Animation Unlimited 2008

Animation Unlimited 2008 Programme

08.30-09.30Coffee

[Foyer of Institute House Building]

09.30-10.30Keynote Address - IH001

Professor Peter Parr (Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK)
'Using sketchbooks in teaching animation'

10.30-11.00Break

11.00-13.00Session 3

Please choose between one of the following panels, either:

Panel 5: Thinking about 'Animated Documentary' [4 papers]

  • 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 [4 papers] TV Animation & Comedy: IH001

  • “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)

13.00-14.00Lunch

14.00-16.00Session 4

Please choose between one of the following panels, either:

Panel 7 [4 papers] 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 [4 papers] 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

16.00-16.30Break

16.30-18.45Special Screening: Azur et Asmar

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-onwardsConference Party

Relax and enjoy a drink and buffet with other delegates in the engaging Bournemouth seafront bar and restaurant - Aruba

Total for day: 16 papers; 1 keynote; 1 guest+screening;