Dr. Greg Langner

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Black-background promotional image featuring a photorealistic representation of Dr. Greg Langner's hand reaching toward the center from the top-left, a cartoon-like stark-white outlined graphic representation of Langner's other hand reaching toward the center from the top-right, a stark-white outlined graphic representation of Langner's glasses in the top-center, with medium-dark yellow stars inside the lenses, a thin outline representing Langner's nose, and text below reading: “Cartoon Corporeality: Animating Life On and Beyond the Everyday Stage Dr. Greg Langner @ the Society for Animation Studies 2023 Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ | June 12th” with a dark yellow splash graphic behind the text.

“This work identifies across the human experience the increasingly relevant trend of animated cartoons ‘escaping’ the technologically two-dimensional film, television, and tablet screens which have prominently defined the medium for generations, appearing beyond — in corporeal form — to occupy and share our same physical space in materially impactful ways, which are impossible to ignore . . .

. . . with each weekday watching I found in just 30 minutes allowed a vibrant, and visceral, and unsubdued sense of self clinging playfully but desperately to the endless expressivity of each cartoon’s perfect plasticities and possibilities; their unique and fantastical capacities to capture, create, and satiate the basic human freedoms of thought and expression.”

@ Society for Animation Studies 2023 | Rowan University

Greg Langner is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Antelope Valley College, Los Angeles County. Building on backgrounds in community organizing, arts management, campaign politics, and public performance, Greg's Ph.D. in Communication Studies — earned with a graduate minor in Film and Media Arts — focused on developing critical, creative, and ethnographic methods for teaching and learning. Greg's practice-based approach to education centers embodied knowledge, individual intuition, scientific inquiry, and collaborative experience, with sharp interest in the potential of creative and digital media to empower individual and social change. (TLDR: Geeky professor teaching the persuasive potential of public performance.)

“I've also got a real particular kick, if you happen to notice, for cartoons and their expressive value in contemporary culture, majorly motivated by life as a vibrantly atypical learner.”

~ Greg

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