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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BEYOND/IN WNY in BUFFALO NEWS

Meet PSBlbot creator Cayden Mak
Meet the artist

By Colin Dabkowski
News Arts Writer

Published: October 15, 2010, 12:00 AM

One of the most curious and fascinating personalities in this year’s Beyond/In Western New York art exhibition is not even human.

Meet PSBIbot, a digital invention of artist and University at Buffalo graduate student Cayden Mak, one of the organizers of the citywide interactive scavenger hunt known as “play/share beyond/in.” The game, which begins its two-week-long run Saturday, is meant to give art fans new ways to explore and appreciate the dozens of art exhibitions and installations spread throughout the city as part of the show. (more…)

PLAY/SHARE BEYOND/IN: Next Round

The next round of  play/share beyond/in will begin on Saturday, October 16 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and will continue to October 30.

play/share beyond/in is a technology-driven scavenger hunt exploring the history and culture of Western New York though a series of interactive missions. Using SMS-enabled mobile phones the game brings players through the galleries and installations in the  Beyond/In Western New York 2010 exhibition, as well as other sites of historical, ecological, or cultural interest.

Sign up at play/share beyond/in.
Check out our Facebook page.
RSVP to the play/share beyond/in Game Launch on Facebook.
Find out what it’s like to play as featured in the Buffalo News.

Announcing the play/share beyond/in Game Badges.
The Top 10 FAQs, things you wanted to know about play/share (but were afraid to ask).
Have we mentioned the Prizes?
It’s the Final Countdown, Player Support.

On Thursday, September 23, 2010  play/share beyond/in launched a special mission to coincide with Didier Paquette’s astounding walk atop the Liberty Building.

Check out the photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/psbibot/sets/72157624645903168/
Check out the Buffalo News Article on Meet the Artist:
http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/beyond/article220450.ece

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/

PLAY/SHARE BEYOND/IN in Buffalo News

Terrific Buffalo News ArtsBeat review of the Intermedia Performance Studio’s Play/Share Beyond/In event this weekend as part of the 2010 Buffalo Infringement Festival. Congrats!

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.)

PLAY/SHARE BUFFALO informational meeting

play/share buffalo informational meeting
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
@ Burchfield Penney Art Center — 2nd floor conference room
1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY

play/share buffalo is a pervasive game to be played between the real streets of Buffalo and a fantastic alternative-history city. It is also an outreach project for Alternating Currents, the 2010 Beyond/In Western New York Exhibition. play/share buffalo is looking for people to imagine and design play/shares (missions for the game).

We’re looking for all kinds of people from a variety of disciplines — students, professionals, artists, engineers, actors, and dreamers — who are interested in designing missions that are Buffalo site-specific. You’re invited to use mobile phones, Twitter, video, puzzles, GPS, humor, theater, computer vision, sound, and audience involvement to help imagine an alternate history of Buffalo, while getting players out into the city to the many “Alternating Currents” locations.

If you’re interested in learning more about how to design a puzzle for the game, we are holding a general information meeting. We hope you’ll join us to learn more about how you can play with us!

play/share buffalo is a collaboration of the University at Buffalo’s Intermedia Performance Studio and Beyond/In Western New York 2010.

For updates, join our mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/buffalo-playshares

If you have questions or want more information, please contact Cayden Mak: cayden.mak@gmail.com

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.

CAYDEN MAK's "On Love, and its Place in the Academy" to be published Spring 2010

Congrats to DMS MFA Candidate Cayden Mak whose writing will be published this Spring in the forthcoming book Transforming the culture of higher education and student affairs to empower women: Theory, research, narratives and practice from feminist perspectives, published by Stylus Press/American College Personnel Association Books and Media. Cayden’s chapter is entitled “On Love, and its Place in the Academy.”