Animation Unlimited 2008

Animation Unlimited 2008 Programme

08.30-09.30Coffee and Registration

[Foyer of Institute House Building]

09.30-11.00Round Table Discussion: Drawing & Animation - IH001

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)

11.00-11.30Break

11.30-13.30Session 5

Please choose between one of the following panels, either:

Panel 9 [4 papers] 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 [3 papers] 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)

13.30-14.30Lunch

14.30-16.30Session 6

Please choose between one of the following panels, either:

Panel 11 [4 papers] 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 [4 papers] 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, Arizona State University, 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)

16.30-17.00Break

17.00-18.00Closing Keynote Address

Professor Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne, Australia)
The Band Concert Matters

18.00-18.30Closing Remarks and Goodbyes

18.30SAS Board Meeting [Enterprise Pavilion Boardroom]

Closed meeting for Board Members only – L/RHSCC

Total for day: 15 papers; 1 round table; 1 keynote, Board meeting