»Tweet Time« 
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© Photo: Olga Kisseleva; interactive installation view, COAL, Paris, 2014
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Olga Kisseleva 24-10-2015
In a world in which everything is accelerating, taking time out to reconsider one's daily habits, reclaim one's own choice of rhythm, and be aware of our limits, seems ever more vital. With Tweet Time, which was produced in collaboration with engineers at the ARNUM laboratory, Olga Kisseleva continues to reflect on the notion of time. The artwork uses the social network Twitter as its source element of interactivity. Each time a tweet containing the idea "I don't have time" is emitted, the Tweet Time clock slows down, creating a progressive shift in relation to universal time.
The aim of this piece is to create an atemporal interstice corresponding to the requirement of strangers who find the time on the Web to show the planet that they don't have enough (time). All these wasted seconds used creating tweets are therefore offered up to those looking at the piece. When they first confront it, the artwork will present them with a new time as defined by the clock which will mathematically provide them with more time in the museum space. The apparently negligable lapse of just a few seconds will lengthen according to the interactions with Twitter over a fictitious period during which the time, and then the date, will no longer be acceptable. The critical dimension of the piece is to be found in the way it presents a fictitious space-time obtained through the recycling of tweeting time.
Olga Kisseleva: Tweet Time, 24-10-2015, in: Archive of Digital Art In a world in which everything is accelerating, taking time out to reconsider one's daily habits, reclaim one's own choice of rhythm, and be aware of our limits, seems ever more vital. With Tweet Time, which was produced in collaboration with engineers at the ARNUM laboratory, Olga Kisseleva continues to reflect on the notion of time. The artwork uses the social network Twitter as its source element of interactivity. Each time a tweet containing the idea "I don't have time" is emitted, the Tweet Time clock slows down, creating a progressive shift in relation to universal time.
The aim of this piece is to create an atemporal interstice corresponding to the requirement of strangers who find the time on the Web to show the planet that they don't have enough (time). All these wasted seconds used creating tweets are therefore offered up to those looking at the piece. When they first confront it, the artwork will present them with a new time as defined by the clock which will mathematically provide them with more time in the museum space. The apparently negligable lapse of just a few seconds will lengthen according to the interactions with Twitter over a fictitious period during which the time, and then the date, will no longer be acceptable. The critical dimension of the piece is to be found in the way it presents a fictitious space-time obtained through the recycling of tweeting time.
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