Here time is the material, not the backdrop. Jonathan Mann catalogues art that runs for days or centuries, George Kubler shrinks the present to the dark between a lighthouse’s flashes, and two timelapses fold four centuries of Manhattan into a few minutes and two years of popsicle sticks into sixteen.
500 odd ways to tell the time, written by an AI model
→ tkgally.github.io
Wikipedia's longest-range article, scrolled from a thousand years out to the end of time
→ rivendell.dmitrybrant.com
A 24-hour montage film that tells real time, screening at LACMA
→ lacma.org
A catalogue of every artwork that uses time as its material
→ motba.art
Defining the present as the dark between the lighthouse's flashes
→ themarginalian.org
Four centuries of an island in a few minutes
→ openculture.com
Two years of hot glue, compressed into sixteen minutes
→ theawesomer.com