Reference Material: Current Practice and Theory Texts
ANIMATION THEORY
Journal Articles
Bode: From Citizens to Teflon Stars: The reception of te Transfiguring Effects of New Moving Image Technologies
Griffin: Concrete Animation
Jones: Vanishing Point: Spatial Composition and the Virtual Camera
The Politics of Media in Stan Vanderbeek's Poemfields
Chow Ka-nin: The spiritual-Functional Loop: Animation redefined in the digital age
Bigelow: Technologies of Perception: Miyazaki in Theory and Practice
Fleisch: Borderline Animation
Power: Animated Expressions: Expressive Style in 3D Computer Graphic Narrative Animation
Lambert: Review: Catherine Mason: A computer in the Art Room: The origins of British Computer Arts 1960-1980
Patterson: Poemfields and the Materiality of the Computational Screen
Bartlett:Stan Vanderbeek Re:animated
Furuhata: Rethinking Plasticity: The Politics and production of the Animated Image
Key Texts
Paul Wells: Understanding Animation
Animation Theory
Paul Wells: Animation: Genre and Authorship
Animation Theory
Paul Wells and Johnny Hardstaff: Re-Imagining Animation. The changing Face of Moving Image
Pedagogy and Animation Theory
Alan Cholodenko: The Illusion of Life II
Animation Practice, Process & Production
Paul Wells new journal on Animation Theory
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Suzanne Buchan's Journal for Animation Theory
The Society for Animation Studies
Paul Wards Journal for Animation Theory
SAS Conference: Melbourne 2012
Animation Theory discourse
03/03/12: Spaces of Transformation Continuity/Infinity: Tate Modern
Visual Arts discourse in spatiality (temporality)
Evolution Animation 2010
Animation Theory Discourse
Pervasive Animation : Tate Modern 2006
Animation Theory Discourse
CGI ANIMATION
Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution
Ed Catmull and the development of cgi process
TECHNOLOGY
Lev Manovich: The Language of New Media
Moving-Image Theory
Moving Image Technology
The historical development of technology in moving-image practices
Ed Catmull: A computer Hand
Ed Catmul: Talks of 'Hand' in conference
John Whitney: Matrix III
Analogue computing aesthetics
CRAFT MATERIALITY
Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand
Crafts and Technology convergence
The Craftsman
Crafts research
The Case for working with the hands
Crafts research
Charles Bell: The Hand
Physical handling of material
Crafts Council UK
Current discourse in material craft practices
RSA: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Craft discourse
Material Thinking
Craft Theory
William Kentridge: Thinking Aloud
Material handling in traditional materials, light projection and ways of seeing.
AVANT GARDE
Esther Leslie: Hollywood Flatlands
Animation and the Avant Garde (Marx position)
Random Order: Robert Rauchenberg and the Neo Avant Garde
Entropy in material artefacts and the move to cinematic art : White Canvas and Nature
Vision in Motion: Laszlo Moholy Nagy
Artist meets new materials: Plastic and new light practices emerge (The Light Prop)
Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom
Expanded Cinema, Light Projection as a new collage material & computation aesthetics
Stan Vanderbeek: Documentary Part 1
Stan Vanderbeek: Documentary Part 2
Artist meets new technology: New computer aesthetics, the extension of the hand and Freedom
E.A.T: Experiments in Art and Technology
Artist meets technology relationship
09/03/12: Radical Aesthetics: Nottingham Contemporary
Evolutionary/revolutionary positions in visual arts theory
PHILOSOPHY
Thinking Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson
Reading guide to Bergson
Henri Bergson: Matter and Memory
Philosophy: Time, Creative Thinking Knowledge of intellect, intuition and action.
Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will
Philosophy: Time and Creative Thinking
Henri Bergson: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Text)
Henri Bergson: An introduction to Metaphysics (Audio)
Philosophy: Time and Creative Thinking
Henri Bergson: Creative Evolution
Philosophy: Time, Creative Thinking and the evolution of thought.
James and Bergson: A Study in Contrasting Theories of Life
Psychology and Philosophy
Deleuze: Cinema 1
Moving Image Philosophy (emerged from Bergson)
Deleuze: Cinema 2
Moving Image Philosophy (emerged from Bergson)
The Ecological Self : Freya Mathews
The philosophy of Deep Ecology: Human relationship to Nature
Relationscapes: Movement, Art and Philosophy
PLaCE
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
Haeckel His Life and Work: Wilhelm Bolsche
Biological evolution and aesthetic representation of the ordinarily intangible/tactile object
The Self-Made TapestryPattern Formation in Nature: Philip Ball
Patterns as visual representations of the evolutionary process
On Growth and Form: D'Arcy Thompson
Biological Evolutionary processes
INTELLECTUAL EVOLUTION
The selfish Gene
The Meme and the replication of knowledge in culture
The evolution of Revolutions
How revolution occurs and how to identify the indications of change
Intelligence (A.I and Insect Intelligence)
Robots and Avatars
Artificial Intelligence
PRESENTATION IN VISUAL ARTS
Journal for Artistic Research
Presenting Visual Arts research in innovative ways
The Organic Diagram
The representation of new knowledge concluded from Visual Arts Research, and specific to Animation Research. The organic diagram has both Visual Image and Notation to illustrate the incremental changes in research process, when placed in sequence illustrates an animated form of knowledge presentation.
METHODOLOLOGY
Creative Research: The Theory and Practice of Research for the Creative Industries: Hillary Collins
Iterative Cycles Method: Incremental changes feed back into further research cycles as a form of evolution. This method is adaptive from computer software development and engineering research methodologies.
Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry Barrett and Bolt
Journal Articles
Bode: From Citizens to Teflon Stars: The reception of te Transfiguring Effects of New Moving Image Technologies
Griffin: Concrete Animation
Jones: Vanishing Point: Spatial Composition and the Virtual Camera
The Politics of Media in Stan Vanderbeek's Poemfields
Chow Ka-nin: The spiritual-Functional Loop: Animation redefined in the digital age
Bigelow: Technologies of Perception: Miyazaki in Theory and Practice
Fleisch: Borderline Animation
Power: Animated Expressions: Expressive Style in 3D Computer Graphic Narrative Animation
Lambert: Review: Catherine Mason: A computer in the Art Room: The origins of British Computer Arts 1960-1980
Patterson: Poemfields and the Materiality of the Computational Screen
Bartlett:Stan Vanderbeek Re:animated
Furuhata: Rethinking Plasticity: The Politics and production of the Animated Image
Key Texts
Paul Wells: Understanding Animation
Animation Theory
Paul Wells: Animation: Genre and Authorship
Animation Theory
Paul Wells and Johnny Hardstaff: Re-Imagining Animation. The changing Face of Moving Image
Pedagogy and Animation Theory
Alan Cholodenko: The Illusion of Life II
Animation Practice, Process & Production
Paul Wells new journal on Animation Theory
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Suzanne Buchan's Journal for Animation Theory
The Society for Animation Studies
Paul Wards Journal for Animation Theory
SAS Conference: Melbourne 2012
Animation Theory discourse
03/03/12: Spaces of Transformation Continuity/Infinity: Tate Modern
Visual Arts discourse in spatiality (temporality)
Evolution Animation 2010
Animation Theory Discourse
Pervasive Animation : Tate Modern 2006
Animation Theory Discourse
CGI ANIMATION
Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution
Ed Catmull and the development of cgi process
TECHNOLOGY
Lev Manovich: The Language of New Media
Moving-Image Theory
Moving Image Technology
The historical development of technology in moving-image practices
Ed Catmull: A computer Hand
Ed Catmul: Talks of 'Hand' in conference
John Whitney: Matrix III
Analogue computing aesthetics
CRAFT MATERIALITY
Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand
Crafts and Technology convergence
The Craftsman
Crafts research
The Case for working with the hands
Crafts research
Charles Bell: The Hand
Physical handling of material
Crafts Council UK
Current discourse in material craft practices
RSA: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Craft discourse
Material Thinking
Craft Theory
William Kentridge: Thinking Aloud
Material handling in traditional materials, light projection and ways of seeing.
AVANT GARDE
Esther Leslie: Hollywood Flatlands
Animation and the Avant Garde (Marx position)
Random Order: Robert Rauchenberg and the Neo Avant Garde
Entropy in material artefacts and the move to cinematic art : White Canvas and Nature
Vision in Motion: Laszlo Moholy Nagy
Artist meets new materials: Plastic and new light practices emerge (The Light Prop)
Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom
Expanded Cinema, Light Projection as a new collage material & computation aesthetics
Stan Vanderbeek: Documentary Part 1
Stan Vanderbeek: Documentary Part 2
Artist meets new technology: New computer aesthetics, the extension of the hand and Freedom
E.A.T: Experiments in Art and Technology
Artist meets technology relationship
09/03/12: Radical Aesthetics: Nottingham Contemporary
Evolutionary/revolutionary positions in visual arts theory
PHILOSOPHY
Thinking Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson
Reading guide to Bergson
Henri Bergson: Matter and Memory
Philosophy: Time, Creative Thinking Knowledge of intellect, intuition and action.
Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will
Philosophy: Time and Creative Thinking
Henri Bergson: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Text)
Henri Bergson: An introduction to Metaphysics (Audio)
Philosophy: Time and Creative Thinking
Henri Bergson: Creative Evolution
Philosophy: Time, Creative Thinking and the evolution of thought.
James and Bergson: A Study in Contrasting Theories of Life
Psychology and Philosophy
Deleuze: Cinema 1
Moving Image Philosophy (emerged from Bergson)
Deleuze: Cinema 2
Moving Image Philosophy (emerged from Bergson)
The Ecological Self : Freya Mathews
The philosophy of Deep Ecology: Human relationship to Nature
Relationscapes: Movement, Art and Philosophy
PLaCE
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
Haeckel His Life and Work: Wilhelm Bolsche
Biological evolution and aesthetic representation of the ordinarily intangible/tactile object
The Self-Made TapestryPattern Formation in Nature: Philip Ball
Patterns as visual representations of the evolutionary process
On Growth and Form: D'Arcy Thompson
Biological Evolutionary processes
INTELLECTUAL EVOLUTION
The selfish Gene
The Meme and the replication of knowledge in culture
The evolution of Revolutions
How revolution occurs and how to identify the indications of change
Intelligence (A.I and Insect Intelligence)
Robots and Avatars
Artificial Intelligence
PRESENTATION IN VISUAL ARTS
Journal for Artistic Research
Presenting Visual Arts research in innovative ways
The Organic Diagram
The representation of new knowledge concluded from Visual Arts Research, and specific to Animation Research. The organic diagram has both Visual Image and Notation to illustrate the incremental changes in research process, when placed in sequence illustrates an animated form of knowledge presentation.
METHODOLOLOGY
Creative Research: The Theory and Practice of Research for the Creative Industries: Hillary Collins
Iterative Cycles Method: Incremental changes feed back into further research cycles as a form of evolution. This method is adaptive from computer software development and engineering research methodologies.
Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry Barrett and Bolt
