About APES ::

We are very proud to bring APES to Texas Tech University and to our Lubbock community. APES is an annual forum for scholars and practitioners concerned in advancing and promoting animation as therapeutic practice, educational technique, and as a tool for social engagement. APES brings together professionals from areas such as health/wellbeing; social impact and activism; therapeutic studies, including art and psychotherapy; and educational initiatives. The symposium offers an alternative view of the potential of animation beyond artistic expression, entertainment or publicity, and identifies new terrains in the interface of animation with society.

All events will take place at the TTU Student Union (SUB) :: 15th St & Akron Av., Lubbock, TX 79409.

Program.

Thursday,
September 19 - MATADOR ROOM

Registration starts at 5:00pm — Matador Room
6:00pm — Opening Ceremony
- Welcome Address by Dr. Joseph Heppert, Vice President for Research & Innovation
- General information about the symposium
6:30pm — Keynote Speaker
Dr. Bella Honess Roe (University of Surrey, U.K.): “Animated Documentary as Public Engagement”
7:30 - 9:00pm — Dinner for Presenters and Guests [MATADOR ROOM]
Screening of the films participating in HIAF (HEART INCLUSIVE ANIMATION FESTIVAL) The International Animation Festival for People with Learning Difficulties.

Friday,
September 20 - MESA ROOM

8:30 – Morning “pick me up” :: Coffee and Pastries
9:00 - 10.30am (1st session) - Chair: Dr. Robert Peaslee
- Animation Lab: Teaching Real-World Experience in Creative Problem Solving :: Kara Oropallo and Monika Salter (UT Dallas, Texas, USA)
- ATEC/UTDallas Animation Showcase :: Sean McComber and Eric Farrar (UT Dallas, Texas, USA)
- Interactive Animation – Visually Redefining Culture :: Abbigail Wilson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA)
- Animation as a Way of Thinking and Educating :: Burak Sahin (Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey)
11:00 - 12.30pm (2nd Session) - Chair: Dr. Jorgelina Orfila
- Extraid VR Memory as New Animated Documentary: Rebuilding Lost Homes through Interviewing :: Chunning (Maggie) Guo (Renmin University, Beijing, China) and Yuanbo Zhong (Animation and Comics Research Center and School for Arts and Films Chengdu University, SiChuan Province, China)
- Neuroanimatics: Animated life stories for Learning and Contemplation :: Inmaculada Concepción Carpe Pérez (Animated Learning Lab/ The Animation Workshop at the Center for Animation and Visualisation, Denmark)
- TESTeLAB & Guests: Expanded Animation Worlds :: Frank Geßner (Konrad Wolf Film University, Babelsberg, Germany)
1:00pm — Lunch at Matador Room [for presenters only]
Address by TTU President Dr. Lawrence Schovanec
2:00 - 3.30pm (3rd Session) - Chair: Dr. Paul Reinsch
- Animated Perspectives: Using Animation For Social Engagement :: Tom Klein (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA)
- AstroAnimation: Bridging Two Cultures in the Post-Truth World :: Laurence Arcadias (MICA, Baltimore, USA and NASA GSFC) and Robin Corbet (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA and NASA GSFC)
- The Fish Project: An Interactive Animation Experiment :: Heidi Rae Cooley and Christine Veras (UT Dallas, Texas, USA)
- The Fish Project Production Process: Asset Creation and Animation :: Julio César Soto and Samuel Price (UT Dallas, Texas, USA)
4:00 - 5.30pm (4th Session) - Chair: Dr. Francisco Ortega
- Imagine if Buildings Could Talk: Projection Mapping. The Little Rock Central High School Building for the 60th Anniversary of the Desegregation Crisis :: Scott Meador (University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas, USA)
- Augmentations in the Palace of Culture :: Johannes DeYoung (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
- Visual Communication and Cultural Landscape: Ethnography Writing & Information Presentation in Animated Films :: Li Gang (School of Art in Chongqing University, Shapingba district, Chongqing, China)
- Back to the Roots: Revolution in Nigerian Animation Industry :: Ganiyu A. Jimoh ( Jimga ) (Rhodes University, South Africa)
6:00pm — Keynote Speaker - Matador Room
Dr. Dan Torre (RMIT Melbourne): “Thinking Through Animation”
7:00 - 9:00pm — Dinner and Square Dance [for presenters only]

Saturday,
September 21 - MESA ROOM

8.00 – 8.45am — Morning “pick me up”:: Coffee and Pastries
9.00 - 10.30pm (5th Session) - Chair: Dr. Francisco Ortega
- Aphasia • Experiential Visualization :: Stacy Elko and Melinda Corwin (TTU, Texas, USA)
- Their Story. Their Voice. Their World: An Animation Based Learning Programme for children with FASD :: Jessica Rutherford (Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K)
- Animating the Experience of Health Care Space :: Julie Zook AND Terah Maher (TTU, Texas, USA)
11:00 - 12:30pm (6th Session) - Chair: Melissa Kimball
- Interviews of Nazi Holocaust Survivors :: Jeffrey Baker, Masha Vasilkovsky and Ruah Edelstein (College of the Canyons, Los Angeles, USA)
- Animating #VeteransVoices: StoryCorps, Cartoons, and the Civil-Military Gap :: Christina Knopf (SUNY, Cortland, NY, USA)
- Infinite Collective: Hand-Drawn Animation as Socially-Engaged Art Practice :: Becka Barker (Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada)
12:45 - 1.45pm — Lunch at Matador Room [for presenters only]
2:00 - 3.30pm (7th Session) - PANEL: New media art and experimental animation as platforms for political engagement, collaboration and sites of experimentation.
Chair: Thomas McClendon, (Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, USA)
- The use of metamorphosis in the digital and traditional animated portraits of the multi- media installation (‘Big Man’) and the experimental flm (‘Big Man’) :: Michelle Stewart (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
- ‘Big man:’ Exploiting Video in the Post Medium-Condition :: Yane Bakreski (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
- ‘What is it that I have done?’ The Problematics of Sound-Tracking Politically Charged Fine-art-influenced Animation and Installation with Specific Reference to ‘Big Man,’ (both the film and the art work) :: Peter Stewart (Independent artist, Formerly University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
4.00 - 5.30pm (8th Session) - PANEL Animating Music: Aurality & Global Intertextuality
- Musically Locating the Animated Samurai: Western Appeal versus Japanese Traditionalism :: Stacey Jocoy (TTU, Texas, USA)
- Vocal Ensemblization and the Affective Economy in Puella Magi Madoka Magica :: Heather Warren-Crow (TTU, Texas, USA)
- Issues of Musical Representation in Disney Pixar’s Coco :: Lauryn Salazar (TTU, Texas, USA)

Endorsers & Sponsors

APES is endorsed by HEART UK, the Animation Academy (UK) and the School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University.

The symposium is made possible by the generous support of the Texas Tech Office for Research and Innovation, the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Humanities Center at Texas Tech, the Ryla T. & John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Arts through the School of Art, the Art History Area in the School of Art, the Tech Art History Society (TAHS) and the Society of Animation Studies (SAS).