In this second symposium for Expanded Animation at Ars Electronica, we continue our exploration of affect: how animation is felt through sensory information processed by the body. For the second year, this takes a focus on inter-relationships between hearing and seeing. From the early pioneers, both the audio and the visual components of moving image have been intrinsic to the medium. According to experimental filmmaker Walter Ruttmann (1887-1941), the ‘music of light has always been and will remain the essence of cinema’. Another pioneering avant-garde filmmaker, Germaine Dulac (1882-1942 ..read more

Expanded Animation 2020 – Synaesthetic Syntax: Sounding Animation / Visualising Audio [Image from Oregon Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, courtesy of Rose Bond, 2020] Submission deadline: 17th May 2020 Symposium details: Sunday 13th September 2020, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ea2020 Faced with the infinite possibilities of faking through digital production, might there be a craving to return to that which is material and sensible: work that is improvised, spontaneous and can be experienced fully with all ..read more

Come and take part 6-8pm Thursday 17th January 2019 Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London SE1 8TJ New performance as part of the opening of In the Dark, an experimental show by the London Group, the Computer Arts Society and the Lumen prize dotdot dash is a participatory light action with laser pointers and voice directed by Birgitta Hosea. The performance is orchestrated around a chance-based score made through walking with paint-covered feet over musical paper. Coming together in a choral collaboration, participants are directed to explore the colours and mark making possibi ..read more