Standard Time video at STRP Festival

I *LOVE* this piece -- a "deconstruction" (or rather, under construction) digital clock, manually updated each minute by workers on ladders moving the wooden planks of each digit. Brilliant. From the festival program:

Mark Formanek and Datenstrudel: Standard Time

A self-made wooden digital time display

Seventy people created a 4 x 12 meter wooden digital time display—in real time. That means that the work changes 1,611 times in 24 hours! The process was filmed and is now available as a 24-hour film or clock. Watching the Standard Time video, you see not only the time, but also how it is built by people. The makers do their best to build and display every minute on time, but there is the constant risk that they will fail at the last second. Basically, dedicated builders waste their time on a seemingly useless activity that has only one purpose: to show what time it is.
Standard Time emphasises the old-fashioned and above all human perception of time. You can literally watch it for hours.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Standard
• Time
• Deconstructed
• Reconstructed
• manual
• digital
• clock
• STRP
• Festival
• Eindhoven
• Netherlands

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Yes, this was pretty kewl. One of the few things at STRP that kept me watching.