Footnote #77 - Expanded Animation
The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!
What might it mean for animation to ‘expand’? Footnote 77 confronts the performances and technologies of expanded animation, a term that speaks to both the broadening out of animation and its many sites of production, exhibition, and consumption, as well as those intermedial or multimedia live works that involve different kinds of animated images. Topics include the expansion of cinema in the 1950s and 1960s that pushed film beyond ‘conventional’ single-screen narratives and engaged more sensory, interactive, and immersive environments; the value and appeal of animated projections and art installations that break the one-way relation between audience and screen, often using the artist’s live and living body on stage; shifting temporalities and the fleeting existence of site-specific animation with its new (even hesitating) exhibition practices; connections between expanded, pervasive, and useful animation; and how expanding animation allows us to think more readily about its identity as a fine art alongside its form and function in everything from architectural schools and education to retail spaces.
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Suggested Readings
Buchan, Suzanne, ed. 2013. Pervasive Animation. New York: Routledge.
Holliday, Christopher, ed. 2027. Performing Animation, Animating Performance: Bodies, Voices, and Spaces from Screen to Stage. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.
Murphy, Jill, and Laura Rascaroli, eds. 2020. Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Smith, Vicky and Nicky Hamlyn, eds. 2018. Experimental and Expanded Animation. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Windhausen, Federico, ed. 2023. A Companion to Experimental Cinema. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons.