TONIGHT: Redefining Animation
Redefining Animation
Thursday Nov 1, 2007 • 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Davidson Conference Center, Embassy Room
Panelists include:
World-renown historians: Giannalberto Bendazzi (author of Cartoons: 100 Years of Cinema Animation, among many other titles), from Milan, and Jayne Pilling (editor of A Reader in Animation Studies, Animation: 2D and Beyond, among others), from London.
Award-winning emerging talents: digital artist and animator Greg Araya and multi-media performance animator Miwa Matreyek, both from the Los Angeles area.
Accomplished artists and educators: Kathy Smith, Christine Panushka, and Sheila Sofian, all from the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts.
These speakers will be showing examples of innovative animation and discussing the aesthetics of their personal work. Issues to be covered include the new contexts for animation and related perceptual, social, and technological issues. During the reception, you will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the panelists.
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