Welcome by:

Derrick R. Cartwright
The Maruja Baldwin Director, San Diego Museum of Art

Introduction by:

Betti-Sue Hertz
Curator of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art

Speakers:

Neus Miró
Independent Curator and Art Critic, Barcelona, and Co- Curator, Històries Animades
Cindy Keefer
Director, Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles
Suzanne Buchan
Professor of Animation Aesthetics, Head of the Animation Research Centre, University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham College, UK and Editor, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Artists include:
Gregory Araya, Brian Bloss, Sandra Cheng, Mar Elepano, Laura Heit, Miwa Matreyek, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Christine Panushka, Jennifer Pastor, Rebecca Rogers, Richard Sandoval, Debralee Shelby, Kathy Smith, Sheila Sofian and J.J. Villard
Organized by:
Lisa Mann (USC), Josh Segura (SDMA), Lesley Stern and Patricia Montoya (UCSD)
The Animation: From the Avant-Garde to Popular Culture Symposium is hosted and presented by the San Diego Museum of Art; John C Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego; Center for Research and Computing in the Arts, University of California, San Diego (CRCA); California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California (Calit2); and Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.

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