The catalogue for the traveling exhibition Animated Painting presents scholarly meditations on the moving-image work of 14 international artists, from American and Japanese art collective Barnstormers to Norwegian installation artist Ann Lislegaard and Chinese video artist Qiu Anxiong. Curator Betti-Sue Hertz considers contemporary animation art and the exhibited artists in relation to the experimental films of Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter, and other modernists. Film historian Suzanne Buchan explores the use of painting, self-reflexivity, and collage in animation and analyzes the presentation of the art form in museums and galleries. Media artist and theorist Lev Manovich writes about the significance of animation technologies, the use of hybrid media, and the concept of a "remix culture." Each artist is discussed in detail and extensively illustrated with film and video stills, and the accompanying DVD offers selected clips from a dozen works in the show.

Animated Painting is on view at Centro Cultural Tijuana in Tijuana, Mexico, from October 1 to December 31 and then travels to the Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, in 2009.