Following the success of the first ‘Animation and Public Engagement Symposium’ (APES), which ran in association with the Bradford Animation Festival in 2014, APES 2015 touched down at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle for this year’s installment. Coordinated by Society…
Research in Progress
The Future is Bright…
by Aylish Wood • October 28, 2014 • 4 Comments
I’ve been researching software and animation. As part of that project, I recently thought it would be good to know more about where the algorithms that make up 3D animation software came from. We’re quite used to thinking about digital…
SOUND DESIGN: RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
by Kara Scott-James • October 13, 2014 • 2 Comments
1. Narrative Aesthetics – Sound Design in Story Development: A Case for Pre-AuralVis Recap – MFA (Production Research); work presented at SAS 2014 (Toronto) Despite an increasing awareness of sound design many filmmakers still neglect sound’s potentials, particularly within early-stage development. …
Channelling Time for Over Time
by Birgitta Hosea • September 16, 2014 • 0 Comments
Building on her previous work on the concept of time, Over Time (overtimeart.org) is a practice-based research project curated by Anne Robinson (London Metropolitan University), culminating in an exhibition and series of performances in Greenwich during September and October 2014…
Intersections: Dance, Animation, Ecology, and tranSTURM
by Rachel Walls • September 9, 2014 • 6 Comments
A few months back, I was invited to participate in Sydney-based art collective tranSTURM, working on a raft of abstract animation projects. The first project, Light_Space (2014) made an abstract analysis of movement in Olympic sport. Commissioned by Sydney Olympic…