Homography: Visualizing Time

Homography is a course in the visualization of time, created for the Generative Systems program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. Nine ways of visualizing time, based on objective and subjective findings, were created for the course. Four objective ways are presented in exercise form in this article. They are preceded by two subjective warm-up exercises and followed by three subjective/objective exercises in the visualization of verbs. The warm-up exercises stimulated the students’ perception of time and motion, while the exercises in visualizing verbs allowed them to apply their newly acquired subjective/objective insights and knowledge to create a visual dictionary of verbs. In the process, any and all tools were used for manual, mechanical, electronic, light-generated or biological exploration of the shape of time.