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Thursday 22 June 2006 21:00

animate! presents a dynamic, diverting, sometimes disturbing but always hugely imaginative exploration of urban lives and locales. Nine wide-ranging films in this programme, selected from the ever-expanding catalogue of animate! commissions, reveal fresh perspectives of the city:

13 by Simon Faithfull, Black, White & Green by Ian Bourn, Dad’s Dead by Chris [...]

2 - 15 June 2006

Radical animation splashes onto the biggest screen in the ‘Pool throughout the first fortnight in June. 37Seconds presents a collection of exhilarating works specially selected from animate!’s catalogue of commissions, demonstrating that there is so much more to animation than just… animation!

Five times every day, the half-hour programme cascades onto the [...]

May 2006

A special programme of recent commissions from the animate! project, venturing into fresh narrative territories and visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation.

In each of the ten films in Extending the Image : animate! 02-05 the artist breaks the rules and the exhilaration is compelling:

13 by Simon Faithfull, Dad’s Dead [...]

13 May 2006 - 2 July 2006

An exhibition illustrating what it means when fine art - usually the stillest of all the art forms - begins to move. The animations of seven UK artists are on show alongside the other kinds of artworks they make - paintings, photographs, sculptures and live events.

The artists represented are [...]

Thursday 11 May 2006 19:00

animate! concludes its three-part series of special evening screenings during the National Portrait Gallery’s 150th anniversary year, exploring portraiture and the dynamic medium of contemporary animation.

The primary focus of the season is the fascinating relationship between portraiture and place. Examining the implications of interior and exterior spaces, as well as the [...]

Saturday 22 April 2006 19:30

A special programme of recent commissions from the animate! project, venturing into fresh narrative territories and visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation.

In each of the ten films in Extending the Image : animate! 02-05 the artist breaks the rules and the exhilaration is compelling:

13 by Simon [...]

Thursday 13 April 2006 19:00

animate! continues its three-part series of special evening screenings during the National Portrait Gallery’s 150th anniversary year, exploring portraiture and the dynamic medium of contemporary animation.

The primary focus of the season is the fascinating relationship between portraiture and place. Examining the implications of interior and exterior spaces, as well as the [...]

Thursday 2 March 2006 19:00

Flight is Dryden Goodwin’s current exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery. The installation unpacks his animate! tv commission of the same name (premiered on Channel 4 in December 2005) and includes live action film, animated intervention and a multi-layered soundtrack, alongside hundreds of small-scale pen and ink drawings which also form the [...]

Friday 24 March 2006 13:00
Saturday 25 March 2006 19:30

animate! manipulates the Environments theme of this year’s Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art & Media and presents a dynamic, diverting, sometimes disturbing but always hugely imaginative exploration of urban lives and locales.

Nine wide-ranging films in this programme, selected from the ever-expanding catalogue of animate! commissions, reveal [...]