The Time Machine: A Multiscreen Generative Video Artwork

‘The Time Machine’ is a multi-screen, high-performance, generative video art installation based around multiple low cost computer platforms. Using algorithmic selection of palindromic loops of time-lapse video the work contrasts the external, machine perception of time with our internal, phenomenological experience of it. The video feeds, recorded from around the world, tick and tock backward and forward creating a polyrhythmic, 12 screen time-piece. The images loop back and forth on each screen of the installation, creating a large polyrhythmic clock of high definition, full colour motion. Each screen detailing a passage of time from around the world, captured, frozen, forward and reverse. The time-lapse loops slowly switch, selected from over a thousand separate pieces by generative algorithms on each host computer. Creating a Time Machine reflecting the world, gently rocking back and forth with a myriad of sub-cadences, confronting the viewer with the unanswerable challenge of comprehending time.

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Daniel Buzzo

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 441-443

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[0001]University of the West of England

Bristol, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.87

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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K. K. Birth 2012 Objects of time: How things shape temporality. Culture, mind, and society. Palgrave Macmillan
D. Buzzo 2016 What do we Know of Time when all we can Know for Real is Now Proceedings of the 5^th Computer Art Congress Paris, France Europia Press http://buzzo.com/what-do-we-know-of-time-when-all-we-can-know-for-real-is-now/ 24 May 2017
D. BuzzoD. Jonas 2015 Designing for the Impossible: Creating a Mobile Application for Time Dilation K. NgJ. P. BowenN. Lambert Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA London 2015) 178 185 London BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing DOI:10.14236/ewic/EVA201635
T. GarciaK. Pender 2014 Another Order Of Time: Towards a Variable Intensity of the Now Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 19 1 13
E. Husserl 1991 On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917). Edmund Husserl Collected Works
J. Martineau 2015 Time, Capitalism and Alienation Brill
J. E. McTaggart 1908 The Unreality of Time Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 17 456 473
N. Munn 1992 The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay Annual Review of Anthropology 21 1 93 123

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[1] K. K. Birth 2012 Objects of time: How things shape temporality. Culture, mind, and society. Palgrave Macmillan

[2] D. Buzzo 2016 What do we Know of Time when all we can Know for Real is Now Proceedings of the 5^th Computer Art Congress Paris, France Europia Press http://buzzo.com/what-do-we-know-of-time-when-all-we-can-know-for-real-is-now/ 24 May 2017

[3] D. BuzzoD. Jonas 2015 Designing for the Impossible: Creating a Mobile Application for Time Dilation K. NgJ. P. BowenN. Lambert Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA London 2015) 178 185 London BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing DOI:10.14236/ewic/EVA201635

[4] T. GarciaK. Pender 2014 Another Order Of Time: Towards a Variable Intensity of the Now Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 19 1 13

[5] E. Husserl 1991 On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917). Edmund Husserl Collected Works

[6] J. Martineau 2015 Time, Capitalism and Alienation Brill

[7] J. E. McTaggart 1908 The Unreality of Time Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 17 456 473

[8] N. Munn 1992 The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay Annual Review of Anthropology 21 1 93 123

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