❉ Preliminary Research ❉

Some of the notes i've been taking from the tutor's comments about Final Major Project are the following:
Contemporary (show contemporary awareness)
Have passion for the idea (something that will enjoy )
The result needs to reflect your skills (photography? experimentation? performing? moving image?)
Indicates what you want to do next (_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _)

As a starting point i have the theme of my dissertation which was the notion of time, exploring it through the use of the pause button. Starting with a brief historical development of: hight speed photography (the work of Eadweard Muybridge & Harold Edgerton interests me a lot), the Cinema, TV, the VCR and last the invention of the remote control. Leading on to the authors Paul Virilio and Henry Bergson talking about the notion of time as an accident-interruption of the TV and for Bergson as something which renders / supports the idea of time as something which is not a material continuity but something which is fluid and percieved by the self as fluid/unregimented in terms of a phenomenology of experience... And leading on to the conclusion of new technologies that offer us the opportunity to pause real time TV.

❥ Found an interesting flashmob performance
Public Freezing in the NY Grand Central Terminal


Pause at Conflux 2006

http://www.confluxfestival.org/projects.php?projectid=165


❥A project that could be related to theme of time

http://www.bestbeforeproject.net/pages/bestbefore_main.html