CALL FOR PAPERS Guest Edited Issue of Animation Journal Editor: Rebecca Coyle Working Title: Thwack! Hearing the motion in animation Sound plays a crucial role in screen animation, assisting and extending expressive tools. Sound and music operate with motion, storytelling and space, enabling animation to leap out of the screen and into the viewer¹s imagination. Analysing why and how this occu...
Andrew Darley to Give Persistence of Animation Conference Keynote Address
Andrew Darley, the acclaimed author of Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres (Routledge, 2000), a book which has helped shape contemporary cultural theory, will deliver the keynote address at the Persistence of Animation Conference. As to the theme of his address, he writes to say that the "topic I have in mind is that of the conference title itself, i.e., `The per...
Animation Studies, Vol. 3: New articles
Animation Studies' third volume has been updated with the HTML versions of its two final articles. Laura Ivins-Hulley's "The Ontology of Performance in Stop Animation: Kawamoto’s 'House of Flame' and Švankmajer’s 'The Fall of the House of Usher'" examines how we locate performance in stop puppet animation, suggesting that it lies primarily in the realm of appearance. Available at: http://j...
Reminder: Persistence of Animation Conference Deadline for Proposals: January 9
The deadline for submitting proposals for SAS' Persistence of Animation Conference is Friday, January 9th. The conference, which is being held in Atlanta, Georgia, and hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, will be held on July 10-12. For full details, check out the conference blog at: http://blog.scad.edu/sasc, or contact hdenerof@scad.edu , or Charles daCosta at cdacosta@scad.edu .
