Opening of the world's largest digital cuckoo clock as an Advent calendar in front of the German Clock Museum, with Museum Director Nicole Deisenberger, Oliver “Olsen” Wolf and Derya Türk-Nachbaur (MP). Photo: Irene Pérez Hernández
Huge, digital cuckoo clock in front of the German Clock Museum
Since last week, the world's largest digital cuckoo clock has been displayed on the façade of Furtwangen University's main building, directly in front of the entrance to the German Clock Museum.
The installation by media artist Olsen was opened a few days before the first Advent. The clock face on the seven-metre-high cuckoo clock is replaced by a QR code that displays the time via an app. Anyone who turns the virtual hands can call up cuckoo clock videos that people around the world have posted on the internet every half and full hour.
The global collection connects the Black Forest cult object with the international community and shows how traditions can be reinterpreted in the digital world.
On 1 December, the pixel clock was transformed into a giant Advent calendar with Christmas clocks that were specially put together for the pre-Christmas period. Every day, new virtual doors are waiting to be discovered through the smartphone.
The installation and app can also be viewed on the web: World's largest cuckoo clock (digital) by Olsen.