VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

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My film deals with the commodification of time and the organization of time into schedules. The watches and clocks spin, becoming more and more frantic, to represent the overwhelmingness of schedules. The soundtrack mirrors this feeling. Time, as represented by the clocks and watches, is invaded by the alien force of commodity, as represented by the jewels. This force is parasitic and utilizes time for it’s own means, using the watches to create it’s own progeny. Throughout the length of the video these symbols for scheduling and commodity build until the entire process implodes upon itself, illustrating the futility and absurdity of placing constraints and external forces on time.

My piece deals with the ways in which time is commodified through scheduling and the relation of this idea to commercialism, becoming a near literal manifestation of the phrase “time is money.” Four figures in the foreground contained in Polaroid photographs mimic the grid of clocks in the very background, working to emphasize the idea that humans can become contained by their own schedules. The two free figures illustrate the overwhelmingness of never-ending scheduled time. In the center of the piece a phone sex advertisement that suggests “Save Money! Buy a block of time” points out the ridiculousness of being time and emphasizes the motif of “time is money” found throughout the piece

Exercises from the first day dealing with time (non linear time in particular).