Embraceable Silence / Disappearing Mirror #20 - celebrating Sun Dial I (DCF77) 14.02.2023

For the 20th episode, I’m celebrating the upcoming release of Sun Dial I (DCF77)! Sun Dial I (DCF77) is the documentation of a site responsive land art installation which challenges the current measurement of time. DCF77 is a long wave transmission station located in Mainflingen, Germany. This array of broadcast antennas sends out a powerful pulse each second at the frequency of 77.5khz.

I secretly installed a Sun Dial in the field where DCF77’s antennas are located. The juxtaposition of these time keeping methods (one ancient, local, dependent on nature and the other ultra-modern, trans-national, and machine based) creates a site responsive environment. Inaccessible behind a barbed wire fence, the sun dial stands alone, quietly generating its own fragile frequency,...

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