The Urban Time Machine is an experiment in community collaboration. The project, started in January 2010, is an auditory mapping of conversations within the community and this blog is one resulting reverberation.

Artists/Architects/Projects is a record of these conversations and a resource for those interested in ideas of: collaboration, community programming, sonic arts, and sound in the public realm.

Community Resource is an attempt to visualize and share the local network that we used to research, purchase, and construct the physical time machine. Both lists are merely the beginning of these investigations and any additions are highly encouraged.

Noble Absurdity aims to uncover and connect artist and architects currently working in the Providence public realm. This site will humbly become whatever it is asked to be. The initial aspiration is to enable the posting of public work; to create a place for sharing all of the beautiful/grotesque interventions happening around us everyday.


For more information about The Urban Time Machine project itself, click on Noble Absurdity above, or you may contact Ben Phillips and Josh Lantzy directly at bphillip@g.risd.edu, jlantzy@g.risd.edu