Educating Animators

Call for Papers

Part of Manchester Animation Festival 2018 in collaboration with HE Partner – University of Salford

The interdisciplinary and heterogeneous nature of animation creates a complex and rewarding challenge to creating and delivering a creative curriculum. The new affordances of emerging technologies like VR, the expectations of learners, the historical and cultural contexts, and pressures of being commercially relevant also create tensions and opportunities to explore. The conference is an opportunity to share and debate good practice across the education sector, and open up conversations with industry to support knowledge transfer, to explore this creative industry and how we shape it through a curriculum.

We invite submission of :

Proposal for Presentations of 15mins

The conference would like to encourage those engaged with Practice based Research that informs their teaching and learning - those that develop Artist Films, Prototypes, Documentaries & Behind the Scenes Videos of Case Studies / Projects are welcome to submit their work. Presentations that include films need be included within the 15mins. 

List of Topics  Suggestions ( but not limited to )

• Curriculum Development in Higher Education courses
• Animation as an interdiscplinary form ( eg. computer games / illustration / graphic design )
• Personal Practice as Teaching Material
• Use of Online Resources ( eg. Plural Sight / Lynda.com )
• Animation in Schools
• Risk , Experimentation and Play
• Delivering Animation History & Context within a course
• Use of Archives in Teaching
• Community Workshops and Societies
• Continual Professional Development in Education / Industry 
• Technologies ( old and new | digital and analogue )
• Internships / Industry Mentoring
• Engaging with Live Briefs / Competitions / Festivals
• Showreels & Portfolios

Submission Protocol

Interested individuals should send the application by email to: symposium@manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk

Please include the following 2 separate files:

• Name
• Email
• Affiliation (if any)
• Title
• Bio (no more than 250 words)

• Abstract for presentation (no more than 250 words)
• Please do submit the abstract as a separate document without any personal information to enable blind review.
• Please include images in low resolution, web-ready formats (where appropriate)                                                                                                     

Dates

Proposal Deadline by Monday 10th September 2018 – 12pm

Notification of Acceptance: 17th September 2018

Delivery of Presentation materials ( Slideshow / Video ) : 5th November 2018

Conference : 16th November 2018

Venue

MediaCityUK, University of Salford, Salford, M50 2HE

Directions can be found here - http://www.salford.ac.uk/media...

All questions about submissions to the Educating Animators Conference should be emailed to Annabeth Robinson | Course Leader BA(Hons) Animation

a.robinson19@salford.ac.uk

About MAF

Manchester Animation Festival is the UK’s largest Animation Festival dedicated celebration of the animated art form.

Hosted at HOME in Manchester, the festival brings one of the UK’s biggest animation hubs together and invites the international community to join us to delight in all things animated.

Animation is everywhere, from the smallest smart phone screen to the largest cinematic projection. Manchester Animation Festival unites artists, practitioners, students and enthusiasts and all those in between to savour the many and varied achievements of the animated form.

If you’re an animation insider or just want to see something unique, you don’t have to be an animation aficionado to join us for animated short competitions, feature films, retrospective screenings, workshops, networking events, panel discussions, masterclasses and screen talks from the industry’s finest between 13, 14 and 15 November 2018.

www.manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk