ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a search for examples of innovative, feminist approaches to experimental computer animation. A quick survey of many experimental animation festivals around the world will reveal that there is a tendency for animation that foregrounds its digital origin to make up the minority of films on offer. Tenaciously continuing with her work in computing, Sorensen has gone on to explore visual music, generative systems, nature, stereoscopy and Asian cosmologies through computer animation, networked performance and interactive architectural installation, such as Mood of the Planet. Films that engage more overtly with feminism – and a look through the catalogue of films on offer at feminist animation festivals such as Tricky Women in Austria will confirm this – are overwhelmingly created through hand-drawn or handmade processes. ‘Experimental’ is a slippery concept to pin down and there are many ways to be experimental in and with animation.
