In winter, 2021, I and my co-faculty, Laurie Meeker, assigned our students to produce Animated Intergenerational Interviews about individuals’ relationships with their environment. The interviews were to be 30 to 60 seconds long, include at least 30 seconds of animation…
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Two Moments: Experimental Animation and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy
by Ruth Hayes • May 4, 2020 • 1 Comment
In fall and winter of 2019-20, I collaborated with Alice Nelson, a Spanish language and Latin American Studies scholar, teaching the fulltime program “Arts of Urgency: Latin American Film and Literature” at The Evergreen State College. The ability to collaborate…
Protean Media: One Animator’s Perspective
by Ruth Hayes • November 4, 2013 • 3 Comments
In “The Transforming Image: the Roots of Animation in Metamorphosis and Motion”, Tom Gunning analyzes two optical devices, the “blow book” and the flipbook, to investigate the “eternally protean nature of the moving image” and the relationship between animation and…