Experimental animation : from analogue to digital / edited by Miriam Harris, Lilly Husbands and Paul Taberham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Miriam, 1966- editor.

Husbands, Lilly, editor.

Taberham, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--Technique.

Experimental films.

Animation (Cinematography).

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital, focuses on both experimental animation's deep roots in the twentieth century, and its current position in the twenty-first century media landscape. Each chapter incorporates a variety of theoretical lenses, including historical, materialist, phenomenological and scientific perspectives. Acknowledging that process is a fundamental operation underlining experimental practice, the book includes not only chapters by international academics, but also interviews with well-known experimental animation practitioners such as William Kentridge, Jodie Mack, Larry Cuba, Martha Colburn and Max Hattler. These interviews document both their creative process and thoughts about experimental animation's ontology to give readers insight into contemporary practice. Global in its scope, the book features and discusses lesser known practitioners and unique case studies, offering both undergraduate and graduate students a collection of valuable contributions to film and animation studies." Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction – Part I definitions, histories and legacies

Chapter 1 It is alive if you are: defining experimental animation Chapter 2 A consideration of the absolute in visual music animation

Chapter 3 Experimental animation and motion graphics – Part II Interviews A: A1 Georges Schwizgebel; A2 Rose Bond; A3 William Kentridge; 4 Robert Sowa – Part III From analogue to digital

Chapter 4 Materiality, experimental process and animated identity

Chapter 5 'Meticulously, Recklessly, Worked Upon': Direct animation, the auratic and the index

Chapter 6 Digital experimentation: Extending animation's expressive vocabulary

Chapter 7 Beyond a digital Écriture Féminine: Cyberfeminism and experimental computer animation

Part IV Interviews B: B1 Jodie Mack; B2 Maya Yonesho; B3 Larry Cuba; B4 Max Hattler

Part V Close analysis of individual artists

Chapter 8 A hermeneutic of polyvalence: Deciphering narrative in Lewis Klahr's The Pettifogger (2011)

Chapter 9 How to be human: The animations of Jim Trainor – Part VI Interviews C: C1 Martha Colburn; C2 Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva; C3 Diego Akel – Part VII Science and the cosmos

Chapter 10 Animating the cosmological horizon: Between art and science

Chapter 11 Where do shapes come from?

Chapter 12 NASA's voyager fly-by animations

Part VIII Interviews D: D1 Tianran Duan; D2 David Theobald; - D3 Gregory Bennett

- Reference

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-20343-X

1-351-78801-9

1-351-78800-0

9781315203430 (electronic book)

9781315203430

OCLC:

1049577414