Backstory - The story so far
Offstage "Animation in New Media"
It all started in spring 2000 in Leipzig. From quite different directions we had received hints, that of late cartoons were not only exhibited in the cinema and on television but also on the World Wide Web. We were told about special frog-cocktails (Frog in a Blender) and suspended "Angry Kids" in Christmas trees.
Our curiosity being aroused, we decided to go into the matter and organized a course at Leipzig university in which first of all geeks, film freaks and media researchers had to coordinate their lingo and their (very different) expectations. Then, - full of pioneer spirit - the students started to track down websites with animations and to comment them in our archive. Since then, this course has been held four times. Some participants have stayed on since those early days, others have produced their own flash movies, which can be watched in our showroom.
From the very start all results have been presented at this website, since we wanted to open this exciting and neglected field of research to the public. At our site you will find short comments of links as well as more detailed analysis of important websites, presentations of theoretical topics such as classification model for webtoons, business models of animation sites, how to measure user activities or advertizing on the internet - and a forum for discussion.
Animation on the internet is situated in the area of art, technology, society and economy. Among other things, we are fascinated by the effects of the technological restriction on the aesthetics of webtoons, the manifold venues, the general changes, which movies, that have been produced for the World Wide Web, are liable to and the highly different attempts, to make a profit with animation on the internet.
Meanwhile, we have presented different facets of the varied topic many times, for instance
- at several media conferences, for instance, the 14th annual conference of the Society of Animation Studies in Glendale, California;
- at conferences primary oriented towards technology and development oriented such as the Shockwards;
- at film festivals, for instance the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film;
- at netculture events, for instance, "experiment future" that was streamed live from the Centre for art and media technology, Karlsruhe, in about 20 German cinemas;
- on television, for instance in the short film magazine "Kurzschluss" at the German/French culture channel ARTE and in the academic series "media forum" at the German public channel SWR as well as several times on the radio
- and of course in different academic journals and anthologies.
The editorial staff Dirk Förster, Ingo Linde & Karin Wehn.
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Presentations and Workshops
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Wehn, Karin, 2006: Fresh, bold, and free from gatekeepers: History of the animated short on the WWW. Presentation for the confernce "Film, Computer, and
TV" – NMI 2006 (New Media and Technologies of the Information Society), Berlin, 21.07.2006. (in German)
Linde, Ingo, 2006: The Demoscene – The subcultural appropriation of the
computer as an image machine. Presentation for the confernce "Film, Computer, and
TV" – NMI 2006 (New Media and Technologies of the Information Society), Berlin, 21.07.2006. (in German)
Linde, Ingo, 2006: Machinima: puppet theatre in ego-shooters – The computer game as creative medium. Presentation at the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) Osnabrück, 13.05.2006. (in English)
Wehn, Karin, 2006: Best of Web Animation. Presentation at the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) Osnabrück, 12.05.2006. (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2005: Web Animation. Presentation for the Animotion Festival organized by the Public Library Bremen and the Kino 46 (Bremen), 17.11.2005. (in German)
Linde, Ingo, 2005: FAN & Fiction. Computer Games and Short Film. Two commented film programmes for the Animotion Festival organized by the Public Library Bremen and the Kino 46 (Bremen), 16. and 17.11.2005. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2005: Web Animation. Lecture for the Netherlands Institute for Animation Film in Tilburg, 15.11.2005. (in English)
Wehn, Karin/Ingo Linde, 2005: Game Movies - How Games Inspire Film-Makers. Filmprogramm für die Branchenparty im Rahmen der Computerspielmesse Games Convention am 18.08.2005.
Wehn, Karin/Ingo Linde, 2005: Space, Architecture and Play in Computer Games. Presentation at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, 11.07.2005. (in German)
Förster, Dirk, 2005: Machinima. Screening for the Lange Nacht der Kinos at the Film Museum Potsdam, 09.07.2005. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2005: Best of Web Animation. Screening for the Lange Nacht der Kinos at the Film Museum Potsdam, 09.07.2005. (in German)
Linde, Ingo, 2005: The Demoscene - An Introduction. Presentation at the HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg, 05.07.2005. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2005: Myth Machinima. Zwischen Anspruch und Realität. Presentation for the NMI-Conference Film & Computer, Berlin, 01.07.2005. (in English)
Förster, Dirk/Ingo Linde, 2005: Webanimation. Poster for the NMI-Conference Film & Computer, Berlin, 01.07.2005. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2005: Web Comics. Presentation for the "Comic-Symposium Leipzig", 10.06.2005. (in German)
Linde, Ingo, 2005: Passagen 3: Programmierte Fantasien in Realtime – Die vielfältige Welt der Demos. Kommentiertes Filmprogramm am 15.04.2005 beim Filmfest Dresden. (in German)
Förster, Dirk, 2005: The Dramaturgy of Architecture in Computer Generated Animations. Computer Games as Pioneers for a New Relation between Figures and Space. Presentation for the conference "A Divided Art" of the Society of Animation Studies, Dresden, 15.04.2005. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2005: From Pong to GTA San Andreas. Animation in Computer Games. Presentation for the conference "A Divided Art" of the Society of Animation Studies, Dresden, 15.04.2005. (in English)
Linde, Ingo, 2005: The Demoscene. Programmed Animation Experiments out of the Computer Underground. Presentation for the conference "A Divided Art" of the Society of Animation Studies, Dresden, 13.04.2005. (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2004: Filmbyte. Jeder sein Produzent: Animation im Internet. Vortrag für das Modul Photo/Byte des Projekts Medienkunstnetz.de an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, am 29.11.2004. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Filme machen mit Computerspielen. Wie geht das? Vorlesung für die Reihe Virtuelle Welten des Studium Universale an der Universität Leipzig, am 24.11.2004. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Brickfilms. Vortrag für die 16. Society for Animation Studies Conference in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, USA, am 02.10.2004. (in English)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Filmpiraterie. Tom & Jerry Revisited. Vortrag für ein Panel zum Thema "Filmpiraterie" für die 4. Filmmesse, Leipzig am 16.09.2004. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Brickfilms. Vortrag für die Reihe Fernsehen macht schön, Leipzig, 23.05.2004. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Machinima oder was Ego-Shooter und Puppentheater gemeinsam haben. Über die revolutionäre Umformung des Dispositivs Computerspiele durch seine User. Presentation for the Kolloquium Dispositiv, Halle, 02.05.2004. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Brickfilms. Filme aus Lego und mit anderem Spielzeug. Presentation for the European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, 22.04.2004. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Brickfilms. Filme aus und mit Lego. Presentation at the International Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart, 05./06.04.2004. (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2003: Interactive Web Animation. Presentation for the course Developing Interactive Content by MEDIASPLUS Sagasnet in cooperation with the Games Convention Leipzig, Leipzig, 25.08.2003. (in English)
Wehn, Karin, 2003: An Unrecognised Treasure Chest: The Internet as an Animation Archive. Presentation for the conference "Animated Worlds", Farnham, England, 10.07.2003. (in English)
Linde, Ingo/Karin Wehn, 2003: Computergenerated Animations in it's early days and flashing future. Interviews for the Club-Show Fernsehen macht schön, Leipzig, 23.02.2003. (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2002: Flash-Animation for the World Wide Web. Workshop for the conference Shockwards 2002, Stuttgart, 08.11.2002. (in German)
Förster, Dirk/Ingo Linde, 2002: Technology, Genres and Aesthetics - the Project "Animation on the Internet". Presentation for the conference Shockwards 2002, Stuttgart, 08.11.2002. (in German) .
Wehn, Karin, 2002: Animation on the Internet. Presentation for the Live-Streaming Event "Experiment Future" at the Centre for Art and Mediatechnology Karlsruhe, 31.10.2002. (in German)
Linde, Ingo, 2002: Animation on the Internet. Presentation in the Arthouse Cinema Nuremberg, 31.10.2002. (in German)
Wehn, Karin/Dirk Förster/Ingo Linde, 2002: Flash-Animation on the Internet. Presentation at the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, 19.10.2002. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2002: Animation on the Internet. Presentation at the 14th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference, Glendale, California, 28.09.2002. (in English)
Wehn, Karin, 2002: Flash, Trash & Co: Shortfilm on the Internet. Presentation for the conference "d-motion. Digital Media in the Cinema". Mannheim, 25.05.2002. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~wehn/anima/theory/kurzfilm/index.htm. (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2001: Humor on the Internet. Presentation for the 6th Forum Media Reception: Humor in Mass Media. Mainz, 09.11.2001. Stream: http://www.medienrezeption.de/foren/forum01/folge2.htm. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2001: Animation on the Internet - A Survey. Presentation for the collectively taught lecture series "Communication in the Information Society. Living and Working in a Networked World". Leipzig, 02.05.2001. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2001: Nothing than Trash, Cruelty to Animals? Renaissance of the Animated Short Film at entertainment portals on the World Wide Web. Presentation for the conference "Digital Media - 'new' media? Technology, Content, Reception". Halle, 31.03.2001. Stream: http://www.medienrezeption.de/frameindex.php3?/foren/stu_32/freitag.html (in German)
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Publications
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Wehn, Karin: The Animated Short Film on the WWW. In: Marx, Anna (Ed.): Paintbrushes, Pixels, Bytes and Pores. Media of Dissolution. (forthcoming; in German)
Wehn, Karin: An Unrecognised Treasure Chest: The Internet as an Animation Archive. In: Buchan, Suzanne (Hrsg.): Animated Worlds. Eastleigh: John Libbey. (forthcoming; in English)
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Wehn, Karin, 2005: The Renaissance of the Animated Short on the World Wide Web. In: Animation Journal, 1, 2005, pp. 4-27.
Wehn, Karin: Mythos Machinima. Zwischen Anspruch und Realität. In: Rebensburg, Klaus (Hrsg.): NMI 2005. Neue Medien der Informationsgesellschaft "Film & Computer". Aachen: Shaker 2006, pp. 197-212.
Wehn, Karin/Ingo Linde, 2005: Flip Books - Homage to an unrecognized artform. In: telepolis, 18.08.2005 (Pt. 1), 02.10.2005 (Pt. 2). (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2005: Celebrity Deathmatch in Flash. The Happy Tree Friends. In: telepolis, 28.02.2005. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19409/1.html. (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2004: Machinima. In: telepolis. What Ego-Shooters and Puppet Theater have in common, 13.07.2004, (Teil 1 und 2), The Production of Machinima Films, 26.07.2004, (Teil 3), Styles of Machinima: Parodies, Live-Machinima, Ego-Shooter, Animations, 29.08.2004, (Teil 4), Machinima versus Copyright, 28.09.2004, (Teil 5) as well as: Emancipated Use Of Computer Games, 20.12.2004 (Teil 6). (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: 30 Second Statements. In: telepolis, 08.09.2004. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18284/1.html. (in German)
Linde, Ingo, 2004: Computer Game History Reloaded. In: telepolis, 26.08.2004. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18203/1.html. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Casemodder: Houses, Modified Fridges and a PC with Beer-Pump. In: telepolis, 25.08.2004. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18188/1.html. (in German)
Förster, Dirk, 2004: Game-Terminal or Mobile Phone? In: telepolis, 23.08.2004. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18176/1.html. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Even Bigger and More Visitors. In: telepolis, 22.08.2004. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18174/1.html. (in German)
Linde, Ingo, 2004: Soundtrack of the Own Life. In: telepolis, 22.08.2004. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18175/1.html. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2004: Brickfilms - Lego in Motion. How Film is Made Brick for Brick. In: telepolis, 16.01.2004. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/16/16471/1.html. (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2003: Machinima oder was Ego-Shooter und Puppentheater gemeinsam haben. Über die revolutionäre Umformung des Dispositivs Computerspiele durch seine User. In: SPIEL: Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft 1, 2003, pp. 162-182. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2003: Humor on the Internet. In: Roters, Gunnar; Walter Klingler, Maria Gerhards (Eds.): Humor in Mass Media. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2003. (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2002: Animation on the Internet. In: Relation 1, 2002. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2002: Flash, Trash & Co. - Short movies on the internet. In: Kinema Kommunal 2, 2002, pp. 4-7. (Detailed version: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~wehn/anima/theory/kurzfilm/index.htm). (in German)
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Wehn, Karin, 2001: Collect, play and do-it-yourself. In: grimme 3, 2001, pp. 22-23. (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2001: Animation on the Internet. The Situation in Germany. In: Filmblatt 6, 2001, Nr. 17, pp. 41-45. http://www.filmblatt.de/art_17.html (in German)
Wehn, Karin, 2001: Animation on the Internet - A Survey. In: Beck, Klaus; Siegmar Gerber (Eds.): Communication in the Information Society. Living and Working in a Networked World. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2001. Book and CD-Rom.(in German)
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Television (Author)
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Wehn, Karin, 2004: Machinima. For the short film magazine "Kurzschluss" at the German French culture channel "Arte", 25.08.2004.
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Wehn, Karin, 2003: Brickfilms - Movies Made with Lego. For the short film magazine "Kurzschluss" at the German French culture channel "Arte", 23.12.2003.
Wehn, Karin, 2003: Animatrix. For the short film magazine "Kurzschluss" at the German French culture channel "Arte", 04.08.2003.
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Juries
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Wehn, Karin: Member of the Jury at the Realtime Festival of the FMX in Stuttgart 2006.
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Wehn, Karin: Member of the Jury for Short FIlm at the Leipzig Festival Kurzsüchtig 2005.
Wehn, Karin: Member of the Jury at the 1st German Brickfilm-Festival Steinerei, 2005.
Wehn, Karin: Member of the international Jury at the Filmfest Dresden 2005.
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Membership
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Deutsches Institut für Animationsfilm (DIAF). [German Institute for Animation Film]. http://www.diaf.de/ (Member of the Board)
DGPuk. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft [German Society for Journalism and Mass Communication Studies]. http://www.dgpuk.de/
Society for Animation Studies (SAS). http://www.animationstudies.org/ (Member of the Jury for the McLaren-Book-Award)
Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte. [Research Group Broadcasting and History]. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~skrug/
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Leipzig, the 13th of April 2006.
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