Animation for Health and Wellbeing in Hospital Waiting Spaces

This proposal addresses the lack of significant research in the field of animation and its potential to impact on the health and wellbeing of young people in stressful situations in healthcare contexts particularly in waiting spaces for attending patients and accompanying family or caregivers.

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Emerging interactive narrative techniques in different platforms like games, films and animation

Everyone loves stories. Narrative is a powerful tool for addressing and reflecting upon pivotal aspects of the human condition, with the potential of inspiring and aiding viewers through their personal dilemmas. Although the most popular narrative style is linear storytelling, this pattern has little to do with how people really receive information. Interactive media differ from traditional media in that participant can actively engage with and influence the outcome of the story.

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Performativ conference - Trembling

Performativ conference – Trembling

“Trembling” presents the video work HOME in an adapted and somewhat modified form. It involves a camera’s journey through the space of a miniature home which is projected in a new way, adapting to a different location: the backstage of the theater, which gently distorts and fragments the projection.

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Masterclass – Cinanima 2021 – ESAD talk Portugal

As part of CINANIMA – Espinho International Animation Film Festival, where renowned names of cinema, animation and illustration pass through every year, Lea Vidakovic presents the masterclass Storytelling Approaches for Expanded Animation.

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Telling Without Telling: Animated Stories Beyond The Screen

What happens to the story when animation expands beyond the screen, beyond the cinema venue? Do the new sites (both physical and virtual) call for different content, different form of presentation? What kind of stories would we tell in these immersive environments, that alternate the screen space?

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