The Mindstream Animation Station is a portable, easy-to-use workstation that allows people with or without previous experience to create short stop-motion animations and then add their movies to a public display. Here are some highlights from its tour so far.
Visitors to the 2009 Ann Arbor Art Fair stopped by the Mindstream Animation Station to add their mind to the stream. Here are some highlights. Materials created by Gary Schwartz, Sound Collage by Ed Special.
More from the 2009 Ann Arbor Art Fair. Gary Schwartz made the materials for these movies. Sound collage by Ed Special
More movies from 2009 Ann Arbor Art Fair animators. Materials by Gary Schwartz. Music collage by Ed Special. Music excerpts: Acoustic by Delmo and Sooner or Later by Geert Veneklaas.
Audiences at the 2009 Ann Arbor Summer Festival make their mark on the Animation Station. The movie was shown at Top of the Park on June 25th, right before Jaws.
Opening Night excerpt. Festival-goers at this year's Ann Arbor Film Festival created their own experimental film using the animation station. Forest Bright provided the materials. Ed Special did the sound design. The full 20 minute movie was shown on Sunday March 29th at 5:30pm in the Michigan Theater.
Part Two (March 25th/26th) from a 20 minute long community movie created by festival-goers at this year's Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Part Two (March 26th/27th) from a 20 minute long community movie created by festival-goers at this year's Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Part Four (March 27th/28th) from a 20 minute long community movie created by festival-goers at this year's Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Visitors respond to the University Musical Society's production of Gilgamesh, featuring the work of Kinan Azmeh, composer, clarinetist and Kevork Mourad, painter, live visuals. Music courtesy of Kinan Azmeh.
Highlights from the Shadow Art Fair, a juried art show held biannually at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti, MI.
Teens at Ann Arbor's Neutral Zone try their hand at animation using the Animation Station. Here are some selections from the station's 3-week residency there.
Students in Shaun Jackson poke fun at his wardrobe using the current prototype of the animation station. The class assignment is to re-design the animation station.
Another highlight reel created by animators at the Design Lab 1 at UM Duderstadt Center.
Highlights from the station's residency in Design Lab 1 in the Duderstadt Center at the University of Michigan.
Visitors to University of Michigan's "Celebrate Invention" event tried out the PLAY Project's Animation Station. Here's what they made that night on October 1, 2008
Using a stop-motion animation station, audiences participated in a group movie at the opening of Edibles, a show about food. Here are some excerpts.
Highlights from a 30 minute reel of instant animations created at the Animation Station parked at the 2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Festival-goers made their mark. See the Series page for more.


