[-empyre-] Theorizing Animation--Thank you!

[christopher sullivan]

Thanks Renate, and thanks to all of our guests, and vocal participants,
Christiane Robbins, Kim Collmer, Julian Oliver, Christina Spiesel, Simon
Biggs,
and anyone I missed.
hope you all keep your hands in the works. think with our minds and our hearts,

and don't forget of course the Birth, Love, Sex and Death, thing. use the middle
ones a lot, and the Birth and Death sparingly. all good things ,Chris.. 



Quoting Renate Ferro <rtf9 at cornell.edu>:

> As we wrap up our extended February discussion on Theorizing Animation:
> Concept and Context
> I would like to thank our special guests for the month:
> Thomas LaMarre (CA), Lev Manovich (UK), Suzanne Buchan (UK), Paul Ward
> (UK), Eric Patrick (US), Richard Wright (UK), Thyrza  Nichols Goodeve
> (US), Christopher Sullivan (US), and Melanie Beisswenger (SG), and Eileen
> Reynolds (SG)
> 
> You have all participated with such generous spirits and contributed to an
> incredibly diverse and interesting month that I can say that we all have
> gained insight into this phenomenon in ways I never expected when we set
> out to introduce the topic.  Yes animation is proliferating globally. 
> It's definition keeps expanding exponentially and its appeal is fracturing
> the boundary between lo and hi art as demonstrated by its omnipresence on
> the internet as well as its inclusion in global contemporary museum
> exhibitions around the world.
> 
> While some of our guests curated or theorized others of you create
> cinematic interventions,
> experimental narratives or abstract "animated paintings." It has been
> demonstrated that the field of animation is broad and continually changing
> as its techniques and technology grow and shift.
> 
> Thanks to all of our subscribers who wrote posts or followed along.  We
> continually get requests for new subscribers which demonstrates to both
> Tim and I how important and viable this soft-skinned space of -empyre is. 
> For now I thank all of you again and hope you will stay tuned for Gabriel
> Menotti who will be introducing our next topic on Prototyping on Monday,
> March 8th.
> 
> Best to all of you.
> Renate Ferro
> 
> 
> 
> Renate Ferro
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> Department of Art
> Cornell University, Tjaden Hall
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Christopher Sullivan
Dept. of Film/Video/New Media
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 so michigan
Chicago Ill 60603
csulli at saic.edu
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