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' 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...

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 .

Announcement to S.A.S. Members: Emru Townsend Award, and the Professional Development Grant Society for Animation Studies members may now apply for grant awards in the assistance of research and travel for those intending to present at this year's annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia.  To apply for either grant, all applications should specifically include:   a short CV of the applicant a br...