In my role as Chair of the ECU Research Ethics Board for the past three years, I organize an annual educational event related to the ethics of creative research and practice. This year’s event featured a conversation with Dr. Charlotte Schallié from Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives about working with survivors of violent trauma and atrocity. While we do not record our events, I wrote a post covering some key points that came up in the conversation and audience discussion that followed. Dr. Schallié commissioned ECU student Hannah Strocel to develop illustrations for the text, and it’s now published on the SCVN website here.
My review of the luscious exhibition Heart On: Joyce Wieland was published over the holidays in PUBLIC Journal online here. Below is a version of the review that includes my documentation of the exhibition.
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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.
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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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.
Alla Gadassik: Media Scholar and Animation Curator 