Emmanouil Kanellos

Profession

Course Leader, MA Animation (online) and MA Visual Effects

College

London College of Communication

Person Type

Staff

Biography

Emmanouil Kanellos is the Course Leader for MA Animation (online) and MA Visual Effects and the Teaching and Learning Coordinator for the Screen School at London College of Communication.

Emmanouil has been working in academia since 2008 in academic and management roles such as senior lecturer, personal tutor, link tutor, HEA fellowship mentor, and course/programme leader in both UG and PG programmes.

Emmanouil has worked over the years as an art director, technical director, animator, and CG artist, having collaborated with several design agencies in London, Athens, and Japan. His work has been broadcasted on British national television and international channels.

Emmanouil's professional experience includes technical guidance, working in advertising, promotional videos, and video games. He manages and produces 3D projection mapping artworks across the UK in collaboration with a number of visual and audio artists.

He is a Ph.D. candidate interested in visual music, virtual reality, animation, and 3D technology and has presented his research in the UK, Europe, and the United States.

Publications

Kanellos, E., (2018) Visual Trends in Contemporary Visual Music Practice. Body, Space & Technology, 17(1), pp.22–33. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/bst.294

Kanellos Emmanouil (2013). Iconoclasm in Visual Music. Published by BST Journal – Body, Space and

Technology. Volume 13. ISSN 1470- 9120

Kanellos, Emmanouil and Maragiannis, Anastasios (2011) Typographical Experimental Research in Audiovisual Spaces [T.E.R.A.S. lab]. In: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011). BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT, Swindon, UK, p. 275. ISBN 978-1-906124-88-5 (pbk) ISSN 1477-9358 (online)

Presentations

September 2017 DRHA Conference – Digital Resources in the Humanities & Arts, Plymouth University [3] UK. Research Presentation: "Visual Trends in Contemporary Visual Music Practice"

November 2017 2nd Synthesis Festival – Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece. Research Presentation: "Τhe Pedagogical Framework of Mapping Projection Workshop within the Constructivist Principles"

July 2013 DRHA Conference – Digital Resources in the Humanities & Arts,

University of Winchester, London, UK. Research Presentation: "Iconoclasm in Visual Music"

July 2011 EVA - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London, UK. Conference organised by the British Computing Society, "Typographic Experimental Research in Audio-visual Spaces"

April 2011 BETHERE International Animation Festival, Corfu,Greece. Research Presentation on Visual Sound and kinetic Typographic Design, Undergraduate Animation Showcase of University of Greenwich

August 2009 TypeCon2009, Atlanta, USA: Conference organised by the Society of Typographic Aficionados, "Typography in Motion: Animated Dynamic Ways to Extend the Boundaries of Text Effects".

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