Event: Animation Research – Towards a Research Pipeline
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Current Issues in Animation Research: Towards a ‘Research Pipeline’
Presented by Paul Ward
Arts University Bournemouth
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Room: LHSCC
Time: 4.30pm
The presentation will deal with specific issues to do with the growth of a research culture in the field of Animation theory and practice. The ‘pipeline’ metaphor, derived from a term used in production, most obviously offers a way into thinking about how research around Animation might be produced, organised and disseminated. But it also emphasises that all stages of the Animation process – from pre-production, through production, to post-production, extending backwards (with archive work) or forwards (with Research & Development projects into technological innovations), and including student production work and research – should be part of the overall research procedure.
The presentation will also talk more generally about how research is framed and inflected (and, some would argue, distorted) by the double binds and contradictions of building a research culture, using John Caldwell’s ‘production culture’ paradigm as a model for further reflection.
Dr Paul Ward is Professor of Animation Studies in the School of Media at Arts University Bournemouth