Carasoul: Animating the Imaginal Mind with Kaeti MacNeil
Event Type:
- Interactive Arts Exploration
- (Online)
Program:
- SPARKS Exchange
Featuring:
- Kaeti MacNeil
Organizers:
- Center for Process Studies
In this SPARKS Exchange, artist and animator Kaeti MacNeil will share the story of her award-winning short film Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions alongside reflections first shared in her interview for the Novel Becomings blog. Carasoul explores the unseen layers of human experience, depicting memory, sensation, and imagination as tangible forms that extend beyond the body. Blending stop-motion paint and digital animation, Kaeti visualizes how consciousness takes shape in time, and how Whitehead’s process-relational ideas resonate through artistic practice.
Following the presentation and interview, participants will be invited into a creative reflection session. Using Carasoul’s imagery and process philosophy as inspiration, guests will reflect on a life experience through social presencing theater, an embodiment practice with a focus on the hands and their gestures. This session offers a chance to explore one’s own moments of becoming and to share insights with the wider SPARKS community on Mighty Networks.
Featuring
Kaeti MacNeil is an American artist and experimental animator working at the intersection of painting, animation, and process philosophy. Her practice renders the immaterial dimensions of consciousness as visible form, exploring the relationship between the material and the spiritual through moving image. She serves as Animation Director for the John Templeton Foundation-funded initiative Modern Meaning: Spiritual Yearning and the Quest for a Flourishing World and as an Advisor to the SPARKS Community Cohort. Her animated short Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions (2022) won Best Animated Short at the Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image in New York City. She presented and exhibited at the Ammerman Center’s 18th Triennial Symposium at Connecticut College and was commissioned by the Aga Khan Museum for its Light Up the Dark exhibition. She holds a BFA in Experimental Animation from OCAD University and is a Luminary with Science New Wave. Learn more at https://kaetimacneil.com
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