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…
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…
Experimental animation, through its unconventional narratives, offers a compelling medium for expressing surreal feelings, personal philosophies, spiritual concerns, and abstract psychological trauma. Specifically, the unstable psychological state of the traumatized individual can be seen as placing their identity in a…
If a work of art is the sum of its parts, then the stop-motion animation Mad God (Tippett, 2021) has a very large sum indeed. Director Phil Tippett crafted this cinematic fever dream as a mad god himself, stitching together…
The horizon line is a key visual principle of the Western world-view, binding together histories of navigation, spatial representation, and philosophical inquiry. Ancient mariners valued the horizon as an orienting boundary between the earthly and the celestial, scanning perpendicularly across…
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…
