[ecrea] 'Animation Unlimited': The 2008 Society for Animation Studies Conference

>Following is sent on behalf of Paul Ward (Arts Institute at Bournemouth).
>Please contact Paul direct ((pward /at/ aib.ac.uk)) for any further information.
>
>'Animation Unlimited': The 2008 Society for Animation Studies Conference
>Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK
>18-20 July 2008
>Full delegate rate: £200
>
>Please see programme below. To book a place at this exciting event please
>contact Joe Barnes on (animationunlimited08 /at/ aib.ac.uk)
>
>He will also be able to assist with accommodation and other matters.
>
>Any other questions about the conference, please contact the Conference
>Chair, Dr. Paul Ward, on (pward /at/ aib.ac.uk)
>
>
>Animation Unlimited
>The 2008 Society for Animation Studies Conference
>
>
>
>Programme
>
>FRIDAY 18 JULY
>
>
>
>08.30-09.30 Coffee and Registration
>
>[Foyer of Institute House Building]
>
>09.30-10.00 Welcome and Introduction
>
>Professor Stuart Bartholomew (Principal, Arts Institute at Bournemouth,
>UK) and
>Dr Paul Ward (Conference Chair, SAS Board Member and Senior Lecturer, Arts
>Institute at Bournemouth)
>
>10.00-11.00 Opening Keynote Address
>
>Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK):
>'The Flux and Flurry of Animated Worlds - On Stillness and Hypermovement'
>
>11.00-11.30 Break
>
>
>
>
>
>11.30-13.00 Session 1
>
>Please choose between one of the following panels, either:
>
>Panel 1: Games/Animation
>
>*       Zombies in the Zone: splatter physics and physical bits in
>horrific play (Emily Flynn-Jones, University of Wales, Newport, UK)
>*       Clockwork Corpses: The Dance Macabre of Game Characters (Christian
>McCrea, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia)
>*       Dark Waters: Representations of the Ocean Animus (David Surman,
>University of Wales, Newport, UK)
>
>or
>
>Panel 2: Approaches to Japanese animation
>
>*       Selective Animation: Rethinking the Concept of Limited Animation
>and its Relation to Anime. (Gan Sheuo Hui, Kyoto University, Japan)
>*       Investigating the Influence of Edo and Meiji Period Monster
>Imagery (Yôkai-ga) on Mizuki Shigeru's GeGeGe-no-Kitaro (Zilia Papp, Hosei
>University, Tokyo, Japan)
>*       The transformation of the "Japanese family": The comparison of
>Sazae-san, Chibi-Maruko-chan, and Crayon Shin-chan (Yuri Obata, Clarke
>Center for Asian Law and Culture, Cornell University Law School, USA)
>
>13.00-14.00 Lunch
>
>14.00-16.00 Session 2
>
>Please choose between one of the following panels, either:
>
>Panel 3: Round Table Discussion: Animation Industry/Animation Education
>
>(industry speakers to be confirmed)
>
>or
>
>Panel 4: Histories
>
>*       Woody Abstracted: Film Experiments in the Cartoons of Shamus
>Culhane, 1943-46. (Tom Klein, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,
>USA)
>*       Floyd Norman's Story (Musa Brooker, CalArts, Valencia, USA)
>*       The Movie Brat Generation and the Animation Renaissance (Harvey
>Deneroff, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA)
>*       Animation as Advertising: The Fleischer Advertising Cartoons (Mark
>Langer, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
>
>
>
>16.00-16.30 Break
>
>16.30-18.00 Guest Speaker  - IH001
>
>Richard Goleszowski, Aardman Animation Ltd. (incl. screenings)
>
>18.00-19.00 Society of Animation Studies AGM - L/RHCC
>
>(Optional) Open to all SAS members
>
>19.00-21.00 Drinks Reception and Poster Presentations (venue tbc)
>
>
>
>SATURDAY 19 JULY
>
>
>
>08.30-09.30 Coffee
>
>[Foyer of Institute House Building]
>
>09.30-10.30 Keynote Address (IH001)
>
>Professor Peter Parr (Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK)
>'Using sketchbooks in teaching animation'
>
>10.30-11.00 Break
>
>11.00-13.00 Session 3
>
>Please choose between one of the following panels, either:
>
>Panel 5: Thinking about 'Animated Documentary'
>
>*       A Historical Perspective on the Convergence of Animation and
>Documentary (Bella Honess Roe, School of Cinematic Arts, University of
>Southern California, USA)
>*       The Animated Portrait.  Documentary or Fiction? (Gunnar Strøm,
>Volda University College, Norway)
>*       Defining Documentary Representation in Animated Films (Annegret
>Richter, University of Leipzig, Germany)
>*       The Aesthetic and the Critically Communicative: Concepts of
>Repetition in Animated Propaganda and Animated "Political" Documentary
>(Seymour Lavine, Loughborough University, UK)
>
>or
>
>
>
>
>
>Panel 6: TV Animation & Comedy:
>
>*       "Quality, schmality!  If I had a TV show, I'd run that sucker into
>the ground!" (Nichola Dobson, Independent Scholar, Edinburgh, UK)
>*       Irony and humour as rhetorical strategies in The Simpsons and
>South Park (Yvonne Van Ulden, Utrecht School of the Arts, The Netherlands)
>*       "Well, I Guess You Had to Be There": The Simpsons' Principal
>Skinner, and the Recurrent Trauma of Vietnam (Michael Dow, Tisch School of
>the Arts, NYU/Northeastern University, USA)
>*       Come with us now on a journey through time and space: animating
>space, time and character in The Mighty Boosh (Caroline Ruddell, St.
>Mary's University College, UK)
>
>13.00-14.00 Lunch
>
>14.00-16.00 Session 4
>
>Please choose between one of the following panels, either:
>
>Panel 7: Why (Animation) Theory?
>
>*       Why Animation Historiography? Or: Why the Commissar Shouldn't
>Vanish (Timo Linsenmaier, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany)
>*       "Some You Win, Some Deleuze": The Theory/Practice Divide Re-
>Visited (Paul Wells, Loughborough University, UK)
>*       Dancing with the Living Dead (Angela Ndalianis, University of
>Melbourne, Australia)
>*       Animation (Theory) as the Poematic: A Reply to the Cognitivists
>(Alan Cholodenko, University of Sydney, Australia
>
>or
>
>Panel 8: Form and Technology: Approaches to digital animation
>
>*       Making faces: Hybridity, animation and the screen actor (Lisa
>Bode, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
>*       Digital afx: affective layering and digital technologies (Aylish
>Wood, University of Kent, UK)
>*       Digital Chinese Ink-wash Animation: Tradition versus Innovation in
>Themes and Techniques (Ann Leung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong
>Kong)
>*       The digital imagination (Rachel Kearney, University of East
>London, UK
>
>16.00-16.30 Break
>
>
>
>
>
>16.30-18.45
>
>Special Screening: Azur et Asmar (Michel Ocelot, 2006, France) 100 mins
>
>The director will be present and will be in discussion with Professor Paul
>Wells after the screening.
>
>20.00-onwards Conference Party
>
>Relax and enjoy a drink and buffet with other delegates in the engaging
>Bournemouth seafront bar and restaurant - Aruba
>
>
>
>SUNDAY 20 JULY
>
>
>
>08.30-09.30 Coffee and Registration
>
>[Foyer of Institute House Building]
>
>09.30-11.00 Round Table Discussion: Drawing & Animation
>
>Chair: Professor Paul Wells (Loughborough University, UK).
>Participants: Professor Peter Parr (Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK),
>Joanna Quinn (Beryl Productions), Michel Ocelot (director: Azur et Asmar),
>Andy Selby (Loughborough University, UK)
>
>11.00-11.30 Break
>
>11.30-13.30 Session 5
>
>Please choose between one of the following panels, either:
>
>Panel 9: Animation, cultural identity and subaltern discourses
>
>*       'Taking an appropriate line' - Assessing representations of
>disability within the popular (Van Norris, University of Portsmouth, UK)
>*       Framing Invisibility: Selective Positioning of Blacks in the
>Aardman Studio's Work (Charles daCosta, Savannah College of Art and
>Design, USA)
>*       Tailing the body of Hanuman: Indian Animation and the
>TransNational Imagination (Anitha Balachandran, Royal College of Art,
>London, UK)
>*       Irish Animation and Postcolonialism (Tom Walsh, Arts Institute at
>Bournemouth, UK)
>
>Or
>
>
>
>Panel 10: Interdisciplinary currents in Animation Studies
>
>*       Nico Nico Douga: the Emergence of the Audience's Imagination on
>the Internet. (Madoka Takashiro, Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität,
>Frankfurt, Germany)
>*       Animated Psychogeography: The City Inside Out (Suzanne Buchan,
>University College of the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK)
>*       Spaghetti, signature, guidance, evidence -medical, legal, and
>emotional uses of the animated line (Phil Anderson, Minneapolis College of
>Art and Design, USA)
>
>13.30-14.30 Lunch
>
>14.30-16.30 Session 6
>
>Please choose between one of the following panels, either:
>
>Panel 11: Animation and Pedagogy
>
>*       'The feet, the groin and the calves are ideal places to hide
>triangles.' (Maya Techniques: Hyper-realistic creature creation. 2006,
>Alias Systems Corp.) (Lucy Childs, Bournemouth University, UK)
>*       Canadian Studies 341: Challenges and Rewards (Lynne Perras,
>University of Calgary, Canada)
>*       Philosophies and methodologies in animation research (Mark Chavez,
>School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University,
>Singapore)
>*       'Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated': the influence of
>digital technology on the animation artist (Tony Tarantini, Sheridan
>Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada)
>
>or
>
>Panel 12: Animated forms, technologies, aesthetics
>
>*       Using chronophotography to replace Persistence of Vision as a
>theory for explaining how animation and cinema produce the illusion of
>continuous motion. (Paul St George, London Metropolitan University, UK)
>*       Aural, Figural, and Metrical Microstructures in Who Framed Roger
>Rabbit: Analyzing Complementary Intra-Shot Forms in Animation and Other
>Frame-Based Motion Picture Media (Victoria Meng, University of California
>at Los Angeles, USA)
>*       The Political-ethics of Media in Stan Vanderbeek's Poemfields
>(Mark Bartlett, Independent scholar, Oakland, California, USA)
>*       The Ontology of Performance in Stop Animation: Kawamoto's House of
>Flame and Svankmajer's The Fall of the House of Usher (Laura Ivins-Hulley,
>Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
>
>16.30-17.00 Break
>
>17.00-18.00 Closing Keynote Address
>
>Professor Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne, Australia)
>'Scale: Animation Between Immersion and Mobility'
>
>18.00 Closing Remarks and Goodbyes
>
>18.30 SAS Board Meeting
>
>Closed meeting for Board Members only (room tbc)
>
>CONFERENCE ENDS - Animation Workshops scheduled for Monday 21st July

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