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Chunning Guo
Chunning (Maggie) Guo teaches new media art and animation in the School of Fine Arts at Renmin University of China. In 2014, she was a visiting artist at the master of arts programme in character animation at Central Saint Martins of the University of the Arts, London, and she was also a resident artist at Centre Intermondes of La Rochelle in France. She holds a master’s degree in digital media design from China Central Academy of Fine Arts. She has recently finished her Ph.D. paper, ‘The experiments and critics of independent animation’, and was invited to present it at Animafest Scanner II 2015 in Zagreb, Croatia, the 2015 BFX Conference in Bournemouth and APES 2015 in Newcastle, UK. From 2011 to 2012, she worked as a visiting scholar at the Vancouver Film School. In addition, she visited and conducted a workshop at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2013. She is the author of two books: Thinking Communication (Renmin University Publishing) and Digital Media Contextual Studies (China Machine Press). Her animated artwork has been exhibited and collected internationally by galleries and festivals including the White Rabbit Art Gallery in Australia, World Design Conference for Icograda IDA in Beijing, the L’abbaye de Fontevraud in France and P.O.R.T’s opening presented by Kan-Kan Media and KoKi Freiburg in Germany. She was the recipient of the Jury Award at the 11th annual Chinese Independent Film Festival in China, the Outstanding Short Film Award at the 2015 A Long Week of Short Film Festival in Shanghai and the NETPAC Award at the 2015 Busan International Short Film Festival of South Korea. Her collaborative work Ketchup was selected for several international festivals, including the Stuttgart International Animation Festival, FANTOCHE International Animation Festival, Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, World Festival of Animated Film Zagreb and the Berlin Chinese Film Festival.