2011-03-20 - After a whole week of deep research and intense production in Bratislava, loads of notes, drafts, protocols, photos etc. are waitung for review and for being published online.
More soon - thanks for your patience!
2011-03-11 - We now have also a Alternate Time Zones / Alternate Time Pieces (ATZ/ATP) page in the Wiki. Please use it! Thank You.
2011-02-28 - Still working on some tech features of the TBCW, but as a matter of fact it is running. However, it will need some time to insert the contents from our research collection… so pls. be patient. (Yes, this can be also a nice exercice in time bending…)
2010-11-26 - In occasion of the first ekotime conference in Brussels, musings about possible operative connections/links between the windclocks and the connected open greens (see: COG). Indeed, there's likewise the task to (re-)connect the TBC to the COG network. The TBC related proposal is to conceive and install ektotime zones within the COGs (and/or see in how far whole COGs can become ekotime zones) which at the same time can be functional parts/nodes of the TBC network.
2010-10-31 - Meanwhile the programming of the TIME BENDING CLOCK WORK TBCW Site is done, including a log, a gallery for photos, sketches etc and the encyclopedia framework. Currently trying to keep up with entering the contents gathered so far. In short: Hopefully online soon.
2010-08-20 - TBC RADIO started its series of transmissions. For the time being: as part of GUNSTradio on radiox Frankfurt am Main. More info at: www.gunst.info (see also the TBC RADIO airchives - sorry, so far only info on the shows. We hope to be able to put the cc licensed shows on padma soon).
2010-08-15 - Back from the HOME MADE LAB week (more about this: see some of the recent LAB.LOG-entries at HOME MADE LAB WEBLOG), including a TBC Zettelkasten lecture/presentation and visits to Swiss clock manufacturing sites, the Musée d'Horloge, and other excursions, research into the history/histories of time measurement and clock building etc. More details soon, especially as we had some interesting projects in development during the lab week as well…
2010-07-15 - TBC Zettelkasten presentation: As one of the results of our all around intense and fruitful workshop meeting it turned out that the concept of TIK allows to understand the network of TIK Windclocks measuring TIK Windtimes (in plural) as one possible TBC system. How great is that!
What is a TBC?
The TIME BENDING CLOCK is an open distributed apparatus/system, built upon a network of temporary nodes.
And what is the TBC project all about?
TBC started as a research in theories and practices, ideas and imaginations of alternate times. However, meanwhile there are plans of building a TBC as well.
For basic info and related stuff see also the TIME BENDING CLOCK info and the TIME BENDING CLOCK WORK TBCW site at www.under-construction.cc (c/o V.K. aka ectoplasmE).
Is a TBC measuring TIK time?
Yes and no. A network of TIK Windclocks measuring TIK Windtimes may be considered as a TBC mechanisms. However, there are other TBC mechanisms as well. Moreover, the TBC mechanisms include some that cannot be controlled.
Is a TBC a time machine?
Yes and no. Some people may use a TBC as a time machine. However, in the strict sense time traveling is not the primary purpose of TBC, and building a time machine is not a primary goal of the TBC project. Rather, TBC is about alternate ways to experience time(s).
Is a TBC a philosophical toy?
Yes, definitely. However, this does not mean that a TBC is about thinking alternate ways of measuring/experiencing time only. By definition (and as the history of sciences can show), philosophical toys are not only connected to the sphere of “thought experiments”, but material apparatuses - results of theoretical and practical research going hand in hand. (For more background info see i.e. the related research and publications on philosophical toys at www.under-construction.cc).
What has been done so far?
Background research + research ressources collection (project library), methodological work at place (localizing, places as interfaces), notes + sketches. For updates etc. see also the TBC News section on this page.
What is the current state of the project?
Work in progress.
For more details see the news section above, the open research chapters below (forthcoming) and of course the TBC News section on this page.
How will TBC work within the framework of TIK?
A.o., we're planning to develop and hopefully also to install test nodes at the locations/in the cities of TIK partner organisations and other cities where people involved in the TIK project and the TIK network live/work.
Moreover, we're planning local installments to connect to the TIK Windclocks network and measuring TIK Windtime…
Who is writing this?
V.K. (aka ectoplasmE on TIK Wiki)
The TIME BENDING CLOCK (TBC) project is based on a set of ideas closely related to problems and questions of time measurement, to individual and collective perception(s) of time, as well as to utopias and realities of alternate times.
Originally set up as a theoretical research project - with anchors/roots in art history/cultural history and the history of science, and contemporary intersections between art(s), science and popular culture - it has meanwhile layered a more praxis oriented offspring as well. In other words: there is indeed the idea to build a time bending clock.
This TBC is conceived as a distributed system and network based project involving collaborative work.
The TBC nodes are located in physical space as well as within in different media (internet/www, radio, hybrid media) – thus within the framework of TIK installations of TBC nodes could take place on site at the partner institutions and their environment (the cities of Brussels, Bratislava, Graz) and/or within TIK related media sites and productions.
TBC mechanisms embrace a broad spectrum of technologies and practices (site-based, apparatus/media enabled, analogue, digital, immersive, physical, psychological, meditative, social/communicative, ludic etc.).
Therefore, the project is not only generally open for different forms of collaboration, but explicitly looking for and inviting to the latter.
For basic info and contact see also the TIME BENDING CLOCK info site at www.under-construction.cc or write an email to verena[add-the-@-here]kuni.org
Update:
From 2011 onwards, all further contents are directly inserted into the TBCW.
Please note: TBCW is obviously a work in progress. Thank you for your patience!
TBC mechanisms are usually connected to (however not necessarily 100% consisting of) phycical entities - objects* and places - in physical space. This connection allows a.o. a categorization (see i.e. the list below), a localization and active work with TBC installments.
* Note: the term 'object' does not necessarily mean 'things'. Objects can be anorganic/organic, hardware/software etc. This means, TBC mechanisms can include living systems as well.
TBC mechanisms embrace a broad spectrum of technologies and practices (site-based, apparatus/media enabled, analogue, digital, immersive, physical, psychological, meditative, social/communicative, ludic etc.).
Here is a preliminary list (in progress) of some of the TBC mechanisms we're currrently researching/testing:
a. Object related classification
Astronomical clocks - Disfunct public clocks - Dust clocks - Flower clocks - Forgotten clocks - Insect clocks - Lichen clocks - Stone clocks - Vanished clocks - Void clocks - Weed clocks - Wind clocks
b. Time measurement/perception related classification
Accelerated/Accelerating clocks - Chronostatic clocks - Circadian clocks - Irregular clocks/Irritated clocks (Dancing clocks, Tripping clocks) - Retarded/Retarding clocks
Further details/definitions will also be given in the TBC encyclopedia.
Among the most important goals in the framework of TIK is of course to connecting/embed some of the TIK's clocks (= clocks built in the framework of TIK, esp. the TIK Windclocks, the Bee/Flower Clocks) into the TBC's distributed mechanism.
Moreover, several TIK media formats - i.e. TIK Radio - could host TBC mechanisms as well.
Update:
From 2011 onwards, except for all TIK Radio related stuff - which is, for obvious reasons - to be found on the TIK Radio pages - all further contents are directly inserted into the TBCW.
Please note: TBCW is obviously a work in progress. Thank you for your patience!
TBC nodes may consist of a single TBC mechanism or of a combination of TBC mechanisms.
They are located in physical space as well as within in different media (internet/www, radio, hybrid media).
In the framework of TIK we hope a.o. to install a network of TBC mechanisms located in the 'main' TIK cities (Brussels, Graz, Bratislava) as well as whereever TIK-collaborators and other people connected to the TIK network are based (Berlin, Frankfurt, Prague, Vienna, Zurich…).
… more soon … and of course meanwhile you might have a sneak peak into the TBCW as well …
Except for the news displayed on this page for simple technical and practical reasons - a Wiki is obviously not the suitable software/structure to maintain logs - the TBC lab logs will be hosted on another site. However, we might check possibilities of implementing an RSS feed…
Update:
From 2011 onwards, all further contents are directly inserted into the TBCW.
Please note: TBCW is obviously a work in progress. Thank you for your patience!
Part of the TBC work in progress a TBC encyclopedia (or, more modestly spoken: a TBC glossary based on a system which in the analog world could be called a Zettelkasten - unfortunately English language has no direct translation for this; however, you can think of a Zettelkasten as system of alphabetically sorted index cards).
For practical reasons, the encyclopedia will probably run on another system. However, we're currently also thinking about the pros and cons of an installment either within the TIK Wiki or directly connected to it to allow collaborative work on the encyclopedia as well. This might include a special extension of the TBC encyclopedia.
Update:
From 2011 onwards, all further contents are directly inserted into the TBCW.
Please note: TBCW is obviously a work in progress. Thank you for your patience!
… more soon …
Please note: currently all priority is on research and on content production. Thus it may take some time until these parts of the Wiki page will be filled accordingly as well. Thank you for your patience!