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## Archive for May 2006

### [Iain Sinclair on Portaiture in Contemporary Animation](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/05/iain-sinclair-on-portaiture-in-contemporary-animation/)

The following transcript is taken from animate!’s three-part series of screening & discussion evenings in Spring 2006 at the National Portrait Gallery, London, entitled Tracing the Contours: Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation, investigating the unique way in which animation, the manipulated moving image, can amplify notions of portraiture.

The second evening Route Masters: Portraits in \[...\]

### [animate! Extending the Image in Scotland and Wales](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/05/animate-extending-the-image-in-scotland-and-wales/)

May 2006

A special programme of recent commissions from the animate! project, venturing into fresh narrative territories and visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation.

In each of the ten films in Extending the Image : animate! 02-05 the artist breaks the rules and the exhilaration is compelling:

13 by Simon Faithfull, Dad’s Dead \[...\]

### [The Animators at Ferens Art Gallery Hull](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/05/the-animators-at-ferens-art-gallery-hull/)

13 May 2006 - 2 July 2006

An exhibition illustrating what it means when fine art - usually the stillest of all the art forms - begins to move. The animations of seven UK artists are on show alongside the other kinds of artworks they make - paintings, photographs, sculptures and live events.

The artists represented are \[...\]