MedientheorieThe 2020 online version of the annual symposium is organized in the format of webinars in cooperation between Under_the_Radar
(Holger Lang), the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Gabriele Jutz) and the team of Ecstatic Truth V: Birgitta Hosea, Animation
Research Centre, UCA Farnham, UK; Pedro Serrazina, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal; and Tereza Stehlikova, CREAM,
University of Westminster, UK.
Links
to the Online-Meetings will be available in time.
DAY
1 Tues 15th December
Webinar 1: The Many Forms of Censorship
19.00
– 20.30
- Andrijana Ruzic: Recurring Elements of Absurd in Several Films of Zagreb School of Animation
(1958-1969)
- Gabriele Jutz: Animating Truth(s): Surveillance, Censorship and Journalistic Ethics
- Susan
Young: Who is, or Was, Ms A
Presentations followed by discussion and Q&A hosted by Birgitta Hosea
DAY2
Weds 16th December
Webinar 2: Subversion and Resistance: Defying Oppressive Structures
10.30
– 12.00
- Chunning Guo: Rethinking Injustice in the Age of Absurd: Re-Constructing Prisons as Narrative
Spaces through Animated Memories
- Max Hattler: Abstract Animated Documentary? Moving-Image Abstraction and
Meaning-Making in Hong Kong’s Age of the Absurd.
- Zeynep Akcay: Dance, drawing and repetition: an absurd manifesto
about female body
Presentations followed by discussion and Q&A hosted by Birgitta Hosea
Webinar
3: Hidden Force: Celebrating the Invisible Labours
19.00 – 20.30
- Orla McHardy:
x‘C: Maintenance Animation is a drag: it takes all the fucking time’
- Sally Pearce: Shades of Invisibility.
A case study in animation activism.
- Oliver Gingrich / Sara Choudhrey: AYAH – Sign: Collaborative Digital
Art with the Grenfell Communities
Presentations followed by discussion and Q&A hosted by Tereza Stehlikova.
