GIF is inaccurate^ It looks different in openprocessing. I think because the clock speed moves too quickly for the gif frame rate.

My time project is about how time can seem to be compressed and decompressed throughout the day. At some points it feels like time is passing really quickly, such as when you are really engrossed in what you are doing, and at other times it passes more slowly when you are waiting for something. I attempted to represent this idea through this clock. It slows down and speeds up throughout the day. Each new day (every 24 hours) it feels like this clock off fresh and consistent, but always gets unexpectedly quicker/slower at times.

Openprocessing Link:

https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/609668#

Concept: Clock speeding up+slowing down throughout day to reflect how time “feels” like it passes. The background has a cafe with people who move more quickly or slowly depending on the clock speed

Steps:

• Draw clock
• Make variables for minute and hour hands
• Use “if” statements for its speed: if time is between i.e. 12-2, speed is x amount. if time is between 4-6 time is y, etc.
• Draw background
• furniture will be stable so don’t need variables for those
• door will be opening+closing at certain time frames
• people coming in+out: need to move their heads and bodies together. That is important (make a branch)
• speed up the variables for the people at same rate as clock is speeding up/slowing down

Idea 1: I think that our perception of how much time we have available can be dependent on how tight of deadlines we have ahead. When we have no deadlines to complete anything, there is this freed up space/time that seems much bigger than it did beforehand.  What I made here is a person sitting at a desk with a stack of papers. the stack is connected to this big weight of “deadlines.” As he completes more papers, the weight moves upwards, freeing up more “time.” Eventually the weight is all the way up, and there is plenty of time. When he gets mail again, the cycle repeats.

The way a coffee shop looks throughout the day can tell a lot about what part of the day it is. You would see a large crowd inside here in the morning, then it gets a bit quieter. Around lunch there is a rush of people again, gets quiet, and then again is busy after dark when people come to do work. Overnight, it is completely empty and dark. The next day it repeats.

This idea has more to do with our perception of time. There are studies done that talk about how different animals may perceive time differently than us, based on how quickly we all process the events and images around us. So I wanted to make a sketch that was based on the relativity of time. In this sketch, I am making time dependent on the speed of moving from point A (an outside image) to point B (being processed in the brain). The rate at which this image is processed, as it moves throughout our sensory input and is interpreted by the brain, can kind of create our perception of a “moment” in time. Time can often move slower or quicker based on what we are doing/how engaged we are. So as this processing rate changes, so does how quickly time appears to move.

In Kate Sweetapple’s “Incidental Data,” she created an exhibit featuring multiple artists’ innovative ways of displaying data. With the huge wave of information we now have the ability to display, she questioned why everything had to be presented in such uniform, algorithmic ways. The exhibit features data presented without any graphs and charts, and instead through the use of creative or everyday objects. Some of the objects in the work are from trees, glue, and lipstick, to name a few.

Through this different medium, we can see data represented in a more exciting way. I think this fun display can transform data from something that was once boring into an exciting world of possibilities for further exploration. Also, since this data is being displayed in a less uniform way, it seems that you can avoid the mistake of oversimplifying results that don’t necessarily fit in one box.

https://cargocollective.com/katesweetapple/Incidental-Data

I found Kate Armstrong through the Artist Resources. She created “The Problem of Other Minds,” in 2006. It is an art display featuring a robotic sculpture. The sculpture contains voice recognition technology, and whenever it hears words it recognizes, it rolls out some of the spool of paper inside it. The paper has thoughts and notes written on it, to be revealed.

I initially was interested in this project because I thought the title of the display is ironic/intriguing, and probably is more related to what is written on the spool. It is interesting to see someone using voice technology in order to make something physically move. It’s really common to see voice recognition used in order to make a device follow instructions within itself, but we haven’t really seen this utilized to move physical objects. I think it’s a creative notion, and there’s probably much further use of what she started doing here.