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.