Accelerate Session: Live Animation

Our Accelerate Sessions bring together animation artists, producers and curators, in conversation about aspects of contemporary animation practice.

For 2024 we’re inviting artists to curate these events, and for our first session, on Tuesday, 23 January, Birgitta Hosea from the UK will be talking about live animation, with artists Rose Bond, Johannes DeYoung, and Miwa Matreyek.

In contrast to animated films, performative acts are typically unique, and though they can be repeated, each differs in some way. Immediacy and unpredictability, among many other qualities, are the building blocks of performance in this context. But all animations, whether pre-recorded or live, are essentially a composition of static elements brought to life as a performative act.
Juergen Hagler, Ars Electronica

There’ll be a chance to ask questions or contribute comments during the session, and you can also let us have know of any questions or themes you’d like us to address when you register.[divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”3″ divider_color=”extra-color-2″]Accelerate Sessions: Live Animation 
18:00 – 19:15 (UK time), Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Zoom. Free. Register here.

We’ll hear from the artists about their work, but please also check them out beforehand – you can find out who they are and what they do – through the biographies and links below.[divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”3″ divider_color=”extra-color-2″][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”3″ divider_color=”extra-color-2″]

Speakers

Birgitta Hosea

Birgitta is a Scottish/Swedish artist and curator based in London. Her work explores ‘expanded animation’, extending drawing into both time and space, and takes form as events, installations and films, that expand the concept of the moving image out of the screen and into the present moment. Her work is often research-based and explores issues around identity, gender and sexuality.

Recent exhibitions include ASIFAKEIL, Vienna; National Gallery X, London; Venice & Karachi Biennales; Oaxaca & Chengdu Museums of Contemporary Art; Hanmi Gallery, Seoul; Centre for Recent Drawing, London and Guizhou Provincial Museum, China.

Birgitta was co-organiser of the Expanded Animation 2023 – The Art of Performance symposium at Ars Electronica 2023, and is co-author of Performance Drawing: New Practices Since 1945 (2020, Foá, Grisewood, Hosea, McCall).

She is Professor of Moving Image and Director of the Animation Research Centre at University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, and previously Head of Animation at the Royal College of Art. PhD at Central Saint Martins on animation as a form of performance.

birgittahosea.co.uk
ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/expanded-animation-symposium/
instagram.com/birgittahosea

Rose Bond

Rose is a Canadian born media artist who lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Whilst her roots are in frame-by-frame, hand drawn and direct animation, her current work focuses on public site-based animated installations, at the juncture of expanded cinema, experimental animation, and experiential design. She makes large-scale animated installations that navigate the allegories of place and illuminate urban space with fragments of the often overlooked – the ‘other’.

Recent work includes large-scale, multi-screen live projections for orchestral works by Luciano Berio and Olivier Messiaen, with Oregon Symphony. She’s currently collaborating with vocal band Roomful of Teeth, and composer inti figgis-vizueta, pushes the experience of projection and live performance into new territory.

Rose has an MFA in ex­perimental filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is Chair of the Animated Arts Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Willamette University, Portland.

www.rosebond.com
www.instagram.com/anim_bon

Johannes DeYoung

Johannes works at the intersection of computational and material processes, and Expanded Cinema, blending computer animation with experimental processes in painting and drawing, to explore themes of animism and human psychology. Exhibition includes: B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt; Images Festival, Art Gallery of Ontario; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; and Eyebeam, New York.

Johannes has an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He is Associate Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, Pittsburgh, and was previously Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale University.

johannesdeyoung.com
instagram.com/johannesdeyoung

Miwa Matreyek

Miwa is an animator, designer, and performer, based in Vancouver, Canada.

Coming from a background in animation by way of collage, she works at the intersection of the cinematic and theatrical, the fantastical and tangible, the illusionistic and physical, often incorporating surreal and poetic narratives related to conflict between humanity, nature, and the climate crisis. In her live performances she interacts with her animation as a shadow silhouette, and presentations include MoMA, SFMoMA, Lincoln Center, Sundance Film Festival and REDCAT, Los Angeles.

Her work Infinitely Yours won the Golden Nica for Computer Animation at Ars Electronica 2020.

Miwa has an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts. She teaches at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver.

semihemisphere.com
instagram.com/miwamatreyekartist[divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”3″ divider_color=”extra-color-2″]Image credits:
Birgitta Hosea, dotdot dash at Cello Factory, London
Johannes DeYoung, Tartan Tuba Band performing with The Endless Mile in A Road with Trees at WQED Studios, Pittsburgh, 2023. Photo: Kevin Lorenzi
Rose Bond, Earths to Come, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York
Miwa Matreyek, Infinitely Yours

Photo credits:
Birgitta – Caroline Kerslake
Rose – Fernando Cabrejos
Miwa – Matthieu Young[divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”3″ divider_color=”extra-color-2″]