Gender in Animation

This lecture was about Gender and Gender Stereotype in animation and art in general. He began this lecture by showing us various paintings and portraits that were made throughout history relating to women and explained each as we went through them. Then he showed us some Performance Art and photography pieces like Interior Scroll, which depicts a woman pulling a scroll out of what seems to be her pelvis. He also showed us a piece that was a tent and on the inside it showed names of everyone the artist has slept with, giving no context to the situation of those people in relation to her. He then showed us a contest called the miss digital world contest, in which 3-d modeler sent in 3-d modeled women as a beauty pageant. He also showed us an animation about women objectifying men and how a reverse roles situation changes some peoples viewpoints. This lecture went into great detail about gender in relation to art, but not a lot of it was relating to animation, save the few pieces he showed us. Nevertheless, it was an interesting lecture to experience.