This book discusses developments and continuities in experimental
animation that, since Robert Russet and Cecile Starr's Experimental
Animation: Origins of a New Art (1976), has proliferated in the context
of expanded cinema, performance and live 'making' and is today exhibited
in galleries, public sites and online. With reference to historical,
critical, phenomenological and inter-disciplinary approaches,
international researchers offer new and diverse methodologies for
thinking through these myriad animation practices. This volume addresses
fundamental questions of form, such as drawing and the line, but also
broadens out to encompass topics such as the inter-medial,
post-humanism, the real, fakeness and fabrication, causation, new forms
of synthetic space, ecology, critical re-workings of cartoons, and
process as narrative. This book will appeal to cross and
inter-disciplinary researchers, animation practitioners, scholars,
teachers and students from Fine Art, Film and Media Studies, Philosophy
and Aesthetics.