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:20160313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20161106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20170312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20171105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20180311T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20181104T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20190310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20191103T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180824T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180824T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191207Z
UID:10000936-1535140800-1535144400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Silo City: The Average Attendee Live in Person
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 24\, 2018\n@ Marine A\, Silo City (Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203)\n8pm\nFree and open to the public \nSqueaky Wheel returns to the legendary halls of Silo City for the premiere of The Average Attendee Live in Person! An absurdist take on housing market educationals\, The Average Attendee Live in Person features projections\, live and virtual performance\, costumes\, resounding in Silo City’s famous space. Interactive art works in Silo A and a structured\, improvised performance converge for a transformational evening on how anyone\, even you\, could be a master the real estate market. Join us at Silo City for this exciting 40 minute performance by Avye Alexandres\, our Summer 2018 Silo City Workspace Resident! \nAvye Alexandres was born in Athens\, Greece\, and moved to the United States at the age of six. Her multidisciplinary art practice\, which investigates the psychosocial ramifications of structures and space\, stems from her background in photography and theatre. Evolving from site-based performances her work now encompasses immersive sculpture\, locative media\, experimental digital narratives\, conceptual works\, photography and video\, as well as participatory experiences and installations. In 2015\, she received her MFA in Art and Emerging Practices from the University at Buffalo\, and has exhibited at venues such as the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, The Soap Factory\, IFP-MN Center for Media Arts\, and the Weismann Art Museum. \nAbout the program\nWorkspace Residency is a unique artist residency which supports local\, regional and national media artists and researchers who are working on projects in film\, video\, audio\, interactive media and emerging technologies in any stage of production. Founded in 2016 by Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo\, New York\, in collaboration with local partners Buffalo Game Space\, The Foundry\, and Silo City\, the residency provides support through equipment\, facilities\, and technical support for artists experimenting across a range of old and new technologies\, such as video\, sound\, digital platforms\, interactivity\, virtual reality\, and 3D printing. Community outreach and public engagement components include presentation and education activities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-the-average-attendee-live-in-person/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Residencies
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/avye.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180815T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180815T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191206Z
UID:10000933-1534356000-1534363200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:DIY Chrome Extensions for Artists with Emily Martinez
DESCRIPTION:How to Tactically Misuse Your Web Browser: DIY Chrome Extensions and Bookmarklets for Artists with Emily Martinez. \nThe focus of this two-hour workshop by artist and Workspace resident Emily Martinez will be on using the web browser to make internet art and other strange\, un-user-friendly\, or subversive things. Participants will see and test examples of Chrome extensions and Bookmarklets made by artists. They will be guided through the process of creating their own extensions and publishing them to the Chrome Web Store. Basic knowledge of HTML\, CSS\, and Javascript is best\, though not required. Templates with all of the Javascript code necessary to make at least two extensions will be provided. Recommended age: Adults\, 18+ \nEmily Martinez is a new media artist\, front-end developer\, digital strategist\, educator\, and serial collaborator. She believes in the tactical misuse of technology\, and makes artworks that take on the sharing economy\, digital labor struggles\, algorithmic bias\, surveillance capitalism\, crypto colonialism\, tech bros\, and tech culture at large. Emily’s art and research has been published in Leonardo Journal (MIT Press)\, Entreprecariat (Institute of Network Cultures)\, Temporary Art Review\, and Filmmaker Magazine. She has exhibited at The Wrong Biennale\, Transmediale\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, MoMA PS1\, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media\, WRO Media Art Biennale\, and The Luminary. \nAbout the program\nWorkspace Residency is a unique artist residency which supports local\, regional and national media artists and researchers who are working on projects in film\, video\, audio\, interactive media and emerging technologies in any stage of production. Founded in 2016 by Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo\, New York\, in collaboration with local partners Buffalo Game Space\, The Foundry\, and Silo City\, the residency provides support through equipment\, facilities\, and technical support for artists experimenting across a range of old and new technologies\, such as video\, sound\, digital platforms\, interactivity\, virtual reality\, and 3D printing. Community outreach and public engagement components include presentation and education activities. \nWorkspace Residency is made possible with generous support from the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/masterclass-diy-chrome-extensions-for-artists/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/how-to-tactically-misuse-your-web-browser.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180810T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180810T173000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191146Z
UID:10000652-1533918600-1533922200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:SILENT/SOUND: Variations on Napoleon
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 10 \, 2018\n8:30pm\n @ Front Yard at the Burchfield Penney Art Center\nFree and open to the general public \nJoin us at the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Front Yard for the 2017 edition of SILENT/SOUND. Artist and filmmaker Brian Milbrand will be live remixing footage from films throughout history featuring the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte\, including Abel Gance’s 1927 epic\, famous for its climactic three screen coda. Set to a live performance of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Sinfonia Eroica (Heroic Symphony aka Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major)\, originally dedicated to Napoleon\, this viscerally arresting evening of sight and sound explores what it is about grandiose\, even dictatorial figures that continues to attract humanities love and admiration. Bring your blankets and lawn chairs\, and prepare for the return of Squeaky Wheel and the Burchfield Penney’s signature summer event.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silentsound-variations-on-napoleon/
LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Napolean-1.jpg
GEO:42.932726;-78.8783211
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave Buffalo 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1300 Elmwood Ave:geo:-78.8783211,42.932726
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180808T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180808T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191146Z
UID:10000720-1533754800-1533760200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Workspace Residency: Public Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 8\, 2018\n6:30pm door | 7pm Start\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for an evening with our Summer 2018 Workspace residents\, Avye Alexandres (Buffalo\, NY)\, Devin Hentz (Dakar\, Senegal)\, and Emily Martinez (Glendale\, CA)\, at the first public event as part of their residency. The artists and researchers will be delivering ~20 minute presentations on their work and projects. This free event is an excellent opportunity to get to know the residents and their projects as they begin their three-week time at Squeaky Wheel! \nResearch resident Devin Hentz will be investigating the linguistic implications of the vocabulary that develops around second-hand clothing in African countries. She will also design and construct new textiles that play or refer to these local names and their literal meanings / translations through the use of 3D models in Blender. Artist Resident Emily Martinez will be working on a series of videos for an escape room that builds towards a live-action multimedia escape room game Eternal Boy Playground. The game explores cultural tropes and trends that spring up around cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin as they relate to the utopian ideals of a group of self-proclaimed “Puertopians” who are flocking to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Finally\, Silo City Resident Avye Alexandres will be utilizing Buffalo’s most well-known public landmark\, Silo City\, to present an absurdist performance sparked by the manipulative tactics and rhetoric used in housing market investment education workshops. \nBios of the residents\nAvye Alexandres was born in Athens\, Greece\, and moved to the United States at the age of six. Her multidisciplinary art practice\, which investigates the psychosocial ramifications of structures and space\, stems from her background in photography and theatre. Evolving from site-based performances her work now encompasses immersive sculpture\, locative media\, experimental digital narratives\, conceptual works\, photography and video\, as well as participatory experiences and installations. In 2015\, she received her MFA in Art and Emerging Practices from the University at Buffalo\, and has exhibited at venues such as the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, The Soap Factory\, IFP-MN Center for Media Arts\, and the Weismann Art Museum. \nDevin Hentz is a researcher and writer based in Dakar\, Senegal. She recently participated in the second session of the RAW Academie\, directed by Chimurenga\, at RAW Material Company before working there as a librarian and researcher. She is the founder of the B/Look Club which meets once per month to activate the archive of RAW Base (RAW’s Library). Her writings have been published in LESS Magazine and the upcoming issue of Something We Africans Got. Her areas of interests include\, Afro/African futures\, development narratives in Africa\, dress practices\, and radical pedagogy. \nEmily Martinez is a new media artist\, front-end developer\, digital strategist\, educator\, and serial collaborator. She believes in the tactical misuse of technology\, and makes artworks that take on the sharing economy\, digital labor struggles\, algorithmic bias\, surveillance capitalism\, crypto colonialism\, tech bros\, and tech culture at large. Emily’s art and research has been published in Leonardo Journal (MIT Press)\, Entreprecariat (Institute of Network Cultures)\, Temporary Art Review\, and Filmmaker Magazine. She has exhibited at The Wrong Biennale\, Transmediale\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, MoMA PS1\, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media\, WRO Media Art Biennale\, and The Luminary. \nAbout the program\nWorkspace Residency is a unique artist residency which supports local\, regional and national media artists and researchers who are working on projects in film\, video\, audio\, interactive media and emerging technologies in any stage of production. Founded in 2016 by Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo\, New York\, in collaboration with local partners Buffalo Game Space\, The Foundry\, and Silo City\, the residency provides support through equipment\, facilities\, and technical support for artists experimenting across a range of old and new technologies\, such as video\, sound\, digital platforms\, interactivity\, virtual reality\, and 3D printing. Community outreach and public engagement components include presentation and education activities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/workspace-residency-public-presentations/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ResidentsColor.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:20180804
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180908
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191146Z
UID:10000721-1533340800-1536364799@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 15th Animation Fest!
DESCRIPTION:Screening 1\nSaturday\, August 4\, 12pm\nat the Frank E. Merriweather Library\n\nScreening 2\nFriday\, September 7\, 7:30pm\nat the Albright Knox Art Gallery \nAll screenings are free and open to the public! \nSqueaky Wheel is proud to announce our 15th Animation Festival! This free\, all-ages\, family-friendly affair with the famous Squeaky edge is a showcase of short animated film\, featuring a variety of techniques\, from hand-made film to 3D animation. Guest curated by Savion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo (D.O.P.E. Collective)\, we are proud to present the biggest animation fest yet. Make sure to attend all screenings to see all the films! \nAmong the works featured in the festival are Orisha’s Journey\, an African tale of a girl named Orisha who journeys into the spirit world; Two Spirit\, a reflection on the term indicating someone of native descent who possesses both male and female spirits; Mahogany Too\, an experimental Nollywood sequel to the lustrous 1975 Diana Ross drama. Other works visualize the snapping boasts of Muhammad Ali; elegantly explore Brazillian dance and Yoruba spirituality through hand-painted animation; and showcase the trials of a black queer youth who tries to find acceptance. Foregrounding artists of African and Indigenous/Native descent\, the screening features works from around the world\, and the possibilities of science fiction courses through the veins of all three screenings. \nWith films by Adrian Baker\, Donovan Vim Crony\, Sergio Di Bitetto\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, Carrie Hawks\, Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil & Jackson Polys\, Elizabeth LaPensée\, Laura Marguiles\, Lucas Martell\, Everard McBain\, Teouria Morris\, Abdul Ndadi\, Akosua Adoma Owusu\, Ibrahim Waziri\, Don Jonathan Webb\, and Jin Woo. \n  \n \nOrisha’s Journey by Abdul Ndadi\n \nHepa! by Laura Margulies\n \nPlugin by Sergio Di Bitetto\n \nBeautiful\, by Jin Woo\nScreening 1 Program\nHepa! by Laura Margulies\n6:30min\, 16mm on digital\, 1998\nAward winning (NYFA and Dance Films Association)\, Hepa! played at the Sundance film festival. It is a hand painted\, animated exploration into Brazilian Capoeira\, dance\, Orishas and drum. Live action footage blended with animation. Featuring Marivaldo Dos Santos of Stomp. \nCelflux Reluctant Heroes Trailer by Everard McBain\n1:45min\, digital\, 2017\nThe trailer for the upcoming animated series Celflux. \nPlugin by Sergio Di Bitetto\n4:29min\, digital\, 2014\nPlugin is the story of a mechanical city in which every citizen is a part of the city itself\, responsible for generating lights by connecting the male and female parts of the mechanism. Everyone seems to fit into this perfect puzzle except the main character\, G-O\, a man who does not match the rest of his world. G-O finally finds his perfect match – another man – but the City Authority try to stop this uncommon union. It is up to G-O and Ico to show their city that every connection is after all part of the same energy – love. \nMuhammad Ali – “How Great I Am” (Animated) by Don Jonathan David Webb\n1min\, digital\, closed captioned\, 2017\nMuhammad Ali was so much more than a professional boxer\, he was a global icon\, civil-rights activist\, and an American hero.\nThe audio used in this animation was from a 1974 event promoting the upcoming Ali-Foreman fight (aka “The Rumble in the Jungle”).\nAli’s use of poetry\, language and humor was a tool he utilized to build momentum\, and in a sense\, to proclaim victory in his upcoming fights.\nThis animated video is dedicated to him. The Greatest! \nThe Violence of a Civilization without Secrets by Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil\, Jackson Polys\n10min\, digital\, 2017\nAn urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty\, the undead violence of museum archives\, and postmortem justice through the case of the “Kennewick Man\,” a prehistoric Paleo-American man whose remains were found in Kennewick\, Washington\, in 1996. \nAnnie & Dave by Teouria Morris\n2:50min\, digital\, 2018\nWithin a classroom at North Ridge High sits Annie\, a girl with a big appetite and Dave\, a quiet misunderstood boy. Over the course of the class Annie’s eating gets Dave in trouble repeatedly with their strict teacher\, who tolerates no disobedience from her students. In the end a truce is formed\, a new friendship is beginning and sharing food is tolerated. \nOrisha’s Journey by Abdul Ndadi\n5:20\, digital\, 2014\nBased on African folklore; “Orisha’s Journey” is the fantasy tale of a girl called Orisha\, who ventures into the spirit world and must learn the importance of remembering her roots. \nemptying\, to make room for overflowing by Hannah R.W. Hamalian\n5min\, digital\, 2017\nWhat if there are really gleaming cities hung upside-down over the desert sand? A girl contends with her fate by taking on a var hiiety of forms. A cube becomes a vessel\, a site of transformation\, a container of the universe. \nMahogany Too by Akosua Adoma Owusu\n3min\, Super-8mm on digital\, 2018\nInspired by Nollywood’s distinct re-imagining in the form of sequels\, Mahogany Too\, interprets the 1975 cult classic\, Mahogany\, a fashion-infused romantic drama. Starring Nigerian actress Esosa E.\, Mahogany Too\, examines and revives Diana Ross’ iconic portrayal of Tracy Chambers\, a determined and energetic African-American woman enduring racial disparities while pursuing her dreams. Mahogany Too uses analog film to achieve its vintage tones which emphasizes the essence of the character\, re-creating Tracy’s qualities through fashion\, modeling\, and styling. \nAquarium by Hannah R.W. Hamalian\n4:46min\, digital\, 2018\nThe composition of the human body is interpreted through fractal geometric shapes\, which are released into pulsating movements. A monochromatic visual world pairs with a fragmented soundtrack to speculate about the possibility of cohesion. Limbs and pieces assemble and disassemble within a red pool\, as desire for unity is mediated. \nNOISE GATE by Donovan Vim Crony\n8min\, digital\, 2013\nNOISE GATE is an experimental sci-fi short film about a dimensional traveling Scientist who is in search of the ultimate reality. His only passage into that realm is something called the NOISE GATE. \nScreening 2 Program\nHepa! by Laura Margulies\n6:30min\, 16mm on digital\, 1998\nAward winning (NYFA and Dance Films Association)\, Hepa! played at the Sundance film festival. It is a hand painted\, animated exploration into Brazilian Capoeira\, dance\, Orishas and drum. Live action footage blended with animation. Featuring Marivaldo Dos Santos of Stomp. \nBeautiful\, by Jin Woo\n7:40min\, digital\, 2014\nThis picture portrays the society’s heavy influence on the unification of individual characters in this world. \nPlugin by Sergio Di Bitetto\n4:29min\, 2014\, digital\nPlugin is the story of a mechanical city in which every citizen is a part of the city itself\, responsible for generating lights by connecting the male and female parts of the mechanism. Everyone seems to fit into this perfect puzzle except the main character\, G-O\, a man who does not match the rest of his world. G-O finally finds his perfect match – another man – but the City Authority try to stop this uncommon union. It is up to G-O and Ico to show their city that every connection is after all part of the same energy – love. \nOrisha’s Journey by Abdul Ndadi\n5:20min\, digital\, 2014\nBased on African folklore; “Orisha’s Journey” is the fantasy tale of a girl called Orisha\, who ventures into the spirit world and must learn the importance of remembering her roots. \nMuhammad Ali – “How Great I Am” (Animated) by Don Jonathan David Webb\n1min\, digital\, closed captioned\, 2017\nMuhammad Ali was so much more than a professional boxer\, he was a global icon\, civil-rights activist\, and an American hero.\nThe audio used in this animation was from a 1974 event promoting the upcoming Ali-Foreman fight (aka “The Rumble in the Jungle”).\nAli’s use of poetry\, language and humor was a tool he utilized to build momentum\, and in a sense\, to proclaim victory in his upcoming fights.\nThis animated video is dedicated to him. The Greatest! \nCelflux Reluctant Heroes Trailer by Everard McBain\n1:45min\, digital\, 2017\nThe trailer for the upcoming animated series Celflux. \nBuried by Adrian Baker\n3:10min\, digital\, 2013\nBuried: Ohlone activist and educator Corinna Gould talks about the destruction of sacred sites\, with a focus on the shellmounds in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. \nThe Violence of a Civilization without Secrets by Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil\, Jackson Polys\n10min\, digital\, 2017\nAn urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty\, the undead violence of museum archives\, and postmortem justice through the case of the “Kennewick Man\,” a prehistoric Paleo-American man whose remains were found in Kennewick\, Washington\, in 1996. \nblack enuf* by Carrie Hawks\n22:16min\, digital\, closed-captioned\, 2016\nA queer oddball seeks approval from black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging. \nBio of the curator \nSavion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo is an afro-futurist multidisciplinary artist and ghetto organizer born in Buffalo\, NY and raised in the Kenfield/Langfield Projects. Through his fine art and multimedia collages he recreates memories and dreamscapes incorporating themes of self-preservation\, Black celebration\, imagination\, and grief. He developed his skill by blocking-out neighborhood sidewalks with chalk drawings and studying digital tutorials. Institutionally he attended Buffalo Academy of Visual Performing Arts and briefly\, Villa Maria College majoring in animation. Growing up Ineil indulged in: Walt Disney animations\, climbing trees\, the epics of ancient religions and folklore\, anime\, early 2000’s hip hop and R&B\, science fiction adventure\, and his gullah/geechee heritage. \nIn 2014 he co-owned\, graphic design business and zine distributor\, VENT. Soon after in 2015 he co-founded D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment)\, a Black youth-led anti-oppressive arts organization that aims to strengthen  local resources for creative and exploited communities which resists through art forms and arts movements considered: white-washed\, extreme\, stigmatized\, political\, and/or experimental.  \nIneil Quaran is now developing work for his first solo art show and is continuing to cultivate resources supporting the East Side\, melaninated creatives\, and all the black and brown *QTs! \n*QT = queer and trans people \nBios of the artists \nOver the past two decades Adrian Baker has produced\, written and directed numerous projects for television and the web\, including the award-winning animated poetry series SlamBox\, which was produced in partnership with Youth Speaks. As Creative Director for MadLab Creative his client list included DreamWorks Records\, Sony Screenblast\, and Wild Brain Animation. Adrian’s current project is Injunuity\, an episodic documentary using a unique mix of animation\, music and real audio to explore modern American life from a contemporary Native American perspective\, which aired nationally on PBS in November\, 2013 and has been seen (in part or whole) in numerous film festivals worldwide. Injunuity 2.0 is now in production. The project also includes an educational portal and is being produced in partnership with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Vision Maker Media. In addition to his animation\, Adrian has also worked extensively in the education field as a teacher\, mentor and coach\, has published several pieces of short fiction and has optioned a feature length screenplay. Currently Adrian lives in Oakland\, California with his wife and daughter.” \nDonovan Vim Crony is a film/TV Producer and visual artist living and working in Los Angeles. His work focuses on fusing themes of rock & roll and speculative fiction (sci-fi\, horror\, fantasy) in contemporary and dystopian societies. His visual art style is highly influenced by comic book and anime culture as seen through the lens of the African diaspora. For more information on Donovan Vim Crony\, visit www.vimcrony.com. IG: @VimCrony \nSergio Di Bitetto is an Italian animator and designer born in a small town of the south of Italy who has always dreamed to work in the Cartoons industry. Grew up with Disney’s classical feature films and Japanese anime\, he developed his skills attending an artistic high school\, then moving to Milan where he obtained his degree in Media design and Multimedia Arts. After graduating he had the chance to enter in the business as motion graphic designer and compositor\, working for many Italian and international brands in the TV and video commercial industry. After three years of work experience in this field\, he decided to go back to his passion for animation\, moving to Canada where he attended the Classical Animation program at Vancouver Film School. He’s now currently working the animation industry in Canada\, while trying to pursuing his childhood dream to tell story that will inspire the world. \nHannah R.W. Hamalian is a filmmaker engaged in demonstrating complexity in order to point to the richness of life. Through animation\, live action\, and appropriated video\, she asks questions of herself and her viewers in order to untangle the forces that shape people into who they are. Interpreting being as a daily process of renewal rather than a static mode\, her work often centers the body as a site of transformation. She is drawn to motion and immersive soundscapes as tools to create experiences of expanded possibility. She is currently based in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin where she is an instructor in the Film department at UW-Milwaukee. \nCarrie Hawks harnesses the magic of animation to tell stories. The artist works in a variety of medium including drawing\, doll-making\, and performance. Their work addresses gender\, sexuality\, and race. They have shown in New York\, Atlanta\, Kansas City\, Toronto\, and Tokyo. They hold a BA in Art History & Visual Arts from Barnard College and a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University. Their first film\, Delilah\, won the Best Experimental Award at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival (2012). Their films have screened at BlackStar Film Festival (Philadelphia)\, CinemAfrica (Stockholm\, Sweden)\, and MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival (New York). black enuf* won the ‘Best Animation’ at Reel Sisters of the Diaspora\, and ‘Best Women’s Short Film-Audience Award’ at the 30th Annual Out on Film Festival in Atlanta\, Georgia. \nAdam Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist. He attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor\, relation\, and transgression. His and his brother Zack’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, UnionDocs\, e-flux\, and the Walker Art Center. \nZack Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist. His work centers on indigenous narratives in the present—and looks towards the future—through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Along with his brother Adam\, he is a Gates Millennium Scholar\, UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow\, and current Sundance Native Film Fellow. \nElizabeth LaPensée\, Ph.D. is an award-winning designer\, writer\, artist\, and researcher who creates and studies Indigenous-led media such as games and comics. She is an Assistant Professor of Media & Information and Writing\, Rhetoric & American Cultures at Michigan State University. Most recently\, she designed and created art for Thunderbird Strike (2017)\, a lightning-searing side-scroller game which won Best Digital Media at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. \nLaura Marguiles began animating in 1988 as a means to combine her love of dance and art. Animation has continued to inspire Laura\, who has spent over twenty five years exploring paint in motion. Her personal films have been screened worldwide in film festivals (Sundance\, Ann Arbor\, Margaret Mead\, Anima Munde\, Asifa\, New York Children’s Film Festival\, and Cardiff International Film Festival\, Hawaii International Film Festival\, Honolulu Museum of Art\, etc) and her commissioned work has aired nationwide (PBS\, CBS\, MTV\, VH1\, Sundance Channel etc.). She has received awards and grants from Cinedance Film Festival\, Broadcast Design\, Asifa East\, Ann Arbor\, and Creativity Magazine\, New York University\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, Dance Films Association\, Te PEW Charitable Funds. Besides creating her own flms\, Laura has worked as a designer and colorist at MTV Animation on the classics Te Head\, Beavis and Butthead and Daria and as a freelance illustrator\, animator and artist. Laura has taught animation at Pratt\, New York Film Academy\, School of Visual Arts\, Punahou School\, I’olani School\, Hawaii Women in Filmmaking  and at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she was on the faculty and taught for thirteen years. She has been teaching animation at the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawaii since 2015. She continues to work on freelance jobs. Most recently she supervised the animation as well as creating animation for a collaborative event Symphony of Birds at Blaisdell Cancert Hall in Honolulu. “ \nLucas Martell’s first short film Pigeon: Impossible has been shown in over 250 festivals in 43 countries\, and won more than 20 awards including Best Short at the Montreal World Film Festival and Best in Show at ArtFutura in Spain. The film was also a viral hit online\, having passed 11 million views on YouTube alone. Since Pigeon: Impossible\, Lucas has developed several feature animation projects and runs Mighty Coconut\, a full- service animation studio in Austin\, Texas. The OceanMaker is his second 3D animated film. \nEverard McBain is the Creative Director and CEO of GemGfx. GemGfx is a multidisciplinary design consultancy based in Trinidad and Tobago. He has been involved in the field of Graphic Design for over 14 years. He is also the art director and co-author of the graphic novel Celflux which he created along with his wife Dixie Ann Archer-McBain. \nBorn in Buffalo\, NY\, Teouria Morris’s ultimate goal would be to live in a world filled with free Hamilton tickets\, swarms of puppies\, and lakes full of chocolate. A senior at Villa Maria College\, Teouria\, is an artist\, animator\, and a visual development artist. Originally wanting to pursue only Animation\, she was eventually won over by the beauty of environments such as Tarzan and Big Hero 6. When shes not drawing or creating interesting characters\, she can be found eating or dancing around the classroom\, usually on a sugar-rush. \nAbdul Ndadi is an independent animator of Ghanaian descent living in New York City. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2013. His animated short Orisha’s Journey (based on African folklore) premiered in Japan at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and screened at over 50 film festivals across the globe. A believer in the strength of the human spirit to overcome all adversities\, with his work he’d like to give a platform for those who feel voiceless and help build a bridge of common understanding for all people. Abdul works as a freelance artist for film and commercial productions. \nAkosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1\, 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker\, producer and cinematographer whose films address the collision of identities\, where the African immigrant located in the United States has a “triple consciousness.” Owusu interprets Du Bois’ notion of double consciousness and creates a third cinematic space or consciousness\, representing diverse identities including feminism\, queerness and African immigrants interacting in African\, white American\, and black American culture. Her films have screened internationally including Rotterdam\, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin\, Toronto\, New Directors/New Films\, BFI London Film Festival and San Francisco International Film Festival among others. She was a featured artist at the 56th Robert Flaherty Seminar programmed by renowned film critic Dennis Lim. In 2015\, she was named by Indiewire as one of 6 preeminent Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema. Currently\, she divides her time between Ghana and New York\, where she works as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. \nJackson Polys is a visual artist who seeks to dissolve artificial boundaries between perceptions of traditional Native art forms\, practices\, and contemporary life. He holds an MFA in visual arts from Columbia University. He is the recipient of a 2017 NACF Mentor Artist Fellowship and is advisor to Indigenous New York at the Vera List Center. \nIbrahim Waziri Teaching Children About Africa & The World: There’s always something new going on as the world around them hurtles on and changes. With Bino and Fino’s curiosity and thirst for learning there is always something new to discover.  It could be an African dish\, an animal\, a heavy tropical lightning storm\, a country\,a fruit\, a word in an African language\, a musical instrument\, African geography\, a folktale… Featured in ​Huffington Post​ \, ​Blavity​ and ​CNN​. With over 2 million ​Youtube​ Views\, public screenings in over 7 countries\, customers in over 10 countries Bino and Fino opens up a fantastic world of learning for children. The show has been embraced by parents and educators in countries like the USA as a genuine way to teach about diversity\, Africa and more.  \nDon Jonathan Webb uses his passion for history to tell stories that highlight and honor the richness of the African-American experience. Using 2D animation he creates short vignettes that seek to educate\, inspire and entertain viewers. \nJin Woo is an independent short animation director since 2012. VJ. Went to Krakow ASP 2016 dropped off in 2017. Graduate from Kaywon Art School 2012. Born and grew up in S.Korea but also lived in the different countries as an outsider.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-15th-animation-fest/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/original-e1525900753984-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180630T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180630T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191145Z
UID:10000718-1530372600-1530378000@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Let's Start the Conversation: Hues of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 30\, 2018\n3:30pm\nFree and open to the public \nAs part of Squeaky Wheel’s Community Screenings\, we are pleased to present Hues of Humanity\, a film produced by Rachel and Dianna Henderson\, co-founders of Colorfully Beautiful. Addressing topics such as empathy and emotional awareness the film attempts to build permanent bridges through authentic conversation. Join us for an audience/filmmaker talk back on how we can all contribute something in order to help positively co-create our existing realities. \nMember Profile: Rachel Henderson \n \nIf you walked into our media lab at any given time this Spring you probably would have come across Squeaky Wheel member\, Rachel Henderson editing her latest film on one of our lab stations. This season we are pleased to introduce Rachel here in our special Members Spotlight.  \nBorn and raised in Buffalo\, Rachel joined Squeaky Wheel as an Artist Member in July of 2017. After a move back home from Los Angeles\, California\, she found that Squeaky Wheel answered all her technical questions! Rachel began her journey in film after receiving her B.A. in Communication from Roberts Wesleyan College where she was also awarded title of Alum of the Year. From the workshops provided to equipment rental\, Squeaky Wheel has given her both the access and the freedom to create her own work. Currently she is assisting on productions for both the Albright Knox and Buffalo Public Schools and is working on her own independent mini-doc.  \nOn her latest film Henderson states: \n“I’m extremely invested in creating a story that the audience feels like it’s something they’ve never seen before or creating a perspective they’ve never thought of. Illuminating new ideas\, concepts\, realities.”
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/lets-start-the-conversation-hues-of-humanity/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Rachel-screening.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:20180629T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180629T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191146Z
UID:10000931-1530298800-1530298800@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:XENOYOGA((I REALLY WANT SOME)) by DJ xenoyoga
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 29\, 2018\n6:30pm door | 7pm show\n$7 General | $5 members | Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nToronto based DJ xenoyoga presents a live audiovisual remix of her audiovisual live improvisation set\, XENOYOGA((I REALLY WANT SOME)). Employing the common techniques of DJ as a trope\, utilizing web installations\, roombas\, and sampling and assembling audio and visual from found materials online\, the artist aims to alienate political discourses and popular culture into the cyborgian spell of machine and human. \nAs the artist states: “(━+ ﾟ｡☆*｡｡ meet asian-pop-mannequin-vocaloid *:♪･ﾟ’☆ when xenofeminist-alienation meets trumpian-shock-and-awe :･ﾟ｡･’★\,｡･\,An entropic chant of discursive mashup. Get in the groove .o｡*｡ .｡<)ﾉ :｡･:*:*XENOYOGA((I REALLY WANT SOME)). \nDiscover more about the artist on their website. Presented as part of the public programs for the exhibition\, Yvette Granata | #d8e0ea: post-cyberfeminist datum. \n  \n \nAll images by Kristel Jax.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/xenoyogai-really-want-some-by-dj-xenoyoga/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/djxenoyoga.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180623T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180623T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191146Z
UID:10000713-1529762400-1529780400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 23\, 2018\n2–7pm\nFree and open to the public\nRSVP here \nSqueaky Wheel will host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to take place 2-7pm on Saturday\, June 23\, 2018 at 617 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY. This all-day event is designed to improve coverage of women\, gender\, feminism\, and the arts on Wikipedia. \nWhy we edit? Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia are women. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with more than 40 million articles in more than 250 different languages. The fact is when we don’t tell our stories or participate in the ways our history is preserved\, it gets erased. Let’s build our local contribution to the movement! \nWe provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian\, ongoing editing support\, reference materials\, childcare\, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate\, particularly transgender and cisgender women. \nSqueaky Wheel invites back Toronto artist and Wikipedian extraordinaire Zeesy Powers to facilitate tutorials and discussions. This summer\, we are also excited to host Heather Gring\, archivist at the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, who will be speaking about the woman artists in their collection. \nIf you require childcare\, please email caitcoder@gmail.com with the first names of children requiring care\, their ages\, and what time you plan on attending. \nPlease create a Wikipedia account before the event\, click here to learn how! And remember during the event to hashtag and post online so everyone around the world can see what you’re working on: #artandfeminism #noweditingaf @squeakybuffalo . \nAbout the instructor\nZeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist. She teaches programs for digital illustration\, animation and video through community groups in Toronto\, and facilitates workshops on contributing to Wikipedia as part of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. During her 2017 National Artist-in-Residence at the Toronto Animated Image Society\, she produced This Could be You\, an interactive piece exploring practices of confinement in VR. She has performed and exhibited internationally\, and has been artist-in-residence at CCA Kitakyushu (Japan)\, Palomar5 (Berlin)\, the Banff New Media Institute\, and Studio XX (Montreal). In Toronto\, Powers has worked on several community-based project with children and youth in partnership with organizations like UrbanArts\, Axis Music and the Toronto Public Library. Currently\, she is working on a Canada Council and Chalmers Fellowship funded project on how consumer surveillance impacts how we relate to ourselves and others. She lives in Toronto.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/artfeminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/afediting.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:20180615T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180825T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191146Z
UID:10000930-1529049600-1535216400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Yvette Granata | #d8e0ea: post-cyberfeminist datum
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, June 15\, 7–9pm\nConversation with Yvette Granata and Maiko Tanaka at 7:30pm.\nOn view through August 25\, 2018\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm\nFree and open to the public\n \nSee a review of the exhibition in Canadian Art magazine here.\nSee a review of the exhibition in Buffalo Rising here. \nSqueaky Wheel is proud to present the first solo exhibition of media theorist/artist Yvette Granata. The exhibition poses the concept of a ‘post-cyberfeminist datum’ as a type of data that has been banned in the future. Works in the show include performance video works\, immersive 360 videos\, AI devices in conversation with each other\, and more. \nJoin us on Friday\, June 15th for the opening reception of the exhibition at Squeaky Wheel at 7pm. A newly commissioned essay on Granata’s work by scholar Bogna M. Konior accompanies the exhibition. \nPublic programs presented as part of this exhibition\nJune 15\, 7–9pm: Opening reception\, with conversation between Yvette Granata and Maiko Tanaka at 7:30pm.\nJune 29\, 7pm: Performance: XENOYOGA((I REALLY WANT SOME)) by DJ xenoyoga\nJuly 6\, 9pm: Locative Media Tour with Yvette Granata at secret site. RSVP here.\nAugust 18\, 3pm: Curator’s Tour with Ekrem Serdar of d8e0ea \n\nThere is no freedom celebrated here. Everything is deliberate\, made to function within the same constraints evoked by the materials: disease\, depression\, fear\, fever\, bondage\, torture\, addiction\, the life of “a one-legged glowingly beautiful ex-whore. . .” It’s a far cry from the corporate dream of a cheerful interactivity which lets users choose\, not lose control. . . She isn’t making pictures: these are diagrams. She isn’t an artist\, but a software engineer. —Sadie Plant (Zeros and Ones) \nCan we exploit the fact that our techno-social systems suck? Or is the future already prescribed by the obsessive intrusion of social media platforms\, machine recognition bias\, and the AI arms race to come? \nData is no longer just captured; it is used to predict a particular slice of the future\, to move beyond the 180 degree limit of human linear space-time. Social intelligence is now energy intelligence. Everyone is a data farm. Machine learning systems consume vasts amount of data in order to learn the decisional arc of human-mindsteps. But are we building data walls that make intel-silos? Are we building AI assistant gender-tyrants? Are recognition systems making us into boring products for a shelf? What can we do with the empty silos of this data wasteland? \nThe show thinks through these questions by positing (and depositing) a cyberfeminist data form. It imagines electronic torture chambers in the future used for the policing of data-bodies and poses the concept of a post-cyberfeminist datum as a type of data that has already been banned in the future. From the age of technological reproduction to the age of data reduction\, the topology of cyber-feminist data bytes are an endless VR day\, confined and trapped already. \nWorks include: a webVR essay that explores Google’s Machine Vision API in a fictional cyberfeminist design office\, a series of dead drops that contain intersectional cryptographic syn-sets for machine learning models for training future non-targets (human-bots and/or creatures-fems and/or slime-minds)\, a cyberfem sound sculpture of an AI named ‘Evie’ in conversation with Siri and Alexa (broadcast on the sidewalk)\, and a secret exploration of a possible factory. \n#D8e8ea thinks through a possible fall-out shelter for social intelligence\, a new information ontology that re-spins humans and data\, and performs an interface of zero a user-experience. – Yvette Granata \nYvette Granata. XDDDDDDD\, 3 minutes\, HD video\, 2017-2018  \n \nYvette Granata. Womxn with a Google API (mobile version)\, webVR\, 3-D prints\, 2018 \n \nYvette Granata. Hello Evie\, AI assistant sound sculpture\, Alexa\, Siri\, HD video\, 2018 \n\nAncestral Cyberspace: On the Technics of Secrecy\nBy Bogna M. Konior \n‘Hiding the self through a faithful mapping of the universe is the only path to eternity.’ – Liu Cixin  \nIt was women’s fingers that enfolded the data-corpse into the fabric of the world. Sadie Plant tells us that these fingers are like a spider’s spinnerets\, extruding digital silk\, weaving the history of networked technology\, which at its core is a cunning practice of emasculation: ‘cyberspace is out of man’s control\, [it] destroys his identity…at the peak of his triumph\, the culmination of his machinic erections\, man confronts the system he built for his own protection and finds it female and dangerous.’ For Plant\, man sentenced himself to annihilation when he let the feminine hydra of digital technology out of its black box. Now\, it is everywhere\, slyly completing its task. \n \nCyberfeminism is an occult form of warfare. It understands about ‘cyberspace’ what Liu Cixin’s ‘dark forest’ theory understands about the cosmos: all existence is determined by hostility and so the highest form of intelligence lies in occluding one’s coordinates. The hypothesis explains why the universe\, statistically full of life\, is dead silent. It is not because\, as is commonly thought\, life has not found a way to communicate\, but because it understands that silence is the most advanced form of intelligence. Our physical and virtual spaces\, which are increasingly inseparable\, are alike a dark forest\, where every step must be taken with care\, as revealing one’s existence portends annihilation. The most desirable skill\, the most coveted trick\, and the most longed for disposition can only be this – a fluency in the trading of secrets. The skills we need to strategically deploy concealment\, de-concealment and re-concealment.  \nIn this secrecy lies a genealogy of a post-cyberfeminism that always has been: an ancestral politics of cyberspace. Any feminism is a practice of genealogy but also of desecration – so much technical knowledge has been buried and its practitioners eliminated that a post-cyberfeminist must engage in the excavation\, encoding and decoding of data-corpses\, buried in wet soil of the earth and in the knots of submarine communication cables. \nDecrypting ancestral secrecy trade and a cyberfeminist ancestry\, one might find the corpse of Caterina Sforza\, the progenitrix of the Medici family and one of the women who defined the burgeoning scientific culture of the Italian Renaissance. Remembered for her military genius and personal bravado (in response to an enemy threatening her with the death of her children\, she grabbed her crotch and retorted that she could easily make more)\, she held a keen interest in the trading of secrets\, especially pertaining to natural philosophy\, medicine and alchemy. In Daughters of Alchemy\, Meredith Ray describes the specular economy of secrecy in the early modern Italy\, where secrets circulated in letters\, manuscripts – libri di segreti – and through word of mouth. Secrets were a valued gift and a fitting expression of loyalty.  \nThis arcane internet was a networked web of secrets\, where the exchange of occult data between women formed a clandestine practice of science. From beauty recipes to alchemical attempts at the transmutation of matter into gold (believed to mirror the forming of a fetus in the womb)\, Sforza’s research into concealed knowledge served her in military\, intellectual and political endeavors. In her notebooks\, never intended for publication\, she recorded recipes for poisons distilled from scorpion venom as well as instructions for concealing written text with slowly disappearing\, ‘invisible’ ink. This non-formal practice of science was a way of interacting with the unknown not for its presupposed sanctity but its pragmatic utility. \nSecrets\, Ray writes\, were synonymous with experimentation\, ‘referring not to something unknown but rather to something that was proven.’ The most prized secrets were those that\, when deployed\, produced the desired results. A post-cyberfeminist secret is the proven unknown that loses none of its stealth: a secret is the instruction built for calculated obfuscation\, a mechanism of encryption. Books of secrets\, Ray tells us\, could be deciphered according to a ‘generic code\,’ meant for distinguishing valuable information from mere noise. Reading\, writing\, and circulating libri di segreti was a form of data analysis\, a structural technique of (de)classifying information\, contingent on maintaining the balance between obfuscation and analysis.  \nThis cryptic practice of science was also an alternate economy. Secrets were a non-monetary currency used to establish debt and political influence. This specular economy of occluded knowledge built extended social\, technical and publishing networks between women during the Scientific Revolution. Camilla Erculiani\, an apothecary from Padua\, attracted the attention of the Inquisition for her visibly public contribution to the scientific community and her heretical interpretation of theology. She later found protection with Anna Jagiellon\, the queen of Poland\, herself an intellectual and a potion mistress. Women’s work is a priori heretical by the very fact of its existence. Secrecy thus becomes a necessary form\, both in the web of political life and in the approach to technology and knowledge. Post-cyberfeminist data is a priori banned in the future and exists in a banished land. Predicting its own illegality\, it nevertheless codes a possibility: une autre fin du monde est possible (another end of the world is possible)\, as an anonymous French graffiti recently proclaimed. What post-cyberfeminist data has been already imprisoned in the future?  \nErculiani’s interest was in the material fabric of the world: ‘the causes of the universal deluge\, the composition of rainbows.’  \nAmong Caterina’s medicinal recipes [were] a number of distilled waters\, unguents\, and elixirs produced through alchemical procedures such as multiplication\, a kind of progressive distillation whereby a substance assumes greater and more diverse powers during the course of preparation. \nEncrypting data could be for a post-cyberfeminism a pata-political model. Just like pata-physics is a science of the imaginary realm beyond philosophical metaphysics\, pata-politics is a political science of the coming data-wasteland\, beyond current political practices. Treated as non-existent and excluded from history\, women’s technology endures both in its erased past and its banned future. These technologies do not promise liberation – they instead assure our survival. Post-cyberfeminist data is a type of camouflage: an ancestral practice now augmented and automated with algorithmic technologies. From its genealogy of secrecy into the future\, it mutates and updates itself: what once was a book of secrets now becomes machine vision\, a camera for algorithmic secrecy.♦      \nBibliography  \nEvans\, Claire L. Broad Band: The Untold Story of Women Who Made the Internet. Portfolio\, 2018.  \nCixin\, Liu. The Dark Forest. Translated by Joel Martinsen. Tor Books\, 2015.  \nRay\, Meredith. Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Harvard University Press\, 2015.  \nPlant\, Sadie. On The Matrix: The Cyberculture Reader. Edited by David Bell and Barbara Kennedy. Psychology Press\, 2000. \n  \n\nAbout the artist and the contributors \nYvette Granata is a media artist and Phd Candidate at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Media Study. Her work intersects new media art-research\, design\, theory\, and philosophy. She explores techno-philosophical and socio-political technology\, non-philosophy\, cyberfeminism and feminist media tech art practice. She has presented her work at the Harvard Carpenter Center for the Arts\, The Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam\, The Kunsthalle in Detroit\, Papy Gyro Nights in Norway and Hong Kong\, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center in Buffalo\, among others. Her film design work has appeared on screens at the Sundance film festival\, Tribeca film festival\, Rotterdam\, Cannes\, Berlinale\, the Rome International Film Fest\, SXSW\, and CPH:PIX. She has published in Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy Journal\, TRACE: Journal of Writing\, Media\, and Ecology\, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies\, and the International Journal of Cultural Studies. She received a NYS Council of the Arts Grant in 2017 and was a visiting researcher at the Senselab at Concordia\, where she developed some of the work included in the current exhibit. See more at yvettegranata.com \nBogna M. Konior is the Media and Technology editor at the Hong Kong Review of Books and the director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies\, Asia. She holds a Research Masters in Media Studies\, a PhD in Cultural Analysis and was a visiting researcher in Media and Culture at the ICON Center for the Humanities at the University of Utrecht. Her recent work in media cultures and the Anthropocene is published in Transformations: Journal of Media and Culture and forthcoming in PostMemes from Punctum Press. She is the Polish translator of the Xenofeminist Manifesto. Her curatorial and collaborative work exploring theory in the Anthropocene has been exhibited internationally and can be viewed at http://www.bognamk.com. \nMaiko Tanaka is the Executive Director of Squeaky Wheel. She holds a BFA from OCADU and a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. For over ten years Maiko has curated projects with prestigious and widely recognized arts institutions in Canada and abroad\, including Trinity Square Video\, Nuit Blanche at OCAD University\, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (now Art Museum – University of Toronto)\, InterAccess\, all in Toronto\, as well as Casco – Office for Art\, Design\, and Theory in Utrecht\, NL. Maiko also currently serves on programming committee of Gendai Gallery and editorial advisory of C Magazine. She is the co-editor of several catalogue publications including\, The Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook published by Casco and Valiz\, and Model Minority\, published by Gendai Gallery and Publication Studio. \nBanner image: Yvette Granata. Hello Evie\, AI assistant sound sculpture\, Alexa\, Siri\, HD video\, 2018
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/post-cyberfeminist-datum/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/YvetteBanner.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:20180511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180511T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191125Z
UID:10000929-1526065200-1526072400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Bring Your Own Tony
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 11\n6:30pm door | 7pm show\nFree and open to the public \nTony as hypnotist\, Tony as magician\, Tony as naturalist\, Tony on a bike\, Tony on skype! As we near the end of Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective\, and the multi-institutional celebrations that took place throughout early 2018\, we are excited to celebrate with an evening of films and videos featuring the late polymath\, made by his friends\, colleagues\, and students. We remember our founder fondly\, and hope to offer a fun and warm gathering for our community\, with a couple of surprises thrown in. \nFeaturing work from 1984–2016\, originating in Super 8mm to cellphone snaps\, by Alice Alexandrescu\, Martha Colburn\, Stephen Gallagher\, David Gracon\, Tyler Hubby\, David McCreery\, Zeljko McMullen\, and Lara Odell. \nProgram \np0st-it t0ny\nAlice Alexandrescu\n2min\, 2010\nImpromptu performance. Tony Conrad asked for my input on a superbly complex topic in media analysis. I gave him my best answer to fit the time constraints of a graduate level course and left the room. \nWilderness Theater\nAnya Lewin & Lara Odell\n11min\, digital\, 2006\n“Wilderness Theater is a collaborative video by Anya Lewin and Lara Odell\, with Tony Conrad as The Naturalist. Two bears\, one brown and one white (played by Lewin and Odell)\, somnambulate through multiple split-screen spaces: a desert\, a snowscape\, a post-industrial ruin\, a forest\, and an interior dreamscape. The white bear\, or ghost bear\, is maybe the brown bear’s unwanted thought. Meanwhile\, a naturalist logs his visions of the bears with a camera and notebook.” \nWomen in Jail Doc\nDavid McCreery\n10min\, 2010\nA “documentary” of Tony Conrad at work in his studio\, in preparation for filming his film “women in jail” w/ Tony Conrad\, Anna Brantwood and George Sherer. \nTony as my violin priest \nMartha Colburn\n2:30min\, 2014\nThis is one of the last rolls of sound super 8mm ever processed. I made it one afternoon in tonys studio. He dressed up and we made a little set and he played violin. \nTangible Man\nStephen Gallagher\n15min\, 1984\nTangible Man (TM\, also for trademark or transcendental meditation) is a critique of artist’s ability to render their interior world tangible in the form of an artwork. \nWe Are Fools – Scene 1 : The Magician\nZeljko McMullen\n5min\, 2013\nOver the course of 7 years\, I made an experimental feature film based off of different artists invoking archetypes from the Major Arcana of the Tarot. I set the stage for each of the 22 scenes\, and had different artists improvise within it. \nTony Conrad: Bryant Park (excerpt)\nTyler Hubby\n6:53min\, 2016\nTony Skypes his media class while discussing his the installation of ‘Bryant Park Moratorium’ and later visits contemporary Bryant Park. \nWe Ride Bikes!\nDavid Gracon\n10:30min\, 2000\nThis is a short lo-fi documentary about Buffalo’s first Critical Mass bike ride. Critical Mass is a celebration of community\, public space and bike culture. The Buffalo Police shut down this ride and a debate ensued regarding bicycle rights. \nBanner image: Tony Conrad with a video camera\, c. mid-1990s. Image courtesy Tony Conrad Archives 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/bring-your-tony/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2.-Tony-Camera-AKAG_mod.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180601
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191125Z
UID:10000712-1525824000-1527811199@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Experimentation: Works by our Youth Media Makers
DESCRIPTION:A collaboration of experimental works from students of West Side Studios\, Tech Arts for Girls\, Tech Arts for Youth\, and the Buffalo Youth Media Institute\, Squeaky Wheel is proud to present an exhibition of experimental works by the young artists in our youth education programs. Through a variety of media art practices\, such as stop-frame animation\, hand-processed film\, and video manipulation\, among others\, these enthusiastic makers have used their tools and skills to approach themselves and the world around them with energy\, humor\, and invention. Including work by Breanna Roberts\, Emaun King\, Fiona Rigney\, Lucas Hopkins\, Zaire\, Savannah Worth\, Soundiolou Cissoko\, Mustaf Abdi\, Jolie Criscone\, Trayvon Frisbee\, Matt\, Tucker Mammoser\, Connor Hockey\, Josh\, Eleda Mammoser\, Jamilla Bryant\, Alliyah Blackwell\, Bhakti Williams-Brown\, Miles Gavigan\, and Elizabeth.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/experimentation-works-by-our-youth-media-makers/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/HiveMind0.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191125Z
UID:10000907-1524682800-1524690000@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Chris Marker’s Level Five
DESCRIPTION:Laura\, a French programmer\, is tasked with creating a video game about the Battle of Okinawa. Using the internet to conduct her research she is led down a rabbit hole of philosophical debates\, while she tries to make sense of her own history in relation to human history. \nReleased when the internet was still in its infancy\, Level Five (104min\, 1997) offers a startlingly prophetic vision of the ability to archive and alter history\, while probing the limitations of human memory. The film is a mesmerizing and utterly unique hybrid of documentary and science fiction. Curated with an introduction by Squeaky Wheel’s Fall 2018 Curatorial Intern James Werick. Courtesy of Icarus Films. \n Preview \nBio of the curator\nJames Werick graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2017\, with a BA in Media Study. In addition\, he spent one semester in 2017 at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka\, Japan. He is currently writing a film script\, and working at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/level-five/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/level5.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:20180406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191125Z
UID:10000908-1523041200-1523048400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Null Point Presents: Weston Olencki
DESCRIPTION:Virtuoso trombonist/composer Weston Olencki (Chicago) joins local experimental sound initiative Null Point for an evening of recent works for modified brass instruments\, ensemble\, live electronics\, and video under the title Artificial Life: New Works for Brass Instruments\, Ensemble\, Electronics\, and Video. Works by George Lewis\, Michelle Lou\, Colin Tucker\, and Weston Olencki explore limit situations of live performance\, activating thresholds of audibility\, endurance\, sonic instability\, and ensemble interaction.  \nProgram \nGeorge Lewis\, Artificial Life (2007) for ensemble of improvisers \nMichelle Lou\, HoneyDripper (2016) for trombone\, transducers\, materials\, fx pedals\, feedback \nWeston Olencki\, for melodicas (carbonic render) (2018) for melodicas\, electronics\, video (US premiere) \nColin Tucker\, center unmoored in the presence of infinite fringes (2016) for prepared euphonium (world premiere of version for prepared euphonium) \nFeatured soloist: \nWeston Olencki\, trombone\, euphonium\, electronics\, video\, melodica \nPreview \n \n\nBios \nWeston Olencki is a New York City based trombonist/composer specializing in the performance and production of experimental music & art. Weston is a member of Ensemble Pamplemousse and the Wet Ink Large Ensemble\, one half of RAGE THORMBONES and People Making Sounds\, and has performed with Ensemble Dal Niente\, ICE\, wasteLAnd\, wildUP!\, Fonema Consort\, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players\, Talea Ensemble\, sfSound\, Wild Rumpus\, Eco Ensemble\, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW\, and a.pe.ri.od.ic – under conductors Alan Pierson\, Enno Poppe\, Steven Schick\, and Marino Formenti. He was awarded the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for Performance [2016] and a Stipendiumpreis [2014] from the Darmstadt Ferienkurse.\nHis compositional work has been performed/commissioned by the Talea Ensemble/Earle Brown Music Foundation\, Pamplemousse\, Bass2Bass [Michelle Lou + Scott Worthington]\, People Making Sounds\, and soloists Matt Barbier\, Jesse Langen\, and Lester St. Louis. \nNull Point is an initiative for new concert music and sound art in Buffalo\, NY. Null Point’s events re-imagine musical and sonic presentation formats\, focusing on works by emerging artists that are neglected by normative arts institutions. Past projects have included new site-specific sound works written for presentation in vacant historic industrial sites\, thematically-curated concerts focusing on limit situations of performance and audition\, and participatory workshop-concerts in working-class neighborhoods. A null point is a location where vector fields (e.g. magnetic fields) have zero strength\, where fields cancel each other out.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/nullpoint-weston-olencki/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/weston_Mod-e1516741430758.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180316T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191126Z
UID:10000914-1521226800-1521234000@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Workspace Presentations: Elizabeth Tannie Lewin and Dana Tyrrell
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free public talk by our two Workspace residents! Artist resident Elizabeth Tannie Lewin (Brooklyn\, NY) and researcher resident Dana Tyrrell (Buffalo\, NY) will be giving presentations on their ongoing projects at the tail-end of their two week residency with Squeaky Wheel. \nElizabeth Tannie Lewin is a digital media artist interested in: technology\, landscape\, identity\, disappearance\, history\, and utopia. Lewin uses various technologies to achieve special effects such as: 3D modeling landscapes\, hacking a computer mouse to scan images\, and webcameras programmed to initiate\, or pause\, video playback. Lewin received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and her MFA from Hunter College (2016).\nProject Proposal\nMy current work is focused on the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)\, its nuclear history (the RMI\, was once known as the Pacific Proving Grounds\, and the location of 67 United States nuclear tests). The Castle Bravo nuclear test was conducted on Bikini\, Atoll on March 1\, 1954 and was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States. To this day\, Bikini remains uninhabitable due to radiation. Hundreds of Bikinians remain displaced. Additionally\, the RMI is faces increasing fragility due to climate change (the RMI is on average\, 2 meters above sea level\, scientists predict that the sea levels will rise between 0.8-2 meters by the end of the century).\nMy time at Workspace will be devoted to producing creating a 3D virtual “game” landscape of the RMI\, recording video audio\, and editing scanned military photos which that will be incorporated into a developing video (working title: Nuclear Set). \nDana Tyrrell is an artist\, curator and writer living and working in Buffalo\, New York. He holds an MFA in Visual Studies from the University at Buffalo (2015)\, a BA in Drawing & Painting and a BA in Art History\, both from the State University of New York at Fredonia (2012). His work has been shown widely throughout Western New York\, including solo exhibits with the Castellani Art Museum (2017) and Dreamland Art Gallery (2015). His curatorial practice includes exhibits at Anna Kaplan Contemporary (formerly BT&C Gallery)\, the Benjaman Gallery\, Dreamland Art Gallery\, and Sugar City Art Gallery. Photograph courtesy of Julian Montague.\nProject Proposal\nMy intent for this Workspace Residency would be to research\, and eventually curate a show focused upon emergent technologies. My interest lies at the intersection of technology and performance art -vis-a-vis academics like José Esteban Muñoz and Kara Keeling\, as well as performance artists such as Zach Blas\, Micha Cárdenas and Hito Steyerl – wherein the point of the juncture between emergent technologies and performance art becomes the human body\, in all of its mutability\, foibles and inconsistencies. I am interested in the interplay between the technological self and the realized\, physical self and how those two things\, while not always mutually exclusive\, bend and blur under the ever-present and growing weight of technology.\nThe understanding of these artists and their further articulation within the context of a yet-to be-realized exhibit would be thus predicated upon Keeling’s own description of what is known as a “Queer OS” (Cinema Journal\, 2014); a speculative project which sees the formulation of queer function as an operating system\, which straddles both technical and cultural understandings. At its core\, a Queer OS offers up a space in which LGBTQ+\, Women\, Black and Latinx people can meet – both online and off – connect to one another\, and reaffirm alternative modes of technological disbursement and exploration as we delve further into the twenty-first century. \nAbout the program \nWorkspace Residency is a unique artist residency that supports local\, regional and national media artists and researchers who are working on projects in film\, video\, audio\, interactive media and emerging technologies in any stage of production. Initiated in 2016 by Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo\, New York\, in collaboration with local partners Buffalo Game Space\, Buffalo Lab\, and Silo City\, the residency provides support through equipment\, facilities\, and technical support for artists experimenting across a range of old and new technologies\, such as video\, sound\, digital platforms\, interactivity\, virtual reality\, and 3D printing. Community outreach and public engagement components include presentation and education activities. \nWe encourage people of color\, women\, queer\, trans and gender non-conforming people to apply. The residency welcomes applications from both emerging and established artists and researchers. A list of previous residents can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/workspace-presentations-elizabeth-tannie-lewin-and-dana-tyrrell/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SP_18Residents.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180314T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180314T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191126Z
UID:10000913-1521054000-1521054000@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Art Talk: Neither Living Nor Dead: Documentary photography in the 1970's and 80's with Dana Tyrrell
DESCRIPTION:Join us and our Workspace Resident Researcher\, Dana Tyrrell as we explore documentary photography centered in and around New York City in the 1970’s and 80’s\, with special focus given to the work of Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz. We will look at these artists photographic works as a product of both their impoverished lifestyles and as a reaction to it. The work itself acts as a foil which prefigures and reacts in real time to the HIV/AIDS epidemic during that period of time. We will also touch upon the work  of Buffalo documentary photographer Milton Rogovin\, and the differences between straight documentary photography\, and documentary photography cum art object. \nDana Tyrrell is an artist\, curator and writer living and working in Buffalo\, New York. He holds an MFA in Visual Studies from the University at Buffalo (2015)\, a BA in Drawing & Painting and a BA in Art History\, both from the State University of New York at Fredonia (2012). His work has been shown widely throughout Western New York\, including solo exhibits with the Castellani Art Museum (2017) and Dreamland Art Gallery (2015). His curatorial practice includes exhibits at Anna Kaplan Contemporary (formerly BT&C Gallery)\, the Benjamin Gallery\, Dreamland Art Gallery\, and Sugar City Art Gallery. \n\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\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-talk-neither-living-nor-dead-documentary-photography-in-the-1970s-and-80s-with-dana-tyrrell/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/candy-darling.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180309T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191124Z
UID:10000906-1520622000-1520629200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Shu Lea Cheang presents: I.K.U. This is not LOVE. This is SEX.
DESCRIPTION:Envisioned as a sequel to Blade Runner\, the “japanese sci-fi porn film” I.K.U. (74min\, 2001) scandalized audiences when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Following the adventures of seven sexy replicants as they attempt to gather data for the I.K.U. system (which enables touchless orgasms)\, I.K.U. is a cyberpunk fuck film for the internet generation\, made by visionary multi-media artist Shu Lea Cheang. The artist will be in person to deliver an introduction to her film. \n“I.K.U. is a phenomenon that wants to refuse definition and… crosses all categories – geographic\, physical\, conceptual – with a demented flourish. As much trans-genre as it is trans-gender\, I.K.U. also wants to merge video and film into a fresh digital universe large-scale enough to overwhelm the viewer.” – B. Ruby Rich\, Rhizome\n \nThis screening is part of a three event series presented by the PLASMA series at the Department of Media Study\, SUNY Buffalo and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Don’t miss the Shu Lea Cheang’s screening of FLUIDØ on Saturday\, March 10 at Hallwalls\, and her artist talk at the Department of Media Study on Monday\, March 12! \nPreview \nBio of the artist\nAs an artist and filmmaker\, Shu Lea Cheang has worked with various art mediums and film formats\, including installation\, performance\, net art\, public art\, video installation\, feature length film and mobile web serial. As a net art pioneer\, her BRANDON (1998-1999) was the first web art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim museum New York. She has been crafting her own film genre of new queer cinema\, calling them eco-cybenoia (FRESH KILL\, 1994)\, scifi cyberpunk (I.K.U.\, 2000)\, scifi cyphepunk (Fluidø\, 2017). From homesteading cyberspace in the 90s to her current retreat to BioNet\, Cheang takes on viral love\, bio hack in her current cycle of works. She is currently developing UKI-cinema interrupted with mobile game intervention; Unborn0x9\, a hacking performance with open source ultrasound stethoscope and Mycelium Network Society\, an organic living network initiative. More info at http://mauvaiscontact.info\n \nImage: Shu Lea Cheang. I.K.U.: This is not LOVE. This is SEX. (2001)
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/iku/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ikubanner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180303T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180303T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191125Z
UID:10000911-1520085600-1520103600@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon!
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nRSVP here \nSqueaky Wheel will host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to take place 2-7pm on Saturday\, March 3\, 2018 at 617 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY. This all-day event is designed to improve coverage of women\, gender\, feminism\, and the arts on Wikipedia. \nWhy we edit? Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia are women. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with more than 40 million articles in more than 250 different languages. The fact is when we don’t tell our stories or participate in the ways our history is preserved\, it gets erased. Let’s build our local contribution to the movement! \nWe provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian\, ongoing editing support\, reference materials\, childcare\, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate\, particularly transgender and cisgender women. \nSqueaky Wheel invites back Toronto artist and Wikipedian extraordinaire Zeesy Powers to facilitate tutorials and discussions. New this year is a collaboration with the Albright Knox Art Gallery\, who will provide reference materials on the artists featured in their exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women\, 1965–85 (on view from February 16–May 27). \nIf you require childcare\, please email caitcoder@gmail.com with the first names of children requiring care\, their ages\, and what time you plan on attending. \nPlease create a Wikipedia account before the event\, click here to learn how! And remember during the event to hashtag and post online so everyone around the world can see what you’re working on: #artandfeminism #noweditingaf @squeakybuffalo . \nThis event is co-presented with Peach Mag\, with partnership support from Buffalo State College’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor\, UB Department of Art\, and UB Department of Media Study. Thank you to our sponsors at the Western New York Book Arts Center & Tipico Coffee. \nAbout the instructor\nZeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist. She teaches programs for digital illustration\, animation and video through community groups in Toronto\, and facilitates workshops on contributing to Wikipedia as part of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. During her 2017 National Artist-in-Residence at the Toronto Animated Image Society\, she produced This Could be You\, an interactive piece exploring practices of confinement in VR. She has performed and exhibited internationally\, and has been artist-in-residence at CCA Kitakyushu (Japan)\, Palomar5 (Berlin)\, the Banff New Media Institute\, and Studio XX (Montreal). In Toronto\, Powers has worked on several community-based project with children and youth in partnership with organizations like UrbanArts\, Axis Music and the Toronto Public Library. Currently\, she is working on a Canada Council and Chalmers Fellowship funded project on how consumer surveillance impacts how we relate to ourselves and others. She lives in Toronto.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-feminism2018/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/afediting.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:20180223T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191125Z
UID:10000905-1519412400-1519419600@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:A Few Short Films That Engage In Struggle
DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of the public programming for our current exhibition belit sağ: Let Me Remember\, this program of short experimental and documentary films revolve around the struggle against white supremacy in the United States\, state repression of the Kurdish people\, and settler colonialism in Palestine. The screening explores how these works\, involving struggles far flung from each other\, connect and the common strategies and aesthetics they share. Featuring work by Basma Alsharif\, Decolonize This Place\, Rhys Hall\, Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil\, and Jackson Polys\, and belit sağ. Curated with an introduction by Nitasha Dhillon. \nProgram (~60 minutes) \nDecolonize This Place\, Anti-Columbus Day Tour: Decolonize This Museum\, digital video\, 3:23 minutes; 2016) \nRhys Hall\, To Free A Butterfly\, digital video\, 11:18 min\, 2016 \nAdam Khalil \, Zack Khalil\, and Jackson Polys\, The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets\, digital video\, 9:43 minutes; 2017 \nBasma Alsharif\, We Began by Measuring Distance\, digital video\, 19:00 min\, 2009 \nbelit sağ\, Ayhan and Me\, digital video\, 14:17 min\, 2015 \nBio of the curator\nNitasha Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College\, University of Delhi\, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International Center of Photography. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media Study – University of Buffalo in New York. Nitasha’s practice joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing\, and action as part of MTL Collective with Amin Husain. As MTL\, they are co-founders of Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Occupy Strategy magazine\, Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, the direct action arm of Gulf Labor Artists Coalition\, Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Decolonial Cultural Front\, and most recently\, Decolonize This Place\, a movement space and formations in New York City that combine cultural events with organizing\, art\, and action around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle\, Black Liberation\, Free Palestine\, Global Wage Worker\, and De-Gentrification. \nBanner image: Image: Rhys Hall\, To Free A Butterfly\, digital video\, 2016
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/engageinstruggle/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Rhys-Hall-copy_Mod.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180217T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191110Z
UID:10000910-1518894000-1518904800@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:The Love & Sex(bot) Show
DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel’s valentine’s erotica bash\, the Love & Sex Show\, returns with a sexy cyborg twist! \nOn February 17th join us for a “fully-functional” Valentine’s featuring films\, installations\, and live & virtual performances by local and international artists including Bhakti Brown\, Maya Ben David\, Seoungho Cho\, Yvette Granata\, Faith Holland\, Shawné Michaelain Holloway\, Lernert & Sander\, Georges Jacotey\, and Margaret Rhee. Don’t miss a live skype performance by Jacotey as well as Rhee’s interactive performance and reading from her new book Love\, Robot! \nBring two dates and get the “Threesome” Special and you’ll be automatically entered in a raffle for a gift from Primrose Path Boutique! Come dressed up as a “lovebot” for your chance to win a prize! \nFebruary 17\, 2018\n7pm door | 7:30pm show\n$10 General\n$25 Threesome Special \nClick here to buy tickets\nOnline sales end February 15\, 2018. Get them before they sell out! \n  \n \nMaya Ben David\, POKÉMORPH ME\, digital video\, 2016\n \nShawné Michaelain Holloway\, EXTREME SUBMISSION : SUBMIT (?) OR SURRENDER (??) (AWARENESS ALERT) . MP4\, 1996\, 2016\n \nLernert & Sander\, Elektrotechnique\, digital video\, 2011\nSponsors and Partners\nPrimrose Path Boutique provides quality sex products for all genders\, sexual orientations\, and identities. In addition to our online store and pop-up shops\, we offer private parties in the Western New York area.\nAll of our products have been hand-selected to ensure quality\, endurance\, and satisfaction. Each toy is made with body-safe materials and chosen with aesthetic appeal in mind. We hope you find something that inspires you\, piques your curiosity\, or expands your sexual horizons. \nThin Ice opened in March of 2006 to provide a location for local and regional artists to sell their work to the local community. Striving to have something for everyone\, Thin Ice sells one of a kind jewelry\, hand blown as well as fused glass\, hand turned wood bowls\, hand made scarves\, hand sewn leather items\, decorative wall art\, kaleidoscopes\, cards\, mugs\, wind chimes\, and much\, much more. \nEvergreen Health fosters healthy communities by providing medical\, supportive\, and behavioral services to individuals and families in Western New York – especially those who are living with chronic illness or who are underserved by the healthcare system. \nImage: Yvette Granata\, Clone\, augmented video\, 2018
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/loveandsexbot/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Auto-Mate.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180415
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191109Z
UID:10000904-1516320000-1523750399@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:belit sağ : Let Me Remember
DESCRIPTION:Download the brochure with new essays by Almudena Escobar López and Chi-hui Yang \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center presents Let Me Remember\, the first solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sağ (Netherlands/Turkey) in North America. Comprised of five new video installations\, Let Me Remember functions as an investigation into the state of being racialized in Europe\, taking a series of brutal murders by the German National Socialist Underground (NSU) as its context. The NSU was a terror group that killed ten people and planted bombs in migrant neighborhoods between 2000–2008. German media reports at the time ignored the racial motivations of their violence.\n \nbelit sağ’s work explores how media imagery can render the visibility (and invisibility) of personhood in a personal and essayistic form. The works in Let Me Remember bring together archival footage of the NSU’s victims\, images of objects from the crime scenes\, and transcripts of the trials made by local activist groups to ask questions on how white supremacy and whiteness in a European context affect and change narratives. Squeaky Wheel is proud to present the first North American exhibition of this emerging artist\, and bring to the public the acuity with which sağ questions the role of media. \nJoin us on Friday January 19th for the opening reception of the exhibition at Squeaky Wheel at 7pm and don’t miss a public conversation between the artist and Jasmina Tumbas at 7:30pm. Two newly commissioned essays on the belit sağ’s work by Almudena Escobar López and Chi-hui Yang also accompany the exhibition. Squeaky Wheel members are invited to a special VIP between 6–7pm with complimentary wine and refreshments. \nLet Me Remember is presented in collaboration with The Flaherty as part of the Flaherty NYC program COMMON VISIONS\, programmed by Almudena Escobar López & Herb Shellenberger. \n  \n \nbelit sağ. overexposed\, HD video (2017)\n  \n \nbelit sağ. overexposed\, installation view (2017)\n  \nAbout the Artists and Contributors \nbelit sağ is a videomaker and visual artist living in Amsterdam. She studied mathematics in Ankara; audio-visual arts in Amsterdam. Her video background is rooted in video-activist groups in Ankara and Istanbul\, where she co-initiated projects like karahaber.org (2000-2007) and bak.ma (a growing online audiovisual archive of social movements in Turkey). Her recent video work focuses on ‘the violence of representation’ and ‘representation of violence’. She completed residencies in Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten\, Amsterdam in 2014-2015; and International Studio and Curatorial Program\, New York in 2016. She has presented her work at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals worldwide\, including Toronto/Rotterdam/San Francisco/New York International Film Festival//International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA); EYE Filmmuseum\, Amsterdam; documenta14\, Kassel; MOCA\, Taipei; Tütün Deposu\, Istanbul; Tabakalera Film Seminar\, San Sebastian; Marabouparken\, Stockholm. \nAlmudena Escobar López is an archivist\, film curator\, and scholar from Spain. She is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester where she also holds a Public Humanities Fellowship. Her dissertation explores the notion of collaborative aesthetics in relation to ideas of artistic cooperativism\, paying particular attention to the filmmaker’s cooperatives founded in the 1960s in New York\, San Francisco\, and London. She combines her academic research and writing with her practice as a film archivist and curator having worked at institutions such as Lux Artists’ moving image\, The Academy Film Archive\, the Archives of American Art and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She has published essays in MUBI Notebook\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Afterimage: the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism\, Journal of Film Preservation\, Little White Lies\, Desistfilm Magazine\, and has collaborated with the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, the London Spanish Film Festival\, and the East End Film Festival of the London International Film Festival. She is co-programmer of the collective screening project On-Film\, serves in the Advisory Board of Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center in Buffalo\, NY\, and in the Board of Trustees of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester\, NY. \nJasmina Tumbas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art\, holds a Ph.D. from Duke University and teaches courses on modern and contemporary art and theory\, histories and theories of performance\, body and conceptual art\, art and activism\, and feminist art. Her research focuses on performance and conceptual art in former Yugoslavia\, as well as contemporary activist art practices by artists of Romani descent in the Balkan region. As a fellow\, Tumbas will be working on the book project\, The Erotics of Dictatorship: Art\, Sex\, and Politics under Yugoslav Socialism. \nChi-hui Yang is a curator based in New York. He is currently Program Officer for Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative\, a global effort that supports non-fiction filmmakers and organizations whose work addresses the most urgent social issues of our time. As a curator\, he has presented programs such as: MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight\, “Lines and Nodes: Media\, Infrastructure\, and Aesthetics” (2014\, Anthology Film Archives) and “The Age of Migration” (2008\, Flaherty Film Seminar). From 2000-2010 he was director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Yang is also an instructor at Brooklyn’s UnionDocs and has served as an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Hunter College. He earned a master’s degree in film studies from San Francisco State University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University. \nIN COLLABORATION WITH THE FLAHERTY\nThe Flaherty is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the proposition that independent media can illuminate the human spirit. Its mission is to foster exploration\, dialogue\, and introspection about the art and craft of all forms of the moving image. It was established to present the annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, named after the maker of such seminal documentaries as Nanook of the North\, Man of Aran\, and Louisiana Story. The Seminar remains the central and defining activity of The Flaherty. Other activities include: Flaherty NYC\, a seasonal screening series showcasing innovative nonfiction media; Flaherty on the Road\, presenting films from the Seminar at venues across the country; and the preservation and distribution of Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North and Louisiana Story\, as well as audio recordings from Seminar discussions dating back to 1958. For more information\, visit www.flahertyseminar.org \nBackground Image: belit sağ. overexposed\, HD still (2017)
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/belit-sag-let-me-remember/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/still2_Squeaky_300dpi_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:20171206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191109Z
UID:10000897-1512568800-1512576000@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Sleeping Sickness
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 6th\, 2017\nUlrich Köhler’s Sleeping Sickness (2011)\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel Members \nA Silver Bear winning Berlin School post-script to our series on Christian Petzold. Ebbo and Vera have lived in Africa a long time because of Ebbo’s job\, but Vera wants to return to Europe to be close to her daughter\, who is studying at a boarding school. \n“This remarkably assured third feature by the young German director Ulrich Köhler—winner of Best Director at this year’s Berlin Film Festival—transports us to Cameroon\, where German doctor Ebbo (Pierre Bokma) and his wife have spent two decades combating an epidemic of sleeping sickness in the local villages. Soon\, they will return to Europe and to lives long ago put on hold\, and this has created a crisis for Ebbo\, who\, like Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz\, has spent too much time up river to ever come back down. Meanwhile\, a young black doctor—a Frenchman born to Congolese parents—travels to Africa to evaluate the efficiency of Ebbo’s program. But when he arrives\, nothing goes according to plan\, and despite his heritage\, he feels very much a stranger in a strange land. Finally\, the two subjects of this haunting meditation on Africa’s past and future dovetail—effortlessly\, seamlessly—and the cumulative impact is stunning.” – Film Society of Lincoln Center
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sleeping-sickness/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sleeping-Sickness-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:20171129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171129T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191109Z
UID:10000900-1511964000-1511971200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Chantal Akerman's One Day Pina Asked...
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 29\, 2017\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel members \nAn encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century\, One Day Pina Asked…(1983) is Chantal Akerman’s look at the work of choreographer Pina Bausch and her Wuppertal\, Germany-based dance company. \nIn the film\, the Belgian film director gives us an opportunity to consider Bausch’s architectural stage and complex emotional practice. Bausch’s work (as expressed in Akerman’s film) expresses a movement that encompasses both gendered violence and expressions of love\, with a kindness generated by pacing. One Day Pina Asked… gives us careful\, sharply aimed shots of stage movements\, backstage practice sequences\, and an iconic eye-to-eye closing sequence with Bausch herself. We’re invited to do more than watch a film transcription of a dance event; instead\, Akerman’s work challenges us by suggesting the interstices of the physical and the emotional\, the structured and incidental\, and the space before the curtain rises. \nCurated\, and featuring an introduction by Squeaky Wheel Curatorial Intern Colleen Stapleton. \n“Both [Bausch and Akerman] create reflective\, large-scale visual compositions that convey a powerful but ambiguous emotional intensity.” —Stephen Holden\, The New York Times
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/one-day-pina-asked/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PinaAsked.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:20171119T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191109Z
UID:10000693-1511103600-1511110800@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:To and From 1967: Ephraim Asili's African Diaspora Series
DESCRIPTION:Ephraim Asili\, Fluid Frontiers (2015)\nNovember 19\, 2017\n3pm\n@ Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\, 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208 (map)\nFree and open to the general public\nWith Ephraim Asili in person\, and followed by a Q&A with the artist moderated by Max Anderson. \nAs part of To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to present an in-person screening with Hudson based filmmaker Ephraim Asili and his African Diaspora Series. \n“In seven years\, the filmmaker Ephraim Asili has completed a remarkable cycle of five films regarding his own relationship with the greater African diaspora. These films—Forged Ways (2011)\, American Hunger (2013)\, Many Thousands Gone (2015)\, Kindah (2016)\, and Fluid Frontiers (2017)—document not only his travels across Brazil\, Canada\, Ethiopia\, Ghana\, Jamaica\, and the United States\, but also a personal search for the connections of cultures across space and time. American Hunger\, for example\, features images of a vandalized statue of Ghana’s first prime minister Kwame Nkrumah accompanied by recordings of his speeches in which he declares his hope for Ghana’s future. Asili cuts from this lost vision of accomplishment and idealism to a shot of a woman on the street in Ghana holding a mass-produced bag bearing Barack Obama’s face\, bringing together the legacy of US imperialism and the complicated feelings that accompanied the first black president of the United States. With its observational 16mm cinematography and its precise use of sound and music\, Asili’s work is critical and speculative\, listening intently to the resonances of words and gestures that span centuries and oceans.” Ekrem Serdar\, Brooklyn Rail. \nProgram \nForged Ways\n2011 | 15min | Ethiopia / United States\nFilmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia\, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker\, a man navigating the streets of Harlem\, and the day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. \nAmerican Hunger\n2013 | 19min | Ghana / United States\nOscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia\, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana\, and the New Jersey shore\, American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies. \nMany Thousands Gone\n2015 | 8min | Brazil / United States\nFilmed on location in Salvador\, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem\, NY ( an international stronghold of the African Diaspora)\, Many Thousands Gone draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to use an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real time “sight reading” of the score. \nKindah\n2016 | 00:12:00 | Jamaica / United States\nKindah was shot in Hudson\, NY and Accompong\, Jamaica. Accompong was founded in 1739 after rebel slaves and their descendants fought a protracted war with the British leading to the establishment of a treaty between the two sides. The treaty signed under British governor Edward Trelawny granted Cudjoe’s Maroons 1\,500 acres of land between their strongholds of Trelawny Town and Accompong in the Cockpits. Cudjoe\, a leader of the Maroons\, is said to have united them in their fight for autonomy under the Kindah Tree — a large\, ancient mango tree that still stands to this day. The tree symbolizes the kinship of the community on its common land. \nFluid Frontiers\n2017 | 00:23:00 | Canada / United States\nFluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in an ongoing series of films exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River\, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad\, Broadside Press\, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit Windsor region and were shot without rehearsal. \nBio\nEphraim Asili is a Filmmaker\, DJ\, and Traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world\, including the New York Film Festival\, NY; Toronto International Film Festival\, Canada; Ann Arbor Film Festival\, MI; San Francisco International Film Festival\, CA; Milano Film Festival\, Italy; International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Netherlands; MoMA PS1\, NY; LAMOCA\, CA; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, MA; and the Whitney Museum\, NY. As a DJ\, Asili can be heard on his radio program In The Cut on WGXC\, or live at his monthly dance party Botanica. Asili currently resides in Hudson\, NY\, and is a Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/1967-ephraimasili/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Fluid-Frontiers.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191109Z
UID:10000695-1511020800-1511028000@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:To and From 1967: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Brett Story\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes\, 2015\nSaturday\, November 18\n4pm\n@ Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\, 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208 (map)\nFree and open to the general public\nWith Brett Story in person. The screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Meg Knowles. \nAn ingenious\, prismatic approach with a consistent formal beauty. — Variety \nAs part of To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to present of the acclaimed documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes with director Brett Story in person. \nThe Prison in Twelve Landscapes\, 90min\, 2015\, USA\nMore people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history\, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead\, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives\, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires\, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system\, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs. \nBio\nBrett Story is a writer and independent non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. Her films have screened at True/False\, Oberhausen\, Hot Docs\, the Viennale\, and Dok Leipzig\, among other festivals. Her first feature-length film\, the award-winning Land of Destiny (2010)\, screened internationally and was broadcast on both Canadian and American television. Her second feature documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs\, the Prize for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Festival\, and a Special Jury Mention at the Camden International Film Festival. The film will be broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2017. Her journalism and film criticism have appeared in such outlets as CBC Radio and The Nation magazine\, and she is currently completing a book manuscript for the University of California Press titled The Prison out of Place. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institute’s 2014 New Visions Award and the 2016 Governor General’s Gold Medal from the University of Toronto for academic excellence. Brett is a 2016-2017 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/1967-prison-in-twelve-landscapes/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/prison-landscapes-5_CC.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171119T120000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191110Z
UID:10000895-1510995600-1511092800@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre
DESCRIPTION:Ephraim Asili\, Fluid Frontiers\, 2017\nSaturday\, November 18\, 2–6pm | Sunday\, November 19\, 12–5pm\n Location: Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\, 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208 (map)\n Free and open to the general public \nA two day series of screenings and discussions\, with Karima Amin\, Max Anderson\, Ephraim Asili\, Obsidian Bellis\, Paris Henderson\, Meg Knowles\, Savion Mingo\, Elisa Peebles\, and Brett Story. See the full schedule below. \nOn the 50th anniversary of the Long Hot Summer—an urban rebellion that took place around the United States\, including on Buffalo’s East Side—Squeaky Wheel\, Just Buffalo Literary Center\, and Open Buffalo present To and From 1967\, a two-day series of screenings\, discussions and events inspired by prison justice activist Martin Sostre (1923-2015). \nFeaturing filmmakers\, journalists and storytellers from Buffalo and beyond\, Sostre’s story and commitment act as a prism for this event series\, refracting the ways in which incarceration envelops society at large\, situating 1967 in Buffalo\, and exploring possible futures rooted among a celebration of the African diaspora\, among other discussions. \nThe event also marks the installation of Reviving Sostre\, a participatory artwork centering Martin Sostre. Local artists Paris Henderson\, Savion Mingo\, and Obsidian have hand-made custom bookshelves with the goal of recreating Sostre’s presence where his store once stood on Jefferson Avenue. Sostre’s store carried progressive\, leftist and Black radical literature. In order to make this revival true to his legacy we call on you to donate your books of these genres. Bring your books to the event on Saturday\, or drop them off at Squeaky Wheel by 5pm\, Friday\, November 17. \nSchedule\nAll events take place at the Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library at 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208. Light refreshments will be available between sessions. \nSaturday\, November 18 \n\n\n2pm\nScreening + Talk | Framing 1967 with Karima Amin\nWe begin our weekend with a screening of the documentary Frame Up: The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre (Pacific Street Films\, 30min\, 1974\, USA)\, which charts Martin Sostre’s wrongful imprisonment following the rebellion on Buffalo’s east side\, his rise as a prisoner’s rights activist\, and his role as one of the most noted political prisoners of his time. The screening will be followed by a conversation on the history of 1967 in Buffalo and the effects of the incarceral state upon our city with storyteller and activist Karima Amin (Prisoners are People Too!) \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation on the history of 1967 in Buffalo and the effects of the incarceral state upon our city with storyteller and activist Karima Amin (Prisoners are People Too!) \n  \n \n4pm\nScreening + Q&A | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes with Brett Story and Meg Knowles\nReflecting on Martin Sostre’s work on exposing the gross human rights violations of the prison system\, we present The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (90min\, 2015\, USA). Story’s film depicts the way today’s systems of mass incarceration affect our communities far outside the prison walls. Unfolding as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA\, The Prison… shows us where prisons do work and affect lives\, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires\, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system\, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs. \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with Meg Knowles and director Brett Story in person. \nSunday\, November 19 \n \n12pm\nArt Tour + Call to Action | Reviving Sostre with Obsidian Bellis\, Paris Henderson\, and Savion Mingo\nLocation: Starting at Merriweather Library\, traveling to 1412 Jefferson Ave.\nBRING YOUR BOOKS! Before his arrest in 1967\, Martin Sostre was known in Buffalo as the proprietor of the Afro-Asian Bookstore on 1412 Jefferson Ave\, which he envisioned as a political center for Afro-American youth. Local artists Obsidian Bellis\, Paris Henderson and Savion Mingo have created an art installation comprised of three hand-made bookshelves with the goal of recreating Sostre’s presence where his store once stood. Join us for a walk to Reviving Sostre\, led by the artists\, and donate your own progressive\, leftist and Black radical literature to the shelves. \n  \n \n1pm\nPerformance + Talk | Operations of Freedom with Elisa Peebles and Max Anderson\nMartin Sostre’s activism was not limited to the prison system. He continually reflected on how issues regarding justice and equity affected the situations he was in at that moment\, and how his efforts could be most effective. Reflecting on the different shapes activism can take\, Elisa Peebles\, an artist\, activist and producer originally from the East Side of Buffalo\, NY\, presents a special performance called Operations of Freedom: The Case for Culture as the New Frontline. \nThe performance will be followed by a conversation between Elisa Peebles and Max Anderson on the merits of different approaches to activism. \n  \n \n3pm\nScreening + Q&A: Ephraim Asili’s African Diaspora Series\, with Max Anderson\nBringing together pasts\, presents\, and possible futures of the African diaspora\, To and From 1967 concludes with a screening of five short films by Ephraim Asili. As we look from 1967 to 2017 and beyond\, Asili’s films listen to sounds and gestures across centuries and oceans. These personal\, speculative films allow us to imagine where a trace of a movement may lead\, rooted in collective histories. \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation between Ephraim Asili and Max Anderson. \nThe films to be screened in the African Diaspora series include: \nForged Ways\n2011 | 15min | Ethiopia / United States\nFilmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia\, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker\, a man navigating the streets of Harlem\, and the day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. \nAmerican Hunger\n2013 | 19min | Ghana / United States\nOscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia\, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana\, and the New Jersey shore\, American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies. \nMany Thousands Gone\n2015 | 8min | Brazil / United States\nFilmed on location in Salvador\, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem\, NY ( an international stronghold of the African Diaspora)\, Many Thousands Gone draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to use an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real time “sight reading” of the score. \nKindah\n2016 | 00:12:00 | Jamaica / United States\nKindah was shot in Hudson\, NY and Accompong\, Jamaica. Accompong was founded in 1739 after rebel slaves and their descendants fought a protracted war with the British leading to the establishment of a treaty between the two sides. The treaty signed under British governor Edward Trelawny granted Cudjoe’s Maroons 1\,500 acres of land between their strongholds of Trelawny Town and Accompong in the Cockpits. Cudjoe\, a leader of the Maroons\, is said to have united them in their fight for autonomy under the Kindah Tree — a large\, ancient mango tree that still stands to this day. The tree symbolizes the kinship of the community on its common land. \nFluid Frontiers\n2017 | 00:23:00 | Canada / United States\nFluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in an ongoing series of films exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River\, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad\, Broadside Press\, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit Windsor region and were shot without rehearsal. \n\nBios \nKarima Amin is a storyteller\, educator\, and author from Buffalo\, NY who shares tales in her repertoire throughout the US and Canada with storylovers of all ages. With 24 years in public school education to her credit\, and more than three decades of storytelling\, she provides performances\, workshops\, keynotes and author visits to promote literacy\, increase cultural awareness\, enliven staff development\, and improve human relations. Her voice is very familiar in a community where she has shared fables on local radio (WBLK-FM) for a decade.\nKarima is a co-founder of “Spin-A-Story Tellers of WNY” and “Tradition Keepers: Black Storytellers of WNY.” She is also a member of the National Storytelling Network and the National Association of Black Storytellers. Her most recent stories in print appear in The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Friends\, African American Children’s Stories: A Treasury of Tradition and Pride\, and My First Treasury: Grandma Loves You. In 2004 she reissued some of her favorite stories on the CD You Can Say That Again! with local musician S’wayne\, which earned a “Parents Choice Foundation Gold Award” and “Storytelling World” honors. In 2012\, Karima received the Zora Neale Hurston Legacy Award from the National Association of Black Storytellers\, Inc.\, for striving to preserve and perpetuate the art of storytelling. \nA lifelong New Yorker\, Max Anderson (Director of Communications\, Open Buffalo) has lived and grown in the state’s Capital\, Mid-Hudson\, Central and Finger Lakes regions before putting down stakes in Buffalo. As a son and brother of West Indians who ventured to the United States in search of opportunity\, Anderson is passionate about supporting all individuals and families struggling for a foothold in the evolving Buffalo/Niagara economy. Prior to joining Open Buffalo\, Anderson spent about 10 years working in the newspaper industry. During the latter part of his journalism career\, Anderson covered city governance\, economic development and criminal justice (focusing on police-community relations) as an editorialist for Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. Anderson serves on the Next Generation United Advisory Council (through the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County)\, the board of The Foundry (a hub of business incubation and hands-on education)\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center. \nEphraim Asili is a Filmmaker\, DJ\, and Traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world\, including the New York Film Festival\, NY; Toronto International Film Festival\, Canada; Ann Arbor Film Festival\, MI; San Francisco International Film Festival\, CA; Milano Film Festival\, Italy; International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Netherlands; MoMA PS1\, NY; LAMOCA\, CA; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, MA; and the Whitney Museum\, NY. As a DJ\, Asili can be heard on his radio program In The Cut on WGXC\, or live at his monthly dance party Botanica. Asili currently resides in Hudson\, NY\, and is a Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College. \nObsidian Bellis is a black genderqueer artist born and raised on the East Side of Buffalo\, NY. Obsidian expresses themselves with their work using elements of nature and the divine. Their work is often analog and they work with a variety of mediums such as found objects\, paper collage\, watercolor\, acrylic\, pencil\, pen\, markers & charcoal. They are a co-founder for D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment) which was started in 2015 by black youth of the city to hold space for marginalized people by providing education and performance spaces. In Spring of 2017\, Obsidian created Maybe Heaven to use their creative and caregiving passions to provide a safe space for other Femmes of Color and “non-traditionally” taught artists and their artistic endeavors. \nParis J Henderson is a visual artist born & raised in Buffalo NY. His work ranges from hand drawn illustrations\, digital work & video art. Active in the organizing scene\, Paris is also a founding member of local creative collective United Melanin Society\, a group aimed at uplifting artist of color in the WNY area. \nA producer of more than 40 short documentary films\, Meg Knowles is an assistant professor of media production in the Communication Department at Buffalo State College. Her award-winning films have been screened at festivals\, galleries\, and museums\, including the Museum of Modern Art\, Anthology Film Archives\, Portland PDX Film Festival\, the Athens International Film and Video Festival (1st Prize\, Experimental Documentary Category) as well as on Free Speech TV and PBS. Meg recently served as a judge for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Emmy Awards (Editing Category) and for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award (Television Documentary Category). Meg has a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College\, an M.A. in Media Study from the University at Buffalo and an M.F.A. in Film Media Arts from Temple University. \nSavion Mingo is a multidisciplinary artist born in Buffalo\, NY and raised in the Kenfield/Langfield Projects. Although his work varies from fine arts to graphic design\, his medium of choice is digital: including collage\, vector illustration\, and painting. Savion is a ghetto organizer\, co-founding D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment) in 2015\, a Black youth-led anti-oppression arts organization which provides decolonial education\, access to health services\, and builds alternative arts spaces for marginalized peoples. He is also a sexual health advocate for youth and is a proud lover of zines! \nElisa Peebles is an artist\, activist and producer originally from the East Side of Buffalo\, NY. After receiving a B.S. in Media\, Culture and Communication Studies from New York University\, Elisa has spent the past several years living\, working and creating in Buffalo and New York City. Her most recent exhibition\, Bodies of Light: Exit Strategy\, at the gallery pop up Decolonize This Place\, brought artists of color from both cities together around the themes of resistance and perseverance. Prior to this\, Elisa created and co-directed the Buffalo Myth Project\, and was a producer on the Sundance and SXSW – selected short Actresses\, as well as several other independent and commercial short films. A hip-hop performer\, Elisa was selected to perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2015 Everybooty Pride Festival. She uses music\, film\, audio and other methods of storytelling to contemplate issues around collective memory\, urban development\, social justice\, and the intersection of race\, gender and sexuality. Currently\, Elisa is a producer of the satirical web-series Dark Justice. \nBrett Story is a writer and independent non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. Her films have screened at True/False\, Oberhausen\, Hot Docs\, the Viennale\, and Dok Leipzig\, among other festivals. Her second feature documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs\, the Prize for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Festival\, and a Special Jury Mention at the Camden International Film Festival. The film was broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. Her journalism and film criticism have appeared in such outlets as CBC Radio and The Nation magazine\, and she is currently completing a book manuscript for the University of California Press titled The Prison out of Place. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institute’s 2014 New Visions Award\, and is a 2016-2017 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/to-and-from-1967-a-rebellion-with-martin-sostre/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Symposia & Panels
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Fluid-Frontiers-2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191110Z
UID:10000899-1510322400-1510329600@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Christine Choy presents: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 10\, 2017\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel Members | Free for students with valid ID \nWho Killed Vincent Chin? (1989) is a gripping documentary directed by Christine Choy & Renee Tajima-Peña that focuses on the events surrounding the murder of Chinese-American man\, Vincent Chin\, by two white autoworkers from Detroit in 1982. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary\, we will be screening this groundbreaking work with Christine Choy in person\, who will lead a discussion following the screening. \nChristine Choy is a New York City based filmmaker who has won numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim and a Rockefeller. She currently teaches at NYU Tisch School of Performing Arts.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/who-killed-vincent-chin/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screenshot_20170811-120724.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:20171101T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191108Z
UID:10000898-1509555600-1509555600@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Ramon Zürcher's The Strange Little Cat
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 1st\, 2017\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel Members \nA comedic examination of the everyday that evolves out of an extended family-dinner gathering\, Ramon Zürcher’s The Strange Little Cat (2013) “…is an intimate yet otherworldly… highly original debut.” (NY Times) \n“In his investigation of one family’s life\, Zürcher does not omit the reality that even members of the closest families inevitably retain their own mysteries.” – Eleni Deacon\, Cleo Journal \nPresented by Cultivate Cinema Circle.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/strange-little-cat/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Strange-Little-Cat.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:20171021T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191108Z
UID:10000885-1508598000-1508623200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:PEEPSHOW: SCARY-OKE!
DESCRIPTION:Karaoke Fundraiser & Halloween Party\nOctober 21st\, 2017\, 7:00pm-1:00am\nDNIPRO Ukrainian Cultural Center (562 Genesee St\, Buffalo) \nPre-Sale Tickets $15 | Door $20\nPre-Sale is now over! If you bought a ticket online\, we will have your name at will-call. Please have your ID’s ready.\n\nLet your inner rock star shine and show off your Halloween threads at Squeaky Wheel’s biannual fundraiser party!  \n\nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center’s wildly popular fundraiser-art show\, Peepshow\, returns on October 21st\, 2017. Part Halloween Costume Ball\, part Legendary Singer’s Hall\, this year’s Peepshow: Scary-oke! offers multiple rooms and activities where you can immerse yourself in an audio-visual extravaganza\, just in time for Halloween and with a karaoke twist! \nPeepshow: Scary-oke! offers a unique opportunity to sing your favorite songs while celebrating Halloween. Partygoers can perform in five themed karaoke rooms designed by local artists.Themed rooms include: Vamp it up! featuring show-tunes with Holly Johnson; NSFW Room (Not Safe For Work or Werewolves) with black-light face painting by Tom Holt; White Noise karaoke installation by Brian Milbrand; Melt & Move\, a psychedelic delirium of visuals by UVB-76; and an auto-tuned karaoke Robo Room populated by lo-fi/sci-fi robots by Jeff Mace. The immersive karaoke rooms will showcase an impressive list of karaoke DJ’s including DJ Blue Lazer\, DJ J Love\, and DJ Rick Vallone. Watch for special cameo performances by local celebrities and karaoke superstars\, including\, Curtis Lovell & MaDamn Noire\, Max Darling\, Cersei Lannister\, Vidalia May\, and more! \nIn the ballroom and on the main stage\, party goers will have the chance to experience a carnival of participatory activities and spectacles. Silently dance the night away with Silent Disco against a dazzling green-screened backdrop; experience Live Band Karaoke as you belt out your best onstage accompanied by local band Fernway; bid on exciting work by local and regional artists such as Kyle Butler\, Mickey Harmon\, Shasti O’leary Soudant\, and Virocode in a Silent Art Auction; enjoy Burlesque performances by Femme Noire and a Thriller Dance-Off by Cat Sinclair’s Boolesque Ensemble; enter for your chance to win a costume contest hosted by the artists of The Pine Apple Company; take part in ghoulish carnival games by Esther Neisen\, and much more! Be sure to stick around for the collective Epic Song Sing-a-long and a GLDN GIRLS-deejayed dance party to cap off the night. \nEarly arrivers will enjoy a Trick or Treat Happy Hour from 7pm-8pm courtesy of local confectionary Blue Table Chocolates. Local pop-up\, Yey’s Food will serve up Cambodian inspired cuisine in DNIPRO’s kitchen and Lloyd’s Taco Truck will also be on site. \nTickets \nGet your tickets now and save $5 off the door! Scary-oke tickets can be purchased at:\nOnline – https://squeaky.org/scaryoke\nSqueaky Wheel – 617 Main St. Buffalo\,14203\nThe Pine Apple Company – 224 Allen St\, Buffalo\, NY 14201\nSpot Coffee – 765 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14222\nTerrapin Station – 1172 Hertel Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14216 \nSponsors & Supporters \nPeepshow: Scary-oke! is Squeaky Wheel’s 2017 fundraiser\, supporting activities in access\, education\, and exhibition of media arts and is made possible by the generous support of the following sponsors: Clover Management\, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP\, Allen Street Consulting\, Block Club\, Blue Table Chocolates\, BreadHive Bakery & Cafe\, Buffalo Spree magazine\, Cafe 59\, Challenger News\, Cosmetic Vein and Laser Center\, Communication Department at Buffalo State College\, eco_logic STUDIO\, FGI Landscaping\, Fuse Salon & Gallery\, Hodgson Russ LLP\, Hurwitz & Fine\, P.C.\, Law Office of Dominic Saraceno\, Lumiflux Media\, The Pilates loft\, The Public\, SE²\, Sinatra & Company Real Estate\, Thin Ice\, UB Department of Art\, UB Department of Media Study. \nAbout Squeaky Wheel \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center has a mission to continue a legacy of innovation in media arts through access\, education\, and exhibition. We envision a community that uses electronic media and film to celebrate freedom of expression and diversity of voice. Established in 1985\, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center is the only organization in Western NY to offer education\, equipment access\, and exhibition programming dedicated to exploring film & digital media arts. Squeaky Wheel’s reputation in the media arts field continues to grow nationally and internationally. More information on current programs can be found at www.squeaky.org. \n  \n\nBe a STAR in our event and become a sponsor today! Find more information here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/peepshow-scary-oke/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SCARYOKEEVENTIMAGE.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171007T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171007T123000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191108Z
UID:10000681-1507359600-1507379400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Buffalo International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 7\n 11am\, 12:15pm\, 3pm\, 4:30pm\n Tickets here $10 unless specified. Buy tickets here. \nSqueaky Wheel is once again excited to host the Buffalo International Film Festival! Join us for three remarkable screenings\, plus a special panel talk on Women in Film! More information can be found at buffalofilm.org \n11:00am BIFF Shorts: Youth Program (free)\nJoin us for a screening local youth showcase freaturing films created by students of Squeaky Wheel’s youth education programs. The works will be a selection of exceptional short experimental works and documentary based projects done by Buffalo Youth. This event is free and open to the public. \n12:15pm : 8 Borders 8 Days (Amanda Bailly\, 2017)\nA gut-wrenching first person account of Sham\, a fierce single mother of two\, as she escapes the Syrian civil war.\nShowing with:\nOne Word (Caleb D. Shaffer\, 2017)\nSammi\, a shy African refugee struggles to adapt to her new life in the UK as he comes out of his shell.\nMore Than Two Days (Ahmed Abdelnaser\, 2017)\nTwo teenage boys reconcile a past trauma in Ahmed Abdelnaser’s understated Qatarie drama in More Than Two Days. \n3pm: Women in Film Panel\nModerated by Tilke Hill\nA discussion with filmmakers about their work and what it means to identify as a woman behind the lens in film and media industries today. With Savanna Washington\, Ali Weinstein and more. Followed by Q&A. \n4:30pm BIFF Shorts: Experimental\nA cinematic platform for abstract expressions\, poetic essays\, and unique perspectives. 53 minutes. \nEnd of Time Milcho Manchevski\nTime has stopped and the universe has contrasted into the size of a grain of rice in Micho Manchevski’s visual essay on culture and temporality. \nSigit Phil Hastings\nSignal Intelligence – the act of collecting/intercepting information takes an interstellar journey through the microscopic image in Phil Hastings Sigint. \nPortrait of Snow Roy Zheng\nAn encounter with a younger artist allows legendary visual artist and experimental film pioneer Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his career. \nNiofar Hugo Lemant\nTracing the steps of a French girl in rural Senegal\, Hugo Lemant’s explores the ties that bind in a haunting abstract essay on humanity and cultural exchange. \nThe Fourth Kingdom Adan Aliaga\nA poetic exploration of a New York City redemption center for plastics where immigrants and underdogs come together to chase the illusive American Dream. \nManufactured Obsolescence Elijah Pike\nA critique of materialism\, technology\, and commodities designed for obsolescence. \nCorp Pablo Polledri\nAmbition\, exploitation of labour\, environmental pollution\, human degradation..all in a day’s work in Pablo Polledri’s playfully horrific animated essay. \nAngry Black B*tch April Kelly\nA glimpse into different interpretations of anger within black women combining spoken word\, hypnotic performances and cinematography.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/buffalo-international-film-festival-2/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/biff.png
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:20171004T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T020631
CREATED:20251230T191052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z
UID:10000896-1507129200-1507136400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Kristen Johnson's Cameraperson
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 4th\, 2017\n 7pm\n Free and open to the public \nWhat does it mean to film another person? How does it affect that person – and what does it do to the one who films? \nA boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Cameraperson (2016)\, a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions\, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects\, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera\, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative. A work that combines documentary\, autobiography\, and ethical inquiry\, Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker’s personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world. \nPresented by Cultivate Cinema Circle.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/cameraperson/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Cameraperson-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
END:VCALENDAR