Written by: Alla Gadassik
Edited by: Zara Stanhope
Format: PUR edition with flaps, PVC wrap dust jacket
Size: 250 × 176 mm
Pages: 148
ISBN: 978-1-0670282-1-3
Description
Interlaced: Animation and Textiles explores the layered relationship between these two artforms. This lavishly illustrated book covers more than a century of media art, from early cinema experiments to contemporary algorithmically generated images. Braiding together analogue and digital media, Interlaced explores the enduring capacity of textile forms to make visible animating forces and to reanimate intergenerational memory.
Published on the occasion of the groundbreaking exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, the book features the work of twenty-four artists who embroider with projected light, quilt celluloid films, and weave digital tapestries.
Curator and media scholar Alla Gadassik proposes a textile genealogy of animation tied to dancing veils, weaving samples, and patterned barkcloth. The work of renowned filmmaker Len Lye serves as a connective thread in her account of textile traditions and forms that have shaped animation.
Interlaced explores animated cloth as a technology of enchantment, reveals the fabric of film and digital imaging, contends with feminised labour sustaining textile and media production, and traces globally distinct lineages of animated textiles.
Alla Gadassik is a scholar, writer, and curator of animation and contemporary media art. She is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, Canada), where she founded the Animate Materials Workshop. As International Film Curator in Residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre (2022–25), she authored Graphite: Animated Traces (2024) and developed Interlaced: Animation and Textiles, the large-scale group exhibition that occasioned this publication.
Design: Tana Mitchell
Publisher: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre
Made in Aotearoa. Ships nationwide.
Written by: Alla Gadassik
Edited by: Zara Stanhope
Format: PUR edition with flaps, PVC wrap dust jacket
Size: 250 × 176 mm
Pages: 148
ISBN: 978-1-0670282-1-3
Description
Interlaced: Animation and Textiles explores the layered relationship between these two artforms. This lavishly illustrated book covers more than a century of media art, from early cinema experiments to contemporary algorithmically generated images. Braiding together analogue and digital media, Interlaced explores the enduring capacity of textile forms to make visible animating forces and to reanimate intergenerational memory.
Published on the occasion of the groundbreaking exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, the book features the work of twenty-four artists who embroider with projected light, quilt celluloid films, and weave digital tapestries.
Curator and media scholar Alla Gadassik proposes a textile genealogy of animation tied to dancing veils, weaving samples, and patterned barkcloth. The work of renowned filmmaker Len Lye serves as a connective thread in her account of textile traditions and forms that have shaped animation.
Interlaced explores animated cloth as a technology of enchantment, reveals the fabric of film and digital imaging, contends with feminised labour sustaining textile and media production, and traces globally distinct lineages of animated textiles.
Alla Gadassik is a scholar, writer, and curator of animation and contemporary media art. She is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, Canada), where she founded the Animate Materials Workshop. As International Film Curator in Residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre (2022–25), she authored Graphite: Animated Traces (2024) and developed Interlaced: Animation and Textiles, the large-scale group exhibition that occasioned this publication.
Design: Tana Mitchell
Publisher: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre
Made in Aotearoa. Ships nationwide.
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