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Machine for Taking Time: Documentary Collection

Selection of images

During the recording phase, each camera took 1,024 still images per day at a rate of two images per minute. The images are then precisely registered by the computer allocated to image capture, and saved to hard disks. During the projection phase, the Max/MSP and softVNS softwares were programmed to synthesize the images and present them in four different modes:

1. Stitching of images from the same day;
2. Stitching of images from consecutive days;
3. Random images: same position taken on different days;
4. Sometimes the software would display, in rapid succession, all of the images taken from a single position.

These four modes are chosen at random, which ensure that the projection sequence is never repeated.

For this selection of images, two modes have been chosen: the playground captured at different times of the year (mode 3), and a left to right (west to east) pan with interruptions a few minutes apart mode 1). A complete sequence lasts approximately 40 minutes.

West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, March 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, April 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, May 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, June 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, July 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, August 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, September 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, October 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, November 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, December 2006
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, January 2007
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, February 2007
West side cameraWest side camera
Playground on Clark street, March 2007
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:46:44 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:47:02 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:47:38 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:48:12 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:48:48 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:49:22 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:49:58 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:50:34 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:51:08 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:51:42 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:52:18 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:52:52 pm
East side cameraEast side camera
November 1, 2006, 3:53:28 pm

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