CONTENTS

List of figures

Foreword by Janeann Dill

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

  Introduction

Miriam Harris, Lilly Husbands and Paul Taberham

PART I
Definitions, histories and legacies

1 It is Alive if You Are: Defining experimental animation

Paul Taberham

2 A Consideration of the Absolute in Visual Music Animation

Aimee Mollaghan

3 Experimental Animation and Motion Graphics

Michael Betancourt

PART II
Interviews A

A1 Georges Schwizgebel

A2 Rose Bond

A3 William Kentridge

A4 Robert Sowa

PART III
From analogue to digital

4 Materiality, Experimental Process and Animated Identity

Dan and Lienors Torre

5 ‘Meticulously, Recklessly, Worked Upon’: Direct animation, the auratic and the index

Tess Takahashi

6 Digital Experimentation: Extending animation’s expressive vocabulary

Miriam Harris

7 Beyond a Digital Écriture Féminine: Cyberfeminism and experimental computer animation

Birgitta Hosea

PART IV
Interviews B

B1 Jodie Mack

B2 Maya Yonesho

B3 Larry Cuba

B4 Max Hattler

PART V
Close analysis of individual artists

8 A Hermeneutic of Polyvalence: Deciphering narrative in Lewis Klahr’s The Pettifogger (2011)

Lilly Husbands

9 How to be Human: The animations of Jim Trainor

Steve Reinke

PART VI
Interviews C

C1 Martha Colburn

C2 Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

C3 Diego Akel

PART VII
Science and the cosmos

10 Animating the Cosmological Horizon: Between art and science

Janine Randerson

11 Where do Shapes Come From?

Aylish Wood

12 NASA’s Voyager fly-by Animations

Sean Cubitt

PART VIII
Interviews D

D1 Tianran Duan

D2 David Theobald

D3 Gregory Bennett

Index