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Pervasive Animation. An AFI Film Reader

I am founder of a number of related academic networks: Animated Media Scholarly Interest Group (SCMS); Manipulated Moving Image Cluster (UCA 2008-12); NECS Animation Work Group. As founder/editor of animation: an interdisciplinary journal, that has ‘Pervasive Animation’ as its intellectual concept, I work to promote publication of related research.

The ‘Pervasive Animation’ symposium (Tate Modern 2-4 March 2007: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/pervasive-animation-part-1) provided initial research methodologies, interdisciplinary tools and approaches. Research strategies, methodology and contexts for my editorial concept include: critical revaluation of the limitations of animation histories and canonization; querying existing theoretical stances and conceptions about animation; illumination of animation’s formal and aesthetic characteristics beyond reduction to concerns of media specificity; investigating radical contemporary practice, and challenging Western cultural and commercial hegemonies of cel/graphic animation. Academic context: animation, film and media studies, new media, visual culture, and cultural studies.

This project received the following grants and support:

£19,100 (Arts Council England) + £4000 (UCA) for Pervasive Animation, Tate Modern, 2007