Animation Unlimited 2008

Animation Unlimited 2008 Programme

08.30-09.30Coffee and Registration

[Foyer of Institute House Building]

09.30-10.00Welcome 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)

10.00-11.00Opening Keynote Address: IH001

Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK):
'The Flux and Flurry of Animated Worlds - On Stillness and Hypermovement'

11.00-11.30Break

11.30-13.00Session 1

Please choose between one of the following panels, either:

Panel 1: Games/Animation [3 papers]

  • 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 [3 papers] Approaches to Japanese animation: L/RHCC

  • 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, Indiana University, South Bend, USA)

13.00-14.00Lunch

14.00-16.00Session 2

Please choose between one of the following panels, either:

Panel 3: Round Table Discussion: Animation Industry/Animation Education [IH001]

  • Chair: Chris Chilton, Computer Games and Animation Manager, Skillset
  • Participants include: Mike Smith, Subject Leader, Computer Visualisation and Animation, Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, UK; Marion Edwards, Red and Blue Productions and Chair of the Skillset Animation Forum.

or

Panel 4 [4 papers] 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)
  • From Education to Entertainment: American Animated Advertisement's Shift from the 1920s to the 1930s (Mark Langer, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

16.00-16.30Break

16.30-18.00Guest Speaker – IH001

Richard Goleszowski, Aardman Animation Ltd. (incl. screenings)

18.00-19.00Society of Animation Studies AGM – L/RHCC

(Optional) Open to all SAS members

19.00-21.00Drinks Reception & Poster Presentations - (venue tbc)

Total for day: 10 papers; 1 keynote; 1 guest, 1 round table, AGM, Posters