This paper examines how time-based media art reconfigures the perception of time through sensory, embodied, and technological practices, drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the time-image and “pure optical and sound situations.” Moving beyond linear narratives and movement-driven representation, the study explores how contemporary artists treat time as an experiential dimension. Through qualitative visual and sensory analysis of selected case studies—the research investigates how moving images and sound produce immersive temporal experiences. The findings reveal that time-based media art transforms time from an abstract measure into a lived, perceptual condition, blurring boundaries between stillness and movement, and memory and immediacy.

Zeng Zhen. The Time View of Contemporary Time-Based Art under Deleuze's “Time-Image” Theory. Frontiers in Art Research (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 1: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2026.080101.

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