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:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220411T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001056-1649700000-1649707200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Emily Martinez DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 11\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist Emily Martinez\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2018. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nEmily Martinez (they/she) is a 1st generation Cuban immigrant/ refugee\, raised by Miami and living in Los Angeles since 2012. They are a new media artist and serial collaborator who believes in the tactical misuse of technology. Their most recent works explore new economies and queer technologies. Long-term projects explore collective trauma\, diasporic and transnational identities\, archetypal roles\, and post-apocalyptic narratives. When Emily is not working\, they are learning to love and doing their energy work. \nEmily’s art and research has been published in Art in America\, Media-N\, Leonardo Journal (MIT Press)\, Temporary Art Review\, and Filmmaker Magazine. Their work has been exhibited at international venues\, including Drugo More (Rijeka\, Croatia)\, Transmediale (Berlin\, DE)\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)\, MoMA PS1 (New York)\, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam\, NL)\, The Luminary (St. Louis)\, The Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam\, NL)\, and The Wrong Biennale. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nImage provided by the artist. Image description: A portrait of a white\, gender-ambiguous person\, with short brown hair\, hazel eyes\, and a warm smile. they are wearing a hoodie with an all-over-print of a synthetic-sliced-mineral-looking\, acid pattern that is seafoam green\, light cyan\, and navy blue. behind them is an artificial background gradient that is peach at the top and seafoam green at the bottom. #acidtropical URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-emily-martinez/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Emily-Martinez.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220422 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220515 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001072-1650585600-1652572799@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Crystal Campbell: Viewfinder DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, April 22\, 2022\, 5–8 pm at Buffalo Arts Studio\, part of M&T Bank 4th Friday @ Tri-Main Center.\nOn view April 22–May 14\, 2022.\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to be a co-presenter of a solo exhibition by Crystal Z Campbell\, one of our Summer 2021 Workspace Residents\, at Buffalo Arts Studio. \nCrystal Z Campbell’s multidisciplinary practice centers on public secrets\, or information known by many and yet undertold and underspoken. Campbell’s experimental film\, VIEWFINDER\, was shot entirely in the resort town of Varberg\, Sweden and features recent migrants to Sweden. This immersive film-based installation takes cues from Swedish folktales\, gestures\, and movements to explore belonging\, allyship\, and monuments. If our bodies are archives\, what is the currency of place\, of movement\, of memory? \nCrystal Z Campbell (they/them) is currently a 2021–22 UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar\, multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipinx\, and Chinese descents. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts and 2022 Creative Capital Awardee\, their archive-driven work in film/video\, performance\, installation\, sound\, painting\, and text\, has been exhibited and screened at The Drawing Center\, ICA-Philadelphia\, Bemis\, Studio Museum of Harlem\, MOMA\, SculptureCenter\, SFMOMA\, and a forthcoming screening at the National Gallery of Art. \nPart of Navigating Identity Exhibition and Workshop Series\, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Visit Buffalo Arts Studio for more information. \n\nImage: Film Still from VIEWFINDER\, Crystal Z Campbell\, copyright 2020\, Digital Video\, Stereo Sound\, 18’26” Minutes. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/crystal-campbell-viewfinder/ LOCATION:Buffalo Arts Studio\, 2495 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Crystal-Campbell-Viewfinder.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001057-1650909600-1650916800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:PLASMA: Jordan Lord DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 25\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist and filmmaker Jordan Lord\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2021\, and whose film Shared Resources we screened in Fall 2020. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at festivals and venues including DOCNYC\, QueerLisboa\, Anthology Film Archives\, Performance Space NY\, Artists Space\, and Camden Arts Centre\, and they have been in study with the group No Total since 2012. Their solo exhibition of video work “After…After…” was presented at Piper Keys in London\, UK in 2019. They received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College\, CUNY\, where they also teach. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nImage: Jordan Lord\, a 30 year-old white person with short brown hair\, stands in front of a tank of bioluminescent jellyfish\, wearing a face mask printed with the nose and mouth of a tiger. Their eyes seem to be smiling. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-jordan-lord/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-18-at-11.30.20-AM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001073-1651172400-1651179600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:21st Annual Nichols School Flick Fest Student Film and Video Festival DESCRIPTION:Call for submissions deadline: April 11\, 2022. Submit your films here.\nScreening: Thursday\, April 28\, 2022\, 7 pm\n@ North Park Theater (1428 Hertel Avenue\, Buffalo\, New York\, 14216)\nFree and open to the public\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to co-present the 21st edition of Nichols School’s fest for young media makers! The festival accepts entries by middle and high school students from all over Western New York. Student work submitted to the festival is judged by a panel of student filmmakers and curated into a single evening screening. Participation in the Flick Fest gives student filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their work to a Western New York audience\, meet fellow filmmakers\, and view work by their filmmaking peers. The festival committee works to make the evening entertaining and informative. In addition to the screening\, there is an award ceremony for the winning films\, with several cash prizes from $25-$50 dollars. \n \nBanner image: courtesy Nichols School. A comic strip like image with Spiderman holding a camera. The words Amazing Flick-Fest are overlaid on it. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/21st-annual-nichols-school-flick-fest-student-film-and-video-festival/ LOCATION:North Park Theatre\, 1428 Hertel Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14216\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/flickfesst-fragment.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001075-1651604400-1651611600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Crystal Z Campbell and Allan Jamieson DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 3\, 7 pm\nat Journeys End Refugee Services theater (5th floor of Tri-Main Building\, 2495 Main St #530\, Buffalo\, NY 14214)\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination through a Vaccination card or NY Excelsior Pass will be required for entry. Masks will be required for the duration of the event. \nFeaturing three short films of legends that flow from Niagara Falls to Sweden\, Squeaky Wheel and Buffalo Arts Studio present an evening with filmmakers Crystal Z Campbell and Allan Jamieson. The three films bring to fore questions on how we imagine and relate to lands we inhabit\, from the settler-colonial mindset critiqued in Jamieson’s 1996 documentary Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist\, to the fugitivity of migrants in contemporary Sweden in Campbell’s VIEWFINDER. The hour long program will be followed by a Q&A with Campbell and Jamieson on their work and the shared themes between their films. \nThe program is presented as part of Crystal Z Campbell\, VIEWFINDER\, an immersive film installation at Buffalo Arts Studio that takes cues from Swedish folktales\, gestures\, and movements to explore belonging\, allyship\, and living monuments. If our bodies are archives\, what is the currency of place\, of movement\, of memory? \nProgram \nCrystal Z Campbell\, A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse\, 8:12 min\, 2016-2020 \nA Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse is a poetic glimpse of how centuries of extraction\, racism\, pollution\, and commoditizing nature has altered our relationship to sacred land and resources. How has nature been historically shaped and imaged for pleasure\, status\, and control by many hands of invisible labor? Constellated and intersectional histories and source material include testimony from a Water Protector at Standing Rock protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline\, contaminated water in Flint Michigan\, original footage of Hierve el Agua near Oaxaca\, Mexico revered for its healing properties\, archival images of gardens and hands of artists who resided in Tulsa\, Oklahoma and children brushing their teeth––a reflection of the innocuous ways which contaminated water and resources shapes the lives of individuals completing banal\, daily\, routine tasks. \nCritical to the film is the intentional use of unlicensed footage\, bearing a brand across the center that detracts from what’s happening in the actual footage\, and becomes a viewfinder for how that footage is read or deemed important enough to view because there is a branded stamp of approval. Historically\, the watermark is used to connote ownership and authenticity. The film is a consideration of how documentary practice can be another form of resource extraction\, of which this filmmaker is implicated. Licensing fees are an example of the barriers to access\, ultimately deciding who will control critical narratives of environmental racism and discourse. Originally commissioned by Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center\, the work was made in 2017 and reedited in 2020. – Crystal Z Campbell \nAllan Jamieson\, Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist\, 26 min\, 1996\n“This is a Seneca teaching story\, whose true meaning is one of sharing. The sharing of information with each other. The sharing of letting each other know when something is wrong.” – Allan Jamieson \nCharting both a moment in Western New York’s Native American activism and a rare document of a Seneca chief and elder\, Allan Jamieson’s 1996 film Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist takes on a racist educational video and retelling of the Haudenosaunee legend of the Maid of the Mist by the Maid of the Mist corporation\, which operates the famous Niagara Falls boat tours. Jamieson’s documentary showcases segments of the Maid of the Mist corporation’s video\, showcasing how it is informed by Western and colonial viewpoints\, followed by interviews with tourists on their thoughts on the legend. The film is especially notable for featuring an extended interview with the late Seneca Chief and elder Corbett Sundown\, who tells the original story of the Maid of the Mist as it was told to him by his grandparents\, and passed away after filming was completed. \nThe film was part of extended efforts by our region’s Native American communities to pressure the Maid of the Mist Corporation to change its false gallery exhibit and video. Initially resistant\, the Maid of the Mist Corporation eventually did so. \nThe documentary received support from the New York State Council of the Arts\, and was edited in Squeaky Wheel’s post-production studio in 1996. The film is presented here in a digital transfer from a 3/4 tape\, broadcast as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Axlegrease television show in 1997. Learn more about Axlegrease here. – Ekrem Serdar \nCrystal Z Campbell\, VIEWFINDER\, 18:26 min\, 2020 \nFilmed entirely in Swedish spa town\, VIEWFINDER takes cues from political gestures\, and decisive movements to explore belonging\, allyship\, and monuments. – Crystal Z Campbell \nBiographies of the artists \nAllan Jamieson is a Faithkeeper from the wolf clan of the Cayuga people\, one of the Six Nations. Coordinator of Neto\, a Native American managed non-profit organization. He brings a wealth of knowledge and research in his presentations. One of the founding members of Neto\, he is responsible for the overall management of the organization including meeting the goals\, coordinating activities and managing the budget. His experience includes extensive research on the WNY geographic area and oral history related to the WNY. Currently he is responsible for coordinating art exhibits and projects sponsored by Neto… and these activities include scheduling artist workshops\, hiring artists and curators\, scheduling exhibits and providing publicity for all events. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and a Master of Arts from the University of Buffalo\, 1987. While a graduate student he developed and taught the currently offered course in Native American literature. In addition to his interest in art he recently completed training as a Alternative Dispute Resolution facilitator to work with families in crises. He has been an active member of the Native community in the Western New York region which includes the Buffalo and Niagara Falls areas for the past 20 years assisting area art institutions with Native American programming. \nCrystal Z Campbell (they/them) is currently a 2021–22 UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar\, multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipinx\, and Chinese descents. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts\, Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Their archive-driven work in film/video\, performance\, installation\, sound\, painting\, and text\, has been exhibited at The Drawing Center\, Nest\, ICA-Philadelphia\, Bemis\, Studio Museum of Harlem\, SculptureCenter\, and SFMOMA\, and a forthcoming monographic screening at MOMA. Honors and awards include the Pollock-Krasner Award\, MAP Fund\, MacDowell\, Skowhegan\, Rijksakademie\, Whitney ISP\, Franklin Furnace\, Tulsa Artist Fellowship\, UNDO Fellowship\, and Flaherty Film Seminar. Campbell’s writing has been featured in World Literature Today\, Monday Journal\, GARAGE\, and Hyperallergic. Campbell\, a former Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David & Roberta Logie Fellow\, was recently named a Creative Capital Awardee\, and is founder of the virtual programming platform archiveacts.com. \nThis program is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts and presented in collaboration with Buffalo Arts Studio. Special thank you to Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nImage: Crystal Z Campbell\, A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse\, 8:12 min\, 2016-2020 URL:https://squeaky.org/event/crystal-z-campbell-and-allan-jamieson/ LOCATION:Journey’s End Refugee Services\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite #530\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-4.05.04-PM-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220527 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220830 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001076-1653609600-1661817599@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Jenson Leonard: GLAND PRIX DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, May 27\, 2022 at Squeaky Wheel\nOn view through August 29\, 2022\, Tuesday and Wednesdays\, 12–5pm and by appointment.\nClick here to download the GLAND PRIX Strategy Guide (V. 3.00)\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a new solo exhibition by new media artist Jenson Leonard. GLAND PRIX is a multiple-screen video exhibition to explore the stressors and somatic effects that racial capitalism and white supremacy have on Black life. \nFeaturing a drum and bass soundtrack\, the newest work by the Philadelphia based new media artist and poet functions as a manifestation and reflection of the embodied effects of settler-colonial violence. The work is emblematic of Leonard’s singular\, joyous\, and concentrated work: Using the visual tactics and language of viral internet memes\, and wrapped within racing iconography\, GLAND PRIX considers and draws from pop culture\, medical racism/medical apartheid\, the video game Gran Turismo\, Achille Mbembe’s notion of necropolitics\, anime aesthetics\, and much more to raise awareness\, invite conversation\, and reflect upon the cumulative\, cellular burden of chronic stress and traumatic life events. \nThe opening of the exhibition will feature remarks with the artist in person. A “Strategy Guide” for the exhibition provides a walkthrough of the exhibition with visual and audio descriptions\, explanations of Leonard’s key references\, and a newly commissioned essay by Cameron A. Granger. \nThe exhibition is on view Tuesdays and Wednesdays\, 12–5 pm and by appointment. To make an appointment\, email ekrem@squeaky.org. \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nPublic programs \nPOSTPONED – Tuesday\, May 24\, 6–8:30 pm : Workshop | Meme workshop with Jenson Leonard (in-person and virtual). \nFriday\, May 27\, 7 pm: Opening | GLAND PRIX  with Jenson Leonard (in-person) \nWednesday\, June 15\, 12 pm ET: Artist talk | Jenson Leonard and American Artist in conversation. Virtual – Click here to register. \nFriday\, August 26: Screening | Jenson Leonard’s Workflow\, followed by a conversation with Jenson Leonard and Johann Diedrick (in person and virtual). Click here to register. \nAbout the artist\nJenson Leonard\, b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nAbout the writer\nCameron A. Granger came up in Cleveland\, Ohio alongside his mother\, Sandra\, inheriting both her love of soul music\, and habit of apologizing too much. A video artist\, he uses his work as both a site for memory making\, and as means to strategize new ways of remembrance in our age of mass media. His recent projects include “The Get Free Telethon” a 24 hour livestream community fundraiser sponsored by Red Bull Arts\, “Pearl” a body of collaborative works with his mother at Ctrl+Shft in Oakland\, and “A library\, for you” a traveling community library most recently housed at ikattha project space in Bombay\, India. He’s a 2017 alumni of the Skowhegan School for Paint & Sculpture and a current artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. \nBanner image courtesy of the artist. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jenson-leonard-gland-prix/ 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/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-28-at-3.38.05-PM.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:20220615T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001077-1655294400-1655298000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:In conversation: Jenson Leonard and American Artist DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 15\, 12 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nAccess information: ASL interpretation and automated captions provided\nJenson Leonard is joined by American Artist for a virtual conversation on the occasion of Leonard’s exhibition GLAND PRIX. GLAND PRIX is a multiple-screen video exhibition to explore the stressors and somatic effects that racial capitalism and white supremacy have on Black life. Learn more about the exhibition here. \nThe live artist talk will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nThis event was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nAbout the artists \nJenson Leonard\, b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nAMERICAN ARTIST makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology\, race\, and knowledge production\, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture\, software\, and video. Artist is a 2022 Creative Capital and United States Artists grantee\, and a recipient of the 2021 LACMA Art & Tech Lab Grant. They are a resident at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and a former resident of Red Bull Arts\, Abrons Art Center\, Recess\, EYEBEAM\, Pioneer Works\, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel\, Switzerland; and Nam June Paik Center\, Seoul. They have had solo museum exhibitions at The Queens Museum\, New York and The Museum of African Diaspora\, California. Their work has been featured in the New York Times\, Artforum\, and Huffington Post. Artist is a lecturer at Parsons\, NYU\, UCLA and a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation. \nBanner image courtesy of Jenson Leonard. A digital image with two giant wheels\, a logo stating “GLAND PRIX: The Bio Labor Simulator” over a field of flames. On the left of the image is a portrait photograph of Jenson Leonard\, a portrait of a brown skinned person smiling while wearing glasses and a yellow sad face emoji hat. On the right is a portrait photograph of American Artist\, a brown-skinned person wearing a white hoodie\, blue puffer jacket on a red curtain backdrop. On the bottom is the text “In conversation: Jenson Leonard & American Artist”. American Artists photograph by Myles Loftin. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-jenson-leonard-and-american-artist/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220811T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220811T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001080-1660240800-1660248000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:DATA Summer Showcase DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 11 at 6 pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel 617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203\nLocation + Accessibility information\nFree and open to the public \nLead Teaching Artist: Nyles Moore\nTeaching Assistant: Naomi Frisch\nStudent Mentor: Diego Diaz \nJoin us to view the work the DATA (Digital Art & Technology Access) students created this summer in the Digital Art + Animation workshops! The showcase will feature digital and printed artwork and animations. Light snacks and drinks will be available. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nGraphic image: Courtesy of Nyles Moore\, 2022 \n  \nSpecial thanks to DATA’s generous funders and partners: \n \n \n  \n \n  URL:https://squeaky.org/event/data-summer-showcase/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DSC06406.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10000866-1660759200-1660766400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance with Rob Cosgrove DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 17\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nInstructor: Rob Cosgrove \nRob Cosgrove will lead Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance\, a workshop on how to utilize the internet and other networks for sound production. Intended for participants both new and with intermediate experience in broadcasting online\, the workshop will prepare participants for high-fidelity sound-based networked performance and live-streaming over the web using free\, open-source softwares. \nUp until recently\, tools for networked performance could be expensive\, difficult to use\, and limited to institutions with access to high-speed internet. With the rise of residential internet speeds\, the development of more user-friendly networking applications\, and increased public access to technology\, networked performance has become available for many. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructor \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is a residency open to artists and researchers working in art and technology\, and provides support for new or ongoing projects in collaboration with our partners. Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. \nImage: Rob Cosgrove\, Broadcast presence (2021). Two silhouettes of drummers illuminated in windows of a building at night. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sonic-links-an-introduction-to-networked-performance-with-rob-cosgrove/ 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/2022/08/RobCosgrove_Broadcastpresence.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10000863-1660935600-1660942800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Muse Dodd and Rob Cosgrove DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 19\, 2022\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nFor in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2022 artist residents\, Muse Dodd (Atlanta\, GA) and Rob Cosgrove (Sunnyside\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Muse Dodd will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to build models and sets for their installation and performance work Black in Both Directions that supposes that Black people invented time travel. Their project will utilize projection mapping\, draw on Afro-diasporic notions of time using oral testimonies\, and images created by the artist and archival video footage. Rob Cosgrove will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on Floaters\, a networked sonic performance in Silo City Marine A\, performed live for the public at the end of his residency. Inspired by the floating grain elevators used in the First Ward of Buffalo\, and drawing on the artist’s own family history in the area\, Cosgrove’s work contemplates the shifting networked relationship between the industrial and social communities in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Two photographs side by side. On the left is Muse Dodd\, a brown skinned\, Black\, non-binary person with blonde eyebrows\, wears a red camo durag while gazing at the camera and stands in front of a mustard backdrop. Their photograph is by Landon Spears. On the right is a photograph of Rob Cosgrove\, looking down surrounded by trees. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-muse-dodd-and-rob-cosgrove/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Muse-and-Dodd.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220823T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220823T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191450Z UID:10000867-1661277600-1661284800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:(Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory with Muse Dodd DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 23\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nInstructor: Muse Dodd \nHow can we tap into ancestral ways of re-memory? (Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory will explore Black people’s relationship to memory and time focusing on alternative ways of knowing and the questions; How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? \nIn this workshop intended for Black and brown people of African descent\, ages 16 and up\, Workspace Resident Muse Dodd will guide participants in dissecting the components of memory through meditative exercises\, collage\, sound\, and smell. There will also be a screening of (Re)mnants\, the short film by Muse Dodd\, and a sound bath meditation. Participants will leave with new perspectives on memory making\, a collaborative collage and some journal prompts. Free notebooks and pens will be provided. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructor \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage: Muse Dodd\, Kendi (2018). A young Black child rests their head\, eyes closed on their bike in a field of overgrown grass. The American flag is propped against a rust colored storage unit and blows gently in the wind. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/remnants-the-anatomy-of-memory-with-muse-dodd/ 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/2022/08/DoddM_Kendi.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220826T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10000864-1661540400-1661547600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Jenson Leonard's Workflow DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 26\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get tickets\nOnline and in-person at Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203). For in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. The online video will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a screening of Jenson Leonard’s newest short video Workflow. Presented as the closing event of the artists exhibition GLAND PRIX\, Leonard will be joined by his Summer 2020 co-resident Johann Diedrick for a conversation on the film after the screening. \nLearn more about GLAND PRIX here. \n“Drawing from Aria Dean’s essay ‘Notes on Blaccelleration’\, Workflow is a film centered around the velocity and momentum of blackness as it relates to the philosophical concept of acceleration-the idea that the only way out of capitalism is through its intensification. Workflow is primarily concerned with the interplay of blackness and aesthetic vocabularies of finance capital\, how the black (non)subject grapples with its commodified status within the labor market despite\, or resultant of its own history as a commodity via chattel slavery\, threading linkages between the primitive accumulation of the New World and speculative accumulation of latter day. Workflow is defined as “the sequence of industrial\, administrative\, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion”\, my film seeks to disabuse notions of completion wherein blackness is\, as Dean notes\, ‘always already accelerationist’ via its incongruence with western humanism\, and thus always already disengaged from the locomotive fetish of capital. The film presents a quarterly earnings report for a fictitious financial advisory firm that depicts a floating phantasmagoric Michael Jackson Halloween mask espousing a surrealist poem/public relations speech that points to the shared grammars inherent in afro pessimism and speculative finance. Behind the floating head\, stock footage premised around the shape of ‘the grid’ and the promise of sustainability & renewability highlight the inherent relationship of infrastructure\, visual knowledge production\, and statecraft.” – Jenson Leonard \nBiographies of the artists \nJenson Leonard\, (artist) b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nJohann Diedrick (guest speaker for Screening: Jenson Leonard’s Workflow\, taking place on August 25\, 2022) is an award-winning artist\, engineer\, and musician that makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for experiencing the world through sonic encounter. He surfaces resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for revealing new sonic possibilities off the grid. He is the Director of Engineering at Somewhere Good\, a 2022 Future Imagination Collaboratory Fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU\, a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a 2020 Pioneer Works Technology resident\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented internationally at MoMA PS1\, the New Museum\, Ars Electronica\, Science Gallery Dublin\, Somerset House\, and multiple NIME conferences\, among others. \nImage description: An image from Workflow\, courtesy of Jenson Leonard. A floating\, plastic\, seemingly smiling mask of Michael Jackson with no eyeballs is super-imposed on a distorted landscape of futuristic blue skyscrapers. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jenson-leonards-workflow/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/wfscreencap2-min.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:20220827T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220827T213000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000862-1661628600-1661635800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Silo City Reading Series (with Johann Diedrick) DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 27\, 7:30 pm @ Silo City\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get your tickets\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to collaborate with Just Buffalo Literary Center in presenting the Silo City Reading Series! Featuring poets Jericho Brown\, JBLC Poetry Fellow Ashia Ajani\, a musical performance by Florist\, we are excited to finally welcome artist Johann Diedrick to Silo City as originally intended: Diedrick will be performing Prelude to Wake\, which he worked on remotely for Silo City as a Workspace Resident in 2020. \nPrelude to Wake is an urgent\, mournful\, and world-building sonic performance that centers the loss of ourselves and environments due to climate change. The work is performed by a fictional character named “The Sound Collector” who collects buried vibrations and releases them from material through an ancient technological device. Combining field recordings\, original music composition\, and generative audio techniques\, Prelude to Wake stages an encounter between the audience\, a past that we are losing due to catastrophe\, and what may exist in the future. \nBiography of the artist \nJohann Diedrick is an award-winning artist\, engineer\, and musician that makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for experiencing the world through sonic encounter. He surfaces resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for revealing new sonic possibilities off the grid. He is the Director of Engineering at Somewhere Good\, a 2022 Future Imagination Collaboratory Fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU\, a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a 2020 Pioneer Works Technology resident\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented internationally at MoMA PS1\, the New Museum\, Ars Electronica\, Science Gallery Dublin\, Somerset House\, and multiple NIME conferences\, among others. \nAbout Just Buffalo \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s mission is to create and strengthen communities through the literary arts. And for more than 45 years\, we have brought the world’s greatest writers to Buffalo\, hosted poetry events and readings\, and supported the development of young writers. We believe in the love of reading\, the art of writing\, and the power of the literary arts to transform individual lives and communities. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-reading-series-with-johann-diedrick/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Silo-City-Reading-Series-August-27-2022-min.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001082-1664020800-1664053200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's Excellent Adventure! DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 24\, 2022\nTeam check-in: starts at 11 AM\nGameplay: 12–4 PM\nParty: 6–9 PM\nSliding scale: $10-25 per person.\nLocation: Anywhere! With optional opening and closing events at Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\nClick here for tickets\nClick here for the event guide+ team placards \n* Event guide available on September 24\, 2022\, at 12 pm ET \n  \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is on!  \nBring your creativity and a team of up to 4 of your friends and family. Compete to win prizes by posting photos and videos to Instagram to solve clues. \n\n\n11:00 am-12 pm – Check in at Five Points Bakery\, grab a team photo\, and register before the clues drop! \n\n\n12:00 pm – Clues released and the Excellent Adventure Begins! \n\n\n4:00 pm-Finish Line. The Excellent Adventure ENDS! No late photo posts will be accepted. \n\n\n6:00 pm-Party! –  and winners are announced \n\n\nHailed by Buffalo Spree magazine as the “Best New Fundraiser”\, the Excellent Adventure is “a brilliant mashup of scavenger hunt and selfie culture…truly family-friendly\, educational\, and\, most of all\, super fun.” \nGet to know the place you live\, share your creativity\, have fun with your friends\, and win prizes.\nHere is the deal: \n\n\nTeams have four hours \n\n\n50 clues in 5 categories \n\n\nBonus points awarded for creativity and effort \n\n\nClues completed by posting photos and videos to instagram with hashtag #squeakyadventure \n\n\nThe Excellent Adventure promises to bring out the artist\, tour guide\, historian\, and/or goofball in all of us! Players can take part  in their own backyard or on the other side of the world. All you need is an internet connection\, a smart phone\, and a few hours for fun. \nAnd did we mention there is an After Party!? \nIf you are local\, celebrate a day of adventuring through Buffalo at Five Points Bakery with music from ABCDJ. There will be food and drinks available for purchase\, and all proceeds benefit Squeaky Wheel\, an excellent excuse to get out and enjoy the last Saturday of September. \nDon’t want to quest for clues – why not come and party anyway!  We have a special party-only ticket available (only $10)\, so you can still support Squeaky Wheel\, check out the work of the Excellent Adventure teams and celebrate the winners at the Five Points After Party\, 6-9 pm. \n“The Squeaky Wheel Excellent Adventure was a great opportunity to get outdoors\, be creative\, and see lots of Buffalo sights that I don’t often take the time to notice. My friends and I had a lovely afternoon of competitive fun and learned some new ways to use digital media!” \n—Sarah Wooton\, 2020 participant\, Team Inspector Catjets \nA panel of Excellent Adventure judges made up of media professionals and community members will review submissions\, assigning points for the completion of each clue\, and assigning bonus points for creativity or effort. At exactly 4 pm\, gameplay ends. No late submissions! At 6 pm we’ll gather at Five Points Bakery for the after-party where posts will be shared on screens and prizes will be awarded. DJ? Check. Dancing? Check. Fun? Absolutely! \nWhat does my ticket support? \nSqueaky Wheel’s mission is to continue a legacy of innovation in media arts through access\, education\, and exhibition. We envision a community that uses digital media and film to celebrate freedom of expression and diversity of voice. Buying a ticket to this fundraising event supports the amazing work that Squeaky Wheel does to bring Media Arts Education to youth\, schools\, seniors\, artists\, and communities throughout and beyond Western New York. \n  \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is made possible through the generous support of Five Points Bakery\, Allen Street Consulting\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo Spree\, Buffalo State College Dept. of Communication\, Catholic Health\, Delaware Camera\, FGI Landscaping\, Lumpy Buttons\, PUSH Buffalo\, Rigidized Metals\, UB Media Study. \nBanner photo: A collage of posts from previous Excellent Adventures responding to prompts such as (left to right\, top to bottom): Favorite Public Artwork\, Favorite Mural\, Hottest Wings\, Photo Finish Team Photo\, Team Headstand\, Make a New Friend\, Five Fall Colors\, Twisted Tongues\, Stupid Human Trick. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-excellent-adventure-3/ LOCATION:Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14213\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-09-16-at-3.38.47-PM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T190000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001083-1665768600-1665774000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 19th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 14\, 2022\, 5:30 pm ET\nIn-person at the Burchfield Penney Art Center as part of M&T Second Fridays\nFree or suggested donation\nTo attend the in-person event\, just come to BPAC!\nFor the online screening\, register here\n \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present the annual 19th Animation Fest! The annual festival features some of the most exciting voices working in animation today\, from Western New York and beyond. \nThe eleven short films in the 19th Animation Fest feature animation techniques such as rotoscoping\, 3D animation\, stop-motion\, hand-drawn celluloid films\, music videos and documentary works. These unique and personal films address topics and concerns such as gender and sexuality\, women in the history of animation\, disability and belonging\, the perceptual possibilities of animation\, and much more. \nFeaturing films by Ahmad Saleh\, Anne-Marie Bouchard\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, James Leong Holston\, Kelly Gallagher\, LIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital)\, Lynn Kim\, Marisa Michaels and Sianna Le\, Poyen Wang\, Wenhua Shi\, and Youmee Lee. Curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh. \nAccess information: \nFor in-person viewers\, see accessibility information for BPAC here. The in-person screening will feature an ASL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. See individual film descriptions for caption and subtitle information in the “Program” section below. \nFor online viewers: See individual film descriptions for caption and subtitle information in the “Program” section below.The screening will be available to view for 24 hours\, and 72 hours for Squeaky members. Ahmad Saleh’s Night is not available for online viewers. \nPlease see the individual film descriptions for content notes. Some of these films may contain strong themes such as war\, trauma\, body dysmorphia\, flicker\, or images that may be unsuitable for young children. \n Program \nYoumee Lee\, Rite of Identity\n4:16 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA \nA 2D animation film about a deaf girl who has exceptional artistic talent but struggles with an overwhelming soundscape. Many deaf symbols and motifs are conveyed through her lens. The film is based on Youmee Lee’s personal experience as a deaf student in a mainstream school. \nWenhua Shi\, Because the Sky is Blue\n4 min\, sound\, 2021\, USA \nMuybridge captured the galloping horse one hundred forty years ago in a brief 12 frames. The duration of today’s social media video clips is similar to Muybridge’s brevity. Wenhua tries to reimagine what subject Muybridge would capture today. All source footage is from Wenhua’s social media feed. He used the cyanotype method to reprint the individual frames to create the final short videos. \nAnne-Marie Bouchard\, Bleue\n2:48 min\, sound\, 2021\, Canada\nContent notes: Flickering imagery \nAn improvised film around the color blue and a questioning. This gestural film is woven over my moods during the pandemic lock-down. Constraints: 100 feet of transparent film; work on the persistence of vision (drawings 1 image out of 2). Acrylic paint\, nail polish\, and inks are applied directly on 16mm film. Marie-Loup Cottinet improvised the music on her cello over the animation. \nJames Leong Holston\, Olive and Otis\n5:20 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Animated nudity\, body dysphoria\, brief animated images of surgery and blood \nA short animated horror film about dysphoria\, gender transition\, and the self. \nMarisa Michaels and Sianna Le\, You Are What You Eat\n1 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA \nA short\, gem-like and precise animated film by two students working collaboratively at Nichols School. Winner of the Squeaky Wheel award at the 2022 Nichols School Flickfest. \nHannah Hamalian\, The Golden Age\n9:58 min\, sound\, English with captions\, 2021\, USA \nAn experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream. \nPoyen Wang\, Recess\n4:16 min\, silent\, 2020\, USA \nRecess is a moving image work from The Black Sun series\, which is informed by the literature of Japanese author Motojiro Kajii. Melancholy atmosphere permeates throughout a series of dreamlike vignettes in Recess\, depicting a boy-man figure sitting alone in a timeless\, cave-like classroom. The wind blows the curtains; ceiling fans operate endlessly; clouds slowly pass through the blue sky; a group of butterflies subtly flap their wings on a bulletin board. Conversely\, the protagonist remains still while a ray of sun breaks the darkness of the room through the window\, almost like a rope\, illuminating the statue-like figure. Written in a confessional manner\, Kajii conflates fiction and autobiography\, reflecting on the banality and wonder of quotidian life through the vision of a dying person. Reinterpreting Kajii’s literature through my lived experience as a queer person and an immigrant from East Asia\, I create a series of portraits and still lifes to explore repressed emotions and foreground mortality and alienation as a universal human experience. \nKelly Gallagher\, In the Future\n3:30 min\, sound\, English with captions\, 2021\, USA \nKnowing that another world is possible\, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future. \nAhmed Saleh\, ليل (Night)\n16 min\, sound\, Arabic with English subtitles\, 2021\, Palestine/Germany\nContent notes: Non-violent depictions of war victims and parental trauma \nThe dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night must trick her into sleeping to save her soul.\nPlease note: This film will only be available in the in-person screening \nLynn Kim\, CONDUIT\n5:25 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Flickering imagery \nA running body powers the cycle between states of being. CONDUIT is a tribute to Korean musical rituals and the wonder of locomotion\, both spiritual and physical. \nLIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital)\, Dame Leche\n3:24 min\, sound\, English and Spanish partially subtitled\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Flickering imagery\, brief language \nLiz Ferrer and Bow Ty’s collaborative work spans film making\, photography\, video\, and performance art. Through a queer and comedic lens\, their work together has been building a reputation for critiquing American and Latin pop. Their most recent projects together are feminist reggaeton band Niña and new media collaborative LIZN’BOW. Niña is a feminist reggaeton duo and performative art project. They started this project to bring diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. Dame Leche was directed\, produced\, written\, edited\, and animated by Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty. This video is part one of our visual album Niñalandia. Niñalandia pushes social constructs by bringing diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. Dame Leche is set in a post climate change Miami where half of the city is underwater\, people ride jet skis to work and everyone has an addiction to leche. This project has been funded by Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award. \n \n Filmmaker biographies \nAhmad Saleh is a Palestinian/German writer and director. His first film\, HOUSE\, 2012 was nominated for the German Short Film Award and his second film\, AYNY\, 2016 won the Student Academy Award. Recently he finished his third short film\, NIGHT and is developing his first feature. \nAnne-Marie Bouchard lives and works in Québec City. She directed several experimental videos and installations. Her work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it. To sense\, to feel\, to be immersed\, and to question: her cinema is poetry.\n \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions. \nJames Leong Holston is a Los Angeles-based animator and filmmaker originally from Berkeley\, California. He studied Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts and graduated in 2022. \nKelly Gallagher is a filmmaker\, animator\, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. Her creative work is rooted in themes of resistance\, struggle\, political histories\, and personal explorations. Her award-winning films and commissioned animations have screened internationally at venues including: the Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, the Smithsonian Institution\, and Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent animations have also screened on Netflix and PBS. She’s presented solo programs of her work at institutions including: SFMOMA\, Close-Up Cinema London\, SF Cinematheque\, and Wexner Center for the Arts. \nLiz and Bow‘s work has been featured at Mana Contemporary\, Squeaky Wheel\, Borscht Film Festival\, ICA Miami\, The Bass Museum\, The Satellite Show Art Fair Art Basel\, Albright-Knox Art Gallery\,  The Koubek Center\, Cunsthaus\, MOCA Miami\, Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo\, and Albright Knox Center. They are recipients of the Knights Art Challenge award from the Knight Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Grant\, Locust Projects WaveMaker\, Oolite Arts Ellies Award\, Knight Sundance Short Film Miami Intensive Fellows\, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency\, Elsewhere Southern Constellations Fellowship\, Caldera Arts Residency\, Squeaky Wheel Residency\, Borscht Film Festival Grant\, En Residencia Fellowship\, Tempus Projects Residency Fellowship\, Acre Residency\, and La Sierra de Santa Marta Residency. \nLynn Kim is a Korean American filmmaker and educator who uses live-action and animation techniques to create short films that explore the social conditions and realities of the human body. She is particularly interested in how questions around gender\, race\, health and sexuality can be explored through metaphorical and abstract means\, and her work is often centered in her own body and lived experiences. \nPoyen Wang was born in Taiwan and is currently based in New York City. His recent practice employs world building through 3D computer graphics to create narratives that grapple with issues of identity\, sexuality and masculinity. He has solo exhibitions at Taipei Digital Art Center (2020)\, 18th Street Arts Center (Los Angeles\, 2018)\, Flux Factory (New York\, 2018)\, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2016). \nWenhua Shi pursues a poetic approach to moving image making\, and investigates conceptual depth in film\, video\, interactive installations and sound sculptures. His work has been presented at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals. He is the founder and one of curators of RPM Fest. \nBased in upstate New York\, Youmee Lee is a deaf Korean American animator who weaves narrative illustrations into her art. She currently teaches courses on deaf art and cinema after earning her M.F.A. in Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology. Growing up with limited access to the aural world\, she delved entirely into the visual world and studied art in New York City\, Amsterdam\, and Seoul. As a first-generation American raised by an immigrant family\, her work is a colorful tapestry of her intersectionality. She strives to deconstruct the stigma towards people with disabilities. Youmee continues to explore storytelling with different materials\, embodying the nuances of sign language and physical movements. Her goal is to create visually poetic work that is accessible to a wide audience. \nAbout our Partner Sponsor \nAnimators belong at Villa. Look around: Animation is everywhere—movies and TV\, advertising\, video games. Future animators are curious\, creative\, and embrace technology in meaningful ways. But most importantly—they’re storytellers. They have rich imaginations and take inspiration from other disciplines like photography\, music\, and film. At Villa\, you’ll channel what you discover to create characters and environments that capture the interests of a range of audiences. Click here for more information. \nImage: Lynn Kim\, CONDUIT (2022). A traced image of a person moving over a black backdrop. An abstract white shadow falls on the floor. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-19th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Lynn-Kin-Conduit.jpg GEO:42.932726;-78.8783211 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave Buffalo 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1300 Elmwood Ave:geo:-78.8783211,42.932726 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001084-1668189600-1668283200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Deniz Tortum's September 1955 and Floodplain DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 11\, 6–8 pm and Saturday\, November 12\, 2022\, 3–5 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nReserve a viewing time here or show up!\nSqueaky Wheel invites you to a special event for you to experience two virtual reality experience by Deniz Tortum\, September 1955 and Floodplain. We are excited to welcome back Tortum\, who was a Workspace Resident researching virtual reality documentary practices in 2017\, in conjunction with his virtual reality intensive taking place that weekend.  Viewers can sign up at the link above to reserve a viewing time for September 1955. \n \nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). A wide image taken outdoors on a partially sunny day. A dirt road\, plastic chairs\, and some houses are visible. Someone is sitting on a chair\, their back turned against us. On the left\, a minaret is visible.\nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain\nVirtual reality on Oculus Rift\, 15 min\, 2018 \nA mysterious tree watches over a forest while humans traverse its paths\, planning construction zones and searching for a lost person. As civilization slowly unravels\, quiet new dynamics emerge. \nFloodplain is set against a man-made environmental crisis and explores our relationships to each other at the end of nature. If we can no longer be what we were\, can we really become something new? Can we be a forest\, or a stone; can we be a multitude of organisms; can we be nothing? Can we be something that we don’t know we can be yet? \n \nDeniz Tortum\, September 1955 (2016). A sun dappled room with a cabinet full of photography film. Two pictures are hanging on the wall; one of a person with a camera\, the other of a soccer team lined up. A coat and fedora hang in the corner by a comfortable chair.\nDeniz Tortum with Çağrı Hakkı Zaman & Nil Tuzcu\, September 1955\nVirtual Reality on Vive\, 8 min\, 2016 \nThe 8-minute virtual-reality documentary depicts the Istanbul Pogrom\, a government-initiated organized attack on the minorities of Istanbul that took place on September 6-7\, 1955. This interactive installation places the viewer in a reconstructed photography studio in the midst of the pogrom\, allowing one to witness the events from the perspective of a local shop-owner. \nDrawing on the photographic archive of Maryam Şahinyan (1911-1996) and Osep Minasoğlu (1929-2013)\, Armenian photographers who lived in Istanbul at the time\, the installation materializes an extinct space. The wall in the virtual studio that exhibits Sahinyan’s photos is transformed into a documentation of the raids and their aftermath in the physical space; by overlapping the layouts of the two spaces the project experiments with the transition from a virtual to physical experience. The experience of the space induced by participating in the mundane activities of the photography studio aims to generate unique historical narratives that are reproduced and enacted by the viewer. \nBiography of the artist \nDeniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, SxSW\, IFFR\, IDFA\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Hot Docs\, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021\, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival. His latest feature film Phases of Matter (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He has worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative\, where his research focused on immersive media. In 2019\, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. \nThis event is presented in partnership with ASI and the Arts Council for Wyoming County\, and made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Special thank you to Çağrı Hakkı Zaman. \nBanner image: Deniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). URL:https://squeaky.org/event/deniz-tortums-september-1955/ 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/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-11.46.12-AM.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:20221215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001086-1671127200-1671134400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky's Sneaky Peeky DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 15\, 6–8 pm\nFree at 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\nRSVP here\nWe’re moving and we want to hear from you! Join us for our Annual Meeting and a sneak peek into our new home base at the Tri-Main Center (2495 Main Street\, Suite 310) . Hear from our Executive Director\, renew your membership (or become a new member!)\, and give us your feedback on how to utilize the new space. Wine\, beer\, and light fare will be provided. Be sure to RSVP at the link above! \nImage description: An illustration of young people making a movie together. Illustration by Tom Holt. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeakys-sneaky-peeky/ 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/2022/12/TomHolt-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:20230303T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T203000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10000879-1677870000-1677875400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Exhalations: Films by Kalpana Subramanian DESCRIPTION:***New date: Friday\, March 3\, 2023\, 7 pm ET***\nIn-person @ Journey’s End Refugee Services\, and online\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nFor over 20 years\, Kalpana Subramanian has created a remarkable body of work spanning films\, media art\, children’s books\, scholarship\, and curatorial work. Her recent work is invested in a cinema of breath: a framework for radical cinema grounded in intersectional-feminist and decolonial thought\, alternative approaches to embodiment\, and what Achille Mbembe calls “the universal right to breathe.” This solo screening by the celebrated film and media practitioner brings together recent and older short films from 2002 to the present day\, including the entirety of her Light Mediated series. The filmmaker will be present for a Q&A following the screening. \nThis online and event will take place in the theater of Journey’s End Refugee Services\, located at the 5th floor of Tri-Main Center. Please note that the online event will only have the films\, not the Q&A with the artist. The online films will be available for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive extended access for 72 hours. \nProgram\nTotal duration: 54 minutes. Please note that woolgathering contains flickering imagery. \nThe Maze of Lanes (SD\, 6 min\, Sound\, Color\, 2002) \nIncantation (HD\, 8 min 37 sec\, sound\, color\, 2021) \nwoolgathering (HD\, 3 min 10 sec\, sound\, color\, 2020) \nTattva (HD\, 4.34 min\, Sound\, Color\, 2018) \nLight Mediated Series \nLiquid is Light (8mm transferred to Digital\, 4 min 2 sec\, sound\, B&W\, 2016) \nEmpyrean (HD\, 6 min 20 sec min\, silent\, color\, 2016) \nLight Rooms (HD\, 1 min 45 sec\, silent\, color\, 2016) \nPrismatic Resonance (HD\, 12 min 46 sec\, sound\, color\, 2016) \nA Dialogue of Dissonance (HD\, 6 min 23 sec\, Sound\, Color\, 2016) \nBio\nKalpana Subramanian is an artist-filmmaker and scholar of experimental film and media. Her current research investigates the poetics of breath in experimental film using a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach. Her work has been supported by grants including a Humanities Institute Advanced PhD Fellowship (University at Buffalo\, 2022-23)\, the UK Environmental Film Fellowship (2006) and the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (University of Colorado Boulder\, 2015-16). Her films have been presented at venues including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, Toronto International Film Festival\, Interfilm Berlin\, National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai\, India)\, UNESCO (France)\, Antimatter Media Arts (Canada)\, Asia Society\, Union Docs and Flaherty NYC Seminar (USA) among others. She has received awards for her films at the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology (Perugia\, Italy\, 2015)\, Montana CINE International Film Festival (2003\, 2005) and CMS Vatavaran (2008). Her curated film programs have been screened at the Alternative cinema series (Colgate University\, USA)\, Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (UK) and Simon Fraser University (Canada) among others. She is presently a doctoral candidate and an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Media Study\, University at Buffalo. \nSpecial thank you to Kathy Spillman and Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nBanner image: Kalpana Subramanian\, Incantation (2021). A photograph depicting multiple images projected on a surface. The shadows of what look like two young people\, arms on each other’s shoulders\, standing under an arched gateway to a historic building in Delhi\, India. Upon this image is an extended hand\, palm open. It looks like the young people are in the palm. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/exhalations-films-by-kalpana-subramanian/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Kalpana-Subramanian-Incantation-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;VALUE=DATE:20230324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230521 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191452Z UID:10000880-1679616000-1684627199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:hiba ali | oceans we carry: rough as silk DESCRIPTION:On view March 24–May 20\, 2023\nFree and open to the public\nSqueaky Wheel presents a solo exhibition by artist hiba ali that utilizes videos\, music\, textiles\, amongst other media. Through storytelling\, oceans we carry: rough as silk explores the figure of the silk worm through visualizing the history and continued presence of African-descent communities from the Swahili-Indian ocean. They map the relationships between the Swahili coast of East Africa\, South India and the Arab world. \nThe geographic location of the Indian Ocean contains the history of trade\, that includes enslaved people\, gold\, spices\, and many other cultural aspects that continue to be present in the lives of its people and diasporas. ali’s work activates the healing modalities of music\, sound and storytelling as offering points of dialogue and contextualization. Their work anchors audiences in discussions of global anti-Blackness\, colorism\, and colonialism\, broadening our understanding of these topics beyond the US. \nMarking Squeaky Wheel’s first exhibition at our new space in the Tri-Main Center\, the opening of the exhibition will feature remarks with the artist in person. A newly commissioned essay co-authored by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham on hiba ali’s work will be available at the opening\, and made available online.  \nThe exhibition is on view Tuesdays through Fridays\, 12–5 pm and by appointment. Click here for visit\, transportation\, and access information for our new location. To make an appointment or inquire about group tours\, email ekrem@squeaky.org . \nali\, who was selected as Squeaky Wheel’s pilot Artist & Mentor residency program in Fall 2020\, will also participate in several public programs taking place in Buffalo and our region. Special thank you to Claire Schneider and Jean-Michel Reed\, Lindsey Lodhie and the Alternative Cinema Series at Colgate University\, and Paige Sarlin and the PLASMA Speaker Series at the University at Buffalo. See more information below.  \nPublic programs\nFriday\, March 24\, 6–8 pm @ Squeaky Wheel\nOpening of the exhibition with brief remarks by the artist \nMonday\, March 27\, 6:30 pm @ University at Buffalo North Campus\, CFA 112\nhiba ali at the PLASMA Speaker Series\, presented by the Department of Media Study. Click here for more information. \nTuesday\, March 28\, 6:30 pm @ Colgate University\, Hamilton\, NY\nhiba ali at the Alternative Cinema Series. Click here for more information. \nFriday\, July 21\, 11:30 am ET @ online\nIn conversation: hiba ali\, with Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham. Click here for more information. \nBrochure and Mix Tapes\nClick here to download a PDF of the brochure\, featuring a newly commissioned essay by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham. \nBelow\, you can find the soundcloud embeds to the mixtapes that accompany the indian ocean mixes vinyl installation (2020-2023) \nsparkle nation · silent reading hour w/ H1BA (Hiba Ali)_ep7\nH 1 B A · indian ocean mix II: music as ritual w/ nada sayed @houseoflolia\, montez press radio\, nov 19th\, 2020\n  \nExhibition Documentation\nAbout the artist and contributors\nhiba ali is a producer of moving images\, sounds\, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago\, toronto and eugene. born in karachi\, pakistan\, they belong to east african\, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili\, urdu\, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term art and publication projects: the first being an art-based phd project that examines womyn of colour’s labour\, and architecture of surveillance as it exists within the monopoly of amazon (corp.) and the second being a series of works that addresses music\, cloth and ritual practices that connect east africa\, south asia and the arabian peninsula in the swahili-indian ocean region. \nthey are an assistant professor at the college of design in the art & technology program at the university of oregon in eugene and they teach on decolonial\, feminist\, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies. currently\, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at queens university in kingston\, ontario. their work has been presented in chicago\, stockholm\, vienna\, berlin\, toronto\, new york\, istanbul\, são paulo\, detroit\, windsor\, dubai\, austin\, vancouver\, and portland. they have written for the following magazines: “c”\, the seen\, newcity chicago\, art chicago\, art dubai\, the state\, medium’s zora\, rtv\, and topical cream. \nnote: the profile picture indicates the need to not be perceived by all carceral\, surveillant and monitoring systems including the corporeal\, digital and virtual. the use of lowercase on this site denotes a turn away from egotism embedded in the english language (danah michele boyd) and towards ideas of the collective (bell hooks) and reminds us of the many realities\, names and glyphs that cannot be said in such a colonial language. \nBeheroze Shroff teaches in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis\, Indians of African descent in Gujarat\, Shroff has published widely in several journals and anthologies\, and documented on film different aspects of contemporary Siddi life\, in Gujarat. Most recently\, in 2020\, Shroff co-edited a three-volume publication titled Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora\, which explores the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have shaped and have been shaped by histories\, cultures\, and societies of South Asia. Her documentaries have been shown in public and academic venues: at Monsoons and Migrations: Unleashing Dhow Synergies– Conference in Association with the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF); The African Diaspora in Asia conference (TADIA) Goa; Samosa Arts and Culture Festival (Nairobi);  Max Planck Institute (Halle); School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London; Schomburg Library and Museum of Black Culture (New York); Malcolm X Library (San Diego\, California) and Pan African Film Festivals (Los Angeles)\, among others.   \nZavier Wingham (he/they) is a writer\, editor\, and PhD candidate in the joint program for History and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University\, with an additional concentration in the history of the African Diaspora. Their dissertation research explores how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race\, slavery\, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914\, as well as how Africans in the Ottoman empire experienced these processes of racialization and sought to create new kinds of community and ways of living. Their work has been supported by Fulbright\, ARIT\, and Koç University’s ANAMED. More of their work can be found at zavierwingham.com \n \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: hiba ali\, in the cyclone (rough as silk). Three green curly haired beings\, with brown skin and tan highlights\, big green eyes\, round nose\, pink lips\, are swirling in three separate spirals on top of a shiny green silk fabric with ripples in the background. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/hiba-ali-oceans-we-carry-rough-as-silk/ 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/2023/03/hiba-ali.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:20230404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191452Z UID:10000874-1680631200-1680638400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Animation on Paper with Miranda Javid DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 4\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nCome to Squeaky Wheel for a special animation workshop with visiting artist Miranda Javid! Based on the artists own way of working using translucent paper\, participants will learn how they can quickly and intuitively create their own animations with a smartphone\, a free app\, some tracing paper\, and drawing materials. This workshop is intended for participants 16 and up\, and is open to all experience levels. \nParticipants can bring their own smartphones or request an iPad from Squeaky Wheel. You can download the Stopmotion app to be utilized in the class here. \nBio of the instructor \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Miranda Javid. Black ink on crinkly paper. The image is a drawing of a loosely drawn hand holding onto a leaf. Previous frames or past moments of the movement fading in a trail behind the hand. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/animation-on-paper-with-miranda-javid/ 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/2023/02/Javid-Leaf-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:20230405T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001091-1680717600-1680724800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Visual Media for Poets with Laura Jaramillo DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 5\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nIntended for all audiences\, visiting poet and researcher Laura Jaramillo will lead Visual Media for Poets\, on how to use visual media to write poetry\, even for people who have never written it. \nWhile many assume poetry is incomprehensible or not for them\, almost everyone has a favorite television show or movie that makes them feel things. This workshop takes those feelings as the material of the poem. \nParticipants will look at and discuss samples of written poetry that are in dialogue with the moving image such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee and Tisa Bryant’s Unexplained Presence. We will pay special attention to how these writers use movement between image and text to draw out questions of biography and identity. \nSqueaky Wheel will provide journals and writing tools; bring your laptops\, but laptops can also be requested from Squeaky Wheel. Just bring yourselves! \nBio of the instructor \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry\, Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\, Other Things Seen\, Other Things Heard (Ailleurs)\, 1978\, documentation of performance (rehearsal) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, 1978. A woman is seen with her back turned against us\, holding two rope like objects going down to the floor. In front of her is a wall with a projection on it that says “Redemption.” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/visual-media-for-poets-with-laura-jaramillo/ 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/2023/03/jaramillo-cha.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:20230407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000877-1680894000-1680901200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 7\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nClick here for tickets\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Spring 2023 Workspace Residents! Dena Kopolovich (Flushing\, NY)\, Elenie Chung (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Laura Jaramillo (Durham\, NC)\, and Miranda Javid (Port Ewen\, NY) will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on a variety of projects including animations\, hybrid works\, lyrical essays on cinema\, and non-fiction films. Dena Kopolovich will be working towards the completion of her upcoming short film Container Film\, an experimental essay film created in a hybrid 16mm and digital format\, that engages with Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay\, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”. Elenie Chung will be assembling All the Films in My Grandfather’s Closet a planned hybrid docu-fiction\, telling the tale of Chung’s grandfather\, a Chinese Trinidadian whose life had been defined by an early marriage\, resistance to cultural customs and the changing times in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1930s to 2020s. Laura Jaramillo will be developing a book of lyrical essays investigating the fraught history of Colombian national cinema during the War on Drugs and global neoliberalization\, interwoven with her own biography as a diasporic Colombian and her family’s history. Miranda Javid will continue animating\, sound recording\, and editing Human Behavior\, a three-minute hand-drawn film drawn with sumi ink on tracing paper\, which asks viewers how even small gestures can impact others. \nIn-person attendees can find information on how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\n \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nElenie Chung is a filmmaker and artist\, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago\, currently based in Los Angeles\, CA. She is interested in using female relationships as a method of illustrating cultural disconnection and ancestral amnesia. Her films have screened in international festivals and art exhibitions. Since attending the University of California\, Los Angeles to achieve an MFA in Film Directing/Production\, she has been working remotely at Women Make Movies\, a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City and has been contributing to film organizations in Los Angeles to amplify under-recognised films by women\, international and non-white filmmakers. \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Four photographs against a graphic background. Left to right and top to bottom are: a portrait of Dena Kopolovich\, gazing off to the left and smiling\, wearing a light brown turtleneck\, with curly long auburn hair that is styled down. The background is a brick wall painted two different shades of red; A close up of Elenie Chung\, a young woman of East Asian descent wearing glasses and with short black hair. She is wearing a green and pink checkered wool scarf; Laura Jaramillo\, a woman in a black dress stares off to the right of the frame. There are trees and foliage behind her; and Miranda Javid\, a femme iranian woman in her mid-thirties stands in front of lush trees. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Workspace-Spring-2023.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000878-1681236000-1681246800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:16mm Camera-Less Filmmaking with Dena Kopolovich DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 11\, 2023\, 6–9 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin visiting artist Dena Kopolovich for a special workshop on cameraless filmmaking with 16mm film! Intended for ages 16 and up\, participants will learn about motion picture film\, and manipulate the surface of film using a variety of camera-less techniques: painting\, scratching\, masking\, and tape-lifting to create an original\, collective experimental film on 16mm. The workshop will culminate with a screening at Squeaky Wheel where we’ll watch the film on loop. A light dinner will be provided; you can indicate dietary restrictions during checkout. \nBio of the instructor \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Dena Kopolovich. Several strips of 16mm film against a lighttable. Some are in color and some are in black and white. Some of the films have hand scratched lettering on their emulsion. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/16mm-camera-less-filmmaking-with-dena-kopolovich/ 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/2023/02/Dena-Kopolovich-film-strips.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:20230413T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001093-1681408800-1681419600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Soon-rye Yim's 와이키키 브라더스 (Waikiki Brothers)\, with Molly Hyo Kim DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 13\, 2023\, 6–9 pm\n@ Journey’s End Refugee Services (2495 Main Street\, Suite #530)\nFree or suggested donation\nPresented as the opening of the symposium Genre\, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama\, Soon-rye Yim’s 와이키키 브라더스 (Waikiki Brothers\, 109 min\, 2001) is about high school friends who form a band and struggle to find success\, relationships and happiness. The screening will be followed by a lecture by Molly Kim of Hanyang University about the film’s writer and director\, Soon-rye Yim. The lecture\, “Korean Cinema and The Single Woman: Korean Women Filmmakers through Yim Soon-rye\,” will be the opening keynote lecture of UB Asia Research Institute’s Korean studies symposium\, followed by a Q&A with Margaret Rhee\, assistant professor of Media Studies at SUNY Buffalo and The New School\, and Ekrem Serdar\, curator at Squeaky Wheel. Special thank you to Kathy Spillman and Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nMolly Hyo Kim is Adjunct Professor of the College of Humanities at Hanyang University. She earned a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University\, and a B.A. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University at Bloomington. She has published her works in Acta Koreana\, the Journal of Cultural Studies\, the International Journal of Korean History\, and more. \nMargaret Rhee is a poet\, scholar and new media artist. Rhee’s debut poetry collection\, “Love\, Robot\,” was published in 2017 and has been named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. \nAs a new media artist\, her project The Kimchi Poetry Machine is exhibited at the Electronic Literature Review Volume III and included in the anthology Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change(Routledge\, 2022). From 2008 – 2018\, with collaborators from the San Francisco Department of Public Health\, she co-lead the participatory project From the Center which focused on digital storytelling\, women of color\, and HIV/AIDS education in the San Francisco Jail. \nRhee is an assistant professor at The New School in the School of Media Studies. Prior to The New School\, Rhee held a faculty appointments at the University at Buffalo-SUNY\, Harvard\, and University of Oregon. Rhee earned her Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley in ethnic studies with a Designated Emphasis in new media studies\, and her B.A. in Creative Writing/English from the University of Southern California. \nThis symposium Genre\, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama will feature scholars from the U.S\, Asia and Europe examining a wide range of topics in Korean film and television\, including sexuality\, LGBTQ representation\, translation\, violence\, and popular productions like Squid Game and Parasite. This event is sponsored by the UB Asia Research Institute\, Academy of Korean Studies\, and Squeaky Wheel. Cosponsors include the UB Departments of Media Study\, English\, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Art\, and Linguistics\, UB Asian Studies Program\, Global Film Studies Minor Program\, and Gender Institute. \nImage: A still from Waikiki Brothers. Four young people looking off to the side of the camera lens on a sunny day. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/soon-rye-yims-%ec%99%80%ec%9d%b4%ed%82%a4%ed%82%a4-%eb%b8%8c%eb%9d%bc%eb%8d%94%ec%8a%a4-waikiki-brothers-with-molly-hyo-kim/ LOCATION:Journey’s End Refugee Services\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite #530\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/waikiki-brothers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230520T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230520T130000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001095-1684584000-1684587600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Equipment Orientation DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 20\, 12 pm\nFree\nJoin us Saturday\, May 20 at noon for our first equipment orientation of the year. We’ll briefly preview Squeaky’s rental inventory and discuss how to get started with basic functions\, handling\, and operations of each piece of equipment. It’s a great time to come with your questions and find out how renting from Squeaky Wheel can support your creative moving image visions! URL:https://squeaky.org/event/equipment-orientation-2/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Access,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Equip-Orientation.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230721T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230721T123000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001106-1689939000-1689942600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:In conversation: hiba ali with Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 21\, 2023\, 11:30 am ET\n@ online and viewable for 24 hours\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin us for a virtual event celebrating the closing of hiba ali’s solo exhibition\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. hiba ali will be joined by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham to have a conversation on the histories\, themes of their exhibition\, followed by a brief Q&A. The exhibition utilizes videos\, music\, textiles\, amongst other media. Through storytelling\, oceans we carry: rough as silk explores the figure of the silk worm through visualizing the history and continued presence of African-descent communities from the Swahili-Indian ocean. They map the relationships between the Swahili coast of East Africa\, South India and the Arab world. \nAudiences are invited to join live\, or can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive a code to view the event for 72 hours. \nYou will see the Zoom link after you checkout and receive it in your email inbox within 24 hours. If you have issues registering\, please email ekrem@squeaky.org \nRead more about hiba ali’s exhibition at Squeaky Wheel here. \nBiographies\nhiba ali is a producer of moving images\, sounds\, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago\, toronto and eugene. born in karachi\, pakistan\, they belong to east african\, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili\, urdu\, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term art and publication projects: the first being an art-based phd project that examines womyn of colour’s labour\, and architecture of surveillance as it exists within the monopoly of amazon (corp.) and the second being a series of works that addresses music\, cloth and ritual practices that connect east africa\, south asia and the arabian peninsula in the swahili-indian ocean region. \nthey are an assistant professor at the college of design in the art & technology program at the university of oregon in eugene and they teach on decolonial\, feminist\, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies. currently\, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at queens university in kingston\, ontario. their work has been presented in chicago\, stockholm\, vienna\, berlin\, toronto\, new york\, istanbul\, são paulo\, detroit\, windsor\, dubai\, austin\, vancouver\, and portland. they have written for the following magazines: “c”\, the seen\, newcity chicago\, art chicago\, art dubai\, the state\, medium’s zora\, rtv\, and topical cream. \nnote: the profile picture indicates the need to not be perceived by all carceral\, surveillant and monitoring systems including the corporeal\, digital and virtual. the use of lowercase on this site denotes a turn away from egotism embedded in the english language (danah michele boyd) and towards ideas of the collective (bell hooks) and reminds us of the many realities\, names and glyphs that cannot be said in such a colonial language. \nBeheroze Shroff teaches in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis\, Indians of African descent in Gujarat\, Shroff has published widely in several journals and anthologies\, and documented on film different aspects of contemporary Siddi life\, in Gujarat. Most recently\, in 2020\, Shroff co-edited a three-volume publication titled Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora\, which explores the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have shaped and have been shaped by histories\, cultures\, and societies of South Asia. Her documentaries have been shown in public and academic venues: at Monsoons and Migrations: Unleashing Dhow Synergies– Conference in Association with the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF); The African Diaspora in Asia conference (TADIA) Goa; Samosa Arts and Culture Festival (Nairobi);  Max Planck Institute (Halle); School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London; Schomburg Library and Museum of Black Culture (New York); Malcolm X Library (San Diego\, California) and Pan African Film Festivals (Los Angeles)\, among others.   \nZavier Wingham (he/they) is a writer\, editor\, and PhD candidate in the joint program for History and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University\, with an additional concentration in the history of the African Diaspora. Their dissertation research explores how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race\, slavery\, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914\, as well as how Africans in the Ottoman empire experienced these processes of racialization and sought to create new kinds of community and ways of living. Their work has been supported by Fulbright\, ARIT\, and Koç University’s ANAMED. More of their work can be found at zavierwingham.com \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: documentation of hiba ali\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. The video in the cyclone (rough as silk) is projected on a wall; a green wavelike video is projected on a canvas on the floor. There are two green chairs facing the wall. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-hiba-ali-with-beheroze-shroff-and-zavier-wingham/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hibaaliroughassilk-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230829 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191506Z UID:10001111-1690502400-1693267199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Call for submissions: Squeaky Wheel's 20th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Deadline: August 28\, 2023\, 11:59 PM\nNotification Date: October 1\, 2023\nSqueaky Wheel announces the call for submissions for our annual Animation Fest! Celebrating its 20th year\, we are proud to continue a festival showcasing artworks made in a diverse variety of animation techniques such as stop-motion\, claymation\, 3D animation\, hand-painted film\, special effects\, and motion graphics. Past festivals have showcased work from both rising artists as well as established artists. \nThe 20th Animation Fest will be held online and in-person on Friday\, November 3\, 2022\, an in-person screening at the Buffalo AKG Museum and a virtual screening through Squeaky Wheel. Films in the virtual program will be accessible for 24 hours thereafter for general audiences\, and 72 hours for Squeaky Wheel members. If selected\, you will be asked for a downloadable copy of your film. \nEach individual submission should not exceed ~10 minutes.\nThere is no submission fee.\nAll selected artists will receive a screening fee of $100 per selected film. (International applicants must have a Paypal account to receive their screening fee).\nAll selected artists will receive a one year membership to Squeaky Wheel.\nMultiple submissions per artist are accepted. Multiple submissions per artist are accepted. Artists who are African/Black\, Indigenous / Native / Aboriginal\, POC\, creatives with disabilities\, women\, 2SLGBTQIA+\, and artists who face systemic and structural barriers are highly encouraged to apply. \nClick here to submit\nPlease direct any questions about the application process and your submissions to Ekrem Serdar at ekrem@squeaky.org \nBanner image: An illustration of a red film projector against a starry backdrop. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-for-submissions-squeaky-wheels-20th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AnimationFestBanner.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191506Z UID:10001107-1690502400-1696118399@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Animation Fest at 20: A Retrospective DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, July 28\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nOn view through September 30\, 2023\, Tuesday–Friday\, 12–5 pm and by appointment\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to announce an exhibition featuring five key works drawn from the history of our annual Animation Fest. Begun as an outdoor screening in 2004\, the fest celebrates animation in all its forms. Often organized by emerging guest curators\, the fest has featured hundreds of classic and cutting edge animated works from Buffalo and across the globe. In anticipation of the 20th edition of the Fest taking place this Fall\, Squeaky Wheel presents a retrospective exhibition of the fest\, featuring five artists who have screened in prior editions\, interspersed with posters\, program notes\, documentation\, and other ephemera from the Fest’s history. \nOpening as our summer youth workshops are taking place\, the exhibition intends to inspire generations young and old with the possibilities of the genre. All movies are\, technically\, physiologically\, animation: film frames flicker\, pixel turn on and off\, our eyes create the movement between the frames. The moniker of “animation” is a Trojan horse for radical visions. The short films exhibited – by Adele Han Li\, Ayoka Chenzira\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, Jazmyn Palermo\, and Maria Ziaja – include works made by legendary figures and former Squeaky Wheel students\, from Buffalo and beyond. They exemplify some of the Animation Fest’s promise and possibility: personal visions and experiments; surprising and poignant uses of tools and technologies; and social and political commitment and critique. \nThe exhibition will be open Tuesdays through Fridays 12–5 pm and by appointment. Click here for visit\, transportation\, and access information for our new location. To make an appointment\, including fully masked visits\, or inquire about group tours\, email ekrem@squeaky.org. \nWorks in the exhibition\nAccess: See films with open captions below; written audio descriptions are provided for films without captions on their respective wall labels. The films in this exhibition are suitable for ages 13 and up. \n\nAyoka Chenzira\, Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People\, 10:26 min\, 16mm film presented on digital video\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 1985.\n“I was very concerned with the question of black women in this country and self-image aesthetics. If you look at all the commercials that come out and tell you how to fix yourself\, they are all based on the idea that there is something wrong with you. And so\, having a child\, these things became very glaring\, and I think that’s a part of Hairpiece. Hairpiece is funny\, but it comes from a position of real anger.” – Ayoka Chenzira. Included in the 2004 edition of the Animation Fest\, Hair Piece was one of the twenty-five films selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2018. The film received a 4K restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation with funding from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation\, which is the version that is on view. Film courtesy of Kino Lorber and Milestone Films.\nMaria Ziaja\, One Speck in the Universe\, 1 min\, digital video on LCD monitor\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 2013.\nMaria Ziaja\, Flying Bird\, 1 min\, digital video on LCD monitor\, sound on headphones\, 2013.\nMaria Ziaja created these two videos during her time taking a Stop-Motion Animation class as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Tech Arts for Girls program\, taught by Alice Alexandrescu; the two films were included in the 2013 edition of the Animation Fest\, programmed by Squeaky Wheel’s 2013 staff and interns\, including Jax Deluca\, Mark Longolucco\, and Ryan Crowley.\nAdele Han Li\, Chella Drive\, 3:29 min\, digital video on projection\, sound on speakers\, 2016.\n“A dreamlike memory of a teenager’s summer complacency and the luscious suburban environment that surrounds her. Made using hand drawn animations projected onto real life settings and rephotographed frame by frame.” – Adele Han Li. Chella Drive as included in the 2016 edition curated by Ekrem Serdar.\nJazmyn Palermo\, Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland\, 9:54 min\, digital video installed on CRT monitor\, sound on headphones\, 2018\n“Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland is a stop-motion animation that explores a transgender perspective of finding oneself. As Teenie enters a world of fairies\, witches\, creatures\, ghouls and vampires\, they find themself on an adventure in the world of people they have only heard of in scary stories. They find friends and helpful hands along the way on their adventure of exploration and self discovery.” – Jazmyn Palermo. Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland was included in the 2020 edition\, guest curated by Tabia Lewis.\nHannah R.W. Hamalian\, The Golden Age\, 9:58 min\, digital video on LCD\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 2021\n“An experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream.” – Hannah R.W. Hamalian. The Golden Age was included in the 2022 edition\, curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh; her work was previously included in the 2017 edition guest curated by Savion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo.\n\nStills\n\n  \nBiographies of the artists\n Adele Han Li Working in painting\, video\, and installation\, Adele Han Li explores creating immersive and evocative environments through mixing materials and colliding surfaces. Her work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries throughout the US and internationally. Beyond her own creative projects\, Adele was previously programmer and festival manager of the Slamdance Film Festival\, and is passionate about cultivating inclusive and nurturing spaces for fellow artists. She studied animation at CalArts and painting at Yale and is now playing with textiles\, projectors and ceramics in her home studio just outside Los Angeles\, California. \n Ayoka Chenzira \nMeet Ayoka Chenzira\, the multi-talented and award-winning filmmaker\, Emmy and NAACP nominated television director\, and digital media artist.\nAs a child\, Ayoka discovered her interest in storytelling while listening to women talk in her mother’s Philadelphia beauty parlor. With a background in modern dance\, photography\, and music\, she discovered her passion for filmmaking after being taken to every age-inappropriate movie that her cinephile parent could find. Since then\, Ayoka is known to work across a range of genres\, including drama\, science fiction\, documentary\, animation\, and interactive cinema. As an actor’s director\, able to work with various acting styles and degrees of experience\, Ayoka’s visionary style of storytelling and character development takes center stage as does her ability to emotionally and visually elevate a story.\nAyoka’s indie films highlight stories about Black women and have been exhibited at international film festivals\, around the world\, and acquired by prestigious institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is one of the first African American women to write\, produce and direct a 35mm feature film\, Alma’s Rainbow\, which was recently restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences\, along with her short film collection. Set in Brooklyn\, the comedy/drama follows the interior lives of a budding teenage girl\, her no-nonsense mother and a glamorous globe-trotting aunt.\nAs a self-taught stop motion and digital media animator\, Ayoka has used these techniques to explore American history and concepts related to identity and standards of beauty for Black women. In 2018\, her animated film Hair Piece was one of twenty-five films inducted into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress along with Jurassic Park\, The Shining\, and Brokeback Mountain. Her film\, Zajota & the Boogie Spirit was one of the first to use frame-by-frame video and blend cell and computer animation\, and for which she was honored with the Sony Innovator Award. As of 2022\, Bowie State University’s first stop-motion animation studio now bears the name Studio Ayoka Chenzira.\nIn 2018\, Ayoka’s television career took off when Ava DuVernay tapped her to direct episodes of OWN’s hit family drama Queen Sugar\, starring Rutina Wesley\, Dawn-Lien Gardner and Kofi Siriboe\, for which she garnered an NAACP nomination for directing. Since Queen Sugar\, Ayoka has worked non-stop as a television director\, drawing on her years of experience as a filmmaker. She is known for her visual style\, inventiveness\, and technical skills while being a creative partner and collaborator.\nRecently\, Ayoka directed episodes of the CBS reboot of the iconic series Dynasty\, starring Elizabeth Gillies and Grant Show\, who reprised the role of Blake Carrington. As a director of young adult fiction\, Ayoka directed episodes of the award-winning Netflix drama Trinkets featuring Quintessa Swindell and Brianna Hildebrand and helped to navigate the complex world of teenage identity.\nThen pivoting to the carefully crafted world of period drama series\, Ayoka was one of four directors selected by Sony/Amazon to direct the period sports comedy-drama\, A League of Their Own\, based on the beloved Penny Marshall film of the same title and starring Abbi Jacobson\, Nick Offerman\, D’Arcy Carden\, and Chanté Adams\, and for which she received an Emmy nomination for directing.\nBlending history and science fiction\, as one of four directors of the FX series Kindred\, Ayoka navigated two time periods for the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s celebrated and critically acclaimed novel. Working with historians\, Ayoka introduced visual representations of culture and intimidation in inventive ways that became part of the narrative.\nA lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy\, in 2022 Ayoka directed the Spectrum/AMC psychological thriller Beacon 23\, a Canadian production based on the novel by The New York Times best-selling author\, Hugh Howey and starring Lena Headey and Stephan James. Ayoka’s episode was filmed entirely across four sound stages and included substantial visual effects and face replacements for body doubles. Working with a choreographer\, she developed a unique sign language; with composers Ramin Djawadi (Pacific Rim\, Game of Thrones\, Iron Man)\, and William Marriott (Westworld\, Game of Thrones\, Jack Ryan) she created chants sung by an outer space community of rebels.\nAyoka broke new ground with her production of HERadventure\, a sci-fi/fantasy interactive cinema project that uses gameplay to navigate the story. The project was first presented in 2013 at South-by-Southwest where it was projected onto a building as players navigated the coming-of-age story featuring a reluctant young woman from another planet who comes to Earth to find her sister and ends up a superhero.The first interactive cinema project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts\, HERadventure features a first for the interactive cinema genre — a woman of color as a superhero. The project led to an invitation by TEDxAtlanta where Ayoka presented the Power of Diverse Sci-fi/Fantasy Storytellers\nAyoka earned a BFA in Film from New York University\, an EdM Adult and Higher Education from Columbia University/Teachers College\, and is the first African American to earn a PhD in Digital Media from the George Institute of Technology. She served as the Division Chair for the Arts at Spelman College\, where she created majors in documentary filmmaking\, photography\, and dance performance & choreography\, the firsts at an HBCU. In addition\, she helped to raise funds for a new\, the March Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation in the Arts\, currently under construction where a documentary film production lab will bear her name.\nWith an impressive track record of success and dedication to storytelling\, Ayoka Chenzira is a filmmaker\, television director\, and digital media artist to watch.\nAyoka Chenzira lives in Atlanta and is dedicated to centralizing women protagonists and elevating stories by and about women.\n \n Hannah R.W. Hamalian \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions.\nHannah’s work has screened and shown at festivals internationally\, including ADF’s Movies by Movers\, KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival\, Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio\, USA)\, and the Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest (New York\, USA). She received her BA from Carleton College and her MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, and she currently teaches at Lane Community College in Eugene\, OR.\n \n Jazmyn Palermo \nJazmyn Palermo is a visual and expanded media artist living and working in Buffalo\, NY. They studied Fine Art at Alfred University with a focus in photography and video art. Their work explores a transgender perspective on fairy tales\, folklore\, and horror themes incorporating a stop-motion process and a lot of papier-mache. Their process includes asking their friends to put on a wig and move very\, very slowly. Jazmyn is inspired by the wonderful people they know and the beautiful place they live. They would like their work to create a comfortable place to enjoy the magic of finding yourself.\n \n Maria Ziaja Maria Ziaja is from Buffalo\, NY\, and is most passionate about Sustainability and Environmental Policy. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Environmental Studies and Russian and has worked in environmental consulting\, non-profit conservation initiatives\, and EHS policy for energy companies. She currently works at the Greenway Institute\, where she is helping reshape engineering education around goals of equity and sustainability. Before moving out of Buffalo for college\, Maria spent her formative years taking TechArts classes at Squeaky Wheel\, both at the Ansonia Building and Market Arcade locations. She feels that over the years these classes helped her grow creatively and develop an appreciation for the arts that still influences her work (now in the education sector). She is honored to be part of the Animation Fest! \nBanner image: Adele Han Li\, Chella Drive. A pencil-drawn girl is falling\, sinking into a speckled blue abyss. Above her are vague upside-down reflections of a grecian column\, a sculpture\, and some regal looking planters. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-animation-fest-a-retrospective-exhibition/ 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/2023/06/ChellaDrive_still5.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231104 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001119-1690502400-1699055999@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Celebrating 20 years of our Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel is celebrating 20 years of our Animation Fest and you’re invited! Ahead of the 20th edition taking place this November\, you can visit Squeaky Wheel to see highlights from our past editions in the Retrospective Exhibition\, and join us on September 28 at the North Park Theatre for the Retrospective Screening. Click the links below for all the details! \n \nAnimation Fest at 20: A Retrospective Exhibition\nOn view through September 30 at Squeaky Wheel\, Tuesday–Friday\, 12–5pm and by appointment \n \nThe Animation Fest: A Retrospective @ North Park Theatre\nThursday\, September 28\, 7 pm ET @ the North Park Theatre and online \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s 20th Animation Fest\nFriday\, November 3\, 6 pm ET @ Buffalo AKG Museum and online. The full lineup will be announced in August. Stay tuned! \n\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is presented with generous support from the Richard W. Rupp Foundation\, FGI Landscaping\, PUSH Buffalo\, TriMain Center\, Rigidized Metals\, BreadHive\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Rose Jade Consulting Coop\, Lumpy Buttons Gifts\, Good Neighbors Credit Union\, and Villa Maria College. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/celebrating-20-years-of-our-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Event Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AnimationFestBanner.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T210000 DTSTAMP:20260524T185643 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001109-1692385200-1692392400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet our residents: Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 18\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2023 Workspace Residents! Alicia Solstice Hawking (Los Angeles\, CA) and Maggie Hazen (Hudson Vallery\, NY) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on media art projects with significant ties to Buffalo’s history and current landscape. Alicia Solstice Hawkins will work on Don’t Go Back to Sleep\, a a poetic and observational 15-minute documentary about Bob\, an elder\, almost 80 years of age\, who attempts to re-engage his art practice while contending with the aftermath of a major stroke. Charting Bob’s life starting from Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood\, the city’s East and West Sides\, and Los Angeles\, where he resides now\, the film will follow several different timelines of his life through his poignant\, witty\, and moving voiceover paired with poetic imagery and sound. Maggie Hazen will work on Night Moth: A Mythology of Escape\, a mixed reality project made in collaboration with DW. DW\, who lives in Western New York\, is a formerly incarcerated young artist who was recently released from Brookwood Secure Center for Youth in New York’s Hudson Valley; Hazen met her while teaching art classes at the facility in 2019. Night Moth revolves around Luna\, a 3D digital avatar for DW\, and Luna’s journey of self-discovery\, liberation\, and healing. Night Moth will culminate in four artworks\, including a video installation exhibition\, a documentary\, a sketchbook\, and an interactive concept website. \nIn-person attendees can enjoy food\, including vegetarian options\, from Ali Baba Kebab. Learn how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. \n Online attendees can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo learn more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Portraits of Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen superimposed on a blue red backgrop. Alicia Solstice Hawkins is standing on a beach in her photograph. Next to her is a portrait of Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-alicia-solstice-hawkins-and-maggie-hazen/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Alicia-and-Maggie.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR