CAGA 2022: 6th Conference of AG Animation – Dimensions of Animation | Lucerne | November 10-12, 2022

Hochschule Luzern, 10.–12.11.2022

The 6th Conference of AG Animation took place in cooperation with Hochschule Luzern in 2022. More on the event can be found on the conference website and below.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Animation explores its existence in space. As a multifaceted interdisciplinary profession in the moving image production, it finds new fields that transfer the two-dimensional space of the screen to spatial configurations and settles in multidimensional environments.

The changes in the dispositive are so fundamental that various epithets have been proposed for the new phenomena: extended, expanded, immersive, relocated, exhibited, site-specific, spatial. They accompany the appearance of moving images in art or in virtual space – and culminate in the proposal of a topological media science that is to provide a vocabulary for the discussion of the new, spatial configurations of time-based and interactive formats.

The 6th Conference 2022 of the AG Animation in Lucerne addresses the forms and formats of animated film in spatial dimensions: How do animated images operate in different dispositives? How is space staged in different animation techniques and where can interesting new ways of dealing with it be found? Even when working in two dimensions, the inner-medial space of animation can always be fundamentally recreated. Does animation have a specific awareness of the structural principles and practical modes of functioning of cinematic space? Are there divergent conceptions of ‘real’ or ‘virtual’ space or new forms to be found in animation?

We are pleased to welcome scholars from different fields of media studies to Lucerne and are looking forward to the discussions of the new DIMENSIONS OF ANIMATION!

Conference Schedule

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

Conference Team

Franziska Bruckner, University of Applied Sciences, St. Pölten
Juergen Haas, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Juergen Hagler, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Ars Electronica Linz
Kathi Kaeppel, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, UdK Berlin
Fred Truniger, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Organisation

Yasemen Büyükberber, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Helen Dahinden, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Daniela Meier, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

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