COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Bergson and the Figure of Habit
Creator:
Zielke, Justin M.
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Animation
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Animation
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"This thesis focuses on Henri Bergson’s theory of duration and how it relates to an artist. By adopting the attitude of Bergson’s theory of duration, an artist can better understand an art object’s relationship with a viewer. The aim of this thesis is to study Bergson’s multiplicities and how they affect the habitual nature of an artistic process. When an artist breaks away from past habits, a qualitative decision is made from potential choices in medium and provides a quantitative actuality between the difference. Furthermore, this paper discusses an exhibition called CHET, a film installation that combines digital animation with pre-cinema techniques to exhibit an individual’s habit. CHET conveys Bergson’s aforementioned concepts focusing on an individual’s abstract time and a viewer’s duration in a space."
Abstract:
Keywords: Bergson, duration, habit, hesitation, installation art, film installation, animation, digital to 16mm, artistic process
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2017-08
Format:
PDF : 39 pages, illustrations