Nascent (Paul Seidler and Max Hampshire)

Timezone #1 & Timezone #3 are pieces of alternative infrastructure that aim to catalyse different experiences of time in their local areas. Like a kind of public information terminal, these objects present alternate time counting systems based on a selection of technological processes, including informational consensus systems, numerological computation and state machine replication algorithms.

Two nodes are installed in the ISKRA DELTA areas. In the ID headquarters, node 1 features Energy Time as the main timezone, which is determined by transactions and mining of blocks happening in the bitcoin network. In the lobby of the ID skyscraper node 3 opens up a zone of Machine Time. It is based on Google's Paxos consensus algorithm that serves as an internal timekeeping mechanism of large scale digital infrastructure. Cloud environments no longer rely on human interaction to define temporal consensus - it  is  a  purely  abstracted  instance  of  machine  time,  determined  by  and  existing  solely in  relation  to  the task  at hand between three nodes that enable synchronization of servers across the globe. 

Timezones #1 & #3 are covered with meme stickers, graffiti and various artifacts of dead crypto coins collected and designed by Nascent’s collaborator Johannes Wilke. The passage of time affects the fragmentation and rearrangement of a text by Amy Ireland that provides a generative framework of textual references.