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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

03 Oct

Join PCA/ACA in Indianapolis for the 2018 National Conference

Posted by Maggie Guo in Animation News, Events

The Popular Culture Association · American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is highly regarded in academe with well over 5,000 academic oral presentations given internationally, two top-tier journals (The Journal of American Culture and The Journal of Popular Culture), and over 3,000 members. This year’s conference should be exciting with papers on an enormous array of subjects. The deadline for o...

23 Sep

KLIK’s ten year anniversary edition brings a whirlwind of animation to Amsterdam!

Posted by Maggie Guo in Animation News, Events

KLIK’s ten year anniversary edition brings a whirlwind of animation to Amsterdam. From 17 – 22 October the festival presents an exhilarating program of the best animated shorts from all over the world, feature films, workshops, inspiring talks by international animation heroes, and this year’s theme: Never Grow Up. KLIK is for all ages. At the very heart of KLIK’s programming beats ...

16 Sep

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is Coming！

Posted by Maggie Guo in Animation News, Events

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is steadily becoming a key moment for Artists Moving Image in the UK. Between Wednesday 20 – Sunday 24 September 2017 BFMAF will animate the border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Accompanying an exhibitions programme, the Berwick New Cinema Competition features resolutely contemporary films that transgress restraints of genre, capital and expe...

11 Sep

New publication: Children’s Media and Modernity

Posted by Maggie Guo in Animation News

Ewan Kirkland is an active member of SAS. Recently his new book Children’s Media and Modernity: Film, Television and Digital Games was published by Peter Lang AG. This book explores how products for children navigate contradictions by investigating the history and textuality of three major forms of modern media: cinema, television and digital games. Case studies – including Wallace and Grom...