E Roon Kang

Chair of Graphic Design at CCA.
Operates design studio, Math Practice.
Co-founder of research initiative, 908A.
NYC, Seoul, Honolulu, and SF.

In Search of Personalized Time

2014–2015

Inaugural grant, LACMA Art + Technology Lab

Collaboration with Taeyoon Choi

I–S–O–P–T is an attempt to live unreal time in real-time world. The project, in collaboration with Taeyoon Choi, aims to leverage subjective temporal perception against master time, facilitating a multitude of flows of time rather than bolstering the universal standard.

By intervening in the dynamics between universal, personal, and collective temporalities, we reconsider what constitutes ‘the present’. In changing how we formalize time, one could stretch the present or – perhaps unfathomably – compress it. ‘Now’, then, becomes a malleable space in which one can reorient the relationship between memory, action, and possible futures. By reconfiguring the relation between time and space, your presence can take form elsewhere, or elsewhen, through another sense of time.

See also

Personal Timekeepers on display at LACMA

Personal Timekeepers on display at LACMA

Personal Timekeepers on display at LACMA

Standardized time, based on planetary movement

Standardized time, based on planetary movement

Standardized time, based on planetary movement

Imagining a distributed network of Personalized Times

Imagining a distributed network of Personalized Times

Imagining a distributed network of Personalized Times

Over the weekend of July 18, 2015, Taeyoon Choi and E Roon Kang presented Circle of Moment Measurement, the culmination of their year-long artist project, In Search of Personalized Time (I–S–O–P–T) at LACMA. An ongoing investigation of what the artists call ‘time based on perception and consensus’, the endeavor ultimately sought to create alternatives to the Universal Time standard, a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

What is time really? As humanity, we collectively agree on using Universal Time as a standard to keep things in order in an increasingly synchronized and complex society. However, is it the only way to measure your time on this earth? What if we re-design time based off of your perception of moments?

See also

Artists

Taeyoon Choi, E Roon Kang

Engineers

Jon Moeller, Wonyoung So, Anastasis Germanidis

Project Assistant

Charlotte Stiles

Research Assistant

Nick Irvin

Photo and video

Duncan Cheng, Kurt Keppeler

I–S–O–P–T: Circle of Moment Measurement

Personal Timekeeper v1.0 – Raspberry Pi, custom PCB with GSM module, a set of prompts

Personal Timekeeper v1.0 – Raspberry Pi, custom PCB with GSM module, a set of prompts

Personal Timekeeper v1.0 – Raspberry Pi, custom PCB with GSM module, a set of prompts

On Sunday, September 20th, 2015, Avant presented In Search of Personalized Time at the MoMA PS1 Print Shop, coinciding with the Printed Matter’s 10th annual New York Art Book Fair.

See also

Organized by

Sam Hart

Musical performance

Sam Silver

Circle of Moment Measurement at MoMA PS1, during NY Art Book Fair

Circle of Moment Measurement at MoMA PS1, during NY Art Book Fair

Circle of Moment Measurement at MoMA PS1, during NY Art Book Fair

Personal Timekeepers

Personal Timekeepers

Personal Timekeepers

MoMA PS1 Print Shop

MoMA PS1 Print Shop

MoMA PS1 Print Shop

Personal Timekeepers on view

Personal Timekeepers on view

Personal Timekeepers on view

In preparation to Circle of Moment Measurement was a series of workshops, Timekeeper Invention Club, a participatory workshop and a collaborative investigation on the personal sense of time.

Participants make their own timekeeper using Timekeeper Invention Kit, an eclectic collection of found objects and original works by the artists. The kit has components and instructions to make different kinds of clocks: sun dial, hour glass, as well as electronics and software. The artists provide a historic overview of timekeeping and guide participants in the process of designing, building and using their timekeepers.

Full list of video dcumentations can be found at Timekeeper Invention Club’s YouTube Channel.

  • Workshops
  • Timekeeper Invention Club @NYC:
    Orbital, August 23, 2014
  • Timekeeper Invention Club @LA:
    LACMA Art Technology Lab, August 30, 2014
  • Timekeeper Invention Club @Boston:
    Design Exchange Boston, September 19, 2014

See also

Timekeeper Invention Kit on display at LACMA

Timekeeper Invention Kit on display at LACMA

Timekeeper Invention Kit on display at LACMA

Timekeeper Invention Club brainstorming session

Timekeeper Invention Club brainstorming session

Timekeeper Invention Club brainstorming session

Ellie Irons, Timekeeper Invention Club at Orbital

Ishac Bertran, Timekeeper Invention Club at Orbital

Johnny Lee, Timekeeper Invention Club at Orbital

Ann Istrin, Timekeeper Invention Club at LACMA

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