FILMMAKER JOHN TERRY: Public Lecture and Screening

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
@ 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
UB North Campus
Center for the Arts Room 112 (Auditorium)

A very special opportunity to hear internationally recognized filmmaker John Terry speak about and present his films in person!

An independent filmmaker who has made more than 28 films, John Terry has taught at RISD, Yale, the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT he was instrumental in founding MIT’s documentary film/video program. He has been a Professor of Film/Animation/Video at RISD for more than two decades. In 1999 and 2004 Terry was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and lectured there in 1975. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. A capable administrator, he served as RISD’s acting associate provost in the late 1990s. He was department head Film Animation & Video from 1995-2001 and was been Dean of Fine Arts from 2002-2010.

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ARTIST TALK & WORKSHOP featuring Zach Gage

Open to the Public

Artist Talk presenting Zach Gage
When: Monday, February 7 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Where: CFA 235 (Screening Room)

Workshop by Zach Gage
When: Tuesday, February 8 @ 1:00 – 4:40 pm
Where: CFA 246 (Lab 246)
The Workshop will feature iPhone and OpenFrameworks

Please RSVP to Teri Rueb at terirueb@buffalo.edu
Department of Media Study

Sponsored by: the Open Air Institute | UB Media Study

STRANGE KNOWLEDGE: NOTES ON MEDIA ARTS RESEARCH ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS presented by Marc Böhlen

The Geography Colloquium Series, Spring 2011 presents:

Strange Knowledge – Notes on Media Arts Research on Environmental Conditions
Presented by Marc Böhlen

When: Friday, February 4, 2011 @ 3:15 pm
Where: 145H Wilkeson Quad (Reception to follow in the Hallway outside of Wilkeson 108)

The first Department of Geography Colloquium of the Spring 2011 semester will be Friday, February 4, 2011 at 3:15pm in Wilkeson 145H (the GIAL lecture room) with a reception to follow in the hallway outside of Wilkeson 108. Please join us!

Abstract: Media Arts have a history of engaging knowledge from other disciplines. The results that emerge from such engagements can take on odd yet at times revealing forms. In this presentation, Böhlen will discuss examples of media arts that query landscapes and the environment to generate discourses that expert groups (such as environmental scientists) do not readily generate. Böhlen will also discuss how such works can contribute to new research agendas, originating in the arts and feeding back into other disciplines.

Artist-engineer Marc Böhlen designs information processing systems that critically reflect on information as a cultural value. His projects derive qualitative potential from the realm of quantitative information and query the relationship between people and machinery in fundamental ways. Böhlen is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department
of Media Study at the University at Buffalo where he directs the PuCoMe (Public Computational Media) Lab. Recent art work has been shown at the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria, 2010). Recent publications include Ambient Intelligence in the City (Springer, Berlin, 2009) and Future Data Culture (Thresholds No38, MIT, 2011).

For more info on the Colloquium Series, contact Jared Aldstadt at: geojared@buffalo.edu

This Event is Co-Sponsored by the Undergraduate Geography Student Association (UGSA) & Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA).

Scajaquada: BEYOND THE MULTITUDE

OPENING: Sunday, September 19, 4-8pm

September 17-23, 2010
@ Blink Galleries 464 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14207

Scajaquada. The oldest word in use on the Niagara Frontier, and both source for and subject of an exhibition celebrating ecosystem, neighborhood, history, and place through innovative work from regional artists, activists, historians, performers, and practitioners.

TOUR:  Tuesday, September 21, 4pm.
Leaves from 464 Amherst Street

LECTURE:  Tuesday, September 21, 6pm.
By Franklin LaVoie at Polish Cadets Hall.

PERFORMANCE:  Thursday, September 23, 10am.
By Jessica Thompson starting at Forest Lawn Cemetery and moving through Buffalo’s East Side.

WATERSHED CLEAN-UP:  Saturday, September 25, 9am.
Meeting at American Legion Post 1041, 533 Amherst Street.

For more information, please visit: http://scajaquada.org/.

EMERGING PRACTICES SPEAKER SERIES 2010

Monday, September 13th, 5:00pm, CFA 246
Tom Bittner, Departments of Philosophy and Geography
University at Buffalo

An Introduction to Formal and Applied Ontology

This event is open to all interested students and faculty.

The talk gives a brief overview of formal and applied ontology from the perspective of philosophy and the perspective of the computer and information sciences. As examples, Bittner will use the ontology of geographic space, geographic objects, and the geography of the human body.

About the Speaker

Thomas Bittner is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo. At the same time he is Research Scientist at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and the National Center of Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA).

Dr. Bittner received his Ph.D. from the Technical University Vienna and has been a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University and at Queen’s University (Canada). Before joining the SUNY Buffalo he was a senior researcher at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) at Saarland University in Germany.  Dr. Bittner’s area of specialization is formal ontology and its applications in bio-informatics, geography, and geographic information science. His current research focuses on formal theories of vagueness and the application of formal ontology, symbolic logic, and qualitative representation and reasoning techniques to represent canonical biomedical structures in biomedical ontologies.

For more information, please visit http://www.buffalo.edu/~bittner3.

2010 Buffalo Infringement Festival

The 2010 Buffalo Infringement Festival
Thursday, July 22 — Sunday, August 1

Featuring Media Study students and faculty. Over 700 performances! Over 350 plays, bands, art installations, films, parties, etcetera! Over 50 venues (and non-venues) in and around the Allentown neighborhood of Buffalo, NY!

Media Study folks include: Intermedia Performance Studio, Jordan Dalton, Ron Douglas, Ekrem Serdar, Liz Chow, Josh Parkins, Michael Beitz, Masha Sha, Anna Scime, Neil Terry, Joshua Strauss and Lulldozer.

The official schedule is online! See the schedule page for the complete list of shows, including updates to the printed program in the July 22 ArtVOice.

Art Under the Radar
Every summer, the streets of Buffalo come alive with scores of events by local and visiting theatre and dance companies, puppeteers, media artists, poets, comics, musicians, cabaret acts, digital designers, and miscellaneous insurrectionists. The annual Buffalo Infringement Festival provides artists and audiences of all backgrounds the chance to come together, take chances, push boundaries, and explore uncharted territory because exciting art can happen anywhere, anytime, without a blockbuster budget. (Or any budget at all, for that matter.)

FLUXXLAB: Final Food & Emerging Media Speaker Series

Please join us for the final talk of the FEM Speaker Series!

Tuesday, 20 April at 5:30 in 301 Crosby Hall (South Campus)

Fluxxlab is a design firm founded by architects Jennifer Broutin and Carmen Trudell. Their work is focused on sustainable practice and innovative energy solutions that engage people through architecture. Both Jennifer and Carmen graduated from Columbia University’s Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program, where they began research and collaboration. Broutin teaches at New York City College of Technology. Trudell teaches at Columbia University and at New York City College of Technology.

http://www.fluxxlab.com/

Hope to see you there.

Food & Emerging Media Speaker Series continues April 1st

The Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series is picking back up with a talk by Eyebeam Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley on THURSDAY, APRIL 1st at 7 pm at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. The talk is free and open to the public – please help spread the word!!! Crowley’s talk is entitled:

FOOD IN THE CITY

Amanda will speak about Eyebeam’s Food and Technology Research Group, an initiative for media artists, cooks, environmentalists and food activists to embrace technological innovation and environmental, sustainable and regenerative concerns consistent with green and open source ventures and sustainability.

Hope to see you all there! See the full schedule here.

Amanda McDonald Crowley is Executive Director at Eyebeam in New York. She is a cultural worker, curator and facilitator who specialises in creating new media and contemporary art events and programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Amanda was executive producer for ISEA2004, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2004, held in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in the Baltic sea. She was Associate Director, Adelaide Festival 2002 cont’d…

DORKBOT BUFFALO

Dorkbot Buffalo kicks off March at Sugar City this Thursday. Featuring presentations by Cayden Mak and Stephanie Rothenburg.

Thursday, March 4, 2010
7:30pm – 9:00pm
@ Sugar City
19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY
(Entrance at Side)

Facebook Event here

Presenter Bios:

Cayden Mak is a cyborg, game designer, theorist, and reality hacker. He is pursuing his MFA in UB’s Department of Media Study. Previously, he earned a degree from the University of Michigan in philosophy, where he studied Wittgenstein, language-games, and speech acts. Beginning this spring, he is working on a pervasive game with the Intermedia Performance Studio for the Beyond/In Western New York Biennial, commissioned by the Burchfield Penney. He writes about philosophy, games, critical pedagogy, and cyborg post-feminism (amongst other things) at thenoiseofthestreet.net

Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary practice merges performance, installation and networked media to create provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. Her recent work investigates new models of online labor and the virtualization of the global workplace. Stephanie has lectured and exhibited at venues and festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Banff New Media Institute, ISEA and LABoral. In 2009 she received a Creative Capital grant and has recently participated in artist residencies at Eyebeam and Harvestworks in NYC. She is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at University at Buffalo.

Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series starts February 23, 2010

Please join Stefani Bardin
on Tuesday February 23rd at 6 pm
in Room 232 in the Center for Fine Arts
for the launch of the
FOOD AND EMERGING MEDIA SPEAKER SERIES.

The first speaker will be David Szanto an adjunct professor of gastronomy and communications at l’Université du Québec à Montréal and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy. With a master’s degree in Food Culture and Communications, he is currently a graduate student in design and interaction at Concordia University in Montréal. Below is a synopsis of his talk. Click here for a poster for the series (.pdf) (with some dates and times to be added).

Towards Intelligent Gastronomy: Equilibrating Human Food Systems

The current state of human food production and consumption is in social, environmental, economic, and cultural crisis. This condition calls for a new perspective on food-world variables and their interactions, as well as a means to remedy emerging issues. Starting with a modified interpretation of gastronomy that encompasses the entire food realm both as we perceive it and create it, let us consider a new food-systems concept: intelligent gastronomy. What can we learn from biological, economic, or computing systems that might bring control and remediation mechanisms into our food production and consumption chains? And how might borrowing from game theory contribute to collaborative, rather than competitive, food-system models?

RON DOUGLAS' "Unseen Tears" Screening Feb. 18th

Unseen Tears: The Impact of Native American Residential Boarding Schools in WNY by Media Study MFA candidate Ron Douglas

7:00-9:30 p.m., Thursday, February 18
Bulger Communications, Building South
Buffalo State College
FREE!

First 100 attendees will receive a complimentary DVD of the documentary.

Information tables, 7-7:30 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.
Followed by a panel comprised of former boarding school residents, children/grandchildren of survivors, social workers, K-12 school counselors, and producers/director of the documentary.

Unseen Tears focuses on Western New York Native American communities that are attempting to heal the wounds and break the cycle of intergenerational trauma resulting from the boarding school experience.

This free event is co-sponsored by the SUNY Western Native American Consortium, Seneca Nation Tribal Council Office, Seneca Nation Health Department, Native American Student Organization and Student Social Work Organization (both funded by the USG mandatory student activity fee), Kappa Omega—Social Work Honor Society, and Native American Community Services.

Unseen Tears is produced by Native American Community Services and Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources.

DORKBOT BUFFALO

Thursday, February 4, 2010
7:30pm – 9:00pm
@
Sugar City
19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY
(Entrance at Side)

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=278551694372&ref=ts

After a short hibernation, (OK, it’s still winter) Dorkbot Buffalo returns to Sugar City this Thursday. Featuring presentations from Jax Deluca and Dino Husejnovic.

Presenter Bios:

Jax Deluca is an artist who lives in Buffalo, NY. Her sonic artwork has been designed for gallery and public installation, video and film, performance and theater productions. She teaches workshops in experimental and strategic sound-making at Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources.

Audio recording, sonic compositions, and live sound performance work contains use of vocal toning, electronic and handcrafted instruments, guitar, piano, and found objects ranging in the genres of classical, avant-garde, new folk, free improvisation, and immersive noise. Current projects include multi-dimensional sound paintings under the name of Communication Vault and live vocal and electronic sound processing with W ((aa)) ou w, a free improvisational group.

Jax will be talking about studio practice and will be demonstrating some of her technical processes.

www.myspace.com/communicationvault
www.myspace.com/pronouncedwow

Dino Husejnovic is an undergraduate Media Study student at the University at Buffalo. His interests include sound, video, interface design, social media, and user-generated content. Projects include interactive tilt-shift photography, soundscapes and collaborative location-aware sound mixing.

Dino will be presenting an interactive, participatory performance.

www.dinohusejnovic.com

Next Dorkbot:
Thursday, March 4
Stephanie Rothenburg
Cayden Mak
Paul Vanouse

UPDATE! – LALYA GAYE Lecture + Mobile Phone workshop

Lalya Gaye’s LECTURE has been moved to Friday, 11:30am in CFA 232.

The mobile phone workshop will run as scheduled TODAY (Thursday) at 7:00pm in CFA 246.

Both events will take place in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, UB

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Lecture, 11:30am – CFA Room 232:
Lalya Gaye discusses her work which “explores potentials of ubiquitous computing for everyday life aesthetic activities, and focuses in particular on locative media and mobile music technology”.

Workshop – 7:00pm – CFA Room 246:
***Limited Space — Please RSVP to Erik Conrad at erikconr@buffalo.edu if you are interested in attending***
This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the creation of media for mobile phones.

FRIDAY, December 4, 2009
Lecture, 11:30am – CFA Room 232:
Lalya Gaye discusses her work which “explores potentials of ubiquitous computing for everyday life aesthetic activities, and focuses in particular on locative media and mobile music technology”.

Lalya Gaye is an HCI/interaction designer, researcher and teacher, trained in engineering, who works in multidisciplinary projects at the convergence of art, technology and design.

In her research, she is interested in the relation between people and new technologies, in the context of contemporary culture and society: how to design new technologies that can challenge and inspire people creatively, and what aesthetic activities people come up with when having access to them. This covers a broad range of interests, from mobility and urban space, to aesthetic computer-mediated interactions such as electronic music making or digital photography, to physical interfaces and the integration of technology into everyday environments, artefacts and behaviours, i.e. ubiquitous computing. Her research explores in particular the potentials of mobile and ubiquitous computing for everyday life aesthetic practices and creative behaviours, and builds on mobile music, locative media and physical computing projects. She approaches her
research question with a combination of user-centred, body-centric and culturally grounded interaction design, of physical prototyping and of user studies in context.

For more information about Lalya Gaye’s work, please see:
www.daonk.org/people/lalya/

Digital Media Poetics presents JONATHAN MINTON

Monday, November 16, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
JONATHAN MINTON

All events will take place in the Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, North
Campus. Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center , Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and, in part, by Gender Week, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Series Curators: Loss Pequeño Glazier and Anna Scime.

SEE THE FULL SCHEDULE

Media Study presents Berlin artists MATHIAS JUD and CHRISTOPH WACHTER

Wachter / Jud (Honorary Mention ARS 2006, Honorary Mention Transmediale 2008, Winner Cynetart 2008) are in Buffalo as part of their first US tour this week. Wachter / Jud’s work visualizes forces we are subject to, but have no control over. They are the creators of Zone*Interdite, a community project that maps restricted military areas around the globe and unveiled secret prisons such as the children’s prison in Guantanamo or Bagram, Afghanistan as well as Picidae, a message passing system that converts texts into images and makes them illegible to common forms of filtering and censorship. Wachter / Jud will present their work at UB’s Department of Media Study and Sugar City on Tuesday November 17 (3pm and 9pm).

Presentation: Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo,
Center for the Arts 232, Tuesday, November 17, 3pm

Discussions: Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth St., Buffalo, Tuesday, November 17, 9pm

Both events are open to all. Limited seating available. Please arrive early.

Andrew Deselm returns for Psycho lecture

Andrew Deselm, MAH 2008, will be giving his lecture “Fixing Hitchcock” as part of Stefani Bardin’s Alfred Hitchcock class this coming Wednesday, November 18th at 5PM. We will be screening Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Hitchcock’s Psycho and having a discussion surrounding the stylistic approaches of each director and how remakes of Hitchcock help to illuminate his directorial style. This event is open to everyone and will take place in CFA 112.

Mr. Deselm is currently an adjunct professor at Indiana University-South Bend in the English department. He has given lectures on Psycho at Notre Dame and Indiana Tech.

dorkbot BUFFALO

dorkbot BUFFALO
Thursday, November 12, 2009
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY

This week’s Dorkbot will feature the following presentations:

Stefani Bardin – “The Pharmacology of Taste”
Evelyn Killaby – “Theremin as Computer Input Device”

Stefani Bardin is a media maker interested in the intersections of food, technology and science. By examining industrial food production and using such tools as artificial smells (that “flavor” our food supply) and gastroenterology technology Stefani looks at food as both a mediating agent and phenomenological reference point within our society and how its role has changed through the modern influences of technology and corporate culture.

Evelyn Killaby has recently graduated from the Computer Science department at the University at Buffalo and currently works as a web-based software engineer for Synacor, Inc. in downtown Buffalo. Among the many ideas floating around in her brain is the notion of building theremin-based computer input devices that branch into the realm of wearable computing and theremin-based desktop input devices that can be used for manipulating multidimensional data. In this presentation, Eve will demonstrate a proof-of-concept to show how input data is gathered through user interaction with a theremin and will briefly explain the physical phenomenon that makes this type of user interaction possible. Following this, she will present concept sketches pertaining to how we might re-envision the theremin as an advanced input device, leveraging its smart, cheap, and low-tech nature. This presentation will begin a series of critical appreciations of theremin-based innovations.

FRAUKE BEHRENDT: "Spaces Rubbing Together: De Certeau on a GPS Sound Walk"

The University at Buffalo, Department of Media Study is pleased to sponsor:

FRAUKE BEHRENDT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Room: CFA 232 (North Campus)
Title: Spaces Rubbing Together: De Certeau on a GPS Sound Walk

Talk will begin at 3:00 p.m. with questions and conversation until 5:00 p.m.
(inquiries: terirueb@buffalo.edu or erikconr@buffalo.edu)

Frauke’s blog: mobilesound.wordpress.com
Frauke’s CV

Frauke Behrendt is a researcher, historian and critical theorist interested in the role of sound in the areas of interactive art, locative media and mobile technology. She studies the increasing number of artists experimenting with mobile phones as means of audience participation in their sound/music-focused projects. Frauke is actively involved with the rapidly growing field of mobile music and is on the steering committee of the International Workshop of Mobile Music Technology. Currently she is completing her PhD at the Department of Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex, England. Frauke has presented her research at various international conferences and published her research both in English and German. Recently she presented a paper on “Sound Art on the Move” at the SoundAsArt Conference in Aberdeen and published the conference paper “Mobile Music Technology: Report on Emerging Community”, presented at the 2006 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-06) at the IRCAM Center in Paris. Her Master’s thesis was awarded a research prize on Digital Media and published as “Handymusik. Klangkunst und ‘mobile devices’ ” in Germany in 2004.

Frauke works on several commercial and governmental advisory committees to help steer progress in mobile and locative media. She has been appointed as Management Committee Member for Germany and is Chair of the Working Group “Interactive Art and Music”. Her work in Sonic Interaction Design is funded by COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research). Frauke is also a Member of the Centre for Material Digital Culture at Sussex, which aims to re-connect media studies with forms of thinking that have traditionally been marginal to the discipline, but which have been more centrally concerned with thinking through early techno-culture: in particular medium theory, cultural geography, and science and technology studies (STS). Frauke is also a Member of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Mobile Music Technology.

2 Events with Chris Carlsson

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CAMPUS EVENT:
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CHRIS CARLSSON
Friday Nov. 6th 1:00 pm
Center for the Arts 112 (University at Buffalo, North Campus)

Internationally-recognized author and activist Chris Carlsson lectures on Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!

Sponsored by Graduate Group in Cultural Studies, Humanities Institute and Media Study GSA.

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OFF-CAMPUS EVENT
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Seeds of the New Commons: Building the Future in the Present
Chris Carlsson in conversation with Justin Booth and Kirk Laubenstein
November, 6th 7:00 pm
Sugar City (19 Wadsworth – near Elmwwod and Allen)

Join Chris Carlsson (San Francisco-based activist, author and historian), Justin Booth (Green Options Buffalo, Buffalo Blue Bicycle) and Kirk Laubenstein (Grassroots Gardens) for a discussion on how the future is being built today, in Buffalo and beyond.

Chris Carlsson is the executive director of the multimedia history project
Shaping San Francisco, and has edited four collections of political and historical essays. He helped launch the monthly bike-ins known as Critical Mass, and was the longtime editor of Processed World magazine.

In his current book Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today, San Francisco-based activist and historian Chris Carlsson profiles practices that embody a deep challenge to the basic underpinnings of modern life, as a new ecologically driven politics emerges from below, reshaping our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential.

Justin Booth is the director and founder of Green Options Buffalo which has launched programs including Recycle-A-Bicycle, Blue Bicycle and the Commercial District Bicycle Parking Program. His focus has been on developing interventions focused upon enhancing quality of life through healthier built and natural environments.

Kirk Laubenstein is president of Grassroots Gardens, a community gardening program working with public and private sectors to revitalize neighborhoods and build quality of life through the reuse and beautification of vacant land.

This event is free and open to all ages.

Digital Media Poetics presents A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz

Monday, November 9, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
A. J. PATRICK LISZKIEWICZ

Monday, November 16, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
JONATHAN MINTON

All events will take place in the Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, North
Campus. Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center , Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and, in part, by Gender Week, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Series Curators: Loss Pequeño Glazier and Anna Scime.

SEE THE FULL SCHEDULE

Digital Media Poetics presents Sandy Baldwin

Monday, October 19, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
SANDY BALDWIN

Monday, November 9, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
A. J. PATRICK LISZKIEWICZ

Monday, November 16, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
JONATHAN MINTON

All events will take place in the Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, North
Campus. Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center , Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and, in part, by Gender Week, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Series Curators: Loss Pequeño Glazier and Anna Scime.

SEE THE FULL SCHEDULE

Dorkbot Buffalo Returns!

People doing strange things with electricity

Dorkbot Buffalo presents:
Erik Conrad
Luke Noonan
Scott Ries

Thursday, October 8, 2009
7:30pm – 9:30pm @ Sugar City
19 Wadsworth St., Buffalo, NY

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Digital Media Poetics presents Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries

As part of the Digital Media Poetics Events Series

Monday, October 5 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Monday, October 19, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
SANDY BALDWIN

Monday, November 9, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
A. J. PATRICK LISZKIEWICZ

Monday, November 16, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
JONATHAN MINTON

All events will take place in the Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, North
Campus. Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center , Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and, in part, by Gender Week, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Series Curators: Loss Pequeño Glazier and Anna Scime.

SEE THE FULL SCHEDULE

Digital Media Poetics presents Patricia Tomaszek

As part of the Digital Media Poetics Events Series

Wednesday, September 23 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
PATRICIA TOMASZEK, LORI EMERSON

Monday, October 5 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Monday, October 19, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
SANDY BALDWIN

Monday, November 9, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
A. J. PATRICK LISZKIEWICZ

Monday, November 16, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
JONATHAN MINTON

All events will take place in the Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, North
Campus. Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center , Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and, in part, by Gender Week, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Series Curators: Loss Pequeño Glazier and Anna Scime.

SEE THE DETAILED SCHEDULE

Digital Media Poetics Events Fall 2009

Fall 2009, Department of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo

Monday, September 21 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
ELIZABETH KNIPE, TAMMY MCGOVERN

Wednesday, September 23 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
PATRICIA TOMASZEK, LORI EMERSON

Monday, October 5 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Monday, October 19, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
SANDY BALDWIN

Monday, November 9, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
A. J. PATRICK LISZKIEWICZ

Monday, November 16, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
JONATHAN MINTON

All events will take place in the Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, North
Campus. Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center , Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and, in part, by Gender Week, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Series Curators: Loss Pequeño Glazier and Anna Scime.

SEE THE DETAILED SCHEDULE

Celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study

[NOTE: The second weekend of this event, originally scheduled for May 8-9 at Hallwalls, has been postponed.]

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Friday, May 1

• 2:00 PM: Welcome

  Vibeke Sorensen, Professor and Chair, Department of Media Study
  Bruce D. McCombe, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Physics

  Memories of Administrators

  Moderator: Marguerite Dorrity
  Louisa Bertch Green
  Christine E. Downing

• 3:30 PM Memories of Distinguished Early Visitors

  Moderator: Professor Brian Henderson
  Noël Carroll
  Vladimir Petric
  Robert Haller

• 7:30 PM Screening of Media Works by Early Students, 1973-1983

  Selected by Professor Tony Conrad

Saturday, May 2

• 10:00 AM Memories of Media Study Academics

  Moderator: Professor Peter Weibel
  Seth Feldman
  J. Ronald Green
  Scott Nygren
  Peter Lunenfeld

• 2:00 PM Presentations by Student Artists

  Moderators: Woody Vasulka and Steina
  Andrej Zdravic
  Arnold Dreyblatt
  Henry Jesionka
  Robert O’Kane

• 4:30 PM Memories of Teacher/Curators

  Moderator: John Minkowsky
  Alan Williams
  Bruce Jenkins
  Thom Andersen

• 7:30 PM Memories of the Founding Faculty

  Moderator: Professor Vibeke Sorensen

  Video Tributes to the Departed

  Paul Sharits
  Hollis Frampton
  James Blue

  Woody Vasulka
  Steina
  Brian Henderson
  Tony Conrad
  Peter Weibel
  Gerald O’Grady
  
  Complete biographies, lists of films, videos and other works, television interviews and bibliographies are published in Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, editors, BUFFALO HEADS – MEDIA STUDY, MEDIA PRACTICE, MEDIA PIONEERS, 1973-1990 (ZKM/Center for Arts and Media , Karlsruhe, Germany and The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008), 839 pages

• 9:00 PM Reception for Founding Faculty
  
  

Sunday, May 3

• 10:00 AM Memories of Graduates, Now Chairs

  Moderator: Dr. Gerald O’Grady
  Barry Keith Grant
  Peer Bode
  Vibeke Sorensen
  Anthony Bannon

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PARTICIPANTS:
Anthony Bannon is Director of the George Eastman House at Rochester, New York
Peer Bode is an independent maker and Chair at Alfred University
Marguerite Doritty was Assistant to the Chair, Department of Media Study
Christine Downing was an administrator at the Center for Media Study, the Coordinator of OVRMAC, and of the Ohio Council on Arts, and Vice President of the Boston Film and Video Foundation
Arnold Dreyblatt is an independent media maker from Germany
Seth Feldman is Director of the Robards Centre for Canadian Studies and a Professor in the Department of Film and Video at York University, and the author of books on Vertov, the documentary, etc.
J. Ronald Green is Professor, Department of Film Studies at Ohio State University, and the author of two books on Oscar Micheaux
Louisa Bertch Green worked at the Center for Media Study and is now an administrator at the Columbus Museum, Ohio
Robert Haller is Director of Collections and Special Projects at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, the former Director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and the author of many books on Jim Davis, Ed Emshwiller, Stan Brackhage, etc.
Henry Jesionka taught at Simon Fraser University, the Department of Media Study and is an independent filmmaker living in New York City
Peter Lunenfeld is Professor of Design/Media Arts at UCLA, and the author of three books on the digital arts
Jonas Mekas is a filmmaker, the founder of Anthology Film Archives and the former film critic for the Village Voice
Annette Michelson is Professor Emerita at the Graduate Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, and the Founding Editor of October
Scott Nygren is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville and the author of a book on Japanese cinema
Robert O’Kane is an independent media maker and designer from Cologne, Germany – the designer of Media Frames at ZKM
Vladimir Petric is the Luce Professor of Film Studies at Harvard University and Founding Curator of the Harvard Film Archive
Vibeke Sorensen is an independent media maker and Chair of the Department of Media Study
Andrej Zdravic is an independent film and media maker from Slovenia

FOUNDING FACULTY PARTICIPANTS:
Thom Andersen is Professor of Film Criticism at the California Institute of the Arts, and an independent documentary filmmaker
Tony Conrad is Professor in the Department of Media Study
Berry Keith Grant is Professor of Film and Popular Culture at Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, and the author of books on documentary film
Brian Henderson is Professor in the Department of Media Study
Bruce Jenkins is Professor of Film and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the editor of a recent collection of Hollis Frampton’s writings
John Minkowsky is an independent writer and the Founding Curator of Video, Electronic Arts and New Music at Media Study/Buffalo
Gerald O’Grady is the Founding Director of the Department of Media Study and an independent scholar
Steina is an independent video maker from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a pioneer in video making
Woody Vasulka is a pioneer video maker, the Founder of the Kitchen and lives in Santa Fe
Peter Weibel is Director of the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologies in Karlsruhe, Germany, the author of many books, and an independent maker
Alan Williams is Professor of French and Film at Rutgers University and the author of books on French Cinema

Jeff Kleiser, Visual Effects Supervisor, CEO and Cofounder Synthespian Studios, presents April 13, 2009

“Computer Animation and Visual Effects in Feature Films and Experimental Theatre: From Tron to the Present”
Monday April 13 2009, 3:00pm CFA 112

This presentation will look back at the history of computer generated animation and follow the seminal trends that have brought us to the incredible current state of the art. Beginning with Digital Effects, a company founded by Mr. Kleiser and others in 1978, behind the scenes imagery from Tron, Judge Dredd, Stargate, Flight of the Navigator, X-Men, Fantastic Four and others will be featured. Included will be work produced at Omnibus Computer Animation, Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company, and Synthespian Studios. This talk will also discuss the digital opera, Monsters of Grace, a collaboration with theatre director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass.

Jeff Kleiser’s pioneering work in computer animation has spanned the history of the medium. With partner Diana Walczak, Kleiser has directed CG-animated stereoscopic films for projects such as the Thea and EDDY Award-winning Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man thrill ride (for Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, Florida); the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson digital opera, Monsters of Grace, Santa Lights Up New York for “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular,” and Corkscrew Hill an original ride attraction written by Kleiser and Walczak for Busch Entertainment. He has also contributed to films with groundbreaking visual effects including Tron, Stargate, Judge Dredd, Clear and Present Danger, Mortal Kombat Annihilation, X-Men, X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand. He served as senior visual effects supervisor on The One, a film starring martial arts master Jet Li that required the development of innovative digital face replacement techniques. More recently, Kleiser supervised visual effects for Son of the Mask, Fantastic Four and Scary Movie 4. In addition to supervising visual effects projects, Kleiser has directed numerous commercials.

Jeff Kleiser has presented papers at many international events including the London Effects and Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH, INA Imagina, NAB, Opera Totale and the Virtual Humans Conference. He has served as an industry expert in interviews with The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The ABC Evening News. Kleiser has served on the board of directors of the Visual Effects Society and of The Norman Rockwell Museum. He is a founder and trustee of the Williamstown Film Festival and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Kleiser also teaches computer animation at Williams College.

Al Larsen @ Media In Transition 6

DMS instructor Al Larsen (MFA ’09) will be presenting a paper at the Media In Transition 6 conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 24-26. The paper addresses the cultural logic of Web 2.0 and is titled, “Showing and Sharing on a Saturday Night: Participatory Dynamics in Real Space Event Series”.

Master Class with Ishu Patel

DMS Animation Master Class with Ishu Patel, March 16 – April 3.

Class times are tentatively set for Monday – Friday 6pm – 10pm in room 278.

Ishu Patel presents his award winning work in animation in the Department of Media Study.

Wednesday, March 25 from 5 – 8:30 PM in UB-North Campus CFA Room 112

One of the most important living animators and professors of animation in the world, Ishu Patel, will be teaching a rare Master Class in Animation from March 16 – April 4, 2009 in the Department of Media Study. His in-depth knowledge and mastery of a wide range of cutting edge animation techniques has made important contributions to the language and art of animation internationally. He is distinguished by 25 years as a major animator at the National Film Board of Canada, world renowned for experimental animation, as well as by 2 prestigious Academy Award nominations and his substantial academic experience as a Full Professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

Links to some of his current work:
http://www.bdm.net/United_commercials.html
http://www3.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/filmmakers/Ishu-Patel/overview.php