Celebrating the global launch of Interlaced: Animation and Textiles (2025), a lavishly illustrated print catalogue that documents and critically expands on the popular exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre. This book explores the relationship between animation and textiles across over a century of media art, from early cinema experiments to contemporary algorithmically generated images. Curator Alla Gadassik’s deeply researched text is accompanied by captivating exhibition photographs, high-quality reproductions of all artworks and additional archival materials, and a Director’s foreword.

The book discusses the work of twenty-four artists who embroider with projected light, quilt celluloid films and weave digital tapestries. Media scholar Alla Gadassik’s curatorial essay proposes a textile genealogy of animation tied to dancing veils, weaving samples and patterned barkcloth. She explores animated cloth as a technology of enchantment, reveals the fabric of film and digital imaging, contends with feminized labour sustaining textile and media production, and traces globally distinct lineages of animated textiles. The book is available at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery shop (shipping across New Zealand and Australia) and READ Books in Vancouver (international).