Different Times is an interactive installation created with Tal Baltuch for Design Museum Holon. The work builds an audiovisual clock from transparent water containers, timed air bubbles, responsive sensing, and sound, translating measured time into a physical and collective experience.
Instead of presenting time as a number, the installation makes it audible, visible, and unstable. Bubbles rise through water, sound patterns shift, and visitor presence alters the behavior of the system, turning a regular mechanism into a live instrument.
The project sits within the studio's broader interest in making invisible systems tangible. Here the material palette is simple and mechanical, but the behavior is computational: air, water, rhythm, and human movement become a shared interface for sensing time.
Artwork
Different Times is an interactive installation in which transparent water containers become both image and instrument. Timed bubbles move through the water as a measured rhythm, creating a quiet audiovisual field that behaves like a clock.
When viewers approach, the work shifts. Their proximity alters the bubble frequencies and transforms the soundscape in real time, turning the installation into a shared musical system where attention, distance, and movement subtly reshape the piece.
System
The work is built as a physical responsive environment rather than a screen-based image.
Transparent water vessels act as the spatial canvas of the work
Sensors detect proximity and change the release timing of air bubbles
Auditory rhythm emerges directly from the physical behavior of water and air
Short DescriptionDifferent Times - an interactive Design Museum Holon installation by Tal Baltuch and Ronen Tanchum, using air, water, sound, and sensing to turn time into a responsive audiovisual clock.
Long DescriptionDifferent Times is an interactive installation created with Tal Baltuch for Design Museum Holon. The work builds an audiovisual clock from transparent water containers, timed air bubbles, responsive sensing, and sound, translating measured time into a physical and collective experience.
Instead of presenting time as a number, the installation makes it audible, visible, and unstable. Bubbles rise through water, sound patterns shift, and visitor presence alters the behavior of the system, turning a regular mechanism into a live instrument.
The project sits within the studio's broader interest in making invisible systems tangible. Here the material palette is simple and mechanical, but the behavior is computational: air, water, rhythm, and human movement become a shared interface for sensing time.
CommissionDesign Museum Holon
ArtistsTal Baltuch, Ronen Tanchum
SoundAssa Raviv
PresentationDesign Museum Holon, in collaboration with Schweppes