Dead Time

Claire Elizabeth Perkins, Catherine Fowler, Andrea Rassell

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Abstract

With Dead Time, we are attempting to make a double intervention. On the one hand, we want to respond to debates about whether media scholars can discover anything new by using eye tracking methods; on the other, we want to contribute to discussions as to the balance between the expository and the poetic in audiovisual essays. Through our research for this project we came to the realization that what eye tracking methods and audiovisual essays share is, first, an interest in how viewers are ‘grasped by’ (as in seized by) moving images, and second, a commitment to the provision of resources for scholars to grasp (as in comprehend or understand) that keeps the power of the visual (viewing) moment intact. More specifically, both eye tracking methods and audio-visual essays offer responses to the problems posed by the movement of moving images for those who study them.
Original languageEnglish
Journal[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies
Volume4
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 13 Oct 2017
  • Passing time: eye tracking slow cinema

    Dwyer, T. & Perkins, C., 2018, Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking the Moving Image. Dwyer, T., Perkins, C., Redmond, S. & Sita, J. (eds.). 1st ed. New York NY USA: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 103-125 23 p.

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