Meantime in Greenwich
A public art work by David Clark

Sir Sandford Fleming Park is site for a unique new artwork involving twenty-four sundials and your smart phone. Halifax’s artist David Clark is making a piece about Sir Sandford Fleming’s contribution to standardized time. In this work, entitled Meantime In Greenwich, viewers will be invited to find the sundials installed through the sprawling park surrounding the Memorial (Dingle) Tower, a site that had once be Fleming’s summer home. Using a smart phone with augmented reality marker-based tracking technology, viewers will also be able to see 3D objects and video elements. Each sundial will trigger a story of a fragment of history that relates to the theme of time and technology and Sir Sandford Fleming.

Meantime In Greenwich will be installed throughout the park the last week of July 2012. The project will be on view until September 2013.

An official unveiling will take place during the fifth annual Dingle Natal Day Party, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Monday, August 6. The public will have a chance to meet the artist and take part in a scavenger hunt exploring the artwork, and create their own sundial.

For more information about this project, visit www.meantimeingreenwich.net.

To learn about David Clark, visit the artist’s site at www.chemicalpictures.net.

David Clark, winner of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia’s 2011 Masterworks Arts Award for his art piece 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein is a media artist who has produced worked for the internet, narrative films, and gallery installations. His public work has been presented at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the Toronto Pearson International Airport, the Sundance Film Festival, and film and arts festivals worldwide including Montreal, Berlin, New York, Switzerland and San Paulo. Currently David is Chair of Media Arts at NSCAD University.