Radical cyborg geometry
Wed 29th January 1:00-2:00pm
Room 1.04 Armstrong Building
Radical cyborg geometry
Speaker: Petra Szemán
My research is primarily concerned with areas where ‘the virtual’ and ‘the real’ intersect, with a particular focus on how methods of animation and animatic movement may work as a conduit for strange new forces of hybrid vitality.
Animator Norman McLaren defines animation as “(…)not the art of drawings-that-move, but rather the art of movements-that-are-drawn. What happens between each frame is more important than what happens on each frame. Therefore, animation is the art of manipulating the invisible interstices between frames.”
With imagery that mixes real footage, hand-drawn animations, video games, software screen recordings, and 3D scans, in my video works I seek to intensify such gaps between the layers of animated imagery in an attempt to grasp the kinds of experience that may lie beyond human perceptual boundaries. I hope to reconfigure supposed boundaries, unfolding the processes of interfacing across dimensions and question "where images end and bodies begin, where truth or the real might reside,"[1] and where the boundary between spectator and screen dissolves into “life.”
In this talk I will go over the aspects of my research concerning the radical potential of animation, and how with my video works I try to entertain hybrid states of being and thinking, at once mechanical and human and more-than-human.
[1] From Deborah Levitt’s ‘The Animatic Apparatus’.
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