This year’s Society for Animation Studies conference will be held at the University of Southern California (one of my alma maters), June 23-27, under the theme of “Redefining Animation.” It is being held under the auspices of The John C Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts of USC’s School of Cinematic Art. There is [...]
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SAS 2013 — Redefining Animation
March 4th, 2013 · No Comments · Animation conferences
Tags: Society for Animation Studies·University of Southern California
SAS 2012 — The Animation Machine
November 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Animation Festivals
The 24th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference will be held June 25-27, 2012 at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. The Call for Papers notes: The theme of this year’s conference, ‘The Animation Machine’, reflects the wide range of processes, technologies, histories and structures in animation. As movement is an essential aspect of animation, whatever [...]
Tags: Melbourne International Animation Festival·RMIT University·Society for Animation Studies·Thomas Lamarre·Tomotaka Takahashi
SAS Athens 2011
April 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Animation conferences
Charles daCosta (my counterpart at the main campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design) (left) standing with Gan Sheuo Hui (Kyoto Seika University) enjoying the view of Athens during a coffee break opening day of the conference. This year’s Society for Animation Studies conference, “The Rise of the Creative Economy: Digital Animation, Visual [...]
Tags: Society for Animation Studies·University of Indianapolis — Athens
Greek Animation Festivals/Conferences
December 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Animation Festivals
Forget the financial crisis in Greece, as the country prepares to not only host the 23rd Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference, March 18-20, 2011, but two animation festivals within a month of each other. The first , which is being held in collaboration with the SAS Conference, is the 6th edition of Animfest Athens, [...]
Tags: Animfest Athens·BE THERE! Corfu Animation Festival·Society for Animation Studies
Lucerne Animation Academy’s LIAA-TV
December 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Filmmakers, Music and film, Screenwriting
About a year ago, the Lucerne School of Art and Design, in Lucerne, Switzerland, put on its first Lucerne Animation Academy (LIAA). The four-day event was publicized as a “a great opportunity for people from theory and practice to meet and share their views on the characteristics of dramaturgy in animation films, in all its [...]
Tags: Brothers Quay·David O. Reilly·Georges Schwizgebel·Jerzy Kucia·LIAA-TV·Lucerne Animation Academy·Norman Roger·Otto Alder·Priit Pärn·Yuri Norstein
Notes on Animation Evolution
August 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation conferences
That’s me in the middle, after my wife Vickie and I gave our paper at the SAS Conference at the Edinburgh College of Art, sitting between Binary Fable’s Helen Jackson (panel moderator on left) and fellow panelist Colleen Montgomery from the University of British Columbia. (This and other photos are by Van Norris, of the [...]
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Animation Evolution Update
June 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Animation conferences
Animation Evolution, the 22nd Society for Animation Studies conference, which will hold forth between July 9-11, and is being hosted by the Edinburgh College of Art, is coming up shortly, and I will be there to present a paper I am writing with my wife, Vickie. As someone who has been involved with the Society [...]
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Animation Evolution: The 22nd Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference
October 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Animation conferences
“Animation Evolution,” the next SAS conference will be held at Scotland’s Edinburgh College of Art, July 9-11, 2010. The conference blog is up and running, and is where you can find its Call for Papers. The conference is being organized by Nichola Dobson, who is also editor of Animation Studies, the Society’s online journal. Keynote [...]
Tags: Animation Evolution·Clare Kitson·Edinburgh College of Art·Nichola Dobson·Paul Wells·Society for Animation Studies
Lucerne International Animation Academy
October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Animation conferences
The Lucerne School of Art and Design, in Lucerne, Switzerland, notes, After two years of preparation it is our pleasure to announce the unique programme of Lucerne International Animation Academy (LIAA). Our thanks go to good friends, colleagues, partners and sponsors, who trusted in our idea. LIAA is a four-day event that encourages public discussions [...]
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Animation-Related Events in Atlanta
July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Animation conferences
The Persistence of Animation: 21st Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference Theres an unusual number of animation-related events in Atlanta this coming week starting, of course, with the Society for Animation Studies Conference, July 10-12, at the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design (1600 Peachtree St., NW, 4th floor of the [...]
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Behind the Cels: Selections from SCAD’s Don Bluth Collection
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Exhibitions
That’s the name of the free exhibit the Savannah College of Art and Design Library featuring animation art from the Don Bluth Collection, which was donated to the school by Bluth and Gary Goldman. The exhibit is being done in conjunction with the forthcoming Society for Animation Studies conference at SCAD-Atlanta, July 10-12. The exhibit, [...]
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SAS/ASIFA-Atlanta/High Museum Free Screening of Peachtree State Animation
June 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Screenings
As part of the 21st Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference being held July 10-12, ASIFA-Atlanta is putting on a screening of independent and commercial animation, “Georgia Animation on Our Mind: A Screening of Peachtree State Animation,” which is being hosted by the High Museum of Art at the Rich Theatre of the Woodruff Arts [...]
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Andrew Darley to Give Keynote Address at Persistence of Animation Conference
November 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation conferences
I am delighted to announce that Andrew Darley, the widely 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 Society for Animation Study’s Persistence of Animation Conference; the conference , which I [...]
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The Persistence of Animation Conference Issues Call for Papers
October 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation conferences
The 21st annual Society for Animation Studies conference, “The Persistence of Animation,” scheduled for July 10-12, 2009, has issued its official Call for Papers and launched its official website/blog at http://blog.scad.edu/sasc/ As I previously noted, the conference is being hosted by the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design (I am acting [...]
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Animation Unlimited 2008
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation conferences
Animation Unlimited 2008, the 20th Society for Animation Studies conference was graciously hosted by the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, in the beach resort town on the southern coast of England. The Arts Institute, under the guidance of Paul Ward (pictured here getting the Society’s McLaren-Lambert Award), did, as the Brits like to say, a brilliant [...]
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