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Things always seem better after a visit to @curiousyellowkafe Slight setback when I have a deadline for tomorrow night and 100 drawings to scan! Really have no memory of either dropping my scanner or something falling on it. I didn’t even realise they could smash like that! Off to Argos. Last day of Its Coming from the Inside, curated by Sarah Sparkes and Jane Millar as part of Windows and Thresholds at the Bell House for the Dulwich Festival. My head is still buzzing after an incredible day at Ecstatic Truth VII: Decolonising Animation yesterday at UCA Farnham. All types of animation were featured from stop motion, digitally drawn, CGI, VR, AI, AR and game engines. We heard a range of speakers on topics such as how participatory animation workshops can be used to facilitate intergenerational discussions on conflict and genocide (Nairy Eivazy, Diwas Bisht, Paula Callus, Susan Sloan); revisiting the concept of animism to propose a Carib animation epistemology of worlding and futurity (Helen Starr); ethnographic animation to preserve indigenous heritage (Tara Douglas) and the use of co-design methods for rigorous consultation with and participation of indigenous people in making animations about their intangible heritage (Yijing Wang); using traditional metaphors from MesoAmerican heritage to explain complex concepts of quantum theory and string theory (Mark Chavez and Ina Conradi); challenging the classificatory biases built into motion capture libraries (Maybelle Peters) and finally the use of animation to go beyond the hegemonic gaze and convey a direct, first person, affective experience of a tranzfronteria reality on the borderlands of citizenship and assumed migrant status, replete with navigating social injustice and microaggression (Liliana Conlisk Gallegos). Inspired and energised by Gallegos’s call to be resistant, sharp and direct like a machete, the final panel of all speakers present, chaired by Helen Starr, covered a range of issues raised such as the ethical role of the ethnographic animator, where to get funding for non-commercial animation and concluded that change needs to happen. Thanks Juergen Hagler for sharing this picture from our joint presentation at ISEA in Paris today. We were talking about the Synaesthetic Syntax symposiums we have organised together at Ars Electronica for the last four years. These events have featured a range of artists talking about the sensory side of the animation process. Sorry not to be in Paris today, had to be a virtual appearance. Very grateful to Juergen for putting it all together even though he is so busy. Looking forward to our final Synaesthetic Syntax in September in Linz later this year. Been keeping shtoom about my latest projects until they’re finished, but lots in progress… Thanks to all the lovely people who made it to the Private View for @windowsandthresholds last night! Was a real fun evening and great to catch up with old friends. Even though my Mum couldn’t make it, I wore her dress from the 1970s so she was there in spirit! Registration for Ecstatic Truth 7: Decolonising Animation is now live at https://www.uca.ac.uk/events/research/ecstatictruthvii (link in bio) Come into the scullery and experience my short film, Holes.

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