Eelco Wagenaar

Duality’s of Time; a Triptych
Mixed Media

Description:

A fan placed above a wall. The wall dividing the space in to zones. Timezones. A black zone, a white zone. The fan blowing equal amounts of air into both the zones. The arms of the fan as arms of a clock. 

The clock tells a different time, a time lag or slipping time made visual by the dragging along of a small kite. 

A clock made out of digital alarm clocks. The alarm clocks are representing the numbers of the clock. No arms which are moving, but the hours are moving from one clock to the other, in a counter clockwise motion. The minutes appear to be synchronized, but in the end they are not. Some clocks will run faster than the other. So stretching the amount of minutes in an hour on the one side and compressing the amount of minutes in an hour on the other side. The clocks are connected in a way that is similar to the branching of time; one timeline split in several branches, these branches also split up in more.

To complete the triptych there is a poster with a recent published thesis Artist as System Engineer. The text deals with issues regarding dual practices and interactivity in times of rapid development of (digital) technology and how art could be functioning in the construct of science and society.