Time Redefined: Maarten Baas' 'Real Time' Series Favorite 

The "Real Time" series by Maarten Baas is an avant-garde collection of art installations and functional timepieces that question the very basics of how to measure and experience time. It has, therefore, been a unique mix of performance art with functional design since 2009. Baas reimagines how time may be seen in his various installations in a provoking, innovative, engaging, and reflective manner for all audiences. They included among several particularly prominent pieces from the series "Real Time," the "Sweeper's Clock," and the "Grandfather Clock," both deploying temporal flow in such a way that a utilitarian object seems to have an almost prototypical vision.

The series 'Real Time' redesigns our ideas and perceptions of time, merging art's language with design's virtues. Each edition of the series is an innovative vision of how we can visualize and experience time, and it redefines the traditional reading of time through physical movement, video installations, and live-action performances. The works in the series will offer Baas a feeling of fluid time, emphasizing its flow and how it intersects with day-to-day living. This can be observed in his works with the "Sweeper's Clock," wherein time can be shown as cyclical through two people sweeping in circles along the clock's hands. Through this installation, Baas underlined the repetitive character of time and its unceasing flow, more or less mimicking our daily round. Grandfather Clock" is a way to read the time because integrated into the piece is a natural person in the clock face who elaborately and with real-time care paints the minute and hour hands, blurring the line between a performance piece and a clock while making an excellent point about the human condition in the perception of the hours and minutes. Analog/Digital Clock In this piece, Baas shows a digital clock representation drawn on a blackboard that an artist manipulates in real time: the digits are erased and rewritten. Through this installation of art, the way time can be looked at in different forms through merging analog and digital worlds and finally putting great emphasis on the fluidity of time was brought out. The interactive nature of this piece makes one think about how he or she perceives and interprets time in different formats. By this, in ultimate purpose, the "Real Time" series provides manifold viewpoints on time, evoking contemplation and reflection about our perception of the flow of time and its actual construct.