Episode 53: Just a Plain Curiosity (March, 2020)
SCMS is cancelled but the content rolls on! This episode of Aca-Media brings you a fascinating interview with Paul Taberham about animation and the avant-garde, including some great tips for teaching difficult media. Then Ryn Marchese discusses the amazing work being done at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Finally, Chris and Michael banter about how they are spending their self-isolation.
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Opening Banter
The Memory Palace, “The Newest News”
Aca-Media takes you to Matera
Animation and the Avant-Garde with Paul Taberham
Paul Taberham’s page at Arts University Bournemouth
Lessons in Perception
Tim Smith, Birkbeck, University of London
The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI)
Joseph Anderson, Reality of Illusion
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
Paul Sharits, 'I Was a Flawed Modernist': Collected Writings of and Stories about Paul Sharits
P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film
Michael Snow, Back and Forth description and on YouTube
William Wees, Light Moving in Time
Robert Breer
James Peterson, Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order
J.J. Murphy
Stan Brakhage
Sirius Remembered description and on YouTube
The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes description and on YouTube
Jonas Mekas
Adventures in Perception: Stan Brakhage in His Own Words
Oskar Fischinger, Fischinger at Disney, or Oskar in the Mousetrap (Excerpt)
Michel Gagné, Gagné’s animation for Ratatouille and conceptual artwork
Jan Švankmajer, Dimensions of Dialogue description and on Vimeo
Taberham’s YouTube series
What is the REF?
What is the TEF?
Knowledge Exchange Framework
Jerrold Levinson
Paul Wells, Understanding Animation
Maureen Furniss, Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics
Plato’s Aesthetics
Taberham, “A General Aesthetics of American Animation Sound Design”
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Social Media Links for the AAPB: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
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Resources for participating organizations (you can find Ryn’s e-mail address here)
NPR’s Mission Current Statement
An interview with Bill Siemering from Radio Diaries
AAPB’s Exhibits Page
Special Collections Page
Newshour Collection
LGBTQ + Collection
Woman Series
Selection of The American Experience Raw Interviews:
1964
Freedom Riders
Stonewall Uprising
Interview with Emmett Till’s Mother
Interview with Rosa Parks
Closing Banter
Schitt’s Creek
Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9 on Britbox
Watchmen
Tulsa race massacre
Aca-Media on Twitter