Practice as research in animation: A provisional engagement. Issue 1 (1st August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nelson, Robin
• Is Part Of: Animation practice, process & production. Volume 9:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 145
• Page End: 155
• Publication Date: 2020-08-01
• Subjects: Animation (Cinematography) -- Periodicals; Computer animation -- Periodicals; 777.7
• DOI: 10.1386/ap3_000022_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2042-7875

Abstract

Let me start with a confession. Though for years, I have had an interest in animation and have observed students engaged in puppet, paper and plasticine processes of animation by analogue and digital means, I have myself never constructed an animated sequence. Why, then, have I been invited to write a contribution to this collection? For philosophical and political reasons related to a lifelong engagement with arts and screen media practices and education, I have developed expertise in what some call artistic research and I prefer to call practice as research (PaR). In particular, I have developed an epistemological model for PaR, which sets three modes of knowing ‐ know-how, know-what and know-that ‐ in dynamic inter-relation. In what follows, I place my specialist terms in italics to mark them out.