From the earliest mechanical water clocks, humans have divided time into calculable units through tools, continuously seeking the most precise frequencies in nature to measure time more accurately.
Advancements in technology have led to the emergence of the concept of “attosecond,” a unit of time down to seventeen decimal places. However, even with such minute divisions, this increasingly precise measurement of time has become disconnected from human’s most direct bodily experiences, letting the relationship between time and bodily sensation insensible.
“Time Organ” project investigates this “insensible” of human sensory time. Through virtual reality, heart rate sensing, and custom-built water-dripping mechanical devices, it creates multi-sensory experiential situations. Based on scientifically quantified time and bodily frequencies, the project generates sensory experiences from asynchronous to synchronous, encompassing visual, auditory, and tactile sensations. Inspired by the concept of extending organs, the project aims to create a tool for perceiving the passage of bodily time. By using human’s innate synchronicity and sensory extensions, it seeks to rediscover the perception of bodily time, thereby realigning human’s temporal sensations with their bodily frequencies.