The Poetic Clock 2.0, 2000

Video Projection, Custom software
Dimensions Variable


 
The Poetic Clock 2.0 is a digital clock that converts time into poetry, which generates 86.400 different poems daily. Every hour, minute, and second, is represented with a verse that changes when time changes. At the beginning, when the concept of the poetic clock was first executed, it was a machine made with electronic circuits and LED panels, connected into a computer that stored a database of all the verses I wrote. Later on, thinking on the conservation of the work, I decided to transform the analog version of the poetic clock into a digital file –from atoms to bits, as Nicholas Negroponte would say-, approaching a better way to represent the ephemerality of time in the sense that now is displayed as a light projection.