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Soft Watch At Moment of First Explosion,
Salvador Dali,
1954 - Ink on paper, 14 x 19.1 cm -
Private Collection.
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Entering the 20th century, with the introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity and Freud's subconscious theory, many questions arise regarding the notion of time. Suddenly cultural movements such as the Futurists are interested in stretching time, the time machine, we have artists such as Salvator Dali, who inspire themselves with the idea of memory and time, time and space, etc. It becomes a notion no one is really sure about.
What time means to you does not mean the same to the person next to you. In a sense, the watches from the beginning of the 18th, late 17th century generally fluctuating by 30 minutes, were more honest and more revealing than the time we have today: today every person owns a form of private time, "private" in the sense that it is individually theirs. Technological items such as cell phones, computers, television, alarm clocks will provide satellite and universal time. The precision of time has today become so universal and so accessible that we no longer can speak of a privatization of time in terms of proprietorship. We can, however, still speak of the privatization of time in terms of personal agency, that is, our conception of time and how this plays in our diurnal consciousness.
We will leave you to the following questions: Does its universal accessibility engender a reversal of our personal agency of time?
Should there be a new conception of time that measures our individual perception of the universal time, and if so, how do we privatize this?
We hope you enjoyed our exhibit and to see you again.
What time means to you does not mean the same to the person next to you. In a sense, the watches from the beginning of the 18th, late 17th century generally fluctuating by 30 minutes, were more honest and more revealing than the time we have today: today every person owns a form of private time, "private" in the sense that it is individually theirs. Technological items such as cell phones, computers, television, alarm clocks will provide satellite and universal time. The precision of time has today become so universal and so accessible that we no longer can speak of a privatization of time in terms of proprietorship. We can, however, still speak of the privatization of time in terms of personal agency, that is, our conception of time and how this plays in our diurnal consciousness.
We will leave you to the following questions: Does its universal accessibility engender a reversal of our personal agency of time?
Should there be a new conception of time that measures our individual perception of the universal time, and if so, how do we privatize this?
We hope you enjoyed our exhibit and to see you again.
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