{"id":2350,"date":"2019-04-30T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2019-05-22T14:27:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:27:48","slug":"aylish-wood-inaugural-professorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/04\/30\/aylish-wood-inaugural-professorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Aylish Wood Inaugural Professorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/wood.html\">Professor Aylish Wood<\/a>, Professor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/film.html\">Film<\/a>, will be giving her Inaugural Professorial Lecture, entitled \u2018Making Waves: Taking a Software Approach to <em>Moana<\/em> and What It Tells Us about Digital Culture\u2019, on Wednesday 8 May 2019 at 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney animation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/film.html\"><em>Moana<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s (dirs Ron Clements and John Musker, 2016) release was accompanied by celebrations of animation software and the ingenuity of VFX practitioners. Frequently focussing on the feature&#8217;s quite fabulous looking water animation, these commentaries are a valuable starting point for challenging the extent to which simulations in cinema are, as is so often claimed, &#8216;realistic.&#8217; Given their scale and increasingly detailed textures, it is easy to get caught up in the visual appeal of simulations created with VFX software. Aylish\u2019s purpose in exploring <em>Moana<\/em> is to step around the power of this visual appeal, and map a route through to the computational and cultural influences that inform and shape simulations.<\/p>\n<p>Aylish\u2019s lecture will take place in Keynes College Lecture Theatre 1, and will be followed by a drinks reception in Keynes College Atrium at 7pm. Attendance is free, but please book your place here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/inaugural-lecture-aylish-wood-tickets-59528811277\">www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/inaugural-lecture-aylish-wood-tickets-59528811277<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Aylish Wood, Professor in Film, will be giving her Inaugural Professorial Lecture, entitled \u2018Making Waves: Taking a Software Approach to Moana and What It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/04\/30\/aylish-wood-inaugural-professorial-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,221729,168423,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}