This is a really fantastic media event happening at UCSD this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Its all FREE.

4K ANIMATION!!!! Friday 7-10pm, ATKINSON HALL. ANYONE INTERESTED IN VIDEO SHOULD TRY AND SEE THIS. 4K IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF HD PROJECTION. There are only two 4k projectors in existence and one is here in San Diego.

Animation: From the Avant-Garde to Popular Culture
November 1-3, 2007

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In conjunction with the Animated Painting exhibition, the San
Diego Museum of Art, University of Southern California,
University of California, San Diego, and Museum of Photographic
Arts present Animation: From the Avant-Garde to Popular Culture.
The wide-ranging scope of this symposium is indicative of the
explosive field of animation and the flexibility that new
digital technology is having on moving images that cross
boundaries between art, technology, and science.

Animated Painting showcases contemporary artists who are
adapting pictorial codes and hand gestures associated with
traditional painting and drawing to animation concepts and
technologies. On view at the San Diego Museum of art Oct.13,
2007, through January 13, 2008.

Mediated Animation—Special Presentation of Atlas in silico and 4
K animation

Friday, November 2, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Atkinson Hall
University of California, San Diego

Immersive Visualization Laboratory, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Atlas in silico is an immersive installation that combines
science, art, and the moving image. Metagenomics
data collected from the world’s oceans, and relevant to
biodiversity and global climate, is presented as
luminous forms on the Varrier 100-million-pixel autosterographic
display in a radically new mode of experiential
animation. www.atlasinsilico.net
Calit2 Auditorium, 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
4 K animation or 4K cinema is an ultra-high-definition video of
roughly 4000 x 2000 pixels, or four times
the resolution of high-definition television. Selected
animations reflect on computer-mediated modes of
interaction, demonstrating the impact of viewer perspective on
the derivation of meaning in art forms that
are influenced by technological innovation. Screenings last
approximately 30 minutes.
Redefining Animation—Panel Discussion


Animating Cinema—Panel Discussion

Saturday, November 3, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall
University of California, San Diego

Introduction:
Lesley Stern, Chair, Department of Visual Arts, University of
California, San Diego
Speakers:
Alan Cholodenko, Honorary Associate, Film and Animation Studies
in the Department of Art History and Film
Studies at the University of Sydney
Lisa Cartwright, Professor, Communication and Science Studies;
Affiliated Faculty in Critical Gender
Studies, University of California, San Diego
Lev Manovich, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, University of
California, San Diego
Atlas in silico on view 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. at the Immersive
Visualization Laboratory


Exhibiting Animation—
Tribute to Jeremy Blake and Panel Discussion

Saturday, November 3, 2:30–5:30 p.m.
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater,
Museum of Photographic Arts,
San Diego