The Nature of Space and Time in the Multimedia Artworks of Katie Paterson

The present paper aims at identifying space and time in the multimedia artworks of Katie Paterson with a descriptive-analytical method and library compilation method. Katy Patterson, as one of the multimedia artists with the use of several different artistic media, often space It uses the technology of micro and macro concepts, spacing, time interval, time cycle, timing, and time relationships. He creates an atmosphere that removes the audience from her passive mode and tries to present a new way of engaging most sensory perceptions, space, and time, and creates a different way of dealing with the problem of time. In the heart of Patterson's work, it examines the relationship between man and the world in terms of time and space. Ultimately, space in Paterson's works goes beyond the framework of mathematics to communicate profoundly, and to imagine unknowns. Patterson's work is often a reference to the great cause, before the incomprehensible greatness of the universe, which at the same time acknowledges the wondrous technological forces that some aspects are almost counterproductive. Although in panoramic areas, Paterson's works can be less visual and familiar; this is the way he uses space and time to communicate with human and cosmic scales. The combination of romantic sensitivity with a research-based approach, the conceptual contradiction and minimalist post-art of her works, eliminates the gap between the viewer and the furthest periods of time and the universe. She relates relatively familiar aesthetics and the languages available for modern and old technology, such as radio waves, candles, pianos and disco balls to translate seemingly incomprehensible things into concepts. In this regard, the conceptual framework and methodology used was inspired by the Götterfried Boehm and TJ Lessing approaches. The results showed Paterson offers a new understanding of the time for the reader to have consistent readings. The audience has an active role in understanding the space and time of Paterson's multimedia works, and determines the length of time the works are received. it has been argued that according to Boehm, it is possible to differentiate the dimensions of the time in the multimedia arrangement: the time of presentation and the time of receipt. Although Paterson's time of play is in the present, it has a deep link with the past. The audience can break down the linear readings of time, walk through the works, and determine how long it will take to understand the works. He can also have a multidisciplinary reader; he or she reads simultaneously or sequential reading and sensory perception; in the sense of being continually receiving from the point of the works, or through crossover methods such as pausing, moving, Standing, glimpse or precise gaze will have a sensory perception. Paterson takes advantage of the sensory perception of the audience in understanding the space and time of works, and does not neglect them. Another result of the research is the reflection of Einstein's ideas, including the relative concepts of time and black holes that Patterson refers to in her works. Paterson displays the relative importance of space and time through her artworks.