Typemotion looks at a variety of artistic productions in which type is animated--from feature films and advertising to artworks and music videos--with examples from 20 countries dating from 1895 to the present. Tracing the transition from analogue to digital treatments of type, it provides insights into larger cultural and media developments, while also speculating on the future of animated type, particularly in the realm of interactive media. Among the extraordinary range of cross-disciplinary contributors to this volume are John Baldessari, Saul Bass, Stan Brakhage, Marcel Broodthaers, Dellbr gge & de Moll, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein, Expanded Gramophone Project, Hollis Frampton, Terry Gilliam, Jenny Holzer, Isidore Isou, Eduardo Kac, Ferdinand Kriwet, Fritz Lang, Maurice Lema tre, Len Lye, David Lynch, Gaspar No , Tony Oursler, Phenomena, Dieter Roth, Gerhard R hm, Paul Sharits, Super Swap Sweden, Timm Ulrichs, Stan Vanderbeek, Johannes Vogt, Paul Wegener and Peter Weibel.
