Amrit Srecko Sorli
I find the Theory of Atemporality fascinating, and very relevent to my current artistic practice.In essence this states that time is not a universal linear event and is merely a convenient convention through which we organise our lives. Light and sound waves have no beginning or end raising the intriguing possibility that what we see and hear is a continuum.Quote from 'The Theory of Atemporality' a paper by Amrit Srecko Sorli .www.chronos.msu.ru/EREPORTS/sarli_the_theory.pdfSimilar
"The Theory of Atemporality is based on elementary perception: time cannot be observed in the universe. With clocks one measures duration, speed and numerical order of events that run into atemporal universe. Man is not existing in time, time exists in man. There is no past and future into the universe, both exist only in the human mind. Time is an observer effect. Time exists only when one measures it. Universe is an atemporal phenomenon"
Bruce Sterling lecturing on Atemporality
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/02/atemporality-for-the-creative-artist/All of these pieces are, to a greater or lesser extent, oriented around a singular idea: atemporality – that the intermeshing and interweaving of the physical and digital causes us not only to experience both of those categories differently, but to perceive time itself differently; that for most of us, time is no longer a linear experience (assuming it ever was). Technology changes our remembrance of the past, our experience of the present, and our imagination of the future by blurring the lines between the three categories, and introducing different forms of understanding and meaning-making to all three – We remember the future, imagine the present, and experience the past. The phenomenon of “ruin porn” is uniquely suited to call attention to our increasingly atemporal existence, and to outline some of the specific ways in which it manifests itself.
Ruin Porn and Atemporality
A term used to describe an interest in ruined and abandoned places, there is a link between these places and the concept of atemporality http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/01/12/the-atemporality-of-ruin-porn-part-i-the-carcass/
We can and should understand abandoned places as atemporal spaces in and of themselves – they are physical spaces in which the experience of linear time breaks down. Through the experience of the space, explorers and photographers (and blends of the two) break out of a conventional experience of the present and into a space where the artifacts of history feel at once fresh and new, and ancient and decayed. Imagination is key to the atemporal experience of these places: One can exist in an abandoned, ruined space and see shards of a dead past on which one can construct a live imagining – who were the people who lived and worked here? What were their lives like? What were their stories? What happened to them? What happened to them in these spaces
http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/01/20/the-atemporality-of-%E2%80%9Cruin-porn%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-part-ii-the-ghost/