Deathclock is the final part of
"Death Series",
and encapsulates all of its overarching themes as
they were originally conceived,
and as they have been executed in
the various art projects.
It is as much a beginning as it is an end. |
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1990-1992 / Death of Time
Human lives will continue along a group of
linked lines, until their natural ends. But there comes a darkness,
when a life and its connections are cut into pieces. The darkness
that cuts the line: Hiroshima.
"The hydrogen bomb is unlike other
weapons. It erases human existence itself. It is death to death." - Jonathan Schell, Journalist |
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1999 / MEGA DEATH
"The 20th century has produced an
enormous number of deaths".
2,400 lights that moments before were
blinking away, suddenly, simultaneously, turn off. MEGA DEATH
speaks to
the reckless stupidity of man's efforts to rip and rupture
lives. |
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2003 / Deathclock
You purchase Deathclock online, and are asked to hazard a guess as to how much time you have left to live. After you have inputted your estimate you will receive by mail the Deathclock software customized with your personal information. Install the program onto your computer and take a self-portrait with the web camera that comes with it. When the process has been completed, a counter that begins with the amount of time down to 1/10 of a second that you conjectured you have remaining begins to count down, and above it your picture starts to fade. The counter keeps counting down, and the picture keeps on fading, until 0. The moment of death. |
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