Anna Scime’s doc screens at Buffalo’s Choices and Challenges

Saturday, February 25, 2012, 2–5 pm
Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium
Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222

Buffalo’s Choices and Challenges, hosted by the Center for Economic and Policy Studies at Buffalo State College in cooperation with Artvoice, begins on February 25 with a screening of Anna Scime’s film Everyone Lives Downstream (2011), a documentary created as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier, in partnership with Riverkeeper. The film traces the roots of today’s Army Corps of Engineers dredging project on the Buffalo River. More info.

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…

LECTURE ON THE WEATHER: JOHN CAGE IN BUFFALO

@ the BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER
January 23 – February 14, 2010
In the East Gallery and Project Space

Opening Celebration:
Friday, January 22, 2010 from 5:30-8:30pm

Featuring, among others, work and performances by Media Study’s Tony Conrad and Elliot Caplan.

This continuous 23-day performance of sound, music, film and lectures composed and performed by those who studied with, were influenced by or knew the composer during his 30+ visits to Buffalo from 1966-1991. The ongoing art happening with its choreographed interplay of live and taped performances transforms the cavernous East Gallery.

Download the 23-day performance schedule

with works by: John Cage, Michael Basinski, John Bacon, Brian Milbrand, Andrew Deutsch, Kyle Price, J.T. Rinker, Tom Kostusiak, Jeff Proctor, John Toth, Bill Sack, David Lampe, Peter Ramos, Michael Colquhoun, Elliot Caplan, David Felder, Bohuslav Martinu, Jacob Druckman, Eric Satie, and Ron Ehmke.

with performances by: A Musical Feast, Bugallo/Williams Duo, Bufffluxus, Buffalo State College Percussion Ensemble, Michael Basinski, John Bacon, Brian Milbrand, Andrew Deutsch, Kyle Price, J.T. Rinker,Tom Kostusiak, David Lampe, Ed Cardoni, Tony Conrad, Peter Ramos, Brad Fuster, Don Metz, Bill Sack, Ron Ehmke, Jeff Proctor, Michael Miskuly, Diane Williams, Jan Williams, Pam Swarts, Alan Kryszak, Michael Colquhoun, Daniel Darnley, Peter Evans, Jacob Frasier, Xiaohang Li, Mathew Tate,Cris Fritton, Jeannie Hoag, Mike Mahoney, Holly Meldard, and Steve Zultanski.

Brunelleschi: A multi-media installation by Tony Conrad

Media Study professor Tony Conrad’s multi-media installation Brunelleschi opens this Friday at the Burchfield Penney Art Center

Opening Celebration August 14, 2009
On View from August 14 to January 3, 2010 in the Project Space

Here’s a recent interview with Tony on Frieze.