Re-imagining Animation is a vivid, insightful and challenging interrogation of the animated film as it becomes central to moving image practices in the contemporary era.

Animation was once constructed frame-by-frame, one image following another in the process of constructing imagined phases of motion, but now the creation and manipulation of the moving image has changed.

Re-imagining Animation is a vivid, insightful and challenging interrogation of the animated film as it becomes central to moving image practices in the contemporary era.

Animation was once constructed frame-by-frame, one image following another in the process of constructing imagined phases of motion, but now the creation and manipulation of the moving image has changed.

With the digital revolution invading every creative enterprise and form of expression, pencils have become pixeLs, dreams have become data, and animation - once merely an adjunct of film - has become central to the whole cinematic enterprise.

Re-imagining Animation addresses animation's role at the heart of moving-image practice through an engagement with a range of moving-image works - Looking at the context in which they were produced; the approach to their preparation and construction; the process of their making; the critical agenda related to the research; developmental and applied aspects of the work; the moving-image outcomes; and the status of the work within contemporary art and design oractices.

INTRODUCTION

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TEACHING MOVING IMAGE CULTURE: PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

The disciptinary shift

Approaches and outlooks

The bigger picture

02

THE POLITICS OF PRACTICE

Authorship

Attitudes and ethics

Artist animation?

03

ANIMATION RE-IMAGINED

Re-animating history

Re-defining practice

Re-thinking artists

04

“OBJECT REACT'

Re-animating pedagogy

Process

Practice

05

FROM IDEAS TO IDIOMS

Objects of desire

Impossibty rear

Themes and dreams

APPENDIX

Conclusion

Bibtiography

Further resources and webography

Index

Acknowledgements and picture credits