MOTION EXPERIENCE LAB: NO TIME IS NOW24h Clock System (2 weeks exercise)
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MXL: No Time is Now – Type’n’Tech Design Lab

Nowness. Liveness. Simultaneity.
How can parallel layers of time, asynchronous moments and fleeting presence be made visible in 8 weeks in the unconventional forms of a post-digital clock/timer intervention?



Nr.Title/Students Length/Genre
01TickingPiece / Ada Helweg + Elena Schmitz01:10 min / AV
02le corps qui ne compte plus / Adrianos Finder08:38 min / XP
03DisalignedHarmony / Benedikt Bruchhausen02:00 min / IA
04A machine of rhythm / Cora Kindermann + Jana Hartmann05:00 min / XP
05Intrusive Timer / Greta Cesaris04:20 min /APP
06spiralDownTime / Joel van Hees 05:28 min / AV
07Math of Time / Timm SonnenscheinRealtime / IA
08The Anatomy of a Moment / Lara Dederichs01:30 min / AV
09Mindtime / Lillith  Hawemann06:00 min / XP
10SpaceBetweenNow / Yannick Lethgau01:42 min / AV
11Finding Time / Jakob Troll04:11 min / AV
12WhatTIMEisNow / Matthis JodeleitRealtime / XP
13Chrono Vinyl / Kaito Kedashiro


3:00min / XP
14Niklas Kroll  (no docu yet)
15Breacking News / Precious Cuthbert  (no docu yet)
16Eva Matzerath  (no docu yet)
17SnakeOfLight / Marie Kochs  (no docu yet)
00-01 PM Jannis Herforth / Mario Mosler / Madina Begmatova /
Batool Altork / Adrianos Finder24h CLOCK
01-02 PMTimm Sonnenschein / Sophie Fardel / Fried Plath / 
Jakob Grote / Greta Cesaris24h CLOCK
02-03 PM
Lena Timmermann / Eva Matzerath / Levin Pauli /
Matthis Jodeleit / Tristan Mayen24h CLOCK
03-04 PM
Johanna Brück / Raffaella Carolina Lanza Bugueño / 
Paul Doré / Jakob Troll / Niklas Kroll24h CLOCK
04-05 PM
Yannick Lethgau / Jan Lattenkamp / Elena Schmitz / 
Cora Kindermann / Moritz Lach
24h CLOCK
05-06 PM
 Benedikt Bruchhausen / Jana Hartmann / Hendrik Weber /
Finn Pickart / Katja Khmurchyk24h CLOCK
06-07 PMMarie Kochs / Alper Ak / Simon Winkel / 
Annika Hayd /Niels Heubaum24h CLOCK
07-08 PMNick / Zaki Noor / Sila Aleyna Kayis / Precious Cuthbert / Lara Dederichs24h CLOCK
08-09 PMKaito Kedashiro / Enes Köse24h CLOCK
09-10 PMCarina Lennartz / Anastasiia Remezova-Stoliarchuk / 
Leon Becker / Niklas Wiesel / Manuel Siry24h CLOCK
10-11 PMZoe Santoso / Malin Lindner / Lara Faßbender / 
Joel Sharif van Hees / Finn Oevermann
24h CLOCK
11-12 PMEmma Reeb / Lilith Hawemann / Ada Helweg / 
Anastasiia Lomanovska / Mattia Anselmetti24h CLOCK
00-01 AMNick / Zaki Noor / Sila Aleyna Kayis /Precious Cuthbert / Lara Dederichs24h CLOCK
01-02 AMKaito Kedashiro / Enes Köse24h CLOCK
02-03 AMCarina Lennartz / Anastasiia Remezova-Stoliarchuk / 
Leon Becker / Niklas Wiesel / Manuel Siry24h CLOCK
03-04 AMZoe Santoso / Malin Lindner / Lara Faßbender / 
Joel Sharif van Hees / Finn Oevermann
24h CLOCK
04-05 AM
Emma Reeb / Lilith Hawemann / Ada Helweg / 
Anastasiia Lomanovska / Mattia Anselmetti24h CLOCK
05-06 AMJannis Herforth / Mario Mosler / Madina Begmatova / 
Batool Altork / Adrianos Finder24h CLOCK
06-07 AM
Timm Sonnenschein / Sophie Fardel /Fried Plath / 
Jakob Grote / Greta Cesaris24h CLOCK
07-08 AM
Lena Timmermann / Eva Matzerath  / Levin Pauli / 
Matthis Jodeleit/ Tristan Mayen24h CLOCK
08-09 AM
Johanna Brück /Raffaella Carolina Lanza Bugueño / 
Paul Doré / Jakob Troll / Niklas Kroll24h CLOCK
09-10 AM
Yannick Lethgau / Jan Lattenkamp / Elena Schmitz /
Cora Kindermann / Moritz Lach24h CLOCK
10-11 AM
Benedikt Bruchhausen / Jana Hartmann / Hendrik Weber /
Finn Pickart / Katja Khmurchyk24h CLOCK
11-12 AM
Marie Kochs / Alper Ak / Simon Winkel / 
Annika  Hayd / Niels Heubaum24h CLOCK











About this project:MXL: No Time is Now – Type’n’Tech Design Lab
Winterterm 25/26  (13.10.2025 — 21.12.2025)

Participants: 56 KISD x Code&Context students of various semesters

Lecturers: Prof. Nina Juric / Dept. Image and Motion – Motion Experience Lab @KISD, TH Köln supported by Diego Alatorre, UNAM/Mexico 



Description: Nowness. Liveness. Simultaneity.
How can parallel layers of time, asynchronous moments and fleeting presence be made visible in 8 weeks in the unconventional forms of a post-digital clock/timer intervention?

A classic design task – clock, timer, timepiece – is opened up, twisted, fragmented.
We build interfaces for time that is not linear.
Time that happens simultaneously.
Time that reacts live.
Time that breaks free from our expectations.



In this eight-week lab, we open up a classic design brief – clock, timer, timepiece – and transform it into experimental time periods that transcend traditional linear concepts. The aim is to develop interfaces that allow time to be experienced as a simultaneous, reactive and non-linear phenomenon. Time is not only measured, but also shaped: it takes place simultaneously, reacts live and breaks away from expectations of a continuous, predictable sequence.

The methodological guiding principle is based on three central concepts from the Motion Experience Lab. Nowness, liveness and simultaneity: Nowness refers to the fleeting moment that cannot be stored, but only experienced; liveness describes the active presence in the now, which exists exclusively in real time; it is the tangible reaction of a system to the now. Simultaneity opens up the possibility of perceiving several layers of time at once, be it in a glance, a sound or an interface, making simultaneous processes tangible.

The laboratory acts as a bridge between typographic materiality and real-time systems (Type “n” Tech). It combines methods from media art, moving image design, interactive media, typography and post-digital aesthetics. Type becomes the surface of time: it responds to input, changes dynamically, ‘breathes’ and visualises the flow of time. Technical systems – sensors, data streams, networks, algorithms – enable the implementation of these concepts in real time, merging digital precision with material haptics.

The aim is to explore experimental space-time complexities and translate them into form, function and experience. The result is a set of experimental time visualisations in the form of post-digital artefacts: unconventionally designed, ‘messy’ timers and clocks that oscillate between motion design, interaction and physical computing.

The output consists of interactive timers and clocks, typographic motion experiments, hybrid installations and live performances with real-time interaction – all characterised by a connection between typographic materiality, technical systems and post-digital hybridity.

Note: The first two weeks which started 13th october, the project has taken place daily together with the Open Design Module from Code&Context. After it proceeded without them.



Inspiration was served i.e. through the messy clocks of Choi Gunhyuk and his talk given at inscript.tf or philosophical input through the movie Hyperstition. Here, students got a quick access to the realm. 
Driven by lots of experience and inputs (i.e. of usable online generators) from Prof. Nina Juric, who is co-running Letters Are My Friends, who coined the term TYPE & TECH since 2010. Her studio acts as the first concept store for type and tech in Berlin and Köln. Since 2001 she acted as early female generative designer aswell as animator,filmmaker and media artist in the field of type focussing motion design, and therefor could serve in short time an expressed base to get students hands-on into the material and start. She prepared with her daughter (4 years old) some illustrations, which students had to use as a starting interface and keyvisual for their “messy clock”. 
Diego Altorre added additional input about time concepts and chronological happenings within the realms of clocks and time systems in general, followed by contast mentoring, guidance and feedback. 












Participants (KISD)Ada Helweg
Elena Schmitz
Benedikt Bruchhausen
Cora Kindermann
Jana Hartmann
Greta Cesaris
Joel van Hees
Kaito Kedashiro
Lara Dederichs
Lilith Hawemann
Niklas Kroll
Marie Kochs
Matthis Jodeleit
Precious Cuthber
Yannick Lethgau
Timm Sonnenschein
Eva Matzerath 
Jakob Troll Participants (Code&Context)

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