“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

STUDENT GAME SHOW

Student Game Show
When: Monday, May 2 @ 6-9pm
Where: Room 242 & 278 @ The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

The University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study proudly presents a collection of student games created during the Spring semester of this year under the guidance of Josephine Anstey and Luke Noonan. This year students in the Virtual Worlds class are showcasing their video games. People will get the chance to meet the designers and play the games.

This event coincides with the department’s Student show, which provides free food and sustenance to those in attendance.

Come play some games and have a little fun with us!

For more information on the featured games, descriptions, and screenshots please visit:
http://josephineanstey.com/Teaching/VirtualWorldsTwo?action=browse
To check out on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207705262580815

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.)

&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).