Screen/Society--Experimental Animation at the Dawn of the Digital Age: British and American Short Films, 1967-75

In conjunction with the exhibition "Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 1967-75", the Nasher Museum presents an evening of British and American experimental animated short films from the late 1960s to mid-1970s. Created at the dawn of the digital age, these films reveal how some artists worked with new technologies and collaborated with scientists and computer programmers, while others employed analog techniques in digitally evocative ways. Their works illustrate not only a shared aesthetic with the screenprints in "Colour Correction", but also a shared sense of experimentation with a relatively new technology. The program will feature 11 animated short films by seven artists including Malcolm LeGrice, Peter Donbauer, Peter Foldes, Alan Kitching, Charles Csuri, Stan VanDerBeek and John Whitney. Marshall N. Price, exhibition curator and Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, will introduce the program.