The component parts included here—four animated GIFs and an SWF—are not to be understood as independent works, but are to be combined in a browser to produce Ana Maria Uribe’s 1997 poem “Angeles en bandana (A Flock of Angels).” The poem arranges fifteen Garamond “T” characters in the form of an upside down triangle and animates them with out-of-sync bevels and inner glows. While this animation loops, so does a ...
Typography
Deborah Levitt, Gabriella Nicole Padilla, Stuart Davies
Unprecedented kinds of experience, and new modes of life, are now produced by simulations, from the CGI of Hollywood blockbusters to animal cloning to increasingly sophisticated military training software, while animation has become an increasingly powerful pop-cultural form. Today, the extraordinary new practices and radical objects of simulation and animation are transforming our neoliberal-biopolitical “culture of life”. The Animatic Apparatus offers a genealogy for the animatic regime and imagines its ...
Biopolitics, Computation, Film Criticism
Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Adam Nocek et al.
The inaugural issue explores a wide range of techniques for animating worlds today. Drawing on media philosophy, performance and video art, animation, psychoanalysis, ecotheory, anthropology, and more, the pieces experiment with techniques for pluralizing the fissures and interstices in modern fortresses of thought and practice.
Art and Technology, Critical Ethnography, Ecology
Art director, illustrator, and concept designer for such titles as “Ghost in the Shell”, “Captain Marvel” and “Assassin’s Creed” Ash Thorp develops a storyline through his work process, dwells on his favourite tools for animation and 3D-renderings, shares tips on self-organisation and destroys the myth of creative block. Books Ash mentions: “Mastery” by Robert Green, “Eat That Frog” by Brian Tracy, “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield, “Damn Good ...
Art and Technology
Birth, Art Gallery, Death is a minimalist triptych in the form of a screensaver package by Elna Frederick, an obscure artist from Computers Club. With white as life and black as death, each screen saver panel marks a stage in the cycle of consciousness. Birth is the genesis of consciousness through a birth canal of white arriving out of darkness. Art Gallery, where black is conspicuously absent, is the finite ...
Computer Art
Elfriede Jelinek, Ingo Niermann, Amy Patton et al.
Chip ‘n’ Dale, the two California chipmunks from those 1950s Micky Maus (Mickey Mouse) magazines, they loved each other so much. No need to lay claim to or even know the other’s sex; its availability to both is such a matter of course that it makes no difference. Each has one, sure—but they can also take on the other’s whenever they feel like it, nothing changes either way.
Literature
Rick and Morty director and storyboard artist Douglas Olsen talks about creating scenes, cinematic storytelling, and strong draftsmanship.
Film Criticism
Involuntarily sucked into the forcefield of Cute, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic decided to let go, give in, let the demon ride them, and make an accelerationism out of it—only to realise that Cute opens a microcosmic gate onto the transcendental process of acceleration itself. Joining the swarming e-girls, t-girls, NEETS, anons, and otaku who rescued accelerationism from the double pincers of media panic and academic buzzkill by introducing it ...
Critical Theory, Historical Materialism, Memes
Mattin, Miguel Prado, Amy Ireland et al.
Join us for an euphoric episode with our very good friends of the pod, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic. Inspired by their work on Cute Accelerationism this episode explores the multiple dimensions of contemporary cuteness. From its sensory and cultural impacts to its erotic and semiotic layers, we unravel how Cute opens a gate to the transcendental process of acceleration itself.
Critical Theory, Historical Materialism, Memes
Franziska Aigner, Robin Mackay, John Gerrard
Three presentations from the 2015 event explore the historical and contemporary relationship between choreography, technology, control, and subjectivation.
Algorithms, Art and Technology, Biopolitics