Chronological timekeeping pervades both our private and professional lives. In today’s world, being able to forget time, even for a moment, feels like a luxury. Vasilis van Gemert has long explored the boundaries of time through physical and virtual clocks. His work offers many perspectives on how to represent time: abstract, numerological, typographical, but always surprising.
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Vasilis van Gemert, is an artist interested in things that always repeat, yet are always different. He mostly uses web technology to make his art, but uses other code as well. Van Gemert is a lecturer at the CMD School of Digital Design in Amsterdam, where he teaches the next generation of digital product designers about designing and making websites that work for everybody. On top of that, he helps students at the Master Design Research at the Piet Zwart institute to consciously shape their future practice.
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During the years, Vasilis has been making different digital clocks, interactive station clocks, typewriter clocks, geometrical clocks, anti-clocks, off-clocks, human clocks, clocks that claims to be an alternative to the sun. He started making clocks when he discovered that the way his Greek family experiences time, is completely different from how the people in The Netherlands live with it. He will show the result of this insight, the Greek Time Clock and juxtapose it with a Dutch Time Clock, which is not what you might think it will be.
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Hosted at:
De Lange Adem
Ruyschstraat 295,
1091 DX Amsterdam
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Supported by:
Bold Monday & PICTORIGHT Fonds
