Accelerate Sessions: Edge of Frame: Stretching the Frame: artists exploring VR
We’re thrilled to announced that the next two in our Accelerate Sessions series have been curated by Edge of Frame‘s Edwin Rostron, and will be hosted by Dr Lilly Husbands.
Edge of Frame: Stretching the Frame
Thursday, 1 October 2020
6pm UK, Zoom
Free. Spaces Limited. Register here: https://bit.ly/3hHEbkO
Exploring Virtual Reality and animation, with artists Katerina Athanasopoulou, Edwina Ashton and David Jacobs. Hosted by Dr Lilly Husbands.
Supported by Arts Council England’s Emergency Response Fund.
Artists Katerina Athanasopoulou, Edwina Ashton and her animator collaborator David Jacobs present their work and discuss their current ventures into Virtual Reality. Each artist has a distinctive voice and comes to VR from an artistic practice that includes animated short films. The session will explore the challenges and opportunities presented by VR for artists working with animation.
The second Edge of Frame session – Human After All – is on 15 October. Artists Amy Lockhart, Cheng-Hsu Chung and Wednesday Kim will discuss their vibrant, absurd and transgressive work in animation and beyond, and Dr Lilly Husbands hosts. More information soon.
Curated by Edwin Rostron who runs Edge of Frame, a blog and ongoing programme of screening events focusing on experimental animation, including two Edge of Frame Weekends, each featuring over 50 international animation artists at BFI Southbank, Whitechapel Gallery, Close Up and Barbican. Edwin’s own films have been shown extensively at festivals internationally, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, GLAS, Pictoplasma and Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. He has been a visiting artist at CalArts and at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest and is a tutor on the Animation Programme at the Royal College of Art.
Katerina Athanasopoulou is a London-based artist creating animated films for festivals and gallery space. She studied Fine Art at Aristotle University in Greece and Animation at the Royal College of Art. Her films have been screened and awarded internationally in film festivals and galleries, including Clermont-Ferrand short film festival, Holland Animation film festival, European Media Arts festival and Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art.
She is a PhD candidate at Plymouth University, exploring the intersections between animation, documentary and virtual reality, and the translation of physical place into digital space through performatic ‘camera walks’.
Edwina Ashton lives and works in Bristol. She studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, Camberwell College of Arts, London and Goldsmiths College of Arts, London. She makes sculptures, videos, animations and drawings of oblique and absurd characters and narratives. Recent exhibitions and performances include Tintype, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and a commission for the Burns Unit at Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol.
David Jacobs studied at Glasgow School of Art and Visual Effects at the National Film and Television School. Commissions include animations for Science Photo Library and the European Space Agency. Edwina and David’s ongoing collaboration began with Mr Panz at Lake Leman, notes on m, (notes on mammals and habitats), commissioned by Animate Projects and The Drawing Room for the exhibition Shudder in 2010.
Dr Lilly Husbands is writer and researcher, broadly concerned with the legacy and evolution of experimental animation in the context of contemporary multimedia practice. She has a PhD in Film Studies from King’s College London and has published chapters and articles on experimental animation in journals including Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), Frames Cinema Journal, and Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. She is an associate editor of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and co-editor of Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital (Routledge, 2019). She teaches at Middlesex University.
Still: Branches of Life, Katerina Athanasopoulou
