For Janeann Dill, a personally defining moment took place when she was an Artist-in-Residence at the American Center In Paris. "I was walking from the Pompidou Center to Les Halles and feeling a great sense of personal loss because of the recent death of my mother. Peter Greenaway dubbed this my 'Road to Damascus' experience. On the plaza of the Fountain des Innocents (a monument to mothers and children killed in the French revolution), I imagined what only could be called a ‘vision’ for my paintings. In that moment, my mind’s eye saw my paintings move in time and I imagined what I saw was called ‘animation'." Thus for more than twenty-five years, Janeann Dill’s work has been a productive investigation of the intersections of painting, experimental film, experimental animation, and critical discourse. Dill earned her M.F.A.in 1994 from the Experimental Animation Department at CalArts in the School of Film and Video where Jules Engel and Dr. William Moritz served as her mentors. A filmmaker, scholar, and fine artist, she earned her D.Phil./Ph.D. in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought from the Swiss-German institutional brainchild of philosophers Jean-Francois Lyotard and Wolfgang Schirmacher, the Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinare Studien. Stemming from her work at CalArts in experimental animation film and her doctoral research, Dill is writing two forthcoming books, "Thought and Timing: Philosophy of Experimental Animation" and "Jules Engel: A Biography." The work on Engel is the authorized biography of a seminal figure in contemporary animation history and praxis. "Thought and Timing" promises to provide a ground-breaking historical and theoretical understanding of the context and nature of experimental animation. Dill is currently in production of a short experimental animation film that is a hybrid of her 'still' paintings and 'moving' drawings and preparing to give a 2017 Keynote Address for the Society for Animation Studies at the University of Padua (Italy), the home of Galeileo as Chair of Mathematics where he developed the telescope. Dr. Dill is faculty for an advanced Critical Writing and Research Seminar, “Animation Histories: Jules Engel (1909-2003) and the History of Experimental Animation” in the Visual and Media Arts Department of Emerson College (Boston). The seminar she designed has had various iterations under the rubric of Animation Histories, such as “From Concept To Screen” and “From the Pre-Cinematic Toy to the Experimental Arts in Contemporary Animation.” Dill has served as Visiting Faculty at Lesley University’s College of Art and Design, Animation and Motion Media Department (Cambridge); Visiting Artist at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Film and Animation Department (Boston); and Guest Lecturer at Mass Art, Animation Department (Boston). Dr. Dill has served for a number of years as Chair of Jury for the international Society for Animation Studies to award the annual Norman McLaren - Evelyn Lambart Award for "Best Scholarly Article in Animation."