"The central theme of the conference on the paradoxical relationship between time and matter has already inspired countless creative minds in philosophy and literature, art, and film in their work," explain the conference organizers, Cordula Lemke, a professor of English language and literature, and Stefan Keppler-Tasaki of the University of Tokyo and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School. Thus, different textures were developed by time in which concepts such as "experienced time," "visualized time," or "borrowed time" were associated with an experience of nonlinear and formable time. The result is an artistically controlled experience of timelessness and time forgetfulness. Examples can be found over the centuries: from the linking of space and time in Ovid's exile, through the French historical poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries up to modern science fiction.