• Client:

  University of British Columbia

• Size:

  95 m²

• Completion Date:

  Month 2003

• Budget:

  $150,000

• Awards:

  2006 Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, Special Jury Award

Unveiled on June 25, 2003, A Landau Carriage Converted to a Mobile Camera Obscura by Artist Rodney Graham and is the first work of public art to be commissioned for the campus of University of British Columbia since 1976. The Millennial Time Machine is a 19th century, horse drawn landau whose cab has been converted into a camera obscura. The camera obscura focuses an image that is upside down and reversed of a young sequoia tree. The tree, location and image raise issues about the university as a place where knowledge, technologies, and histories are constructed.