Silent Signal at the Expanded Animation Symposium

Producer Abigail Addison will present on Silent Signal, followed by a screening of the six animated works. The presentation will explore how each project provides a creative response to cutting-edge research in order to bring to life the science. It will examine the different ways the artists and scientists have worked together to find a common language, and how each artist has engaged with their collaborating scientists’ data, tools and processes.

The fourth annual Expanded Animation symposium is entitled The Alchemy of Animation in keeping with the 2016 Festival theme, RADICAL ATOMS and the alchemists of our time. The focus is once again on the fringes of the computer animation field as well as on the reciprocal interaction of animation and technology. This year’s three featured topics are science, society and industry, which will be discussed from a variety of perspectives by three panels made up of animation filmmakers, curators, scientists, VFX artists and prizewinners in the Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation/Film/VFX category.