International conference | Berlin | 5.-7.9.2024 | Organisation: Björn Hochschild, Christian Alexius, Helene Bongers & Tim Glaser
Die internationale Tagung „Thinking (in) Motion – Comics and Film“ fand vom 5. bis 7. September am Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin statt. Gefördert und unterstützt wurde die Tagung von der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, der Abteilung Internationales der Freien Universität Berlin und Cinepoetics – Center for Advanced Film Studies. Die Tagung wurde organisiert von Björn Hochschild, Christian Alexius, Helene Bongers & Tim Glaser.
The international conference ‘Thinking (in) Motion – Comics and Film’ took place from 5 to 7 September at the Institute for Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. The conference was sponsored and supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Division International Affairs of the Freie Universität Berlin and Cinepoetics – Centre for Advanced Film Studies. The conference was organised by Björn Hochschild, Christian Alexius, Helene Bongers & Tim Glaser.
September 5
Welcome & Introduction
Dr. Björn Hochschild, Christian Alexius, Helene Bongers & Tim Glaser
Panel 1: Dynamics of Perception and Reception
Chair: Dr. Björn Hochschild
- Dr. Nina Eckhoff-Heindl: Moving and Handling. Visual-tactile Narration in Comics
- Dr. Carlos Idrobo: Cinematic Walking Kinaesthetics. Display, Performance and Reception of a Movement in Classical Hollywood Cinema
- Dr. Lukas R.A. Wilde: Comics are Control. Agency, Imagined Authorship, and Implied Subjectivity in the Media-Dispositifs of “Comics” and “Animation”
Panel 2: Movements beyond the Medium
Chair: Christian Alexius
- Dr. Christian A. Bachmann: Stick ‘em up! Comics as a Catalyst of Motion in Interactive Books
- Dr. Barbara Postema & Dr. Janina Wildfeuer: Dynamizing Comics with #ComicTok? New Forms of Comics Materiality and Narrativity on TikTok
- Christopher Lukman: Spectacular Self-Referentiality. The Scope of the Comic Gesture in Popular Culture
September 6
Panel 3: Artistic Research in Motion I
Chair: Helene Bongers
- Sheree Domingo: Everything is Moving. What Visual Recording and Comic Creation Have in Common
- Aline Helmcke: Drawing Motion. Sequential Image Making Practice in Drawn Animated Author’s Films
Panel 4: Acoustic Dynamics in (Audio-)Visual Media
Chair: Dr. Björn Hochschild
- Dr. Márton Orosz: Béla Balázs and the Aesthetics of ‚Ornamental Music‘
- Simon Born: Kapow! The Superhero Soundtrack in Motion
- Dr. Alessa K. Paluch: Adding just another look? – Representing Self as Comic Character in contemporary Music Videos
Workshop: Comics as a Way of Thinking
Chair: Tim Glaser
- Nick Sousanis
September 7
Roundtable: Studying Comics through Film and Film through Comics
Chairs: Christian Alexius & Helene Bongers
- Prof. Dr. Jan Baetens
- Juniorprof. Dr. Julia Eckel
- Dr. Véronique Sina
Panel 5: Artistic Research in Motion II
Chair: Tim Glaser
- Dr. Nick Sousanis: Thinking in Comics
- Dr. Judith Marlen Dobler: Drawing (expanded) as collaborative knowledge practice
Final Discussion & Farewell
Dr. Björn Hochschild, Christian Alexius, Helene Bongers & Tim Glaser
Visual Recordings: Sheree Domingo https://shereedomingo.com/
Fotos: Björn Hochschild, Helene Bongers, Tim Glaser, Márton Orosz & Nick Sousanis
Organisation: Björn Hochschild, Christian Alexius, Helene Bongers & Tim Glaser