AM:PM:AD

A clock usually tells you what time it is. We made one that tells you when you are.

AM:PM:AD turns 24 hours into 2,400 years of London history. At 19:18, women get the vote. At 16:49, Charles I is tried for treason. At 00:41, the Romans establish Londinium. And because history eventually runs out, the clock keeps going — into an imagined London where inter-robot marriage is legalised in 2233.

Installed inside the Barbican, the clock transforms each minute into a different moment in the city’s past, present or future. But it doesn’t just display history — it plays it. Every time triggers a corresponding piece of audio, turning the passing day into a constantly changing sonic journey through London.

The physical installation borrowed directly from the Barbican’s own visual language, while a companion digital experience let people explore the complete timeline across desktop, tablet and mobile.

Time passes. History plays.