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

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...

The 25th Anniversary of International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart

The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) celebrates its 25th anniversary edition! Founded in 1982, the ITFS has evolved into one of the world’s leading events for animated film. The Festival presents a full, up-to-date spectrum of animated filmmaking and its intersections with visual effects, architecture, art, design, music and games. The ITFS offers a platform to director...

COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM TO PRESENT “THE SENSES: DESIGN BEYOND VISION”

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision” exhibition, on view April 13 through Oct. 28, which examines how multisensory design amplifies everyone’s ability to receive information, explore the world, satisfy essential needs and experience joy and wonder. “The Senses” features direct sensory experiences and displays practical, innovative and e...

Call for papers: ANIMATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM 2018 (APES 18) 

APES 18 invites ground-breaking research on a plethora of areas associated to animation practice and public engagement, to offer an alternative view of the capabilities of animation and to identify new terrains in the connection of animation and the engaged public. APES 18 follows on from previous year’s highly successful symposium and this year will be taking place on Tuesday 22nd May 201...