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. The next one is:
WORKSHOPPE! 1 February (Thur), 10am-1pm @ Media Suite
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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)