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

Fluid Borders: Anna Scime

Fluid Borders by Anna Scime
Location: Front window of Space 224, Allen Street, Buffalo, NY
Date: November 4th, 2011 – November 30th, 2011
Time: From dusk until dawn

A videographic essay in three parts, fluid borders paints an atmospheric portrait of the city of Buffalo’s interaction with its surrounding river and stream bodies. Focusing on three main areas – the Buffalo River, Niagara Strait, and Scajaquada Creek – this piece surveys the land surrounding these water bodies, their surfaces, and what lies underneath. An endless stream of binaries is presented between past and present, dry and wet landscapes, animal and human populations, ecology and culture, the surface and the submerged, and the polluted and the pristine.

Part 1: everybody lives downstream travels through the Buffalo River from its origin at the confluence of Cayuga and Buffalo Creeks to the Central Wharf.
Part 2: black rock, pink sky travels up and down the Niagara Strait from Buffalo’s Outer Harbor to the Grand Island Bridge.
Part 3: sunvein travels along Scajaquada Creek, popping in and out of the water from Forest Lawn to the Black Rock Canal.

Anna Scime is a Buffalo-based multimedia artist, working primarily in video and film. She is an MFA candidate in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo.
Sponsored in part by The Baird Foundation, Microsoft Research, UB Humanities Institute, and UB College of Arts & Sciences.

For more information, please visit: http://www.fluidculture.org/
An open reception will be help at Space 224 on Friday, November 4th from 7-10pm.

EXCHANGE STORIES SYMPOSIUM at Hallwalls

Exchange Stories Symposium
A one-day symposium, free and open to the public

Sunday, March 20th from 3 – 6 pm
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202

Exchange Stories:
Economics, Labor, and Interchange Explored in the Moving Image

How can we use make and use media to envision the ever-shifting connections of global economics?

Exchange Stories seeks to explore how current economies are being represented in contemporary European video and film. Incorporating the films of several artists, this seminar will examine different forms of economic practice as forms of cultural practice, raising questions such as how economic practice operates in contemporary cultures. The film program employs a wide range of approaches including experimental, documentary, auto-ethnographic and vérité strategies, which sometimes analytically, sometimes ironically deal with these topics. The presented films each individually try to activate new forms of understanding and “doing” or “thinking” economy.

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PEEPSHOW 2011: It’s Complicated

PEEPSHOW 2011: It’s Complicated – Squeaky Wheel’s high-energy fundraising art party & art-stravaganza!
When: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 8:00 p.m. – 1:00a.m.
Where: DNIPRO Ukrainian Center (562 Genesee St.)
Price: $15 pre-sale and $20 at door price ($15 for students w/ ID)

Squeaky Wheel is at it again! On February 26th, this Buffalo based media arts center is hosting their annual fundraiser showcase this year at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center. This unique multi-level venue will be the jam-packed with works of art from over 40 artists, featuring a massive dose of live music performances, an art auction, and interactive art projects such as an auto-playing musical instrument consisting of 12 vibrating dildos by Brian Larson Clark, 50-foot-long kinetic sculptures crafted from flexible tubes containing intelligent lights that moves with the rhythm of the music by Joel Resnikoff and even a human mirror ball. Purchase your tickets today and become part of the fun and games this year.

For those of you interested to get the first crack at the art auction, get a ticket for the Peepshow PEEP! Pre-party from 7:00-8:00pm. Pre-party tickets are available online and include adjacent parking, first bid at the art auction, complimentary cocktails, authentic Ukrainian hors d’oeuvres, a VIP video screening at 8:00pm, and music by After Hours.

Advance tickets will be sold for $15 at Squeaky Wheel, Café Taza, Sweetness 7, Talking Leaves and online.

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BEYOND/IN WESTERN NY 2010 starts TONIGHT!

A curatorial collaboration of twelve regional museums and galleries, Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents is a contemporary, multi-venue arts exhibition. It will present the work of outstanding artists from Western New York and Southern Ontario, Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Pennsylvania and for the first time, feature the work of artists from outside the region, blurring the local with the global and challenging the assumptions of what these distinctions mean today, when all artists are both.

Beyond/In kicks off this evening, Thursday, September 23, 2010 with a high-wire walk at the Liberty Building by reknown French tight-rope walker, Didier Pasquette.

Featuring the participation of many artists affiliated with the Department of Media Study including: Josephine Anstey, Jordan Dalton, Elyse Harzynski, Barbara Lattanzi, Carl Lee, Luke Noonan, Dave Pape, Cayden Mak, Brian Milbrand, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, Anna Scime, Mark Shepard, Jessica Thompson, members of virocode and more.

http://beyondinwny.org/

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.)

Artists & Models: STIMULUS, May 1, 2010

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center presents the 22nd incarnation of Artists & Models: STIMULUS, a rousing evening of art installations, performances and live music at the Rock Harbor Yard, 57 Tonawanda St., Buffalo. This year features the work of Media Study grad students, alumni and faculty including work by 404 Error (Anna Scime, Isaac Johnson, Liz Chow, Josh Parkins, James Boatwright, Scott Ries, Olivier Delrieu-Schulze, John Fink, Brian Clark), Al Larsen, Vincenzo Mistretta and Tammy McGovern, among others.

Visit Hallwalls to learn more. They are also looking for volunteers!

Center for the Moving Image announces "Bridge Project" student grant awards

Seven DMS graduate students have been awarded grants through the Center for the Moving Image (CMI) in the Department of Media Study to support individual films based on their participation in “The Bridge: An International Art Initiative”.

Last spring the CMI hosted Richard Foreman, a pioneer of American avant-garde theater, and his collaborator Sophie Haviland for an intensive two week film and theater production at the Ukrainian Center in Buffalo. The footage created from that project is now part of “The Bridge”, which has been to nine countries conducting similar workshops. The students will be using the footage made in Buffalo to create their own films.

The seven grant recipients for 2009-10 are: Anna Scime ($1000), Scott Ries ($1000), Kerri Kieser ($1000), Yuichiro Yamada ($1000), Olivier Delrieu-Schulze ($1000), Loren Sonnenberg ($1000), and Brett Williams ($500). A screening of their work will be held in Buffalo and New York City next spring.

Emmy award-winning filmmaker Elliot Caplan, Artistic Director of the CMI and UB professor of Media Study said, “We were the first location chosen in the United States for this prestigious and far-reaching project. We are thrilled that our students will be able to contribute to its continued success and capitalize on this opportunity by producing another generation of work.”

The grants were made possible through the generous support of the Liberace Foundation and the Dean’s Office in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information on The Bridge: http://www.bridgefilm.com/Site/INDEX/INDEX.html

&NOW: Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts

The 4th Biennial &Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts will be held in Buffalo, NY from October 14-17, 2009.

The &Now Festival explores intersections between creative and critical praxes, examines innovative and experimental acts of writing, and advances a serious inquiry into theories of language.

Panel: “POETICS ACROSS MEDIA”
featuring Media Study students Anna Scime (poetics of moving images) and Adam Liszkiewicz (poetics of video games) and Media Study faculty Josephine Anstey (virtual reality and stream of consciousness), and Loss Pequeño Glazier (language arts practice).

“Poetics Across Media” proposes to examine innovative incursions of the poetic into and across media. Through analyses of digital/poetry, film, video games, and virtual reality, this panel hopes to expand and better delineate the potentials of contemporary literature.

Moderator/co-moderator: Loss Pequeño Glazier/Adam Liszkiewicz.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009,
8:00-8:50 pm, Hallwalls Cinema (340 Delaware Ave, Buffalo).

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