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WEBCLOCK
The avatar of the avant-garde of the last century, futurists in the front line, was speed, this entity fostered by technology, which has the virtue of making everything virtually simultaneous. Marinetti and partners did not keep Bergson's book on the immediate data of perception close at hand in vain and only their scarce interest in the equations of theoretical physics prevented them from fully recognizing themselves in Einstein's theory of relativity. Unlike the cubists who, despite the disapproval of Einstein himself, found in relativity the project of past times which allows us to see a thing in its entirety going around its own perimeter. The space of time made, so to speak, contemporary, set up by Cuoghi, has extremely ancient gnosiological roots, which range from the everything flowing of Heraclitus, to the everything flowing in order not to flow of the Eleatic philosophers, from sundials which tail the hours with shadows, to atomic clocks which permit us to verify Einstein's hypotheses, up to Verne's Around The World In Eighty Days who, pursuing the time zones, travels through time and returns home the previous day, as if he has found a relative way. One enters in Cuoghi's magic circle to observe Faust's formula "fleeting moment, come to a standstill" : here all the planet's hours become annihilated in a moment of total metaphysical co-presence.
Giorgio Celli
The equipment represents a large clock using twelve monitors in the place of the twelve numbers which visualize ‘live' images coming from webcams situated in various parts of the world, chosen and visually arranged in the concatenated sequence of the rapid succession of the time zones. The result is that of being able to observe the flow of time without solution of continuity, comprising at one single glance and in this unique privileged spot ‘live' images from several parts of the world which are distributed within the entire span of a day, between daylight and night.
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