Visitors to the Wexner Center for the Arts no longer need to look at their watch. Instead, if they want to know the time, they can simply look up at the faces mounted on the wall. These faces belong to 10 students in the class of 2001 who were selected to be part of “Clock,” a video installation by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.Manglano-Ovalle was commissioned by the Wexner to create a video or film work that would document student experiences of the class of 2001 as they progressed from entering freshmen to graduating seniors. Although the installation has been on display since the beginning of 2000, it continues to evolve and change.”My work, ‘Clock,’ obviously does not conform to conventional video or film work that sets out to portray experience through narrative or documentary strategies,” Manglano-Ovalle said. “I instead chose to create a work that deals specifically with the passage of time without imposing a narrative structure to convey experience over time.” The clock contains 16 monitors, each one representing a different element of time: year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and fractions of a second. Manglano-Ovalle used 10 faces to represent the numeric digits zero through nine. Each face is assigned to only one numeric digit. Gene Ho, the student representing the No. 8, feels “Clock” is a celebration of diversity here at Ohio State, and in a sense, the world.  “As the millennium marks the passage of 1,000, we can also celebrate the time that we as humanity have spent on the same planet and survived,” Ho said. “That and the fact that we’re not marking time with numeric symbols invented by certain cultures, but rather by the faces which belong to no one nation.” When October began, two new faces appeared, one in each of the two monitors representing month. Since October is the 10th month, the ten’s place is represented by the facial “digit” zero and the one’s place represented by the facial digit one.  Robyn Murphy, No. 9, thinks “Clock” showcases the cultures we have here at OSU. “I think it’s just really interesting to look at,” Murphy said. “The faces tell the time in the countdown to the new millennium. You may even recognize some people you know.” The 16 monitors are arranged horizontally and hung on the wall about six feet from the floor. A 17th monitor is displayed further down, showing the 43 original candidates and how make-up was applied. “In ‘Clock’ I am solely interested in the viewer as he/she experiences or decodes the clock, as they look at the clock and attempt to decipher its meaning, the clock looks back ‘clocking’ their own movement and position in time and space,” Manglano-Ovalle said.”‘Clock’ has no beginning or end, and it is never the same, like time, it is constant, when it moves to another site next year it will not start again or pick up where it left off, it will merely continue to evolve as if it never were interrupted,” he added. “Like time or like its viewer(s), it cannot repeat itself or go back and experience the past.”Along with being assigned a number, each face was matched with its own background color. So as the viewer scans the clock, he or she will not only see a diverse group of faces but also an array of colors.  Although each person is against only one color, originally the students were filmed against 11 or 12 different colors, staring into the camera uninterruptedly for 30 or 40 seconds against each color, said Maria Troy, project coordinator.  Ben Hengst, No. 7 in “Clock,” said this exhibit is important because it’s about people.”I hope that the viewer takes something from it, for me it’s a piece about people through time and the way some things change and that some stay the same.”  “Clock” tells time through a Global Positioning Satellite, Troy explained. Below the exhibit there are 10 DVD players, each having only one person’s face programmed on it. The signals play continuously and are sent to a router which has a computer program that knows what signal to send to which monitors at a specific time. It checks the time through its connection with the GPS receiver.  Along with the visual element of “Clock,” a soundtrack is also included. It is a recording of radio signals gathered by a telescope, Troy said. It includes radio waves from space, static, white noise and other emissions that the telescope is collecting. “Clock” will be on display through Jan. 10 in the lower lobby of the Wexner Center. For more information, call 292-3535.