Typemotion Type as Image in Motion Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Bernd Scheffer, Christine Stenzer, Peter Weibel, Soenke Zehle. Text by Friedrich W. Block, Klaus Peter Dencker, Michael Lentz, Joachim Paech, Rolf Sachsse, Bernd Scheffer, Marcel Schellong, Christine Stenzer, Peter Weibel, Soenke Zehle. 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, Dellbrügge & de Moll, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein, Expanded Gramophone Project, Hollis Frampton, Terry Gilliam, Jenny Holzer, Isidore Isou, Eduardo Kac, Ferdinand Kriwet, Fritz Lang, Maurice Lemaître, Len Lye, David Lynch, Gaspar Noé, Tony Oursler, Phenomena, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Paul Sharits, Super Swap Sweden, Timm Ulrichs, Stan Vanderbeek, Johannes Vogt, Paul Wegener and Peter Weibel.
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