Sharing overdue news that I was awarded a major SSHRC Insight Grant (2024- 2029) to support the Animate Materials Workshop for the next 5 years. This funding will allow me to continue partnerships with brilliant artists, scholars, film festivals and art galleries interested in exploring material history and culture through animation. Emily Carr University published an announcement and profile of the project here. I have so many people to thank for supporting this work, when it was developed largely on my own time on top of full-time teaching. Two people I can’t thank by name are two external peer reviewers, who wrote thoughtful and generous reviews of the application. They understood the project and clearly helped the jury appreciate its potential.
[Update: the position has been filled] Animate Materials Workshop is hiring a research assistant for a project on Indigenous storytelling for animation. Supported by interviews with contemporary animation producers, this project explores the possibilities and barriers of adapting oral stories for animation, with a focus on contemporary Inuit animation.
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How can researchers and artists develop meaningful ethical practices around storytelling methods? What responsibilities do researchers and creative practitioners have to participant stories they gather, store, and share? This virtual roundtable, presented by ECU’s Research Ethics Board, features speakers Aaron Nelson-Moody (Coast Salish art and design), Candace Brunette-Debassige (Indigenous education and academic policy), and Ranjan Datta (community-based disaster research). It was an honour to organize and facilitate this virtual roundtable as part of my work with the ECU Research Ethics Board.
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Alla Gadassik: Media Scholar and Animation Curator 