The silent penguin Feathers McGraw has become one of the most famous British animated villains thanks to Aardman’s distinct Claymation style. First introduced in The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993), McGraw now returns more than 20 years later in Wallace and…
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Minds in Motion: Some Basic Thoughts on AI and Animation
by Julia Eckel and Nea Ehrlich • May 10, 2022 • 2 Comments

This blog theme is part of an emerging project that explores what image-oriented disciplines like Art History, Media and Film Studies contribute to the academic and public debate about AI, specifically what it means to conceptualize AI as a cultural…
Animation vs. Black Boxes
by Deborah Levitt • April 4, 2022 • 1 Comment

Envisioners press buttons to inform, in the strictest sense of that word, namely, to make something improbable out of possibilities. They press buttons to seduce the automatic apparatus into making something that is improbable within its program. They press butÂtons…