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Dear colleagues A reminder that registration for the upcoming Anifest symposium Interactive Animation and Video Games held at Canterbury Christ Church University and organised by Christopher Holliday (King's College London) and Jo Samuel (Canterbury Christ Church University) closes later today. The link to register can be found here: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture/event-details.aspx?instance=256006, and the draft programme for the event in March is included below. We look forward to seeing you there! Interactive Animation and Video Games - Symposium Programme Friday 8th March, Augustine House, Canterbury Christ Church University, 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 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------