Created by Jill Kennedy
Liner Notes:
“Neuro Economy” is a short animated film to a real audio recording found on a telephone answering machine.
Set in a composite domestic setting of both past and present a recorded message starts to play back on a telephone answering machine in the living room. An anonymous caller from 21 years ago describes himself. The caller goes on to explain a Neuro Economy and details his plans for a Quantum Computer Emulator. The message continues to diverge further and further from reality. Animated graphics sourced from learning material of the 1960’s and 70’s begin to appear, eventually taking over the living room as we glimpse a cross section of reality as perceived by the anonymous caller.

Bio:
Jill Kennedy was born 1981 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1982 her family moved to Auckland, New Zealand. She has been living in Auckland where she has recently graduated from a Graduate Diploma in Design studying at Unitec Institute of Technology.
Prior to this, she completed a Bachelor of Design majoring in Fine Art Painting in 2002 at Unitec Institute of Technology. She has been involved in several group shows exhibiting work at Enjoy Gallery in Wellington, Snow White Gallery and Room 401 in Auckland.
After the completion of the course, Jill moved back to Glasgow. She spent time traveling Europe and returned to study animation in 2006. She completed a Graduate Diploma in Design and spent the last four months of her course completing her first animated short film “Neuro Economy”.
Recently, she has collaborated on work with the New Zealand Painter Mark Braunias. She completed an animation of Mark’s drawings which showed at the Jonathan Smart Gallery in August 2007. She is currently working on a new piece with Mark, which will be on show at the opening of the new Tauranga Art Gallery in October 2007.

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