Title - Mark Goulthorpe. Misericord to a Grotesque Reification.
Keywords - Animation. Cinematic movement. Stytlisaton. Cultural psyche. Problems in represntation. Sequence of movements. Conceptual understanding. Emerging mathematics in space - the Aegis Hyposurface. Autoplastic. Alloplastic. Misericord.
Thoughts - Actualising the virtual : capturing the cinematic movement, and the literal capture of movement effected by a new technology. Technological change becomes intersting only as it infiltrates cultural psychology and suggests new patterns of behavior and expectation. Perhaps it is not stating the obvious to suggest that animation animates and produces an effect in us, as psychological rather than simply a physical manifestation. Consider animation in both a productive and recptive sense and may be contrasted with stylisation.
Stylisation - imposes order and approximates the living form to geometric shapes, animation brings these shapes to lifewith movement and expression.
New forms of cultural imagination, the new sense that has brought the notion of time being simply a sequence of frozen movements. The temporal sense of computer generation seems to ssuggest a much more fluid sense of animation, form held as a parametrically unstable elastic potential, a sort of conceptual trembling.
Conceptual understanding - vital to our understanding of animation effects is that the uncrtainty of response carries over from the perceptual to the emotional spere....A fresh effect depended on changes evolving based on the psychological reactions to be engaged. It is the psycological effects communicated by the electronic economy that seem to offer more potential than the image of frozen mathematics.
Aegis Hyposurface - where patterns are deployed as endlessly unstable derivatives, oscillating between hypnotic and hallucinogenic modes, the limits of optical sense, and fading between figurative and abstract patterning. The emergence and dissipation of pattern, ornament and writing is floated, travelling back and forth across modes of thought.
Autoplastic - presumes a determinate relationship between environment and creative receptive self.
Alloplastic - denotes a malleable relationship that suggests a mode of cultural reciprocity. fom autoplastic to alloplastic. a concise definition.
Misericord - A small shelf provided in the middle ages to offer respite to monks an prayer. Taditionally carpernters were given freedom to carve the invisible misercords, and used to animate monks both mentally and physically. The tactile shapes teases the contemplative imagination. In the world of animation the misericord enthuses a system of faith in frozen mathematics and seems to be a substitute for an engagement with the psychologies of perception released in the technological change.
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