(2008) It's About Time With the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the connection between technology and time experience was given a new impulse. Fantasies about Cyberspace included terms like spaceless place and timeless time. And at the end of the 1990s, Swatch even developed Internet Time. The impression of Internet users was that the Web made the world turn faster because online information could be distributed so much quicker than in the past. These new developments were said to take place at 'Internet Time', that is, at a terrific speed. More recently, this speed is also reflected in the permanent 'Beta' state of web 2.0 applications, and the preference for the 'fresh' and 'new' in blogosphere and social networking sites (aptly described as 'Freshness Fetish' by researcher Anne Helmond). In the "It's About Time" program, Impakt Online invited artists to develop projects reflecting on these new notions of time on the Internet. How long is something regarded 'new' online? When is information still fresh? How do trends develop on the Internet? And how long do they last? The project A Tag's Life, which has been developed for this program, depicts the life of tags by visualizing the rise and fall of tags at the photo sharing platform Flickr. For Impakt Online, Theo Deutinger developed World At Work, a work which zooms out and introduces a new world clock representing the worldwide 9 to 5 economy real-time. "It's About Time" is curated by Sabine Niederer. Next to her work as freelance curator, she began her PhD research at Amsterdam University in January 2008.  George Holsheimer, Mirjam ter Linden, Daan Odijk, Putri Sadiqah, and Raoul Siepers (works) By George Holsheimer, Mirjam ter Linden, Daan Odijk, Putri Sadiqah, and Raoul SiepersWeb 2.0 is often depicted by its ephemeral nature: trends dissolve as fast as they ...  An Interview with Theo Deutinger (works) Theo Deutinger is an Austrian architect, based in Rotterdam. His work is a mix of architecture, research, visualization and conceptual thinking about for example the world as ...  In 2008, a group of students from various backgrounds worked together on developing a demo of "A Tag's Life": a visualization tool, which makes it possible to ...  Theo Deutinger (works) By Theo Deutinger Next to architectural work, the architect Theo Deutinger also produces so-called 'snapshots of globalization'. These are information visualizations and maps representing the world (and ...  How to use A Tag's Life? (Er is geen nederlandse beschrijving) Every application must have an identity to help the user to get familiar with. At the upper left ... |
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