visible and/or invisible fragments of motion & montage

The text and examples are based on the presentation on February 20, 2014.

1. Visible and/or Invisible Fragments of Motion 

a. Motion - re-constructed by fragments (making fragments visible)

Scientific approach for re-constructing the motion itself

"Cinematography" (literally means “writing movement”)

Eadweard Muybridge Boys playing Leapfrog (1883–86, printed 1887) Collotype

b. Motion - defining as a whole (juxtaposed of visible/invisible fragments)

We cannot see each fragments like the scientific approach; in fact, we do not need to distinguish each of them for defining/understanding the whole pattern of motion, we can sense its inner quality as a whole.

Wadman, 2011, "Motion"

Wadman, 2011, "Motion"

The fragments of motion with different stress which emphasises a particular time sequence of the whole movement

City Lights of Prince George, British Columbia. (Camera in movement and static light sources)

Writing and the Surface of the City, Energie in Motion (Static environment and light in movement)

c. motion-as invisible dimension (movement-image, time-image)

2. Montage 

1. each fragment

2. juxtaposition of each fragment (different speed, different density, different stress)

3. dialect relationship of them (link and/or permalink, Etienne Jules Marey)

4. a+b=ab

a. 2D Montage

Étienne-Jules Marey, chronophotography 

b. 3D Montage - Motion Sculptures (frozen)

Peter Jansen, motion sculptures

c. nD Montage - Motion Sculptur-ing

Made by Humans, 2012, chronophotography based installation based on a dancers path in space