20min TalksImmersive Environments and Virtual Reality
Chair: Ben Slater
Elke Reinhuber: Staging the Holodeck-Photographic Imagery for Immersive Experiences in Virtual Environments
Gray Hodgkinson: Virtual Reality will break your narrative
Jürgen Hagler, Michael Lankes: Animating interactive spaces
20min TalksAnimation in the Middle East 1
Chair: Millie Young
Javad Khajavi: The Way of the Word: Re-animating Islamic Calligraphy through Time-based Art
Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib: The Discreet Charm of Capitalism: Animation Production Reaching Out for Free Market in the Post-Nuclear-Deal Iran
Tariq Alrimawi: How would the computer animation help the new generation of Arab artists to practice the Arabic calligraphy in the religious animated films?
20-Min talksAnimated Personalities
Chair: Paul Ward
Lienors Torre: Persona, Celebrity, and the Animated Object
Akshata Udiaver: The Internet as Catalyst and Carrier for Animation
Alan Nguyen: Non-Violent Conflict Resolution in Animated Superhero Narratives
20-Min talksAnimation Under Influence
Chair: Kathrin Albers
Juan Camilo Gonzalez: Data Driven Drawings
Anitha Balachandran: Animated Avatar: a motion-capture hero in South Asia
Marina Teixeira Kerber: Pixillation: studies beyond the "trick"
20min TalksBritish Animation and Beyond
Chair: Ben Slater
Malcolm Cook: Advertising and animation: Aardman and the development of a brand
Vicky Jackson: "What do we get from a Disney film if we cannot see it?" The BBC and the "Radio Cartoon" 1934-1953
20min TalksAnimation in the Middle East 2
Chair: Javad Khajavi
Leila Honari: Reflecting on proto-animation techniques in the mandalic forms of Persian traditional arts
Monireh Astani: The Representation of Urban Humans, Spaces and Relations of Contemporary Iran in the TV Series "Traffic Culture"
Sara Khalili: An investigation into Aristotle's 2-act structure and its advantages in short comedic animation scriptwriting (in comparison with Syd Field's 3-act Structure)
20min TalksExpanded Animation Cinema
Chair: Ben Shedd
Frank Geßner: Alias Yederbeck – Expanded Animation Cinema
Amy Lee Ketchum: Animation and the Avant-Garde: tracing animation's trajectory in the fine arts and cinema
João Paulo Schlittler: Animation as a Transmedia Interface
20min TalksAdaptation: Fidelity, Sequels, and Gender Representation
Chair: Denise Varias
Denise Alyssa Varias: Adaptation and fidelity criticism: Why fidelity does not equal a successful film
Almira Desiani Khanna: Female Character Representation in Animation
Joceline Natasha Hyaning: The Potential of Sequels
KeynoteRolf Giesen
"Chinamation": Local Production or Global Power?
Introduction by Mr. Sascha Kienzle
Head of Science and Technology Department
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Special EventSCREENING:
Best of Singapore Independent Animation
Curated by: Tan Wei Keong
60 minutes
20min TalksIndigenous Animation and Adaptation Studies
Chair: Nina Sabnani
Lais Pereira: Landscape, heroes, folktales and caricatures: representations of national identity in Portuguese animation
Deborah Szapiro: Decolonising Animation: Indigenous animation and alternative futures
Isaac Kerlow: The Making of SHADOWS
20min TalksAnimation and Fine Arts: "Invading" the Galleries?
Chair: Ben Shedd
Lea Vidakovic: Alternative narrative structures in a spatial context: new approaches in animation storytelling
Lynn Tomlinson: Animating the Gallery: Curating "Cross-Pollinated – Hybrid Art Abuzz"
Christine Veras: Animation in the gallery: conquering the white cube
20min TalksAnimation Beyond the Screen
Chair: Elke Reinhuber
Franziska Bruckner: The Cosmos of Hybridity in Animation, Film and Media Studies
June Kim, Tomasz Bednarz: Being and Thing become space[s]. – reflecting // interacting // mirroring
Kristy H.A. Kang: Animating Place: Projection Mapping, Cultural Heritage and Urban Art in Singapore
