13th International Graduate Students and Scholars’ Conference in Indonesia, The Graduate School of University Gadjah Mada

Navigating The Future: Strengthening Resilience Through Glocal Collaboration Towards World Peace

Date: 4-5 Novembmer 2025

Location: University Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Plenary Speaker

Digital aesthetics and Human perception in
Affect in Hand-drawn Animation and Computer-generated Imagery

Tomoko Tamari

Abstract

 Tomoko Tamari explores the differences between digital aesthetics created by computer animation and analogue aesthetics in hand-drawn animation. While computer-generated imagery (CGI) refers to the process that involves mathematical calculations within computers to create naturalistic looking images, the traditional hand-drawn animation method involves symbolic expressive forms created by the animator’s spatio-temporal sensitivities. Drawing on Hayles’s discussion of the ‘cognitive non-conscious’, Simondon’s notion of ‘technical mentality’, and bio-semiotics, Tamari argues that there might be an inevitable incompatibility in the image-formation process between human perception and algorithm-based CGI. To explore this assumption, Tamari focuses on the questions of ‘selectivity’ and ‘abstraction’ in both the neuronal and the technical, and emphasises the significance of ‘noise’ (incompleteness and ambiguity) and ‘time’ (speed, duration, and delay) for human perception by exploring the nature of cognitive systems.