Harm van den Dorpel

“Temporality is” is an artwork in the form of screensaver that uses Gaussian smoothing, a function used in noise reduction for digital images, and a frozen loading spinner, to adorn live uploaded images scraped from photo sharing sites. The images are shown for a random number of seconds before disappearing. The blurring effect and static circle emulate a frozen moment in time, eliciting a sense of disruption in the viewer waiting for the theatricality that has become standard in UX culture. The work renders the mundane as a digital artefact without opulence but with an almost unnerving sense of pause in time that requires a still appreciation of a moment where nothing happens. (@terencesharpe)

The work requires an active internet connection.


Temporality is

John Provencher

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♻ orbit.saver
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the .saver appears to orbit around the edges of the screen
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optimized for mac os 10.14+
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new-sun is a sun ( and moon ) screensaver

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a random, yellow sun is generated every time the .saver loads

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new-sun turns off at night and transforms into a random, cool grey moon

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new-sun.saver was built for mac os 10.10+

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new-sun

Laura Brown

A grid of clocks advance at slightly different rates, ranging from slightly less than one tick per second to slightly more. only one clock advances at one tick per second and shows the current time. Like a watch with a low battery, eventually the effect of the clocks’ varying rates are compounded, yielding increasingly deviating display times.


running fast and slow

Damon Zucconi

"sister, time, it be time, ya know wha mean? dread.

the year increments 12 times per second; 720 years per minute; 43,200 years per hour. every time it does, a calendar is rendered with each month laid on top of one another.

the artist explains: i like that one can just keep clicking in calendaring software and schedule something to occur 20 years from now. will google exist in 20 years to remind me of my upcoming event? will i?

when you schedule something with someone else, there's the ritual overlaying of calendars. one "finds a time" — a hole of potential in our routines. i made this after imagining the stack of calendars that scheduling creates in one's mind when pursuing those holes.

a screensaver in twelve  colour schemes   
by damon zucconi, 2016 - 2019

year

Eric Li & Zak Jensen

there are two familiar forms, each composed of a single circle encompassing several radiating lines. one is dynamic, utilitarian and focussed squarely on the "now"—a clock face. the other is static, symbolic and seems to suggest an unidentified "then"—the peace symbol.

combining the forms compromises, slightly, the function of the first and complicates, productively, the meaning of the second. the clock face remains recognizable, if slightly harder to read. the peace symbol, subject to the mechanics of time-keeping, is never quite perfect, always coming or going.

this iteration of the peace clock, originally conceived in 2009 by zak jensen, is a screensaver programmed by eric li in 2019.

peace clock

Micah Schippa

"time moves faster the closer you are to the center of the earth. universal time: the radical plan to destroy time zones, is there a universal time? invent your own..."

this project highlights the multitude of calendars that exist in the world, besides the gregorian. the artist aims to remind us that time is as diverse as the minds that perceive it, and that is is impossible to give an exhaustive overview of time, because there are sure to be countless calendars that have been lost completely.

additionally, the artist includes a "phrasal clock", built on a unique poetic metric whereby each second, minute, hour, day, and month is given an individual name.

technical assistance by jacob lindgren and harm van den dorpel

calendars.earth & phrasal clock

o-r-g

 In 1965, Bruno Munari designed a small black box — the austere 15-cm steel cube housed four aluminum cones, each painted half-red and half-green and set to spin at four distinct speeds on an 18-minute cycle to produce a very slowly turning composite color moving from red to green. Munari called it the Tetracono and its function was to show forms in the process of becoming:

> The art of the past has accustomed us to seeing nature as static: a sunset, a face, an apple, all static. People go to nature looking for images such as these static things, whereas an apple is in fact a moment in the process from apple-seed to tree, blossom, fruit. 

Tetracono was created as an artist multiple designed for industrial production and published by Danese Milano. But only 10 were ever made (an additional run of 100 was produced without motors). Few sold, and by commercial accounts, the product was a flop. Perhaps it was just ahead of its time.

50 years later, we’ve moved from the industrial production of objects to the post-industrial production of information. Tetracono was maybe already a post-industrial product — manufactured in steel and aluminum, its purpose was to produce a constantly changing image.

From a small black box to computer software, Tetracono is now available again as a Screensaver

tetracono

Whistlegraph

"tumpin" is a stochastic picture that changes before your eyes. watch as sixteen colorful spots proceed endlessly along one hundred twenty-eight arrangements.

offline, not interactive, continuous, silent

tumpin

Sean Lockwood

A series of 3D rendered animations describing Cuboro block arrangements contained in a corner of a bedroom, with different simulated time-of-day lighting. As a screensaver, each animation corresponds to the time and location of the housing computer.

by sean lockwood   
production by laurel schwulst and daniel brewster


bedroom cuboro stacks

Generative Lindenmayer systems iterating over dissociative feels of social inadequacy

a significant amount of editions were acquired by the museum of applied arts in vienna with bitcoin, making this the [first work of art ever sold to a museum with bitcoin](http://www.artnews.com/2015/04/24/mak-vienna-becomes-first-museum-to-acquire-art-using-bitcoin-a-harm-van-den-dorpel/)

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