The Animated Works Of James Duesing

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KEYLIGHT presentsThe Animated Works Of James DuesingPresented in partnership The Frank-Ratchye Studio For Creative InquiryThursday, November 5 – 7:30 PMMelwood Screening Room477 Melwood AvePittsburgh, PA 15213The film will be followed by a virtual discussion with the filmmaker.Join us for a collection of short animated works by acclaimed animator, James Duesing.JamesDuesingis a professor emeritus at the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Hisworkhas developed from traditional hand drawn and early digitalanimationto 3D, motion capture and augmented reality projects. He has explored animation individually and collaboratively along with its integration into installation, web,eBook and print.JamesDuesing’swork has been exhibited and broadcast throughout the world including: MTV, PBS, Showtime, The Movie Channel, The Sundance Film Festival,Siggraph, The Berlin Video Festival, The World Animation Festival in Los Angeles, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, The Southern Circuit, The Stuttgart International Animation Festival, Shanghai Animation Festival, The Tate Modern and the National Film Theater of London, Film Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA in Los Angeles and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has received numerous awards and grants including Creative Capital, Prix Ars Electronica, an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Fellowship, an Emmy Award from the National Association of television Arts and Sciences, and several National Endowment for the Arts grants. He is a former Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for the Arts in Society, an interdisciplinary faculty research center. Prior to that he co-directed CMU’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.