SEAT Zoetropes at Bumbershoot!

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Oct 092016
 

The Seattle Experimental Animation Team was in full force at the recent Bumbershoot festival. The team installed their three giant zoetropes sculptures which included some brand new animated loops with a ‘disaster’ theme, as well as other video/animation related installations. The zoetropes were originally constructed for the month-long SEAT & Spin exhibit at Gallery 4Culture, and we’re happy more people got to experience them. Go SEAT!

The SEAT corner at Bumbershoot

The SEAT corner at Bumbershoot. Photo by James Webber.

 

SEAT @ Bumbershoot 2016 from SEAT on Vimeo.

SEAT @ Bumbershoot 2016 B from SEAT on Vimeo.

SEAT @ Bumbershoot 2016 C from SEAT on Vimeo.

Zoetropes in action. Photo by James Webber.

Zoetropes in action. Photo by James Webber.

Works represented:

Webster Crowell: Bad Neighborhood
Courtney Barnebey: Destruction Projector
Clyde Petersen: Harsh Tokes and Bong Jokes
James Webber: Tsunami: Over and Down Seatown
Britta Johnson: Incoming
Chris Looney: Eff’d Up Ferry Tale
Stewart McCullough, Bayu Angermeyer & Esmé McCullough: Unleashed in Seattle
Britta Johnson: Outer Layer
Neely Goniodsky: Flood
Tess Martin: Falling Man
Britta Johnson: Heat Transfer

SEAT success at Short Run

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Nov 122015
 

The Seattle Experimental Animation Team was happy to take part in the Short Run Comix & Arts Festival on Halloween in Seattle. We set up a tent, showed films inside and had a great time. Special thanks to James Webber for spearheading this year’s endeavor. Until next year!

Setting up the tent. Photo by James Webber.

Setting up the tent. Photo by James Webber.

Setting up the table. Photo by James Webber.

Setting up the table. Photo by James Webber.

The Short Run hall. Photo by Alex Stonehill/Short Run.

The Short Run hall. Photo by Alex Stonehill/Short Run.

Attendees waiting in line. Photo by Alex Stonehill/Short Run.

Attendees waiting in line. Photo by Alex Stonehill/Short Run.

Seattle animator and graphic novelist Bruce Bickford at his table. Photo by Alex Stonehill/Short Run.

Seattle animator and graphic novelist Bruce Bickford at his table. Photo by Alex Stonehill/Short Run.

SHORT RUN 2015

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Oct 272015
 

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Comics and animation go together like peanut butter & jelly, am I right or am I right. Which is why SEAT has always had an animation tent at the SHORT RUN Comix & Arts Festival. We are going to have a mixture of animations from SEAT members, SHORT RUN exhibitors and an excerpt from Bruce Bickford’s Cas’l, plus Jim Woodring’s 3D slides, about 80 minutes of visual delights! We also have a late additional to the program, a collection of visual poetries called WRIT LARGE curated by FICTILIS, that runs about 30 minutes. Did I mention the festival is free!

Showtimes:

11 AM : SEAT Members’ Shorts

NOON : Exhibitors’ Shorts

12:30 : WRIT LARGE

1:00 : Bruce Bickford’s CAS’L’ (6 min. excerpt)

1:30 : Jim Woodring’s 3D Slides

2:00 : SEAT Members’ Shorts

3:00 : Exhibitors’ Shorts

3:30 : WRIT LARGE

4:00 : Bruce Bickford’s CAS’L’ (6 min. excerpt)

4:30 : Jim Woodring’s 3D Slides

5:00 : SEAT Members’ Shorts

5:30 : Coldbrew Collective’s Horror Film Video-Mix

We will see you there.

Feb 162015
 

The Seattle Experimental Animation Team has been working really hard that last few days on our new gallery show at the Archer Gallery in Clark College in Vancouver, WA, outside Portland, OR. The show is called Sequestered Together: The Dangerous and Lonely World of Animation and the opening is tomorrow, February 17th!

The show is an elaborate collection of short films, music videos, giant spinnable zoetropes and making-of detritus (still frames from drawn animations, puppets, sketches, etc.) from Seattle animators. Represented animators are: Clyde Petersen, Stefan Gruber, Britta Johnson, Webster Crowell, Neely Goniodsky, Ian Obermuller, Devin Ensz, Komari Ichimasu, Joe Garber, Salise Hughes, Sarah Jane Lapp, Chris Looney and Tess Martin.

The opening is Tuesday, February 17th, 5PM-8PM and at 5:30PM a guided walk by some of the animators will take place. The show is up until March 14th! Here is the Facebook event. What a great opportunity for the Portland area animators to mingle with the Seattle animators!

And check out this post from the Phoenix, the Clark College Literary & Art Journal, about the show.

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Feb 132015
 

Back in April 2013 we premiered our second collective film at Zeitgeist Coffee in Pioneer Square – this one was based on the 1960 Little Shop of Horrors! It’s finally made its way online. Enjoy this animated re-interpretation by, in order: Eric Ostrowski, Tess Martin, Charlie Daugherty, Timothy Firth, Tim Miller, Stefan Gruber & Aaron Wendel, Clyde Petersen and Salise Hughes.

The Little Shop of Animated Horrors from SEAT on Vimeo.

Short Run 2014

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Nov 132014
 

SEAT will be at Short Run this Saturday, November 15th!

Short Run 2014!

Washington Hall
153 14th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122

11am-6pm

FREE!

The breathtaking Washington Hall will be filled with a book fair highlighting nearly 200 writers and artists. The first 50 attendees through the door at 11:00 AM will receive a FREE swag bag valued at $40, so don’t be late! Look for the SEAT Castle Fort where you can chill out and watch animations all day long, when you need a break from looking at amazing zines, comics and books! 

SEAT Zoetrope at Capitol Hill Art Walk

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Aug 092014
 
One of the SEAT Zoetropes at the 4Culture Gallery in March 2014.

One of the SEAT Zoetropes at the 4Culture Gallery in March 2014.

If you missed the opportunity to spin one of SEAT‘s home made zoetropes during our 4Culture Gallery show this past March, or if you just want to do it again, you’re in luck! Stop by the NW Film Forum during August’s Capitol Hill Art Walk on Thursday, August 14th and you will find one in the lobby.

The zoetrope will definitely be there between 6 and 8PM, and maybe even a bit later into the night. If you need more convincing to stop by, check out this documentation video from the March show where people gleefully spin them.

SEAT & SPIN at Gallery 4Culture

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Mar 072014
 

Come down to Gallery 4Culture to experience SEAT & SPIN, the latest in group work from the Seattle Experimental Animation Team. Three giant zoetropes built by Webster Crowell fill the room with mystery and shadows. Inside, you will find 12 short films by local animators.

The show is up through March 2014. Pack a lunch, bring your kids. It’s all-ages and you can touch all the art. Enjoy!

Gallery 4Culture
101 Prefontaine Pl S   
Seattle, WA 98104
M – F  8:30-5:00

SEAT Gallery Show: SEAT & Spin – opens March 6, 2014

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Feb 092014
 

The Seattle Experimental Animation Team will be opening a show at the Gallery4Culture on Thursday, March 6, 2014, and it will then be open the rest of the month. SEAT & Spin will feature Zoetropes, early cameraless animation toys, with loops designed by SEAT animators.
The opening will coincide with Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Art Walk, so come on by and check it out!
And here is the awesome flier designed by animator Stefan Gruber.

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Audrey 2: The Little Shop of Horrors Install at NWFF for Local Sightings

Audrey 2: The Little Shop of Horrors Install at NWFF for Local Sightings

 

SPECIAL OPENING NIGHT INSTALLATION AT LOCAL SIGHTINGS
THE NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 10PM

The Seattle Experimental Animation Team presents Bloodbath & Beyond: The Little Shop of Animated Horrors. This SEAT collective film, based on the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors retells the classic tale of a plant that came from outer space and got a taste for blood.

For this collective film, SEAT split the original film into sections and approached the project in the classic style of the game “exquisite corpse.” Each animator took a 9 minute segment of the film and condensed it into 1 or 2 minutes of animation.

This film will be screening in an installation, in the lobby of the Film Forum, during opening night of Local Sightings. Do you dare to stick your head inside the Audrey 2 and enjoy the sights!?

Find out more about Local Sightings!