Animierte Wunderwelten / Animated Wonderworlds
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Buchan3
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- T - Other
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- Location
- Various Formats and Locations
- Brief description of type
- Multi-Component Output with Contextual Information
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The exhibition and book ‘Animated Wonderworlds’ (AWW) co-curated and co-edited by Buchan and Janser, including Buchan’s ‘Animating the Human’ essay, were developed from Buchan’s research on ‘pervasive animation’ as a burgeoning phenomenon in visual culture, occupying, informing and politicising many public, professional and private spaces. Through development and refinement of Buchan’s key concepts, AWW interrogated how animation is infiltrating everyday life via new media platforms and screens in the home, the studio and the workplace that use animation in a wide range of interfaces to design, instruct, entertain and influence. Presented at the Swiss Zurich Museum for Design, AWW built on Trickraum: Spacetricks, also proposed and conceptualised by Buchan and co-curated with Janser there (2005). In AWW, thirty-six primi inter pares works expressed pioneering lineages, game changers, paradigm shifts and refinements in development of genres, styles and design. The in-depth methodology was grounded in how the invisible and intangible can be technologically and visually mediated to explore historical, cultural and social impacts of analogue and digital animation. Buchan’s curatorial concept and research centred on enlightening visitors about the significance of animation they encounter– from vernacular and didactic to narrative, abstraction or documentary. 33,962 visitors experienced a continuum transitioning from narrative features, performance, science and commerce to data visualizations and non-narrative interactive works. AWW generated understanding of social, cultural and ethical enrichment and the consequences of an increasingly technologically mediated society. It was discussed in over 70 newspaper and magazine articles. The exhibition concept led by Buchan and jointly curated with Janser included exemplar research, selection, installation and execution, and a publication. In ‘Animating the Human’, Buchan examined animation through technology, virtuosity and enchantment, aesthetics and empathy, digital abstraction, engagement and serious play. The research resulted in keynote invitations at Birkbeck, University of London and University of Marburg.
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- Non-English
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