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aka Deep Monitor. I did two site-specific presentations of a monitor’s flickering hopes and fears via Droste effect. Reflection and repetition reveal a subconscious layer, and the monitor – with its fear of storage, wish for a family, a vacation, a picnic -displays a lonesome machine’s yearning.

For the ITP Spring Show:

A few stills of the images displayed on screen:

Initially, and for class presentation, I had the monitor on the floor in the lounge, flashing images:

Notes on the backend: the randomized selection of selected images and the randomized duration for which they are displayed were programmed in OpenFrameworks.

Jason Aston and I took the consequential Time assignment literally:

Consequential Clock from yin ho on Vimeo.

For the PxP midterm 2 and for the Synchronicity assignment for Time, Jason and I did a series of morphing photographs to represent one possible outcome to winning the lottery.

The stills:

We began with mirrors suspended from the ceiling:

Seeing each reflection but once proved difficult, though occurring more from happenstance than precise placement. We used see-thru mirrors, which only allow reflection from particular angles, R-50, surface, and colored mirrors.

Another configuration:

For this week’s assignment, Andrea, Jason, and I worked on a possible midterm concept to create a region for time, and investigate its increments.

Around the Corner, Daniel Buren, 2005

Timaeus proposed time as a moving image of eternity, “an image moving according to eternal number, that which we call time.” Eternity, in this example, is something that “abides in unity” and remains the same with itself (The Timaeus of Plato). Time, in this regard, corresponded with cosmology, a time within the heavens. It later became regarded as belonging to psychology, distinct from the sky, and of the soul.

For our project, we wanted to look at both perspectives: the longer, cosmological view of time, and its psychological, more relative, and incremented context. To do so, we wanted to create a region, where, reminiscent of the soul in Augustine’s writings, memory of the past, expectation for the future, and attention to the present meet (paraphrasing John Sallis).

The project we proposed is an area of mirrored and reflective surfaces where a solitary observer can walk through, seeing one reflection of themselves at a time. The incremental view of seeing oneself exactly at that instance, and solely in a mirror pane in a field/maze of them metaphorically speaks to the fleeting aspect of the present moment. Yet, it juxtaposes that transience with the long view of our physical persistence of being, and seeing the next reflection of ourself in the following instance. From the outside observer’s perspective, they could view the convergence and multiple reflections of individual. It is only within the mirrored space that one reflection can be seen at a time.

We’re currently working on creating model panels that we can move around to design the space. Each mirror must be angled precisely so the participant can see only themselves. We are also looking at possible films to coat the mirrors with, or distorting their surface so a reflection could only be seen from a specific angle.

Grand Nucleo, Helio Oiticica

Possible setup, with some mirrors on the ground, some suspended

For our project on material flux, Jason Aston, Andrea and I made a scale model of an installation. A hole in the ceiling obscures a IV bag of sunset colored liquid. As a viewer walks by, they might feel a drip. The water alters the surface of the floor, creating an area that records the persistence of the drip.

Che-Wei suggested doing a series of these, and comparing them over time. We’ll replace the balsa wood base every x number of days, and perhaps change the coloring to differentiate between each block of time/drips.

Drip begins:

After 4 Days:

For this week’s biological time assignment, Andrea and I focussed on the dream cycle:

dream cycle from andrea wolf yadlin on Vimeo.

The video is a depiction of the brief moments it takes to drop into the dream state, and of that state itself. We recorded a video of the projected interactive sketch (done in Processing by Sunil Vallu). The soundtrack (Marion Brown’s Eleven Light City, Pt 2) and visuals display differing colors and rhythms within a the repetitive grid of triangles and notes. The interior dream state is private. To emphasize this exterior perspective, we shot a video of the projection rather than showing the projection itself. We represent what we can notate as observers of that generalized state: a semi-arc of brain pattern movement, its soft beginning, and the less gradual end of waking up.

Simply, and perhaps incorrectly: Relativity is the lack of an absolute position. A stationary observer sees things differently from one in motion because the two have different frames of reference. From this, each person actually has their own time, dependent on their speed and mass. The faster someone moves, like Federer, the slower time is for them. The heavier they are, the slower time is.

Andrea and I worked on the mechanical aspects of the timepiece we thought up in class last week. Initially, we wanted the face to be one that could be pressed to have the numbers/time pop up. The deluxe version would also have an indicator of time of day: warm for noon, cooler for night done with a sort of warming chip and small fan-like mechanism to push the warmth/cold on to the top of the hand. After considering the different discrete sections necessary to get one number to tell time (change, and push up the correct configuration of parts to represent the number in a 88:88 type of visual possibility), we changed to already raised numbers. This leaves the choice to the user whether to run their hand over the face whenever, and eliminated the additional mechanism.

The raised numbers we selected were from an office stamp. We looked into using a 555 timer to let the gear know when to shift (e.g., for minutes). However, we went with just getting the motor to turn with the numbers on a wheel!