ELAINE GAN

CHRONOMETERS FOR TIME TRAVELERS, 2011

Each container holds a different material from which a different speed of time is derived: water, earth, grains, air. Each runs with a microcontroller, a potentiometer, and a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD). Each VFD visualizes two registers of time: the top line corresponds to watch time (thus, all four display the same data); while the second line calculates a time based on matter contained (thus, each is different). These are speculative and playful sketches that push for a rethinking of homogeneous, linear time.

Collaboration with artist Nik Hanselmann,
in conjunction with installation Rice Child (Stirrings), 2011

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