Gameology 2.0

Overview: Especially since the digital shift, animation is increasingly pervasive and implemented in many ways in many disciplines. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal will provide the first cohesive international refereed publishing platform for animation that unites contributions from a wide range of research agendas and creative practice.

The scope of the journal is comprehensive, yet its focus is clear and simple. The journal addresses all animation made using all known (and yet to be developed) techniques -- from C16th optical devices to contemporary digital media -- revealing its implications on other forms of time-based media expression past, present and future. Special features will include new theories and methodologies, radical contemporary practice, microanalyses of individual films, archive news, teaching, learning and research resources and industrial innovations foregrounding specific disciplines and their interrelations with others.

Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal will be a dynamic forum for promoting exchange between a multitude of disciplines and will facilitate a much-needed academic dialogue for the interdisciplinary nature of animation studies. It will be essential and stimulating reading for academics, researchers, students, curators and practitioners in animation, film and media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, architecture, art & design, computer sciences, games studies and visual culture. The journal is keen to encourage both established and emerging scholars.

Topic coverage is wide-ranging and includes:Animation AestheticsComputer Aided DesignThe Architectural Imagination of AnimationEdutainment, Propaganda and IdeologiesComputer Game Aesthetics and Play Theory Blockbusters, Auteur and Independent AnimationRemediation and InnovationAdvertising, Commerce and Mobile TelephonyBeauty in AnimationCognition, Empathy and AudienceDocumentary AnimationThe Animated BaroqueFeminist Approaches to AnimationDiasporas, Ethnicity and RepresentationThe Animated BodyOptical Entertainment TechnologiesComics and Animation, Manga and AnimeAnimation in Sci-Tech and MedicineAnimation in Fine Arts PracticeQueer Animation StudiesPhenomenological Approaches to AnimationAnimated Photography Flash, Machinima and On-Line Communities Ethical Responsibility in Animation Music, Sound and VoiceAnimated ‘Worlds’ of Poetry and Literature Pre- and Post-Digital Hybridisation

Submissions: Articles should be between 5000-7000 words. Reviews should be between 800-1200 words. Authors will be asked to provide a CD or diskette of the final version. Submissions will be refereed anonymously by at least two referees. The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with author’s name and date in the text and a full reference in alphabetical order at the end of the article.

Australasian contributions should be sent to:Angela NdalianisSchool of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology, Room G31Elisabeth Murdoch Building University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia Email: angelan@unimelb.edu.au

North American contributions should be sent to: Bob Rehak Dept of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Ashton-Mottier, 1790 East 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USAEmail: zencat@indiana.edu

All other contributions should be sent to: Suzanne Buchan Animation Research CentreSurrey Institute of Art & Design, University CollegeFalkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DSEmail: sbuchan@surrart.ac.uk