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











PROJECT 07MATH OF TIME                  TIMM SONNENSCHEIN




Genre: audio-visual clip
Length: approx. 05:00 min
Description:




The Math of Time is an alternative clock system that visualizes the hidden mathematics behind everyday time perception. In daily life, we constantly calculate time. How many hours of sleep are left? When do I have to leave? How long will it take? These small equations run silently in the background, almost physically. This clock brings them to the surface. Instead of displaying fixed numbers, it translates time into shifting geometry, movement, rhythm, and sound. Shapes stretch, contract, or fall out of sync, mirroring how our sense of time expands or collapses depending on context.

At its core, the project is a system that runs on real time: a piece of code designed to function continuously throughout the entire year. One of its future goals is to exist as a permanently accessible online clock, always running, always calculating.

What makes this clock unique is its geometric logic. Every possible time of day generates its own distinct configuration of shapes. The triangle, a central element of the interface, reforms itself every second, minute, and hour, creating an ever-changing geometric signature of the present moment. Through this, the clock reveals that every time has its own form, its own mathematical identity.

The concept explores the mathematical perception of time and how something so numerical, measurable, and objectively structured becomes deeply personal shaped by emotion, attention, context, and experience. Even though the clock is not immediately legible in a traditional sense, it becomes readable through observation. The longer one looks at it, the more intuitive its logic becomes: each second alters the geometry, each minute transforms the rhythm, and each hour creates an entirely new shape.







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