Pervasive Animation

PERVASIVE ANIMATION
London Tate Modern
2-4 March 2007

Animation has an unlimited potential to visually represent events, scenarios and forms that have little or no relation to our experience of the 'real' world. Implemented in many ways in many disciplines, it is increasingly influencing our perception and experience of the world we live in. This timely and groundbreaking international conference unites speakers from a wide range of research agendas and creative practices. It facilitates much-needed dialogue centred on the ubiquitous and interdisciplinary nature of animation, its potentially radical future development, and its ethical responsibilities for spatial politics in moving image culture.

Contributors include Norman Klein, Michael Snow, Vivian Sobchack, Tom Gunning, Anthony McCall, George Griffin, Suzanne Buchan, Beatriz Colomina, Edwin Carels, Siegfried Zielinski, Lisa Cartwright, Johnny Hardstaff and Esther Leslie.

Doubling Back (Anthony McCall, 2003)

Especially since the digital shift, the uses of animation are no longer exclusive to cinema, and animation's origins in pre-cinematic optical experiments through avantgarde experimental film continue to evolve in fascinating ways. Artists increasingly incorporate animation in installations and exhibitions, architects use computer animation software to create narratives of space in time, and scientists use it to interpret abstract concepts for a breadth of industries ranging from biomedicine to nanoworlds. Pervasive Animation will provide a dynamic international forum to explore animation's myriad forms and applications across a wide band of creative and professional practice.

The opening panel discussion on Friday 2 March is followed by a special presentation of Anthony McCall's celebrated 1973 "solid light" film event Line Describing a Cone.

PERVASIVE ANIMATION is a collaboration with the Animation Research Centre, University College for the Creative Arts. Funded by Arts Council England, University College for the Creative Arts and Brunel University West London.

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Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge / Blackfriars
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Conference Tickets: £25 / £15 Concessions, booking recommended
Box Office: 020 7887 8888
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PERVASIVE ANIMATION SCREENINGS
The symposium is supplemented by two film programmes curated by Suzanne Buchan and Stuart Comer.

Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)

Saturday 3 March 2007, at 7pm
PERVASIVE ANIMATION: PROGRAMME ONE

Viking Eggeling, Diagonal Symphonie, 1921–24, 7 min
Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, The Eye and the Ear, 1945, 12 min
Paul Sharits, Word Movie, 1966, 4 min
Stan Brakhage, The Dante Quartet, 1987, 8 min
Mary Ellen Bute, Mood Contrasts, 1973, 7 min
Lewis Klahr, Altair, 1994, 8 min
Oblong, Structure Space Form, 2002, 3 min
Jeremy Blake, Reading Ossie Clarke, 2003, 9 min
Tim MacMillan, Ferment, 1999, 5 min
Peter Tscherkassky, Outer Space, 1999, 10 min

Googolplex (Lillian Schwarz, 1972)

Sunday 4 March 2006, at 6pm
PERVASIVE ANIMATION: PROGRAMME TWO

Hans Richter, Rhythmus 21, 1921-24, 3 min
Robert Breer, Recreation, 1957, 2 min
Takashi Ito, Spacy, 1981, 9 min
George Griffin, Step Print, 1976, 7 min
Jeff Scher, Reasons to Be Glad, 1980, 4 min
Jerzy Kucia, Przez Pole (Across the Field), 1992, 18 min
Kota Ezawa, Lennon Sontag Beuys, 2004, 2 min
James Whitney, Lapis, 1963–66, 10 min
Cathy Joritz, Negative Man, 1985, 2 min
Lillian Schwartz, Googolplex, 1972, 5 min
Johnny Hardstaff, Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors / Like Spinning Plates, UK, 2002, 8 min

at

Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge / Blackfriars
MAP OF AREA

Screening Tickets: £5 each, booking recommended
Box Office: 020 7887 8888

www.tate.org.uk