The 2 year project 'TIK' (Time Inventors' Kabinet) is an action by 3 core partners: OKNO(BE), COL-ME(SK) and ESC(AT), and numerous others. Each collaborator already considers the greater international new media art field as an ecology of inventors and art centers as research and creation cabinets. Coming together, we organize a distributed creation lab with base points in each partner region, taking an ecological strategy to observing patterns in time and time control systems. Poetic, playful, and scientific methodologies will be used to explore the (im)possibility of time synchronicity, using "time" as a tool to discover how much connectivity is necessary for ecologies to thrive.A guiding metaphor in the TIK project is the 'horloge a vent'(wind clock), an imaginary time keeping device, controlled by the irregular movement of the wind. We are looking for new approaches to experiencing time and to analyze possibilities for collaboration by adhering to alternative time systems. The approaches and resources of all involved guarantee a rich environment for discovery and production. Our outcomes will be interpretations of time relations within biological and circumstantial ecologies, through the lens of system aesthetics. Using media technology and electronics we will access time-related data from various ecosystems. Following our process-based methodology, the artistic output will be the creation of electronic interfaces that will then be used to reinterpret the data with in the form of artworks and the build-up of a common vocabulary about eco-time. TIK participants represent 13 European countries from the fields of new media, fine arts and art radio. The TIK project activities include supporting working artists, open workshops, art radio sessions, public presentations, conferences and exhibitions; made visible through an online archive of the entire process and interpreted in a critical publication, as a record and guide to 'inventing ecological time'.