measuring time – reshaping time

Edward Muybridge

A 3D animation that recreates Muybridge's revolutionary motion capture set up. You might want to turn the sound off.

Posted on: February 17, 2016
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Tehching Hsieh

- From the Guardian Tehching Hsieh gazes down from four walls, his unsmiling features captured in 8,627 mugshots taken in…

Posted on: April 22, 2015
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Andy Goldsworthy – Rivers and Tides

Rivers and Tides A film with Andy Goldsworthy Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer Landscape sculptor Andy Goldsworthy is renowned throughout the…

Posted on: April 12, 2015
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The world’s most boring television … and why it’s hilariously addictive

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Is it possible that there…

Posted on: April 5, 2015
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Adam Magyar – Urban Flow

In a growing body of photographic and video art done over the past decade, Magyar bends conventional representations of time…

Posted on: December 22, 2014
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Étienne-Jules Marey – Photography, Motion and Time

The history that leads to the invention of the motion picture camera is contained in a burst of activity in…

Posted on: December 22, 2014
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The Honeycomb Vase – Tomás Libertíny

The 'Honeycomb Vase' by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny debuted in Milan last year as part of Droog's exhibition. The vase is…

Posted on: April 18, 2014
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Gyorgi Ligeti – Poeme Symphonique For 100 Metronomes

The Hungarian composer György Ligeti composed Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes in 1962, during his brief acquaintance with the Fluxus…

Posted on: April 15, 2014
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Robert Smithson – Spiral Jetty

Beginning in the 1960s, a number of American artists, including Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, and Robert Smithson,…

Posted on: April 15, 2014
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The Long Now

http://longnow.org/ The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to…

Posted on: April 6, 2014
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Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) – John Cage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7490776.stm The church organ in Halberstadt will play the next - sixth - chord of John Cage's As Slow As…

Posted on: April 6, 2014
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Longplayer

http://longplayer.org Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December…

Posted on: April 6, 2014
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Brian Eno – 77 Million Paintings

Conceived by Brian Eno as "visual music", his latest artwork 77 Million Paintings is a constantly evolving sound and imagescape…

Posted on: April 6, 2014
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Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Chris Elliott.…

Posted on: March 31, 2014
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Mark Dion

https://vimeo.com/16912922 Mark Dion is not your typical artist. He is not well known for his paintings, or creating any physical…

Posted on: March 30, 2014
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Christian Marclay – The Clock (2011) + Telephones (1995)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOhWtyXGXQ Christian Marclay's The Clock is a cinematic tour de force that unfolds on the screen in real time through…

Posted on: March 10, 2014
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Sniffing the Time

Over the course of history, a number of mechanisms have been devised to measure the passage of time. Intricately positioned…

Posted on: February 13, 2014
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Spencer Finch – The River that flows both ways

http://art.thehighline.org/project/spencerfinch/ Inspired by the Hudson River, Spencer Finch’s The River That Flows Both Ways documents a 700-minute (11 hours, 40…

Posted on: February 1, 2014
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