Animafest Scanner IX: Symposium for Contemporary Animation Studies

TEATAR &TD Savska 25 07-08/06, 10:00 – 17:00 In English, open to public.

KEYNOTE: Caught Between Two Stools: Star Wars vs. the Art of Animation - Rolf Giesen (Animafest Zagreb Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies)

KEYNOTE TEATAR &TD 07/06 TUE 10:10-10:55

Earmarked for Collision – A Brief Tracing of Collage Animation - Chris Robinson (Artistic Director/Extraordinary Procrastinator, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Verdun, Canada)

PANEL 1 TEATAR &TD 07/06 TUE 11:00-11:30

A Reason for Extinction. An Ecocritical Reading of Animated Dinosaurs - Marco Bellano (Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)

PANEL 1 TEATAR &TD 07/06 TUE 11:45-12:15

Rocky and Bullwinkle and Propaganda - Derek G. Larson (Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University, Lafayette, United States)

PANEL 1 TEATAR &TD 07/06 TUE 12:20-12:50

Paulus Hector Mair’s De arte athletica as Pre-cinematic Animation - Charalambos Margaritis (Special Teaching Staff, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)

PANEL 1 TEATAR &TD 07/06 TUE 14:30-15:00

The Modernist Aesthetics of the Bulgarian Animation School in 1960s and its Collage Cut-out Use Through the Influence of the Modern Graphic and Poster Design - Velislava Gospodinova (Lecturer, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

PANEL 1 TEATAR &TD 07/06 TUE 15:05-15:35

Artificial Intelligence and the Crisis of Cinematographic Naturalism: From Copying Reality to Translating Reality - A Critical Approach. - Georges Sifianos (Professor emeritus, ENSAD, PSL Research group, SACRe (EA 7410), Paris, France)

PANEL 2 TEATAR &TD 07/06 TUE 15:50-16:20

Animated Installations in Hospital Environment: Applied Animation in the Service of Healthcare - Lea Vidaković, Melinda Šefčić (Assistant professor, Lusófona University, HZSU/HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia)

PANEL 2 TEATAR &TD 07/06 TUE 16:25-16:55

Excavating the Frame: The Animated Still Image of Susana de Sousa Dias - Pedro Serrazina (Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa, Portugal)

PANEL 2 TEATAR &TD 07/06 WED 10:10-10:40

Animation as an educational tool on the example of children’s animation production - Agata Hofelmajer-Roś (Poland)

PANEL 2 TEATAR &TD 08/06 WED 10:45-11:15

Traditional Animation in the Digital Era - Pablo Nicolás Martínez Ballarín (Doctoral student, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

PANEL 2 TEATAR &TD 08/06 WED 11:20-11:50