Rose Bond breaks from the frame and the movie house creating multi-channel work at the juncture of cinema and architecture. Her large-scale animated installations navigate the allegories of place and illuminate urban spaces with stories often overlooked and views under represented. With roots in frame-by-frame, hand drawn animation, she turned her focus towards media experiences outside the movie theatre. Her current work-in-progress, a new interdisciplinary collaboration with composer inti figgis-vizueta and Roomful of Teeth, pushes the encounter of animated projection and live performance into new spatial and audio territory.
Recent work include large-scale, multi-screen live projections for symphony with works by avantgarde composers Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, 2020 and Olivier Messiaen‘s Turangalîla-Symphonie, 2016. Other animated installations include: two pieces for the permanent collection at the Portland Chinatown Museum, 2018; Illumination No.1 reprise at Portland’s Old Town Society Hotel, 2014; a prototype for a media installation in the Smithsonian’s Arts & Industries Building, 2012; Broadsided! at Exeter Castle, 2010; Intra Muros, shown during the 2007 Platform International Animation Festival and reprised for the Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, 2008, and Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2011.
Bond’s paint-on-film animated films have been recognized at major international festivals and are held in the MoMA Film Collection. She has received support from the American Film Institute, The Princess Grace Foundation, the Oregon Community Foundation, the British Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been cited in numerous publications including Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art, Re-imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image, The Animation Bible, Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives & Practices, and Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital. Rose Bond is a Canadian born media artist/animator based in Portland, Oregon.