Time 🕰️
Overview
Our understanding of time is often limited to the digital clock on our wrist or phone, connected to satellites orbiting the Earth's atmosphere. These satellites, whose origins begin in US military research, each carry onboard atomic clocks pinpoint your location and send a globally unified time to your phone.
What other forms of time exist?
- Biological Time - Time that is individual to each organism
- Geological Time - On what time scale does a mountain move?
- Psychological Time - “Time flies when you’re having fun!”
There have also been many different ways of recording time and thinking about time throughout history and in the present!
- Decimal Time
- Stonehenge is theorized to record seasonal events of equinoxes or solstices!
- Water Clock
Many artists have looked towards the concept of time for inspiration:
- Christian Marclay, The Clock
- On Kawara, Date Paintings
- Maarten Baas, Real Time
- Arthur Ganson, Machine with Concrete
(Gear reduction by 1/50th, would take over 2 trillion years for the last gear to turn)
Description
Part 1: In Search of Personalized Time
- Browse through the website for Taeyoon Choi & E Roon Kang’s project, In Search of Personalized Time
- Make note of anything that strikes you.
Part 2: Your Time
Create a visual clock that displays/tracks time in an experimental or unconventional way. Your clock should not use numerals. Your clock should represent a way of telling or understanding time that is personal to you or you find interesting. Your clock should be cyclical in some way. It does not need to keep track with the 60 minute system, but it must repeat on whichever scale of time you are working with. Consider color, scale form. How does these influence our feeling of time as we watch your clock? Try to convey the the operating logic of your clock through its visuals.
What time frame does your clock follow?
Question how you understand time.
Submit
Submit to the class discord:
- A capture of your clock at a given time (use Right Click > Save image as…)
- Your p5.js edit link.
- A short paragraph description of your project.
- The title of your project.