Past
The Brown Sisters
Nicholas Nixon / 1975 - 2022
20 Sites n Years
Tom Phillips / 1973 - 2022
Daily Self-Portraits
Pete Hocking / 2001 - 2022
Our Loss
Joel Sternfeld / 2018-2019
Leaving and Waving
Deanna Dikeman / 1991 - 2017
Every Day
Karl Baden / 1987 - 2017
TTP
Hayahisa Tomiyasu / 2012 - 2016
Date Paintings (Today Series)
On Kawara / 1966 - 2014
Song of The Day
Edie Brickell / 2012-2014
OPALKA 1 to infinity
Roman Opalka / 1965 - 2011
Ten Years and One Day
Marc Tasman / 1999 - 2009
La Photo-Sculpture
Odile Marchoul / 1999 - 2006
365 Days/365 Plays
Suzan-Lori Parks / Nov 2002 - Nov 2003
Golden Gate
Richard Misrach / 1997 - 2002
Tehching Hsieh 1986 - 1999
Tehching Hsieh / 1986 -1999
Portrait Louise Anna Kubelka
Friedl Kubelka / 1978 - 1998
Some Photos of That Day
Jamie Livingston / 1979-1997
Drawing Blood / Moons
Annette Lawrence / 1980 - 1994
One Year Performance (1985 - 1986)
Tehching Hsieh / 1985 - 1986
Art / Liife One Year Performance (1983 - 1984)
Tehching Hsieh / 1983 - 1984
One Year Performance (1981 - 1982)
Tehching Hsieh / 1981 - 1982
One Year Performance (1980 - 1981)
Tehching Hsieh / 1980 - 1981
One Year Performance (1978 - 1979)
Tehching Hsieh / 1978 - 1979
Daily Self-Portraits
Melissa Shook / 1972 - 1973
CARVING: A Traditional Sculpture
Eleanor Antin / 1972 (45 days)
Present
The Arrow of Time
Diego Goldberg / 1976 - now
Invincible Cities / Tracking Time
Camilo Jose Vergara / 1977 - now
Le Poeme du jour / Poemes de metro
Jacques Jouet / 1992 - now
Dream House
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela / 1962 - now
The Adaption to My Generation
JK Keller / 1998 - now
Noah K. Everyday
Noah Kalina / 2000 - now
Me
Ahree Lee / 2001 - now
09h09
Jean-Michel Gobet / 2002 - now
The Twins Index (Sven)
Sven Staude / 2003-now
The Twins Indexn (Tobias)
Tobias Staude / 2003-now
Cats Will Eat You
Matt Semke / 2006 - now
everydays (beeple)
beeple (Mike Winkelmann) / 2007 - now
Song A Day
Jonathan Mann / 2009 - now
Blog Begins At Forty
Uncle Gedek / 2009-now
Poem a Day
Samantha Reynolds (Bent Lily) / 2011 - now
Une minute de danse par jour
Nadia Vadori-Gauthier / 2015 - now
dailies
Joseph Ryba / 2016-now
everydays (bananakin)
Bananakin / 2020 - now
everydays (push)
Push / 2020 - now
everydays (hueviews)
hueviews / 2020 - now
daily doodles
thefaketomato / 2021-now
everydays (m0dest)
m0dest / 2022 - now
A Song A Day
Oliver Richman / 2024-now
About MOTBA
A living index of time-based art
Hi, I’m Jonathan Mann. I’m on day 6,482 of writing a Song A Day.
My idea for this site is to build an exhaustive, authoritative compendium of every art project that uses time as part of the work.
For the photography section, I leaned heavily on the groundwork already done by JK Keller.
If you know of a project we’re missing, please submit it or email me.