Embodied temporalities in cinematic interactive experiences

Abstract

This article presents and discusses a selection of interactive works that use different representations of time-images in which past and present merge into a single space of representation. These cinematic experiences generate singular relationships of temporal perception and consciousness in relation to cinema, connected to the participant’s physical interaction with the digital image. Through a phenomenological and cognitive approach to the role of the body in the construction of perception, the article explores the temporalities involved in processing digital images generated in real time. This way of approaching the study of time leads us to new readings of our relationship with contemporary images. These digital representations are no longer tied to traditional sequential structures in which the elements of past, present and future cannot coexist and instead provide more complex structures for the representation and experience of time.