The images, all captured anonymously by the spider-eyed ball atop a Google van, range from the haunting to the lyrical. Despite the specifics of time and location, each picture resonates with symbolic force.
For this online exhibition, Rafman presents a new slideshow and sixteen prints. The slideshow, at the top of the page, is viewable exclusively online, and was programmed to create a random, constantly changing sequence of images from Nine Eyes of Google Street View. The sixteen prints offer snapshot epiphanies from far-flung corners of the globe, and each one is titled after the particular location of its capture.
Time ticks. A Planck time unit, the smallest possible increment of time, is how long it takes a beam of light to cross a Planck length, the smallest possible increment of distance. In this way reality itself has a frame rate, like a film: it does not proceed continuously, but in a series of jerks and ratchets, Planck time unit after Planck time unit, tick after tick. The feeling we have of smooth motion is an illusion, the result of our eyes and brains working far too slowly to notice the gaps, on the same principle as a TV cartoon that tricks us into seeing a dog running by shuffling between a few drawings.
What governs the updates, their faltering and irregular course through the world, is still unknown. Physicists say that the answer to this question, if there is one, must lie deep in the quantum vacuum. And yet there are the eye-witness reports, too convergent to be completely ignored: a creature with a spindly body and a crimson head that is said to be present at the exact instant that reality ticks forward. Perhaps this hallucination is one of those human universals that emerge from some atavistic structure of the brain, an incubus conjured not by night terrors but by the grip of time.
But not always. These days more and more people mark each tick with ritualistic behavior. You might find them lying flat on the ground; climbing up onto fences and walls; putting on absurd costumes, or partially disrobing. You might find whole crowds of people rushing out into the open together. The sheer indignity of being trapped in these postures for the long haul seems to trouble them not a bit. Of course, there is no logical basis to any of it, and yet they really believe that these rain dances can win kinder treatment for themselves and their homelands, as if somehow it were possible to propitiate spacetime itself. It is troubling how quickly such delusions can spread.
True enough, there is reason to believe that these regions have yet to tick forward even once. But one ought not to jump to the conclusion, as so many have, that for their inhabitants time has therefore halted entirely. A counter-theory proposes exactly the reverse: that whatever cosmic palsification has swept across the rest of the world has not yet touched these places, and so time there maintains its nimble old division into Planck units.
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