What’s On | Animation Breakdown
A weekend of events at Tate Modern, London, 20-21 March 2009. I’ve been helping organise this weekend, so apologies for the shameless self-promotion, but I do think that this weekend will be of interest to anyone who is interested in eccentric early animation art from the 1980s/1990s (Computer Baroque and WAX) to contemporary visual artists using animation in 2009 (Study Day).
Polly Gone, Shelley Lake, featuring in Computer Baroque
The weekend kicks off on Friday 20 March, 7pm, with the Computer Baroque screening, curated by Richard Wright (artist, researcher and co-founder of the artist’s group Mongrel). A selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image. Rarely seen, they represent a period – the late eighties and early nineties – in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology. Including early work by Karl Sims, Chris Landreth, Simon Biggs, Shelley Lake and Paul Garrin.
Then on Saturday 21 March, 10.30am-5.30pm, is the Study Day. With an emphasis on practice, and the artist’s perspective, the day will embrace an eclectic range of approaches, and ask how digital and hybrid technologies are influencing artists and their work. Belgian curators Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz kick things off with an illustrated talk to help ‘dismantle the common a priori assumptions on animation film and its limitations’.
The day features three artists’ panels: Drawn – Making Marks Move, with Chair Angela Kingston, artists Simon Faithfull, Ann Course and Samba Fall; Digital Thinking, with Chair Steven Bode and artists Joshua Mosley, David Blair and Jennifer Steinkamp; and Stills Moving: Interrupting the Real World with Chair David Chandler and artists Dryden Goodwin, Emily Richardson and Ori Gersht.
Pomegranate, Ori Gersht, featuring in the Study Day
The weekend finishes with a screening of WAX, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees on Saturday 21 March 2009 at 7pm. Created over six years, with material shot at US nuclear test sites, flight simulation software and archive footage, WAX is truly a seminal film. Followed by a Q&A with the artist David Blair and Steven Bode (Director, Film and Video Umbrella), curated by Richard Wright.
For more information about these events visit animateprojects.org, to book tickets visit the Tate website.
And if you do make to down to the Tate, do send me any thoughts/feedback about the weekend.
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