Helix: An animators animated brain recalling practice-based experimentation(SAS Abstract)
Sarra Hornby
Loughborough University. UK.
Helix: An animator’s animated brain recalling
practice-based experimentation.
I will present short extracts from my
animated film entitled, Helix (2012). This film was produced to
illustrate connections between practice-based experiments conducted over time.
It engages with the difficulty of presenting this information as a linear
narrative.
This film illustrates how a narrative may
necessarily be constructed to communicate iterative processes and phases of
iteration that form the track of practice-based experimentation. The short
extracts I present explore different structures of thought and methods of
recall, accessible to the animator and the animated brain, that are specific to
practice-based animation research. This is framed within second order
cybernetics and animation theory, deploying terms from Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind (2000)
The work explores the shifts between
mechanistic and emergent structures of thought and how these engage with the
process of theorizing animation from within an experimental animation practice.
This presentation does not seek to state
what the animated brain is, only to present a visualization of the process of
recalling practice-based research experimentation as a starting point for
discussion about the content of an animator's animated brain.
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