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Conference Announcement:International ConferenceImages of Animate Movement. Representations of LifeBilder animierter Bewegung. Darstellungen von LebenMay 26 &#8211; 28, 2011eikones NCCR Iconic Criticism &#8211; Power and Meaning of ImagesBasel UniversityConcept and organisation: Sigrid Leyssen, Pirkko RathgeberSpeakers: Gottfried Boehm (Universit&#228;t Basel), Gabriele Brandstetter (FU Berlin), Ansgar B&#252;schges (Universit&#228;t K&#246;ln), Maria Luisa Catoni (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa), Robin Curtis (SUNY), Matthias Haldemann (Kunsthaus Zug), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Andreas Mayer (MPIWG Berlin), Matt Mullican (artist, New York/Berlin), Brian Scholl (Yale), Norah Zuniga Shaw (Synchronous Objects Project, Ohio State University), Stuart S. Sumida (California State University), Nikolaus F. Troje (Queens University), Paul Ward (Arts University College Bournemouth).The fascinating paradox that we can see life in abstract images is the starting point of this conference. In a drawing of just a few lines, we can immediately recognize a human figure walking. A moving quadrangle can be seen as a crawling caterpillar. And some well-placed moving points are directly joined together in the form of a dancing couple. Again and again, we are astonished that we can actually see a creature moving in the image &#8211; even when the image is of such a reduced and simple nature or when it is not even a temporal moving image. How this impression of animate movement can be explained is what is explored at this conference: how can a simple line or form suddenly transform into something so specifically meaningful? How is this transition &#8211; this coming to life &#8211; to be described? How can it be constructed in the first place?For centuries, the investigation and representation of the movements of human beings and animals have been an important scientific and artistic project. Different types of often very abstract representations have been used to capture and analyse such animate movements. This conference focuses on the construction, the perception and the use of these images of animate movement with their different degrees of abstraction in a variety of disciplines and contexts. The central question is how a specific movement can be represented schematically in such a way that we instantly experience it as animate and alive.The conference brings together different domains of knowledge in order to approach the phenomenon of animate movement and its images in its complexity in a new way.ProgramThursday, May 26, 201114.30 &#8211; 15.00 Gottfried Boehm: Begr&#252;ssung und Einf&#252;hrung: Das Bild als Ereignis15.00 &#8211; 15.30 Sigrid Leyssen und Pirkko Rathgeber: Begr&#252;ssung und einf&#252;hrende &#220;berlegungen: Animated Points, Living Lines &#8211; The Impression of Animate MovementSession: Tanzende und laufende FigurenDancing and Walking FiguresChair: Inge Hinterwaldner        15.30 &#8211; 16.30 Nikolaus F. Troje: Vision as Hypothesis Testing: The Case of Biological Motion Perception    16.30 &#8211; 17.00 Kaffeepause        17.00 &#8211; 18.00 Gabriele Brandstetter: Tanz die Pause! Choreographische Re - Animationen    18.00 &#8211; 18.30 PauseChair: Nicolaj van der Meulen        18.30 &#8211; 20.00 Norah Zuniga Shaw: From Improvisation Technologies to Choreographic Objects: William Forsythe and the Mobility of Dancing Ideas    20.00 Ap&#233;roFriday, May 27, 2011Session: Bewegung studieren, Bewegung darstellen Studying Movement, Representing MovementChair: Arno Schubbach        09.30 &#8211; 10.30 Ansgar B&#252;schges: The Complexity of the Ordinary &#8211; Neural Control of Locomotion            10.30 &#8211; 11.30 Andreas Mayer: Epistemic Figures of Movement    11.30 &#8211; 12.00 Kaffeepause        12.00 &#8211; 13.00 Stuart S. Sumida: Animation as Intersection: Art and Science, Analog and Digital, and the Importance of Anatomy for the Suspension of Disbelief    13.00 &#8211; 14.30 MittagspauseSession: Stille und bewegte animierte BewegungStill and Moving Animate MovementChair: Thomas Brandstetter        14.30 &#8211; 15.30 Hannah Landecker: The Life of Movement: From Microcinematography to Live Cell Imaging            15.30 &#8211; 16.30 Robin Curtis: Compression / Repression: Zwischen belebter und unbelebter Materie    16.30 &#8211; 17.00 Kaffeepause        17.00 &#8211; 18.00 Maria Luisa Catoni: Mimesis and Motion in Classical Antiquity    18.00 &#8211; 18.30 PauseChair: Margarete Pratschke        18.30 &#8211; 20.00 Matt Mullican: How to Prove That Stick Figures Live Lifes: A Lecture in Three Parts    Saturday, May 28, 2011Session: Formen setzen sich in Bewegung, Linien werden lebendigForms Starting to Move, Lines Coming to LifeChair: Nina Gerlach        09.30 &#8211; 10.30 Paul Ward: Dark Intervals, Mechanics and Magic: Animated Movement as the Illusion of Life            10.30 &#8211; 11.30 Brian Scholl: Perceiving Animacy in Geometric Shapes: Visual Roots of Social Cognition    11.30 &#8211; 12.00 Kaffeepause        12.00 &#8211; 13.00 Matthias Haldemann: Wie die Linien laufen lernten. &#220;ber animierte Bild-Linien und ihre Vorgeschichte seit der Figura serpentinata    The conference is free for all, but please RSVP. sigrid[point]leyssen(at)unibas[point]ch More info: http://www.eikones.ch/nc/events/detail.html?L=1&#38;tx_cheikonesevent_pi1%5Buid%5D=195&#38;cHash=40d8a2dbabeikones NFS Bildkritik, Rheinsprung 11, CH - 4051 Basel