Accelerate Animation
Our Accelerate Sessions bring together animation artists, producers and curators, in conversation about aspects of contemporary animation practice.
Follow this link to find recordings of our Accelerate Sessions on Vimeo
You’ll find biographies of the speakers on Vimeo.
The Personal Archive (March 2024)
Jessica Ashman in conversation with Mary Martins and Maybelle Peters about what the ‘personal archive’ means to them, their work and their individual artistic practice, especially within the realms of animation and moving image.
ANIMATE X QUAD: identity (February 2024)
Jessica Ashman and Jake Elwes – two of the artists in our exhibition with QUAD, Derby, talking with Suzanne Golden, artist and Co-director of BACKLIT, the artist-led public gallery and studios in Nottingham.).
Live Animation (January 2024)
Curated by Birgitta Hosea, with Rose Bond, Johannes DeYoung, and Miwa Matreyek
There are also recordings of Accelerate Sessions from 2020:
Female Figures: Abigail Addison from Animate talks with Jessica Ashman, Anna Bunting-Branch and Michelle Kranot.
Two sessions curated by Edwin Rostron/Edge of Frame
– exploring the challenges and opportunities presented by VR for artists working with animation. With artists Katerina Athanasopoulou, Edwina Ashton and her collaborator David Jacobs, and hosted by Dr LIlly Husbands
– Cheng-Hsu Chung (Taiwan/Berlin), Wednesday Kim (South Korea/USA) and Amy Lockhart (Canada), discuss their vibrant, absurd and transgressive work in animation and beyond, with Dr Lilly Husbands
Three session in partnership with British Council Film
– Helen De Witt (BFI London Film Festival Experimenta) talks with Edwin Carels (International Film Festival Rotterdam), Aneta Ozorek (Kaboom Animation Festival, Amsterdam) and Wiktoria Petzer (Vienna Shorts), and Herb Shellenberger (Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival)
– Ellie Land and Alys Scott Hawkins from Animated Documentary talk with Mary Martins, John Summerson, and Signe Baumane
– Tom Higham, York Mediale; Liz Rosenthal, Venice Film Festival; Jürgen Hagler, Ars Electronica; Helen Starr, Mechatronic Library; Ulrich Schrauth, London Film Festival Expanded, with Gary Thomas from Animate
