Iveta Karpathyova – Rotoscoping Design for Bodily Technique and Interdisciplinary Research on Animation as Embodied Practice (runner-up)

What about knowledge of embodiment? What about the possibilities afforded to us as bodily beings? …Embodied technique remains a vital area of ongoing exploration, in which the potential for valuable new discoveries has in no way been exhausted. (Spatz, 2015, pp.4-5) My methods of inquiry were grounded in research on embodiment relatable to my practices […]

Gary Wilson – The Glass Canvas: Approaching Digital Direct Under Camera Animation (runner-up)

  There will be a time when people gaze at paintings, and ask why the objects remain rigid and stiff. They will demand action. – Winsor McCay (qtd. in Wells 1998). Digital tools have brought about a “tectonic shift” throughout the world of art and design practice, redefining the economic viability and utility of previously […]

Jason Douglass – In Search of a “New Wind”: Experimental, Labour Intensive and Intermedial Animation in 1950s and 60s Japan (winner)

Though critics and scholars continue to split hairs over which films best exemplify Japan’s “New Wave” of cinema from the late 1950s through the 1960s, the vast majority of works highlighted within such debates share one overarching commonality: they are works of live-action cinema. Situating animated media within a sea of scholarship celebrating handheld cameras, […]