The wide-ranging scope of this symposium is symptomatic of the explosive field of animation and the flexibility that digital technology is having on moving images that cross boundaries between art, technology and science. Historical precedents, contemporary art practices, and experiments in new animation media will be presented and discussed. This symposium is being organized by the...
Call for Papers: Alternative Visions in Cinema and Television
(Proposals due November 2, 2007) We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the Alternative Visions: Trash/Cult/Experimental/Avant-Garde/Extreme Cinema and Television Conference, to be held at Plymouth State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 11-12, 2008. The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that examine noteworthy non-, counter-, and/o...
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The International Animated Film Festival, the number one appointment with animation in the world, and Toondra.com, the first VOD site devoted to short animated films, are associating to offer an incredible showcase of international animation. Starting on 28 October, to coincide with the world celebration of animation, over 1,000 extracts of short films submitted for the Festival off...
Animation Studies Vol.2 – New article by Tom Klein
The first article of this year's volume of "Animation Studies" is now on-line athttp://journal.animationstudies.org/index.phpTom Klein has contributed an overview on questions of computer animation production in his text "Animated Appeal: A Survey of Production Methods in Children's Software".More articles are to follow soon.
