In Search of Personalized Time

Taeyoon Choi and E Roon Kang

Taeyoon Choi and E Roon Kang, based in New York and Seoul, Korea, developed a project titled In Search of Personalized Time, creating devices and method to allow users to set their own time. Over the course of several months, they produced prototypes, a performance, and a workshop. Choi is cofounder of the School for Poetic Computation and directs the Making Lab, a community makerspace run by artists in South Korea. Kang operates an interdisciplinary design studio, Math Practice, and is a TED Fellow, and has been a research fellow at SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT.

Drawing by Taeyoon Choi

Taeyoon Choi and E Roon Kang's Timekeeper Invention Kit

From the Timekeeper Invention Club workshop at LACMA, held on August 30, 2014

Personal Timekeepers

From the Circle of Moment Measurement, at LACMA, held on July 18, 2015

From the blog: In Search of Personalized Time

Recently, we had two artists, Taeyoon Choi and E Roon Kang, recipients of an Art + Technology Lab grant, come to LACMA to host a public workshop. Titled the Timekeeper Invention Club, the workshop explored the meaning of “personalized time” and will eventually feed into Taeyoon and E Roon’s larger project, titled In Search of Personalized Time (I—S—O—P—T).

From the Blog: Artists Choi and Kang Bend Time at LACMA

Recently, Taeyoon Choi and E Roon Kang presented the culmination of their year-long artist project, funded through our Art + Technology program, over the course of a weekend at LACMA. The project, called In Search of Personalized Time, has been an ongoing investigation of what the artists call “time based on perception and consensus.”

Circle of Moment Measurement

What is time really? As humanity, we collectively agree on using Universal Time as a standard to keep things in order in an increasingly synchronized and complex society. However, is it the only way to measure your time on this earth? What if we re-design time based off of your perception of moments?

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In Search of Personalized Time

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