Interactive Animation and Video Games - Symposium Programme
Friday 8th March,
Augustine House, Canterbury, Room AH3.31 (Top floor)
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 9.40 Welcome
9:40 - 11.00 Panel 1:
Experiencing Virtual Realities (Chair: t.b.c.)
- Danny Bacchus (Sheffield Hallam University) - Life is Beautiful. Always:
Using Virtual Reality to share the experience of disability
- Tom Livingstone (University of Kent) - Representing Interactivity:
Lessons from the Multiplex
- Mihaela Mihailova (University of Michigan) - Immersed in Nature: Virtual
Reality and Environmental Discourse
11.00 - 11:20 Tea and
Coffee
11:20 - 12:40 Panel
2: Style and Narrative across Platforms (Chair: t.b.c.)
- Georgina Brown (University of Southampton) - The
Portability of Hayao Miyazaki: Studio Ghibli as Transmedial and Interactive
- Richard Fejes (Eötvös Loránd University) - Building Alternate
Realities: Real World as a Medium in ARG Storyworlds
- Jeeshan Gazi (University of Westminster) - Realism
and (Final) Fantasy: on HD remakes of early 3D console titles
12:40 - 13:10 Lunch
13:10 - 13:30 Film Screening
#1
Selection of Anifest animated shorts
13:30 - 14:50 Panel
3: Pedagogy and/in Practice (Chair: t.b.c.)
- Rónán Lynch (Dundalk Institute of Technology) - Becoming
Animated in an Online Learning Environment
- Jessica Rutherford (Loughborough University) (via Skype) - Enabling the neurodiverse to fulfill educational
potential: Can animation be the answer?
- Peter Morris (Dundalk Institute of Technology) - Remote
Control? Online Supervision of Animation Capstone Project
14.50 - 15.00 Break
15:00 - 16:40 Panel 4:
Issues in Interactivity (Chair: t.b.c.)
- Maggie Xiaoge Li (University of Southampton) - Digital Interaction:
Chinese Style Role-Playing Games and National Fantasy
- Raz Greenberg (Tel Aviv University) - The Animation of Gamers and
Gamers as Animators in Sierra Online's Graphic Adventures
- Julia Eckel (Ruhr-University, Bochum) - “Screenshot or it didn’t happen”
– The Interactivity of Documenting Game Animation
- Takis Kyriakoulakos (University of the Aegean) - The Praxis in Computer
Animation: figurative, interactive, engaging, playful
16:40 - 16.50 Break
16:50 - 17.45 Keynote
- Professor Aylish Wood (University of Kent) - No Man’s Sky and Everything: interactions in their digitally mediated worlds
17:45 - 18.30 Film Screening
#2
Selection of Anifest animated shorts
18:30 - Conference End
All best wishes, and hope to see as many of you as possible in March.
Christopher Holliday (King's College London) and Jo Samuel (Canterbury Christ Church University)
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