Betancourt, Michael

Motion Perception in Movies and Painting: Towards a New Kinetic Art Bibliography

Michael Betancourt examines Julian Hochberg and Virginia Brooks' argument in Movies in the Mind's Eye that cinematic motion is a cognitive gestalt process rather than an ocular-physiological effect, and he applies that model to painterly motion. He analyzes examples including Eadweard Muybridge's photographic studies, Rubens' portrait of Helene Fourment and Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucien Freud (1969), cites John Berger and Rudolf Arnheim, and discusses film, videotape, photography and flickering shutters as relevant technologies. The essay proposes a perceptually based kinetic art and includes bibliographic notes; the author is identified as an art critic and artist in Miami, Florida.

Structuring Time: Notes On Making Movies Bibliography

Visual Music Instrument Patents: Volume One Bibliography

A collection of primary source documents for visual music instruments, often called "color organs," gleaned from the United States Patent Office. Information about these devices is often only available through the inventor's patent applications, but these applications are not currently available exc…