Special Workshops
Workshop on “HMMM”.
Kathy Kennedy
Sound Artist
Montreal, Quebec
“Kathy Kennedy’s HMMM workshop offers an opportunity for working together in a new context. HMMM provides an enhanced listening environment, and a friendly, positive space for self-expression. While exploring the commonalities of all voices, this series of activities explores and celebrates individual expression. The workshop does not focus on singing, but explores a more general orality that is available to non-singers alike. Musical improvisation is a multi-layered conversation, and a playful approach is taken to explore this activity which leads invariably to better collaboration and cooperation. Kennedy is a certificate holder of the esteemed Deep Listening practice of composer Pauline Oliveros. Several decades of this practice has led K. to refine her HMMM series.”
Workshop on “Preserving The Symbiosis Shadow Puppets in New Media Era among the Young Generation”
Associate Prof. Dr. Dahlan Abdul Ghani
Head of Section for Animation
University Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute Information Technology, KL
PROFILE:
Associate Professor Dr Dahlan Abdul Ghani is the Head of Section for Animation at Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) Malaysian Institute of Information Technology (MIIT) City Campus. With 20 years experience in teaching Multimedia & Animation subjects, Dr Dahlan has been involved in many research and innovation field such as Multimedia, Game Design, Immersive Application (Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality, Comic & Animation Studies, Short Film (Videography), Creative Advertising and many more. Begin to focus on Digital & Virtual Wayang Kulit or Shadow Puppetry Visual Aesthetics Styles in year 2000 until present, many successful stories were achieved such as Winning Gold Medal at International -IPT Innovation Competition (PECIPTA 2017), Gold Medal at I-Idea Innovation in 2016, Received Outstanding Research Award from India in 2017 as among the pioneers in experimenting 3D Game with Shadow Puppetry, published more than 20 ISI & Scopus Publication journal articles related to Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppetry) and Animation studies
Workshop “03”.
António Costa Valente
Assistant professor
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
CIAC – Center for Research in Art and Communication
University of Algarve
Faro, Portugal
PROFILE:
Prof. António Costa Valente is a Researcher at CIAC – Center for Research in Art and Communication and professor at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Algarve, Portugal, he has a long connection to cinema and the new technologies that have transformed it.
Director and producer, his films have been shown all over the world and have received more than five hundred distinctions.
He was President of the Portuguese Federation of Cine Clubs and is currently Secretary for Europe of the International Federation of Cine Clubs.
A founding member of the Academia Portuguesa de Cinema, he is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of this institution that awards the Sophia Awards and chooses a Portuguese representative for the Oscar, Goya and other Awards.
He produced and co-directed the first feature film in Portuguese animation.
Director, since 1997, of “AVANCA, International Meeting of Cinema, Tv, Video and Multimedia” and since 2010, of the academic conference “AVANCA | CINEMA – International Conference of Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication”.
Having been a professor at several Portuguese universities, collaborator of the “ID+” research center, he has given lectures in the field of cinema and its research at universities and institutions on all continents. He directs the “International Journal of Cinema”.
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