This Year's Conference
​THE ANIMATED ENVIRONMENT
​​June 12-16, 2023
@Rowan University, U.S.

The SAS holds an annual conference at a different international location each year.
​The upcoming Annual Conference, titled THE ANIMATED ENVIRONMENT, will be held June 12-16, 2023 at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, U.S.A.
34th SAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

REGISTER

Registration opens Dec 1, 2022

 Keynotes

​Eric Dyer
ericdyer.com

Eric Dyer is internationally recognized as a leading practitioner in the avant-garde of animation art. He has been a visiting artist at world-class institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA), East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), and California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles, USA). He has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, Sundance New Frontier Artist, Creative Capital Artist, and Guggenheim Fellow. His interactive animated sculptures and award-winning films have been widely exhibited at prestigious international events and venues such as the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Ars Electronica, international animation festivals in numerous countries, the screens of Times Square in New York City, and at the Cairo and Venice Biennales. The importance of Dyer’s work has also been recognized in leading academic books in the discipline of Animation Studies, including: Re- imagining Animation: the Changing Face of the Moving Image (Bloomsbury); Pervasive Animation (Routledge); Animation: A World History (Routledge); The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value (Palgrave); and A New History of Animation (Thames and Hudson). Dyer’s TED Talk, The Forgotten Art of the Zoetrope communicated his art practice to the general public and has been viewed over 1.1 million times. He is represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York City.

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Lisa Crafts
lisacrafts.com

Lisa Crafts is an animator and moving image artist whose interdisciplinary work addresses issues of environmental uncertainty, sexuality, creativity and chaos. She is currently working on a series of short moving image pieces about the horror, beauty, humor and loss of the Anthropocene. Blending animation, video, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture, the work inhabits the blur between what is seen and what is imagined.

Crafts' work has screened in Europe, Asia, and throughout North America. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and MacDowell. She teaches in the Film Video department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

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Jodie Mack
jodiemack.com

Jodie Mack is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things.
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Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Locarno Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival, Anthology Film Archives, BFI London Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, National Gallery of Art, REDCAT, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Cinema Scope, The New York Times, and Senses of Cinema. She was a 2017/18 Radcliffe Fellow; a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2021 MacDowell Fellow; and a 2022 Visual Studies Center Fellow. She is a Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College.

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Laura U. Marks
sfu.ca/~lmarks

Laura Marks works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus, and on small-footprint media. Marks' most recent book is Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (MIT, 2015). Marks programs experimental media for venues around the world. As Grant Strate University Professor, Marks teaches in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, on unceded Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. That's a harmonica.

Marks has been named to the Royal Society of Canada!

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