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