Prometheus Clock

2012 – 2014

Designed and built through a collaboration of artists, designers, architects, and a seamstress, the piece seeks to provide its viewers with the experience of Prometheus, a Greek titan with access to a constant stream of human consciousness. Read more

The Prometheus Clock uses a combination of PHP, Python, AppleScript, Shell Script, OpenFrameworks, and MadMapper to search for, download, sort, and project 16 YouTube videos at once onto a custom 14-foot geodesic dome. The piece, designed and built through a collaboration of artists, designers, architects, and a seamstress, seeks to provide its viewers with the experience of Prometheus, a Greek titan with access to a constant stream of human consciousness.

The project was on display in April 2012 at the Fresh Media art exhibit in Boston, the MFA Thesis show at MassArt in May 2012, The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA in September 2012, the Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State College in October 2012, the Fourth Wall Gallery (images below) in Boston, MA in January 2013, and at Fresh Tilled Soil’s UXFest in Watertown, MA in October 2013.

Conceptualized and built in conjunction with Daniel Buckley.

A white woman with a black and white thick horizontal striped shirt stands in front of a sculpture. The sculpture is a half-dome made of primarily triangular sections. Images are projected into each separate section. Because she stands between the projector and the sculpture, the images appear on her skin and clothes as well.
Tight shot of a sculpture—a half-dome made of primarily triangular sections. Images are projected into each separate section.
Wide shot of a sculpture—a half-dome made of primarily triangular sections. The sculpture is hanging from the ceiling on one side and touching the ground on the other. Images are projected into each separate section. The sculpture sits in a dark gallery with a white support column in the background.
A large (14-foot wide) geodesic dome covered in white cloth sits on the floor of an art gallery.
A large (14-foot wide) geodesic dome made of steel bars sits on the floor of an art gallery. Two people work on finishing its construction, one standing below the apex, one has climbed onto it. They are silhouetted.
A tight shot of the triangular subsections of a geodesic dome made of steel beams. Someone in grey jeans, wearing grey sneakers, walks around it.