#Timeless : video essay/design fiction about identity, time and with an exceptional line-up featuring brilliant minds like Bernhard Hermann, Bruce Sterling and Rafaël Rozendaal. Another inspiring creation by Gabriel Shalom and Patrizia Kommerell from KS12.

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Some months ago we had a nice dinner with a nice group of people in Berlin, organized by Mario Gamper (Ideas will Travel) and Marcello (Platoon). Along with them we met Gabriel and Patrizia, a beautiful couple who shared with us a bit of what this project was about. Now that we watch it for the first time we feel lucky, inspired and #timeless.

In a dark and somehow sad day for the “internet people”, watching this video is quite refreshing.

Thanks Gabriel and Patrizia, you give us #timeless hope.

(by KS12)

A Clock for Robots: Exploring time and place x @BERG

(via Product sketch: Clocks for Robots – Blog – BERG)

Interaction Designer Sitraka Rakotoniaina has created an ultra real set of experiences with his hyper-normal contraptions. Presuming that the brain is the filter for the perception of reality — how we understand time and space, whether we are discrete or continuous — Rakotonia’s attempts to give that reality a little twist. In each instance, time is reduced to a parameter that is easily modulated and disassociates the brain from the rest of the experience of the body.

For instance, in “Time Conditioning” Raktoniaina creates a prosthesis to train the arm’s reflexes to operate at the speed of a fly. While this would seem to speed up the reflexes, the actual result would effectively allow the neurons in the muscle to experience time in “slow motion”. In effect, the body and mind would experience time on two different intervals.

Hyper Normality: Twisting Reality And Reconfiguring Time - PSFK