Animation and Automation 26 - 27 March 2009 The University of Manchester and Lancaster University Conference Co-organisers: Jackie Stacey (RICC, Manchester) and Lucy Suchman (CSS, Lancaster) The aim of this symposium is to examine the relationship between Animation and Automation by bringing into dialogue two already highly interdisciplinary areas of scholarship: film studies, including new med...
Lucerne International Animation Academy 2009
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts 8-12 of December 2009 The Institute of Design of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will organise the first Lucerne International Animation Academy from the 8 - 12 of December 2009. The goal of this Symposium is to encourage a theoretical debate about current and historical questions of animation as an independent form of the “Moving P...
Animated metamorphoses. The changing Culture in Contemporary Animation
10th Film Summer School in Locarno, Switzerland, 3.-7. August 2009 To account for the hybrid, polymorphous nature of contemporary animation, the X Film Summer School plans to confront the Western scene with that in the East, initiating a dialogue through two of the authors who are most representative of the latest tendencies in animation - Swiss animation director Georges Schwizgebel and Japanese...
McLaren-Lambart Book Award 2009
The Society for Animation Studies announces a call for entries for the 2009 McLaren-Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Book on Animation. Entries must be a book published in 2007 or 2008 that contributes to the field of animation studies. An author must be a current member of the SAS, and authors must nominate themselves by submitting their book either as a digital file or by having th...
