Conference Program
Sunday 17th June, Monash University Berwick |
9.30am – 10am REGISTRATION
(Building 901, foyer)
10am – 10.10am
10.10am – 11.10am |
Conference Opening: G43, Building 901 Welcome: Prof. Phil Steele, Campus Director and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Monash University Berwick
Keynote Address: Battlefields for the Undead : Reassessing Prof. Paul Wells, Director of Animation, School of Art and Design, Loughborough University, UK |
11.10am – 11.30am MORNING TEA
(Building 903/Rooms 1139-1141)
11-30am – 1pm |
Session 1: G43, Building 901 Trauma, Death and the Baroque Session Chair: Andi Spark
(The) Death (of) the Animator, or: the Felicity of Felix, Part 1: Kingdom of Shadows Alan Cholodenko, University of Sydney
Anamorphic Consciousness and the Animated Baroque Saige Walton, University of Melbourne
Articulating Trauma Dirk De Bruyn, Deakin University |
1pm – 2pm LUNCH
(Building 903/Rooms 1139-1141)
2 pm – 3.30pm |
Session 2A: G43, Building 901 Japanese Anime Session Chair: Peter Moyes
From Sazae-san to Nana: A Longitudinal Study of the Images of Women as Represented in Postwar Japanese Anime Carol Poon Man Wai, Tohoku University, Japan Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in anime Mick Broderick, Murdoch University |
Session 2B: LT 197, Building 902 Czech Animation Session Chair: Dirk De Bruyn
Learning from the Golden Age of Czechoslovak Animation: The Past as the Key to Unlocking Contemporary Issues Lucie Joschko & Michael Morgan, Monash University
Checking out a Czech Animator: How Michaela Pavlatova both incorporates and rebels against the Czech animation tradition Miriam Harris, Unitec New Zealand
The “Svankmajer” Touch Cathryn Vasseleu, University of Technology, Sydney |
3.30 pm – 4pm AFTERNOON TEA
(Building 903/Rooms 1139-1141)
4pm – 5pm |
Session 3A: G43, Building 901 The Uncanny Session Chair: Alan Cholodenko
Beyond Uncanny: Breaking from the Styleguide Rachel Walls, University of Technology, Sydney The uncanny and the robot in the Astro Boy episode ‘ Franken’ Katharine Buljan, University of Sydney |
Session 3B: LT 197, Building 902 Perception Session Chair: Saige Walton
Flowerpot Men: The nature and perception of the haptic image in the stop-motion animated productions of Brian Cosgrove and Richard Hall Cordelia Brown, RMIT University Facial Expressions for Effective Communication of Emotion in Animated Characters Andrew Buchanan, Graduate, RMIT University |
5pm – 6pm SUNDOWNER
(Building 903/Rooms 1139-1141)
6pm – 7pm MIAF SCREENING by Malcolm Turner, MIAF Executive Director
(Building 901/Lecture Theatre G43)
7pm CONFERENCE DINNER
(Shanikas Restaurant, Berwick )
Monday 18th June, Monash University Berwick
|
9.30am – 10.30am |
G43, Building 901: Spotlight on Antoinette Starkiewicz |
10.30am – 11am MORNING TEA
(Building 903/Rooms 1139-1141)
11am – 12.30am |
Session 4A: G43, Building 901 Art and Animation Session Chair: Miriam Harris
Animating Antarctic Landscape: Dialogues in Art and Science Lisa Roberts, University of New South Wales Collage Aesthetics in Animation Moon Sun Lee, RMIT University Animation and the Trace Michael Roseth |
Session 4B: LT 197, Building 902 Special Effects Session Chair: Tom Chandler The Hybridisation of the Moving Image: Film, and Digital Special Effects Mark Power, Monash University Brando Returns: Re-Animating the Dead Lisa Bode, University of Queensland |
12.30pm – 1.30pm LUNCH
(Building 903/Rooms 1139-1141)
1.30pm – 2.30pm |
Session 5A: G43, Building 901 The Incredibles Session Chair: Mark Power Final Fantasy or The Incredibles? Animation and the Uncanny Valley Matthew Butler & Lucie Joschko, Monash University Saving the world from banality: Animated superheroes and the everyday post 9/11 Amanda Third, Murdoch University |
Session 5B: LT 197, Building 902 Flash animation Session Chair: Keith Bradbury
Flashimation: Cultural Exchange Between Television and New Media Michael Daubs, University of Western Ontario Behind the Flash Exterior: scratching the surface of online animated narratives Peter Moyes, Griffith University |
2.30pm – 3pm AFTERNOON TEA
(Building 903/Rooms 1139-1141)
3pm – 4.30pm |
Session 6A: G43, Building 901 Animation and Education Session Chair: Rachel Walls
Children’s Animation in Taiwan Zhi-Ming Su, Griffith University Squash, Stretch, Anticipate, Follow-through: Animation Education in the Global Marketplace Andi Spark, Griffith University |
Session 6B: LT 197, Building 902 3D Animation Session Chair: Dan Torre
Use of Traditional Narrative strategies in 3D computer Animation Yen-Jung Chang, RMIT University Animated Microworlds: 3D Visions of Possible and Impossible Creatures Based on SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) Images Tom Chandler, Monash University Digital special effects and the loss of visual paradox Rose Woodcock, Deakin University |
4.30pm – 5.30pm BOOK LAUNCH: Alan Cholodenko’s Illusion of Life 2
(Building 903/ Rooms 1139-1141)
5.30pm-7.30pm SCREENING: ABRACADABRA
introduced by Grant Stone
(Building 901/Lecture Theatre G43)
Abstracts (in order of presentation)
Keynote Address
Battlefields for the Undead – Re-assessing Animation Studies, and other Romantic Interludes…
Professor Paul Wells, School of Art and Design,
Loughborough University
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TO ONTOLOGY AND BEYOND
Dr Bill Schaffer, University of Newcastle
This paper will attempt to displace current debates concerning digitality and the ontology of film by differentiating between the uses and implications of traditional animation, traditional rotoscoping, digital rotoscoping, performance capture, and digital keyframing in recent films. It will argue that attempts to determine an ontological opposition between analogue and traditional film are massively complicated – perhaps to the point of being rendered untenable – by the fact of animation. Films discussed will include Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006), Gerrit van Dijk’s Frieze Frame (1991) and I Move, So I Am (1998), Robert Zemeckis’ Polar Express (2004), and Gil Kenan’s Monster H