Remote Control
Winter 2015

Pawel Bartosik
followmydailyworld

Chen Hsiang Fu
Anti-Socialization

Martin Stelter
Articulating Gestures

Gyujin Lee
Bamboo Forest Project

Takuya Koyama
Crush Dish

Simon Weckert
Distance Clock

Gregor Finger
Fovea Tractis

Paul Kolling
Inherent Reason

Paul Seidler
Inherent Reason

Theresa Reimann-Dubbers
Intra-Active Display

Lorenz Raab
Leerlaufprozess

Andi Rueckel
Mimosa photica
Simon Weckert — Distance Clock
Remote Control — Winter 2015
Never before have so many people engaged in long distance relationship. These distances are continuously growing: The globalisation of markets is superseded by the globalisation of love. Increasingly more people are willing to work abroad. This distance distorts everything. An example of this are transatlantic phone calls, in which an answer can take several seconds to reach the recipient. “Distance Clock” mirrors this distance in time which is needed to reach a person physically. The clock symbolises the observer who is removed from this, while at the same time drawing attention to the fact that the physical distance carries less weight because despite losing our sense of time, we maintain our respect for space.
The OpenStreetMap API is used to calculat the route time between the smartphone of the removed person and the clock, depending on how fast the person is traveling.




