FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
@ INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, University of Pennsylvania
Followed by screenings @ INTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA

2:30-3:30 PM | Attendees are encouraged to visit ICA and see their new exhibition Jeremy Deller: Joy in People

3:30–5:30 PM | Keynote address by Vivian Sobchack, "Stop + Motion: On Animation, Inertia, and Innervation"

5:30–6:30 PM | Reception at Institute of Contemporary Art

7:00 PM | Screening of animation at International House Philadelphia


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
@ INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, University of Pennsylvania

8:15–9:15 AM | BREAKFAST

9:15–9:30 AM | OPENING REMARKS by Erna Fiorentini

9:30-11:00 AM | PANEL ONE
DIGITAL AND DATA DRIVEN ANIMATION | Moderator: Orkan Telhan (Penn, Fine Arts)
• Norman Badler, "Digital Animation From a Technical Perspective"
• Oliver Gaycken, "With Particle Swarms and Bad Hair: Animating Material Digitally"
• Peggy Weil, "Immersive Journalism, Immersive Data"

11:00AM-12:30PM | PANEL TWO
HISTORY OF SCIENCE | Moderator: Karen Beckman
(Penn, History of Art and Cinema Studies)
• Jimena Canales, "Animating Einstein: 'The final days of my Zurich stay resemble a runaway motion picture projector'"
• Scott Curtis, "Rough and Smooth: Toward a Rhetoric of Animated Scientific Images"
• Hanna Rose Shell, "The Animation of Evanescence: Camouflage in Motion"

12:30–2:00 PM | LUNCH 

2:00–3:30 PM | PANEL THREE
TRANSMEDIALITY | Moderator: Peter Decherney (Penn, English and Cinema Studies)
• Alexander R. Galloway, "Polygraphic Photography and the Origins of 3D Animation"
• Bob Rehak, "Graphic Engines: Videogame Animation as Transmedia Bridge"
• Melissa Ragona, "Algorithmic Aesthetics vs. Punk De'collage: From Animation to Live Performance"

3.30–4:00 PM | COFFEE BREAK 

4:00-5:30 PM | PANEL FOUR
BODY | Moderator: Beth Linker (Penn, History and Sociology of Science)
• Kirsten Ostherr, "From Health Films to Healthy Games: Interventionist Animation"
• Donald Crafton, "Inside and Outside the Toon Body: Challenging Somatic Integrity through Animation History"

5:30–6:00 PM | ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION with Erna Fiorentini + speakers to conclude the day;
CLOSING COMMENTS