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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.36,0:00:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sarah Sze: "Measuring Stick"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.94,0:00:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VOICEOVER FROM FILM] We begin with a scene one-meter wide,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.33,0:00:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we view from just one meter away.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.69,0:00:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, every ten seconds, we will look from\Nten times father away
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.66,0:00:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our field of view will be ten times wider.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.24,0:00:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SZE] In the Seventies, Charles and Ray Eames's\N"Powers of Ten"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.25,0:00:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the classic idea of a film
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.29,0:00:48.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could measure time and space.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.24,0:00:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was something I always looked forward to seeing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.42,0:01:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I wanted to make a work that was about
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.23,0:01:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the measurement of time and space through\Nthe moving image.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.88,0:01:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything in it is actually very much about
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.11,0:01:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some kind of measuring stick
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.41,0:01:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for how we orient ourselves in time and space.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.48,0:01:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been working on it as a film,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.30,0:01:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I hadn't pulled up the volume on what\Nwas it doing as a sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.56,0:01:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that, as a sculpture,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.89,0:01:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it needed to act more like this kind of fleeting image--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.84,0:01:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it had to become more diaphanous,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.18,0:01:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it had to become more fractured,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.92,0:01:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it had to become much more light
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.06,0:01:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sort of defy gravity.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.75,0:01:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the screens went away and they just became\Npieces of paper.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.32,0:01:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the top of the desk, I made a mirror.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.12,0:01:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is actually, in some ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.28,0:01:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a replica of an editing desk.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.04,0:02:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking about the idea of scientist\Nimage makers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.84,0:02:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the cheetah, I wanted to reference Muybridge.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.70,0:02:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I was thinking about Edgerton,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.40,0:02:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who created the strobe.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.56,0:02:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We take for granted,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.65,0:02:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're really like scientific experiments\Nwith images.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.06,0:02:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you spend enough time with the piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.75,0:02:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you realize this isn't just a video.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.43,0:02:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually live information coming to you\Nfrom the NASA site.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.57,0:02:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see the distance to the Voyager
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.01,0:02:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's the farthest measurable distance
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.03,0:02:36.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have ever been able to measure.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.68,0:02:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every object that's on the desk
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.00,0:02:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the objects that's being exploded.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.44,0:02:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it has this quality of an experimental site.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, this idea of a model that's a scientific\Nmodel--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.70,0:02:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that tries to actually measure a\Nkind of behavior,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.12,0:03:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, is something that I try and do in\Nthe sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.01,0:03:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To have these extreme scale shifts in the\Nexperience
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.78,0:03:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a very close proximity,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.76,0:03:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is actually the way we perceive things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.26,0:03:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm trying to do that constantly throughout.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.18,0:03:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's such a volatile experience in every way
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.71,0:03:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that things are teeter-tottering--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.04,0:03:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you're constantly trying to find your balance.