Abstract
My journey from Hollywood Film production to a Fine Arts practice has been shaped by theory from Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Film, and Art, leading me to a new visual vocabulary at the intersection of motion picture, the still image, and three-dimensional form. I create large mixed media collages by projecting video onto photographs and sculptural forms, breaking the boundaries of the conventional film frame and exceeding the dynamic range of typical visual experience. My work explores emotional connections and fissures within family, and hidden meanings of haunting memories and familiar places. I am searching for an elusive type of perceptual experience characterized by an instantaneous shift in perspective—an "aha" moment of epiphany when suddenly I have the overpowering feeling that I am both seeing and aware that I am seeing.
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Graduation Date
2018
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Poindexter, Carla
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
Visual Arts and Design
Degree Program
Emerging Media; Studio Art and the Computer
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0007003
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0007003
Language
English
Release Date
May 2018
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Gerstein, Mark, "Momentum, Moment, Epiphany: The Psychological Intersection of Motion Picture, the Still Frame, and Three-Dimensional Form" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5863.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/5863