Program

Monday 3 July – Palazzo del Bo

Tuesday 4 July – Orto Botanico

• Jan Caspers, Gary Rosborough
  From Material Transformation to Media Sovereignty
• Raquel Coelho, Rex Grignon
  A Collaboration Platform for Successful Student Projects
• Matt Gidney
  “Herding Cats” – An animation studio pipeline for university students

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Women in Animation: The Contemporary International Context
Chair: Bella Honess Roe

• Linda Simensky
  Women as Cartoon Creators
• Terry Wragg
  Leeds Animation Workshop: A Women’s Collective
• Samantha Moore
  Animated Spaces: independent female animators and the spaces they work in
• Nazli Eda Noyan
  Women on the Verge of Animation

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Art and Technology in Digital Animation
Chair: Tony Tarantini

• Davide Benvenuti
  Line stylization for 2D animation tools; reinventing Ronald Searle in the Digital Era
• Nicolò Ceccarelli
  Expanding informative space with animation
• Eric Patrick
  Numbers Don’t Lie: Animated Infographics Marketing and Propaganda
• Corrie Francis Parks
  Peeling Back the Painted Onion: How Digital Workflow Changed the Paint-on-glass Aesthetic

Panel A4 
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National Experiences in Animation I: the Far East
Chair: Hannes Rall

• Shaopeng Chen
  Industrial Transformation and Aesthetic Exploration: China’s New Generation Cinema Animation
• Zhijun Peng
  From Political Animation Features to Animation Features’ Politics: the Change of Chinese Animation Features
• Love Asis Cabrera
  Marking of the Past: Surmount Unsuccessful Full Length Animated Film in the Philippines

• Alba Montoya Rubio
  Use and Abuse of the Film Inside Out (2015) as Didactic Resource
• Joe King
  Rock, Paper Scissors. Expanded Forms of Animation, its Use Within Live Stage Production and the Role of Research Knowledge Exchange within Live Projects
• Timothy Jones
  What Next? Job, internship, and incubator placement in for-profit animation education

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Researching the History of Women in Animation
Chair: Bella Honess Roe

• Bella Honess Roe
  A Gendered Past? The History of Historical Research into Women in Animation
• Caroline Ruddell
  The Crafty Animator: ‘Handmade’ Animation and Cultural Value
• Malcolm Cook
  ‘Distributor As a Woman Proves Surprise’: Margaret Winkler and the Transformation of Early Animation History
• Pascal Lefevre & Roel Vande Winkel
  A Belgian Tragedy? Rediscovering Nicole Van Goethem (1941-2000)

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Animation and the 3D Digital World
Chair: Pierre Floquet

• Lauren Carr
  Technical Artistry
• Mat Clark
  Hair; The Development of Simulation. An Historical Account
• Chris Carter, Sorin Oancea
  What is Holography and How Will it Change Everything?
• Raz Greenberg
  The Animation of Gamers and Gamers as Animators in Sierra Online’s Graphic Adventures 

Panel B4 
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National Experiences in Animation II
Chair: Giannalberto Bendazzi

• Maitane Junguitu
  From ‘Justin Hiriart’ to ‘Ipar haizearen erronka’. Animating the Basque Whale Hunters
• Nicola Stefani
  Moving Pinocchio from paper to screen. Illustration, animation and prototypal storyboarding in the Italian cultural industry
• Steve Henderson
  Special and Earnest – What makes Ethel & Ernest the archetypical British Animated Feature?
• Chris Pallant
  Do you speak Clanger? – An introductory history of the Smallfilms studio

• Ang Qing Sheng
  A painting-inspired approach to develop exploration in 3D Computer Graphics Visual Design
• Qian Zhang
  The Hope of Chinese Animation
• Zeynep Akçay
  Animating for a Preschool Interactive Film: A Case Study of How the Modular Logic of Interactivity Affects the Character Animation and Other Factors of Narrative Immersion

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More Perspectives on Women and Animation
Chair: Alison Loader

• Ruth Richards
  Animating Feminist Theory – The Body and Becoming
• Birgitta Hosea
  The Digital Écriture Féminine: Cyberfeminism in Experimental Computer Animation
• Gabriela Sá
  Female representation on mainstream animation film of the past 25 years
• Paola Bristot
  Vox lunae. Inner Dynamics of Animation by Italian Female Artists

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Expanded Practices: from the Night Club to the Street – Animating Public Space
Chair: Pierre Floquet

• Max Hattler
  Expanded Abstractions: From Fake Holography to Broken Stereoscopy
• Pedro Serrazina
  Animation is a personal place
• Peter Chanthanakone
  Animation in the DJ Music Scene
• Rose Bond
  At a Loss for Words: Problems in Defining Animated Projections

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Early Animation
Chair: Tom Klein

• Christine Veras
  Rediscovering the Zoetropic Editing
• Donald Crafton
  “Watch Me Move”. Winsor McCay’s Animated Vaudeville
• Giannalberto Bendazzi
  Émile Cohl as a Pioneer of Abstract Animation

Wednesday 5 July – Orto Botanico

• Miriam Harris
  Let’s Get Digital: The presence of “affect” in experimental animated music videos, films, and games
• Lilly Husbands
  One Dimensional Animation: MTV Animation and The “Quasi-Artistic Venture”
• Paul Taberham
  First Steps into the Avant-Garde
• Paul Ward
  Experimental animation on television in Britain

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Theoretical perspectives on the animated documentary
Chair: Cristina Formenti

• Cristina Formenti
  Walt Elias Disney and the Animated Documentary of the Classical Era
• Jacqueline Ristola
  Rotoscoping the Real: Philosophical Implications of Rotoscoped Animation in Animated Documentaries
• Ohad Landesman
  Real Is As Real Feels: Towards a Phenomenological Understanding of the Animated Documentary

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Animation and Movement: Exchange between Media
Chair: Erwin Feyersinger

• Holger Lang
  Animated Memes: Rebellious Underrated Crossmedia Hybrids
• Juergen Hagler
  Deviations and Anomalies at the Intersection of Animation, Media Art, and Technology
• Franziska Bruckner
  Oberhausen Revisited: Animated and Hybrid Tendencies in the “New German Cinema”
• Frank Gessner
  LEARNING FROM PADUA*ATELIER BERLIN MANIFESTO Pictorial Arts/Visual Arts/Bildkunst as a Meta-Language of the Art of Animation

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Objects, Bodies, Gestures
Chair: Amy Davis

• Catherine Munroe Hotes
  The Art of Gesture: The Legacy of Traditional Puppet Theatre in the Stop Motion of Jiří Trnka and Kihachirō Kawamoto
• Deborah Cameron
  Observation and the Inhabited Character
• ChunNing (Maggie) Guo, Yuanbo Zhong
  The Glory of Women through Silent Paper-cut Animation: “Scissorhands” Lotte Reiniger’s Reflection through Body Language

• Adriana Navarro Álvarez
  Kijé. The Long Path towards a Co-produced Animated Short Film
• Hannes Rall
  Die Nibelungen-Adapting Germany’s National Epic for Digital Animation
• Damian Gascoigne
  “Some of it I sampled, the rest of it I stole”
• Amy Lee Ketchum
  Art at the Speed of Production: a conceptual animation performance

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At the Boundaries of Abstract Art and Animation
Chair: Nichola Dobson

• Alex Jukes
  Yves Klein: Animation and the Pictorial moment
• Rachel Leah Walls
  Art, Animated. David Hockney: Current
• Tom Klein
  Woody Woodpecker & The Avant-Garde: Émigrés and Counterculture in 1940s Los Angeles

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Animation and “Reality”
Chair: Cristina Formenti

• Jana Rogoff
  Fedor Khitruk’s Story of a Crime (1962): The Early Call for Sound Environmentalism
• Alex Widdowson
  Contrasting the ethical responsibilities of an animated documentary director in three instances; when the subject of the film is identifiable, when the subject is anonymous and when the director themselves is the subject
• Carla MacKinnon
  Production challenges in animated documentary
• Henry Melki
  Beauty and The Beast: A Dynamic Relationship Between 3D Animation and the Adaption to Change

Panel E4 
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Animation: Beyond Movement
Chair: Chris Pallant

• Iveta Karpathyova
  Rotoscoping Design for Bodily Technique in Dance and Interdisciplinary Research on Animation as Embodied Practice
• Jack McGrath
  The Movement Between The Frames: Limited animation and the un-scene between
• Eric Herhuth
  The Animated Will: Understanding Thought and Action through Cartoons, Movement and Being in the World
• Kirsten Moana Thompson
  Light, Color and Motion: Animated Materiality in Moana

Thursday 6 July – Orto Botanico

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Animation and Memory: Forms, Methods, Contexts, Practices
Chair: Nicholas Miller
Respondent: Timothy Jones

• Samantha Moore
  Colliding Realities: Animating Memories of Feet and Faces
• Caroline Edasis
  Reframing Dementia: New Narrative Therapeutic Approaches to Aging and Elder Care
• Melanie Hani
  Animation and Therapy: An Animated Therapeutic Intervention for People Who Have Developed a Restricted or Absent Autobiographical Memory When Suffering with Grief
• Nicholas Miller
  Remains to Be Seen’: Animation and the Matter of Memory in Chris Sullivan’s Consuming Spirits

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Animation, Time and Identity
Chair: Giannalberto Bendazzi

• Dan Torre
  Revolving and Evolving: Cycles, Persistence and Time in Animation
• Carmen Hannibal
  Metamorphic Identity Over Time in Pritt Pärn’s Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life (1980)
• Fanny Bratahalim
  ‘Animation, Adaptation, and Diaspora’: the study of the Intermedial Movement of Animation in the Area of Adaptation from a Diasporic Perspective, and the Exploration of Diaspora through the Medium of Animation
• Sarah Bowen
  Animated Movement through Cinematic Landscape – the Transitional Space Trope

• Lisa Bode
  (Un)Dead Poets Society: Jim Clark’s Animated Photography and Poetic Animism
• Mihaela Mihailova
  Computer Anima(tion) and the “Soul-Glow” of Digital Visual Effects
• Jason Kennedy
  The Protean Double: Critiquing the Screen Presence of Synthespian Counterparts
• Gregory Bennett
  From animatronic to animation: the digital resurrection of historical figures

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Narration and Voice in Animation
Chair: Nichola Dobson

• Richard Leskosky
  The Portmanteau Film – An Animated Genre
• Jorgelina Orfila
  Yes, It Moves …and It Talks: An Analysis of Voice in Anomalisa (2015)
• Nichola Dobson
  “Trans”formers Rescue Bots, representation in disguise

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Animation Archives
Chair: James Walker

• Mette Peters
  Animation art: materials and meanings
• Rebekah Taylor
  Materiality of Animation: Archival and Museum Standards
• James Walker
  Great!!: Fragmented animation archives and forgotten collections

• Steve Weymouth
  Good Robot, Bad Robot: Animation and Anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interaction
• Hongyan Sun
  Skin Flicks And Yet It Moves! —Haptic Image in Animation
• Amy Davis
  Rotoscoping Uncanny Bodies: Animation Technology, Animation Aesthetics
• Marco Bellano
  Animation and the “Uncanny Valley”: Estrangements and Returns

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Science and Animation I
Chair: Cristina Formenti

• Sophie Mobbs
  Soothing Pain through Animation: the Opportunities for the Animator’s Art to Treat Pain through the Medium of Virtual Reality Simulations
• Alys Scott-Hawkins
  Hysteria – An Examination
• Cátia Peres
  Out of Gravity – The significance of physics in Animation

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Discourses on Animation Authors
Chair: Susan Ohmer

• Trixy Wattenbarger
  Helen Hill, Handmade Animation from the Heart
• Dirk de Bruyn
  Compositing One Complete Revolution
• Ai-Ting Chung
  Consuming Reality in Kon Satoshi’s Paranoia Agent
• Susan Ohmer
  Walt Disney in Vogue: Celebrity, Animation, and Modernity

• Pierre Floquet
  And Yet He Droops! Seriality and Duplication in Droopy Cartoons
• Maarit Kalmakurki
  Pixels, Princesses and Ogres. Isis Mussenden’s costume design process in 3D-animated feature film Shrek
• Davide Giurlando
  The Weird Age: When Unpleasant and Provocative Animated Works Became Popular and Successful 
• Maureen Furniss
  GKIDS and the Diversification of Animated Features in the US

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Science and Animation II
Chair: Paul Ward

• Vibeke Sorensen, Alexander Melkozernov
  Galileo’s Legacy: Scientific and Experimental Animation
• Alison Reiko Loader
  The astronomical pre-animated moving picture show
• Aylish Wood
  Where Do Shapes Come From? 

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Sound, Music and Animation
Chair: Marco Bellano

• María Lorenzo Hernandez
  Impromptu and the Illusion of Movement. The Making of a Music Film
• Signe Kjær Jensen
  Sound as Animation
• Gonzalo Parrilla Gallego
  Music and animation path through The Legend of Zelda saga
• Luigi Allemano
  Towards a Pedagogy of Animated Visual Music Composition