LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL

Language to Cover A Wall

Digital Poetry 2011-2012 Exhibition
When: November 17, 2011- February 18, 2012
Where: UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts,
Second Floor Gallery, University at Buffalo
Curator: Loss Pequeño Glazier

Digital Poetry and Dance
Date: Friday, February 3, 2012
Time: 7:30 & 9:00 pm
Where: Black Box Theater, Center for the Arts
Admission: $10 at the door
Kerry Ring, Dance Director
A special performance of select works from the exhibition, choreographed, with the participation of digital poets in residence. Please arrive 1/2 hour early for seating.

Digital Poetry Spectacular
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012
Time: 3:30 – 9:00 pm
Where: UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts
Admission: Free
@ 3:30 pm – E-Lit Across Borders Panel in Center for the Arts Room 232
Artists talk about gallery works by visiting artists and interdisciplinary humanities
(Amaranth Borsuk, Nestor Cabrera, Jason Lewis, Ian Hatcher).
@ 5:00 pm – Open Gallery
Converse with artists about works in the gallery
@ 6:00 pm – Reception
Across from gallery entrance, in front of Center for the Arts Room 112
@ 7:30 pm – Digital Poetry in Performance
An evening of live outstanding digital poets in the Lightwell Gallery.
(Loss Pequeño Glazier, Ian Hatcher, Tammy McGovern, Jason Lewis, David Jhave Johnston).

Co-sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center, Department of Media Study and Department of Theatre & Dance. Thanks to Canadian-American Studies Committee, Melodia E. Jones Chair, Québec Province (PIRQ) 2011-2013.

Poets-in-Residence: David Jhave Johnston and Ian Hatcher
Assistant to the Curator, Digital Poetry Exhibition: Joseph Dante

For more information please visit: http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/wall/.

“Improvising Consciousness” by The Intermedia Performance Studio

Let us (temporarily) steal your mind! Explore cognition through time!

Improvising Consciousness – Performative Lectures & Interactive Workshops presented by The Intermedia Performance Studio

Performative Lectures: Friday Jan 6 & 13 at 7:00 pm

Interactive Workshops: Saturday Jan 7 & 14, 10 am-1 pm & 2 pm-5 pm; Sunday Jan 8 & 15, 12 pm-3 pm

Improvising Consciousness is a performative lecture and interactive workshop that explores cognition as historically contingent. The lecture introduces different theories of mind including: Julian Jaynes’ radical hypothesis that that the minds of pre-historic humans were configured bicamerally with a god-side and a man-side and that early humans literally heard voices of gods in their heads; Stone and Chase’s provocative insinuation that the contemporary mind grounds out in multiple personality; Baron-Cohen’s stark theory that autism is an extreme of the male mind and that autistics lack a theory of mind. The exercises in the interactive workshop temporarily steal the participants’ minds and support phenomenological experience of alternative mind configurations.

All meetings are in collaboration with the Subversive Theater Collective and will take place at the Manny Fried Playhouse, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, Buffalo, New York

Admission is FREE and open to the public!

Event Website: http://ips.buffalo.edu/?p=255

Ocular Degenerate: Derek Farkas

In the first public exhibition of his work, Derek Farkas, UB Visual Studies/Media Study Undergraduate and interdisciplinary artist, will present a two night screening titled Ocular Degenerate.

To be held at:
Rust Belt Books
202 Allen St., Buffalo, NY
December 8th and 9th, 2011
Opening Thursday, December 8 at 6 PM

The event will feature a multi-channel video installation utilizing a collection of retro televisions and videocassettes. In highlighting the minutiae of these mediums, the decaying elements are presented within an environment of discordant VHS sourced loops accompanied by an animated projection. The asynchronous elements of the piece are intended to dissect societal delineations, and in doing so, demystify the artificial veneer in modern notions of free will.

The Spines Project: Chris Caporlingua

Caporlingua’s thesis exhibition, arising from his research on optics and the processes for geometry and sequence in recorded media, centers around a system that produces variable and immersive perspectives in images for individual viewers from regularly shot video.

The Spines Project
at Sugar City
December 10th from 6pm to 10pm

14 DAYS IN AFRICA: A video & text installation by Samuel Avery

Avery’s most recent documentary film project took him across the ocean into Sub-Saharan Africa where he focused his lens on a fellow student filmmaker, a Burundian refugee named Rheli Mugisha. In this narrative-nonfiction installation Mr. Avery and his crew reveal their misconceptions around ‘documenting’ the life of their African protagonist and embark on a very reflexive journey that addresses the (ir)responsibility of a being a filmmaker and the inevitable subjective separation between maker and subject.

where:
Main(St)udios
515 Main St.
Buffalo, NY

when:
Dec. 9th
6pm to 8pm

Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier

When: Sunday, December 11, 2011 @ 3pm
Where: Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY
Featuring: Anna Scime, John Fink & Vincenzo Mistretta

Please join us for the premiere screening of  four new short documentaries produced through Squeaky Wheel’s Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier initiative. Channels pairs area filmmakers with activist groups to produce videos about significant issues impacting our communities. This year’s projects highlight Buffalo’s water and air quality, the Peace Bridge expansion project, and community building on the city’s East Side.

The Videos:
Everyone Lives Downstream by Anna Scime & Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
This video examines the history of this city’s complicated relationship with the Buffalo River – the way we continue to alter this body of water through industrial exploitation as well as remediation and restoration efforts.

Living in the Shadow of the Bridge by Mark Barner & Niagara Gateway Columbus Park Association / Buffalo West Side Environmental Defense Fund
This video depicts the negative impact that the uncertainty the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority’s constantly changing expansion plans has on the quality of life, property value, and the health of West Side residents.

Reclamation by John Fink & the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection
This video focuses on an inclusive community centered around this 100 year old congregation that has been continually adapting to challenges facing the health, safety, and economic stability of their often neglected neighborhood.

You Are Where You Live by Vincenzo Mistretta & the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York
This video chronicles the personal stories of the Clean Air Coalition’s fight for the people’s right to a healthy environment.

Channels 2011 is generously supported by the Nathan Cummings Foundation

A Matter of Scale: David Mauzy

A Matter of Scale
Show and Presentation by Dave Mauzy

When: Monday, December 5th @ 6-10pm
Where: Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201

A Matter of Scale is a 3d virtual environment that is constructed to show the difference in certain elements of physics, in this case how an object behaves when kicked or nudged, at three scales. macro scale (kicking a ball), micro scale (nudging a pollen grain) and nano scale (needle interacting with a virus).  While not really a game environment, it is meant to show a fusion of game technology and teaching and how important possibilities exist within the idea of using technology thought of as game technology for teaching and learning purposes.

There will be a presentation segment about the science behind the physics involved and about the ideas behind coupling technologies normally seen as gaming technologies to a learning environment. The project itself will be discussed and available for attendees to “play”. The “play” sessions will run at 6pm and 8pm.