Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives and Practices
Experimental and Expanded Animation examines animation as an open, material, and interdisciplinary moving-image practice. Edited by Vicky Smith and Nicky Hamlyn, this digital PDF edition is available as an instant download.
The collection considers animation beyond mainstream cinema and explores how artists use film, digital technologies, objects, bodies, space, and performance. It brings together scholarly essays and practice-informed perspectives on experimental and expanded animation.
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Book Overview
Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives and Practices is an edited collection in the Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image series. It examines alternative animation practices through artistic, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches.
The book discusses the relationship between animation and live action, the history of experimental animation, and the expansion of animation into installations, performances, digital environments, and other forms of moving-image presentation.
Its intended readers include students, researchers, artists, filmmakers, curators, and readers interested in animation studies, experimental film, contemporary art, and artists’ moving image.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Critical perspectives on experimental and expanded animation.
- Studies of medium expansion through film, wet paint, silhouettes, sand, postcards, and other materials.
- Discussions of time-lapse animation and the changing agency of objects.
- Analysis of experimental 3D CGI animation and the treatment of space.
- Examinations of film-loop performances, digital animation, and flicker practices.
- Consideration of the animated female body, feminism, tableaux vivants, and intermediality.
- Studies of animation’s relationship to place, installation, and affect.
Why This Book Matters
This collection documents the continuing importance of animation as an experimental artistic practice. It shows how animation can question established cinematic conventions and create different ways of seeing and experiencing moving images.
By connecting film, digital media, performance, installation, and visual art, the book supports interdisciplinary study of animation’s materials, technologies, aesthetics, and exhibition contexts.
Book Details
| Title | Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives and Practices |
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| Series | Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image |
| Editors | Vicky Smith & Nicky Hamlyn |
| Publication Date | 2018 |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Imprint Location | Cham, Switzerland |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 297 |
| Format | |
| File Size | 28.8 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 30156722 |
| ISBN | 978-3-319-73872-7 |
| e-ISBN | 978-3-319-73873-4 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-73873-4 |
| Library of Congress Control Number | 2018937877 |
| ISSN | 2523-7527 |
| e-ISSN | 2523-7535 |
| Copyright | © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
| Cover Credit | ‘33 Frames Per Foot’ (2013) by Vicky Smith |
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Explore this scholarly collection for focused study of experimental film, artists’ moving image, and expanded animation practices.
Verified Bibliographic Details
| Series Editors | Kim Knowles; Jonathan Walley |
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