Maggie Guo – Society for Animation Studies

Author: Maggie Guo

Chunning (Maggie) Guo teaches New Media Art and Animation in the School of Fine Arts at Renmin University of China. In 2014, she was a visiting artist to the Master of Arts program in Character Animation at Central Saint Martins of the University of the Arts, London and she was also a resident artist at Centre Intermondes of La Rochelle in France. She holds a Master’s Degree in Digital Media Design from China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Recently she has been conducting research for her PhD paper, The Experiments and Critics of Independent Animation. Recently, she was invited to present her paper in Animafest Scanner II 2015 in Zagreb of Croatia, and International Animated Film Conference in Poland, as well as 2015 BFX Conference in Bournemouth and APES 2015 in Newcastle of the UK. From 2011 to 2012, she worked as a visiting scholar at Vancouver Film School. In addition, she visited and gave a workshop at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2013. She is the author of two books: Thinking Communication (Renmin University Publishing) and Digital Media Contextual Studies (China Machine Press). Her animated artwork has been exhibited and collected internationally by galleries and festivals including the White Rabbit Art Gallery in Australia, World Design Conference for Icograda IDA in Beijing, the L’abbaye de Fontevraud in France, and P.O.R.T’s opening presented by Kan-Kan Media and KoKi Freiburg in Germany. She was the recipient of the Jury Award at the 11th annual Chinese Independent Film Festival in China, as well as NETPAC Award in 2015 Busan International Short Film Festival of South Korea. Her collaborative work Ketchup was selected for several International Festivals, including the Stuttgart International Animation Festival, FANTOCHE International Animation Festival, Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, World Festival of Animated Film Zagreb, A Long Week of Short Films Festival in Shanghai. Chunning Guo's email guoteacher@sina.com

29 Jun

Interdisciplinary symposium at St Mary’s University: Beasts of the Sky: Strange Sightings in the Stratosphere

Posted by Maggie Guo in Animation News, Events

Taking place in the drawing room of Horace Walpole’s Gothic mansion in Strawberry Hill, this symposium will discuss the sky as space, as well as the creatures associated with it, whether monstrous or mundane, in popular culture. The sky is a privileged locale in popular genres, from science fiction, horror and dystopian film; in animation as well as live action; to natural history programming on...

19 Jun

Call for Imagination from 2018 SIGGRAPH Asia

Posted by Maggie Guo in Animation News, Events

Contest: Your Imagination, Our RealitySIGGRAPH Asia is now 11 years old! We would like to do a special call for submission: “Call for Imagination”. SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 is calling out to all artists, designers and friends of SIGGRAPH Asia! Submit your most imaginative character to us and you could have your masterpiece transformed into a three-dimensional, huggable, one-of-a-kind SIGGRAPH Asia...

13 May

Under the Radar 2018: The 8th International Festival & Symposium in Vienna

Posted by Maggie Guo in Animation News, Events

The 8th international festival & symposium is again taking place in Vienna, Austria. Our emphasis is on the intersection of animation, experimental media, art, exploratory filmmaking and digital culture. This event is combining the inspiring opportunities of an academic conference with the possibilities of a film festival. Since 2011, Under the Radar has been focused on transcending concept...

12 May

Ecstatic Truth 3rd edition: MAKING SENSE Between Fantasy and Fact

Posted by Maggie Guo in Animation News, Events

ECSTATIC TRUTH III: MAKING SENSE: Between Fantasy and Fact, 2018 Wednesday 27th June, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon Ecstatic Truth is a one-day symposium that will explore provocative approaches to the factual - from the poetic, personal and autobiographical through to 'objective' documentary - through animated filmmaking. Animation is considered in an expanded form, as a spectrum of acti...