When I first began researching animated documentaries, over 10 years ago, I remember being asked at an art-related conference “but where do you find your case studies”? Indeed, at the time a challenging part of the research process was to…
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Research of the Illusion of Life
by Nea Ehrlich • August 13, 2018 • 2 Comments
I recently began a project that combines new media art with robotic design. It is a fascinating new direction for me and I was quite surprised to see the recurring mention of animation within the field I was venturing into.…
Invisible Animation: Animated Non-fiction and Invisibility in an Era of Post-Truth
by Nea Ehrlich • February 19, 2018 • 1 Comment
Interestingly, today’s hyper-visual and screen-based “era of information” is also defined as a time of “post-truth” (Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 “word of the year”). The tension between knowing and not knowing, between being informed and being misinformed is therefore timelier than…