Report about the 12th Society of Animation Studies Conference'Digital Challenges-Expanded Boundaries'Norway, Trondheim, 5 - 9 August 2000 "Talking Like Dinosaurs: Dispatches from the SAS" As historians and scholars of the media generally use the term, 'animation' signifies an area of filmic operation that has been exploited by advertisers and global television channels. This description not only l...
13th SAS Conference 2001
Report about the 13th Annual SAS ConferenceMontreal, Canada, 22 - 25 October 2001 "Animation, Economics and Politics" The participants to the 13th Conference of the Society for Animation Studies were greeted in Montréal by a beautiful, crisp fall day, when one could enjoy the rich colors of the maple tree across from our accommodations, the Hotel Maritime Plaza. Although there was intermittent ra...
14th SAS Conference 2002
Report about the 14th Society for Animation Studies Conference, September 2002, Glendale, USA As individuals we are a single image but together we are a movement All too often animation is addressed in the media only in regard to popular children's media or to realistic feature film special effects, but the range, scope, and impact of animation is much greater than that. We are entering an era whe...
ARC Animated ”Worlds” Conference, Farnham, UK 2003
Report about the "Animated 'Worlds' Conference", Farnham, England, July 2003Theories on Real Phantasies The Animated 'Worlds' Conference, organised by the Animation Research Centre (ARC) in the more than comfortable and picturesque Farnham Castle (UK) in July 2003, was already half a success before the first key-note speech actually was pronounced. Director of the ARC, Suzanne Buchan, managed to p...
