Fourfortyfourtheory

Submitted by NT2 on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:14

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Cette oeuvre rend compte de ce que Miltos Manetas nomme les "FourFortyFour moments", c'est-à-dire les moments où, sur une horloge numérique, l'heure affichée correspond à une suite cohérente de chiffres (01:23, 11:11, 12:34, etc.). Pour Manetas, ces moments deviennent des îles de temps partagées par tous, à travers le globe. L'oeuvre cherche donc à rendre ce partage tacite visible à tous. Le site présente un calendrier sur lequel ont été enregistrés les moments FourFortyFour des internautes (après inscription en ligne). Ainsi, il est possible de voir qu'Unica White et Jeanne Aderma ont chacune noté leur moment à 11h11, le 12 mars 2011, respectivement en Autriche et au Pays-Bas. À l'instar du Neen Art, courant dans lequel elle s'inscrit, l'oeuvre de Manetas ne cherche pas à expliquer le phénomène des "FourFortyFour moments". Il lui suffit d'en souligner la présence. Également disponible sous l'URL http://www.444theory.com/.

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Sometimes you look at the time on your phone or on your computer and you have what we call a "FourFortyFour Moment".
0:00, 0:12, 01:01, 1:11, 1:23, 02:02, 2:22, 2:34, 03:03, 3:33, 3:45, 4:04, 4:44, 4:56, 05:05, 5:55, 06:06, 07:07, 08:08, 09:09, 10:10, 11:11, 12:12, 12:34, 13:11, 13:13, 14:22, 14:14, 15:15, 16:16, 17:17, 18:18, 19:19, 20:20, 21:21, 22:22, 23:23
These numbers - which look nice - are islands made by time. People accidentally get into them from different places all over the planet and just stay there for a minute. Whenever we have the same fourfortyfour moment we are together in a mental place. That place is so "mental" that it moves through time according to our location (i.e., when it's 4:44 AM in New York it's 1:44 AM in Los Angeles, while when it's 4:44 AM in Los Angeles, it is 7:44 AM in NY, etc.).
The 4:44 Theory is a Neen Theory and therefore, explains absolutely nothing about those special moments but it pays attention to them (Neen is for paying attention and not explanation). The theory is also busy with some special existential situations, such as, "I just arrived in LA from NY and I haven't changed the time on my computer yet. So if I encounter a 4:44 moment on it, is that valid?" Such a question may seem silly, but it deals with the very contemporary problem of location. Where am I when "I am on my computer?" If we accept this 4:44 moment as a genuine one- and it is of course, because any 4:44 moment that we encounter is genuine by definition- then we should also start thinking in terms of Local Place (as in Local Time). When connected, we are somewhere that maybe different from our local place.

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