This contextual studies course examines manipulated moving images in relation to contemporary media (1890 - present day). In this course students explore the pervasive nature of manipulated moving images in media, art, and design. They will examine key examples of film, animation and design to locate them in relation to historical and theoretical frameworks and technological developments and practices. The course will examine the underlying legacies and conventions involved in capturing, generating, simulating and representing moving images in relation to analogue and digital animation, robotics, animatronics, computer generated imagery (CGI) and film and photographic processes. It explores how manipulated moving images create, recreate, represent events, scenarios, spaces and forms independent of the extant world.