8.-9. März 2012 – Enchanted Drawing. Animation as Imaging Culture, Part One

ENCHANTED DRAWING – ANIMATION AS IMAGING CULTURE

Conference in Two Parts

 Berlin, 8 – 9 March 2012  /  Philadelphia, 21 – 22 September 2012

A collaborative project of the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte – IKB, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Department of History of Art / Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Organized by: 

Karen Beckman (Department of the History of Art – Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

Erna Fiorentini (Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte – IKB, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Oliver Gaycken (Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park)

 

Part One

SET, SUBSETS AND INTERSECTIONS

Framing Animation as an Imaging Culture

Berlin, Humboldt-Universität | Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Auditorium | Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 3, 10117 Berlin

8 – 9 March 2012

PROGRAMME | ABSTRACTS

© 2012 | Design by Georg Gremske

Contact and Information: Stefanie.Braeuer@staff.hu-berlin.de

ENCHANTED DRAWING - ANIMATION AS IMAGING CULTURE          Animation does more than string images together to make them move: It is a process that confers on images new meanings and new roles.

          As such an iconic process, Animation has a multitude of different facets, manifold intentions and diverse potentials for impact. Given this diversity, the main project asks whether and why animation should be considered as a cultural space with own motivations for the generation, exhibition and application of images, a space that in spite of its heterogeneous character is a definite culture of imaging.

         To approach this problem, the first part of the conference brings together experts studying the production, the uses and the meanings of animation in such different fields as media studies, art history, the history of science and animation arts.

          In this interdisciplinary context we want to open up a new discourse by framing animation as a cultural set displaying manifold subsets and intersections.  This approach offers animation as a concept that encompasses a broad terrain of imaging subsuming a multiplicity of forms, intentions and result possibilities that can, but must not necessarily interact with one another. In other words, the first part of the conference investigates animation as a multiple iconic strategy able to constitute an overarching, strong culture of imaging, considering the ways towards a boundary demarcation and an ontological specification.

           The applicability of this theoretical approach to a definition of animation as a culture of imaging will be surveyed in the second part of the conference,Enchanted Drawing II – Animation across the Disciplines, which will take place at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on September 21-22, 2012.

Berlin, Humboldt-Universität | Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Auditorium | Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 3, 10117 Berlin

8 – 9 March 2012

 PROGRAMME | ABSTRACTS

© 2012 | Design by Georg Gremske

Contact and Information: Stefanie.Braeuer@staff.hu-berlin.de

 

 

FUNDED BY:     DFG

 

 

www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/animation