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.
Foreword by Janeann Dill
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction by Miriam Harris, Lilly Husbands and Paul Taberham
Definitions, Histories and Legacies
Paul Taberham - It is Alive if You Are: Defining Experimental Animation
Aimee Mollaghan - A Consideration of the Absolute in Visual Music Animation
Michael Betancourt - Experimental Animation and Motion Graphics
A1 Georges Schwizgebel
A2 Rose Bond
A3 William Kentridge
A4 Robert Sowa
From Analogue to Digital
Dan and Lienors Torre - Materiality, Experimental Process and Animated Identity
Tess Takahashi - "Meticulously, Recklessly, Worked Upon": Direct Animation, the Auratic and the Index
Miriam Harris - The Expressive Power of Experimental Digital Animation
Birgitta Hosea - Beyond a Digital Écriture Féminine: Cyberfeminism and Experimental Computer Animation
B1 Jodie Mack
B2 Maya Yonesho
B3 Larry Cuba
B4 Max Hattler
Close Analysis of Individual Artists
Lilly Husbands - A Hermeneutic of Polyvalence: Deciphering Narrative in Lewis Klahr's The Pettifogger (2011)
Steve Reinke - How to be Human: The Animations of Jim Trainor
C1 Martha Colburn
C2 Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva
C3 Diego Akel
Science and the Cosmos
Janine Randerson - Animating the Cosmological Horizon: Between Art and Science
Aylish Wood - Where do Shapes Come From?
Sean Cubitt - NASA's Voyager Fly-by Animations
D1 Tianran Duan
D2 David Theobald
D3 Gregory Bennett
