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Please join the artists from the Advanced Digital Arts Production Course at the
exhibition of their amazing final projects!
The event will be at 20 Auburn Avenue (at Niagara Street) at the former Kitchen
Distribution Space on Friday April 25th from 5pm - 9pm.
We'll have lots to eat and drink and a plethora of video, performance, digital,
sound, installation and interactive work!
Bangarang: A One-Night Sound Art Happening is a public exhibition of final projects from DMS 215, Intro to Sound, this Saturday at Gallery 1716. Intro to Sound is a basic undergraduate level course designed to give students a theoretical, historical, and practical introduction to sound as a creative medium. The students’ sound projects include sculptural installations, live performance, immersive soundscapes, participatory installations and soundwalk.
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Film Screening: Drums of Winter: Uksuum Cauyai
Directed by Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling
April 17, Thursday, 1:30-3:00 Center for the Arts, Room 112, main floor of Atrium.
Prof. Sarah Elder of the Dept. of Media Study is presenting her award winning feature documentary, Drums of Winter: Uksuum Cauyai, (1988) which focuses on the traditions of the Alaska Yup'ik Eskimo people and their music, dance, spiritual world, and the attempts by 19th and 20th century missionaries to suppress traditional dancing. Last year, Drums of Winter was named among a select group of films to the prestigious National Film Registry in the Library of Congress. Each year only 25 films are selected for inclusion to the Registry, which spans some 85 years of Hollywood classics, independent film, documentaries, experimental and animated film. The number of films honored in the Registry now totals 450.
"The annual selection of films to the National Film Registry involves far more than the simple naming of cherished and important films to a prestigious list," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. “Rather, it is an invaluable means to advance public awareness of the richness, creativity and variety of American film heritage and to dramatize the need for its preservation," he said. "The selection of a film recognizes its importance to American movie and cultural history, and to history in general. The registry stands among the finest summations of more than a century of wondrous American cinema” Beginning in the 1970’s, Elder pioneered a community-collaborative approach to ethnographic film in which the indigenous people she films share in the filmmaking decisions and determine the film's themes, events and topics. "Drums of Winter," which Elder directed and produced with Leonard Kamerling, has received numerous national and international juried awards and exhibitions including First Prize at the American Film Festival, the Award of Excellence from the American Anthro. Assoc. and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Cinemateque Francaise, Mead, Freiburg Film Forum, Musee de L'Homme, Arte TV- European Cultural Network, Institut Lumière,Lyon, France, Parliament of World Religion, Barcelona, and the Smithsonian Institution. A UB Celebration of Excellence event.
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Digital Media Poetics Series April 14 -16
CHARLES BALDWIN
April 14 Mon., 4-6 pm, 112 CFA
"Performing Avatars in First and Second Life"
April 15 Tues., 3:30-6:30 pm, 232 CFA
"Logging on and Getting Off: Writing the Subject of the Net"
Sandy Baldwin (Ph.D, New York University) is Director of the Center for
Literary Computing at West Virginia University. The CLC is increasingly
prominent in its field and is engaged with ongoing collaborations with
the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo, including co-organizating
and hosting recent E-Poetry Festivals and Symposia. Baldwin's research
focuses on digital literature, especially poetry, and on the cultural
studies of new media. Forthcoming books are on nanotechnology and
cultural theory, on the analog and digital (with Alan Sondheim), and on
codework and poetics. Baldwin is Assistant Professor of English at WVU.
Recent creative work, featured in multimedia publications and as the
subject of essays and conference papers, focuses on interactive spatial
poetry in computer game environments and hybrids of machinima, video,
and codework.
STEPHANIE GRAY
April 16, Weds., 3-5 pm, 112 CFA
Poetry Reading/Film Screening
Stephanie Gray is a poet and filmmaker, whose films often have poem
voiceovers. Formerly of Buffalo, now of NYC, her first poetry
collection, Heart Stoner Bingo was published in December 2007 by
Philly/NYC-based indie press Straw Gate Books. Her work has appeared in
the Poetry Project's (NYC) Recluse magazine, and online in Press 1,
canwehaveourballback?, and Lodestar Quarterly. She was a featured reader
in the Poetry Project's late night Friday performance series in January
2007 where she read poems live with films, and she also read at the last
three Poetry Project marathons. She is also an experimental super 8
filmmaker whose work has screened internationally, and for which she
received a New York Foundation Arts Fellowship in Film in 2003. Her film
Dear Joan is distributed by Frameline. She is currently pursuing an MFA
with a focus in poetry in at Long Island University’s new MFA program
headed by Lewis Warsh. At U.B. Gray will read poems from her new book
and will also read live several poems from the book that are also
voiceovers to super 8 films - the real super 8 films will be screened
while Gray reads.
Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center
Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo
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+ Visiting Artist Lecture - Brian House +
Thursday, March 27 @ 7pm
CFA 232
http://brianhouse.net/
Brian House is an artist, programmer, and conceptual bricoleur investigating how people learn, create self-narratives, and relate to everyday spaces. His work has been presented by MoMA, The New Museum for Contemporary Art / Rhizome.org, The Beall Center, Stockholms Kulturhust, Art Interactive, Glowlab, STEIM, and Dorkbot, and has been featured in the New York Times, Dagens Nyheter, and Wired Magazine.
All are welcome!
Mark Deuze and Howard Rheingold
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Deuze is the author of Media Work.
Date:
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Time:
11:00am - 12:50pm
Location:
CFA 112
Mark Deuze's research focuses on the working lives of professionals in the
global media industries (film, TV, video games, advertising, and
journalism), and shows that careers in the media industry are not open,
inclusive, or a free for all‚ as often suggested in the popular press.
It is a cut-throat and precarious business where the feminine‚ qualities you
need to get in-- excellent communication and social skills, a talent for
team work -- are the same that will keep you from moving to the
(male-dominated) top. Furthermore, digital media - think YouTube, Wikipedia,
Ohmynews - threaten to make the work and role of media professionals
obsolete, as creative production gets increasingly outsourced to consumers.
What makes this research relevant on a broader scale is the fact that the
working lives of media professionals are looked at by all other industries
as pioneer-models for the management and organization of labor in the global
cultural economy.
Mark has a joint appointment as Professor of Journalism and New Media at
Leiden University in The Netherlands and at the Department of
Telecommunications in Bloomington, Indiana. As a journalist he has worked
for newspapers, magazines and websites in the United States, The
Netherlands, and South Africa. As bassist/singer of the metal-band
Skinflower he has toured extensively throughout The Netherlands, Belgium,
and Germany.
Deuze's visit is supported by the Department of Media Study.
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On Thursday, I'll be in conversation with Howard Rheingold (Internet pioneer
and author of Smart Mobs) via videoconference.
Date:
Tuesday, February 14, 2008
Time:
12:00pm - 12:50pm
Location:
CFA 112
Howard's vlog
http://vlog.rheingold.com/
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Friday, February 1st 2008 in the Black Box Theatre at the University at
Buffalo’s Center for the Arts. There will be two performances: 7pm and
9pm. Admission is free.
An encore presentation of our sold-out Fall concert ... mark your calendars!
An Evening of Digital Poetry & Dance, directed by Loss Pequeño Glazier,
Associate Professor of Media Study and Melanie Aceto, Assistant
Professor of Dance.
Choreographers and media poets present work exploring the intersections
between digital poetry & dance. This interdisciplinary performance
includes both choreographed and improvisational dance, projected images,
chance poetry and live poetry readings.
Choreographers include Melanie Aceto and Tressa Gorman Crehan.
Poets include Loss Pequeno Glazier, Melissa Berman, and a work by Robert Creeley
Lisa Jane Davis Camille P. Garcia TaTiana Koroleva Masha_sha
Gautam Malik G. Douglas Barrett Francesco Gagliardi Lindsey L. Lodhie
justin chouinard Jessica Thompson d'olivier delrieu-schulze
Part 1: November 09 – 11, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday November 9, 7:00 – 10:00 PM, Performance at
9 PM
Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12 – 5 PM
Part 2: November 16 – 18, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday November 16, 7:00 – 10:00 PM, Performance at
9 PM
Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12 – 5 PM
collisionscollusions is a 2-part exhibition of time-based works in Film, Performance,
Video, Experimental music, and Networked actions. The exhibiting artists of
collisions|collusions are part of “Installation (Temporalities)” a
graduate-level course taught by Caroline Koebel in the Department of Media
Study, University at Buffalo. The exhibition at Big Orbit continues the course’s
tradition of presenting artworks outside the classroom, within various locations
in the Greater Buffalo Area. Previous exhibitions have been held in the Mead
Library, on the 25th floor of Buffalo City Hall and at the Asbury-Delaware
Church.
collisionscollusions is sponsored by Big Orbit Gallery, the University at
Buffalo Department of Media Study, the Graduate Student Association, and the
Graduate Student Associations of the Department of Media Study, the Department
of Music and the Department of Comparative Literature.
A SENSE OF PLACE: TED LYMAN
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and the University at Buffalo are pleased
to welcome Vermont based filmmaker Ted Lyman to Buffalo. Lyman has been engaged
with experimental filmmaking since the early 70s, creating films inspired
by the American Avant-Garde. Through his ensuing career he has maintained
a belief in the power of the extraordinary syntax of the moving image exposed
and explored by that movement. The overall strategy of his filmmaking is
to use the syntax in ways that are legible and illuminating to the general
viewer. While his works differ in content and appearance, they all are founded
on a sense of place, interaction with nature, and a commitment to expression
by visual, non-narrative means.
Thursday, November 1, 8PM
TED LYMAN RETROSPECTIVE
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo
$7 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 members
Survey of films spanning the last 30 years of the filmmaker’s practice:
Scotland with No Clothes (1977), Fla.Me (1982), Testament of the Rabbit (1989),
First Surface (1996), and Flat Earth (work in progress). http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts_11.html
Friday, November 2, Noon
TED LYMAN WORKSHOP
The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study
Center for the Arts, Room 286
Workshop opening with a screening of Mansacts (1979).
Curated and organized by Caroline Koebel, Assistant Professor of Media Study,
and Carolyn Tennant, Director of Media Arts at Hallwalls.
Contact: carolyn@hallwalls.org / cgkoebel@buffalo.edu
Co-sponsored by Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, the UB Department of Media
Study, the UB College of Arts and Sciences, and the Experimental Television
Center.
CITY FILM BERLIN
New York - Millennium Film Workshop - 66 E. 4th Street
Saturday, October 20, 8PM
Situated at a crossroads, City Film Berlin is a multidirectional program of
new cinema by Caroline Koebel. The filmmaker shot the two featured titles
Berlin Warszawa Express and Alex, Wait! while living as a pregnant artist in
Berlin. These works traverse performance and film, documentation and
intervention, seriality and narrative, rhythm and stillness, tourist
snapshot and meditative portrait, the city film genre and conceptual art.
They re-site the kino eye in the protruding belly, the filmmaker becoming
a
visible body and a body of vision. Inverse to Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin:
Symphony of A City in which the camera was hidden in order to capture the
metropolis in its authenticity, in these films the spectacle of the
filmmaker as public maternal body casts shadow enough on the camera in
effect to conceal it.
The program also includes a collaboration with Katherine Crockett of the
Martha Graham Dance Company, a reenactment of a 1968 action by Valie Export
and Peter Weibel starring Tony Conrad and Bernadette Wegenstein, and
two
16mm shorts.
Black Box Theatre
Center for the Arts
Amherst Campus
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Choreographers, dancers, media poets, and a composer will explore the intersections
between digital poetry & dance in a program of improvisational interdisciplinary
performances. Program organized by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Melanie
Aceto.
Poets/Choreographers include Kerri Kieser/Jeanne Fornarola, Loss Pequeño
Glazier/Melanie Aceto, & Melissa Berman/Tressa Gorman Crehan working with
20+ dancers among 4 works, including an arrangement of a Robert Creeley poem.
Come and see the best of both worlds, united for a unique program!
Admission free.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Media Study and the Dept. of Theatre & Dance,
SUNY Buffalo.
--
Elliot Caplan and the American Ballet Theater in The Wall Street Journal.
Responsive Architecture Opens at the UB Art Gallery, Second Floor Gallery
Thursday, April 5 at 5pm University at Buffalo - Center for the Arts
Brian Diesel, Clanking Replicator, 2006, rubber, acrylic, bend sensors,
motor
The UB Art Gallery is pleased to present Responsive Architecture. The work
in this exhibition explores the possibilities offered by sensing,
interpreting, and actuating technologies for the design of responsive
objects and spaces. By integrating computational technologies into the
material fabric of everyday situations, these prototypes look at new ways in
which we might interact with each other and our surroundings. The
heightened awareness and responsiveness offered by such systems pose new
challenges for both architecture and the media arts.
The work was carried out within the context of two architectural studios and
one seminar - Sense Space conducted by Prof. Omar khan in Fall 2005, Between
Now and There: Databodies and Sentient Spaces, and Physical Computing
conducted by Prof. Mark Shepard, Spring and Fall of 2006.
These courses are one component of the newly formed dual degree program
between the departments of Architecture and Media Study. The aim of the
program is to provide a critical context for an experimental practice
addressing contemporary confluences of architecture and computational media.
The UB Art Galleries and The Intermedia Performance Studio
Invite you to:
HUMAN TRAILS
Thursday Feb 15th 2007
UB Art Gallery, Second Floor, Center for the Arts
Reception at 5:00 and performance at 5:30
Free and Open to the Public
Human Trials is a virtual drama; a public/private and
embodied/disembodied performance, with live actors, virtual actors,
avatars and virtual, dynamic sets. http://www.ccr.buffalo.edu/anstey/VDRAMA/HUMAN
The exhibition MindFrames celebrates a unique context, specifically a geographic
and time-bound situation within which a mixture of brilliant avant-garde film
makers and video artists, under the leadership of a media visionary, found
themselves together in one place, where for the first time a department of
media art was created within a university setting.
