Date Line
2006-2008
Interactive Video Installation
Interactive Device, Projectors,
Computer
Dimensions variable
Date Line is the abbreviation of the International Date
Line, a universal system of time zones devised by an international committee to
overcome the issue of the sun shining at different geographical locations at
different times as the earth orbits. Thus it is 8:00 PM in Taipei at the sane
moment it is 7:00 AM in New York. This “now” is represented by different
abbreviations in places around the world. Date Line expresses the
artist’s probing doubts on the universally approved definition of ‘time’.
Shooting a panorama of one specific urban site over the course of one
particular day,24 hours worth of images are collected in a 360-degree collage,
with each long, thin bar an archive of time’s passage during one day. In this
way, sun, moon, day and night mingle and overlap in an alternating order. With
the collection of singular moments at one time and place, I generate a surreal
image that allows the past and the present to coexist. Within this time and
space, is the ‘Date Line’ we use and abide by in reality necessary? Real “time”
has no boundaries, but if we absolutely must delineate, these 360 image bars
can be our Date Line.
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