Experimental and Expanded Animation Conference

_[Image: _33 Frames per foot_ (2013), Vicky Smith, 16mm performance]__Experimental and Expanded Animation_ discusses developments and continuities in EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION THAT HAVE PROLIFERATED IN THE CONTEXT OF EXPANDED CINEMA, performance and live ‘making’ and are today exhibited in galleries, public sites and online. Through presentations, dialogue, screenings and performances, the CONFERENCE BUILDS UPON THE RECENT PUBLICATION: _Experimental and Expanded Animation: Current Perspectives & New Directions_, edited by Nicky Hamlyn and Vicky Smith. SCHEDULE: 9.15 REGISTRATION COFFEE (Room W612) 9.45-10.30 KEYNOTE (W02): Gary Thomas: Crossing over: economies, sites and contexts of experimental practice 10.45-12.00 PANEL 1: WOMEN IN FILM POETRY AND ANIMATION: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES (W02): Bella Honess Roe: Is Women’s EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION INHERENTLY FEMINIST? Unpicking the ‘Feminine Aesthetic’ Mary Stark: Film as fabric: Female film editors in early cinema Suzie Hanna: _There Comes a Warning Like a Spy_: improvised animation within live musical performance of Emily Dickinson’s folio and fragment poems 12.15 – 13.30 PANEL 2: NEW MATERIALIST AND POSTHUMANIST PERSPECTIVES ON ANIMATION (W02): Karel Doing: Phytograms: building human-plant affiliations through chemical interaction. Kathleen Rogers: Cosmopolitical Futures and Quantum Entanglement Juergen Hagler:  Anomalies at the Intersection of Animation, Art and Technology 13. 30 LUNCH (W612) 14.30 - 15.45 PANEL 3: EXPANDING ANIMATION SPACE AND PLACE (W02): Stuart Hilton: The Hereness of There Pedro Serrazina: ANIMATION IS A PERSONAL PLACE Marian Saunders: Free Movement: Is audiovisual innovation shaping visual culture? 16.00-17.00: ROUNDTABLE (W02): Simon Payne Lilly Husbands Sarah Pucill Edwin Rostron 17.30: REFRESHMENTS 18.00 -19.00 SCREENING/PERFORMANCE (1 hour 10’ approx) Screening - David Witzling: _Estranged Melody for a Holographic Empire_ (2017) and _Echoes of Information in ann-Dimensional Hilbert Space_ 3’15 2’15 - Kelly Gallagher: _More dangerous than a thousand rioters_ (6.5 min, 2016) - Simon Payne:_ __Vice Versa Et Cetera _(2010) (10mins, colour and b/w, stereo sound)  - Alys Scott Hawkins: _Herein _(2004) 1 min 30 - drawing experiments - Hannah Hamalian: _The Desire of Mermaids_ ( 2015) 6'  - UCA students: to be confirmed Performance - Shiyi Li, Gloria Yehilevsky & Aisling Reilly : Minister of Loneliness 15’ (mixed media, performance, music) _Supported by the Society for ANIMATION STUDIES: https://www.animationstudies.org/v3/ [https://www.animationstudies.org/v3/]_