Dimensions of Animation

The Conference DIMENSIONS OF ANIMATION takes place in several form(at)s:

We celebrate 20 Years of Animation in Lucerne and accompany the Conference with a big party on Friday night. During the conference days an exhibition will be on display and film screenings shown in our own cinema. A Master Class with Ed Atkins is open for a limited number of participants on Thursday.

Live-Stream of the Conference: https://qfvroh8n.sites.upstream-cloud.ch/ 

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday, November 10th 2022

09:30		Master Class Ed Atkins
17:00	Foyer	Conference Registration
17:30	Aktionshalle	Welcome by Jacqueline Holzer, Direktorin Departement Design & Kunst
		Introduction by the Conference Team
18:00	Aktionshalle	Opening Keynote Presentation
		Chris Pallant »Rulers of the Unruly: Exploring the subject of Animated Landscapes through the work of Smallfilms« Hosted by Jürgen Hagler
19:00	Aktionshalle	Panel 1: Dimensions of Classical Animation
		Andrea Polywka »Disney Openings«
		Alexandra Novacov »Architecture of Death – Uncanny Spatial Explorations in BoJack Horseman« Hosted by Erwin Feyersinger
20:00	Foyer	Vernissage with Apéro riche
20:45	REX	Film Screenings
20:45		Ed Atkins »Rigid Bodies«
21:45		20 Years of Animation Luzern
22:45		Ars Electronica Festival on Tour – Electronic Theater 2022

 

Friday, November 11th 2022

9:00	Foyer	Registration
9:15	Aktionshalle	Panel 2: Emerging Animation Researchers
		Emanuel Buholzer »Open Source Motion-Control für Stop-Motion«
		Julian Salhofer »Spatial audio for interactive applications as a control element for animations«
		Simon Hochleitner, Florian Fiebiger, Sebastian Moritz »Digital Sensing«
		Sabine Burchard »Observations concerning Animation for Live Events«
		Simon de Diesbach »Representations of nature in animation; technology used as a mean to convey political and poetic content« Hosted by Franziska Bruckner
10:30	Aktionshalle	Coffee Break
10:45	Aktionshalle	Panel 3: Theater and Public Space
		Lana Tankosa-Nikolic, Jakob Borrits Sabra »At the cross road of research, innovation, culture and business«
		Juergen Hagler »Meaningful Choices in a hybrid stage play – a discussion of opportunities«
		Erwin Feyersinger »Projections and Screens as Animation of Public Spaces« Hosted by Tina Ohnmacht
12:15	Nylon 7	Lunch Break
13:15	Aktionshalle	Keynote Presentation
		Peggy Schoenegge »Animation in Art« Hosted by Kathi Kaeppel
14:15	Aktionshalle	Coffee Break
14:30	Aktionshalle	Panel 4: Spatiality, Reality, Virtuality
		Andres Montenegro, Audrey Ushenko »Using 2D and 3D interactive animations as an expanded narrative to render the pictorial and virtual simulation of Andrea Mantegna’s fresco The Wedding Chamber through a mixed reality environment installation«
		Reinhold Bidner »Storycase -Telling stories with objects and augmented reality«
		Franziska Bruckner »Spatiality of Cut-Out Animation in Virtual Environments« Hosted by Isa Pasqualini
16:00	Aktionshalle	Coffee Break
16:30	Aktionshalle	Panel 5: Animation Takes Space
		Online-Presentation: Hannes Rall, Emma Harper »Spatial Iterations: An animated Fulldome Adaptation of The Merchant of Venice«
		François Chalet »Expanded Animation – goes educational«
		Frank Geßner »Fin Garden’s Pipes: Artistic research lecture performance« Hosted by Maike Reinert
18:00	Aktionshalle	Coffee Break
18:30	Aktionshalle	Keynote Presentation
		Ed Atkins »Losslessness« Hosted by Fred Truniger
19:30	Room 019	Animation-Performance
		Arianna de Angelis Effrem »La risata cangiante«
20:00	Foyer	Dinner
21:00	Room 019	Party: 20 Years Animation in Lucerne
		Concert Cosmic Space Girl
21:45	Room 019	DJ VJ Party with Spin Alonga, AKUAKU, Teichprojektion & Midnight 8 Bit Special Guest
23:00	Room 019	Dance Battle 12 Rules of Animation Hosted by Jane Mumford

 

Saturday, November 12th 2022

9:15	Room 179	Network Meeting (Institutions) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82539460328?pwd=dDZTS2RmcnQrNm43am9nRFUwMEFQZz09
10:45	Aktionshalle	Coffee Break
11:00	Aktionshalle	Keynote Presentation
		Erika Balsom »Bad Animation: The Computer-Generated Image in Contemporary Art« Hosted by Jürgen Buchinger and Tamara Zumbühl
12:00	Foyer	Lunch Break
13:00	Aktionshalle	Panel 6: Hybrid Space
		Aline Helmcke »Intervention through Drawing: Experimental Drawn Animation and the Cinematic Space«
		Online-Presentation: Anastasiia Gushchina »Animating Real Space: Material-Based Animated Documentary and Its Relationship to History« Hosted by Andrea Polywka
14:00	Aktionshalle	Panel 7: Outer Space
		Martina Fröschl »Computer-animated scientific visualizations as a door to experience dimensions«
		Marco Bellano »Wishing stars. The multiple space aesthetics of the animated night sky«
		Jana Rogoff »Animating the Space Travel during Cold War and beyond« Hosted by Reinhold Bidner
15:30	Aktionshalle	Conference Closing

 

20 YEARS OF ANIMATION

Since 2002 the Animation Department at the Lucerne School of Art & Design has produced a large number of successful graduates, who have gone on to achieve great success worldwide, from artistic short films to the industry in the field of VFX. The brand Animation Luzern enjoys an excellent international reputation as the only public training centre for animation film in Switzerland. We celebrate the 20th anniversary with a party and a film programme to thank our graduates, lecturers and supporters.

 

EXHIBITION

From November 10 – 18 an exhibition about the DIMENSIONS OF ANIMATION will be on view. A Dance performance, VR-installations, a large image sequence in space and a projection mapping present different approaches to the topic:

Jürgen Buchinger
VRinMotion – ExperiMotion 1: Max Hattler, Sune Petersen, Christoph Schmid; Franziska Bruckner, Clemens Gürtler, Matthias Husinsky, Mario Zeller, Arian Jalaeefar, Christian Munk, Julian Salhofer, Peter Schoiswohl; Ramon Brullo, Patrick Horvath
Emanuel Buholzer
François Chalet & Sabine Bouchard, Pinowan Poli, Kilian Feusi, Danay Gijzen, Leslie Herzig, Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi, Sound Mix Thomas Gassmann
Jochen Ehmann & Jeroen Visser
Kathi Kaeppel
Dominik Rüegg
Robert Seidel