Today, the Society for Animation Studies has inaugurated a new blog, animationstudies 2.01, which is being edited by Nichola Dobson, and devoted to issues in animation scholarship. As Dobson points out, The pace of published research has often lagged behind the vast technological developments in the animation industry and as such there is often seen [...]
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Animationstudies 2.0
March 4th, 2013 · 1 Comment · History and criticism
Tags: Animationstudies 2.0·Harvey Deneroff·Society for Animation Studies
SAS 2013 — Redefining Animation
March 4th, 2013 · No Comments · Animation conferences
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Tags: Animation Evolution Conference·Society for Animation Studies·Van Norris
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 [...]
Tags: Animation Evolution Conference·Scottish Animation·Society for Animation Studies
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
Georgia Animation on My Mind Q&A
September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Filmmakers, Independent animators, Screenings
On Friday night, July 10th, ASIFA-Atlanta put on a screening of locally-made animated films at the Woodruff Art Center’s Rich Auditorium. The event, which was made possible by the High Museum of Art, was put on as part of the 21st Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference being held that weekend at the Atlanta campus [...]
Tags: American animation filmmakers·ASIFA-Atlanta·High Museum of Art·Society for Animation Studies