This post looks at examples of work from the Royal College of Art’s (thereafter RCA) animation archive, to highlight ways in which distributed agency has been embraced in the production of experimental student films and suggest links between these approaches…
Animation and Agency
Picturing Security: exploring democracy and agency through drawing and animation
by Benjamin Hall • November 13, 2025 • 0 Comments
This text presents the 2023/24 research project Picturing Security, which was funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) to explore experiences of security, risk and threat using collaborative arts practice as a tool for conversation. What follows are reflections…
Animation and Agency
The Song of the Sky and the Breath of Stones in Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal (2023)
by Alisi Telengut • November 10, 2025 • 0 Comments
This short text is a continuation of the reflections developed in my doctoral research, which presents an artistic research inquiry into how animation under the camera (a form of stop-motion animation) not only acknowledges the materials of animation as co-creators…
Animation and Agency
Editorial: Animation and Agency
by Julia Eckel, Maike Sarah Reinerth, Vera Schamal • November 6, 2025 • 0 Comments
Over the past thirty years, the concept of agency as the ability and power to act has sparked engaging discussions across fields like Gender Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy, and Media Studies, offering unique insights for animation research. Agency…
Animation and Learning
Hyperteaching the Hyperstudent in Higher Educational Animation Programs
by Samuel Regan-Edwards • November 4, 2025 • 0 Comments
This text is about the animation of Higher Education learning, and the learning of animation in Higher Education. I have been pulled into writing the text by footnote 21 of renowned animation theorist and ‘poststructuralist’ thinker Alan Cholodenko’s “Computer Says…
Book Review
Review: Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship (2022)
by Sanny Schulte • October 31, 2025 • 0 Comments
GREENBERG, SLAVA. Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship. Indiana University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3142v9x. Image description: The book cover is mostly white with a black, scribbled spiral dominating the center of the cover. A red-haired drawn figure, wearing brown slippers, a light-purple…
Animation and Learning
Sky David’s Kinesthetic Pedagogy of Animation
by Lynn Tomlinson • October 28, 2025 • 2 Comments
This is a media-archaeological excavation of the unique animation teaching methods of artist Sky David, formerly known as Dennis Pies, who has spent his life combining art and science, working with movement, subjectivity, tactility, and animacy—an interdisciplinary practice in the…
Animation and Learning
Generating confidence to accelerate the learning of animation technology
by Gray Hodgkinson • October 21, 2025 • 0 Comments
Figure 1. Student 1 image from lighting workshop, ADM, NTU 2024. When teachers and academics apply student-centred strategies for teaching, one of the most sought-after outcomes is to boost student confidence. The student-centred approach is designed to emphasise self-thinking and…
Animation and Learning
This is the Way We Brush Our Teeth: How Pokémon Smile Helps Children Learn Practical Skills
by Christian Aditya • October 14, 2025 • 0 Comments
If you’re a parent, or you know one with a toddler, you’ll know how challenging it can be to teach practical skills to a toddler, especially brushing teeth. In my case, dealing with my daughter running away and clamping her…
Animation and Learning
Principle Zero
by Corey C. Reece • October 7, 2025 • 0 Comments
Many of us watched Bob Ross make beautiful landscapes with a technique he claimed anyone could replicate. I imagine those that picked up a canvas to follow along would find it harder than he made it seem. Countless folks pursue…