This is a skytime poster with the main events, to be read from left to right: Sunrise over the Chatham islands, Aotearoa New Zealand, First jam on Zoom at UTC 0700 hours Second jam on Zoom at UTC 13.30 hours, Third Jam on zoom at UTC 19:30 hours, sunset over Baker and Howard islands, marking the end.  The photo by NASA shows sunrise over planet earth as can be seen in outer space, use with kind permission. Skytime logo by Taketo Shimada, use with kind permission. all rights reserved.


Please note: All times are UTC "Universal Coordinated Time" (formerly Greenwhich Mean Time)

It is crucial that you translate all these times into your own local time, for yourself and for people you want to notify. A good online space where you can do this very easily is timeanddate.com

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html


General schedule

START - Sunday, June 22nd,  3.21pm EDT (UTC 19:21)
sunrise above the Chatham islands (Aotearoa, New Zealand) locally Monday June 23, 8.06am convert to your time

THREE PLANETARY ONLINE JAMS via Zoom :

First Jam - (UTC 07:00) - convert to your time
Second Jam - (UTC 13.30) - convert to your time
Third Jam - (UTC 19.00) - convert to your time
 
(when you join, please make sure to mute yourself first)

END - Tuesday, June 24th, 2.52am EDT (UTC 07:52)
sunset over Howard and Baker islands (US Territory) locally Monday, June 23, 5:52pm  convert to your time

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Individual events

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All times are in UTC, so make sure to find out when that will be for your local time.


Sunday June 22


19:21 - sunrise over Chatham Islands (Aotearoa New Zealand) START, welcoming all to the event on Zoom/livestream.
Sharing YouTube videos about time zones. About Elaine Summers screening of video Skydance Iowa 1982 (link)

19:58 - sunset over Paris
20:00 - first screening of the video Elaine in the air and me (2017) (link to Vimeo) by Merián Soto with Patti Bradshaw, Marión Ramirez, Noemí Segarra
20:15 - screening video Where Sky Dances by Krafone Liu specially created for this event

20:30 - about the beginnings of Skytime skytime-history , the first web-pages of www.skytime.org recording of Elaine Summers inviting people to Skytime and talking about her work in the early 1990s (link) video via Douglas Rosenberg

21:00 - sky-jumpers on Vanuatu. Austronesian seafaring with the stars
21:53 - first iteration of live-action for Jean-Ulrick Désert, based on his Sky Over Port-au-Prince Haiti 12th January 2010
22:17 - sunrise over Perth, Australia, Elaine's birthplace


Monday June 23


04:01 - sunrise over Kigali
05:04 - sunrise over Kinshasa
05:51 - sunrise over Sint Francis, South Africa, screening video by Frances Becker < sunrise webcams


06:00 - start of special 24-hour online showing of dance film Origo by Sami Leutola @sami.leutola and Meri-Tuuli Risberg @merrituulinen @art.leutola.risberg https://youtu.be/UR2F6Bc0S9E

Viewing recommendation: a dark, quiet room/space, good sound system, and the largest screen possible. duration 16 min. #origo #origodancefilm #artleutolarisberg #skytime #ElaineSummers #ElaineSummersCentennialCelebrations


06:45 - second screening of video Where Sky Dances by Krafone Liu specially created for this event - more videos by him on the beach and with the sky on Vimeo


07:00 - first planetary online jam
opened by Eva Karczag and Thomas Körtvélyessy
 

08:00 - screening of Heimwee by Femke Gerestein
10:00 - sunset over Tokyo

10:10 - dance improvisation by group at SKVR Rotterdam, organised by Marie-Louise Gilcher (20 minutes)
10:14 - sunrise over Port au Prince, then New York City (UTC 10.25)

10:30 - videos of Elaine Summers, Improvisation with Sun, Moon and Stars with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Kiori Kawai, Jason Kao Hwang at Auditorium Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, video telegraphs tele-paths by Thomas Körtvélyessy and Corien van der Poll (Instagram) web-blogs the sky above Rotterdam and hemellopers , live-webcam Hoek van Holland, Norwegian story East of the Sun and West of the Moon told by Dawn Nelson (online video)
10:57 - sunset over Seoul



13.30 - second planetary online jam
three heaven-works by line kramer music by Henk B. (Amsterdam website / Bandcamp)
Thomas Körtvélyessy joining from Erasmus bridge, Rotterdam (to be confirmed)


15.00 - second screening of Merián Soto, Elaine in the air and me (2017) with Patti Bradshaw, Marión Ramirez, Noemí Segarra (link to Vimeo)

15:30 - the beginnings of the internet, Electronic Arts Intermix, about Nam June Paik : Electronic Superhighway, Good Morning Mister Orwell 15:50 - sunrise over Honolulu, Hawai'ian revival of Polynesian star-chart

18:00 - taiji event with Eva Karczag, Marita Schwanke, Robert Chuckrow and input from Alexandra Ogsbury
18:44 - sunset over Budapest



19:30 - third planetary online jam
opening with video by Kiori Kawai, photos of artwork The Waters of Kiskeya by Jean-Ulrick Désert, video by Katherine Liberovskaya with music by Phill Niblock / Experimental Intermedia Foundation video of Invitation to Secret Dancers with Raindance, music by Carman Moore

21:53 - second iteration of live action for Jean-Ulrick Désert based on his Sky Over Port-au-Prince Haiti 12th January 2010
22:15 - Elaine Summers, Improvisation with Sun, Moon, Stars at Emily Harvey Foundation, with Pauline OliverosKiori KawaiThomas Körtvélyessy showing recordings made in New York and Rotterdam



Tuesday June 24


00:31 - sunset over NYC - video by Frances Becker < sunset webcams
04:00 - sunrise over Berlin < sunrise webcams
05:00 - sunrise Arnhem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam < sunrise webcams
05:08 - sunset over Nuku'alofa, Tonga
05:16 - sunset over Honolulu, Hawai'i

05:42 - last chance to see dance film Origo by Sami Leutola @sami.leutola and Meri-Tuuli Risberg @merrituulinen @art.leutola.risberg https://youtu.be/UR2F6Bc0S9E

Viewing recommendation: a dark, quiet room/space, good sound system, and the largest screen possible. duration 16 min. #origo #origodancefilm #artleutolarisberg #skytime #ElaineSummers #ElaineSummersCentennialCelebrations

05:52 - sunset over Baker and Howard islands (US Territory)


06:00 - last online goodbyes : END

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Since Skytime is a concept art work, technically anything that happens during this period of communicating with and about the sky counts as a part of Skytime, connecting us all during this event in one long conversation.

Sometimes there will be open moments of nothing ...


skyperson to the left

Even more : social media

You are always welcome to share more moments on your own social media.
Please clarify that this is all part of a conceptual piece by Elaine Summers and use the hashtags #skytime #ElaineSummers #ElaineSummersCentennialCelebrations

... that way your posts will be easier to find later, and together we will co-create an entire library for anyone who will search for these three hashtags.