Interview with Rasmus Albertsen - the man behind "The Holy Mushroom"
(2024)
author(s): Rasmus Albertsen
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
Rasmus Albertsen is interviewed by Rasmus Albertsen about his film stop-motion animated film: "The Holy Mushroom". The text reflects on Albertsens thoughts about his proces: writing the story, creating the characters and the scenography. Furthermore it's about imperfect animation, nostalgia and archetypes.
Virtual Hallucinations
(2024)
author(s): Emma Richey
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
A master's thesis that aims to see how 2D animation can visualize hallucinations in VR, while examining the greyzone between technology and spirituality in the animation process. The animations are made for the VR documentary film: Urban Witches, by Nicia Fernandez.
THE ART OF THE WALK CYCLE
(2024)
author(s): Rania Ghazali
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This exploration delves into the potential of emotional storytelling through walk cycles. Moving beyond traditional animation, it utilises the expressive power of modern tools to explore how line, shape, stroke weight, colour, texture, and sound can be manipulated to create abstract narratives that evoke deeper emotional experience for the viewer.
Drawing on a foundation of psychological principles, scientific research, and relevant articles, the walk cycles become abstract narratives, provoking introspection and emotional connection.
"KAN HALSBANDEN GÖRA SIG AV SIG SJÄLV?" - En studie om inkluderande bildundervisning genom stop motion
(2024)
author(s): Ellen Kugelberg
connected to: Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design
published in: Research Catalogue
”Can the necklaces make themselves?” - A study on inclusive art education through stop motion
Min studie handlar om hur stop motion och dess egenskaper kan möjliggöra en inkluderande bildundervisning för barn med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar (npf). Det är en stor elevgrupp som ofta har svårigheter i bildundervisningen och även i skolan i stort.
Den definition av inkluderingsbegreppet jag utgår ifrån i min studie är den gemenskaphetsorienterade, vilket innebär att särlösningar inte görs för enskilda elever utan alla elever ska vara socialt och pedagogiskt delaktiga. Olikheter ska ses som en tillgång och problem ska inte läggas på en enskild individ utan på undervisningen och skolan som helhet.
Jag har undersökt detta genom arbete med sju elever i en mellanstadieklass på en resursskola för barn med npf och har utformat min undervisning med hjälp av det pedagogiska förhållningssättet ett differentierat lärande och använder mig av design för lärande som teori och tolkningsram.
Story in motion: creative collaborations on Tłı̨chǫ lands
(2023)
author(s): Adolfo Ruiz, Tony Rabesca
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition describes a creative collaboration in the self-governed Tłı̨chǫ region of Canada’s Northwest Territories. As part of this collaboration, Indigenous research methods and participatory experiences facilitated a process by which regional oral history was visualised and translated into animation. As a long-term project, this research was based on relationships through which a non-Indigenous researcher was able to learn and exchange knowledge with elders and youth from the region. Community workshops facilitated image-making, storytelling sessions, and interaction between generations. The animated film that emerged through this research is an embodiment of cultural knowledge and cultural continuity.
Mapping the Unseen(the virtual Mapping)
(2022)
author(s): Katrin Ackerl Konstantin
published in: SAR Conference 2020
Mapping the Unseen investigated unseen, undiscussed topics - topics that are absent from public discourse, because of their implicit social taboo potential.
The artistic research was carried out by means of mapping, encompassing performative interventions and an interactive archive. It was realised with artists and art groups in four countries: Croatia, Iran, Bangladesh and Austria. The research method was interwoven with transdisciplinary methods. Enabling a visualisation of the respective topics and generating dialogue through participatory processes were at the core of this project.
luxurious migrant // performing whiteness
(2020)
author(s): Stacey Sacks
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
Stacey Sacks is a PhD candidate in Performing Arts at Stockholm’s University of the Arts. Her Doctoral Project *This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything* takes form as a suite of hyper-disciplinary experiments with mask, clown, stop-motion animation, film, photography, sculpture, text, drawing and performance.
Drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of ‘critical intimacy’ the performance-essay 'luxurious migrant' reflects on whiteness and privilege and the performance of it. As an intra-cultural, auto-ethnographic excavation it attempts and possibly fails to critically engage with notions of access, authority and power from within the cultural canon. As such it is a creative experimentation with theory and performance, an exploration of the improvisatory impulse and what it means to be ‘on’ the moment.
Since clown naturally contains transgressive elements, the project explores how the genre can be used in a neo-colonial context to subvert or interrupt the dominant discourse, whether satire and parody function as activism and if it is in fact possible to push back white supremacy through critical engagement and play, starting with a robust self-critique.
This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything
(2020)
author(s): Stacey Sacks
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything is a documented artistic research project (Doctoral Thesis) in Performative and Mediated Practices, comprising a series of excavations and vivisections of W(w)hiteness through clowning, making and thinging. This work/play traverses the fields of critical whiteness studies, performance and clowning, visual and cultural anthropology and decolonial critique.
This eclectic mash-up of history, memory and trauma unfolds from my original question: as an actor, which bodies is it appropriate for me to inhabit? Via hyper-disciplinary experiments of the impulse and
what it means to be ‘on’ the moment, the research fabricates a series of clowters, performed entanglements of clown and character passing between various continents, temporalities and situated histories.
SQUIRM is the title given to both the final performance essay as well as to the reflective documentation emerging from this research. As experimentations with auto-ethnography and productive discomfort, the performing essays in SQUIRM document, animate and satirise explorations of W(w)hiteness, privilege and colonial logic. At the intersections of histories, they dig through remnants of collective memory, personal genealogy and shame, in the hope of reassembling new, sharper ways of giving and receiving attention.
From inside the body of this performer SQUIRM is about TONGUE-ING, about licking the future into softness by reinvigorating ancient clown practices to poke at whiteness in the current age. It’s about squirming and laughing through the discomfort of privilege in what feels like a crumbling time.
But mostly it’s about feeling great in a beard.
Frozen Moments in Motion – An Artistic Research on Digital Comics
(2019)
author(s): Fredrik Rysjedal
connected to: Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
What are the concepts of motion in digital comics? What types of motion can be used in comics and how does motion affect the presentation, the story and even the reader/viewer?
This project is a part of the Norwegian Programme for Artistic Research, and it's executed at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, today called Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen.
Stop and go: nodes of transformation and transition
(2017)
author(s): Michael Zinganel, Michael Hieslmair
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
Stop and Go is a research project investigating physical and social transformation at nodes and hubs of transnational mobility and migration alongside major pan-European road corridors in a geographic triangle between Vienna, Tallinn, and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. It draws on intensive embedded field trips with a mobile lab (a Ford Transit van) using (deep) mapping, workshops, installations, and exhibitions both on tour and in a stationary work space in a Vienna logistics hub (a former railway station). Intermediate and final results have been represented in diagrammatic drawings, maps, and (animated) graphic novels.
Animated Ecology
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Lina Persson
connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
In these works I have explored how I can relate to my environment through my daily practices of teaching, eating, animating etc. I begun the project by improvising lectures for various audiences I wanted to have input from. I have lectured to all possible enteties in the ecosystem I am a part of, from blueberries to colleagues to films. Every time something new continues to take shape. The exposition include essays, paintings and animations.
Peripheral Alacrity - Animation as entry into non-human temporalities
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Devon Pardue
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
A master's thesis culminating in a project called Peripheral Alacrity; an audiovisual animation installation utilizing animation at 60fps to investigate the temporal relationship between us and fast-moving organisms on the edges of our senses. My work is informed by a deeply rooted interest and curiosity in the biological sciences and uses ideas found therein to explore the complicated relationships between humans and the rest of the living world. I became particularly interested in the perception of time across species and the potential for animation to serve as an axis into nonhuman temporalities.
How are our relationships with other organisms impacted by our bodies' unique temporality? Fast-living invertebrates like insects are of particular importance because their crucial role in a healthy ecosystem forces us to reconcile with our particular disdain for their speed and our desire for control over our surroundings. That desire to oversee and pin down a version of nature that is ideologically pure has roots in Europatriarchal power structures, so I sought to create a space to recontextualize these encounters as they naturally are in our day-to-day life. The work seeks to capture this particular interaction characterized by fleeting peripheral glimpses of fast-living organisms; from dragonflies to some we only see as a passing blur, and all the abstractions in between. You’re interrupted by a flash of motion and sound from the corner of your eye and by the time you crane your head to look, it is already gone. It is less about seeing, and more about our desire-to-see creating an asymmetrical dance between the viewer and the fleeting subject.
Searching for a Soul of Things
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Maria Komarova
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Through exploring different ways of relating to things, surprising connections appear. The research catalogue
"Searching for a Soul of Things" introduces strategies for rethinking the materiality of everyday objects and revealing the multiplicity of narratives behind them. It tends to verify theoretical concepts from the field of new materialism and object-oriented ontology in the context of scenographical practice. The research analyzes practical experiments and transforms them into an interactive 2D environment.
Mobilis in mobil, rörlig i ett föränderligt medium
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Kristina Frank
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
An animator in awe of nature builds a submarine library and travels eons to a world of pre-culture nature.
Her research interests point in three directions:
Constructing a state of amazement by nature.
Investigating, designing and building an underwater library.
Using animation to create spatiality and interactivity.
Embodied experiences as a call for action
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Franco Ismael Veloz
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This project attempts to explore different ways of connecting with someone else’s reality . How can we cause an impact with storytelling? Generate reflection, a look from another perspective? It attempts to close the gap between information and the actual person behind it.
THINKING IN LAYERS, WORLDING IN LAYERS: POSTHUMAN LANDSCAPES IN EXTENDED DRAWINGS AND PRINTS
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Britta Benno
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
I am using the printmaking and drawing artist way of thinking as a method of creating artistic research. Thinking in layers becomes a way of creating both: the artefacts and writing. The emphasis of the artistic research is divided in two extending and overlapping categories: first, conceptually worlding the post-capitalist landscapes – this becomes the study-case of the second and most imporant focus: the innovation of formal indermedial method when creating hybrid art.
Moving Stills
(last edited: 2015)
author(s): Belen Cerezo
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The exposition 'Moving Stills' addressees the issue of still photographs that move, in other words, that contain movement through expounding and scrutinising the images that emerge from re-filming a still image. These images could be defined as still and moving image at the same time and here I will call them still-moving. This interrogation draws on the discursive notion of the rostrum camera — a film-making technique based on re-filming still images usually employed in animation and in documentary films and it is composed by a performance-lecture 'Moving Stills' and the artwork 'Moving Stills, Moving Stones'.
The performance-lecture explores certain images that are still and also moving images. The first part of this performance-lecture reflects upon genealogies of the so-called still and so-called moving image. The second one brings to the fore the images that challenge this distinction and introduces the specific case of the ‘rostrum camera’. Finally, the last part presents three excerpts of documentary films in which the technique of the rostrum camera has been employed ‘to move’, in the sense of to set into motion, still images.
The artwork 'Moving Stills, Moving Stones' is composed by two videos, one in a titled monitor on the floor and the other on a flat screen. The monitor shows a ‘sequence’ of a stone-lifting from the film Ama Lur, 1973, also included in the performance-lecture Moving Stills, that. Next, the flat tv displays a video that begins with the technique of the ‘rostrum camera’ applied on still photographs that depict hands (extended palms with outspread fingers, clenched fist…) and later these same images are activated through the tactic ‘performing documents’. The work draws an explicit parallel between lifting stones and the artistic endeavour ‘to move’ images and it acknowledges that the haptic is located between the so-called still and so-called moving image.
This exposition is part of the submission for the PhD study "What is it ‘to move’ a photograph?
Artistic tactics for destabilizing and transforming images".
Rasmus Albertsen is interviewed by Rasmus Albertsen about his film stop-motion animated film: "The Holy Mushroom". The text reflects on Albertsens thoughts about his proces: writing the story, creating the characters and the scenography. Furthermore it's about imperfect animation, nostalgia and archetypes.open exposition comments (0)
A master's thesis that aims to see how 2D animation can visualize hallucinations in VR, while examining the greyzone between technology and spirituality in the animation process. The animations are made for the VR documentary film: Urban Witches, by Nicia Fernandez.open exposition comments (0)
This exploration delves into the potential of emotional storytelling through walk cycles. Moving beyond traditional animation, it utilises the expressive power of modern tools to explore how line, shape, stroke weight, colour, texture, and sound can be manipulated to create abstract narratives that evoke deeper emotional experience for the viewer. Drawing on a foundation of psychological principles, scientific research, and relevant articles, the walk cycles become abstract narratives, provoking introspection and emotional connection.open exposition comments (0)
This exposition describes a creative collaboration in the self-governed Tłı̨chǫ region of Canada’s Northwest Territories. As part of this collaboration, Indigenous research methods and participatory experiences facilitated a process by which regional oral history was visualised and translated into animation. As a long-term project, this research was based on relationships through which a non-Indigenous researcher was able to learn and exchange knowledge with elders and youth from the region. Community workshops facilitated image-making, storytelling sessions, and interaction between generations. The animated film that emerged through this research is an embodiment of cultural knowledge and cultural continuity.open exposition comments (0)
Mapping the Unseen investigated unseen, undiscussed topics - topics that are absent from public discourse, because of their implicit social taboo potential. The artistic research was carried out by means of mapping, encompassing performative interventions and an interactive archive. It was realised with artists and art groups in four countries: Croatia, Iran, Bangladesh and Austria. The research method was interwoven with transdisciplinary methods. Enabling a visualisation of the respective topics and generating dialogue through participatory processes were at the core of this project.open exposition comments (0)
What are the concepts of motion in digital comics? What types of motion can be used in comics and how does motion affect the presentation, the story and even the reader/viewer? This project is a part of the Norwegian Programme for Artistic Research, and it's executed at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, today called Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen.open exposition comments (0)
Stop and Go is a research project investigating physical and social transformation at nodes and hubs of transnational mobility and migration alongside major pan-European road corridors in a geographic triangle between Vienna, Tallinn, and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. It draws on intensive embedded field trips with a mobile lab (a Ford Transit van) using (deep) mapping, workshops, installations, and exhibitions both on tour and in a stationary work space in a Vienna logistics hub (a former railway station). Intermediate and final results have been represented in diagrammatic drawings, maps, and (animated) graphic novels.open exposition comments (1)
In these works I have explored how I can relate to my environment through my daily practices of teaching, eating, animating etc. I begun the project by improvising lectures for various audiences I wanted to have input from. I have lectured to all possible enteties in the ecosystem I am a part of, from blueberries to colleagues to films. Every time something new continues to take shape. The exposition include essays, paintings and animations.open exposition comments (0)
Through exploring different ways of relating to things, surprising connections appear. The research catalogue "Searching for a Soul of Things" introduces strategies for rethinking the materiality of everyday objects and revealing the multiplicity of narratives behind them. It tends to verify theoretical concepts from the field of new materialism and object-oriented ontology in the context of scenographical practice. The research analyzes practical experiments and transforms them into an interactive 2D environment.open exposition comments (0)
An animator in awe of nature builds a submarine library and travels eons to a world of pre-culture nature. Her research interests point in three directions: Constructing a state of amazement by nature. Investigating, designing and building an underwater library. Using animation to create spatiality and interactivity.open exposition comments (0)
This project attempts to explore different ways of connecting with someone else’s reality . How can we cause an impact with storytelling? Generate reflection, a look from another perspective? It attempts to close the gap between information and the actual person behind it.open exposition comments (1)
I am using the printmaking and drawing artist way of thinking as a method of creating artistic research. Thinking in layers becomes a way of creating both: the artefacts and writing. The emphasis of the artistic research is divided in two extending and overlapping categories: first, conceptually worlding the post-capitalist landscapes – this becomes the study-case of the second and most imporant focus: the innovation of formal indermedial method when creating hybrid art.open exposition comments (0)