Elemental Dynamite – Research on Intermedia Practices in Animated Pictures
Visual Arts
Description
Description
Driven by the impulse to understand animation in the expansive landscape of socio-cultural histories and genealogies of technics, “Elemental Dynamite: Research on the Intermedia Practice in Animated Pictures” was conceived to address the many questions that often fall into the crevices between disciplines because they are surplus to the vision of a singular medium. This research-based screening/workshop series dig into the animated picture’s aesthetical paths and intermedia negotiations through work analyses, background and production studies, interviews with stakeholders, discussions and technical experiments.
Spanning across a year, Elemental Dynamite begins with a series of screening programs and technique-intensive laboratories from and by artists local and worldwide, in order to gather a range of stakeholders who contribute to new knowledge of the realities of animation practices: creators, curators, theorists, researchers, educators and animation enthusiasts at large. Elemental Dynamite adopts diverse strategies. Screening events and symposiums present a corpus of landmark experimentation from around the world; workshops and technical laboratories open up the many forgotten techniques that have marked the animation histories that have made our contemporary scene. Elemental Dynamite asserts the importance for all stakeholders to understand image-making’s technical processes. We seek the expandability of animation, as an expressive and aesthetic practice, and as general and historical knowledge. All this goes on the agenda of our research team alongside the 6-month public events. Elemental Dynamite is thus meant to be a catalyst for discovery that hopefully leads to a more holistic view of the history of animation practices, with Hong Kong at the centre of our study, and poses critical questions to the writing of local media histories.
Website : https://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/event/222
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