Contemporary reinventions of early devices that flicker and rotate : a particular type of animated installation in the quest for an expanded animation experience

• Main Author: Veras, Christine
• Other Authors: Sorensen Dorrit Vibeke
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Animation; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Media; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Art museums and galleries
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73238
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis focuses on a particular type of animated installation, specifically one that employs reinventions of proto-cinematic devices that flicker and rotate—the thaumatrope, the phenakistoscope, the zoetrope, the praxinoscope, and the flipbook in its mutoscope form—and thereby provide a contempo...