Analogue to Post-Digital (archived)

BFX Conference

This conference runs alongside the BFX yearly festival that is hosted by Bournemouth University. The overall scope of the conference is to draw attention to discourses in the arts and humanities on digital imaging techniques.

• BFX 2015 Conference

  September 26, 2015 – September 27, 2015

   

  The BFX Conference was setup in 2014 to run alongside the BFX Festival hosted by the NCCA (The National Centre for Computer Animation) at Bournemouth University.

  Since its establishment in 1989 the NCCA has conducted research of international significance and has pioneered both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University's Media School in computer visualisation and animation and digital effects. In 2011 BU was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for the NCCA's 'World Class' teaching.
  
  Both the festival and conference draw attention to visual effects and animated techniques present in moving digital images and their wider applications.

   

  ANALOGUE TO POST-DIGITAL
  

  Contemporary still and moving images and their related practices sit in the interstices of the analogue and digital. This year the BFX conference invites participants to consider the trajectories of these movements as we engage in a discourse of the ‘post-digital’ in still and moving image.
  
  
  Embedded within these fields are a range of themes such as: memory and the archive, media archeology, hybridity, intermedia practices, folksonomies and virtual curatorship, the network, new pedagogies and education design.
  The conference welcomes multi-disciplinary approaches that consider the continuities and breaks in technologies and practices, as well as the range of possibilities that may be inspired by thinking about the post-digital.
  
  
  This year's BFX conference will focus upon both academic discourse and artistic practice.
  
  

   

• BFX 2014 Conference

  September 22, 2014 – September 23, 2014

  The BFX Conference was setup in 2014 to run alongside the BFX Festival hosted by the NCCA (The National Centre for Computer Animation) at Bournemouth University.

  Since its establishment in 1989 the NCCA has conducted research of international significance and has pioneered both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University's Media School in computer visualisation and animation and digital effects. In 2011 BU was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for the NCCA's 'World Class' teaching.
  
  Both the festival and conference draw attention to visual effects and animated techniques present in moving digital images and their wider applications.

  Digital Convergences 2014

  This conference intends to present and analyse the convergences that are occurring across and within the genres of moving image, in part resulting from the impact of digital technologies.

  Through an interdisciplinary approach, the BFX conference invites authors to examine various theoretical positionings with a view to realign the discussion in the light of current technologies. The conference seeks to revisit the arguments that position film, animation and art as aesthetically, structurally and intellectually different.

  CONFERENCE REGISTRATION WILL OPEN ON 04/04/2014