Vienna – Austria
Vienna, Austria
This automat, based on the theory of relativity, allows viewers for the first time to modify their perception of the familiar relation between space and time by experiencing time in a transverse flow to their spatial movements.
tx-transform, a film technique that was presented at the Diagonale festival in 1999, has been developed further in the year 2000. This time, a team consisting of Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is presenting the tx-transformator. This automat, based on the theory of relativity, allows viewers for the first time to modify their perception of the familiar relation between space and time by experiencing time in a transverse flow to their spatial movements. Thereby, an interactive and astonishing new perception is made possible in real time. Hence, the regular sequence of motion is turned upside down: visitors, who keep staying at the same location, are being stretched, abrupt movements are compressed. Limbs are moving away from bodies, heads get unwound. Behind the tx-transformator’s plain design, developed in the former German Democratic Republic (by Robotron 1983), not only a sophisticated technology is hidden, but also an intriguingly simple idea, which can be explored by means of a short video.
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