Battery 01: Battery Warehouse - Sealed rechargeable battery. 12V 1.3A application floating use 13.5 - 13.8 ====== what participants should bring ====== BYO thermals, snacks and bonhomie. Your personal tool kit may be extended over the course of the event, participants are asked to bring along *rubber gloves *goggles *any fume masks they have *soldering irons *recording devices (paper, pens, audio recorders, cameras, headphones) *scrap metals, minerals, rock ores