ANTENNA’s Walk-Through History of the Universe
Featured In International Scientific Journal

Sausalito, CA:  ANTENNA Artistic Director Chris Hardman’s interactive public art project, .:. sands .:. of .:. time .:. was recently featured in the September 6^th edition of Science Magazine.  Senior Staff Writer Constance Holden included the show in her most-recent “Random Sightings” column and included a photo from the version of the production staged at the Burning Man Festival three years ago — see the reverse of this page — while writing about the October 18 & 19 performances at Rodeo Beach in t he Marin Headlands.

.:. sands .:. of .:. time .:. uses a 1,300-foot span of beach front as a metaphor for time.  The beach, which is raked into a Zen Garden of Time, encompasses the entire history of the Universe.  The first 1,300 feet of this walkthrough, interactive art experience represents the approximately 13 billion years since the birth of the universe while the last grain of sand on this scale represents approximately the past 2000 years. This production invites you to embrace the big picture of the universe, to see the whole beach instead of just one grain of sand. The performance features sculptures and carvings embedded in and protruding from the sand, and is guided by and synchronized to ANTENNA’s trademark multi-layered soundtracks delivered via walkman.  Each audience member becomes a direct participant in the production as they embark on a 30-minute journey from the Big Bang to the present.  .:. sands .:. of .:. time .:. combines the beach setting, transformed by artistic manipulation, with words and music to create a tangible timeline, illustrating the AllTime concept.

AllTime is Hardman’s offering to the world — a proposition whereby everyone from ordinary citizens to scientists, teachers to governments can expand their notion of counting time to include the full history of the universe and an understanding of our true place in the continuum of time.    “The object,” says Hardman, “is to begin to shift people’s underlying sense of time to include all of our history.  After the discoveries of Galileo and Copernicus, general understanding gradually evolved to the point where the common sensibility is no longer that the sun revolves around the earth.  It took time, but now we look up at the sky and automatically picture the earth revolving around the sun.  It’s this same type of perceptual shift that AllTime seeks to effect — I look forward to the day when people look at a calendar and register that they’re part of a story that’s more than13 billion years long, not just 2003.”

With the adoption of AllTime, Hardman hopes, “to demonstrate that each of us can incorporate the larger view of the universe into our common routines.  This is not an esoteric investigation of ‘What if?” Hardman continues, “but rather an elegant means by which we can make a realization of our true place in the evolution of the cosmos a practical part of our daily lives.”

A full explanation of the AllTime theory and the science behind it, can be found at ANTENNA’s new website, www.AllTime.info