November 2023 – Expanded Animation

The Animation Research Centre is very proud to present:

Relentless Melt No. 29: Animated Abstractions from Hong Kong

Relentless Melt No. 29 presents a selection of recent abstract and experimental animation films from Hong Kong curated and presented by Max Hattler for UCA. Relentless Melt is a Hong Kong-based society for abstract and experimental moving image. It has shown screenings around the world, including at Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Under the Radar Festival Vienna, Splice Festival London and Supernova Festival Denver. Relentless Melt’s chairman Max Hattler, whose films are also included in the screening, is an audiovisual artist and professor based at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.

Room RG21, Farnham, 14:00, Wed 29 Nov 2023

This screening follows an event we had in the spring from our Visiting Scholar Dr Yingying Jiang about the history of Chinese animation .

The last of our series of 4 symposiums investigating the sensory dimensions of expanded animation took place at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria on 10th September 2023. Jointly organised and hosted by Juergen Hagler and Birgitta Hosea, the speakers were: Camille Baker, Darren Woodland, Tome Sone, Louis-Philippe Demers & Bill Vorn, Friedrich Kirschner, Julian Salhofer & Leoni Voegelin, Max Hattler, Johannes DeYoung, Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet Sola and Keynote Speaker Ghislaine Boddington.

All the presentations are archived and can be viewed here:

Panel 1: The Haptic Body in Action

Panel 2: Agency in Performance

Panel 3: Liveness and Procedural Animation

A very big thanks to Ars Electronica and the staff and students of the University of Upper Austria, Hagenburg for all their support and hosting this event for the last 4 years. We are planning a publication to bring together selected presentations from the events.