Assignments

• Timekeeper Design Hunt: Clocks are cool! There are so many fabulous examples of artists working with time, historical timepieces, astronomical equipment, and more. Collect and post eight “timekeepers” you love. These could be watches or clocks you like; time-based art installations you’ve experienced; astronomical historical sites; etc. Come prepared to talk about one or two in particular during discussion in class next week. Questions: Collective Miro board? Or other way to share visual inspiration?
• Add a link to your class blog to the shared document
• Reading
  • Scan the Time materials on https://fddrsn.net/teaching/time, especially the Resources [Bibliography, Hardware, and Software], Ideas, and Gallery. Come with questions.
  • Griffiths excerpt (this document contains an excerpt from her book and a transcription of an interview)
  • Brand, Kairos and Chronos

Response

Timekeepers

1. Sarah Sze, Timelapse
2. Agustina Woodgate, National Times
3. Michael Ende, Momo
4. Incense (originating in China during the Song Dynasty)
5. String (in mythology, the Three Fates cut spools of thread indicating the length of one’s life)
6. Tides (i.e Croation sea organ)
7. The work day (worst measure of time)
8. Scales of time
   1. Hair (time at the scale of the human)
   2. Leaves (time at a seasonal scale)
   3. Rocks (time at a geological scale)

Readings

A Sideways Look at Time Excerpt.pdf

Brand Long Now Kairos Chronos.pdf