Monday 7th december, 7:30pm

Huddersfield University Lecture Theatre, Canalside Campus

Version 3.0–video compilation by the London Film and Video Umbrella

This retrospective showcase of international computer animation looks
back over more than thirty years of creative innovation with computer
technology, encompassing some of the first experimental forays into the
world of computer-generated images and ending, in the present, with some
of the most startling and sophisticated products of the contemporary
digital aesthetic.

The programme includes contributions from many of the key players in
computer animation history: pioneering figures like John Whitney as well
as other visionary artists like Yoichiro Kawaguchi and Michel Bret;
virtuoso animators like John Lasseter and Marc Caro as well as technical
innovators like William Latham and Karl Sims. The selection tries to
take into account the very distinct but often parallel development of
artists' work in this area in the United States, France, Britain,
Germany and Japan with significant examples from each of these
countries. To complete the picture, other works have been selected to
illustrate themes and preoccupations (involving the physical and the
virtual, the organic and the artificial) which artists have been
increasingly drawn to and which the computer is ideally suited to
explore.

The yorkshire hub club meets on the second monday of the month
alternately in Sheffield, Bradford or Huddersfield.

The Hub Club is a partnership project between TEST, Lovebytes, Pavilion,
Huddersfield University, Synergy and the National Museum of Film,
Photography and Television.