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'A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. Humanity is now a species with one watch...The Master Clock consults with fifty others in separate climate-controlled vaults They check off the seconds as an ensemble and communicate continuously via fibre-optic cable and counterparts overseas. The clocks monitor one another Out of sync clocks reveal themselves quickly The result is exact time'‚ James Gleick, Faster

timespace 03 is part of a twelve-month project begun in Melbourne in July 2001 and completed at Melbourne's Centre for Contemporary Photography in June 2002. The central subject of the series is a public clock. Its digital display appears 'imperfect'. It appears to gain and lose time, and even pause indecisively. Overall, this deceptively inaccurate time piece manages to keep time. It has a tenacious connection to real time and an unsettling effect on personal time. Video footage of the clock was recorded between 2:15 and 2:30 pm and edited into a looped 15 minute segment.

A still image of the recording was made into a sticker and manually stuck around public sites within inner Melbourne and Vienna. This documentation will be presented with the central video recording. This installation series addresses the interrelationship between mechanical and personal time - and the temporal conditions that are set up within contemporary urban society.

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