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Times Square Timeshare
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Times Square Timeshare 2006
4-channel HD+ video (single conterminous image), four 20-inch LCD monitors, two computers,
custom software, wooden case (100 x 60 x 12)
Via custom image processing software, 2 minutes of video image shot in Times Square are treated as a 3 dimensional "data space". Within the data space, the relation of time and space is inverted. The images extracted from the data space have an atemporal quality: every object in motion appears to be stationary, and every object at rest appears to be in motion.
The impulse to stop time is connected with sentimentality, nostalgia, and magical thinking. It is a common response to the universally human experience of loss and mortality.
From the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, (circa 50 AD) : "If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your Father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'"
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