Annual Report

Andrew McLaren, artist

born 1960

Annual Report, 2006

Where object was made: Canada

Material/technique: inkjet print; matches; two pence coin; laminating

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 286 x 234 x 20 mm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 11 1/4 x 9 3/16 x 0 13/16 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Elmer F. Pierson Fund

Accession number: 2012.0007

Not on display

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Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing

McLaren has worked for many years on an “object-based calendar system” utilizing hand-made dice (six-sided for the standard year, eight-sided for leap years). Finding physical installations of his “time machines” to be difficult to maintain, McLaren chose the book format to explore his ideas about time calculation.

Exhibition Label:
"Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing," Mar-2012, Stephen Goddard
McLaren has worked for many years on an "object-based calendar system" utilizing hand-made dice (six-sided for the standard year, eight-sided for leap years). Although he found the physical installations of his "time machines" to be difficult to maintain, they remain an interesting analog to other computing machines.