BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center
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
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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:20260413T034225
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
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z
UID:10000894-1506524400-1506531600@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Super Quick! Presentations from UB Grads
DESCRIPTION:Kyla Kegler\, Sensing in the Soft Room\nWednesday\, September 27\, 2017\n7pm\nFree and open to the public \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to welcome back the very popular “pecha-kucha”-style event Super Quick! organized by University at Buffalo graduate and PhD students from Media Study\, Studio Art\, Visual Studies\, and more. Each presenter will make 5-7 minute presentations on a range of topics and their current research. Join us for a stimulating evening of talks\, images\, demonstrations\, and Q&A with local art scholars. The lineup of speakers will be announced soon!
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/super-quick-presentations-from-ub-grads/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/KeglerSuperQuick.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:20170915T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171209T185900
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z
UID:10000887-1505487600-1512845940@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Angela Washko | The Game: The Game 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Opening September 15\, 2017\, 7–9pm\n Conversation with Angela Washko and Stephanie Rothenberg: 7:30pm\n On view through December 9\, 2017\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm \nPublic Programs:\nSeptember 18\, 6pm: Angela Washko @ University at Buffalo Art Department Speaker Series\nSeptember 19\, 4pm: Angela Washko @ Digital Humanities Group at Canisius College\nOctober 28\, 2pm: Playthrough at Squeaky Wheel with Feminista Social Club \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Pittsburgh based artist\, Angela Washko\, opening September 15th. Featuring Washko’s latest iteration of her video game The Game: The Game\, the exhibition invites audiences to engage with the world of pick-up artists from the point of view of a femme presenting person. The opening will feature a public conversation between Washko and artist Stephanie Rothenberg. A newly commissioned essay by Dorothy Santos accompanies the exhibit. Please be advised that The Game: The Game features challenging content. This game contains sexual scenarios and may not be suitable for audiences under 18\, and contains situations depicting sexual violence and non-consensual exchanges. \nThe Game: The Game is a video game presenting the practices of several prominent seduction coaches (aka pick-up artists or PUAs) through the format of a dating simulator. In the game these pick-up gurus attempt to seduce the player using their signature techniques taken verbatim from their instructional books and video materials. The game sets up the opportunity for players to explore the complexity of the construction of social behaviors around dating as well as the experience of being a femme-presenting individual navigating this complicated terrain. \n \nThe Game: The Game is a continuation of BANGED\, a two year-long project during which Angela Washko interviewed Bang series author and manosphere figurehead Roosh V\, and tried to get in contact with his alleged sexual partners. After working on BANGED\, the black and white ways in which this field has been portrayed through the media seemed too simple and unfair to all parties who encountered it and provoked this question: Is practicing “game” inherently wrong and dishonest\, or can it be practiced in a way that simply levels the dating playing field in favor of those who are otherwise socially or physically disadvantaged? By disguising the most notorious PUAs alongside “game-less” individuals and PUAs-in-training\, and placing the player into the often unsafe position of trying to distinguish between them all\, Washko hopes to add levels of complexity to public conversations around both pick-up and feminism which have both found themselves presented in highly polarized\, dichotomous positions in mainstream media. \n \n“One of the most fascinating aspects of The Game: The Game is the ability to respond to words taken verbatim from Pick-up Artist (PUA) instructionals. PUA culture may seem marginal to most\, restricted to specialized DVDs and obscure internet forums\, however interacting with The Game: The Game provides a much more subtle understanding of these social behaviors in our culture. Dating-simulators have a history of depicting disturbing behavior\, presented with a normalizing touch and from the perspective of a male; The Game: the Game\, has players embody a woman who is the target of PUA’s\, upending the genre’s conventions. The images–abstract\, dark\, with disturbing or absurd details\, and static like most dating-sims–work in tandem with Xiu Xiu’s low beats and drones to illustrate a systemic nature to the behaviors on display. Crucially\, the game’s depiction of male aggression is anything but simple. Washko’s long-term research has been about bridging communities – in this case feminists and the manosphere – to understand each other outside of their echo chambers. The multiple paths and possibilities in the game allows the player to safely explore these behaviors through replays. It’s an essential work\, giving us a nuanced view of how desire\, violence\, and complicity function in our day to day lives.” – Ekrem Serdar \nBiography of Angela Washko\nAngela Washko is an artist\, writer and facilitator devoted to creating new forums for discussions of feminism in spaces frequently hostile toward it. Since 2012\, Washko has operated The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft\, an ongoing intervention inside the most popular online role-playing game of all time. Washko’s most recent project\, The Game: The Game is a video game presenting the practices of several prominent seduction coaches (aka pick-up artists) through the format of a dating simulator. In the game these pick-up gurus attempt to seduce the player using their signature techniques taken verbatim from their instructional books and video materials. \nA recent recipient of a Franklin Furnace Performance Fund Grant\, a Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier Grant from the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry\, and a Rhizome Internet Art Microgrant\, Washko’s practice has been highlighted in Art in America\, Frieze Magazine\, Time Magazine\, The Guardian\, ArtForum\, ARTnews\, The Hairpin\, VICE\, Hyperallergic\, Rhizome\, the New York Times\, Neural Magazine and more. Her projects have been presented nationally and internationally at venues including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki)\, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Milan Design Triennale\, the Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her writing has been published in Creative Time Reports\, FIELD Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism\, Copenhagen University Peer Reviewed Journal (NTIK)\, Neural Magazine\, VASA Journal of Images and Culture\, .dpi Feminist Magazine of Art and Digital Culture\, ANIMAL NY and more.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/angela-washko-the-game-the-game-2-0/
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/2017/08/menu_still01.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:20170915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z
UID:10000893-1505484000-1506175200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Summer Works
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Summer Works\nOpening: September 15th\, 6:00 to 10:00pm\nExhibit will be on view through September 23rd \n\nSqueaky Wheel & CEPA Gallery are proud to present a collection of youth artworks made this past summer during our media art and photography workshops. Incorporating a range of mediums and methods\, participants in the summer programs engaged in active experimental media creation with a variety of local teaching artists. The exhibition will be on view beginning September 15th and continue until September 23rd. \nThe exhibition will take place in CEPA’s Underground Gallery located at 617 Main St in downtown Buffalo. \nSqueaky Wheel would like to thank the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment of the Arts\, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature for making these vital youth education experiences possible.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-summer-works/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-1.44.31-PM-1-e1504208876104.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170901T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170901T163000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z
UID:10000888-1504279800-1504283400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 14th Animation Fest
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Bjork\, Tectonics\, digital video\, 2015\nFriday\, September 1\, 2017\n7:30pm\n@ the Albright-Knox Art Gallery \nFree and open to the public as part of M&T First Fridays. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest returns for its 14th year with animations by emerging and established artists from around the world! Designed for ages 6 and up\, this family-friendly affair is an annual showcase culled from a public call for submissions and features some of the most innovative artists working across various media. \nThis year’s 49 minute program will take place once again at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery during M&T First Friday. Demonstrating a wide range of animation methods\, from stop-motion\, hand-drawn works\, pieces made with open source custom software\, analogue video effects\, and more\, the program tells stories about diverse forms of existence and the nature of life. The screening includes works such as a philosophical science fiction film\, a screen-printed life story\, an absurd domestic drama\, and a mysterious trip towards enlightenment\, among others. Throughout the program you will witness all kinds of transformations\, either of life itself or of emotions that lead to surprising outcomes. Bring your family\, bring your friends! \nCurated by Jean Zhu\, Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2017 Curatorial Intern. Squeaky Wheel’s 14th Animation Fest is generously sponsored by Villa Maria’s Animation Program. \nProgram ~49 minutes \nShip of Fools | Josh Shaffner\n6:00min\, digital\, 2016\nLife on earth through time and space from the present time to 4000 years ahead\, in non-chronological order. The settings change\, humans do not. It’s “a cry for help.” \nWednesday with Goddard | Nicolas Ménard\n4:30min\, digital\, 2016\nA personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. \nAdam | Evelyn Jane Ross\n2:27min\, digital\, 2017\nIn the beginning of them\, she created us. She is not the Adam that you’ve known for your whole life. \nBatfish Soup | Amanda Bonaiuto\n4:35min\, digital\, 2016\nWacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls\, boiling stew\, and a bang. A fictionalized absurdist film based on memories of freakish childhood visitations. \nLo | Ted Wiggin\n3:10min\, digital\, 2017\nWe must protect this house. \nHeavy Blanket | Cory Feder\n6:57min\, digital\, 2016\nUnderneath the heavy blanket there is a train stopping in all the same places and it is passing between all the known and unknown evils of today and yesterday. Who is to say what evil really is; what makes a train stop in one place over and over again? \nIllusions | Dominica Harrison\n5:22min\, digital\, 2016\nSometimes the most tragic accidents could lead to the happiest endings… Animated beautifully with screen-printing technique. \nHead Cleaner | Emily Pelstring\n7:00min\, digital\, 2015\nHand-drawn and digital animation\, analog video effects\, re-photography and video feedback transform images issuing from an apparently malfunctioning machine. Tongue-in-cheek commentary on entertainment technology’s fraught relationship to individual agency and identity\, and its role in the standardization of expression and behaviour\, underlies a loosely suggested coming-of-age narrative. \nTectonics | Aaron Whitney Bjork\n2:56min\, digital\, 2015\nAn examination of the human life process\, birth–life–death. This video is a collection of Aaron’s signature hand cut vinyl drawings. \nBio of the curator\nJean Zhu (b. Shanghai\, China) is a New York City and Buffalo based artist and recently studying Media Study and Sociology at University at Buffalo. She has exhibited at a number of venues in New York State including Silo City\, BT&C Gallery\, Gallery r\, Honey Ramka\, Tender Trap\, University at Buffalo with seasoned artists and peer student artists from Pratt Institute\, School of Visual Arts\, New York University\, Rochester Institute of Technology\, and Parsons School of Design.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-14th-animation-fest/
LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Animation-Bjork.jpg
GEO:42.9324531;-78.87566
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo NY 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1285 Elmwood Avenue:geo:-78.87566,42.9324531
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170826T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170826T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z
UID:10000884-1503759600-1503763200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Lea Bertucci at Silo City
DESCRIPTION:Lea Bertucci at Silo City\nSaturday\, August 26th\, 2017\n7pm Door\, 7:30pm performance\n@ Silo City (Marine A)\nFree and open to the general public \nPlease note: The time of this event is now 7pm door\, 7:30pm performance. The performance will last 30 minutes. Please arrive accordingly. \nJoin us at Silo City (Marine A) for the premiere of a new\, site-specific composition by our Silo City resident Lea Bertucci and her electroacoustic saxophone quartet with Steve Baczkowski\, Kyle Ohlson\, and Bill Sack! During her three-week residency at Squeaky Wheel\, Bertucci will be working on the first of a two-part suite of compositions\, specifically developed for the uniquely resonant space of Silo City. Join us for the unveiling of this ambitious project\, featuring musicians from Buffalo\, and capping the end of our Summer 2017 residency program. \nLea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice\, (alto saxophone and bass clarinet)\, her work often incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays\, electroacoustic feedback\, extended instrumental technique and tape collage. Her discography includes a number of solo and collaborative releases on independent labels in the US and Europe\, including I Dischi Del Barone\, Obsolete Units\, Telegraph Harp and Clandestine Compositions. In 2017\, she will release All That is Solid Melts Into Air: Works for Strings\, on NNA Tapes. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe at venues such as The Kitchen\, PS1 MoMA\, The Drawing Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, Abrons Arts\, ISSUE Project Room\, Pioneer Works\, The Queens Museum\, Artists’ Space\,
Caramoor\, The High Zero Festival\, and Experimental
Intermedia\, among many others. She is a 2016 MacDowell Fellow in composition and a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in- Residence.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/lea-bertucci-at-silo-city/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Residencies
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Bertucci_SiloCity.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170824T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170824T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z
UID:10000883-1503586800-1503594000@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Presentations by Workspace Residents
DESCRIPTION:Presentations by Workspace Residents\nThursday\, August 24th\, 2017\n 7pm\n Free and open to the general public \nJoin us at as our Summer 2017 Workspace Residents give brief presentations about their work. Every resident will give a 15 minute artist talk on the projects and research they’ve undertaken in their three week residency at Squeaky Wheel. Summer 2017 residents include Lea Bertucci\, Caroline Doherty\, Ja’Tovia Gary\, Rachael Rakes & Leo Goldsmith\, and Deniz Tortum. Come join us to see and listen to a tremendously exciting group of artists and researchers! Check out their bios and project proposals below. \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. \n—\nSILO CITY RESIDENT\n\n \nLea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice\, (alto saxophone and bass clarinet)\, her work often incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays\, electroacoustic feedback\, extended instrumental technique and tape collage. Her discography includes a number of solo and collaborative releases on independent labels in the US and Europe\, including I Dischi Del Barone\, Obsolete Units\, Telegraph Harp and Clandestine Compositions. In 2017\, she will release All That is Solid Melts Into Air: Works for Strings\, on NNA Tapes. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe at venues such as The Kitchen\, PS1 MoMA\, The Drawing Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, Abrons Arts\, ISSUE Project Room\, Pioneer Works\, The Queens Museum\, Artists’ Space\,
Caramoor\, The High Zero Festival\, and Experimental
Intermedia\, among many others. She is a 2016 MacDowell Fellow in composition and a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in- Residence.\nProject:\nThe artist will create the first in a two-part suite of compositions for electroacoustic saxophone quartet. This new site-specific work would be developed\, premiered and documented within the uniquely resonant space of Silo City’s grain elevators. Drawing from the Buffalo area’s community of creative musicians\, the artist would collaborate with three other saxophonists to develop this work. Aural phenomena will play a pivotal role in the development of this composition – gesturally\, structurally and timbrally. The process will begin by narrowing down a vocabulary of extended instrumental techniques for Saxophone\, dictated by in-depth explorations of psychoacoustic phenomena in the space.\nThe second part of the project will use electronic processing techniques informed by explorations at Silo City. An essential component of the time the time the artist will spend on the site will be taking acoustic response tests of the interior of the grain elevators and creating customized reverberation modeling patches that are based on the characteristics of the Silos. This and other elements such as field recordings will inform the second part of the suite\, and will be continued into 2018.\nThe culmination of this residency will be a public premiere of the composition at Silo City on August 26\, 2017. \nRESEARCH RESIDENTS\n \nRachael Rakes is a curator\, critic\, film programmer\, and teacher. She was recently a Fellow at Art Center/South Florida\, and a Curator-in-Residence in the CPR: Mexico program. Rakes is a Programmer at Large for the Film Society of Lincoln Center\, Editor at Large for Verso Books\, a and has recently organized exhibitions for Knockdown Center\, ISCP\, and Malmö Konsthall. Leo Goldsmith is a writer and curator based in New York. He co-edits the film section of The Brooklyn Rail with Rachael Rakes\, with whom he is writing a book about the radical filmmaker Peter Watkins. His writing has appeared in Art-Agenda\, artforum\, Cinema Scope\, INCITE\, and The Village Voice.\nProject:\n“Distant Present” is a book that argues that Peter Watkins’s work is an essential precursor to the recent interest in moving-image documentary works in contemporary art. Since the late 1950s\, Watkins has engineered a unique form of moving image practice: hybrid non fiction as interventionist art. His films\, including The War Game\, Edvard Munch\, Punishment Park\, and La Commune\, are at once hyperpolitical\, sophisticated\, and reflexive works on social struggle and the mediation of history. This book will provide a critical analysis of Watkins’s filmmaking and writing\, situating his unorthodox methodologies of collective filmmaking within a narrative of their often fraught production\, distribution\, and reception histories\, and within their wider intellectual and political contexts. \nARTIST RESIDENTS\n \nCaroline Doherty is an artist and educator based in Buffalo\, NY. She employs multiple mediums – including sculpture\, performance\, video\, and public projects – to engage questions of language\, communication\, violence\, and power. She has exhibited and been a resident artist internationally\, most recently at Ontario Place in Toronto\, the University of Toronto Missisauga\, SOMA in Mexico City\, ArtPark in Lewiston\, NY\, Tsinghua University in Beijing\, the Chongjiang Contemporary Art Museum in Chongqing\, and CEPA Gallery in Buffalo. Alongside her art practice\, Caroline teaches people of many ages and backgrounds how to make and do new things.\nProject:\nThe artist will work on production of a multi-channel video that is based on their recent major installation and performance project\, Basic Furnishings for Unequal Spaces. Drawing from their experiences as a student\, teacher\, and worker\, the work explores the effects – blatant and invisible- of systems of power\, gender\, labor\, and competition in bureaucratic and institutional spaces by focusing on the archetypal objects found in those spaces. Referencing environments like offices\, waiting rooms\, and lecture halls\, the sculptural furniture and related objects double as set and props\, shifting meaning and utility based on the actions of five female performers. The actions were devised through improvisation exercises with the performers\, and then complied into a mutable score for live public performances. This new iteration translates the actions into scenes staged for a new video. The props and furniture sculptures will be used again\, with the addition of new objects. The resulting work will more deeply explore the strange\, uncanny\, surreal\, or violent aspects of the performance. \n \nJa’Tovia Gary is a filmmaker and visual artist originally from Dallas\, Texas currently living and working in Brooklyn\, New York. Gary’s work is concerned with constructions of power and how raced and gendered beings navigate popular media. She earned her MFA in Social Documentary Filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has screened at festivals\, cinemas\, and institutions worldwide including Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival\, Edinburg International Film Festival\, The Whitney Museum\, Anthology Film Archives\, Atlanta Film Festival\, the Schomburg Center\, MoMa PS1\, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles\, New Orleans Film Festival\, Ann Arbor Film Festival and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Sundance Documentary Fund Production Grant and the Jerome Foundation Film and Video Grant. Gary participated in the Terra Foundation of American Art 2016 summer artist fellowship and is the 2017 artist in residence at the Jacob Burns Film Center. (Photo credit: Alexander Bell)\nProject:\nThe Giverny Diptych is comprised of two separate yet related experimental video pieces\, each filmed in Giverny\, France in and around Claude Monet’s famed gardens and residence. The work is concerned with ancestral memory\, Black womanist philosophy\, captivity and fugitivity\, the history of western imperialism\, and the presence of the Black feminine figure within the western fine art canon. During her time at the Workspace Residency the artist will complete the post production phase of Giverny I and Giverny II.\nThe artist will also experiment with the mounting of an installation titled On Attachment that features a short 16mm experimental animation as its centerpiece. \n \nDeniz Tortum is an artist working in film\, video\, and new media. He is a graduate of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the Open Documentary Lab. His most recent film\, If Only There Were Peace (co-directed with Carmine Grimaldi)\, premiered in 2017 at True/False Film Festival. Currently he is a fellow at Harvard Film Study Center\, working on a film about a hospital in Istanbul.\nProject:\nAn increasingly prominent\, but insistently opaque technology\, blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of transactions. All transactions are confirmed by the thousands of users in the system. This results in both a highly detailed and transparent record of all actions\, as well as a decentralized yet secure system. This is in contrast to existing organizations we use for similar tasks\, like banks or server farms. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are built using this blockchain technology. Blockchain-evangelists believe that this technology can lead to major changes in bureaucratic and economic structures\, disrupting global power relations. Critics\, like media theorist Ian Bogost and journalist Izabella Kaminska argue that these technologies will usher in an emergent form of techno-authoritarianism.\nDuring the residency\, the artist will develop a conceptual framework for blockchain-based artwork. The artist will research artworks that have conceptual ties with transience\, autonomy\, or governance\, along with current efforts of using blockchain as an artistic medium. The residency would lead to a critical work on the future themes & possibilities for blockchain art.\nThis project is a collaboration between the artist\, Ainsley Sutherland\, a designer with particular interest in blockchain and Ulya Soley\, assistant curator at Pera Museum in Istanbul.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/presentations-by-workspace-residents/
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/2017/06/ResidentsBW.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:20170823T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170823T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z
UID:10000855-1503500400-1503507600@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:VR DOC with Deniz Tortum
DESCRIPTION:Deniz Tortum. Hospital With One Entrance and Two Exits. Virtual Reality\, 4min\, 2016\nMaster Class: VR DOC with Deniz Tortum\nWednesday\, August 23\, 2017\n7pm\n $10 General | $7 Members \nWorkspace Resident and artist Deniz Tortum will lead a lecture and workshop on interactive documentary practices with a focus on Virtual Reality documentaries. He will introduce the participants to different forms of interactive documentary\, using MIT Open Documentary Lab’s archive Docubase as our resource. The class will then move into virtual reality documentary and talk about methods of representing reality\, different types of capture methods\, and different strategies followed by VR makers. An Oculus Rift Headset and Samsung Gear VR Viewers will be available to experience the works. Participants are invited to bring their smartphones. What makes something a documentary in the post-photographic visual era? \nDeniz Tortum is an artist working in film\, video\, and new media. He is a graduate of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the Open Documentary Lab. His most recent film\, If Only There Were Peace (co-directed with Carmine Grimaldi)\, premiered in 2017 at True/False Film Festival. Currently he is a fellow at Harvard Film Study Center\, working on a film about a hospital in Istanbul. \n\nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of workshop. Cancellations must take place 48hrs before to receive a refund. There are limited spaces available\, book yours now. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org \n\nThis workshop is part of the Workspace Residency. Workspace 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. More information on the summer 2017 residents can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/vr-doc-with-deniz-tortum/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Tortum_Hos.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:20170819T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170819T120000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191053Z
UID:10000881-1503136800-1503144000@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Field Recording at Silo City with Lea Bertucci
DESCRIPTION:Field Recording at Silo City with Lea Bertucci\nSaturday\, August 19\, 2017\, 2–4pm\n$7 members / $10 general \nArtist and Workspace Resident Lea Bertucci will lead a small class focusing on technical audio recording techniques using a Zoom H6 and equipment from Squeaky as well as creative\, lo-fi approaches using microcassette recorders. Microphone types\, placement and setting levels would all be discussed. Participants will spend the first half going through recording techniques and overview of gear\, with the second half of the class dedicated to participants learning to use their recordings compositionally with mixing stations. \nLea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice\, (alto saxophone and bass clarinet)\, her work often incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays\, electroacoustic feedback\, extended instrumental technique and tape collage. Her discography includes a number of solo and collaborative releases on independent labels in the US and Europe\, including I Dischi Del Barone\, Obsolete Units\, Telegraph Harp and Clandestine Compositions. In 2017\, she will release All That is Solid Melts Into Air: Works for Strings\, on NNA Tapes. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe at venues such as The Kitchen\, PS1 MoMA\, The Drawing Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, Abrons Arts\, ISSUE Project Room\, Pioneer Works\, The Queens Museum\, Artists’ Space\,
Caramoor\, The High Zero Festival\, and Experimental
Intermedia\, among many others. She is a 2016 MacDowell Fellow in composition and a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in- Residence. \n\nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of workshop. Cancellations must take place 48hrs before to receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org \n\nThis workshop is part of the Workspace Residency. Workspace 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. More information on the summer 2017 residents can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/field-recording-at-silo-city-with-lea-bertucci/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/LeaBertucci.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170816T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170816T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191108Z
UID:10000882-1502895600-1502902800@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Art and the Documentary Turn with Rachael Rakes & Leo Goldsmith
DESCRIPTION:Art and the Documentary Turn with Rachael Rakes & Leo Goldsmith\nWednesday\, August 16th\, 7-9pm\n$7 members / $10 general \nLed by Workspace residents Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith\, this lecture / processual seminar considers the post-1990s “documentary turn” within contemporary art\, taking on coextensive pivots in non-fiction cinema towards a language of video art and installation\, from a variety of historical\, curatorial\, and critical perspectives. In addition to looking at examples in moving-image media\, the seminar touches upon artists working with still images\, objects\, performance\, sound\, interactivity\, and activism as documentary practice. Rakes and Goldsmith will discuss the relative discourses of documentary media and the art world\, consider the relationship between the traditions of art\, documentary\, archival research\, and journalism\, and raise issues of presentation\, contextualization\, and preservation for curators and artists alike in the current regime of contemporary art and neoliberal politics. The seminar will touch upon issues of production and exhibition of all forms of documentary art practice\, and also consider the politics and ethics of art-making in the social realm. This event should be of of interest to artists\, filmmakers\, curators\, activists\, writers\, and anyone interested in media and social practice. \nRachael Rakes is a curator\, critic\, film programmer\, and teacher. She was recently a Fellow at Art Center/South Florida\, and a Curator-in-Residence in the CPR: Mexico program. Rakes is a Programmer at Large for the Film Society of Lincoln Center\, Editor at Large for Verso Books\, a and has recently organized exhibitions for Knockdown Center\, ISCP\, and Malmö Konsthall. Leo Goldsmith is a writer and curator based in New York. He co-edits the film section of The Brooklyn Rail with Rachael Rakes\, with whom he is writing a book about the radical filmmaker Peter Watkins. His writing has appeared in Art-Agenda\, artforum\, Cinema Scope\, INCITE\, and The Village Voice. \n\n  \nThis workshop is part of the Workspace Residency. Workspace 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. More information on the summer 2017 residents can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-and-the-documentary-turn-with-rachael-rakes-leo-goldsmith-2/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/RakesWorkshop-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:20170812T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170812T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191051Z
UID:10000860-1502535600-1502546400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Ad Hoc Tactical Networks Masterclass with Tony Yanick
DESCRIPTION:Ad Hoc Tactical Networks Masterclass with Tony Yanick\nSaturday August 12th\, 3-6pm\n$7 members / $10 general \nArtist Tony Yanick will lead a workshop on how participants can build their own tactical local networks using a raspberry pi\, while exploring how other artists and activists have utilized such structures and systems. Topics covered will include programming in python programming (scripting)\, network protocol & diagnostic procedures\, building basics of an ad hoc social network\, and simple encryption techniques. Tony has recommended that participants bring their own laptop if possible. \nThe following materials are recommended but not required to participate: Raspberry Zero or Raspberry Three \n\nRequired Software Installation Instructions:\nMac: \n1.) Go to https://brew.sh/ and follow instructions \n2.) Download Python 2.7.x and follow instructions (make sure to follow the correct instructions for 2.7.x and not 3.0) \nFurther notes: http://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python.html \nFor Windows: \n1.) Download and install the mini Console Terminal Application \n2.) Download Python 2.7.x (64bit) or Python 2.7.x (32bit) and follow instructions (make sure to follow the correct instructions for 2.7.x and not 3.0)
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/ad-hoc-tactical-networks-masterclass-with-tony-yanick/
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/2017/07/tonyyanickfeatbanner-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:20170812T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170812T110000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191051Z
UID:10000859-1502528400-1502535600@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Devised Performance for Camera with Caroline Doherty
DESCRIPTION:Devised Performance for Camera with Caroline Doherty\nSaturday August 12th\, 1-3pm\n$7 members / $10 general \nArtist and Workspace Resident Caroline Doherty will lead a workshop/master class on devised performance\, exploring the inherent differences\, strengths\, and challenges of live performance\, mediated performance\, and performance for the camera. Participants will work together through a series of movement exercises and experiments\, developing strategies for building a score of actions\, a performed narrative\, or a framework for a short performance. Participants will also discuss the possibilities of using text\, props\, and set/location as tools. \nCaroline Doherty is an artist and educator based in Buffalo\, NY. She employs multiple mediums – including sculpture\, performance\, video\, and public projects – to engage questions of language\, communication\, violence\, and power. She has exhibited and been a resident artist internationally\, most recently at Ontario Place in Toronto\, the University of Toronto Missisauga\, SOMA in Mexico City\, ArtPark in Lewiston\, NY\, Tsinghua University in Beijing\, the Chongjiang Contemporary Art Museum in Chongqing\, and CEPA Gallery in Buffalo. Alongside her art practice\, Caroline teaches people of many ages and backgrounds how to make and do new things. \n\nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of workshop. Cancellations must take place 48hrs before to receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org \n\nThis workshop is part of the Workspace Residency. Workspace 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. More information on the summer 2017 residents can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/devised-performance-for-camera-with-caroline-doherty/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CDOHERTY_BF_Staged_Donuts.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170729T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170729T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191051Z
UID:10000854-1501326000-1501333200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Dislocations: Sound Walk with Kalpana Subramanian
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 29\, 2017\n3pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\n$10 General | $7 Members \nAs part of the exhibit Shape of a Pocket\, artist Kalpana Subramanian will present an artist talk at Squeaky Wheel\, followed by a guided tour of the Allentown neighborhood where participants can explore her locative sound work Dislocations\, a work that alludes to Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities. \nQuotes from Calvino’s essential story appear as one navigates the streets of Buffalo\, allowing us to imagine where the invisible cities of Zenobia\, Eudoxia\, Octavia or Isadora might be within Buffalo. Metaphoric cities come into existence both from Calvino’s text and from personal histories of the artist and the walker as they explore the city. The soundscapes are collages of personal memories of travels in Indonesia\, Japan\, India woven in with voices of people from Buffalo\, and elsewhere reflecting on spaces. Visions of other countries or cultures come to life as we navigate the streets of the city. Music\, spoken word and abstract soundscapes help draws attention to the nuances of physical spaces around us as we seek further clues into their history\, or recreate in our minds imaginary cities. In the walk around Irving Pl the artist has woven sounds of the gamelan in Bali\, sung poetry of Tagore\, words of people living on the street recounting its history\, the call of street vendors in Bangalore\, among many others. \nKalpana Subramanian is an artist-filmmaker and Ph.D candidate at the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her current work focuses on experimentation with the moving image\, and trans-media practices. She was awarded a Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship to pursue research on Stan Brakhage at the Film Studies Program at University of Colorado Boulder in 2015-16. Having graduated from the National Institute of Design (India) with a specialization in Film and Video\, in 2000\, she worked independently for 15 years\, making short films ranging across diverse filmmaking contexts. She worked closely with visionary multimedia artist Ranjit Makkuni at Sacred World Research Laboratory on several interactive exhibits and museums. Her commissioned films have been part of exhibits at the National Gallery of Modern Art & Prince of Wales Museum (Mumbai)\, National Museum (New Delhi)\, among many others. Her films have been screened at various festivals including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, Interfilm Berlin\, Human Rights Film Festival (Spain)\, Green Film Festival (Korea) and Signes de Nuit (Paris/Bangkok/Berlin/Lisbon)\, Big Ears Festival 2017\, among others. Awards include a UK Environmental Film Fellowship 2006\, Jury’s Special Mention at the CMS Vatavaran Film Festival\, the International Audi Design Award 1996\, Merit award for Conservation Message\, Award for Creative Approach and Cinematography at the International Film Festival of Montana and a nomination for a Wildscreen (Panda) award. Portrait of Yvonne Lo in Assisi\, a video installation won an audience award at the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology in Perugia\, Italy in 2015. Subramanian has taught film and communication design at undergraduate level for over 10 years. She is also a published children’s book author and western classical vocalist.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/dislocations-sound-walk-with-kalpana-subramanian/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Subramanian_dislo6.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170629
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170827
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191018Z
UID:10000655-1498766400-1503777599@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Shape of a Pocket
DESCRIPTION:W. Michelle Harris. Flawless Ladies (2016). VJ set.\nJune 30–August 26\n Opening: July 7\, 6–9pm\n Events: July 29\, August 12\, August 25 \nFeaturing work by Morgan Arnett\, Jason Bernagozzi\, Charlie Best and Jaz Palermo\, W. Michelle Harris\, Kyla Kegler\, Dana McKnight\, Przemyslaw Moskal\, Van Tran Nguyen\, Elisa Peebles and the United Melanin Society\, Carl Spartz\, Kalpana Subramanian\, and Tony Yanick. \nHow can the shape of a work be a site of resistance? How do collaborative practices inform our ideas of activism in art? What does it mean for resistance to happen in an exhibition context? \nSqueaky Wheel’s summer group exhibition features a number of artists aiming to take these questions to task\, while asking their own. Comprised of installations\, performances\, single-screen video work\, video games\, locative sound and media pieces\, the exhibition points to strictures and traumas that have roots far preceding our current political moment\, while proposing visions\, sounds\, and networks for a future. \nThe opening on July 7 includes a screening program\, a collaborative performance by Elisa Peebles and the United Melanin Society\, and a VJ dance-party set by W. Michelle Harris. \nThe closing screening on August 25 will feature a 30 minute program with Morgan Arnett’s Creature\, Jason Bernagozzi I Believe It Is A Signal\, Charlie Best and Jaz Palermo’s Tale of the Androgyne\, Kyla Kegler’s Do You Think My Arms Are Too Big\, Carl Spartz’ CH 13\, and Elisa Peebles’ Home. The gallery will also be open for those wishing to see the exhibition. \nSqueaky Wheel will also be releasing a video series of artist conversations throughout the exhibition. \n \nEvent Program \nSaturday\, July 29\, 3pm\nDislocations: A Sound Walk with Kalpana Subramanian\nArtist Kalpana Subramanian will present a artist talk/screening at Squeaky Wheel\, followed by a tour with the audience of the Allentown neighborhood where participants can experience her locative sound work Dislocations. \nSaturday\, August 12\, 3pm\nAd Hoc Mobile Network Workshop with Tony Yanick\nArtist Tony Yanick will lead a raspberry pi workshop on how participants can build their own local networks\, while exploring how other artists and activists have utilized such structures and systems. \nFriday\, August 25\, 7pm\nShape of a Pocket: Screening\nThe day preceding the closing of Shape of a Pocket will see a repeat of the screening that accompanies the exhibition\, featuring work by Morgan Arnett\, Jason Bernagozzi\, Charlie Best and Jaz Palermo\, Kyla Kegler\, and Elisa Peebles. \n\nThe exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the general public. Squeaky Wheel’s public hours are Tuesday–Saturday\, 12–5pm. \nFor more information on our event programs\, contact ekrem@squeaky.org or follow us on our website and social media. \nShape of a Pocket is curated by Squeaky Wheel curator Ekrem Serdar\, in collaboration with jury members Amber Dennis (curator\, The Schoolyard)\, John Massier (curator\, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center)\, and Caitlin Margaret Coder (Squeaky Wheel Spring 2017 Curatorial Intern). \n\n\n\nBiographies \nMorgan Arnett was born in Pensacola\, Florida and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2014 from the University of West Florida with a Presidential Talent Scholarship for Studio Art. She is a member of the College Arts Association\, the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society\, and the Golden Key International Honors Society. She has worked collaboratively on a number of projects in her community and recently studied abroad in Beijing\, China. She enjoys watching science fiction films\, reading as many books as she has time to (especially short stories and horror novels)\, spending time near or in large bodies of water\, and working in a notebook obsessively. \nJason Bernagozzi is a video\, sound and new media artist living and working in upstate New York and is the co-founder of the experimental media arts non-profit Signal Culture. His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruk\, Germany\, the LOOP Video Art Festival in Barcelona\, Spain\, the Beyond/In Western NY Biennial in Buffalo\, NY\, and the Yan Gerber International Arts Festival in Hebei Province\, China. His work has received several awards including grants from the New York State Council for the Arts\, free103point9 and the ARTS Council for the Southern Finger Lakes. \nJaz Palermo is a performance artist and gender illusionist working in western new york\, in the realms of video and sound\, and craft. Their work references high camp\, theater\, childhood\, and memory in cathartic re-imaginings of life events and fantastical alter selves. When pressed for comment they said “I have chosen this dimension to spread the message of a future without bounds\, museums without walls\, and inter-galactic harmony\, and you should consider yourself very lucky.” Their work exists in the internet under various aliases of Jaz Palermo\, Normie Neutro\, and Teenie Hams. Charlie Best is a multi media artist from Western New York. They use sculpture\, textiles\, video\, sound\, illustration\, and printmaking to make work that cannot exist without collaboration. In between spaces and beings become realized\, often through performance\, object making\, and ongoing\, interrupted projects. They believe that any act of our lives\, if we do it consciously and concentratedly to cultivate a collaborative attitude of listening\, is art. This is where the work begins\, dynamic and collaborative in nature\, balancing in fantasy and quotidian possibility. Their zines\, prints\, and fabric works are locally known and shared worldwide. Together\, Charlie and Jaz form Chaz\, a nonlinear\, nonscheduled\, nonbinary artist amalgamation. Chaz’s performative practice involves live video processing\, improvisation\, the accordion\, costume\, glitter\, poetry words\, with the capacity to expand and exclude any material or process needed. Integral to Chaz’s creative process is not knowing which bathroom to use. Though small\, Chaz will grow up\, someday. \nW. Michelle Harris is a digital media artist who uses code as a medium for engaging discussions as a Black woman in American culture. Harris creates installations (often interactive) and produces live-mixed visuals for collaborative performances. Her elegant and playful artwork (solo and collaborative) has been shown at such diverse venues as the Rochester Fringe\, Baobab Cultural Center\, Syracuse Community Folk Art Center\, INSTINT\, ACM SIGGRAPH\, and World Maker Faire. Harris has a computer engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media at Rochester Institute of Technology. \nKyla Kegler: I am an artist currently based in Buffalo. My recent work is notably informed by a long-standing yoga\, physical therapy and somatic research practice\, a close involvement with the contemporary conceptual dance scene in Berlin\, and an urgent relationship to art as my tool for socio-political activism and research. I choreograph artistic encounters that use time-based mediums such as video\, sound\, performance\, instructionals\, and installations\, to facilitate tactile and sensual interactions. \nDana McKnight is a multidisciplinary Black/Queer Artist\, Writer and the President/Founder of Dreamland Arts. \nA native of Poland\, Przemysław J. (P.J.) Moskal immigrated to the U.S. in 1990. In 2003 he graduated from Interactive Telecommunication Program at Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University and began his career as a new media artist and consultant for a variety of non-profit and commercial projects. In 2011\, he earned his Ph.D. in Film Art from The Cinematography and Television Production Department at The Lódź Film School in Poland under supervision of Prof. Stanisław Szymański. Dr. Moskal is an Associate Professor and director of the Digital Media Arts Program at Canisius College where he teaches courses in Interaction Design\, Game Development and Animation as part of the Game Design concentration. His research and writing focus on design of interaction as a form of procedural rhetoric\, procedural expressionism and artistic communication. Moskal’s interactive\, digital art works\, which are both screen based and installations\, have been recognized and exhibited in the U.S.\, France\, Brazil\, Thailand\, Canada\, Germany\, U.K.\, Portugal\, China and his native Poland. He received grants from New York State Council on the Arts\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, and his exhibitions were supported by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage\, U.S. Embassy in Warsaw\, Adam Mickiewicz Institute\, Art and Technology Foundation\, New York Dance & Arts Innovations\, Canisius College\, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts\, New York University\, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin\, among others. You can view Moskal’s project on his website at http://www.laksom.com \nVan Tran Nguyen is completing her Masters of Fine Arts and Emerging Practices at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the first Biological Art teaching assistant at COALESCE Center of Biological art\, a facet of the GEM (Genome\, Environment and Microbiome) group. She also earned her Bachelor of Art and Biology at the University at Buffalo. In the fall of 2017 she will continue her education at Rensselear Polytechnical Institute as a PhD student in the Philosophy of Electronic Art Program. Tran Nguyen has exhibited throughout New York and had participated in the New York State Summer School of the Arts. She was born in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam and her work investigates issues such as national identity and gender. \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 webseries Dark Justice. \n\nCarl Spartz is a time-based media artist from West Texas currently based in Buffalo\, New York. His work values fiction\, anachronism\, critical theory\, and play in order to investigate mechanics of violence\, labor\, control\, and autonomy. In the recent past\, he has contributed to Land Arts of the American West\, an interdisciplinary field research program through the TTU College of Architecture\, as both a participant and assistant in 2011 and 2013. In 2015\, he co-curated with Yvette Granata “working title\,” an exhibition of artists based on Lake Erie at the University at Buffalo Department of Art Gallery. In 2016\, he participated in “With and Without the Other\,” a collaborative study exchange and exhibition with Sun Tianlong of Tsinghua University in Beijing. His solo graduate thesis exhibition\, “The name Czolgosz offers a lingual problem to nine-tenths of those who attempt to pronounce it.\,” reimagined events surrounding the shooting of Pres. William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition through a four chapter multimedia work installed on a vacant floor of a downtown Buffalo warehouse. He received a MFA from the University at Buffalo Department of Art in 2016\, and a BFA from Texas Tech University School of Art in 2011. \nKalpana Subramanian is an artist-filmmaker and Ph.D candidate at the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her current work focuses on experimentation with the moving image\, and trans-media practices. She was awarded a Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship to pursue research on Stan Brakhage at the Film Studies Program at University of Colorado Boulder in 2015-16. She worked closely with visionary multimedia artist Ranjit Makkuni at Sacred World Research Laboratory on several interactive exhibits and museums. Her work has been screened and exhibited widely\, including at the National Gallery of Modern Art & Prince of Wales Museum (Mumbai)\, National Museum (New Delhi)\, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, Interfilm Berlin\, Green Film Festival (Korea)\, the Big Ears Festival (Tennessee)\, among others. Portrait of Yvonne Lo in Assisi\, a video installation won an audience award at the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology in Perugia\, Italy in 2015. Subramanian has taught film and communication design at undergraduate level for over 10 years. She is also a published children’s book author and western classical vocalist. \nTony Yanick is a philosopher\, media-theorist\, computer engineer\, multimediaartist\, and musician from the United States. He holds a Master of Science incomputer engineering with a concentration on mobile robotics and artificialintelligence\, as well as an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in philosophy and world literature. He has spoken on philosophy\, film\, media\, and technology internationally\, and has his work shown in galleries in Prague\, Vienna\, New York City and Cleveland. Currently\, he is working with internationally acclaimed filmmaker Robert Banks Jr. towards the completion of his very first feature-length film\, Paper Shadows. Currently\, he is developing an experimental methodology of science-fictional practices\, expanding beyond its literary form (including speculative philosophy\, “philo-fiction”\, and design fiction)\, and investigating the generic capacities of temporal displacement/disturbance\, anachronistic temporalities\, and narrative framing as a political-aesthetic strategy. \n\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.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/shapeofapocket/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ShapeGif.gif
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:20170607T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170607T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191018Z
UID:10000653-1496847600-1496858400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Jerichow
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 7\, 2017\n 7pm\n @ Squeaky Wheel\n General $7 | $5 for Squeaky Wheel Members \nFate brings a trio together in Jerichow (2008)\, a small town in eastern Germany plagued by a population exodus and unemployment. An ex-soldier’s encounter with a couple of Turkish descent – the owner of a chain of snack bars and his enigmatic wife – pushes all three over the edge. A sexy\, tightly constructed remake of The Postman Rings Twice (1946). \nA taut\, German-made thriller\, Jerichow adds a bit of European xenophobia to the pulp traditions of passion and betrayal. – Stephen Rea\, Philadelphia Inquirer \nVisit cultivatecinemacircle.com for more info.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jerichow/
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/2017/04/Jerichow-2008-1.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:20170603T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170603T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191018Z
UID:10000658-1496502000-1496512800@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Silo City Reading Series (with Mary Helena Clark)
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 3\, 2017\n 7pm\n @ Silo City \nSqueaky Wheel co-presents an edition of Just Buffalo’s signature summer reading series with a special screening by artist Mary Helena Clark. Clark will be journeying to Buffalo to present her hypnotic\, uncanny 20 minute film Delphi Falls\, which recently had its premiere at the 2017 Whitney Biennial\, and which Clark worked on during her Workspace residency at Squeaky Wheel in 2016. Join us at Silo City as we welcome back the artist for a night of dreamy music\, poetry\, and film\, including Aidan Ryan\, Cages\, and Colorado-based poet and operator of the Dream Delivery Service\, Mathias Svalina. \nMary Helena Clark is an artist working in film\, video\, and installation. Her work uses the language of collage\, often bringing together disparate subjects and styles that suggest an exterior logic or code\, to explore dissociative states through cinema. Clark’s films have screened at the 2017 Whitney Biennial (New York)\, the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus)\, Grazer Kunstverein (Graz\, Austria)\, Anthology Film Archives (New York)\, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington DC)\, the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm)\, and at the International Film Festival Rotterdam\, the New York Film Festival\, the Toronto International Film Festival\, BFI London Film Festival\, the Hong Kong International Film Festival\, and BAMcinématek\, among others. She has curated film programs at Altman Siegel (San Francisco)\, The Nightingale (Chicago)\, and Bridget Donahue (New York).
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-reading-series-with-mary-helena-clark/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ClarkDelphi.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170527T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170527T123000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191018Z
UID:10000650-1495882800-1495888200@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Andrew Blanton
DESCRIPTION:May 27th\, 2017\n3pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel\nFree and open to the general public \nIn conjunction with [Noo Phone in the Black Space]: or How to Avoid Roaming Charges\, Squeaky Wheel presents an artist talk by Andrew Blanton (San Jose\, California). A percussionist\, media artist\, and educator\, Blanton’s work is fundamentally transdisciplinary combining classical percussion\, new media art\, and creative coding to create real-time sonic and visual instruments. Andrew received a bachelor’s in percussion performance from the University of Denver (2008) where he attended on a partial scholarship studying with John Kenzie and a Master of Fine Art in New Media Art from the University of North Texas (2013) where he attended on a full scholarship studying principally with David Stout and Jenny Vogel. Andrew has performed and presented his work around the world. His work has been shown in the Google Cultural Lab in Paris\, The University of Brasilia\, PUC-Rio\, OT301 Amsterdam\, and McGill University Montreal as a part of the Transplanted Roots Percussion Symposium among many other venues.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/andrew-blanton/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Andrew-Blanton.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191018Z
UID:10000654-1495724400-1495821600@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:[Noo Phone in the Black Space]: or How to Avoid Roaming Charges
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 25 + Friday\, May 26\n7pm\n@ Silo City\nFree and open to the general public \nSqueaky Wheel is proud to present an augmented reality performance by Buffalo based media artist Yvette Granata and San Jose based artist and performer Andrew Blanton. For two consecutive evenings the artists will install and perform in a visual\, sonic performance that transforms the grand halls of Silo City through emerging technologies. \nCan augmented reality be used as the creation of new forms of collectivity? Or does it produce new forms of spatio-temporal apartheids? Through their respective approaches to performative augmentation and mobile media\, Andrew Blanton and Yvette Granata’s works inquire into the manner in which augmented reality and media performance can be framed as a critical dialogue between the alliances and the vacuoles of mobile realities. \nInterpreting augmented reality as performance space\, their works are audiovisual performances and variations on collective and un-collective space. The works form a critical dialogue on augmented life\, collecting performances of sound and image — an ambient group text message\, a vertical disorientation through camera-apps\, a hand-held sonic immersion\, and a modulation of ambient feedback of the Silos.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/noo-phone-in-the-black-space-or-how-to-avoid-roaming-charges-2/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/YvetteGranata_Still.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170520T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170617T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191017Z
UID:10000660-1495267200-1497704400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Process & Play: Works from Squeaky Wheel's Youth Programs
DESCRIPTION:Process & Play: Works from Squeaky Wheel’s Youth Programs \nOn view: May 20–June 17 \nIn collaboration with the students of West Side Studios\, Tech Arts for Girls\, Tech Arts for Youth\, and the Buffalo Youth Media Institute\, we are proud to present an exhibition of work by the young artists in our youth education programs. Through a variety of media art practices\, such as stop motion animation\, hand processed film\, 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. Featuring work by: Lou\, Trayvon\, Bhakti\, Tucker\, Wilson\, Josh\, Jolie\, Daniel\, and Fiona. The exhibition is viewable in the Squeaky Wheel’s storefront window space and includes both audio and visual elements.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/process-play-works-from-squeaky-wheels-youth-programs/
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/2017/05/PROCESS-AND-PLAY.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:20170519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170602T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191017Z
UID:10000651-1495202400-1496408400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Thesis Exhibition | Joseph Frank: The Continuous Journey
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, May 19\, 2017\n6–9pm\nOn View through June 2\, 2017\nFree and open to the general public \nThis exhibition features an extensive series of paintings by Joseph Frank\, who is in the process of completing his MFA at the University at Buffalo. The series tells the story of a person who struggles to make sense of the world around him\, as he interacts with objects and living things. The exhibition will include an animation piece\, composed of pictures of each of the paintings. \nJoseph Frank is completing his MFA at the University at Buffalo. He is originally from Albany NY. He received his BFA from The College of Saint Rose in 2015. His art explores the effects of technology and consumerism\, as well as nature and spirituality.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/joseph-frank-the-continuous-journey/
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/2017/04/JosephFrank.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:20170517T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T034225
CREATED:20251230T191017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191017Z
UID:10000837-1495033200-1495040400@squeaky.org
SUMMARY:Kathleen Collins' Losing Ground
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 17\, 2017\n7pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel\nGeneral $7 | $5 for Squeaky Wheel Members\nPreceded by Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People (1984) by Ayoka Chenzira \n“A NEARLY LOST MASTERWORK” —The New Yorker \n“EFFERVESCENT\, BRAINY\, and SEXY” — The Village Voice \nFunny\, brilliant\, and personal\, Kathleen Collins’ Losing Ground (1982) should have ranked high in the canon of 1980s American independent cinema but was never theatrically released. A key narrative feature written and directed by a black woman\, Collins’ passing at the age of 46 almost meant the films erasure from history\, until the filmmakers daughter and Milestone films set out to restore this vital work telling the story of a marriage of two remarkable people\, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara (Seret Scott)\, a black professor of philosophy\, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand “ecstasy” just as her painter husband Victor (Bill Gunn) sets off on a more earthy exploration of joy. Losing Ground is here paired with another key work of 80s black cinema\, the 10 minute animated musical satire Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People (1984) by Ayoka Chenzira\, regarding the question of self image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. Curated by Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2017 Curatorial Intern Caitlin Margaret Coder who will deliver introductory remarks. Special thanks to Women Make Movies and Milestone Films.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/kathleen-collins-losing-ground/
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/2017/04/losinggg.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