The UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival is a collaborative production between UTS, Design Architecture & Building, Arts and Social Sciences and Engineering and IT faculties and our sister-festival Melbourne International Animation Festival; supported by the festival board, programming committee and a specialised Industry Advisory Group. The festival aims to provide a platform for enthusiasts, students, academics and industry to engage in dialogue about animation and its practice in an open and participatory atmosphere.

The 2010 UTS: SIAF Symposium 'Animation Histories and Futures' was held on Friday 24 September 2010. Keynote speakers included Dr Alan Cholodenko (University of Sydney, Australia) and Associate Professor Pierre Floquet (IPB, Bordeaux University, France)

The 2010 UTS: SIAF Symposium was a cross-disciplinary event that brought together researchers, animators, and industry practitioners from the full spectrum of animation practice including 2D and 3D digital / film, CGI visual effects, graphic visualization of data sets, object-oriented programming and animation studies across all aspects of time-based media.

The symposium explored the expanding form of animation in the context of design, architecture, media studies, cultural studies, drama, cognitive science, and psychology. Bringing together researchers from other disciplines and the community, it focused on new forms of animation in locative, situated, and interactive screen media.

Selected Writings from ‘Animation Histories and Futures' Symposium

Eminent writers such as Alan Cholodenko and Pierre Floqet provided keynote addresses that further advance the dialogue that each of these writers has undertaken with animation spanning many yearsof research and writing. We are privileged to have their contributions to the seminar and this publication of selected writings from the proceedings.

This collection of papers represents the diversity of animation thinking and research that is occurring around the world today.

Download Selected Writings from ‘Animation Histories and Futures' Symposium (PDF, 11.2MB)