The expanded field of animation explores a rich continuum of innovation and philosophical inquiry that predates cinematic storytelling and continues through the hybridic topologies of post-media aesthetics. This session explores expansive new frontiers for making and experiencing animation at the intersections of art, technology, and performance. Drawing upon rich histories of pre-cinematic moving-image, avant-garde filmmaking, Expanded Cinema, video art and intermedia events, participants discuss frameworks for animation that extend beyond cinematic and theatrical black boxes.
Presenters:
Johannes DeYoung – Carnegie Mellon University
Rebecca Xu – Syracuse University
Bonnie Mitchell – Bowling Green State University
Juergen Hagler – University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, University of Art and Design Linz
Johannes DeYoung (US) is an internationally recognized artist whose practice explores themes of animism at the intersection of computational and material processes. His works have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums in countries such as Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Taiwan, and the USA, as well as being featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal. He is Associate Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught at Yale University School of Art (2008–2018), where he was appointed Senior Critic and founding Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and at the Yale School of Drama, where he was appointed Lecturer in Design.