Animation Journal – Documentary Animation special issue

A special edition of Animation: an interdisciplinary journal, (Vol 6. no 3, November 2011) is focused on documentary animation

It is titled Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation, Guest Editor: Jeffrey Skoller

Prof Dr Suzanne Buchan, Professor of Animation Aesthetics at UCA and Director of the UCA Animation Research Centre, is editior of the journal.

It is available online at http://anm.sagepub.com, or via the UCA Library Journal portal

Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation reflects the current border crossings in animation and documentary studies in which the experimental spirit of the films themselves are pushing the boundaries of scholarship into new realms of thought and aesthetic experience. The issue argues for the animated documentary as a radical cinematic form with the potential to enliven – reanimate – older forms by lifting them out of worn out epistemes and denaturalizing their often clichéd and moribund cinematic forms. The issue features cutting edge critical work by a range of emerging and well-established documentary, animation and experimental film scholars and makers, in an attempt to understand the ways this unsettling mix of non-realist and live action imagery makes meanings and importantly why this hybrid form of documentary animation has become aesthetically and politically necessary in this particular cultural moment” (Jeffrey Skoller)

Adrian Holme : London and the multi-sensory city

Adrian Holme, who teaches on the BA Illustration course at UCA Maidstone, has recently published an essay in TENGEN Magazine, discussing the idea of the multi-sensory city.  The issue of TENGEN also includes a review by Gareth Polmeer (who teaches on the BA Video Arts Production course at UCA Maidstone) of William Raban’s new film, About Now MMX (2010).

You can read the full text of the magazine here.

Kurt Tong in conversation with Bridget Coaker – Exploring the place of documentary photography in the Fine Art market

Tuesday 21 September, 19:00 at Photofusion

Kurt Tong will be in conversation about the exhibition with Bridget Coaker of Troika Editions. They will discuss Tong’s work as an example of a piece of documentary photography which is also popular in the fine art market.

Kurt Tong’s exhibition at Photofusion showcases two of his recent projects. In Case it Rains in Heaven is a series of photographs of items made out of joss paper to be burned as offerings for the dead, exploring Chinese traditions and beliefs regarding the afterlife and the impact caused by Westernisation. Memories, Dreams; Interrupted explores the concept of memories and the suggestion of scientists that they are stored like jpegs – broken down into small pieces and put away. When recalling an event, the brain automatically fills in any missing pieces, thus altering our memories.
Click here to book and for more information about the exhibition

Photofusion, 17a Electric Lane, London, SW9 8LA

Urban Images: Re-imagining the City Through Moving Images

An International Symposium at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway.

The Urban Images symposium brings together an internationally renowned group of artists and scholars for a two-day program in order to discuss the field of artistic film and video related to architecture and urban space. The objective of the symposium is to expand theoretical concepts and artistic tools for understanding the inherent qualities of moving images and its relationship to urban culture. The program touches upon moving images’ influence on urban architecture, urban architecture’s relationship to avant-garde film, the city as a source for artistic film and video, and reflections on urban architecture in recent film and video art.

The following people will present their most recent research in this field: Parveen Adams, Giuliana Bruno, Bull.Miletic, Andreas Bunte, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Cousins, Edward Dimendberg, Tom Gunning, Henrik Gustafsson, Marit Paasche and Judy Radul.

For further information and registration: http://www.urbanimages.no
Registration deadline: Friday September 3, 2010
Registration fee: NOK 400 (students NOK 200)

Jacques Rancière talk

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
3 February 2010

Influential French philosopher, Jacques Rancière, will discuss his latest book, The Emancipated Spectator, at the ICA in London on Wednesday 3rd February.  He will be joined by Kodwo Eshun of the Otolith Group and, prompted by film sequences, they will explore the legacies and potentials of documentary film practice.

To book tickets, please visit the ICA website.

Pat Francis – Inspiring writing in art and design

The library at UCA Maidstone has just received a copy of Pat Francis’ new book, “Inspiring writing in art and design”.  Pat has worked for many years as a sessional writing and dyslexia tutor at University for the Creative Arts.  The book encourages different approaches to writing for art and design students, and includes practical exercises and advice on developing reflective practice, learning journals and essay writing.  The book also features visual examples of work by UCA students including Fernando Feijoo, a graduate from the BA Illustration course at Maidstone.

e-flux journal

e-flux is a free online journal for the arts. It is published online every month and features in depth articles on art criticism and theory. To read the journal go to the following link:

http://e-flux.com/journal

Paul Virillio on the Economic Crisis

Question:
But did not the financial world bring about (invent) a virtual world?

Paul Virillio:
Since speed earns money, the financial sphere has attempted to enforce
the value of time above the value of space. But the virtual is also part
and parcel of reality. And to be frank with you, this so-called virtual
world, in which one can also include tax-heavens,  is a form of
‘exotism’ which I tend to equate with colonialism. It is the (recurrent)
myth of another inhabitable planet.

For the whole translated article: http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/news/paul-virilio-on-the-crisis

The original article was published on 18th October 2008 in Le Monde http://tinyurl.com/57a3hb