Three universities developed a topic for 48 hours. The teams, based in different time zones, passed the project one each other uploading on-line their outcomes at the end of each daily session. The workshop ran for 6 sessions, every one made of 7 hours; between each session approximately one hour was dedicated to upload and download the files from a shared online folder; in this way the whole 24h will has been used to develop the projects.
The Time Machine Workshop_welcome from Paolo Cardini on Vimeo.
The project brief defined The Time Machine as a device able to measure and describe time through unconventional methods. No clock’s hands, no calendars no numbers but new meaningful cues able to represent the passing of life. Different cultures have different time perceptions, different priorities and different ways to define the present. Different moods underline your personal clock: “Time flies when you’re having fun,” or "a watched pot never boils" are both phrases able to easily clarify the flexibility and relativity of Time.
Final Outcome exhibited during Tasmeem Conference in Doha. The installation was made by two different pieces:
Facebook roll, in which all the workshop whas been described trought an analogical scrolling of the facebook page used as sharing platform.
Selfies roll, an interactive device which reveals a series of self-portrait instagram photos that are related to that particular time zone.
Results of the 6 sessions:
project curated by Paolo Cardini
with Benjamin Jurgensen
Eric McMaster
Ross McLoad
Students from:
Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond
RMIT Melbourne