Timetable, 1999



Timetable, is an installation interactive art done by Hoberman. The installation represents a dynamic clock, although strictly speaking it is like a board game without any rules. Hoberman’s ideology behind this piece is that it is “an attempt to play with concept of time – to buy time and to spend it, to save time and to waste it, to find time and to kill it. "Timetable attempts to make certain paradoxical (even impossible) pseudo-scientific concepts into concrete experiences, such as time travel, multiple branching universes, alternate dimensions and shared hallucinations. ”

This artwork consists of twelve dials that installed around the table have functions that change over the time. It ranges between function as a clock, gauge, speedometers, and switches, steering wheels and so on for the participants to control and alter. In the center part of the table is a real-time 3D scene.

Timetable’s interactive become progressively multi-dimensional and complicated as participants interacts more with it, as perspectives and timeframes split off from each other.



References

 1. http://www.perryhoberman.com/page32/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9AWykN6_ac