De Klok

De Klok is a time-keeping device built based on the ultra-competitive Dutch flower auction system and its circular price determination apparatus, that is running on a program of our own design. Beyond the original device’s purpose in service of a “good deal” De Klok also expresses times and values on various scales, and generates profound relations between seemingly unassociated processes. The question of control reveals itself—do we control the clock with our script, or are we controlled by another more powerful force? This intentional choice of working in intervalled, repeatable, scalable cycles of production and destruction… the chronographic desire is often abstracted and internalized within ourselves.

Galvanised steel, wood, plexiglas, metal wire, 3× 512 LED grid matrix, 100 WS2812B mini PCB LEDs, 4× ESP-32 microcontrollers, 2× Raspberry Pi (Node.js web server, MQTT broker), Wi-Fi router, logic shifters

Line 1: Countdown to the end of exhibition
Line 2: Real-time solar flare activity
Line 3: Land value of Tt. Vasumweg 31, exhibition site

Photo Tom Philip Janssen, 2024 Photo Tom Philip Janssen, 2024 Fanfare by Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir, Photo LNDWStudio, 2024