Call For Papers: Animating Time-space (Waikato, New Zealand, 1-2 October 11) Waikato, October 1-2, 2011 Deadline: June 15, 2011 Animating Time-space Saturday October 1 and Sunday October 2, 2011
The University of Waikato, New Zealand Keynote speakers: Suzanne Buchan (TBC) Recent years have witnessed the emergence of dynamic approaches toward creating, exhibiting and experiencing media forms. Animated imagery is now pervasive and ubiquitous, giving life to objects, environments and imaginative spaces. With increased access to cinematic and digital technologies, we are seeing a broadening participation in processes of creating animation, and diverse experimentation with time and space. While animation continues to be experienced widely and dynamically as a ‘screen’ form, the relationship between producer, text, screen and audience is re-configured by animated work that deviates from the notion of a two-dimensional screen encounter. This complexity is apparent in recent studies of the blurring of computer game producers and users, and where animation enlivens public spaces and events, such as art galleries, graffiti walls, architecture and the performance of visual music and sound art. These examples provide fertile material for an investigation into animating time-space and the generation of participatory culture. Animating Time-space brings together theoreticians and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines in order to discuss a number of approaches toward the animation of time and space. It is intended that discussion will be inclusive of traditional, cinematic and ‘extra-cinematic’ approaches toward animation. The event comprises a two-day symposium, timed to coincide with the opening of the exhibition Handmade Pixels: Exposing the Animation Process, on 30th September. The symposium will be concluded by a screening of animated works from the exhibition. Both events are hosted by The University of Waikato. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on all aspects of animated time and space. Proposals for papers may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - animating space (on-screen space, off-screen space, narrative space, architectural space, environmental space, imaginative space etc) - anthropomorphism of space, objects, environments, plants, dead and decaying forms, ideas - creating other worlds; giving life to space and place - animation, time and memory - the temporality of animation: the relation between still and moving images - exploring the space in-between frames - the relation between handmade animation and digital technologies - the materiality of animation and changing technologies - audience experience, embodiment and perception of animated time and space - the animated body, manipulated physiognomy, pixilation and kinesthesis - animating sound and music: time-space considerations - the suspension of time in digital animation and Japanese Anime - suspended animation - animation and time travel Potential contributors are invited to submit a 300 word abstract accompanied by a brief biography (including name, institution, phone number and email) to the conference organisers at [email protected] no later than 15th June 2011. Potential contributors selected for paper presentation may also be considered for subsequent publication of an edited collection on Animating Time-space. In this situation, contributors may be requested to provide a more substantial paper draft prior to the symposium. -- Sonja van KerkhoffART: http://www.sonjavank.com BLOG:www.sonjavank.wordpress.com DESIGN: www.sonjavank.com/design VIDEOS: www.youtube.com/sonjavank BOOKMARKS: http://del.icio.us/sonjavank
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