The Exquisite Clock: dynamic selection of real-world objects
"Exquisite Clock is a clock made of numbers taken from everday life – seen, captured and uploaded by people from all over the world. The project connects time, play and visual aesthetics. It's about creativity, collaboration and exchange.
Exquisite Clock is based on the idea that time is everywhere and that people can share their vision of time. Through the website www.exquisiteclock.org, users are invited to collect and upload images of numbers that can be found in different contexts around them – objects, surfaces, landscapes, cables... anything that has a resemblance to a number.
The exquisite clock has an online database of numbers – an exquisite database – at its core. This supplies the website and interconnected physical platforms. The online database works like a feeder that provides data to different instances of clocks in the form of the website, and installations, mobile applications, designed products and urban screens.
All uploaded numbers are tagged according to a category selected by their creator, and are added to the growing database. People viewing the clock can then choose to view all types of numbers, or can make a selection to view only numbers from a specific category – a clock made of vegetables, or clouds, or garments etc."
(Joao Wilbert)
Fig.1 Exquisite Clock was created and developed Joao Henrique Wilbert at Fabrica in 2009, creative direction by Andy Cameron.
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Kay Van BellenSHARE
Soft Cinema: Today's Interfaces And Tomorrow's Cinema
"Soft Cinema bridges the gap between today's interfaces and tomorrow's cinema. This programme assembles a variety of audio-visual materials (city impressions, 2D animations, infrared images, music) from a database and edits everything into stories. Software decides what appears on the screen, where and in what order. The screen's lay-out is refreshed at the start of each new episode and the corresponding material is distributed across multiple windows. The resulting clips will be shown on monitors in the festival lounge, with a voice-over guarding the overall storyline."
(V2_Archive)
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The Constellations ProjectSHARE
