[ecrea] CFP "Color in Animation, Comics and Literature"

"Color in Animation, Comics and Literature"

Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film /Literaturhaus 
Stuttgart, Wednesday, May 6 2015



An academic symposium at the Stuttgart International Festival of 
Animated Film 2015 in collaboration with the Society of Animation 
Studies, the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological 
University Singapore, the Institute of Media Studies at Eberhard Karls 
University Tübingen and the Literaturhaus Stuttgart.  The symposium is 
aiming to be highly interdisciplinary and international in nature, 
bringing together scholars, students, academics and artists from diverse 
fields of research and professional practice.


Call for papers:

This one-day symposium welcomes papers, which negotiate the role and use 
of color in the fields of literature, illustration, graphic storytelling 
and animation.

The symposium invites abstracts for 20-minute presentations and welcomes 
proposals on all aspects of color in book illustration, comics (graphic 
novels) and animation/film in general.  Proposals, which relate to the 
symposium topics in the wider sense will be preferred.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Color and visual storytelling

-Color as a dramatic tool in animation and comics

-Use of color in book illustrations

-The role of color in adaptations for comics and/or animation/film

-Socio-cultural context of color in illustration, animation and comics

-Techniques of coloring in comics and animation

-Comparative studies of digital coloring versus traditional methods



Please e-mail abstracts of 250 words maximum (excluding title) to the 
attention of the conference review committee at: 
(sasconference_itfs /at/ hannesrall.com)

Abstracts should include your name, affiliation, e-mail address, and the 
title of your proposed paper. Please do also provide a short CV, with a 
maximum of 300 words as a separate document.


The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 9, 2015. Authors of 
accepted papers will be notified in the last week of March.

The call is open to all interested scholars, researchers and 
practitioners. Accepted speakers as well as visitors of the symposium 
will need to get an accreditation for professionals at the Stuttgart 
International Festival of Animated Film 2015. This will allow full 
access to the symposium as well as to the complete program of Stuttgart 
International Festival of Animated Film for a very moderate fee-details 
will follow closer to the conference date.




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