[Commlist] Anifest 2019 - "Interactive Animation and Video Games"

I am delighted to announce that registration for the upcoming 
Anifest symposium *Interactive Animation and Video Games* is now open! 
The link to register can be found here: 
https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture/event-details.aspx?instance=256006., 
and the draft programme for the event in March is included below:


*Interactive Animation and Video Games - Symposium Programme*

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*Friday 8^th March, Augustine House, Canterbury, Room AH3.31 (Top floor)*

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*9:00 - 9:30 _Registration_*__

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*9:30 - 9.40 _Welcome_*

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*9:40 - 11.00 _Panel 1: Experiencing Virtual Realities (Chair: t.b.c.)_*

  * Danny Bacchus (Sheffield Hallam University) - /Life is Beautiful.
    Always: Using Virtual Reality to share the experience of disability/
  * Tom Livingstone (University of Kent) - /Representing Interactivity:
    Lessons from the Multiplex/
  * Mihaela Mihailova (University of Michigan) - /Immersed in Nature:
    Virtual Reality and Environmental Discourse/

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*11.00 - 11:20 _Tea and Coffee_*

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*11:20 - 12:40 *_Panel 2: Style and Narrative across Platforms (Chair: 
t.b.c.)_

  * Georgina Brown (University of Southampton) - /The Portability of
    Hayao Miyazaki: Studio Ghibli as Transmedial and Interactive/
  * Richard Fejes (Eötvös Loránd University) - /BuildingAlternate
    Realities: Real World as a Medium in ARG Storyworlds/
  * Jeeshan Gazi (University of Westminster) - /Realism and (Final)
    Fantasy: on HD remakes of early 3D console titles/

*12:40 - 13:10 _Lunch_*

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*13:10 - 13:30 _Film Screening #1_*

Selection of Anifest animated shorts

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*13:30 - 14:50 *_Panel 3: Pedagogy and/in Practice (Chair: t.b.c.)_

  * Rónán Lynch (Dundalk Institute of Technology) - /Becoming Animated
    in an Online Learning Environment/
  * Jessica Rutherford (Loughborough University) (via Skype) - /Enabling
    the neurodiverse to fulfil educational potential: Can animation be
    the answer?/
  * Peter Morris (Dundalk Institute of Technology) - /Remote Control?
    Online Supervision of Animation Capstone Project/

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*14.50 - 15.00 _Break_*

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*15:00 - 16:40 _Panel 4: Issues in Interactivity (Chair: t.b.c.)_*

  * Maggie Xiaoge Li (University of Southampton) - /Digital Interaction:
    Chinese Style Role-Playing Games and National Fantasy/
  * Raz Greenberg (Tel Aviv University) - /The Animation of Gamers and
    Gamers as Animators in Sierra Online's Graphic Adventures/
  * Julia Eckel (Ruhr-University, Bochum) - /“Screenshot of it didn’t
    happen” – The Interactivity of Documenting Game Animation/
  * Takis Kyriakoulakos (University of the Aegean) - /The Praxis in
    Computer Animation: figurative, interactive, engaging, playful/

*16:40 - 16.50 _Break_*

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*16:50 - 17.45 _Keynote_*

Professor Aylish Wood (University of Kent)

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*17:45 - 18.30 _Film Screening #2_*

Selection of Anifest animated shorts

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*18:30 - _Conference End_*

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All best wishes, and hope to see as many of you as possible in March.

Christopher Holliday (King's College London) and Jo Samuel (Canterbury 
Christ Church University)


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