March 2019 – Expanded Animation

Selected papers from this symposium are published in the International Journal of Film and Media Arts, Feb 2020 issue:
https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma

[Image by Dryden Goodwin]

Ecstatic Truth IV. Truth of Matter: process and perception in expanded animation practice – CALL FOR PAPERS

Our 4th Ecstatic Truth symposium will be at the University of Westminster on Thurs 16th May, with Keynote speaker Dryden Goodwin.

We seek proposals for presentations that address the potential of animation, in its most expanded form, to make sense of our realities.

Selected papers will be eligible for publication in a dedicated issue of the peer reviewed International Journal of Film and Media Art.

DEADLINE: 29th MARCH

More information: https://bit.ly/2XyCiOh

Notes from Ecstatic Truth I-III: https://expandedanimation.net/tag/ecstatic-truth

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Ecstatic Truth organising committee:

Dr. Tereza Stehlikova, University of Westminster

Dr Birgitta Hosea, Animation Research Centre, UCA

Dr. Pedro Serrazina, Universidade Lusófona

Hot off the press…

The chapter I wrote (7) was inspired by my female students, their resurgence of interest in feminism and their general (of course there are exceptions) lack of interest in engaging with technology. I wanted to provide some role models of intersectional women artists experimenting with the digital as I do think it’s vital that our technologies are developed by a cross section of people and not a small, limited group whose biases come through. So I tried to uncover historical traces of feminist experimental computer animation. It was very hard to find examples and I was dispirited at times. I have probably missed a lot and I feel I just started on something that other researchers can take up and go into in more detail (thanks to Chunning Guo for taking up this challenge!). Its taken a few years. I first presented an early version of this at the Society for Animation Studies conference in 2017 in Padua. So thanks to everyone who supported me on the way when I nearly gave up on it, particularly the editors Miriam Harris, Lilly Husbands and Paul Taberham. Congratulations to the other authors and artists interviewed.

More information about the book is on the link to Routledge website