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Art as a time machine

FABULA – Research in literature. Online Seminars

What is literary and/or artistic time? What is time in literature and the arts? Or what is time for a writer, a painter, a photographer, a director?
The first difficulty encountered by those who wonder about time as it is practised and as literature and the arts represent it is that of formulating the question that occupies them: how, in what terms, does the problem of time in literature and the arts arise? Is time, in the literary and artistic context, a concept, a notion, a percept? Is time, for writers and artists, a theme, a motif, a tool, a medium?
Perhaps the most relevant and effective method is to consider the answer given by the artists before formulating the question(s) we would like to ask them. In any case, this is the choice made by the researchers who met for the symposium L’art, machine à voyager dans le temps (University of Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, 22-25 March 2017). Rather than a concept or a notion, it is consequently a singular posture, that of the time traveller, and the creative and lectoral uses that it engenders that are at the heart of the studies gathered here.

The scientific construction of time
Véronique Le Ru

From temporal emotion to cinema: Interstellar by Christopher Nolan
Guillaume Gomot

Back to the Future / Peggy Sue Got Married: A Cinematic Journey through Time
Kostulla Kaloudi

Showing Time. The Dadaist experience of the time in immediate post-war Berlin
Aurélie Arena

Artistic journeys in the temporalities of the “cinematographic works” of Pierre Huyghe and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Marie-Laure Delaporte

The painters, strategists of the time
Frédéric Montégu

The aesthetics of the time machine
Elisabeth Stojanov

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Contemporary Perspectives on Inter-War Museography

François Poncelet
Article on Openedition.org

During the interwar period a remarkable evolution has been in museography of art galleries. New practices are elaborated, developed and continued for a long time – actually up to now for some. The debates in which they originated sometimes strangely resemble the discussions that animate the museums today. A look to back is necessary…

This series of photographs proves the interest of certain curators, such as B.I. Gilman, author of the photographs opposite, in studying visitor comfort from the beginning of the twentieth century: analyses are carried out to determine a ‘normal’ level of vision, so that the majority of visitors can see the exhibits with the minimum possible physical effort.
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The Story of Physics Animated in 4 Minutes: From Galileo and Newton, to Einstein

Article on Open Culture

No matter how well you remember your physics classes, you most likely don’t remember learning any stories in them. Theories and equations, yes, but not stories — yet each of those theories and equations has a story behind it, as does the entire scientific enterprise of physics they constitute. The video above from the BBC’s Dara Ó Briain’s Science Club provides an overview of the latter story in an animated four minutes, making it ideal for youngsters just starting to learn about physics. It will also do the job for those of us not-so-youngsters circling back to get a better grasp of physics, its discoveries and driving questions.

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izi.TRAVEL – Audio guides for museum

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In 2011, we – a team of Dutch innovators – joined forces with a Swiss investor with the aim of connecting cities, museums and their stories with travellers who wanted to explore the world in a brand new, innovative way: via a global, open and free platform. A bit like Facebook or Wikipedia. Although this idea wasn’t anything new, no-one had yet done it on such a large and ambitious scale.

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Musée international d’horlogerie (MIH) – La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

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The Public Domain Review

The Public Domain Review is dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restrictions.

Detail from an image in Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660), an atlas of the stars from the Dutch Golden Age of cartography which maps the structure of the heavens in twenty-nine extraordinary double-folio spreads.
Illustration from the “macrocosm” chapter in the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd’s The Metaphysical, Physical, and Technical History of the Two Worlds (1617–21).
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Project Time Machine

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The Time Machine Project is by far the most ambitious and far-reaching project ever undertaken using Big Data of the Past. Revolutionising the way we experience European history and culture, the project is an international collaboration to build a map of European history that spans thousands of years.