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Moore, S., 2015.

Animators! In An Adventure with Scientists!

Output Type:Conference paper
Presented at:Society for Animation Studies conference
Venue:Canterbury Christ Church University
Dates:13/6/2015 - 16/6/2015

Animator and researcher Samantha Moore is working with microbiologist and Wellcome Trust Fellow Dr Serge Mostowy on Loop, a collaborative film for Silent Signal (an Animate Projects commission, supported by the Wellcome Trust). This paper will present work in progress from the project, which is about how the cytoskeleton responds to intracellular pathogens by assembling into septin cages within a zebrafish model. The project is also about the different perspectives in Serge's lab and how each scientist sees the process, using animation to describe and represent individual views of the research.
The work done by Serge and his lab is fascinating but complex, and this project presents the opportunity of opening up, communicating and commenting on specialised and challenging material to a lay-audience. The project develops the work begun in An Eyeful of Sound, and subsequent PhD practice, in creating work about science using a collaboratively dialogic methodology with the scientists involved. This paper will explore some of the questions that such work raises about the way in which animation can document, inform and transform data.