Writing

Book Publication – “Interlaced: Animation & Textiles”

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.

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Book Publication – “Graphite: Animated Traces”

My short monograph Graphite: Animated Traces (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2024) profiles the material and cultural history of graphite as a creative medium, with close attention to its important role in contemporary art and animation.⁠ The book highlights the medium’s temperament and significance by turning to the unfolding and provisional status of the drawn moving image, considering graphite as a medium of emergent thought, contemplation, tender intimacy and impermanence.⁠

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Publication: “The Floating Horizon and Animated Disorientation”

My short article on the visual history of the floating horizon, from early depictions of aerial vision to the wonderful short film “The Case of the Spiral Staircase” (1982), was just published here in the online journal Animation 2.0. Happy to direct more attention to the Dutch filmmaking duo Jacques Verbeek and Karin Wiertz, many of whose films are accessible online courtesy of the EYE Filmmuseum.

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Alla Gadassik (PhD, Northwestern University) is a media scholar, curator, and lifelong cinephile. Her main area of expertise is animated media — covering a wide range of historical, geographic, and production contexts. She also researches and writes about histories of cinematography, film editing, and experimental cinema. Alla is an Associate Professor of Media History and Theory at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD), where she founded the Animate Materials Workshop. She lives and works in Vancouver on unceded lands of Coast Salish people: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).