Miriam Harris is an experimental animator, scholar and Senior Lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She completed postgraduate study in Digital Animation and Visual Effects at Sheridan College, Toronto, and her experimental animated films have won awards at international film and animation festivals. Her essays have been published in the books Animated Worlds (2007), The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2008) and 24 Czech and Polish Animators (2011). She is on the editorial board of the animation journal Animation Practice, Process, & Production, edited by Paul Wells.

Lilly Husbands is a Lecturer in Animation and Visual Culture at Middlesex University, United Kingdom. Her research is broadly concerned with the legacy and evolution of experimental animation in the context of contemporary multimedia practice. She has published numerous book chapters and articles on experimental animation in journals such as 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.

Paul Taberham is a lecturer and scholar who has published on topics such as film cognition, evolutionary theories of art, avant-garde film and animation, film sound and aesthetics. He is the co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory (2014) and author of Lessons in Perception: The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist (2018). In addition, he has spoken internationally at conferences and published articles for several edited collections and journals including Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind and Animation Journal. He is a fellow of The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.

Foreword by Janeann Dill

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction by Miriam Harris, Lilly Husbands and Paul Taberham

Definitions, Histories and Legacies

1. Paul Taberham - It is Alive if You Are: Defining Experimental Animation
2. Aimee Mollaghan - A Consideration of the Absolute in Visual Music Animation
3. Michael Betancourt - Experimental Animation and Motion Graphics

A1 Georges Schwizgebel

A2 Rose Bond

A3 William Kentridge

A4 Robert Sowa

From Analogue to Digital

4. Dan and Lienors Torre - Materiality, Experimental Process and Animated Identity
5. Tess Takahashi - "Meticulously, Recklessly, Worked Upon": Direct Animation, the Auratic and the Index
6. Miriam Harris - The Expressive Power of Experimental Digital Animation
7. Birgitta Hosea - Beyond a Digital Écriture Féminine: Cyberfeminism and Experimental Computer Animation

B1 Jodie Mack

B2 Maya Yonesho

B3 Larry Cuba

B4 Max Hattler

Close Analysis of Individual Artists

8. Lilly Husbands - A Hermeneutic of Polyvalence: Deciphering Narrative in Lewis Klahr's The Pettifogger (2011)
9. Steve Reinke - How to be Human: The Animations of Jim Trainor

C1 Martha Colburn

C2 Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

C3 Diego Akel

Science and the Cosmos

10. Janine Randerson - Animating the Cosmological Horizon: Between Art and Science
11. Aylish Wood - Where do Shapes Come From?
12. Sean Cubitt - NASA's Voyager Fly-by Animations

D1 Tianran Duan

D2 David Theobald

D3 Gregory Bennett