An investigation of the relationships between chronophotography, contemporary art practice and philosophy

研究存在于一些相关的背景下。第一个语境是对持续性、时间性、连续性和瞬间的理解。自亚里士多德和芝诺以来，这一系列的时间问题一直是科学、文化和哲学研究的核心。世纪初，爱因斯坦和柏格森将注意力重新集中在时间及其衍生物上。由于量子力学提出的问题，人们对理解时间的兴趣又一次增加了。第二个背景是维度问题。这是一个在柏拉图的洞穴寓言，在雅培的“平地”，在玻姆的“整体性和隐含秩序”和超弦理论中例证的想法。有一个想法是包括在所有这些不同的和广泛的理论，这是相关的拟议的研究。看起来是许多独立和相关的事件（当在n维中观察时），当在更高的维度中观察时，实际上可能是一个事件。计时摄影术在世纪末由马雷、德梅尼和后来的吉尔布雷斯发展起来，并被用作研究运动和机械效率的工具。在20世纪初的世纪的计时摄影的潜力作为一种研究工具被忽视的方面计时摄影发展到电影。现在，在许多人所说的后电影时代，艺术家和研究人员开始回归计时摄影，继续一些未完成的故事。目的和目标我打算用计时摄影作为一种新的研究方法来回答两个问题：计时摄影是否可以作为一种研究方法来研究和理解持续性、连续性和瞬间之间的关系？计时摄影术可以作为一种研究方法，用于调查和理解一个场景的许多二维视图与我们在三维视图中对同一场景的理解之间的关系吗？这项研究至少有三个潜在的好处。除了证明计时摄影是一种有用的，相关的和有效的当代研究方法外，这项研究还将产生优秀的，美丽的和发人深省的艺术作品，并可以增加我们对时间和维度的知识和理解。

ContextsThe research exists within a number of related contexts. The first context is the understanding of duration, simultaneity, continuity and the instant. This cluster of temporal issues has been at the heart of scientific, cultural and philosophical enquiry since Aristotle and Zeno. At the beginning of the twentieth century Einstein and Bergson refocused attention on time and its derivatives. This interest in understanding time has increased once again in response to the questions posed by Quantum mechanics.The second context is the issue of dimensionality. This is an idea that is exemplified in Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in Abbott's 'Flatland', in Bohm's 'Wholeness and the Implicate Order' and in Superstring theory. There is one idea that is included in all these diverse and far/ranging theories, that is relevant to the proposed research. What appears to be a number of independent and related events (when viewed in n dimensions) might actually be one event when viewed at a higher number of dimensions.Chronophotography was developed, at the end of the nineteenth century by Marey, Demeny and later Gilbreth and used as a tool for investigating movement and mechanical efficiency. At the beginning of the twentieth century chronophotography's potential as a research tool was ignored as aspects of chronophotography were developed into cinema. Now, in what many call the post/cinematic era, artists and researchers are beginning to return to chronophotography to continue some of its unfinished stories.Aims and objectivesI aim to use chronophotography, in a new way, as a research method for answering two questions.Can chronophotography be used as a research method for investigating and understanding the relations between duration, simultaneity, continuity and the instant?Can chronophotography be used as a research method for investigating and understanding the relationship between a number of two/dimensional views of a scene and our understanding of the same scene when viewed in three dimensions?BenefitsThere are at least three potential benefits of this research. In addition to demonstrating that chronophotography is a useful, relevant and valid contemporary research method, the research will produce excellent, beautiful and thought/provoking art work and could increase our knowledge and understanding of time and of dimensionality.