Animation Journal – Documentary Animation special issue

A special edition of Animation: an interdisciplinary journal, (Vol 6. no 3, November 2011) is focused on documentary animation

It is titled Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation, Guest Editor: Jeffrey Skoller

Prof Dr Suzanne Buchan, Professor of Animation Aesthetics at UCA and Director of the UCA Animation Research Centre, is editior of the journal.

It is available online at http://anm.sagepub.com, or via the UCA Library Journal portal

Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation reflects the current border crossings in animation and documentary studies in which the experimental spirit of the films themselves are pushing the boundaries of scholarship into new realms of thought and aesthetic experience. The issue argues for the animated documentary as a radical cinematic form with the potential to enliven – reanimate – older forms by lifting them out of worn out epistemes and denaturalizing their often clichéd and moribund cinematic forms. The issue features cutting edge critical work by a range of emerging and well-established documentary, animation and experimental film scholars and makers, in an attempt to understand the ways this unsettling mix of non-realist and live action imagery makes meanings and importantly why this hybrid form of documentary animation has become aesthetically and politically necessary in this particular cultural moment” (Jeffrey Skoller)

Google Art Project

Google’s ambitious project has digitised thousands of artworks and brought Street View technology to museum collections. Participating institutions include Tate Britain and the National Gallery in London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Palace of Versailles in France; the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid; and the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Project head Amit Sood says “we have created what we hope will be a fascinating resource for art lovers, students and casual museum-goers alike — inspiring them to one day visit the real thing.”

Travel the art world from your chair by visiting http://www.googleartproject.com/

An Important Message from David Shrigley

Visual artists, including David Shrigley, Jeremy Deller and Mark Wallinger, recently launched a campaign against the government’s proposed cuts to arts funding.  For the next six weeks, until the government’s spending review announcement on 20 October, a different artist will release a work in response to the campaign which accepts there will have to be cuts, but argues that the proposed 25% reductions would be devastating.

The first work of art to be released is David Shrigley’s animation featuring Tracey Emin and Wayne Rooney, as well as  pigs, sheep, cows and chickens.  You can follow more of the campaign on the Save the Arts website.

Turkish Cultural Foundation Image Archive of Turkish Art

This archive is a digitalized slide repository, created from the professional collection of Prof. Dr. Nurhan Atasoy, Art Historian and Senior Scholar at the Turkish Cultural Foundation. The Image Archive of Turkish Art is accessible to students, scholars and researchers worldwide.  In addition to Turkish art, the Archive also contains a selection of images relevant to the study of Turkish culture.

This image archive is available online, in Turkish and in English, at
www.turkishculture.org/dia

Creating Space Art Exhibition

Creating Space Art Exhibition, showing at the Nucleus Arts Centre,

272 High Street, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4BP.

Monday 10th-Wednesday 19th May 2010.

10am until 5pm.

 Debut exhibition by British artist Theresa Paton, featuring a large sculptural installation and a selection of small sculptures.

Paton’s work elaborates on the continuum of rhythm and pattern and is concerned with mathematics and natural cycles. Whilst investigating movement, the work observes the ebb and flow of motion that generates a vortex, creating space.

The CCA Art Bus at New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

SPECIAL EVENT – ALL WELCOME!

CCA ART BUS & Sir Peter Blake Exhibition

Take a visit onto the Art Bus for free – Saturday 30th January, 10-5

 The art of Sir Peter Blake, Royal Academician and at the forefront of the pop art movement for five decades comes to Farnham from Saturday 30^th January to Saturday 6^th February 2010 at the New Ashgate Gallery.

The week long exhibition of Sir Peter Blake’s prints in the main gallery of the New Ashgate will begin with a visit from an old Liverpool double-decker bus converted into a mobile gallery and covered in an extraordinary mural by Sir Peter.

 The CCA Art Bus will be in pride of place outside the New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham on Saturday 30^th January, 10am – 5pm.

Visits to the bus are free & last approximately 15 mins – but booking is required – please contact the gallery, 01252 713208 

See gallery website www.newashgate.org.uk for further details / updates.

Tate on itunes U

Itunes U is the educational- focused area of the itunes store. 

‘Tate on iTunes U creates easy access to the range of media, over 400 videos and audio files categorised to enable users to go directly to their area of interest and browse thematically under artist, exhibition, Tate Voices, Tate Live, Tate IQ and guides for teachers.’

Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A

From 8th December – 11th April 2010. Open daily 10.00 – 17.30, Fridays 10.00 – 21.30

Showcasing the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. Works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt are included.

The V&A has commissioned Karsten Schmidt to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition using open source code, and are giving you the opportunity to recode Karsten’s work and create your own original artwork. If they love your work it could even become the new Decode identity. Find out more at http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/decode/

Make-out (2009)

Design Real at the Serpentine Gallery

26th November – 7th February. Open daily 10am-6pm, admission free.

The Serpentine Gallery presents its first ever exhibition solely dedicated to modern design. Curated by Konstantin Gcric, it investigates the ways industrial products fit into our complex material world, and the effect these products have on our daily lives.

Find out more at www.design-real.com

Ghost Forest in Trafalgar Square

On 16 November, London awoke to find Trafalgar Square full of large rainforest tree stumps from a commercially logged tropical primary forest in Western Ghana, making a powerful visual statement about climate change. The installation, entitled ‘Ghost Forest’, is the vision of artist Angela Palmer. It stands in Trafalgar Square for one week, until 22 November, before moving to Thorvaldsens Plads in Copenhagen – to coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference from December 7-18.

For more information: http://www.artknowledgenews.com