Time Slip

Antoine Schmitt

DESCRIPTION

Here’s how Antoine Schmitt describes TIME SLIP: “On an LED display, a text endlessly unrolls the news, but it’s in the future tense: ‘A plane is going to crash in Madrid, killing 153 people’, ‘OM is going to beat PSG 3-0’, ‘The stock market is going to fall by 5.6%’… Apart from the verb tense, the news is entirely and textually true and taken from current events.

TIME SLIP is built on an ad hoc program that automatically draws its information in real time from official news agencies, selecting some of them and changing the tense of their verb from past or present to future.
TIME SLIP is always up to date.
It’s a programmed generative work.”

Originally conceived as an installation in 2008, TIME SLIP is now also available in multiples.

Antoine Schmitt

As a visual artist, Antoine Schmitt creates works in the form of objects, installations and situations to address the processes of movement and question their intrinsic plastic, philosophical and social issues.
Heir to kinetic and cybernetic art, and nourished by metaphysical science fiction, he tirelessly questions the dynamic interactions between human nature and the nature of reality.