Lecture: Writing the Histories of Animation in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
Sunday, 2. 10. 2022 at 12.00 / Vetrinj mansion, big hall
Dr. Erwin Feyersinger’s talk will give an insight into contemporary topics discussed in the academic field of Animation Studies. In the first part, we will talk about how the landscape of animation constantly changes and expands, and how this is both exciting and challenging for scholars when studying the histories of animation. In the second part, we will focus on artificial intelligence as one specific example that strongly impacts animation production right now and thus the landscape of animation. In the final part of the talk, we will show how animation scholars themselves use artificial intelligence to study animation archives and the history of animation by presenting a new research project called AniVision.
Dr. Erwin Feyersinger is co-director of the Research Center for Animation and Emerging Media in the Institute of Media Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and one of the PIs of the university’s Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET AI). Together with Dr. Rada Bieberstein, he has recently edited a special issue of animation: an interdisciplinary journal on New Perspectives on Animation Historiography (2022).
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Research Center for Animation and Emerging Media
Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence