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'Animation Unlimited': The 2008 Society for Animation Studies Conference
Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK
18-20 July 2008
Full delegate rate: £200
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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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