Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital

Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital examines experimental animation from its twentieth-century roots to its place in the twenty-first-century media landscape. This digital PDF edition is available for instant download.

Edited by Miriam Harris, Lilly Husbands, and Paul Taberham, the book combines academic chapters, artist interviews, and close analyses of individual works.

Its global scope makes it a useful reference for readers studying film, animation, visual culture, and contemporary media practice.

Book Overview

Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital is an art and film studies collection published by Routledge in 2019. It explores experimental animation through historical, materialist, phenomenological, and scientific perspectives.

The book is organised into sections on definitions, histories and legacies; analogue and digital processes; individual artists; and science and the cosmos. Interviews with experimental animation practitioners provide direct discussion of creative process and animation’s ontology.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Definitions and histories of experimental animation, including visual music and motion graphics.
• Analyses of materiality, direct animation, digital experimentation, and animated identity.
• Discussion of cyberfeminism and experimental computer animation.
• Interviews with practitioners including Georges Schwizgebel, William Kentridge, Jodie Mack, Larry Cuba, Max Hattler, Martha Colburn, and others.
• Close analyses of works by Lewis Klahr and Jim Trainor.
• Studies connecting animation with art, science, cosmology, and NASA’s Voyager fly-by animations.

Why This Book Matters

The collection presents experimental animation as a critical and aesthetic discipline with roots in film theory, visual art, musical structure, and material practice.

Its combination of scholarly chapters, interviews, case studies, and artist-focused analysis offers valuable contributions to film and animation studies. The book is specifically described as a resource for undergraduate and graduate students.

Book Details

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Download Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital for focused study of experimental animation, its processes, practitioners, and critical contexts.