Speakers

The following is a listing of speakers, with links to conference blog entries containing abstracts of their papers and biographical statements. When the schedule of panels is posted, links their panels will be added.

Phil Anderson
Professor
Liberal Arts
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN USA
“Contexts for Caricaturing: the spectrum of expressing”

Alan Cholodenko
Honorary Associate
Department of Art History and Film Studies
The University of Sydney, Australia
“(The) Death (of) the Animator, or: The Felicity of Felix, Part III: Death and the Death of Death”

Kenny Chow Ka-nin
Lecturer
School of Design
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
“The Spiritual-Functional Animation: A New Paradigm of Animation in the Digital Age”

Charles daCosta
Professor of Animation History and Media Theory
School of Film and Digital Media
Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA, USA
“Where is Ananse — Issues in African [Cinema] Animation”

Adam de Beer
PhD student
Film Studies
University of Cape Town (UCT)
Cape Town, South Africa
“Kinesic constructions: an aesthetic analysis of movement and performance in 3D animation”

Dirk de Bruyn
Senior Lecturer
School of Communication and Creative Arts
Deakin University
Burwood, Victoria, Australia
“Drawing Itself”

Eliška Děcká
MA Student
Film Studies Department
Charles University of Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
“Autobiographical elements in animated films of Czech female directors”

Harvey Deneroff
Professor, Animation Department
Savannah College of Art and Design
Atlanta, Georgia USA
Workshop Moderator: “Teaching Animation History in a Cinema Studies World”

Janeann Dill
Founder-Director
IIACI: Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence
Visiting Faculty and Experimental Animation Artist
University of Alabama
New College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA
“Bestowing Persistence: An Eclipsed Birth Meets An Eclipsed Death”

Nichola Dobson
Independent Scholar
Edinburgh, Scotland UK
“Nostalgic parody or parodic nostalgia? Sub-genre on adultswim”

Michael Dow
PhD candidate
New York University (New York City)
Teacher, Film and Animation Studies
Northeastern University, Boston, MA USA
“It’s Raining Coyotes: Death and/in the Chase”

Brian Evans
Department of Art and Art History
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL USA
“Musical Time with Moving Type”

Pierre Floquet
Associate Professor of English
ENSEIRB
Bordeaux University
Talence Cedex, France
“From Toy to Foil : Tex Avery’s Female Characters”

Alla Gadassik
PhD Student in Screen Cultures
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL USA
“Primitive Movers: Live Performance in Digital Animation”

Gan Sheuo Hui
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
“To Be or Not to Be: The Controversy in Japan over the Anime Label”

Raz Greenberg
PhD Student
Communication Studies Department
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel
“Animating, Ani-Morphing and Un-Ani-Morphing of the Evolutionary Process in Carl Sagan’s Cosmos”

Bella Honess Roe
Doctoral Candidate
Critical Studies Department, School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA USA
“Trauma and Memory: Animating the Inexpressible”

Heather L. Holian
Assistant Professor of Art History
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC USA
“But is it (Fine) Art?: Thoughts on the Placement of (Pixar) Animation within the History of Western Art”

Tze-yue G. Hu
Adjunct Lecturer
School of International and Area Studies
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK USA
“Feminizing the Magic Pen: Excuse me…Gen. MacArthur…”

Laura Ivins-Hulley
Dept. of Communication & Culture
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN USA
“Performing Characters: An Audience-Centered Analysis”

Alessandro Imperato
Professor of Broadcast Design, Motion Graphics and Media Theory
Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA USA
“Wars, Submarines, Walruses and Strawberries: A Critical and Historical Approach to Motion Design as Animation”

Chris Jaynes
Graduate Student
Cinema Studies
New York University
New York, NY USA
“It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s Bob Parr? Narrative Discourse in The Incredibles”

Timothy Jones
Project Specialist
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California
Marina del Rey, CA USA
“Magoo and Mickey’s First Television Adventures: Transitional Advertising Forms and the Theatrical Cartoon Star”

Ji-hoon Kim
PhD Candidate
Department of Cinema Studies
New York University, New York City USA
“’Softspace’ and Hybrid Images: Animated World as Media Interface in Speed Racer”

Tom Klein
Assistant Professor
School of Film and Television
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA USA
“Manuel Moreno: Animator/Director at Universal, 1929-1937”

Tom Knott
Freelance Talent Scout/Artist Casting
Portland, OR USA
Workshop: “Push/Pull: The Student, The Education and The Industry” (Chair)

Mark Langer
Film Studies
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON Canada
“Illustrated Songs and Song Car-Tunes: Cultural Practices and Sound Technology in Early Talkie Animated Films”

María Lorenzo Hernández
Department of Design
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
“A Film of One’s Own: The Animated Self-Portraits of Young Contemporary Female Animators”

Richard J. Leskosky
Richard J. Leskosky
Associate Director
Unit for Cinema Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL USA
“Punctured Performances”

Christian McCrea
Lecturer in Games and Interactivity
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
“Vertigo, Nausea, Menace and Grace”

Corbett Miteff
PhD Student
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales UK
“The Work of Animation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

Angela Ndalianis
Head of Cinema Studies
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
“Gertie Meets Gertie: from animated film to entertainment robot”

Richard Neupert
Wheatley Professor of the Arts
Film Studies
University of Georgia
Athens, GA USA
“From Renaissance to Azur: Visual Style and French Animation”

Van Norris
Senior Lecturer, Film and Media
School of Creative Arts, Film and Media
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth UK
“’Telling it like it is?’ Considering British Television Animation and Contemporary Satire”

Maria Palazzi
Director
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD)
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH USA
“Animation design and discovery for Synchronous Objects, a collaborative project with choreographer William Forsythe”

Martyn Pedler
PhD candidate
University of Melbourne
Fitzroy VIC Australia
“Splash Pages and Freeze Rays:Stasis and Speed in Superhero Media”

Mette Peters
Researcher and Curator of Collections
Netherlands Institute for Animation Film
Tilburg, The Netherlands
“George Debels: Pioneer of Dutch Animation: The influence of American theatrical cartoons on early Dutch commercials”

Meg Rickards
Lecturer
Centre for Film and Media Studies
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa
“Animating shifts in consciousness: live action and animation in Jan Švankmajer’s Faust and Alice”

Freida Riggs
Independent Scholar
Sydney NSW Australia
“The Lifeworld of Wall-E: A New Generation”

Caroline Ruddell
Lecturer in Film and Television
St. Mary’s University College
Twickenham, UK
“The Presence of the Line”

Jane Shadbolt
Lecturer in Visual Communications
University of Newcastle
Enmore, NSW Australia
“Parallel Synchronised Randomness — Stopmotion Animation in Live Action Feature Films”

Gunnar Strøm
Associate Professor
Volda University College
Volda, Norway
“Watch and Listen! Animated audiovisual language stimulation in kindergarten”

David Surman
Programme Leader
BA (hons) Computer Games Design
Newport School of Art, Media and Design
University of Wales, Newport
Newport, South Wales UK
“High Definition, Moderate Definitions and Low Level Analysis”

Tony Tarantini
Faculty member
School of Animation, Art & Design,
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
“’Legitimate Peripheral Participation”\’: Mitigating Digital Change in Traditional 2D Animation Production

Dan Torre
Lecturer
RMIT University

Melbourne, Australia
“Towards a Forensics Theory of Animation”

Kim Louise Walden
Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Discourse
School of Film, Music and Media
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, Herts UK
“Double Take: Rotoscoping and the Processing of Performance”

Saige Walton
Screen Studies Program
The University of Melbourne, Australia &
Assistant Curator
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Melbourne, Australia
“Pens and Pencils: Baroque Poetics and Silent Animation”

Thomas Walsh
Senior Lecturer
BA (Hons) Animation degree course
Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Bournemouth UK.
“The Secret of Kells: Ireland’s European Identity in Feature Animation”

Paul Ward
School of Media
Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Dorset UK
“The Persistence of Memory: Recollecting trauma in Waltz with Bashir”

Paul Wells
Professor, Animation Academy
Loughborough University
Loughborough, England UK
“Vision On to Stay Tooned: Animated Pedagogy in British Children’s Broadcasting 1966-1996″

Stephen Wilson
Independent Artist and Writer
London, England UK
“Goliath’s Head Revisited”

Ross Winning
Course Leader in Animation
The School of Art and Design
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton UK
“Vocalising the Image”

Rose Woodcock
Lecturer in Animation & Digital Culture
School of Communication and Creative Arts
Deakin University
Burwood, VIC Australia
“Dynamic visualisation and the powers of observation: drawing for animation in the digital age”

Reza Yousefzadeh
PhD student
University for the Creative Arts
Farnham, Surrey, England UK
“Fatigued and Dizzy: A Preliminary Consideration of Strategies of Subversion in the Animation of Eastern Europe”