[ map terrain . projects . digital clock tower ] edit

responsible parties: Adam Christiansen

definition:

What dimension is depth? Applied meaning implies lack of integrity and resonance. Like make-up, it is removable, noncomittal and mutable. But then, what about human body and the revealing mask of the tribal tattoo?

We project our subjectivity on the context we read. Our shadow falls across the landscape. As we frame our reality, we create it.

Using physical or temporal mapping, text and image, found and assisted, reconfigure an existing spatial condition to map your cyborg's frame of reverence.

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How far does meaning reach below the surface? Is there a difference between our perceived reality and integrity? Beauty may lie in the eyes of the beholder but the beholder frames the structure of truth captured within the beauty.

Our experiences shape our frame of reference from which we measure and redefine.

Through the use of projection set-out to redefine the physical reality to shape the perceptions of the recruited participants.

desription:

The digital clock tower.
With this project I set-out to take the idea of my cyborg and give it new place and meaning, but also, to bring in the casual observant as an active participant. The theortetical foundation was centered around time and place. The physical product was a series of images taken from a digital clock face and spliced with written images in the context of the clock's framework and typeface. The goal was to subvert the typical notion of time-keeping pieces through playful interjections. I choose to execute this experiment on the windows directly under the windows of the clock tower on the south face of Denny Hall on the campus of the University of Washington. The digital clock images were linked together in a movie format and the projected time kept up with that of the Denny clock directly above.

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Below: a behind the scenes view of the digital clock tower at 11:22.

last updated 5.14.2002 by Adam Christiansen