[ecrea] Life Remade: Politics of Animation Symposium - Birkbeck

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*Life Remade: The Politics and Aesthetics of Animation, Simulation and
Rendering *– Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities**(June 5-6, 2015*)*

The aesthetics of animation has come to occupy a significantly expanded
social and political role, moving well beyond the sphere of either
children’s entertainment or avant-garde filmmaking. We now encounter
digital animations, 3D simulations and computational models in contexts
ranging from ecological activism, to human rights law, to military
training regimes. As rhetorical tool, affective trigger and imaginative
technique, the strategic use of the animated image has become a powerful
means to both “re-animate” the past and speculatively predict or
envision the future.  Digital and analogue animations intervene in life
processes at both the intimate level of the body and the expansive scale
of urban design and planetary phenomena.  In relation to living systems,
animation may constitute an effort to capture or simulate that which
already exists, or an attempt to bring into being that which could not
exist otherwise. Given this apparent contemporary proliferation of
animated life, this symposium will re-consider the place of animation
and simulation within visual, material and political culture.

Confirmed Speakers:

Thomas Elsaesser

Eyal Weizman

Susan Schuppli

Toshiya Ueno

Pasi Väliaho

Liam Young

Sean Cubitt

Suzanne Buchan

Keisuke Kitano

Erika Balsom

Gillian Rose

Anselm Franke

Richard Squires

Screenings of Work by:

Harun Farocki

Hito Steyerl

Organised by: Esther Leslie and Joel McKim

Location: Room 421, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, WC1E 7HX,
London

The event is free, but booking is essential. For registration and full
programme details visit:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/events/bbk-local?uid=f393fe6f7e4d814290cae95de4d89788

For further information, please contact:

Dr. Joel McKim

Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies

Co-Director BA Media and Culture

Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies

Birkbeck, University of London

43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

tel: 020 3073 8364

e-mail: (j.mckim /at/ bbk.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.mckim /at/ bbk.ac.uk)>



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