Fall 2024 Animation Showcase

ASU's School of Art, part of the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, is excited to announce the Animation Program's Fall 2024 Animation Showcase! Here, you will see a wide variety of animated works by our talented students.

  • The Sidney Poitier New American Film School welcomes distinguished alum Daniel Tantalean. The film producer returns to his alma mater for a special screening of “In the Summers,” the Grand Jury Prize winner of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, written and directed by Alessandra Lacorazza. Join Tantalean for an intimate screening of this tender family drama of two sisters navigating their relationship with their volatile but loving father during their summer visits, followed by an in-depth Q&A with the filmmaker.

Join us for an exclusive opportunity to meet Eric Iverson, Chief Technology Officer at United Talent Agency! With a career spanning 17 years at Sony Pictures Entertainment, a stint as Chief Technologist at Amazon Web Services (where he helped build Amazon’s next-gen, cloud-based studio), and now leading tech strategy at UTA, Eric has been at the forefront of entertainment and AI-driven innovation.

Join the ASU MIX Center for our Fall 2024 MIXibition! This will be a night to engage the ASU and Mesa communities with work from graduate students and faculty across various disciplines in the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

Experience a night filled with FREE immersive exhibits and artwork, open for all to enjoy. The exhibit will be held inside the ASU Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center in Downtown Mesa, AZ running from 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Featured "MIXibitions" are:

What does home smell like? And how does smell create a sense of belonging?

The Leonardo-ASU Initiative invites you to join the LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) conversation featuring the creators of “Atmospheres of Belonging” and “MEDIAted Membranes” — two creative projects exploring planetary health and our relationship with our environment. Blending art, technology, and community, these exhibits explore big questions about climate change and turn urban spaces into living entities. A guided tour of both exhibits will follow the panel discussion.

Get sonically spooked this Halloween in an immersive sound installation of The Poitier Film School's soun class showcase that brings to life terrifying soundscapes through a state-of-the-art 55-speaker Meyer Sound system. Experience a ‘The Shining’-inspired soundscape with iconic moments re-imagined; visit a haunted ghost ship, where vengeful banshees unleash their spectral fury; discover the extraterrestrial source of an oxygen leak that puts a solo astronaut’s mission (and life) at risk, and more delightful frights.

Join us as students from Associate Professor Ana Herruzo's Emerging Media Colloquium class lead a multi-week-long symposium on experience design and extended realities. This class focuses on professional and community development outcomes for the graduate programs in emerging media. 

Students featured in this series will speak critically about topics that they care about in the fields that are advancing at the MIX Center and hear new perspectives. 

Lamentation at the Liesbeek: Sonic Activism at Contested Sites

“We will through our lament remember the past by bringing it into the present, where we can challenge the violence to create a more equitable future.”

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