alan753 says

In response to Valéry Grancher’s “24h00”, the documentation through out the 24 hour period has inspired me to create an art piece that is based on time. Although the art work was presented in obvious fragments, the finished art work is read as a single piece of art that allows the reader to understand the summation of the artist’s hourly activity. By highlighting this fragmented, compiled piece as a singular object, time frames become a crucial element in the composition of the art work. The 4th Dimension piece I created is based on how the sun’s trajectory through out various time and seasonal intervals can create and manipulate a form in space.
Using a 3d modeling program, a simple rectangular plate is placed in the scene. After mapping the sun’s trajectory based on the winter-summer solstice, and spring – autumn equinox, a sunlight is then created in the scene. The shadows casted were then documented by allowing the shadows to penetrate through a generic sphere of volume, then were extracted for further development. To simplify this 3 dimensional analysis, the sun’s trajectory and shadows were then broken up into 3-different views: plans, sections, and elevations.
After the shadows were extracted, the volumes of shadows were then composed into one unified location. The extraction of these volumes is not the core of the art work, but rather, at their intersections highlighted in red.
This form generated by the intersection of the shadows is ultimately a form, or object that is entirely generated by the natural system of sunlight. Although the objects used in the scene to create this analysis are fairly simple, the complexity of this generated form is quite fascinating. Since this form was created by the specified time intervals, this form can be an ever changing product since the sun’s direction changes every second of the day. Like wise, if the initial object was not a simple rectangular plate, the shape of the shadows will then change accordingly even if the same time intervals were documented. Furthermore, it would interesting to set this program on a website where users can manipulate this generated from put proposing different time intervals. This analysis can then be taken in the same manner as this remixing assignment, that the users can remix the product by changing the position of the sun.
In light of the”24h00” piece, the 4th Dimension is a remix of its concept on time. By documenting the shadows’ projection, the form generated is ultimately a generated product by this compilation process, as seen in reading the “24h00” as a summation of one’s activity throughout the day. Using the 4th Dimension as an example, the documentation of the author’s activity on the next day maybe different from what was original documented, or that if the activities were documented with a video camera instead of a digital camera can also change the ending result. Moreover, this process directly reflects on an art piece introduced by professor Rinehart that the work has changed its form through out time in his lecture on copy right issue. In conclusion, an art work may be created as a static object, but the art behind the piece is rather generated and conditioned by the concept of time.