Hi all,

With the usual apologies for cross-posting…



I am delighted to confirm the programme for this upcoming conference.



The Crafty Animator:

A Conference on Handmade and Craft-based Animation



To be held at Rich Mix Cinema, Shoreditch, London, on Thursday 7th September





Full Programme



9: Coffee and registration



9.30 – 10.30 Keynote Address

Drawing Animation - Dr Birgitta Hosea (Chaired by Dr Caroline Ruddell)





10.30 – 12: Panel 1 (Chaired by Dr Caroline Ruddell)

Giving Computer Animation the Finger (or, the importance of Ed Catmull’s hands) – Dr Christopher Holliday (King’s College London)



Zoetropes and Automata: The handcraft story of digital fabrication – Dr Tanya Marriott (Massey University, New Zealand)

Handmade Aesthetics in Animation for Adults and Children – Dr Ewan Kirkland (University of Brighton)





12 – 1: Lunch





1 – 2.30: Panel 2 (chair tbc)

‘Do my fingermarks matter?’ - Sally Pearce (independent animator)



A Hand-Crafted Digital Drawing Application – Jeremy Radvan (University of Brighton)

Fingerprints: autobiography and authenticity in stop-motion animated documentary – Carla MacKinnon (Arts University Bournemouth)



2.30 – 4: Panel 3 (chaired by Dr Chris Holliday)

Materialising the Imagination: Live-Action Puppetry Meets Fantasy Fiction in Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal – Dr Alex Sergeant (Kings College London)



The puppet-puppeteer: self-reflexivity and self-recognition in puppet animation - Vincenzo Maselli (Sapienza University of Rome)



'It's Alive!' The appropriate uncanniness of stop-motion animated horror films for children – Dr Catherine Lester (University of Warwick)



4 – 4.20: Break





4.20 – 5.40: Panel 4 (chaired by Dr Ewan Kirkland)



The Reception of Lotte Reiniger in the German Press – Katharina Boeckenhoff, Manchester University



Sponsored silhouettes - the handmade advertisements of Lotte Reiniger – Tashi Petter (Queen Mary University of London)

Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving: The Finnish Cutout Animation in the 1960s and 1970s - Tuula Leinonen
 Aalto University



5.40: Final remarks and close





The conference will be held at the Rich Mix Cinema in Shoreditch, London on Thursday 7 September 2017.



If you would like to attend please contact me at the below email address. The conference is free to attend but I will need an idea of numbers for catering purposes.



Dr Caroline Ruddell ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)





Dr Caroline Ruddell

Lecturer in Film and TV Studies

Department of Social Sciences, Media and Communications

College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences

Brunel University London



Associate Editor Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal



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