SAS Paper & presentation (Notes)
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.
Sarrahornby.com
Notes
1) Communicating practice based research beyond the internal-external
threshold.
2) Recursive and emergent process versus Linear, mechanistic narrative
(Epistemology) frame
3) Bateson's Recursive epistemology and terminology
4) Recursion in animation practice, engagement with natural world and
the animators animated brain
5) Frame flexibility: Frame agility and an evolving knowledge
environment.
6) In focus/out of focus thinking
Presentation (20 minutes)
Communication between practice-theory
The Threshold
Oscillation across boundary
Epistemological difference (Helix)
The Helix form
Recursion Images (Helix)
Structure of the Helix
Dual thinking: Mechanism frame and Emergence Images
Frame flexibility images (Helix)
Research environment
The contents of the animators animated brain
Example: The contents of the animators animated Brain tracking an idea
from root to emergence.
