8 Nov (Fri) 2pm @ Fine Art Lecture Theatre
SPECIAL ENRICHMENT WEEK SCREENING (film/anime tbc)
Scroll down to see the full schedule for Semester 1.
What is this?
The Animation Forum is a space for talking about animation, moving image, and new technologies in a broad sense, in the context of a contemporary artistic practice. The sessions are facilitated by Petra Szemán, with a mixture of theory, practice and screenings. The sessions will be tailored to the interest of the group so please bring thoughts and ideas! (Email me at Petra.Szeman@newcastle.ac.uk)
Over here, we are taking animation in its most expanded format. So what is that?
Animation can be: about possible worlds, about processes of worlding, and the peculiar feedback loops that occur between animated media, user interfaces, players, avatars and characters. How might new considerations of empathy, queer desire, or communal responsibility emerge from our production of, or interaction with, animated entities?
Rethinking motion and movement outside of cinematic traditions. Cross-media synergies, the unification of discordant parts, intermedial spaces – the screen of your phone, the screens in public spaces, the screen you’re looking at right now.
What happens to the relationship between “life” and “image” in a hyper-mediated techno-political milieu?
These are not questions that you need to answer – please come along if you have any semblance of interest in the stuff mentioned above, or if you simply just like cartoons/comics or artists’ moving image etc. No experience of any kind is necessary!
The forum tends to happen on Thursdays. Below is the schedule for the Animation Forum activities for the rest of the semester. We have screenings and workshops, put them down in your calendars!!
BEHOLD:
8 Nov (Fri) 2pm @ Fine Art Lecture Theatre
SPECIAL ENRICHMENT WEEK SCREENING (film/anime tbc)
14 Nov (Thur) 7.30pm @ Star and Shadow (pay as you can ticketing)
school trip to see Kon Satoshi’s Millenium Actress (2001)
21 Nov (Thur) 10am-1pm @ Media Suite
Animation/video/moving image workshop + advice session
5 Dec (Thur) 10am-1pm @ Media Suite
Animation/video/moving image workshop + advice session
For the screenings:
Just come along, bring a snack, have a nice time. We will have a little informal discussion afterwards.
For the Star and Shadow one you will have to get a ticket, you may wish to do this in advance at the link, prices are ‘pay as you can’ £7/5/3/free https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/programme/event/millenium-actress,7409/
We shall meet shortly before the start at the Star and Shadow. If you want to book a seat near me, I’m at C5.
For the workshops:
Want to learn some new skills? Troubleshoot an ongoing project? Figure out how to make your moving image dreams come true? Want to make a game/VN? Interested in video but don’t know where to start? These are loosely structured workshop/coworking session in the Media Suite, where you can come to learn new skills and/or develop existing work and receive feedback + help. There’s also drawing tablets to use. Bring your own tablet/laptop if applicable!
Come scan in IRL work to digitize it and try and make it move; come edit videos; come to learn about and experiment with AfterEffects; come draw some animation; come to talk and think about anime/games you enjoy and moving image at large; anything is possible.
Everyone is welcome, no experience needed. Bring your ideas and your enthusiasm. A sign-up sheet will go up on the noticeboard approx 1 week before the workshop date.
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“(…) a film has never enclosed a whole world, not even of those who make it, and you have to go home, or whatever one names the place that is not the film.”
Evan Calder Williams, Shard Cinema (2017)
“So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (1972)
“There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts (…)”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)