time_instances
Time Instances: Small Gestures of Becoming
A computational installation on time, minimal geometry, and epistemic perception
For this project, I imagine the exhibition space as a quiet machine—
20 screens, each hosting a live generative system running in the browser.
Few are interactive; some simply breathe. All of them persist in computation,
fed by light and electricity, unfolding their own sense of chronos.
What visitors see are not fixed videos or animations.
They are procedures.
Algorithms performing time.
Across the room flows a generative sound environment,
a low-frequency vibratory field that holds the screens together—
as if each visual process emits a faint resonance,
a computational hum of becoming.
The visual language is intentionally minimal.
I start with the point, the line, the circle, the spiral.
I work with constraints: light / dark, repetition, iteration, drift.
I am trying to understand how we, as humans,
represent time through geometry—
how we produce distinctions,
how we cut something continuous into something knowable.
At the same time, I acknowledge that these epistemic gestures now live
inside computational systems—
machines that also differentiate, predict, loop, and forget.
These live apps are not only representations of time;
they are temporal entities themselves,
co-constituted by code, electricity, probability, and attention.
Below is a list with links to the Live Apps.
Together they form a distributed meditation on temporality,
algorithmic perception, and the micro-geometries of experience.
1. Ray Casting Clock
2. Ephemeral Accumulation for Human Time Scale
3. Perceived Activity at Certain Times
4. Temporal Patterns of 100 Rotating Nested Squares
5. Animated Phyllotaxis
6. Concentric Waves
7. Portal with Oscilations
8. Breathing Circle
9. Black Ink Ensō
10. Fibonacci Zoom Out
11. Captive Network
12. Gravitas Epistola
13. Transcriptional Fugue
14. Infinite Cellular Automata
15. Animated Lines
16. Connected Pathfinders
17. Absence 01
18. Dissipative Stilness 01
19. Chromatic Crescent
20. Epistemic Foraging & Self-Reference
In Summary
Time Instances: Small Gestures of Becoming is an installation where each screen becomes a lens on time:
time as vibration, drift, recursion, breath, entropy, memory, emergence and form.
A relational field of processes—
simple geometries becoming sites of epistemic inquiry.