Rethinking Bergson's and Deleuze's Theories of Movement

The Material Ontology of Analog and Digital Moving Images, and the Disciplines of Creation in Digital Artworks

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Yifei Sun Independent Scholar, Freelance, New York

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Abstract

Following Henri Bergson's third thesis of movement in Creative Evolution, Gilles Deleuze devotes a large section of Cinema I to applying the concept of the mobile section and the open whole to the narrative of analog cinema. By adopting a material ontological perspective and taking the disciplines of art-making into consideration, this article criticizes Deleuze's approach and proposes to rethink Bergson's and Deleuze's theories of movement in both analog cinema and digital moving images. In response to its main question, can analog and digital moving images constitute the open whole, this article examines the material degradation of film in the analog, investigates the phenomenon of morphing in the digital, and pays special attention to the real-time creation as well as the voyeuristic authorship of digital artworks.

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Yifei Sun is a Chinese independent scholar currently located in New York. His research interests include new media theory, new media authorship, film philosophy, and experimental artworks.

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