SEQUENCES

This volume explores the proliferation of contemporary art that uses sequences of images to explore ideas of space, time, movement and duration. Etienne-Jules Marey, Eadweard Muybridge and other 'chronophotographers' first explored these ideas at the turn of the nineteenth century; since then chronophotography has been in the shadow of cinema, but now its emerging once again in post-cinema practices, digital art and new experimental photography. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, artists have found that sequences offer new opportunities for exploring continuing issues regarding aesthetics that operate at the intersection of time and space. The book contains a number of illustrated essays by international critics and theorists and discusses the work of a wide range of artists engaged in contemporary chronophotography. The introduction also uses insights from chronophotography to dispel the myth of persistence of vision.

March 2009
256 pages

978-1-905674-76-3 (pbk)

£20.00

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Paul St George is a London-based artist and curator and is Principal Lecturer in Computer Animation at London Metropolitan University. He was also the artist behind Telectroscope, a recent public art project (22 May - 15 June 2008) connecting Brooklyn Bridge, New York and Tower Bridge, London via a special transatlantic tunnel and optical device.

"Sequences offers a number of illustrated essays from critically acclaimed theorists and practitioners in chronophotography. As a collection, it invites readers to explore some of the forgotten gems of photography, and the theoretical debates around time and space, as well as "capturing" and "preserving" moments in time. Photography, as an artistic medium has been charged with the cumbersome affair of recording and representing reality, chronophotography takes that one step further through a series of actions by the artist.
This collection is a fantastic introduction to contemporary movements in digital art, as artists demands more from mechanics."
– Shirly Stevenson, Aesthetica Magazine