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16th Annual UF Conference on Comics – “Imagetext in Motion: Comics and Animation”
April 12, 2019 @ 10:00 am - April 14, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
Free
Animation and comics are two tangled pictorial mediums that stem from the same modernist concerns with the possibilities of the image. Animation and the cartooned bodies it brings into being are omnipresent on the screens that surround us, the advertisements that beg our attention, and the popcorn fare that draws out our inner escapists. But what are the politics of these images that simultaneously claim to be real, but constantly telegraph their artificiality? What do we gain by analyzing this medium that spans from the trashiest of visual gags to the trippiest of experimental visuals?
Confirmed keynote speakers are Chrissy Guest (creator of award-winning docu-series Beyond Ink & Paint: The Women of Animation​) and Dr. Nicholas Sammond (author of Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation and Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960)
This event is sponsored by the Rose & David Dortort Foundation, English Department, UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, ImageText, Student Government & CLASSC.​