
Meet the artist
Paolo Tonon
I am a digital media artist and UX designer with humanistic and technical background.

Meet the artist
Paolo Tonon
I am a digital media artist and UX designer with humanistic and technical background.
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Released on December 8, 2021
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When does a work stop being the representation of our world and become art? Can we appreciate a work of art without measuring it with our space-time parameters? In Time Atlas 🌐 the link with our Earth shaped over millennia through the urbanization process is explicit. Time Atlas 🌐 uses geo-referenced city data intensively and displays it randomly in geographic areas, showing the current time of each city, whether it is currently exposed to the sun, at night or at dusk by changing the reference color palette . There are over 200 cities collected in its monumental internal archive, each with its own latitude and longitude values, UTC and DST time, number of inhabitants. Each instance shows a square of our land, the cities arrange you in a grid that respects the distances in proportion. The background rotates to the current value of seconds which is the same all over the world. It is potentially composed of 8 geometric elements that can be present with different probabilities. City clocks can be of 4 different shapes; the length of the pendulum that rotates with the time of the seconds is composed of 5 elements that combine randomly but the length of the pendulum corresponds to the number of inhabitants of that city. The elements of the composition can be turned off and on again thanks to these keys: [c] toggle cities [w] toggle watches [b] toggle background Finally, there is the Written Circles variation. It takes up a past work of mine with the same title and in my initial idea it had to be the only aspect of Time Atlas 🌐. The salient feature of the Written Circles display is that it does not have a rotating background but, for each city, the crown of minutes is proportional to the number of inhabitants, therefore interesting moiré effects are obtained in superimposition.
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Paolo Tonon
I am a digital media artist and UX designer with humanistic and technical background.
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