Animafest Scanner V - Symposium for Contemporary Animation Studies

05–06/06 TUE-WED 10:00 – 17:00 h Balassi Institute, Augusta Cesarca 10

Aesthetic, Affective, and Explanatory Functions of Animated Images in Sports Broadcasts – Erwin Feyersinger (University of Tübingen, Germany)

PANEL 1: ANIMATIONS AND SPORTS 05/06 TUE 11:20–11:50 h

On Friendship and Competition: Use of Sport in Communist Animated Propaganda – Olga Bobrowska, Michał Bobrowski (Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland)

PANEL 1: ANIMATION AND SPORTS 05/06 TUE 11:55-12:25 h

Meena, a Girl from My Village: 20 Years of Animated Social Change in South Asia – Naima Alam (University of Tübingen, Germany)

PANEL 2: CHARACTERS IN ANIMATION 05/06 TUE 14:30-15:00 h

Defining and Cataloguing Synthespian Performances in Film – Jason Kennedy (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

PANEL 2: CHARACTERS IN ANIMATION 05/06 TUE 15:05-15:35 h

Living Abstract Line: Contemporary Positions Concerning the Line as a Performer in Artistic Animation – Sabrina Kainz (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Vienna, Austria)

PANEL 2: CHARACTERS IN ANIMATION 05/06 TUE 15:50-16:20 h

(Un)masking the Human Condition: Nature and Stylistics of ‘Character Animation’ in Igor Kovalyov’s Films – Mikhail Gurevich (independent scholar, USA)

PANEL 2: CHARACTERS IN ANIMATION O5/06 TUE 16:25-16:55 h

Into the Dark: Animation and Horror – Nag Vladermersky (London International Animation Festival, UK)

PANEL 3: ANIMATING HORROR 06/06 WED 10:30–11:00 h

Fantasia’s “Night on Bald Mountain”: Fantastic Horror in Disney’s Early Long-feature Animations – Jorgelina Orfila (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA)

PANEL 3: ANIMATING HORROR 06/06 WED 11:05–11:35 h

The Chamber Escapes – Horror as a Matter of Light and Space – Martina Tritthart (University of Applied Sciences FH Burgenland and University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum, Vienna, Austria)

PANEL 3: ANIMATING HORROR 06/06 WED 11:50–12:20 h

The Phenomenological Experience of Post-Newtonian Physics through Experimental Animation and the Uncanny – Ana Carolina Estarita Guerrero (University of Southern California, USA)

PANEL 3: ANIMATING HORROR 06/06 WED 12:25–12:55 h

The Mesmerizing Loop: The Rare Case of Tom Winkler’s Animated GIFs – Francisco Ortega-Grimaldo (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA)

PANEL 4: ANIMATION AT LARGE 06/06 WED 14:30–15:00 h