Microhenge by Simon Poulter

23rd May - 4th July 1999

Visitors come to Microhenge from all points in time and space. Microhenge is a themed version of all time. It is an infinite array of gateways and interfaces, yet it has its own aesthetic. Everything about it looks polished. It is a means of experiencing the whole of time in an afternoon or in successive visits - like time it builds, rises and falls away. Microhenge is a theme park for the dead and those yet to live - it is a digital monument, not a simulation but the real thing. Microhenge is a compression of space and time, relentlessly consuming the flow of time and processing everything 'on the fly'. Microhenge is quick time or time slowed down. It offers the whole of history as a peep show.

Microhenge is also about the ownership of time, the distress that the market has created; an aberration causing the only copy of history to become corrupt. Microhenge is the time that the place forgot, urgently seeking to be found. Microhenge is information that has no smell, it is the transmutation of the sensorium - all senses merged down into that which can be binary. Microhenge is a record of the future to be kept and measured. Microhenge is a long poem with technology.