Symposium: Interactive Animation and Video Games. Friday 8th March
Augustine House, Rhodaus Town, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2YA: Room AH3.31 (Top floor)
We are delighted to announce that Intellect will be joining us at the Symposium.
Intellect is an independent academic publisher in the arts and humanities, publishing scholarly books and journals that exemplify their mission as publishers of original thinking. Intellect have a wide range of Visual Arts and Cultural Studies journals to include Animation Practice, Production & Process, Studies in Comics, Virtual Creativity and the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. Their recent book titles include Superman: The Movie and Planet Cosplay: Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom.
Intellect’s representative Jack will be onsite to discuss publishing opportunities throughout the event. Please emailjack@intellectbooks.com if you would like to arrange a meeting.
Intellect will be selling books and journals throughout Anifest with up to 50% discount. Please do visit the stall on Friday 8th March! We will be based in the main symposium room.
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9:00 - 9:30
Registration
Register and join us for a coffee
9:30 - 9:40
Welcome
Welcome from Symposium organiser Christopher Holliday (King’s College London)
9:40 - 11:00
Panel 1: Experiencing Virtual Realities
Danny Bacchus (Sheffield Hallam University)
Life is Beautiful. Always: Using Virtual Reality to share the experience of disability
Tom Livingstone (University of Kent)
Representing Interactivity: Lessons from the Multiplex
Mihaela Mihailova (University of Michigan)
Immersed in Nature: Virtual Reality and Environmental Discourse
11:00 - 11:30
Tea and Coffee Break
Networking and refreshments
11:30 - 12:30
Panel 2: Style and Narrative across Platforms
Richard Fejes (Eötvös Loránd University)
Building Alternate Realities: Real World as a Medium in ARG Storyworlds
Jeeshan Gazi (University of Westminster)
Realism and (Final) Fantasy: on HD remakes of early 3D console titles
12:30 - 13:10
Lunch
Networking and lunch provided
13:10 - 13:30
Film Screening
A chance to see some of the shortlisted films of the Anifest film competition
13:30 - 14:50
Panel 3: Pedagogy and / in Practice
Jessica Rutherford (Loughborough University) (via Skype)Enabling the neurodiverse to fulfil educational potential: Can animation be the answer?
Rónán Lynch (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Becoming Animated in an Online Learning Environment
Peter Morris (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Remote Control? Online Supervision of Animation Capstone Project
14:50 - 15:00
Break
A quick comfort break
15:00 - 16:40
Panel 4: Issues in Interactivity
Maggie Xiaoge Li (University of Southampton)
Digital Interaction: Chinese Style Role-Playing Games and National Fantasy
Raz Greenberg (Tel Aviv University)
The Animation of Gamers and Gamers as Animators in Sierra Online's Graphic Adventures
Julia Eckel (Ruhr-University, Bochum)
“Screenshot of it didn’t happen” – The Interactivity of Documenting Game Animation
Takis Kyriakoulakos (University of the Aegean)
The Praxis in Computer Animation: figurative, interactive, engaging, playful
16:40 - 16:50
Break
Another quick comfort break
16:50 - 17:45
Keynote Speaker
Professor Aylish Wood (University of Kent)
No Man’s Sky and Everything: interactions in their digitally mediated worlds
17:45 - 18:30
Film Screening
An opportunity to see some more of the best films submitted to the Anifest film competition
18:30
Conference End
Hope you had a great day and will join us for more screenings and awards ceremony on Saturday