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A collection of inspiring projects, including work from previous students of the TIME class.

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Table Of Contents
  1. Student work
  2. Other Artists

Student work

Lynn Yun Digital Clock
Lynn Yun’s Digital Clock from the first Time class in 02019.
Pieces from the 02023 class, displayed in 02024.
Exhibit of the 2022 Time class projects at 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn.
Work from the 2023 LowRes group
Works from the 02021 Time Class
More work from the 02021 Time Class
Name Atchareeya Jattuporn's Red Moon
Name Atchareeya Jattuporn’s Red Moon
Chun Song Untitled
Chun Song Untitled
Jason Tse's 555-timer + quartz clock
Jason Tse’s 555-timer + quartz clock
Jason Tse Tides
Jason Tse Tides
James Hoskin Generalisable Astrolabe for a Procedural Universe
James Hoskin Generalisable Astrolabe for a Procedural Universe
Arnab Chakravarty Color of the Day
Arnab Chakravarty Color of the Day
Noah Kernis You Them
Noah Kernis You Them
Daniel Fries 10 Year Odyssey
Daniel Fries 10 Year Odyssey
Rashida Kamal Plane Time
Rashida Kamal Plane Time
Noah Kernis Word Clock Sketches
Noah Kernis Word Clock Sketches
Aidan Fowler and Young Min's Blur Clock
Aidan Fowler and Young Min’s Blur Clock
Helen Zegarra Doomsday
Helen Zegarra Doomsday
Chasta Zhu Sands Time
Chasta Zhu Sands Time
Rashida Kamal Clock 4
Rashida Kamal Clock 4
Alvaro Lacouture's Horizonte
Alvaro Lacouture’s Horizonte
Jason Tse's BinWatch
Jason Tse’s BinWatch
Brandon Roots Escapement
Brandon Roots Escapement
Lynn Yun Mechanical Clock
Lynn Yun Mechanical Clock
A sample of the excellent work by from students in Time 02019 and 02020.

Other Artists

Heidi Neilson’s Moon Arrow always points at the moon.

Heidi Neilson's Moon Arrow is a large mechanical sculpture of a glowing arrow that always points at the moon.
Sometimes the moon is behind the Earth.

Charles Ross’ “Star Axis” is an entire landscape aligned to celestial events. See also Jantar Mantar!

A starry landscape featuring "Star Axis" by Charles Ross
Star Atlas

Quadrature’s Voyager sculpture always points at Voyager, and Positions of the Unknown tracks dozens of extra-planetary objects.

Quadrature Voyager, a mechanical pointer that orients towards a Voyager probe
Quadrature Voyager
Quadrature Unknown Objects, a series of mechanical pointers that track objects in the solar system
Quadrature Unknown Objects
Where is it?

Many examples are compiled in the sometimes-updated (that’s on me) Clock Club Examples repo.

Ellen Nickle’s Synesthesia Clock.

Simone Giertz’s Every Day Calendar.

Half the stuff from CW&T! Especially: Time Since Launch and 3.16 Billion Cycles.

The work of Arielle Hein.

Ariel Heins one-handed brass clock changes rate depending on the length of day
Ariel Hein’s one-handed brass clock changes rate depending on the length of day

A sunlight poetry pavilion by Jiyeon Song and a related sundial digital clock by Mojoptix.

A perforated pavilion uses the moving sun to cast a changing poem in it's shadow.
A perforated sundial displays the digital time.
The moving sun and carefully calculated perforations in a gnomon display changing text.

Space Time Coordinates: solar system snapshots of a specific date.

Some unusual DIY clocks [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ]. Elaborate wooden clocks and their plans. A contemporary Popular Science article on the first quartz wristwatches (note lower powers of 2 for early quartz oscillators).

My Moon Clocks

My moon clocks – version 1, version 2. Version 3 on my workbench now delivered. Four and Five on my bench.

A wooden clock for displaying the position of the moon and sun.
Moon clock back
A wooden clock for displaying the position of the moon and sun.
Moon clock front

The (slightly larger, not mine!) Aluna Moon and Tide clock (in development?)

Aluna rendering
Aluna rendering (source: https://alunatime.org/what/)

My non-linear clock prototypes use elliptical gears so the clock’s single hand moves at a variable rate, imperceptibly at night and faster during the day.

An unusual one-handed clock
The rate of time passing feels subjective.

In 2019 the Met Museum staged Making Marvels – Science and Splendor, a fascinating collection of the most cutting edge-materials and machines from 1550 and 1750. The online exhibit catalog is a wealth of fascinating clocks, orrery, volvelles and more.

Check out all the weird clocks (and orreries!) artist Tim Hawkinson has made with off-the-shelf quartz movements.

The clock-ish work of Humans Since 1982:

Minimalist artwork by Humans Since 1982, consisting of a grid of programmable analog two-hand clocks.
Humans Since 1982 really like dual axis stepper motors.

The wild world of Maximilian Büsser and Friends (MB&F).

A chrome sphere with internal clockwork supported on two anatomical metal legs.
Sculpture/timepiece from MB&F

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel. Not about time per se, but has the interesting option of scrolling “at” light speed. Related: Power of Ten, especially near minute 2, where the true speed of light is represented.

The Adler Planetarium in Chicago has historical astronomical instruments, including a great example of a polyhedral sundial. (From James H.)

Linnaeus’s Flower Clock and NYTimes’ notes on clock gardening. (From Arnab C.)