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What time is it?
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#22Is it insanely laggy because it's being Slashdotted/Reddited/Hackernewsed, or is it just the godawful Tasmanian internet again?
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#23flash.. yawn
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#24This is an art project called 'Standard Time' by Mark Formanek. In late 2007 he filmed a team of 70 workers constructing this clock through 1611 iterations (every minute) for a 24-hour period in Berlin's Sculpture Park. So when originally filmed it was done in real-time. The flash video here is based on a screensaver that Formanek has made available which synchronises that video to your system clock, making it appear…
>Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built I will never understand people that appreciate this kind of art. Call me classical, but I really don't see watching a clock interesting. Someone at the Boston MFA made a 24 hr movie where they compile different bits of film that includes a clock into a real time clock (so if it was 10:23 it would show 10:23 in a bit of the clip). It was int…
I think I understand what Formanek was aiming for with this.
Unlike pre-compiled footage that can just be made 24 hours long, this was done in real-time with the workers forced to match the demands of the clock without the opportunity to pause during their shifts.
Because of its real-time nature when you view the video synced to your local time you can't help but become somewhat invested in the success of the workers as they struggle to keep up with time and come very close to failing during some transitions. There's tension generated by the fact that you never know whether they'll make the next minute.
Then there's the realisation you get after having watched this for a while that it's really all pointless, that you have become personally invested in the actions of a bunch of workers struggling to keep up with re-creating one of the most basic solved problems of the modern world: A clock. It takes 70 workers working all out to do what a cheap watch can do effortlessly.
I suppose that if it succeeds in getting most viewers to think a bit about the nature of work, time and labour then it achieved its intended purpose.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built I will never understand people that appreciate this kind of art. Call me classical, but I really don't see watching a clock interesting. Someone at the Boston MFA made a 24 hr movie where they compile different bits of film that includes a clock into a real time clock (so if it was 10:23 it would show 10:23 in a bit of the clip). It was int…
I will never understand how people that don't understand something don't understand how other people have the capacity to understand things not understood by them!
That's not it. They are basically saying "the Emperor has no clothes".
i.e. that people pretend to get it, but really, there's nothing there. And what they don't understand is why pretend?
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#26Is it insanely laggy because it's being Slashdotted/Reddited/Hackernewsed, or is it just the godawful Tasmanian internet again?
I suspect the former - it's laggy here too, and the network here is normally pretty fast.
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#27Really nice work!! and free time to do that ;) Ya the location seems Czech Republic!! cuz the domain and the builds..i guess
it's Berlin
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will never understand how people that don't understand something don't understand how other people have the capacity to understand things not understood by them!
Its not so much that I don't understand how you have have the capacity to understand these things but rather what do you actually understand?
Art makes you think or feel outside your normal scripts... you don't need to "understand" anything. What is the origin of creativity?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built I will never understand people that appreciate this kind of art. Call me classical, but I really don't see watching a clock interesting. Someone at the Boston MFA made a 24 hr movie where they compile different bits of film that includes a clock into a real time clock (so if it was 10:23 it would show 10:23 in a bit of the clip). It was int…
I think I understand what Formanek was aiming for with this. Unlike pre-compiled footage that can just be made 24 hours long, this was done in real-time with the workers forced to match the demands of the clock without the opportunity to pause during their shifts. Because of its real-time nature when you view the video synced to your local time you can't help but become somewhat invested in the success of the workers…
So this kind of art is aimed at normally unreflective people?
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#30This is an art project called 'Standard Time' by Mark Formanek. In late 2007 he filmed a team of 70 workers constructing this clock through 1611 iterations (every minute) for a 24-hour period in Berlin's Sculpture Park. So when originally filmed it was done in real-time. The flash video here is based on a screensaver that Formanek has made available which synchronises that video to your system clock, making it appear…
>Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built I will never understand people that appreciate this kind of art. Call me classical, but I really don't see watching a clock interesting. Someone at the Boston MFA made a 24 hr movie where they compile different bits of film that includes a clock into a real time clock (so if it was 10:23 it would show 10:23 in a bit of the clip). It was int…
It's not just a clock, but an ever changing installation that will always need the labor of those men constantly rebuilding it, to keep "running". I find it quite interesting, as an idea. Implementation could be better, I guess, but it provokes some interesting associations and thoughts. Which is, I think, one of the definition of art. To capture an idea or emotion, to reproduce and communicate an experience. Not just a picture.
Of course, it's valid to say that it doesn't work for you, or even that it can't work for anyone, because it's plain stupid. Like so many garbage art out there.