BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://squeaky.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20260313T155902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T160750Z UID:10001303-1774378800-1774384200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Alex Rivera & Khaled Jarrar DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 24\, 7 pm ET\nOnline on Zoom. Click here to register.\nSqueaky Wheel presents a virtual artist talk with artists Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar to discuss their films that are screening as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance\, and answer questions from the audience. The screening series take on the human toll of borders and the organized and individual ways people evade and resist them. Featuring both cult classic works and acclaimed documentaries\, the films – with Rivera’s work focusing on the maintenance and violence of the US border\, and Jarrar’s focusing on power struggles\, in particular as they relate to Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora – showcases the logistical\, ethical\, and bureaucratic logics of border regimes\, and points to intertwined solidarities. \nInfiltrators: Films on borders and resistance is supported by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our co-presenters at Jewish Voice for Peace – Buffalo. Khaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators is courtesy of Third World Newsreel\, and his film Notes on Displacement is courtesy of Cinema Politica. Special thank you to Paige Sarlin and Leo Goldsmith. \nBiographies of the artists\nAlex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization\, migration\, and technology. Rivera’s first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a cyberpunk thriller set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial theatrical release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Rivera’s second feature\, The Infiltrators\, won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Infiltrators uses documentary and scripted forms to tell the true story of Dreamers who ‘infiltrate’ a detention center to get immigrants out. Rivera is currently developing a few new cyberpunk projects and\, with support from the Ford Foundation\, a feature documentary on the history of deportation titled Banishment. Alex Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow\, Sundance Fellow\, Creative Capital Grantee and was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. He studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles. He is an Associate Professor of Filmmaking Practice at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School. \nKhaled Jarrar was born in Jenin\, Occupied Palestine in 1976. He lives and works in Ramallah. Jarrar completed his studies in interior design at Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996. Upon graduating he smuggled himself to work as a carpenter in Nazareth\, living as an underground “illegal” worker. In 1998 Jarrar enlisted in an intensive military training which resulted in working for Arafat as a personal body guard until Arafat’s death in 2004. Attempting to create a life between the military and an artistic practice\, Jarrar entered the field of photography in 2005. Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art – Palestine\, Ramallah in 2011 and completed an MFA in fine art from the University of Arizona in 2019. \nJarrar\, a multidisciplinary artist\, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens through highly symbolic photographs\, videos\, film\, and performative interventions. His State of Palestine project was featured in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Where We Lost Our Shadows\, his filmic collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun\, was shown at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Jarrar’s work has been featured at Maraya Art Centre\, Sharjah; the New Museum\, New York City; the University of Applied Arts\, Vienna; the 15th Jakarta Biennale; 52nd October Salon\, Belgrade; Al-Ma’mal Foundation\, Jerusalem; and the London Film Festival. Infiltrators\, Jarrar’s first feature length film\, was a documentary about the business of Palestinian’s “illegally” crossing and won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Documentary\, Jury Special Award and the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012. Notes on Displacement\, his second feature length\, about a Palestinian refugee’s flight from Syria to Germany\, received a world premiere at the IDFA Envision Competition in November 2022. \nPhotographs of Alex Rivera courtesy of the artist. Photograph of Khaled Jarrar courtesy of Cinema Politica. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/alex-rivera-khaled-jarrar/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/alex-khaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251220T140000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251202T174927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251210T200736Z UID:10001265-1766232000-1766239200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Writing Diasporic Dreams and Futures with CAO Collective DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 20\, 3–5pm ET / 12–2 PT over Zoom\nFree; register here\nJoin us in the deep of December as we  welcome Chinese Artists & Organizers (CAO) Collective to lead a virtual writing workshop on dreams\, nostalgia\, and diasporic home-making. What alternative knowledges\, homes\, and futures can we access through dreaming and writing together? How do dreams and nostalgia open up a portal for future-making\, in connection with our own bodies and the bodies of land\, water\, and time? Join CAO Collective’s huiyin zhou and Laura Dudu for a virtual session on dreaming as a relational method and collective writing practice. Participants are invited to share bedtime stories\, dreams\, and reflect on their relationships to home/land\, rest and sleep. Through somatic practice\, guided writing activities and facilitated conversations\, participants are invited to weave a collective dreamscape for resistance and healing. \nPlease ensure stable access to the internet and writing tools such as journals\, pens\, and online collaborative documents. This event will be facilitated in English but participants are encouraged to write/doodle/create in whatever languages they feel called to. \nThe stories co-created in this workshop will be included in CAO Collective’s long-term social practice project\, “One Thousand and One Nights: A Queer Journey of Dreams & Diaspora”\, culminating in a collective dream archive. This event is presented as an invitation to deepen into Olivia Ong Evans’ upcoming film Kota Hujan (City of Rain) on December 5. This event is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and Teiger Foundation. \nAbout the artists\n \nhú-tu (Laura 嘟嘟 & huiyin zhou) is an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology\, working across moving image\, photography\, performance\, and collaborative writing. Dedicated to multidisciplinary art and transnational organizing\, huiyin and Laura co-founded and co-direct the Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草. \nAbout CAO Collective\n\n  \nFounded in 2022\, CAO Collective creates art to empower relational community healing. Their works investigate systems of discipline\, control\, censorship\, and capitalist extraction and reimagine memory/memorials\, rituals\, intimacy\, and queer/feminist kinship to (re)build sustainable community infrastructures. caocollective.com / @caocollective \nBanner image: Image courtesy of CAO Collective. Colorful handwriting in blue\, green\, orange\, and black in both Chinese and English. Someone with a red bracelet is seen writing on white rice paper. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/writing-diasporic-dreams-and-futures-with-cao-collective/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-02-at-1.22.56-PM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T170000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251022T200545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T173815Z UID:10001261-1763823600-1763830800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Joan Nobile's Drop in the Ocean DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 22\, 3–5 pm\, artist talk at 4 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nSqueaky Wheel invites you for an afternoon to experience Joan Nobile’s visual novel video game Drop in the Ocean\, with an artist talk by the artist. The work provides audiences with a space to explore how women and marginalized communities resist hostile gaming environments dominated by white\, straight\, cisgender men while finding companionship\, community\, and solidarity. \nThe video game is about Emily\, a lonely gamer who struggles to find companionship. She finds an online community for her favorite video game\, finding friendship and community for the first time\, while simultaneously meeting a new potential love interest and catching up with an old offline friend. She struggles to balance these new social responsibilities when a new game comes out based on her favorite series. While online\, Emily and another female-identified player are harassed\, leading to the latter leaving the community and Emily becoming the target of continued harassment both on and offline. As Emily\, the player must choose how to respond to 1) social obligations\, 2) harassment\, and 3) finding ways to improve the situation\, if possible. The game will have multiple endings based on the player’s major choices along the way. \n“The project aims to immerse audiences in the experience of a woman who struggles to find community while simultaneously facing harassment in gaming spaces\, highlighting a sadly common occurrence in online spaces. For women and other marginalized people who might play\, I want to show them that they are not alone\, that this happens to other folks like them\, and to provide both solidarity and possibilities towards recovery and online/offline community reconnection. Choosing a visual novel format over more traditional action games ensures accessibility and intimacy for players of all skill levels\, utilizing text and simple imagery to explore themes of community\, connection\, resistance\, and cyberfeminism.” – Joan Nobile \nAttendees: Several computers will be available for audiences to experience the game. Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. Light refreshments will be available. \nJoan Nobile’s Drop in the Ocean is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \nBiography of the artist\nJoan Nobile (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar from Brooklyn\, NY. She holds a BA in Media Production from Buffalo State College and an MFA in Media Arts Production from the University at Buffalo. Her research and work broadly focus on media theory and critique\, gaming\, cyberfeminism\, and glitch aesthetics/feminism. Her practice involves work in film\, video\, zines\, and video games. When she’s not working or creating\, Joan enjoys visiting farmer’s markets\, reading & watching non-fiction\, and spending too much time playing video games. She currently lives in Buffalo\, NY with her partner. \nImage: A still from Drop in the Ocean. An illustration of an upset looking femme person in hoody in a woodsy area with autumn colors. On top of the illustration are selection boxes with the options “with caution”\, “with snark”\, “oh\, fuck this! I’m pissed” and a larger box with options and the text “I had to handle this…” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/joan-nobiles-drop-in-the-ocean/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Video Games ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Joan-Nobile-1.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191632Z UID:10001208-1744398000-1744405200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: G. Anthony Svatek & Kaija Siirala\, Kyla Kegler\, Sue Ding DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 11\, 7 pm ET\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel and online\nFree or suggested donation\nGet tickets below\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this hybrid artist talk with our Spring 2025 Workspace Residents! G. Anthony Svatek & Kaija Siirala (Brooklyn\, NY and Hamilton\, ON)\, Kyla Kegler (Buffalo\, NY) and Sue Ding (Los Angeles\, CA) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, along with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nFor in-person attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Catering from Ali Baba Kebab\, with vegetarian options\, will be provided. \nFor online attendees: A private link will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nDirector G. Anthony Svatek & editor and sound designer Kaija Siirala will be working on the post-production of Humboldt USA\, an experimental documentary about the legacy of 19th century queer German geographer Alexander von Humboldt. Long before today’s globalized world – rapid travel\, the internet\, artificial intelligence\, etc. – Humboldt made a radical proposal while reflecting on his travels through the Americas: nature as “one great whole\,” an interconnected web-of-life. His ideas planted the seeds for Western environmentalism and information science\, earning him such global notoriety that no other person’s name has been given to as many places\, species\, and things – none of which Humboldt ever saw or named himself. The film was shot in three locations across the United States\, including Buffalo’s Humboldt Parkway\, with key protagonist Terry Robinson of the East Side Parkways Coalition\, highlighting the community’s struggle against solidifying the expressway with the “toxic tunnel” project\, as proposed by the New York State Department of Transportation. \nKyla Kegler will be working on Care-Core\, a multi-channel video installation examining self-care\, collective care\, somatic knowledge\, and utopian responses to individualistic culture. Drawing on historical\, contemporary\, and embodied care practices\, the project will explore how people want to give and receive care\, imagining post-capitalistic and sustainable structures for interdependent living. The research considers the tension and incongruities between collective ideals and individualistic agendas; between ego and altruism. It investigates the mechanisms of human prosperity and happiness — mapping alternative ways of living with and for one another in the face of an ever escalating global eco- political catastrophe. \nSue Ding will be working on The Spectacle of Her Appetites\, a two-channel video installation exploring female hunger and its portrayal on screen. Appropriating footage from popular films and television\, the project interrogates the cinematic language of women and food\, tracing intersections of desire\, shame\, and discipline. \nWorkspace Residency is supported by Teiger Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thank you to Kiesha Lillian Adamczyk-Bennett at Faith Real Estate Services\, Inc. and William Marcus Bennett at Bennett Home Inspection for sponsoring this session of the residency. Learn more about the program here: squeaky.org/workspace-residency \nBiographies of the artists\n \nHaving grown up at the foot of the Austrian Alps\, G. Anthony Svatek is awed by the living world and how it is increasingly impacted by our techno-urban lives. Anthony’s work screened at NYFF\, Intl FF Rotterdam\, Ann Arbor\, Big Sky\, Prismatic Ground\, DOCNYC\, amongst others. Supporters include NYSCA\, Simons Foundation\, Austrian Cultural Forum NY. He is the recipient of the New Visions Golden Gate Award at SFFILM. Commissioned work includes projects for NYS Parks\, BBC\, Deutsche Welle\, and Pioneer Works. He has staffed seasonally at the Flaherty Film Seminar\, The Climate Museum\, and the American Museum of Natural History. \nKaija Siirala works in documentary media as a picture editor\, sound designer and educator. She has a keen interest in process-based collaboration and storytelling that pushes against the bounds of classical narrative structures. Films she has worked on have screened at the National Gallery of Canada\, True/False Film Festival\, Camden International Film Festival\, MoMI First Look\, Hot Docs\, DOC NYC\, Big Sky\, AFI fest\, IDFA\, DOK Leipzig\, Flaherty Seminar 2023\, Prismatic Ground and as a New York Times Op-Doc. Her audio work has appeared on the BBC\, On Air Fest and in installation contexts. She was a member-in-residence of the Meerkat Media Collective in Brooklyn\, NY from 2016-2018. In May 2018\, she completed her MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College (CUNY) and is now based in Hamilton\, ON. \n \nKyla Kegler is an artist and filmmaker who’s work explores desire and connection between people\, place and purpose. She is the founder and director of performance / movement space Agatha Falls. Kegler’s practice draws from her past work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and as co-founder of theater\, “Zuhause” (Berlin\, Germany). She received an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo. Her past projects include: Feel Me\, video installation exploring the mindfulness industry; The House on Fire Show\, teen web-drama about the climate crisis; Mountains: a tragicomedic puppet soap opera; Relationships don’t finish\, they change\, a video and sculpture installation exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College\, Ithaca\, NY\, 2024. \n \nSue Ding is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores race\, gender\, and diaspora through the lens of visual culture. In her research-based practice\, she emphasizes process\, form\, and deep readings of both media and landscapes. Sue’s work has screened internationally at venues including SXSW\, IDFA\, Antimatter [Media Art]\, and Copenhagen Contemporary\, and can be found on platforms including PBS\, Netflix\, and The New York Times. Sue’s interdisciplinary practice spans film\, installation\, and emerging media\, and she consults and lectures widely on filmmaking and media arts. In 2023\, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-spring2025/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Announcing-Squeaky-Wheels-Spring-2025-Residents-YouTube-Horizontal-Ad.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241221T130000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191613Z UID:10001197-1734782400-1734786000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Work in progress: Kalpana Subramanian's Breath Worlds DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 21\, 12 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nOnline over Zoom. RSVP below\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to welcome back Kalpana Subramanian for an online artist talk on her in-progress project Breath Worlds – an interdisciplinary project composed of sound works\, emerging technologies\, moving image and performance. \nWith breathing in crisis\, our existence as a respiratory species is becoming increasingly precarious and inequitable. This project speculates on what it means to breathe\, in an era when breath itself can no longer be taken for granted. How can breath be reclaimed from the forces that imperil it? Can breath be cultivated and shared? These are just some of the motivations that guide this project – exploring breath and breathing as a universal right (Mbembe\, 2020)\, a form of interconnectedness and a future paradigm. \nThe project is supported by the New York State Council of the Arts’ Support for Artists grant. \nBiography of the artist \nKalpana Subramanian\, PhD\, is a multidisciplinary artist\, filmmaker and scholar whose recent practice explores transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches to experimental film and media. Her arts-based doctoral research at the Department of Media Study\, University at Buffalo\, proposes a novel mode of experiencing cinema through an attention to breath philosophy and poetics. Her films have been exhibited at venues including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, Toronto International Film Festival\, Images Festival (Canada)\, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Scotland)\, Chicago Underground Film Festival\, Flaherty NYC Seminar (USA) UNESCO (France)\, Wildscreen UK\, and National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai\, India) among others. Her films have received awards from the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology (Italy\, 2015)\, Montana CINE International Film Festival (USA\, 2003\, 2005) and the Center for Media Studies Vatavaran Film Festival (India\, 2008). Her curated programs have screened at Simon Fraser University (Canada)\, Harvard FAS CAMLab\, Alternative Cinema series (Colgate University\, USA) and Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (UK) among others. Subramanian is recipient of a UK Environmental Film Fellowship (2006)\, Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2015-16) and a New York State Council on the Arts grant (2024) among other honors. She is an Assistant Professor of Cinema Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder. \nBanner image: Blue and orange light curved around a flecked surface. On top of the image are the logos of Squeaky Wheel and the New York State Council of the Arts and the words “Breath Worlds. Kalpana Subramanian”. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/work-in-progress-kalpana-subramanians-breath-worlds/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BREATH-WORLDS-FLYER-MB-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240823T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240823T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191612Z UID:10001172-1724439600-1724445000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Ahmed T. Ragheb\, Lily Ekimian Ragheb\, and Kathryn Ramey DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 23\, 2024\, 7 pm ET\nOnline and in-person @ Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation. Catering from AliBaba Kebab provided for in-person attendees.\nASL interpretation available; request by Tuesday\, August 20.\nRegister below\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this hybrid artist talk with our Summer 2024 Workspace Residents! Ahmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb (Pittsburgh\, PA) and Kathryn Ramey (Roslindale\, MA) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, along with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nFor in-person attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. \nFor online attendees: A private link will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nAhmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb will be working on Visitor\, a short experimental essay film about an Egyptian vampire who travels to America in search of family. The film will pair a fictional voiceover narrative with docu-style video footage of the post-industrial landscapes of Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Consisting of hand-held\, point-of-view shots with no on-screen actors\, the observational style of Visitor will facilitate an exploration of Arab and Arab-American cultural identity\, immigration\, family and the changing landscape of the American Rust Belt. \nDuring her residency\, Kathryn Ramey will be working on SILVER & earth: Marina A which will be presented to the public on Friday\, September 6 at Silo City. The multi-channel digital and 16mm projection performance will highlight environmentally conscious artistic practices within reclaimed post industrial sites such as Silo City. Part of a larger suite of work\, SILVER & earth: Marina A\, focuses on analogue film\, using outdated material that would otherwise find its way to a landfill through a variety of experimental gestures. These include: phytograms in which Vitamin C\, plant material and soda or wood ash is used to print onto film; burying film in compost; among other methods. Ramey’s project marks a deepening of Squeaky Wheel’s partnership with Silo City to also support ecological media arts practices. \nBiographies of the residents\nAhmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb are a married experimental filmmaking duo based in Pittsburgh. Lily – American\, Russian and Armenian – grew up between Washington\, D.C.\, and Cairo\, Egypt. Ahmed – Egyptian\, Dutch and American – was born and raised in Cairo. Their films emphasize identity\, place\, feminism\, cultural dislocation and domestic relationships and are noted for their use of voiceover and mixed media. Their work has screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals including Uppsala Short Film Festival (Nominated\, Ingmar Bergman Award)\, Athens Int’l Film & Video Festival and RiverRun\, as well as the Arab American National Museum\, Pittsburgh Shorts\, and the Arab Film and Media Institute’s Arab Film Festival. Together they founded the independent production company Studio Ragheb. \nKathryn Ramey (1967)\, Vancouver\, WA / USA. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow with an MFA in film and a PhD in anthropology who has made over a dozen films and installations\, contributed numerous articles to anthologies and journals and written the essential text Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE (2015). Her films operate at the intersection of experimental analogue processes and ethnographic research and are characterized by hand-processing\, optical printing\, and animation. She has screened at several festivals such as Toronto\, Ann Arbor\, TriBeca\, Ji.hlava\, and 25fps\, among others. \nBanner photo: Two photographs side by side: Ahmed Ragheb and Lily Ekimian Ragheb sitting side by side in a black and white photograph. Kathryn Ramey\, a white woman in her 50’s with long gray blond hair in a bun wearing a black and white plaid mock turtle-neck blouse and a black cotton blazer and pink glasses sits smiling facing the camera in front of a white picket fence with green trees and blue sky in the background. This photo was taken at Camden Film Festival. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-ahmed-ragheb-lily-ekimian-ragheb-and-kathryn-ramey/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ahmed-Lily-Kathrynjpg.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191540Z UID:10001149-1713553200-1713558600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Everest Pipkin\, Kristin McWharter\, Jaehoon Choi\, Léwuga Tata Benson DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 19\, 2024\, 7 pm ET\nOnline and in-person @ Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. Catering from AliBaba Kebab provided for in-person attendees.\nRegister below\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this hybrid artist talk with our Spring 2024 Workspace Residents! Everest Pipkin (Truth or Consequences\, NM)\, Kristin McWharter (Chicago\, IL)\, Jaehoon Choi (Troy\, NY)\, and Léwuga Tata Benson (Buffalo\, NY) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, including essays on video games\, and media art installations that explore notions of language and translation\, historic children’s games and locative sound\, and the devastating effects of oil extraction. Their event will conclude with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nFor in-person attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. \nFor online attendees: A private link will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nDuring their residency\, researcher resident Everest Pipkin will be working on The Fortunate Isles: Fragment Worlds\, Walled Gardens\, and the games that are played there\, a speculative essay about the edges of space within video games. Based on a talk Pipkin gave at the 2023 Roguelike Celebration\, the essay will focus on the concept of the walled garden\, expanding it to include games and games spaces. It looks at ornamental gardens\, cloisters\, isolate spaces\, and even mythological or utopian fantasies of worlds\, and goes beyond to where the garden stops and a wildness of bugs\, errors\, logical failures and edge cases begin. The essay seeks to connect the logic of potent isolation to the games we make and play.  \nJaehoon Choi will be working on an untitled media art installation on the intermingling of translation and language through light and sound. Influenced by the work of Karen Barad\, the artist will be working with mylar film\, projection\, and audio from speech recordings in various languages. The work is latest in a series of installations that delve into the artists concern\, the first of which\, “Hello. hEllo! heLLo? hellO” was created and showcased at EMPAC in May 2023. \nKristin McWharter will be working on Marco Polo\, an interactive sound installation\, based on the children’s game where one player\, with eye’s closed\, calls out “Marco” and listens for the location of other players who call out “Polo” in response. McWharter will be adapting the children’s game in a new work that incorporates megaphones\, RF transmissions\, and a series of sculptural beacons for audiences to engage with locative sound. Noting the Italian explorer’s role in shaping racist notions of Western superiority\, the project reflects on the history of trade route landscapes and the consequences of western culture’s history of continuous evasion and pursuit. \nLéwuga Tata Benson will be working towards their exhibition Fueling Change: A Multimedia Exploration of Niger Delta’s Oil Crisis that will open at Buffalo Arts Studio on July 26\, 2024. Utilizing oil drums\, video\, and audio\, the project focuses on the oil industry’s effects upon the people of the Niger Delta in Western Nigeria and the social\, economic\, and environmental consequences of unregulated oil extraction practices. \n Biographies of the residents \nEverest Pipkin is a game developer\, writer\, and artist from central Texas who lives and works on a sheep farm in southern New Mexico. Their work both in the studio and in the garden follows themes of ecology\, tool making\, and collective care during collapse. They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin\, an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and have shown and spoken at The Design Museum of London\, The Texas Biennial\, The XXI Triennale of Milan\, The Photographers Gallery of London\, Center for Land Use Interpretation\, and other spaces. When not at the computer in the heat of the day\, you can find them in the hills spending time with their neighbors— both human and non-human. \nJaehoon Choi is a computer musician / sound artist / researcher based in New York and Seoul. His practice involves embodied experimentation through a technical medium\, which involves both the process of making and bodily engagement. As a researcher\, he is interested in how a creative practice that involves embodied experimentation with a technical medium can suggest a different form of techne and contribute to technodiversity. His works have been presented at Venice Biennale\, MATA Festival\, NEW INC\, San Francisco Tape Music Festival\, NIME\, ICMC\, CeReNeM\, ECHO Journal\, ZER01NE\, Dunkunsthalle\, EIDF\, Visions Du Reel\, CEMEC\, and etc. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electronic Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) as a Masters. \nKristin McWharter uses performance and play to interrogate the relationship between competition and intimacy. Her work conjoins viewers within immersive sculptural installations and viewer- inclusive performances that critically fuse folk games within virtual and augmented worlds. Her software installations and performative objects incorporate experimental technologies and playful interaction to produce performances that speculate upon alternative forms of social behavior. Inspired by 20th century sports narrative\, collective decision making\, and technology as a contemporary spiritual authority\, her work blurs the boundaries of intimacy and hype culture to challenge viewer relationships to affection and competitive drive. Her work has been exhibited at The Hammer Museum\, Walt Disney Concert Hall\, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center\, Ars Electronica\, Museo Altillo Beni\, and FILE Festival among others. McWharter received her MFA from UCLA in Design Media Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor in Art & Technology Studies at SAIC. \nLéwuga Tata Benson: As an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker\, my work bridges cultures and explores the dynamic interplay between identity\, environmental sustainability\, and human connection. Rooted in my Ogoni heritage in Nigeria\, I draw inspiration from our tradition of repurposing to prevent waste. This ethos infuses my art\, as seen in installations like “The Land Gives Until It No Longer Can\, 2022\,” “Hang in There\, 2022\,” “Traces of Displacement\, 2023\,” “Carrying Identity\, Carrying The Weight\, 2023\,” and “Fueling Change\, 2024.” In Ogoni storytelling\, we engage all the senses\, integrating songs\, dance\, and props for a holistic experience. My artistic practice seamlessly incorporates these traditions to create immersive narratives that provoke thought\, foster empathy\, and celebrate cultural richness. My journey has been marked by awards and accolades\, including the NYSCA 2024 Grant and the Gregory Capasso scholarship for outstanding work in film\, underscoring my commitment to the arts. \n \nImage descriptions: Four photographs in a grid\, left to right\, top to bottom: Everest Pipkin\, a white nonbinary artist\, stands in front of a cottonwood tree in a field. They have short brown hair\, glasses\, and are wearing a striped sweater. It is a sunny day. A photograph of Jaehoon Choi by Steven Pisano; a portrait of artist Kristin McWharter sitting in her studio; and Léwuga Tata Benson\, a Nigerian-born artist from Buffalo\, New York. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-everest-pipkin-kristin-mcwharter-jaehoon-choi-lewuga-tata-benson/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Spring24-Residents.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T200000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191539Z UID:10001148-1708329600-1709928000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Extended: Jordan Lord | Works from The Voice of Democracy\, with Abby Sun and Pooja Rangan DESCRIPTION:A still from the film An All-Around Feel Good by Jordan Lord. Prominent black borders are on the left\, right and bottom edges of the image.  Framed by the black borders is an image of the Colorado State Fair\, taken from the bleachers on a bright sunny day. The camera is facing outside the main stage\, where there are horses and riders in a pen\, numerous parked cars and a tractor\, and several U.S. flags\, and audience members both near the camera and across the stage. On the bottom is the caption “Belonging to the nation-state is not premised on seeing or attending.”\nNow extended through March 8: Online access to works in the exhibition\nOnline and in-person: Friday\, February February 23:\n5:30 pm ET: Screening of How Is It That You Frame Old Glory in Your Mouth?\n7 pm ET\, online and in-person: Conversation with Jordan Lord\, Abby Sun\, and Pooja Rangan.\nASL interpretation and CART provided\, catering from Alibaba Kebab for in-person attendees.\nFree or suggested donation; get tickets below\nCelebrating the closing of Jordan Lord’s solo exhibition The Voice of Democracy\, Squeaky Wheel invites audiences from Buffalo and beyond to watch the works in the exhibition online\, and join us for a screening and conversation between the artist\, Abby Sun\, and Pooja Rangan. The works in the exhibition analyze the politics of voice and accent across disability\, race\, class\, and gender\, and how they shape the terms of entry to democracy. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to experience the four works by the artist included in the exhibition anytime between February 19 through February 23. \n\nHow Is It That You Frame Old Glory in Your Mouth? (digital video\, 74 minutes\, sound\, open captions\, audio description\, 2023)\nAn All-Around Feel Good (digital video\, 25 minutes\, sound\, open captions\, audio description\, 2024)\nI didn’t set out to make a film about religion (digital video\, 30 minutes\, sound\, open captions\, audio description\, 2024)\nDocumentary Participation Agreement (PDF contract template\, 2023)\n\nOn Friday\, February 23\, online and in-person attendees are invited to a dedicated screening of How Do You Frame Old Glory in Your Mouth? at 5:30 pm ET and a conversation about the exhibition with Lord\, Rangan\, and Sun at 7 pm ET. Catering with vegetarian options will be provided for in-person attendees; ASL interpretation and CART will be provided for all. \nLearn more about the exhibition here. \nBiographies of the artist and participants\nJordan Lord (US) is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access\, and documentary. Their films have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA Doc Fortnight\, Dokufest Kosovo\, Union Docs\, and the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. Their film Shared Resources (2021) won the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival and the Critics Jury Prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys and Artists Space. In 2021\, they were profiled as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine\, and their work has been featured in publications such as Screen Slate\, Millennium Film Journal\, and Hyperallergic. \nAbby Sun (she/her) is IDA’s Director of Artist Programs and Editor of Documentary magazine. Before joining IDA\, Abby was the Curator of the DocYard and co-curated My Sight is Lined with Visions: 1990s Asian American Film & Video with Keisha Knight. As a graduate student researcher in the MIT Open Documentary Lab\, Abby edited Immerse. She has bylines in Film Comment\, Filmmaker\, Film Quarterly\, Notebook\, Sight & Sound\, and other publications. Abby has served on festival juries for Hot Docs\, Dokufest\, Palm Springs\, New Orleans\, and CAAMfest\, as well as nominating committees for the Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye. She has reviewed projects for IDFA Forum\, BGDM\, NEA\, SFFILM\, LEF Foundation\, Princess Grace Foundation\, the Boston Foundation\, Sundance Catalyst\, and spoken on and facilitated panels at Locarno\, IFFR\, TIFF\, NYFF\, EFM\, and other film festivals. Along with Keisha\, Abby received a fall 2022 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship. She produced Shared Resources and\, with Jordan Lord\, received a 2022 American Stories Documentary Fellowship for the upcoming The Voice of Democracy. Her hometown is Columbia\, Missouri\, US. \nPooja Rangan is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. Her research explores the humanitarian preoccupations of documentary media\, with an emphasis on the ethics of voice and listening. Rangan is author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke University Press\, 2017) and co-editor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object\, Method\, and Practice (University of California Press\, 2023). Her forthcoming book The Documentary Audit (from Columbia University Press)\, explores the politics of listening in documentary\, asking how accented\, disabled\, and abolitionist practitioners trouble established documentary values of justice and accountability. Rangan co-edits the Investigating Visible Evidence book series at Columbia University Press and serves on the editorial board of the journal World Records; she also served as Board President of the documentary arts showcase\, The Flaherty. \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jordan-lord-works-from-the-voice-of-democracy-with-pooja-rangan/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Screenings,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/an_all-around_feel_good-1080p-frame-at-7m48s.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240309 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T213951Z UID:10001126-1699574400-1709942399@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Jordan Lord | The Voice of Democracy DESCRIPTION:Image description: A still from the film The Voice of Democracy shows a dim living room\, in which a tv hangs on the wall. The tv displays two older white people\, the filmmaker’s parents\, sitting with a gold lamp in between them. The filmmaker’s father looks angry and their mother looks concerned. The tv image is paused on a Youtube window\, which reads: “Mom and Dad interview selects\,” below which a series of other videos are recommended including “The Biggest Snubs of the Olivier Awards\,” “Top 25 Roller Coasters\,” and “Food & Wine Festival.” Reflected in a mirror below the television are the filmmaker’s parents sitting in the same set-up as their image on the television\, with the same gold lamp between them. They are looking across the room at the filmmaker\, a 30-something white person with a buzzcut and a beard\, who looks back at them with their arms folded and legs crossed\, with a serious and sympathetic look. Their father is pointing at the television\, saying something. In the center of the image\, between the mirror and the television\, is a caption that reads\, “Why?” Image and image description courtesy of the artist.\nOpening Friday\, November 10\, 5–8 pm\nFree and open to the public\nOn view Tuesdays–Fridays\, 12–5 pm and by appointment\, extended through March 8\, 2024\nEmail ekrem@squeaky.org for appointments\, including fully masked visits\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present The Voice of Democracy\, a solo exhibition by Jordan Lord. The multimedia exhibition analyzes the politics of voice and accent across disability\, race\, class\, and gender\, and how they shape the terms of entry to democracy. \nThe Voice of Democracy is anchored by Lordʼs personal story of winning a nationwide “audio essay” high school scholarship contest\, presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). The installation features conversations with the artistʼs family and other participants regarding the contest\, research into the history of the VFW\, and a parallel set of reflections about the entanglements between access technology\, (disabled) audiences\, and nationalism. The work showcases how sound recordings are a vital player in the democratic process itself\, and the role recorded voices play in perceiving (and creating) a crisis in the teaching of US history\, politics\, and civics. \nThe exhibition features four works – a written contract by Lord\, and three video works that will be released over the duration of the exhibition. Through January 10\, the exhibition features a promotional video for The Voice of Democracy competition\, with audio description and open captions by Jordan Lord to provide greater context into the competition. At the opening\, Lord will be present where they will deliver brief remarks. \nSqueaky Wheel is delighted to finally welcome the artist in person for this occasion; Lord was previously a virtual Workspace Resident in 2021\, and we had screened their feature film Shared Resources in 2020. The exhibition is presented as part of [Speaking in Foreign Language]\, a thematic series of events on voice\, translation\, legibility\, and power. \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nPublic Programs\nFriday\, November 10\, 2023\, 5–8 pm\nExhibition opening with brief remarks by the artist at 7 pm \n*Postponed* Saturday\, December 2\, 5 pm\nCuratorial tour with Jordan Lord’s I Didn’t Set Out to Make a Film about Religion \nFebruary 19–23\, 2024\nOnline access to the works in The Voice of Democracy. Sign up here. \nFebruary 23\, 2024\, 5:30 pm\nOnline and in-person: Screening of Jordan Lord’s How Is It That You Frame Old Glory in Your Mouth?\, followed by a conversation with Jordan Lord\, Abby Sun\, and Pooja Rangan. Sign up here. \nSaturday\, February 20\, 2 pm\nCuratorial tour with Ekrem Serdar \nCommissioned essay and documentation\nClick here to read a newly commissioned essay on the exhibition by Amy Ching-Yan Lam. \nExhibition documentation by Squeaky Wheel and Calvin Hardick. \n\nImage descriptions\, left to right\, top to bottom: A view of the installation of Jordan Lord’s exhibition “The Voice of Democracy” in Squeaky Wheel’s gallery space. On the left is I Didn’t Set Out to Make a Film About Religion\, a red projected image on a wall\, with a red color field and the captions “‘We Heart New College”\, people holding cameras\, police officers”. On the far end of the room is a person looking at a dimly lit television screen wearing headphones\, featuring An All-Around Feel Good. On the television are a tree and captions underneath. 2. A seated person viewing How Is It That You Frame Old Glory In Your Mouth?\, a video projected on a screen. On the screen is Jordan seated with their arms and legs crossed\, and one eyebrow slightly raised. They are looking towards the camera. Next to them is a mirror showing Lord’s parents\, Deborah and Albert\, who are speaking to Jordan. Above the mirror is a television screen with video of Jordan’s parents as it’s been paused. There are captions in the middle of the screen: “I thought your essay was great\, but it’s not…” 3. A person wearing a hat and sitting on a couch\, watching a television screen that is showing An All-Around Feel Good. He is wearing headphones. An arena is on the screen\, along with the caption “This barrier quite literally marks national borders” 4. A person holding Jordan Lord’s Documentary Participation Agreement\, a stapled document over multiple pages. On the document is several paragraphs of text; the lighting is most aligned to the following paragraph “The standard appearance release agreement is premised on several necessary fictions\, including the possibility that the filmmaker(s) are not responsible for what they choose to put into their own films; that representations of a person’s life\, story\, or likeness can rightfully become the sole property of someone else; and that the conversion of these representations into the filmmaker(s) private property secures a relationship of trust.”\n\nIntroduction by Jordan Lord\n \nThe show isn’t finished yet. Two of the videos I’ve just started on. The other one I only finished editing this week. I’m telling you this\, less as an apology or an excuse\, and more to think about how it changes the work you might find here. \nIn many ways\, this show was prompted by seeing Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s film The Viewing Booth. The film largely consists of recording sessions\, where he films the reactions of a Temple University student\, Maia\, as she watches video documentation of apartheid in Palestine. The film is meant to question the limits of documentary images as a tool to change the minds of those who are already fixed in their beliefs. The film shows Maia in the process of seeming to waver in her Zionist ideology\, when presented with brutal evidence of the violence of Israeli settler colonialism in the West Bank\, only for her to end up casting doubt on the veracity of the images she sees. She decides that she cannot trust the images alone because all recorded images are shot from an inherently subjective point of view and claims that the videos would need more context\, in order for her to believe them. \nGrowing up in a Zionist Christian evangelical family\, there was little about Maia’s intransigence that surprised me. However\, what most disturbed me about the film is the way in which Maia confirms her belief system\, not through a lack of media literacy\, but actually through tools of media criticism. \nAt one point\, she reacts to a video recorded by a Palestinian father of his frightened children woken up in the middle of the night by the IDF raiding their home. She compares the beginning and end of the video––the fact that we don’t see what happened before or after the video was recorded––to cuts in a Hollywood film or tv show\, arguing that the spatial and temporal frames of a video are forms of editing in themselves and\, therefore\, cannot be trusted as the whole truth. Of course\, as Alexandrowicz points out to her\, there are mappable distinctions we can make between video evidence\, documentary film\, and fiction. However\, she remains unconvinced and becomes increasingly confident in her counter-reading of the images as constructed and\, therefore\, untrustworthy. In reflecting on the film\, I feel starkly confronted with the fact that the analytical tools I teach in filmmaking classes are not necessarily enough to help students counteract the glut of disinformation and ideology in the media they encounter and can just as easily prompt dangerous misreadings and misperceptions. \nI felt similarly disturbed when I learned that Christopher Rufo\, the man described by some as “the most influential right wing activist in America” at the moment\, began his career as a left-leaning documentary filmmaker. Right up until his 2019 fellowship with the conservative disinformation machine\, the Claremont Institute\, he was working on a PBS-commissioned documentary about poverty in deindustrialized cities\, called America Lost. To look at the start of the film\, one could easily mistake it for a fairly run of the mill liberal documentary. It’s only through the increasingly ideological voiceover that Rufo interprets what he sees\, not as the ravages of capitalism\, but the dissolution of the nuclear family. In his own self-narrative\, when confronted with these images\, he had to rethink everything he thought he previously knew\, hamfistedly underlining his own film’s relationship to the liberal documentary as a tool for political conversion\, even as he deploys its tropes for a conservative audience of the already converted. \nIt’s not just documentary strategies but criticality itself that Rufo wields as a weapon in the new culture war on liberal arts education. He has turned from the liberal documentary form toward making didactic Youtube videos that analyze all of our social structures as having been taken over by liberals\, in the wake of the failures of Marxist movements of the 20th century. In these videos and talking head appearances on conservative media\, he chases after the bandwagon while also perpetually testing out new dog whistles for racism\, transphobia\, and misogyny\, popularizing Critical Race Theory and Gender Studies as household terms for conservative parents to use in school board grassroots organizing\, prompting a new wave of book bans and racist history textbooks. The legislation he advised Trump on to defund DEI trainings in government agencies has been copycatted all across the country to make it much more difficult to teach things that were already quite difficult to teach\, not only reanimating old classics like ‘the gay teacher who wants to make their students gay’ but also creating new analytical language for conservatives to prevent the classroom from being used to teach students the analytical tools to be able to recognize these tactics and the historical context to be able to situate them. (1) \nOver the same period of Rufo’s rebrand\, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a living\, teaching in various liberal arts colleges\, recently moving across the country to take a full-time job. In my teaching\, I try to foreground access tools like audio description and captioning as fundamental parts of making a film. When students are first exposed to the idea that these tools can be used as part of their creative practices\, they often focus on the idea that all description is “subjective.” Although I\, of course\, agree that creative practices of description push back on the so-called “objectivity” of standard access practices\, to name this work a process of making images “subjective” feels disturbingly resonant to me with Maia’s interpretation of what she sees in The Viewing Booth. \nAlthough this might come across as semantic\, what I want to understand about description––especially when it comes from more than one person––is whether it can be used\, less for telling us something about images themselves and more about demonstrating the position of the person doing the describing. And maybe instead of thinking about these positions as fixed\, we can think about description as showing how audiences are situated\, in relation to what they see and hear (or don’t see and hear). Another way of putting this is that I’m curious about what these access practices\, in which audiences describe what they see and what they hear\, might be able to tell us about how a position forms and at what points it is challenged. \nThis feels particularly urgent to consider in this moment\, in which students\, teachers\, lawyers\, filmmakers\, and artists––among many others––are\, again\, experiencing disciplinary and legal action\, losing their jobs\, and ending up on lists for taking a position about how they interpret images of Palestinian genocide. The images of this genocide hold their own self-evident facts\, but the process of how they’re interpreted creates the political reality for those who live in relation to them. This is different from saying that the images are relative. – Jordan Lord \n(1) And as Kay Gabriel highlights in her n+1 article\, “The Anti-Trans Panic and the Crusade Against Teachers\,” these strategies most likely have an economic motive of eroding solidarities between teachers unions and parents of public school students\, rather than merely bringing conservative values to the classroom. \n\nAbout the artist and writer\nJordan Lord (US) is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access\, and documentary. Their films have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA Doc Fortnight\, Dokufest Kosovo\, Union Docs\, and the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. Their film Shared Resources (2021) won the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival and the Critics Jury Prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys and Artists Space. In 2021\, they were profiled as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine\, and their work has been featured in publications such as Screen Slate\, Millennium Film Journal\, and Hyperallergic. \nAmy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer. She is the author of Property Journal (2024); Baby Book (2023)\, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards in Poetry; and Looty Goes to Heaven (2022). From 2006 to 2020 she was part of the performance art duo Life of a Craphead. Their exhibition Entertaining Every Second (2018-19) looked at experiences and legacies of the American War in Vietnam. She lives in Tkaronto/Toronto\, and was born in Hong Kong. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jordan-lords-voice-of-democracy/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Jordan-Lord-Voice-of-Democracy-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001109-1692385200-1692392400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet our residents: Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 18\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2023 Workspace Residents! Alicia Solstice Hawking (Los Angeles\, CA) and Maggie Hazen (Hudson Vallery\, NY) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on media art projects with significant ties to Buffalo’s history and current landscape. Alicia Solstice Hawkins will work on Don’t Go Back to Sleep\, a a poetic and observational 15-minute documentary about Bob\, an elder\, almost 80 years of age\, who attempts to re-engage his art practice while contending with the aftermath of a major stroke. Charting Bob’s life starting from Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood\, the city’s East and West Sides\, and Los Angeles\, where he resides now\, the film will follow several different timelines of his life through his poignant\, witty\, and moving voiceover paired with poetic imagery and sound. Maggie Hazen will work on Night Moth: A Mythology of Escape\, a mixed reality project made in collaboration with DW. DW\, who lives in Western New York\, is a formerly incarcerated young artist who was recently released from Brookwood Secure Center for Youth in New York’s Hudson Valley; Hazen met her while teaching art classes at the facility in 2019. Night Moth revolves around Luna\, a 3D digital avatar for DW\, and Luna’s journey of self-discovery\, liberation\, and healing. Night Moth will culminate in four artworks\, including a video installation exhibition\, a documentary\, a sketchbook\, and an interactive concept website. \nIn-person attendees can enjoy food\, including vegetarian options\, from Ali Baba Kebab. Learn how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. \n Online attendees can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo learn more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Portraits of Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen superimposed on a blue red backgrop. Alicia Solstice Hawkins is standing on a beach in her photograph. Next to her is a portrait of Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-alicia-solstice-hawkins-and-maggie-hazen/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Alicia-and-Maggie.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230721T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230721T123000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001106-1689939000-1689942600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:In conversation: hiba ali with Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 21\, 2023\, 11:30 am ET\n@ online and viewable for 24 hours\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin us for a virtual event celebrating the closing of hiba ali’s solo exhibition\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. hiba ali will be joined by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham to have a conversation on the histories\, themes of their exhibition\, followed by a brief Q&A. The exhibition utilizes videos\, music\, textiles\, amongst other media. Through storytelling\, oceans we carry: rough as silk explores the figure of the silk worm through visualizing the history and continued presence of African-descent communities from the Swahili-Indian ocean. They map the relationships between the Swahili coast of East Africa\, South India and the Arab world. \nAudiences are invited to join live\, or can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive a code to view the event for 72 hours. \nYou will see the Zoom link after you checkout and receive it in your email inbox within 24 hours. If you have issues registering\, please email ekrem@squeaky.org \nRead more about hiba ali’s exhibition at Squeaky Wheel here. \nBiographies\nhiba ali is a producer of moving images\, sounds\, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago\, toronto and eugene. born in karachi\, pakistan\, they belong to east african\, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili\, urdu\, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term art and publication projects: the first being an art-based phd project that examines womyn of colour’s labour\, and architecture of surveillance as it exists within the monopoly of amazon (corp.) and the second being a series of works that addresses music\, cloth and ritual practices that connect east africa\, south asia and the arabian peninsula in the swahili-indian ocean region. \nthey are an assistant professor at the college of design in the art & technology program at the university of oregon in eugene and they teach on decolonial\, feminist\, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies. currently\, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at queens university in kingston\, ontario. their work has been presented in chicago\, stockholm\, vienna\, berlin\, toronto\, new york\, istanbul\, são paulo\, detroit\, windsor\, dubai\, austin\, vancouver\, and portland. they have written for the following magazines: “c”\, the seen\, newcity chicago\, art chicago\, art dubai\, the state\, medium’s zora\, rtv\, and topical cream. \nnote: the profile picture indicates the need to not be perceived by all carceral\, surveillant and monitoring systems including the corporeal\, digital and virtual. the use of lowercase on this site denotes a turn away from egotism embedded in the english language (danah michele boyd) and towards ideas of the collective (bell hooks) and reminds us of the many realities\, names and glyphs that cannot be said in such a colonial language. \nBeheroze Shroff teaches in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis\, Indians of African descent in Gujarat\, Shroff has published widely in several journals and anthologies\, and documented on film different aspects of contemporary Siddi life\, in Gujarat. Most recently\, in 2020\, Shroff co-edited a three-volume publication titled Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora\, which explores the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have shaped and have been shaped by histories\, cultures\, and societies of South Asia. Her documentaries have been shown in public and academic venues: at Monsoons and Migrations: Unleashing Dhow Synergies– Conference in Association with the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF); The African Diaspora in Asia conference (TADIA) Goa; Samosa Arts and Culture Festival (Nairobi);  Max Planck Institute (Halle); School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London; Schomburg Library and Museum of Black Culture (New York); Malcolm X Library (San Diego\, California) and Pan African Film Festivals (Los Angeles)\, among others.   \nZavier Wingham (he/they) is a writer\, editor\, and PhD candidate in the joint program for History and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University\, with an additional concentration in the history of the African Diaspora. Their dissertation research explores how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race\, slavery\, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914\, as well as how Africans in the Ottoman empire experienced these processes of racialization and sought to create new kinds of community and ways of living. Their work has been supported by Fulbright\, ARIT\, and Koç University’s ANAMED. More of their work can be found at zavierwingham.com \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: documentation of hiba ali\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. The video in the cyclone (rough as silk) is projected on a wall; a green wavelike video is projected on a canvas on the floor. There are two green chairs facing the wall. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-hiba-ali-with-beheroze-shroff-and-zavier-wingham/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hibaaliroughassilk-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000877-1680894000-1680901200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 7\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nClick here for tickets\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Spring 2023 Workspace Residents! Dena Kopolovich (Flushing\, NY)\, Elenie Chung (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Laura Jaramillo (Durham\, NC)\, and Miranda Javid (Port Ewen\, NY) will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on a variety of projects including animations\, hybrid works\, lyrical essays on cinema\, and non-fiction films. Dena Kopolovich will be working towards the completion of her upcoming short film Container Film\, an experimental essay film created in a hybrid 16mm and digital format\, that engages with Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay\, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”. Elenie Chung will be assembling All the Films in My Grandfather’s Closet a planned hybrid docu-fiction\, telling the tale of Chung’s grandfather\, a Chinese Trinidadian whose life had been defined by an early marriage\, resistance to cultural customs and the changing times in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1930s to 2020s. Laura Jaramillo will be developing a book of lyrical essays investigating the fraught history of Colombian national cinema during the War on Drugs and global neoliberalization\, interwoven with her own biography as a diasporic Colombian and her family’s history. Miranda Javid will continue animating\, sound recording\, and editing Human Behavior\, a three-minute hand-drawn film drawn with sumi ink on tracing paper\, which asks viewers how even small gestures can impact others. \nIn-person attendees can find information on how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\n \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nElenie Chung is a filmmaker and artist\, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago\, currently based in Los Angeles\, CA. She is interested in using female relationships as a method of illustrating cultural disconnection and ancestral amnesia. Her films have screened in international festivals and art exhibitions. Since attending the University of California\, Los Angeles to achieve an MFA in Film Directing/Production\, she has been working remotely at Women Make Movies\, a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City and has been contributing to film organizations in Los Angeles to amplify under-recognised films by women\, international and non-white filmmakers. \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Four photographs against a graphic background. Left to right and top to bottom are: a portrait of Dena Kopolovich\, gazing off to the left and smiling\, wearing a light brown turtleneck\, with curly long auburn hair that is styled down. The background is a brick wall painted two different shades of red; A close up of Elenie Chung\, a young woman of East Asian descent wearing glasses and with short black hair. She is wearing a green and pink checkered wool scarf; Laura Jaramillo\, a woman in a black dress stares off to the right of the frame. There are trees and foliage behind her; and Miranda Javid\, a femme iranian woman in her mid-thirties stands in front of lush trees. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Workspace-Spring-2023.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10000863-1660935600-1660942800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Muse Dodd and Rob Cosgrove DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 19\, 2022\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nFor in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2022 artist residents\, Muse Dodd (Atlanta\, GA) and Rob Cosgrove (Sunnyside\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Muse Dodd will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to build models and sets for their installation and performance work Black in Both Directions that supposes that Black people invented time travel. Their project will utilize projection mapping\, draw on Afro-diasporic notions of time using oral testimonies\, and images created by the artist and archival video footage. Rob Cosgrove will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on Floaters\, a networked sonic performance in Silo City Marine A\, performed live for the public at the end of his residency. Inspired by the floating grain elevators used in the First Ward of Buffalo\, and drawing on the artist’s own family history in the area\, Cosgrove’s work contemplates the shifting networked relationship between the industrial and social communities in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Two photographs side by side. On the left is Muse Dodd\, a brown skinned\, Black\, non-binary person with blonde eyebrows\, wears a red camo durag while gazing at the camera and stands in front of a mustard backdrop. Their photograph is by Landon Spears. On the right is a photograph of Rob Cosgrove\, looking down surrounded by trees. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-muse-dodd-and-rob-cosgrove/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Muse-and-Dodd.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001077-1655294400-1655298000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:In conversation: Jenson Leonard and American Artist DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 15\, 12 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nAccess information: ASL interpretation and automated captions provided\nJenson Leonard is joined by American Artist for a virtual conversation on the occasion of Leonard’s exhibition GLAND PRIX. GLAND PRIX is a multiple-screen video exhibition to explore the stressors and somatic effects that racial capitalism and white supremacy have on Black life. Learn more about the exhibition here. \nThe live artist talk will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nThis event was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nAbout the artists \nJenson Leonard\, b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nAMERICAN ARTIST makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology\, race\, and knowledge production\, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture\, software\, and video. Artist is a 2022 Creative Capital and United States Artists grantee\, and a recipient of the 2021 LACMA Art & Tech Lab Grant. They are a resident at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and a former resident of Red Bull Arts\, Abrons Art Center\, Recess\, EYEBEAM\, Pioneer Works\, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel\, Switzerland; and Nam June Paik Center\, Seoul. They have had solo museum exhibitions at The Queens Museum\, New York and The Museum of African Diaspora\, California. Their work has been featured in the New York Times\, Artforum\, and Huffington Post. Artist is a lecturer at Parsons\, NYU\, UCLA and a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation. \nBanner image courtesy of Jenson Leonard. A digital image with two giant wheels\, a logo stating “GLAND PRIX: The Bio Labor Simulator” over a field of flames. On the left of the image is a portrait photograph of Jenson Leonard\, a portrait of a brown skinned person smiling while wearing glasses and a yellow sad face emoji hat. On the right is a portrait photograph of American Artist\, a brown-skinned person wearing a white hoodie\, blue puffer jacket on a red curtain backdrop. On the bottom is the text “In conversation: Jenson Leonard & American Artist”. American Artists photograph by Myles Loftin. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-jenson-leonard-and-american-artist/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T200000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001057-1650909600-1650916800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Jordan Lord DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 25\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist and filmmaker Jordan Lord\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2021\, and whose film Shared Resources we screened in Fall 2020. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at festivals and venues including DOCNYC\, QueerLisboa\, Anthology Film Archives\, Performance Space NY\, Artists Space\, and Camden Arts Centre\, and they have been in study with the group No Total since 2012. Their solo exhibition of video work “After…After…” was presented at Piper Keys in London\, UK in 2019. They received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College\, CUNY\, where they also teach. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nImage: Jordan Lord\, a 30 year-old white person with short brown hair\, stands in front of a tank of bioluminescent jellyfish\, wearing a face mask printed with the nose and mouth of a tiger. Their eyes seem to be smiling. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-jordan-lord/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-18-at-11.30.20-AM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220411T200000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001056-1649700000-1649707200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Emily Martinez DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 11\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist Emily Martinez\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2018. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nEmily Martinez (they/she) is a 1st generation Cuban immigrant/ refugee\, raised by Miami and living in Los Angeles since 2012. They are a new media artist and serial collaborator who believes in the tactical misuse of technology. Their most recent works explore new economies and queer technologies. Long-term projects explore collective trauma\, diasporic and transnational identities\, archetypal roles\, and post-apocalyptic narratives. When Emily is not working\, they are learning to love and doing their energy work. \nEmily’s art and research has been published in Art in America\, Media-N\, Leonardo Journal (MIT Press)\, Temporary Art Review\, and Filmmaker Magazine. Their work has been exhibited at international venues\, including Drugo More (Rijeka\, Croatia)\, Transmediale (Berlin\, DE)\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)\, MoMA PS1 (New York)\, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam\, NL)\, The Luminary (St. Louis)\, The Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam\, NL)\, and The Wrong Biennale. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nImage provided by the artist. Image description: A portrait of a white\, gender-ambiguous person\, with short brown hair\, hazel eyes\, and a warm smile. they are wearing a hoodie with an all-over-print of a synthetic-sliced-mineral-looking\, acid pattern that is seafoam green\, light cyan\, and navy blue. behind them is an artificial background gradient that is peach at the top and seafoam green at the bottom. #acidtropical URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-emily-martinez/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Emily-Martinez.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T200000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10001061-1648490400-1648497600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Crystal Z Campbell DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 28\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist Crystal Z Campbell\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2021\, and whose upcoming exhibition at Buffalo Arts Studio we are co-presenting. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nBanner image: Portrait of Crystal Z Campbell\, a Black and Asian artist in the studio gazing directly into camera\, with just above the shoulder length curly hair wrangled into a half-ponytail. Light from the industrial window creates a pink and reddish glow on their cheek\, filtered through a transparency the artist is holding. The transparency is a film still from a found 35mm film the artist found at a now demolished Black Civil Rights Theater. The photograph is courtesy of Melissa Lukenbaugh. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-crystal-z-campbell/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Campbell_Headshot_Studio.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10001059-1647543600-1647550800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Carlos Castellanos and Zain Alam DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 17\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Spring 2022 artist residents\, Carlos Castellanos (Rochester\, NY) and Zain Alam (Brooklyn\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Carlos Castellanos will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to work on Beauty\, a machine-microbial system featuring a bio-driven artificial intelligence system. The project remediates contaminated soil ecology while generating audio and visuals of the process in real-time. Zain Alam will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on I Am Sitting in a Room\, an audio-visual exercise in layering recitations of the azaan (the Islamic call to prayer) to distill them into tonal content. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nCarlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher with a wide array of interests such as cybernetics\, ecology\, embodiment\, phenomenology\, artificial intelligence and transdisciplinary collaboration. His work bridges science\, technology\, education and the arts\, developing a network of creative interaction with living systems\, the natural environment and emerging technologies. His artworks have been exhibited at local\, national and international events such as the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA)\, SIGGRAPH & ZERO1 San Jose. Castellanos is Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Games & Media (IGM)\, Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)\, Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, San Jose State University. \nZain Alam is an artist and musician of Indian-Pakistani origin based in Brooklyn\, NY. Described as “a unique intersection\, merging the cinematic formality of Bollywood and geometric repetition of Islamic art\,” his recording project Humeysha began during his year working as an oral historian for the 1947 Partition Archive. His work is a project of translation using contemporary pop forms\, found sound\, and oral history as means of investigating one’s position in an outside tradition or community. Alam’s practice extends his sonic vision into video\, performance\, and writing. His works are braided together by a passion for the borrowed voice\, re/de-contextualization\, and bricolage — for how a personal mosaic of sound can empower minority and marginalized to engage in self-creation on their own terms. His essays have been published in Miami Rail\, Buzzfeed\, and The New Yorker\, and Humeysha has been covered by the New York Times\, Vice\, and Village Voice. His performances have been staged at venues including Public Arts\, Webster Hall\, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Alam has most recently completed fellowships with Bruce High Quality Foundation\, Marble House\, and South Asian American Digital Archive. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you to Hostel-Buffalo Niagara for sponsoring this session of the program. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-carlos-castellanos-and-zain-alam/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Carlos-Castellanos-and-Zain-Alam.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220214T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220214T193000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10001055-1644861600-1644867000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY DESCRIPTION:Monday\, February 14\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY on the closing date of her exhibition i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me at Squeaky Wheel. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. Holloway has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-shawne-michaelain-holloway/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/shawnemichaelainhollowayatprintedmatterunbagmagazinerelease11jan2018.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10000848-1637262000-1637353800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:helloiamandra8: Alison Nguyen in conversation with Sophie Cavoulacos DESCRIPTION:*New date* Thursday\, November 18\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nAccess information: ASL interpretation and automated captions provided\nAn evening of conversation on labor\, AI\, performance\, among other topics\, this artist talk by Alison Nguyen with curator Sophie Cavoulacos looks at the history\, underpinnings\, and the digital and physical work surrounding her multifaceted project Andra8. \nAndra8 takes its name after a computer-generated woman based on the artist’s physicality. From the apartment where she has been ‘placed’ Andra8 works as a digital laborer\, surviving off the data from her various ‘freemium’ jobs as a virtual assistant\, a data janitor\, a life coach\, an aspiring influencer\, and content creator. Something begins to trouble Andra8: her life depends on her compulsory consumption and output of human data – or so she’s been told. Andra8 explores the implications of such an existence\, and what arises when one attempts to subvert them. First exhibited in 2020\, the project spans video\, installation\, sculpture\, and interactive online performances. \nAudiences who register will have access to the full performances and short film that Nguyen has created as part of the project. The live artist talk will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nAbout the artist \nAlison Nguyen is a New York-based artist whose work spans video\, installation\, performance\, and new media. Her screenings include: e-flux\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, International Film Festival Oberhausen\, CPH:DOX\, Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Crossroads presented by SF MoMA/SF Cinemateque\, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art\, True/False Film Festival\, Open City Documentary Festival\, and Microscope Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, AC Gallery Beijing\, The Dowse Art Museum\, Hartnett Gallery\, La Kaje\, and The University of Oklahoma\, Contemporary Art and Digital Fair\, Miami\, among others.  \nNguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, Signal Culture\, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been awarded grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, NYSCA\, and The New York Community Trust. In 2018 Alison Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” In 2021 she was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Video/Film.  \nAlison Nguyen has been a Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic at numerous institutions and organizations including Cooper Union\, The New School\, Rhode Island School of Design\, The School of Visual Arts\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, and Squeaky Wheel. Nguyen graduated from Brown Univerisity with a B.A. in Literary Arts. She currently lives and works in Harlem where she is a MFA candidate in Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. \nSophie Cavoulacos is an Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art where she organizes moving image projects across the museum’s cinemas and galleries. Recent exhibitions include the expanded cinema installation Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination (2020) and Club 57: Film\, Performance\, and Art in the East Village\, 1978–1983 (2017-8). She has been a programmer for the New Directors/New Films and Doc Fortnight festivals and leads Modern Mondays\, MoMA’s artist’s cinema series to which she has contributed programs with Jibade-Khalil Huffman\, Habibi Collective\, Bernadette Mayer\, Metahaven\, Nazlı Dinçel\, Monira al Qadiri\, Emilija Skarnulyte\, Raha Raissnia\, Alexander Kluge\, and many others. Recent film exhibitions also include Currents: Re-Viewing Cineprobe\, 1968–2002 (2019) and special projects with The Residents and Ken Okiishi. She is also active in the museum’s collection displays and was part of the curatorial team for MoMA’s 2019 reinstallation. \nProduction assistance for Andra8 provided by Jonathan Beilin (Technical Director + Cinematographer)\, Scott Kiernan (Composer)\, Tim Bruniges (Vocal Sound Designer)\, Achim Koh (Programmer)\, Stephanie Neptune (Co-Editor and Post-Production Supervisor)\, Andrew Nerviano (Sound Mix)\, and Shisanwu LLC (Drafting). \nBanner image: Alison Nguyen\, my favorite software is being here\, HD video\, color\, sound\, 19 minutes\, 2020 – 2021. Image description: An image of a digital environment with the avatar Andra8 with her head leaning over a bag of Lays chips. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/helloiamandra8-alison-nguyen-in-conversation/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-25-at-2.28.49-PM-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211006T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T200000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10000846-1633546800-1633636800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 6\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nClick here to register\nAccess information: ASL interpretation provided. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nAn intimate event incorporating both pre-recorded and live video\, SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is joined by Camille Bacon for a virtual conversation about her work. Taking the form of letters written to each other\, HOLLOWAY and Bacon will speak to yearning\, irresolution\, letting go\, and the passing of time\, with Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula functioning as a touchstone. The conversation will be followed by a public Q&A. The event marks the opening of HOLLOWAY’s exhibition and web project\, i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back. \nAn email with instructions and a link will be sent to you on the event date and will be accessible on Eventbrite’s Online Event Page. The event will be accessible for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members get extended access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nTo see more information about the exhibition\, click here. \nBiographies \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nThis program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/shawne-michaelain-holloway-and-camille-bacon/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Rectangle-Square-SHAWNÉ-and-Camille.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210827T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001048-1630004400-1630090800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Crystal Z Campbell\, Jordan Lord\, Olivia Ong Evans DESCRIPTION:Image description: A rectangular image with three photographs side by side. From left to right: Portrait of Crystal Z Campbell\, a Black and Asian artist in the studio gazing directly into camera\, with just above the shoulder length curly hair wrangled into a half-ponytail. Light from the industrial window creates a pink and reddish glow on their cheek\, filtered through a transparency the artist is holding. The transparency is a film still from a found 35mm film the artist found at a now demolished Black Civil Rights Theater. The photograph is courtesy of Melissa Lukenbaugh. In the middle photograph is Jordan Lord\, a 30 year-old white person with short brown hair\, stands in front of a tank of bioluminescent jellyfish\, wearing a face mask printed with the nose and mouth of a tiger. Their eyes seem to be smiling. The photograph on the right is of Olivia Ong Evans\, facing the camera and smiling. She has long\, black hair and is wearing metal framed glasses and a black and white shirt. Behind her is a pink\, purple\, gray\, and aqua blue video still showing tree branches\, river branches\, and a smoke stack in the background.⁠\nThursday\, August 26\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nClick here to register\nAccess information: TBA. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this artist talk with our three Summer 2021 artist residents\, Crystal Z Campbell (Oklahoma City\, OK)\, Jordan Lord (New York\, NY)\, and Olivia Ong Evans (Tonawanda\, NY). The three artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engaging in a conversation with curator Ekrem Serdar. \nCrystal Z Campbell will be working on SLICK\, an experimental feature film considering the longstanding reverberations of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on the city of Tulsa and beyond. Jordan Lord is working on editing an essay film with their grandmother\, Prophetic Memory\, which examines the stakes in re-animating personal and collective history. Olivia Ong Evans will be working on Identity Karma\, an experimental video that explores the connections between identity construction and social structures. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at venues including MoMA\, ARGOS\, Camden Arts Centre\, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts\, and Performance Space NY (as part of the festival “I wanna be with you everywhere”). Their exhibition “Prophetic Memory” is currently in-progress online and at various sites via Artists Space (New York\, NY). They teach at Hunter College\, CUNY (New York). \nOlivia Ong Evans (she/her/hers) is a video artist currently living on occupied Haudenosaunee land (Western New York). She uses experimental practices to create glitchy\, distorted visuals that explore positionality.  Her work centers on themes of identity construction\, migration\, connection to land\, and Hokkien Indonesian heritage. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-crystal-z-campbell-jordan-lord-olivia-ong-evans/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Residents_Horizontal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210618T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210618T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10001045-1624042800-1624048200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Johann Diedrick DESCRIPTION:June 18\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: The artist talk will take place with automated open captions and ASL interpretation. The Q&A will take place over a shared Google Doc. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nOn the occasion of the opening of Dark Matters at Squeaky Wheel\, join us for an artist talk with Johann Diedrick. Dark Matters exposes the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. Utilizing 3D modeling\, sound\, and storytelling\, the project challenges our communities to grapple with racism and inequity through speech and the spoken word\, and how AI systems underserve Black communities. More information about the exhibition\, online project\, and public programs can be seen here. \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist\, engineer\, and musician who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for encountering our world through your ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for delightfully encountering our environment and each other. He is a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (Queens\, NY)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nThis event is presented with support from and as part of Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project. \nBanner image: Johann Diedrick. Photograph provided by the artist. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/johann-diedrick/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Diedrick-banner-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T170000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10001033-1618819200-1618851600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 19\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with filmmaker Sindhu Thirumalaisamy; this co-presentation follows our screening with Thirumalaisamy in Spring 2020 of her film The Lake and the Lake. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nSindhu Thirumalaisamy‘s work across moving images\, sound\, and text\, is rooted in a critical listening practice. It engages common places such as hospitals\, parks\, streets\, temples\, mosques\, and lakes\, as sites of collective resistance and care\, paying close attention to possibilities for speech and action with/in them. \nSindhu holds a diploma in digital video production from Srishti School of Art\, Design\, and Technology\, Bangalore\, and an MFA in visual art from the University of California\, San Diego. She has participated in the Whitney Independent Study program\, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, and the SOMA Summer program. She is a 2020-21 Core artist-fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. \nSindhu’s most recent film\, The Lake and The Lake\, won the Best Documentary Award at the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Recent exhibitions include programs at Camden International Film Festival\, Open City Documentary Festival\, BlackStar Film Festival\, DokuFest\, Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)\, Kinodot Experimental Film Festival\, EFA Project Space\, Union Docs\, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center\, Artists’ Television Access\, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival\, Current:LA Triennial\, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego\, and San Diego Museum of Art. \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-sindhu-thirumalaisamy/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sindhuthirumalaisamy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210412T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210412T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10001035-1618250400-1618259400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Ekrem Serdar DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 12\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. Squeaky Wheel co-presents a talk with our curator Ekrem Serdar\, who will be speaking about his curatorial practice\, and recent work in our exhibitions programs. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nEkrem Serdar is the curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (2015–present)\, where he is responsible for the organization’s exhibitions\, public programming\, and artist residencies. Previously\, he was a programmer with Experimental Response Cinema (Austin\, TX) which he co-founded. He is the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2017). He is an advisory member of Experimental Response Cinema\, and the FOL Cinema Society (Istanbul). His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail\, Millennium Film Journal\, 5harfliler\, among other publications. He completed his BA in Critical Studies\, and his MFA in Media Arts Production at the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. He is from Ankara\, Turkey. \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-ekrem-serdar/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ekrem-Serdar.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191404Z UID:10001031-1617645600-1617654600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Jenson Leonard DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 5\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with Jenson Leonard\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel for the Summer 2020 session. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nJenson Leonard‘s practice involves the intersection of poetry\, conceptual art\, and internet memes. Not unlike the earliest forms of oral poetry\, memes transmit our cultural memory. I scour the web for these preserves…the copies and reproductions of our collective digital id\, dragging and dropping(sculpting) my findings into the Adobe Suite to create a bricolage of text and image that call into question notions of identity and empire. I chart an internet psychogeography that questions the sensorial exhaustiveness of audiovisual capitalism–An art that\, in the framework of predictive algorithms and data extractions attempts intervention within the infrastructure of social media. Instagram: @coryintheabyss \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-jenson-leonard/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JensonPLASMA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191405Z UID:10001038-1616180400-1616187600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Hanae Utamura and Jacob Nelsen-Epstein DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 19\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: The live-streamed video will feature automated open caption. The Google Doc Q&A features screen reader and screen magnification support. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nFeaturing two artists taking on the nature of time and transience\, Squeaky Wheel is pleased to present this artist talk with our two Spring 2021 artist residents Hanae Utamura & Jacob Nelsen-Epstein. Both artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engaging in a conversation with curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Hanae Utamura will be working on the poetic short film The Nuclear / Niagara Falls\, which focuses on the history of Niagara River and Niagara Falls as the site of a toxic waste dumping ground\, rooted in her research in Japan’s fraught relationship with nuclear power. Jacob Nelsen-Epstein will be working on Re-Virtualization\, a book and hardware interface that utilizes the text from the book as a storage medium in lieu of a harddrive to draw attention to the impermanence of digital storage methods. \nSee more more information on their residency here. \nBios of the artists \nHanae Utamura is a Japanese visual artist based in Buffalo\, New York. Utamura’s media include video\, performance\, installation\, and sculpture. Negotiations and conflicts between the human and earth\, and how all the varieties of the wills of life manifest\, have been the central focus of her practice. She has been awarded Shiseido Art Egg Award\, Art Omi residency\, the Pola Art Foundation\, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary Award\, and Axis/Florence Trust Award. She was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2019-2020\, supported by Japanese Ministry of Culture\, Japanese government as a part of Japan – United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Art. Image of Hanae Utamura by Peter Rosemann. \nJacob Nelsen-Epstein is a Buffalo based performer\, software developer and multi-media artist specializing in works contemplating the intersections of technology\, longevity\, and consumer culture. He is attending SUNY Buffalo’s Library/Information Science graduate program\, and has a background in media studies. Jacob has received awards working with the Institute for Aesthetic Modulation\, for choreographed performances involving monster costumes made from reclaimed e-waste. Jacob has also won awards for musical submissions to Re/Mixed Media Festival\, with media features in Do Androids Dance and Vice Magazine. Other previous works include attempts to physicalize software\, by visualizing compiled code as printed images. \nWorkspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-hanae-utamura-and-jacob-nelsen-epstein/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/10C351C6-815B-4880-A008-DFCFA9F7033D.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191405Z UID:10001032-1615831200-1615840200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Adam Khalil DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 15\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with filmmaker and artist Adam Khalil. This artist talk precedes our screening of the feature film EMPTY METAL\, directed by Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer\, on April 7. Click here for more information about the screening. \nEach event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nAdam Khalil\, a member of the Ojibway tribe\, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie\, Michigan\, whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor\, relation\, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, Walker Arts Center\, Lincoln Center\, Tate Modern\, HKW\, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit\, Toronto Biennial 2019 and Whitney Biennial 2019\, among other institutions. Upcoming exhibitions will be held at Gasworks in London\, Spike Island in Bristol\, and Artists Space in NYC. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants\, including but not limited to Sundance Art of Nonfiction\, Jerome Artist Fellowship\, Cinereach and the Gates Millennium Scholarship. \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-adam-khalil/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AdamKhalilPLASMA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200828T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200828T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191346Z UID:10000805-1598641200-1598648400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Race Jam: A panel on memes and online imagined blackness DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 28\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nFree and suggested donation\nUpon registration\, you will receive an email with information on how to view the event. If you encounter any issues accessing the event\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125.\nRegister here \nIn this intimate public knowledge-sharing event led by Jenson Leonard ( @coryintheabyss )\, and featuring Ashley Khirea Wahba ( @th0t_catalog )\, Nicolas Vargas ( @blackpowerbottomtext )\, and Pastiche Lumumba ( @pastichelumumba )\, Leonard and the participants will lead a discussion on the origins of the internet meme\, its mobilization as political ejecta in the 2016 election\, its shared resonances with graffiti and conceptual art practices\, and the structural and ethical pitfalls of the medium in the context of mass surveillance\, data extraction\, and digital blackface. \nAudiences will be able to ask questions to the panelist in the live chat\, which will be sent to the panelists upon moderation by SW. \nWorkspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Special thanks to Scribe Video Center. See more information about the Workspace Residency here. \nBanner image by Jenson Leonard. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/race-jam-a-panel-on-memes-and-online-imagined-blackness/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Racejam.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200822T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200822T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T223816 CREATED:20251230T191346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191346Z UID:10000804-1598122800-1598122800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet our Residents: Emily Watlington\, Eric Drasin\, Jenson Leonard\, Johann Diedrick DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 22\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation. Registration required.\nThis is an online event. Upon registration\, you will receive an email with information on how to view the event. Automatic captioning will be provided. \nRegister here \nJoin Squeaky Wheel for a chance to meet our Summer 2020 Workspace Residents and learn more about their past and ongoing projects in this evening of artist talks. \nDuring their residency\, Emily Watlington will be working on a chapter for a book on accessibility as an artistic medium\, focusing on artistic uses of closed captioning. Eric Barry Drasin will be researching digital art cooperatives vis a vis distributed technologies\, online communities spaces\, experimental finance\, and alternative forms of governance. Jenson Leonard will be filming and editing Workflow\, an installation centered around the velocity and momentum of blackness (historically and as imagined online) as it relates to the philosophical concept of acceleration-the idea that the only way out of capitalism is through its intensification. Johann Diedrick will be composing music for Wake\, an hour-long sonic performance relating to the local ecology in and around Silo City and its connection to the Buffalo River\, and that offers a moment to mourn over the loss of our environment\, our world\, and ourselves. The Summer 2020 residency was juried by Ekrem Serdar\, Martina LaVallo\, and Liz Park. Biographies of the residents and juries can be found below. \nA brief presentation before the artist talk will update you on how you can take part in the Workspace Residency with the upcoming application period in September. \nThis event will be streamed live on Youtube with automated captioning. Audiences will be able to ask questions through Youtube’s live-chat function. \nEmily Watlington is assistant editor at Art in America. She writes about contemporary art—primarily video—often through the lenses of feminism and disability justice. A Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree from MIT in the history\, theory\, and criticism of architecture and art\, she has held curatorial positions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries (now the MassArt Art Museum). Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum\, Mousse\, and Frieze\, and she has contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogues\, including Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 (2018)\, An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art (2017)\, and Independent Female Filmmakers (Routledge\, 2018). \nEric Barry Drasin is a research-based artist exploring the relationship between art and systems of value. Through emerging blockchain technologies\, his current research explores “distributed” processes\, objects\, and organizations that problematize and reprogram fundamental assumptions about how value is constructed and disseminated. Using contracts and legal frameworks as a platform for enacting collectivity\, his work injects cooperation and utopian absurdity into systems designed to consolidate power. The notion of the art object is rematerialized in digital space and expanded to engage notions of cultural production and collective agency. Value is thus performed as a form of disruption\, and capitalism itself is the terrain for the refiguration of the economic landscape. \nJenson Leonard\nMy practice involves the intersection of poetry\, conceptual art\, and internet memes. Not unlike the earliest forms of oral poetry\, memes transmit our cultural memory. I scour the web for these preserves…the copies and reproductions of our collective digital id\, dragging and dropping(sculpting) my findings into the Adobe Suite to create a bricolage of text and image that call into question notions of identity and empire. I chart an internet psychogeography that questions the sensorial exhaustiveness of audiovisual capitalism–An art that\, in the framework of predictive algorithms and data extractions attempts intervention within the infrastructure of social media. \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures that allow you to explore the world through your ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is currently a Spring 2020 technology artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works and a recipient of a 2020 Brooklyn Arts Fund grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Along with receiving an Asian Cultural Council grant\, his work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (in collaboration with Jonathan González)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nWorkspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Special thanks to Scribe Video Center. See more information about the Workspace Residency here. \nImage\, left to right: Emily Watlington\, Eric Barry Drasin\, Jenson Leonard\, Johann Diedrick. Images courtesy of the residents. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-our-residents-emily-watlington-eric-drasin-jenson-leonard-johann-diedrick/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Landscape-residents.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR