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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
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Crystal Z Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 28\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist Crystal Z Campbell\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2021\, and whose upcoming exhibition at Buffalo Arts Studio we are co-presenting. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nBanner image: Portrait of Crystal Z Campbell\, a Black and Asian artist in the studio gazing directly into camera\, with just above the shoulder length curly hair wrangled into a half-ponytail. Light from the industrial window creates a pink and reddish glow on their cheek\, filtered through a transparency the artist is holding. The transparency is a film still from a found 35mm film the artist found at a now demolished Black Civil Rights Theater. The photograph is courtesy of Melissa Lukenbaugh.
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Carlos Castellanos and Zain Alam
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 17\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Spring 2022 artist residents\, Carlos Castellanos (Rochester\, NY) and Zain Alam (Brooklyn\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Carlos Castellanos will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to work on Beauty\, a machine-microbial system featuring a bio-driven artificial intelligence system. The project remediates contaminated soil ecology while generating audio and visuals of the process in real-time. Zain Alam will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on I Am Sitting in a Room\, an audio-visual exercise in layering recitations of the azaan (the Islamic call to prayer) to distill them into tonal content. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nCarlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher with a wide array of interests such as cybernetics\, ecology\, embodiment\, phenomenology\, artificial intelligence and transdisciplinary collaboration. His work bridges science\, technology\, education and the arts\, developing a network of creative interaction with living systems\, the natural environment and emerging technologies. His artworks have been exhibited at local\, national and international events such as the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA)\, SIGGRAPH & ZERO1 San Jose. Castellanos is Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Games & Media (IGM)\, Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)\, Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, San Jose State University. \nZain Alam is an artist and musician of Indian-Pakistani origin based in Brooklyn\, NY. Described as “a unique intersection\, merging the cinematic formality of Bollywood and geometric repetition of Islamic art\,” his recording project Humeysha began during his year working as an oral historian for the 1947 Partition Archive. His work is a project of translation using contemporary pop forms\, found sound\, and oral history as means of investigating one’s position in an outside tradition or community. Alam’s practice extends his sonic vision into video\, performance\, and writing. His works are braided together by a passion for the borrowed voice\, re/de-contextualization\, and bricolage — for how a personal mosaic of sound can empower minority and marginalized to engage in self-creation on their own terms. His essays have been published in Miami Rail\, Buzzfeed\, and The New Yorker\, and Humeysha has been covered by the New York Times\, Vice\, and Village Voice. His performances have been staged at venues including Public Arts\, Webster Hall\, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Alam has most recently completed fellowships with Bruce High Quality Foundation\, Marble House\, and South Asian American Digital Archive. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you to Hostel-Buffalo Niagara for sponsoring this session of the program.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-carlos-castellanos-and-zain-alam/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Intro to Machine Learning with Carlos Castellanos
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 15\, 6 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nAccess information: This event will take place in person at Squeaky Wheel. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination through NY State Excelsior Pass or a Vaccination card required. Participants must be masked through the duration of the workshop. ASL interpretation can be requested in check-out\, and Squeaky Wheel will make every effort to secure one\, and contact you if one is available. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops\, but can also request one of Squeaky Wheel’s laptops\, first-come\, first-serve. \nIn this introductory workshop\, artist Carlos Castellanos will introduce participants to the basics of machine learning and how it can be applied in arts\, design and other creative contexts. The goal of the workshop will be to introduce the basics of the machine learning pipeline using free/open-source\, artist-friendly tools such as Wekinator and RunwayML. Participants will focus on building a simple machine learning application that translates human motion or gesture into sound but the workshop will also include discussions about other strategies for use and a brief demonstration of Beauty. \nNo coding experience is required. This workshop is of interest to artists\, musicians\, and hackers\, especially those with an interest and/or background in electronic media. \nClick here to download Wekinator ahead of the workshop. Click here to download RunwayML ahead of the workshop. \nBio \nCarlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher with a wide array of interests such as cybernetics\, ecology\, embodiment\, phenomenology\, artificial intelligence and transdisciplinary collaboration. His work bridges science\, technology\, education and the arts\, developing a network of creative interaction with living systems\, the natural environment and emerging technologies. His artworks have been exhibited at local\, national and international events such as the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA)\, SIGGRAPH & ZERO1 San Jose. Castellanos is Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Games & Media (IGM)\, Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)\, Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, San Jose State University. \nImage: Carlos Castellanos in collaboration with Bello Bello\, PLANTCONNECT\, 2019-ongoing
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-machine-learning-with-carlos-castellanos/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, February 14\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY on the closing date of her exhibition i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me at Squeaky Wheel. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. Holloway has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-shawne-michaelain-holloway/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:[ E N  | C L O S I N G ]
DESCRIPTION:February 9–14\, 2022\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\n“[i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me] is an unflinching reckoning with the irreparable: Can we truly “let go” in the wake of a rupture? How does one recover from loss\, and its accumulation\, other than by inhabiting it? What does it take to give oneself over to grief? With these questions in mind\, I understand the three screens\, as well as the bubbles and text that they contain\, as a set of layers\, each one necessarily encrypting the next.” – Camille Bacon \nA five day series of emails featuring writing and media\, [ E N | C L O S I N G ] features responses by artists to SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY’s exhibition and web project i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me. \nCurated by the artist and Camille Bacon\, audiences can sign up to receive one email per day starting February 9th and through February 14th\, featuring a different artist speaking to both the themes of the exhibition\, and to Camille Bacon’s writing on HOLLOWAY’s work. Artists include Cy X\, Natalie Jasmine Harris\, and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal. The final day will feature a jointly written letter by Bacon and HOLLOWAY. \nBy signing up\, you consent to receive one email per day between February 9 through February 14 to the email address you sign up with. Please check your spam folder if you do not see the email in your inbox. Emails will be sent out near midnight. Sign up by 8 pm ET on February 9 to receive the emails on a daily schedule between February 9 and 14. Audience members who sign up after February 9 will receive the emails the following week\, between February 16 – 21. \nYou can view and learn more about SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY’s exhibition here. \nBiographies \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nCY X (they/we) is a black queer non-binary storyteller and cyber witch merging sound\, video art\, installation\, and performance. Their practice is grounded in the art of synthesis: truth generation and sound generation which is used to create portals that may aid us in exploring black queer futures and abolitionist possibilities. Fusing art and technology with the practice of witchcraft\, they use spells\, rituals\, and alchemic practices as modes of activation. Cy earned a BA in Film and Media Studies from Colorado College and a Masters Degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. \nNatalie Jasmine Harris is a Black queer filmmaker from Maryland currently based in New York City. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in May 2020. Her work spans narrative\, documentary\, and experimental forms but is centered around a mission to tell stories that capture coming-of-age experiences\, showcase Black joy\, and reimagine liberation for marginalized communities. Natalie’s most recent short film “Pure” received The 2020 Directors Guild of America’s Student Film Award and completed a film festival run that included over 40 festival screenings worldwide. The film received commendations from several film festivals that include ABFF\, Outfest\, The British Film Institute\, The Pan African Film Festival\, and many more. After placing as a Finalist in The 2021 American Black Film Festival’s HBO Short Competition\, “Pure” was acquired by HBO and is now streaming on HBOMax. Natalie is currently adapting the concept behind “Pure” into a feature-length film of the same name that has received support from SFFILM\, The Gotham (formerly known as IFP)\, and The Outfest Screenwriting Lab. \nzakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal makes work to further understand how the specificity of her own lived experiences are connected to historical and contemporary movements that involve embodied knowledge production. She explores this through social portraiture\, video assemblage\, collage\, drawing\, and found images. She seeks to reinforce a different kind of gaze (and gazing) which she processes through empathy\, desire\, love\, queer identity\, family\, intimacy\, illegibility\, and poetics. Within her projects there’s an overlying theme of trying to make sense of what and who she belongs to.\nUltimately\, she intends for her work to encourage ways of being and feeling beyond the systems we inhabit. zakkiyyah has been included in numerous group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions at Mana Contemporary\, Blanc Gallery\, Indiana University\, and South Bend Museum of Art.\nHer work has been presented in various forms at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, NADA\, The Art Institute of Chicago\, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center\, Chicago Humanities Festival\, DePaul University\, and Harvard Graduate School of Design to name a few. She has also curated exhibitions at spaces such as Chicago Art Department\, Blanc gallery and Washington Park Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago. She was recently an Artist in Residence at Arts and Public Life at University of Chicago and an Artist in Residence at Indiana University in Bloomington\, IN. zakkiyyah is a Co-founder of CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers): a collective of Black artists\, thinkers\, and curators that prioritize shared experiences and concerns by lens based artists of the Black diaspora. \nThis program was funded in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: A GIF from a screen capture on January 24\, 2022  at 5 pm ET of SHAWNE MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY\, https://iwouldvesaidgoodbyeif.ithoughtyouloved.me \, 2021
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/e-n-c-l-o-s-i-n-g/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Project,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Cinema of Breath: Poetics of Migrancy
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 2\, 2021\, 6 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nDoes cinema breathe? Can we understand migration through cinematic poetry?  \nCurated by Kalpana Subramanian\, Cinema of Breath: Poetics of Migrancy brings together a series of cinematic experiments that range across registers of the personal\, collective\, scientific\, and archival. Together\, these short films explore ideas of home and mobility\, exile and displacement\, and memories of place. \nThe program showcases films by Alexandra Cuesta\, Crystal Z Campbell\, Erin Espelie\, Gariné Torossian\, MTL Collective\, Sky Hopinka\, Sonali Gulati\, Suneil Sanzgiri\, and Kalpana Subramanian. It will be followed by a discussion with the curator and guest filmmakers. \nCinema of Breath is based on Subramanian’s doctoral research in Media Study at the University at Buffalo. Her research into experimental film draws from breath practices in Yoga and Buddhist philosophy. Through this lens\, “breath” can be thought of as the creational force of cinema that brings it to “life.” \nClick here to download the program notes and learn more about the individual films and filmmakers. \nThe event 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 is presented by the New York Immigration Coalition with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nThe New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York. The NYIC not only establishes a forum for immigrant groups to voice their concerns\, but also provides a platform for collective action to drive positive social change. Since its founding in 1987\, the NYIC has evolved into a powerful voice of advocacy by spearheading innovative policies\, promoting and protecting the rights of immigrant communities\, improving newcomer access to services\, developing leadership and capacity\, expanding civic participation\, and mobilizing member groups to respond to the fluctuating needs of immigrant communities. See more at nyic.org \nBanner image: Detail of Erin Espelie\, A Free Inquiry Into Air: 110721\, 2021
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/cinema-of-breath-poetics-of-migrancy/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual
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SUMMARY:helloiamandra8: Alison Nguyen in conversation with Sophie Cavoulacos
DESCRIPTION:*New date* Thursday\, November 18\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nAccess information: ASL interpretation and automated captions provided\nAn evening of conversation on labor\, AI\, performance\, among other topics\, this artist talk by Alison Nguyen with curator Sophie Cavoulacos looks at the history\, underpinnings\, and the digital and physical work surrounding her multifaceted project Andra8.  \nAndra8 takes its name after a computer-generated woman based on the artist’s physicality. From the apartment where she has been ‘placed’ Andra8 works as a digital laborer\, surviving off the data from her various ‘freemium’ jobs as a virtual assistant\, a data janitor\, a life coach\, an aspiring influencer\, and content creator. Something begins to trouble Andra8: her life depends on her compulsory consumption and output of human data – or so she’s been told. Andra8 explores the implications of such an existence\, and what arises when one attempts to subvert them. First exhibited in 2020\, the project spans video\, installation\, sculpture\, and interactive online performances. \nAudiences who register will have access to the full performances and short film that Nguyen has created as part of the project. The live artist talk will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nAbout the artist \nAlison Nguyen is a New York-based artist whose work spans video\, installation\, performance\, and new media. Her screenings include: e-flux\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, International Film Festival Oberhausen\, CPH:DOX\, Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Crossroads presented by SF MoMA/SF Cinemateque\, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art\, True/False Film Festival\, Open City Documentary Festival\, and Microscope Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, AC Gallery Beijing\, The Dowse Art Museum\, Hartnett Gallery\, La Kaje\, and The University of Oklahoma\, Contemporary Art and Digital Fair\, Miami\, among others.  \nNguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, Signal Culture\, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been awarded grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, NYSCA\, and The New York Community Trust. In 2018 Alison Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” In 2021 she was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Video/Film.  \nAlison Nguyen has been a Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic at numerous institutions and organizations including Cooper Union\, The New School\, Rhode Island School of Design\, The School of Visual Arts\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, and Squeaky Wheel. Nguyen graduated from Brown Univerisity with a B.A. in Literary Arts. She currently lives and works in Harlem where she is a MFA candidate in Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. \nSophie Cavoulacos is an Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art where she organizes moving image projects across the museum’s cinemas and galleries. Recent exhibitions include the expanded cinema installation Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination (2020) and Club 57: Film\, Performance\, and Art in the East Village\, 1978–1983 (2017-8). She has been a programmer for the New Directors/New Films and Doc Fortnight festivals and leads Modern Mondays\, MoMA’s artist’s cinema series to which she has contributed programs with Jibade-Khalil Huffman\, Habibi Collective\, Bernadette Mayer\, Metahaven\, Nazlı Dinçel\, Monira al Qadiri\, Emilija Skarnulyte\, Raha Raissnia\, Alexander Kluge\, and many others. Recent film exhibitions also include Currents: Re-Viewing Cineprobe\, 1968–2002 (2019) and special projects with The Residents and Ken Okiishi. She is also active in the museum’s collection displays and was part of the curatorial team for MoMA’s 2019 reinstallation. \nProduction assistance for Andra8 provided by Jonathan Beilin (Technical Director + Cinematographer)\, Scott Kiernan (Composer)\, Tim Bruniges (Vocal Sound Designer)\, Achim Koh (Programmer)\, Stephanie Neptune (Co-Editor and Post-Production Supervisor)\, Andrew Nerviano (Sound Mix)\, and Shisanwu LLC (Drafting). \nBanner image: Alison Nguyen\, my favorite software is being here\, HD video\, color\, sound\, 19 minutes\, 2020 – 2021. Image description: An image of a digital environment with the avatar Andra8 with her head leaning over a bag of Lays chips.
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LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 6\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nClick here to register\nAccess information: ASL interpretation provided. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nAn intimate event incorporating both pre-recorded and live video\, SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is joined by Camille Bacon for a virtual conversation about her work. Taking the form of letters written to each other\, HOLLOWAY and Bacon will speak to yearning\, irresolution\, letting go\, and the passing of time\, with Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula functioning as a touchstone. The conversation will be followed by a public Q&A. The event marks the opening of HOLLOWAY’s exhibition and web project\, i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back. \nAn email with instructions and a link will be sent to you on the event date and will be accessible on Eventbrite’s Online Event Page. The event will be accessible for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members get extended access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nTo see more information about the exhibition\, click here. \nBiographies \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nThis program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/shawne-michaelain-holloway-and-camille-bacon/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY: i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back
DESCRIPTION:Opening Wednesday\, October 6\, 2021 in Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery and online\nOn view through February 14\, 2022\nClick here to access the online project\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a solo exhibition and web project by artist and poet SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY. \nA memory stone and love letter\, i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back is a four channel realtime multimedia installation and part two of HOLLOWAY’s DOG WHISTLE series. Using the series’ signature blue light and heavy bold text\, the work thinks through the aesthetics of accumulation and the vocabulary of loss using poetry and 3D objects that pile up and overflow. Each object on screen is a manipulation of a digital scan of an item that once held significance in the artist’s life and will be destroyed on a continuous loop for the duration of the installation. Parallel to the window installation\, i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back is also accessible at home via the web and is programmed to evolve with audience participation through Valentine’s Day 2022. The exhibition will be accompanied by a newly commissioned essay on the artists work by Camille Bacon. Web development support provided by Nick Briz. \nThe artist invites you to submit photos of your own objects to be part of the work. These can be photographs of things you no longer have\, want\, or feel connected to\, that remind you of those you can no longer love. You can send the photograph as a text message to the number ‪(716) 650-0687‬ or via email to youlovedmeback@gmail.com . Please note that photos may be modified for privacy and technical purposes (such as the removal of identifiable faces.) \nPublic programs \nWednesday\, October 6\, 7 pm ET\nVirtual artist talk: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon. Register here. \nWednesday\, February 9–14\, 2022\nOnline project: [ E N | C L O S I N G ]. Register here. \nMonday\, February 14\, 2022\, 6:00 pm ET\nPLASMA: Virtual artist talk with SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY. Presented by the Department of Media Study\, University at Buffalo SUNY. More information here. \nAbout the artist and contributors \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nNick Briz is an internationally recognized new-media artist\, educator and organizer. His work investigates the promises and perils of living in an increasingly digital and networked world. He is an active participant in various online communities and conversations including glitch art\, net art\, remix culture\, digital literacy\, hacktivism and digital rights. He’s co-founder of netizen.org a nonprofit focused on digital literacy and digital culture\, he’s Associate Professor Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, Lecturer at the University of Chicago\, and a freelance Creative Technologist. \nThis program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \n \n  \nImage: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY\, dog-whistle-unity-still_1unfinished-rose-obj+1petal-(slow)spawn.png\, unity still\, 2019
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/shawne-michaelain-holloway-i-wouldve-said-goodbye-if-i-thought-you-loved-me-back/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Online Project
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SUMMARY:Coalition Building Towards Liberatory Technologies
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED – Stay tuned for the new date!\nWednesday\, September 30\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nAccessibility: ASL interpretation and open captions provided. \nOn the occasion of Johann Diedrick’s Dark Matters\, this panel with artists Johann Diedrick and Jenson Leonard and moderated by Richie Wills will discuss both the discriminatory and exploitative artificial intelligences of our current moment\, and imagine libertory future technologies. How would a libertatory artificial intelligence act? What are the networks\, communities\, and infrastructures we need to build our tomorrows? \nThe event will be available for 24 hours for everyone who registers\, and 72 hours for Squeaky Wheel members. This event is co-presented with Just Buffalo Literary Center. \nAbout the panelists \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist\, engineer\, and musician who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for encountering our world through your ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for delightfully encountering our environment and each other. He is a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (Queens\, NY)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \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. \nRICHIE WILLS holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Richie has worked as a Writing Center and BABEL volunteer and as an outreach coordinator for Words on the Street and The Mocha Center. He is also contributing writer for The Galactic Tribe and continues to work as a community organizer. Richie believes in the power of the written word and storytelling to bring people together and break barriers. \nAbout Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project CELEBRATES the legacy of prominent Black writers who have called Buffalo home\, whose voices shape history\, inspire radical change\, and influence current and future generations of poets and writers; DRAWS INSPIRATION from Buffalo’s history as a gateway to freedom along the Underground Railroad; and CHALLENGES our community to grapple with racism and inequities through literature\, to find pathways toward justice in the power of the written word\, and to open hearts & minds as we confront our shared past and present in order to shape a more equitable future. See more information here. \nBanner image courtesy of Johann Diedrick.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/coalition-building-towards-liberatory-technologies/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Symposia & Panels,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Applying for things! + Workspace Residency Info-Session
DESCRIPTION:Free\nAccess information: This event will take place as a Zoom meeting. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125.\nClick here to register\nIn this presentation and workshop\, Rivet’s co-founders Katrina Neumann and Kira Simon-Kennedy will share resources\, strategies\, and things to watch for for artists who are applying to opportunities such as grants\, residencies\, and fellowships\, followed by a Q&A for attendees. Of interest for artists of all experience levels\, the presentation will be a brief info-session by curator Ekrem Serdar on the Spring 2022 application for Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency program. For more information about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nYou can now watch the event below. Scroll to the 20 minute mark of the video to skip to Rivet’s presentation on Applying to Things. \nBios of the presenters \nKatrina Neumann began her career as a visual artist while working in arts institutions as an in-house designer\, web manager\, marketing\, and communications specialist for the past 18 years. On nights and weekends\, she founded the startups “Rate My Artist Residency” and co-founded “Rivet“; both are platforms that help artists find residency opportunities\, funding\, and transparency within this niche market. Neumann freelances as a graphic designer\, web designer\, social media\, marketing\, and communications specialist for artists\, small businesses\, non-profits\, and arts institutions. For more details here is my full resumé. \nKira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder & co-director of China Residencies\, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported hundreds of different international creative exchanges to China since its inception in 2013. She has been a fellow at NEW INC\, the New Museum’s incubator for art\, design & technology\, as well as the IFP Made in NY Media Center\, building Rivet to connect creative people with opportunities worldwide. She also produces independent films and documentaries\, including 登楼叹 Ascension (Tribeca winner for Best Documentary 2021) as well as ongoing series about the creative scenes in China’s 2nd and 3rd tier cities\, and a previous year long project about China’s underground music scene for the record label Modern Sky. \nKira holds a BA in East Asian Studies and Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania\, and was a member of the inaugural class of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice program in Social Impact Strategy and Arts & Culture. She is a translator of French and Chinese texts on art and philosophy and co-wrote “Holy Shit My Friend Has Cancer\,” a website to help young people deal with tough situations. \nPhotograph of Kira Simon-Kennedy by Joy Ding. Image description: Kira is a white woman with long brown curly hair\, wearing glasses and a peacock blue jacket. She is standing outside in front of trees and smiling.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/applying-for-things-workspace-residency-info-session/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 18th Animation Fest!
DESCRIPTION:September 3\, 2021\, 8 pm ET\n@ Albright-Knox Northland and virtually\nFree\nReserve your in-person spot here or register for the virtual screening here. \n\nSqueaky Wheel’s family-friendly Animation Fest returns to delight\, amaze\, and excite with a program of short films from Western New York and around the world! In partnership with Villa Maria College\, this year’s Animation Fest will be an outdoor drive-in and sit-down screening at the Albright-Knox Northland in Buffalo\, NY. Join us under the stars for a dazzling showcase of artist-made animations\, from the hand-drawn to stop-motion to 3D modeling\, and more. If you can’t make it in person\, be sure to join the virtual Fest\, screening simultaneously wherever you are! \nThe 18th Animation Fest features films by Abby Castillo\, Becky Brown\, Benjamin Rosenthal and Eric Souther\, Emma Geiger\, Gabriella Mykal\, Hanlin Wang\, Lydia Moyer\, Petra Zlonoga\, S4RA\, Terrance Houle & Neko Wong-Houle. This years event welcomes back curator Tabia Lewis who will provide a special remote introduction to the event. A post-screening Q&A with the curator and filmmakers will take place on Google Docs after the screening. Please note that some of the films include flashing images\, and distorted video and audio. See details in the program below. \nHow to attend in-person: \nRSVP for the event at the link above on the Albright Knox to reserve your spot! Drive-in and view the event from your car\, or bring blankets and lawnchairs for an open air screening. See more information\, including guidance regarding COVID-19\, at the Albright-Knox event page. \nHow to attend virtually: \nRegister above at the link. An email with a link will be sent to your email address\, accessible on the event date. The films will be accessible for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members get extended access to the films for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nClick on the arrows below to expand. \n[expand title=”Program”] \nTotal duration: 45 minutes. Please note that some films feature flashing images\, distorted video\, and distorted audio. You can see which films below. Descriptions and images for the films provided by the filmmakers. \nThese pieces speak to disruption or (re)construction\, largely by non-narrative means. It felt really relevant considering the world at large had experienced a huge disruption and almost simultaneous reconfiguration of their lives so recently. These two things aren’t necessarily opposites\, but complementary and sometimes the very antidote to one another.  When something we know to be just or honest isn’t\, we make a motion to disrupt that; that which we don’t understand\, we examine in an attempt to. – Tabia Lewis. \n \nTerrance Houle & Neko Wong-Houle\, Otanimm/Onnimm (Daughter/ Father)\, 3:33 min\, 2020\nA short animation based on the relationship of an Indigenous artist and his daughter\, and their deep connection to one another. Using dialogue\, music\, traditional animation\, stop-motion\, experimental DIY photography using Caffenol (coffee/vitamin C developer) and 2D rotoscoping Terrance and his daughter Neko share a unique look at an indigenous father/daughter story. \n \nEmma Geiger\, Elysian\, 1:06 min\, 2021\nElysian is an expression of a memory of connection\, reduced to momentary sketches.  In it the passage of time is experienced as the alternating absence and presence of light.  The images are a collection of memories in Southern California\, linked by their emotional content- a found paradise.   \n \nLydia Moyer\, Study for Unsettling\, 2:16\, 2016. This film features flashing images.\nSourced from images on cabinporn.com\, a popular website that catalogs pictures of tiny cabins in sublime landscapes\, Study for Unsettling is a frame-by-frame animation that erases the focal point of the built structures to recast the viewers’ attention on the natural environments in which the structures sit. The marks left are remnants of the disruptive energy of settlers. \n \nBecky Brown\, dark parts\, 4:51 min\, 2020. This film features distorted audio and video.\n“I was learning Blender when I started making this piece\, and while browsing related content\, I frequently saw renders posted of manicured houses too perfect to imagine myself living in them. These were renders of houses so well done you could mistake them for reality\, but so uncluttered that no one could possibly live there. So I decided I wanted to make a piece about putting some ugliness back in. I wrote and finished everything by February 2020\, just a month before the dream-like house-trap shown in this piece became a reality for everyone! Or\, said another way:\nThis piece is inspired by perfect\, impossible homes\,that exist only between magazine covers and the visions of architects. Homes before the people are in them\, before the newspaper pile on the sofa\, before the rotting grapefruit in the back of the fridge\, before the overflowing laundry basket beside the bed. Homes when they are just ideas\, places that seem to smudge all their textures away when you dream about them\, illuminated by axioms you are so certain of until you wake up. Homes that make you feel less like yourself. Homes when you’re not sure how to change. Homes that are just houses\, raw buildings in someone else’s plan for no one’s future.”\n \n \nBenjamin Rosenthal and Eric Souther\, the gleaners\, and: ritual for signaled bodies\, 8:33 min\, 2020. This film features flashing images and distorted audio.\nthe gleaners\, and: ritual for signaled bodies performs at the edges between body and the external\, oscillating and eroding those boundaries. A ritual for creating new worlds and situations for fragmented bodies\, signals pass through the joints of animated and genderless bodies and body parts entangling the body-signal-actions both materially and conceptually as these control mechanisms interfere with pre-animated content. Perpetually shifting surfaces and skins serve as sites of projection and interference\, contributing to the further “”queering”” of the state of these bodies and fragments that are stretched and submerged into and outside of the environment they inhabit\, as they encounter desire\, distress\, and ritualized oscillations. Signals that generate sounds and compel movement\, the making of the images\, and the body\, further challenges the stability and integrity of the space; it’s otherworldliness and the spatial relationships it establishes with the audience. At the edge between crisis and satisfaction\, the work adopts the role of Millet’s own “”gleaners\,”” making-do on the boundary between sustenance and the devoid.\nExtended Technical Information/Statement on LGBTQ Content:\nThis is an experimental animation that is made in part with live techniques where 3D animations are “”performed”” in synchronization with sound to produce images that are recorded\, layered\, re-performed\, and re-recorded. The process in which we make this is an innovative process that pushes the boundaries of what is possible via real-time rendering.\nIt is important for us to clarify as artists that we feel strongly that this film comes from a queer point of view and a queer perspective. Rosenthal (as a member of the LGBTQ community) and Souther as a strong ally\, are interested in disrupting hegemonic structures around what constitutes gay and queer aesthetics\, which often privilege cis-white\, gay male sexual desire as opposed to more diverse and divergent points of departure. The bodies in our work are both fundamentally queer in their presentation and in their actions\, but the work also subjects viewers to an experience of queer “”fragmentation.”” Rosenthal describes this “”fragmentation”” as related to a kind of slippage\, rather than traditional compartmentalization\, where identity and body construction become unstable. By subjecting the viewer to sensorially intense fragmentation\, we destabilize normative viewing experiences and “”queer”” the space of the audience.” \n \nPetra Zlonoga\, One of Many\, 5:32 min\, 2018\nI am one. One of many. One of everyone yet the only one. What is it that I am looking for\, that always seems out of reach? \n \nS4RA\, privacy-GrDN. Info\, 8:00 min\, 2021\nHybrid emulation of a website that deals with prediction (in a broad sense) which uses the coding produced into programming its own simulation as the backbone structure into a semiotic < container >  / metalanguage. \n \nAbby Castillo\, easy_v3.4\, 2:21\, 2020\nThis is the music video for my song easy_v3.4\, which is composed of looping animations superimposed on clips of Portland\, OR during 2020 (back when I went as “Twin Chicken” instead of “abbymachines”). Some of the clips focus on animals and nature\, and one is from last year’s wildfires. The song itself is a pop song about perseverance and strength\, inspired by my recovery from an abusive relationship. \n \nGabriella Mykal\, all i have pt iii\, 1:47\, 2021. This film features captions.\na deep dive into reality stardom and digital death\, ‘all i have pt iii’ explores online archetypes and politics surrounding light skin black women by focusing on four case studies: Disney star turned adult actress and producer Zendaya\, widely loved reality star and former Bachelorette Tayshia Adams\, conservative political commentator Candace Owens\, and former actress turned Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.\nThe four women’s images grind and faze into each other in an illusion of cohesion as the automated voice considers how far they must be willing to go to be desired\, accepted\, protected\, or respected.” \n \nHanlin Wang\, Neither Here Nor There\, 7:47 min\, 2021. This film features flashing images.\nTold solely through images captured from Google Street View\, Google Maps\, and Google Earth coupled with text\, Neither Here Nor There traverses a life from birth to death via the places that define it. \n[/expand]\n[expand title=”Bios of the filmmakers and curator”] \nAbby Castillo (she/her) is a transgender Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist working primarily in music\, literature\, visual and video art. She currently lives and works in Portland\, OR\, and she grew up at the US-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana. \nBecky Brown is a composer\, harpist\, artist\, and web designer\, interested in producing intensely personal works across the multimedia spectrum. She focuses on narrative\, emotional exposure\, and catharsis\, with a vested interest in using technology and the voice to deeply connect with an audience\, wherever they are. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia. \nBenjamin Rosenthal holds (b.1984\, New York\, NY\, Lives and Works in Kansas City\, Missouri) an MFA in Art Studio from the University of California\, Davis and a BFA in Art (Electronic Time-Based Media) from Carnegie Mellon University. His work has been exhibited internationally in such venues/festivals as the Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart\, Germany)\, High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary (Chicago\, IL)\, ESPACIO ENTER: Festival International Creatividad\, Innovacíon y Cultural Digital (Tenerife\, Canary Islands\, Spain)\, FILE Electronic Language International Festival (São Paulo\, Brazil)\, Vanity Projects (New York\, NY)\, Locomoción Festival de Animacion (Mexico City\, Mexico)\, the LINOLEUM Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art (Kyiv\, Ukraine)\, and SIGGRAPH Asia (Bangkok\, Thailand)\, among others. He has been in residence at the Fjúk Arts Centre (Husavík\, Iceland)\, Signal Culture (Owego\, New York) and the Ox-Bow School of Art (Saugatuck\, Michigan)\, the Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City\, Missouri)\, and is currently in residence at The Studios Inc (Kansas City\, Missouri). His work across media explores what he theorizes as queer “technosexuality” and challenges the supremacy of physical contact in a technocultural age. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of Expanded Media in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas\, where he has been since 2012\, and teaches video art\, performance art\, experimental animation\, a variety of special topics seminars and interdisciplinary practices. \nEric Souther is a new media artist who draws from a multiplicity of disciplines\, including anthropology\, linguistics\, ritual\, critical theory\, and New Materialism. He develops video instruments that investigate technological & cultural ecologies\, agency\, and emergence. He looks for new ways of seeing beyond the seductive qualities of an image\, and to find unseen connections that help us understand our digital and non-digital existence. His work takes many pathways\, which include single-channel video\, interactive installation\, projection mapping\, print\, virtual reality\, and audiovisual performance. His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Art and Design\, NYC\, Everson Museum of Art\, Syracuse\, NY\, and the Museum of Art\, Zhangzhou\, China. His work has screened in The Athens Digital Arts Festival\, Athens\, Greece\, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival\, Beyoglu\, Instanbul\, Cronosfera Festival\, Alessandria\, Italy\, the Galerija 12 New Media Hub\, Belgrade\, Serbia\, the Simultan Festival\, Timisoara\, Romania\, and the Festival ECRÃ of Audiovisual Experimentations\, Rio de Janeiro. In 2016\, Eric won the Juried Award for Time-Based at the international art competition ArtPrize. He received his BFA in New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009 and his MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2011. He currently is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Expanded Media at NYSCC at Alfred University. Eric is also a board member of Signal Culture\, where he co-develops experimental video instruments (software). \nEmma Geiger is a filmmaker and photographer currently based in Durham\, North Carolina. \nGabriella Mykal is a West Indian American visual artist and filmmaker. Through film\, video installation\, writing\, and sculpture\, her work treats personal trauma as an access point to humor and social hyperreality. She combines narrative and experimental techniques to explore vulnerability\, femme friendship\, romance\, and sexual disfunction as grounds for political discourse. Found footage\, unreliable narrators\, and oversharing craft a technicolor\, Cyberfeminist sensibility. Mykal’s films have been shown nationally and internationally. \nHanlin Wang grew up in Fremont\, California. He discovered a love for filmmaking in the many video projects he created during high school. In college he explored this storytelling instinct through various mediums from live-action narrative and experimental shorts to virtual reality and computer-generated imagery. He admires the creative work of Richard Linklater\, Wong Kar-Wai\, Alfonso Cuarón\, and Philip Glass. Hanlin is currently exploring the fields of VFX and computer graphics and hopes to pursue a career at the intersection of moviemaking and technology. \nLydia Moyer is a visual artist and media maker who lives and works in Central Virginia\, USA.  She is a professor in the art department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. \nPetra Zlonoga (1982) holds an MA in Graphic Design from the School of Design (2007) and MA in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2011). Since 2009 she works as a freelance graphic designer\, illustrator and animator. Filmography: One of Many (2018)\, Dota (2016)\, Hunger (2014)\, Daniil Ivanovich\, You Are Free (2011\, graduation film)\, Fox (2010\, student film)\, Gregor (2010\, student film)\, Daniil Ivanovich\, Marry Me (2007\, student film). \nS4RA is a non-binary && genderqueer transmedia artist that spent endless hours fighting monsters & strolling through mazes. so\, it only felt natural 2 evolve through an experimental & explorative process of gaming visual culture & popular gif files. also feeds on social media platforms 2 engage animations into the depths of gender role play & political plots. still plays old school video games. \nTabia Lewis is a Black\, trans writer\, curator\, and DJ living on Catawba Nation territory in Charlotte\, NC. While they mostly creative non-fiction and critical essays they also have an affinity for poetry. Their work is aligned with Black radical imagination\, memory\, mythography\, and transness beyond physical matter. They’re also a big fan of cartoons. \nTerrance Houle and Neko Wong-Houle are an award winning father/daughter duo team who have collaborated on the recent short animation Otanimm/Onnimm. Terrance has worked extensively in the Arts Film/ Video and Performing Arts internationally\, nationally & locally\, Neko recently graduated from a High School program in a Performance Visual Arts and is the Award winner of the Golden Sheaf Indigenous Art Award  at the Yorkton Film Festival for Otannim/Onnimm (writer\, director actor) \n[/expand]\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. \nSponsors \nSqueaky Wheel wishes to thank the following event sponsors: Clover Group Inc.\, Rigidized Metals\, Buffalo State College Communication Department\, Department of Art at the University of Buffalo\, Department of Media Study at the University of Buffalo\, Fox Pest Control\, Pan American Sound\, and Stephens & Stephens Law Offices. \n \n\n\n\n \n  \n  \nBanner image: Petra Zlonoga\, One of Many\, 2018
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-18th-animation-fest/
LOCATION:Albright-Knox Northland\, 612 Northland Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Crystal Z Campbell\, Jordan Lord\, Olivia Ong Evans
DESCRIPTION:Image description: A rectangular image with three photographs side by side. From left to right: Portrait of Crystal Z Campbell\, a Black and Asian artist in the studio gazing directly into camera\, with just above the shoulder length curly hair wrangled into a half-ponytail. Light from the industrial window creates a pink and reddish glow on their cheek\, filtered through a transparency the artist is holding. The transparency is a film still from a found 35mm film the artist found at a now demolished Black Civil Rights Theater. The photograph is courtesy of Melissa Lukenbaugh. In the middle photograph is Jordan Lord\, a 30 year-old white person with short brown hair\, stands in front of a tank of bioluminescent jellyfish\, wearing a face mask printed with the nose and mouth of a tiger. Their eyes seem to be smiling. The photograph on the right is of Olivia Ong Evans\, facing the camera and smiling. She has long\, black hair and is wearing metal framed glasses and a black and white shirt. Behind her is a pink\, purple\, gray\, and aqua blue video still showing tree branches\, river branches\, and a smoke stack in the background.⁠\nThursday\, August 26\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nClick here to register\nAccess information: TBA. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this artist talk with our three Summer 2021 artist residents\, Crystal Z Campbell (Oklahoma City\, OK)\, Jordan Lord (New York\, NY)\, and Olivia Ong Evans (Tonawanda\, NY). The three artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engaging in a conversation with curator Ekrem Serdar. \nCrystal Z Campbell will be working on SLICK\, an experimental feature film considering the longstanding reverberations of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on the city of Tulsa and beyond. Jordan Lord is working on editing an essay film with their grandmother\, Prophetic Memory\, which examines the stakes in re-animating personal and collective history. Olivia Ong Evans will be working on Identity Karma\, an experimental video that explores the connections between identity construction and social structures. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at venues including MoMA\, ARGOS\, Camden Arts Centre\, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts\, and Performance Space NY (as part of the festival “I wanna be with you everywhere”). Their exhibition “Prophetic Memory” is currently in-progress online and at various sites via Artists Space (New York\, NY). They teach at Hunter College\, CUNY (New York). \nOlivia Ong Evans (she/her/hers) is a video artist currently living on occupied Haudenosaunee land (Western New York). She uses experimental practices to create glitchy\, distorted visuals that explore positionality.  Her work centers on themes of identity construction\, migration\, connection to land\, and Hokkien Indonesian heritage.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-crystal-z-campbell-jordan-lord-olivia-ong-evans/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Creating Identity: Asian American Subjectivities with Olivia Ong Evans
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 25\, 2021\, 6 pm\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nThis is a space that is for and prioritizes Asian Americans/Asian and Pacific Islander Diaspora individuals\, but all are welcome to attend.  All participation is optional\, and participants welcome to engage with prompts and exercises in any way that feels best for them. \nThis skill-share by Olivia Ong Evans will be a space for Asian American/Asian and Pacific Islander Diasporic individuals to explore the connections between identity and creativity. Through a series of prompts and exercises facilitated by Olivia Ong Evans\, participants will have the opportunity to work on creative projects in a structured\, shared space intended to foster creativity\, imagination\, and connection. The workshop will provide time for participants to reflect on how they can use their own experiences to create meaning from the social and political contexts that shape our identities. The artist will share reference materials and resources related to concepts of identity construction and positionality\, and their own creative process to showcase strategies for participants. All skill levels are welcome and individuals with no background in the arts are encouraged to attend. \nBio of the artist \nOlivia Ong Evans (she/her/hers) is a video artist currently living on occupied Haudenosaunee land (Western New York). She uses experimental practices to create glitchy\, distorted visuals that explore positionality.  Her work centers on themes of identity construction\, migration\, connection to land\, and Hokkien Indonesian heritage. \nThis event is part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. To find out more about the program\, click here. \nBanner image: Olivia Ong Evans\, Work #2.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/creating-identity-asian-american-subjectivities-with-olivia-ong-evans/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Generating Sounds Collaboratively with Crystal Z Campbell
DESCRIPTION:*New date* Tuesday\, August 24\, 2021\, 6 pm\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here. Limited capacity.\nCrystal Z Campbell will lead Generating Sounds Collaboratively\, a participatory sound workshop where attendees will generate new sound and reinterpret iconic music that will be featured in the artists upcoming film SLICK. Participants will learn creative strategies for sound design\, including foley sounds\, vocals\, and the specific ways sound can be a critical component of a film. This event will be recorded. \nBio of the artist \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nThis event is part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. To find out more about the program\, click here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/generating-sounds-collaboratively-with-crystal-z-campbell/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Starting with Access: Where a Film Begins with Jordan Lord
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 23\, 2021\, 6 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can.\nRegister here. Limited capacity.\nAccessibility: ASL interpretation and live-captions will be available.\nNew and experienced filmmakers are invited to a private workshop to learn critical concepts to creatively integrate forms of accessibility for disabled audiences into their films. Forms of access are usually treated as so-called “accommodations\,” left to third-party service providers to perform after a film or video has been completed. Understanding access as a way in or a means of approach\, participants will be asked to reimagine their creative process beginning with access as the first step in conceiving what a film is and how it will communicate with its audiences. \nWorkshop participants will be invited to frame access at intersections of disability\, race\, language\, class\, and gender\, while primarily focusing on two more-or-less codified access technologies––audio description (AD) for Blind\, low vision\, and other audiences and captioning for Deaf\, hard-of-hearing\, and other audiences.  \nLord will present examples of how disabled filmmakers have used access as integrated formal tools in their films\, while working through critical questions that emerge around practices of audio description and captioning––asking how the access needs of our audiences might guide our approaches to filmmaking. These complex and layered forms of communication are often presented as apparently neutral translations of images and sounds. But\, of course\, as numerous Blind\, Deaf\, and disabled audiences\, artists\, and activists have shown\, these translations are anything but neutral and often render segregation\, censorship\, and insufficient information\, while presenting manifold possibilities as creative and artistic tools.  \nBio of the artist \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at venues including MoMA\, ARGOS\, Camden Arts Centre\, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts\, and Performance Space NY (as part of the festival “I wanna be with you everywhere”). Their exhibition “Prophetic Memory” is currently in-progress online and at various sites via Artists Space (New York\, NY). They teach at Hunter College\, CUNY (New York). \nThis event is part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. To find out more about the program\, click here. \nBanner Image: Jordan Lord\, After… After… (Access)\, HD video\, 2018. Image description: The inside of a body\, including a spine and other organs\, appears on a laptop screen. A white person’s hand reaches toward the laptop’s keyboard. On top of the hand\, a caption reads: “In learning to make a film\, students are taught to show rather than tell.”
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/starting-with-access-where-a-film-begins-with-jordan-lord/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Johann Diedrick
DESCRIPTION:June 18\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: The artist talk will take place with automated open captions and ASL interpretation. The Q&A will take place over a shared Google Doc. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nOn the occasion of the opening of Dark Matters at Squeaky Wheel\, join us for an artist talk with Johann Diedrick. Dark Matters exposes the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. Utilizing 3D modeling\, sound\, and storytelling\, the project challenges our communities to grapple with racism and inequity through speech and the spoken word\, and how AI systems underserve Black communities. More information about the exhibition\, online project\, and public programs can be seen here. \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist\, engineer\, and musician who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for encountering our world through your ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for delightfully encountering our environment and each other. He is a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (Queens\, NY)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nThis event is presented with support from and as part of Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project. \nBanner image: Johann Diedrick. Photograph provided by the artist.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/johann-diedrick/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Johann Diedrick: Dark Matters
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, June 18\, 2021 at Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery. On view through September 10\, 2021. \nClick here to access the public beta of the web experience. It is best experienced on desktop computers. Click here to provide feedback for the works development.\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a public beta of Johann Diedrick’s Dark Matters\, an interactive web experience\, exhibition in Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery\, and series of events \nDark Matters exposes the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. Utilizing 3D modeling\, sound\, and storytelling\, the project challenges our communities to grapple with racism and inequity through speech and the spoken word\, and how AI systems underserve Black communities. \nA video installation version of Dark Matters will be on view 24/7 for free at Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery in downtown Buffalo. An iterative online version will be available on our website June 18–September 10\, 2021\, which the artist intends to present as a way to receive feedback from the public on the work’s development. An outdoor soft opening will take place at Squeaky Wheel’s storefront space on Friday\, June 18\, between 4–6 pm\, with in-person remarks by Curator Ekrem Serdar at 5 pm\, and a virtual artist talk and public Q&A with the artist at 7 pm ET. An American Sign Language interpreter will be present for the virtual artist talk. More information about the exhibition\, including virtual public programs led by Just Buffalo Literary Center beginning June 15\, can be seen below. \nPublic programs \nJune 15 and 22\, 4:30 pm-6:00 pm ET:\nVirtual creative writing workshop for youth\, led by Richmond Wills at Just Buffalo. Free and open to ages 12–18. Email rwills@justbuffalo.org to register. See more information here. \nPOSTPONED: June 18\, 4–6 pm ET:\nOutdoor soft opening at Squeaky Wheel\, with curatorial remarks at 5 pm\, 617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203. Free and open to the public. \nJune 18\, 7 pm ET:\nVirtual artist Talk with Johann Diedrick. ASL interpretation provided. Free and open to the public. You can view the artist talk here. \nAbout the artist \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist\, engineer\, and musician who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for encountering our world through your ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for delightfully encountering our environment and each other. He is a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (Queens\, NY)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nAbout Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project CELEBRATES the legacy of prominent Black writers who have called Buffalo home\, whose voices shape history\, inspire radical change\, and influence current and future generations of poets and writers; DRAWS INSPIRATION from Buffalo’s history as a gateway to freedom along the Underground Railroad; and CHALLENGES our community to grapple with racism and inequities through literature\, to find pathways toward justice in the power of the written word\, and to open hearts & minds as we confront our shared past and present in order to shape a more equitable future. See more information here. \n  \nImage: Johann Diedrick\, Dark Matters (2021). Web Development by Xuan Ye. Narrative written by Alex Smith.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/johann-diedrick-dark-matters/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Dark Matters: Youth Workshop
DESCRIPTION:June 15 and 22\, 2021\n4:30–6 pm\nFree and open to youth ages 12–21. The workshop is limited to ten participants.\nTo register\, email jbwc@justbuffalo.org \nHow does your relationship with Artificial Intelligence like Siri and Alexa affect the way you navigate the world? What does inclusive technology look like? What kind of technology would you like to see in the world? \nJoin Just Buffalo Literary Center for a virtual youth workshop! Led by Just Buffalo’s Teaching Artist Richie Wills\, participants will have a discussion session where they analyze the technology around us\, followed by a creative writing session where they envision possible futures with transformative technologies surpassing racism and inequities. This workshop is presented as part of the public programs accompanying Johann Diedrick’s Dark Matters\, an exhibition and interactive web experience exposing the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. \nOptional: To prepare for the workshop\, read this article from The Verge. \nACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Writers are welcome to participate with or without video and audio during any of our virtual sessions. If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities\, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate. \nAbout the Teaching Artist\n\n\nRICHIE WILLS holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Richie has worked as a Writing Center and BABEL volunteer and as an outreach coordinator for Words on the Street and The Mocha Center. He is also contributing writer for The Galactic Tribe and continues to work as a community organizer. Richie believes in the power of the written word and storytelling to bring people together and break barriers. \n  \nAbout Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project CELEBRATES the legacy of prominent Black writers who have called Buffalo home\, whose voices shape history\, inspire radical change\, and influence current and future generations of poets and writers; DRAWS INSPIRATION from Buffalo’s history as a gateway to freedom along the Underground Railroad; and CHALLENGES our community to grapple with racism and inequities through literature\, to find pathways toward justice in the power of the written word\, and to open hearts & minds as we confront our shared past and present in order to shape a more equitable future. See more information here. \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/dark-matters-youth-workshop/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Punctures at SPACE Gallery
DESCRIPTION:On view May 20–July 2\, 2021 at SPACE Gallery (Portland\, Maine)\nClick here for more information\, including how to visit in person. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to share the touring of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time to SPACE Gallery in Portland\, Maine! Originally exhibited at Squeaky Wheel in Fall 2020\, Punctures draws from the little-known but expansive history connecting media arts and textile production. The exhibition features artists invested in the material\, critical and liberatory politics of their intersections. \nFrom the Lumière brothers taking the intermittent motion of a sewing machine to create the cinematograph\, to the punch cards of the Jacquard loom forming the basis of modern computation\, and the role of sewing and gendered labor in jobs like editing and dyeing in film production\, textile production remains an essential\, but insufficiently unacknowledged formal and social influence on media arts. These underpinnings aim to not only explicate an alternate history\, but are meant to find ways to speculate new futures for media practice. \nPunctures allows audiences to engage with artworks exploring a wide range of practices including\, trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. \nCurated by Squeaky Wheel\, the touring exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner. \nSPACE is a nonprofit organization that supports contemporary arts projects\, champions artists\, and encourages an open exchange of ideas. Grounded in the belief that vital communities are activated by experimentation\, conversation\, and camaraderie\, SPACE engages a wide audience with provocative arts programming and category-defying events. As a nexus for curious minds\, we collaborate with original thinkers and invite the public to participate in the ongoing pursuit of adventurous ideas. \nImage: Installation view\, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen\, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans\, March 16–June 18\, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin\, New York\, Hong Kong\, and Seoul. Photo: Alex Marks.\n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/puncturesatspace/
LOCATION:SPACE Gallery\, 538 Congress St\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 19\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with filmmaker Sindhu Thirumalaisamy; this co-presentation follows our screening with Thirumalaisamy in Spring 2020 of her film The Lake and the Lake. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nSindhu Thirumalaisamy‘s work across moving images\, sound\, and text\, is rooted in a critical listening practice. It engages common places such as hospitals\, parks\, streets\, temples\, mosques\, and lakes\, as sites of collective resistance and care\, paying close attention to possibilities for speech and action with/in them. \nSindhu holds a diploma in digital video production from Srishti School of Art\, Design\, and Technology\, Bangalore\, and an MFA in visual art from the University of California\, San Diego. She has participated in the Whitney Independent Study program\, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, and the SOMA Summer program. She is a 2020-21 Core artist-fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. \nSindhu’s most recent film\, The Lake and The Lake\, won the Best Documentary Award at the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Recent exhibitions include programs at Camden International Film Festival\, Open City Documentary Festival\, BlackStar Film Festival\, DokuFest\, Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)\, Kinodot Experimental Film Festival\, EFA Project Space\, Union Docs\, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center\, Artists’ Television Access\, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival\, Current:LA Triennial\, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego\, and San Diego Museum of Art. \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-sindhu-thirumalaisamy/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210412T203000
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Ekrem Serdar
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 12\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. Squeaky Wheel co-presents a talk with our curator Ekrem Serdar\, who will be speaking about his curatorial practice\, and recent work in our exhibitions programs. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nEkrem Serdar is the curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (2015–present)\, where he is responsible for the organization’s exhibitions\, public programming\, and artist residencies. Previously\, he was a programmer with Experimental Response Cinema (Austin\, TX) which he co-founded. He is the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2017). He is an advisory member of Experimental Response Cinema\, and the FOL Cinema Society (Istanbul). His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail\, Millennium Film Journal\, 5harfliler\, among other publications. He completed his BA in Critical Studies\, and his MFA in Media Arts Production at the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. He is from Ankara\, Turkey. \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-ekrem-serdar/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T190000
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SUMMARY:Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's EMPTY METAL
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 7\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: The film is available with Spanish  subtitles. The  Q&A will take place over a shared doc on pad.riseup . If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nAdam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer\, EMPTY METAL\, 83 minutes\, 2018. \nAn unsettling and cutting political thriller\, EMPTY METAL features an apathetic punk band who are ensnared to commit a series of assassinations by an Indigenous family whose mother communicates telepathically with her meditation companions\, a Rastafarian hacker\, and a Buddhist whose son is a member of a secret militia. These disparate actors are united by rage\, boiled in the history of the United States\, and finding itself at a point of no return in our contemporary moment. Inspired by Lizzie Borden’s classic Born in Flames (1983)\, Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s film has been widely acclaimed since its debut in 2018. It is an essential portrait of current day American violence and politics\, and posits its inevitable consequences. \nThe artists will be present for a post-screening Q&A on April 7. Audiences will be able to leave reactions\, comments\, and questions through a shared Google Doc. Instructions for how to view and participate in the event will be communicated via email. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nEMPTY METAL is co-presented with the PLASMA series at the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study. Adam Khalil will be presenting an artist talk on Monday\, March 15. Click here to see more information about their artist talk. \n“Filled with energy\, rage\, and the smallest measure of hope\, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for these extraordinary times” -Film Society Lincoln Center \nBios of the artists \nBayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His practice revolves around a dynamic\, high-mobility engagement with the margins\, as well as taking an earnest look at the chronomorphic qualities of narrative\, specifically the camera’s ability to consolidate dimensions. His work has been shown at Film Society Lincoln Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, Pacific Film Archive\, Motel Gallery (Brooklyn)\, Other Cinema (San Francisco) and MIIT House (Osaka). Bayley works professionally as a camera assistant and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild\, IATSE Local 600. \nAdam Khalil is a filmmaker and artist. His practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor\, relation\, and transgression. Adam’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, Walker Arts Center\, Spektrum (Berlin)\, Trailer Gallery (Sweden)\, Carnival of eCreativity (Bombay). Khalil is a 2017 Sundance Art of Nonfiction grantee\, 2017 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Opportunity Fellow\, UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow and Gates Millennium Scholar. \nThe PLASMA speaker series brings cutting-edge guests to UB to discuss innovations in media art and culture shaping the new millennium communication world. PLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. PLASMA 2021 is curated by Paige Sarlin.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/bayley-sweitzer-and-adam-khalils-empty-metal/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T203000
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Jenson Leonard
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 5\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with Jenson Leonard\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel for the Summer 2020 session. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nJenson Leonard‘s practice involves the intersection of poetry\, conceptual art\, and internet memes. Not unlike the earliest forms of oral poetry\, memes transmit our cultural memory. I scour the web for these preserves…the copies and reproductions of our collective digital id\, dragging and dropping(sculpting) my findings into the Adobe Suite to create a bricolage of text and image that call into question notions of identity and empire. I chart an internet psychogeography that questions the sensorial exhaustiveness of audiovisual capitalism–An art that\, in the framework of predictive algorithms and data extractions attempts intervention within the infrastructure of social media. Instagram: @coryintheabyss \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-jenson-leonard/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T210000
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SUMMARY:Intro to Machine Code with Jacob Nelsen-Epstein
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 31\, 7pm\nFree or suggested donation\nLimited capacity; register here.\nAccess information: This workshop will take place over Zoom. Automated captions will be available for participants to turn on.\n \nTailored for beginners\, Jacob Nelsen-Epstein will deliver a presentation on machine code: what it is\, what it does\, its historical significance\, and the way people interact with it in their day to day lives. The presentation will be followed with a brief workshop on basic coding over Zoom. \nJacob Nelsen-Epstein is a Buffalo based performer\, software developer and multi-media artist specializing in works contemplating the intersections of technology\, longevity\, and consumer culture. He is attending SUNY Buffalo’s Library/Information Science graduate program\, and has a background in media studies. Jacob has received awards working with the Institute for Aesthetic Modulation\, for choreographed performances involving monster costumes made from reclaimed e-waste. Jacob has also won awards for musical submissions to Re/Mixed Media Festival\, with media features in Do Androids Dance and Vice Magazine. Other previous works include attempts to physicalize software\, by visualizing compiled code as printed images. \nThis program is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.  The Spring session of the Workspace Residency is dedicated in loving memory to former Squeaky Wheel board member Marguerite Doritty (1923-2020). Doritty was an important supporter of Buffalo’s media arts community\, and she is greatly missed. Read about her legacy here. \nImage: Jacob Nelsen-Esptein. Detail of Adobe Photoshop as a TIFF file\, 2020
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-machine-code-with-jacob-nelsen-epstein/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T210000
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SUMMARY:Pandemic\, Care\, and Healing with Hanae Utamura
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 31\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nAccess information: This workshop will take place over Zoom. Automated captions will be available for participants to turn on. \nHanae Utamura invites participants to mark the past year of the pandemic to a collective workshop on care and healing through performance with your webcam. The workshop will draw on the artists expansive work incorporating gesture as a way to interact and comment on the environment and its histories. \nHanae Utamura is a Japanese visual artist based in Buffalo\, New York. Utamura’s media include video\, performance\, installation\, and sculpture. Negotiations and conflicts between the human and earth\, and how all the varieties of the wills of life manifest\, have been the central focus of her practice. She has been awarded Shiseido Art Egg Award\, Art Omi residency\, the Pola Art Foundation\, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary Award\, and Axis/Florence Trust Award. She was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2019-2020\, supported by Japanese Ministry of Culture\, Japanese government as a part of Japan – United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Art. Image of Hanae Utamura by Peter Rosemann. \nThis program is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.  The Spring session of the Workspace Residency is dedicated in loving memory to former Squeaky Wheel board member Marguerite Doritty (1923-2020). Doritty was an important supporter of Buffalo’s media arts community\, and she is greatly missed. Read about her legacy here. \nImage: Hanae Utamura\, Wiping the Snow\, 2011
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/pandemic-care-and-healing-with-hanae-utamura/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175536
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Hanae Utamura and Jacob Nelsen-Epstein
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 19\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: The live-streamed video will feature automated open caption. The Google Doc Q&A features screen reader and screen magnification support. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nFeaturing two artists taking on the nature of time and transience\, Squeaky Wheel is pleased to present this artist talk with our two Spring 2021 artist residents Hanae Utamura & Jacob Nelsen-Epstein. Both artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engaging in a conversation with curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Hanae Utamura will be working on the poetic short film The Nuclear / Niagara Falls\, which focuses on the history of Niagara River and Niagara Falls as the site of a toxic waste dumping ground\, rooted in her research in Japan’s fraught relationship with nuclear power. Jacob Nelsen-Epstein will be working on Re-Virtualization\, a book and hardware interface that utilizes the text from the book as a storage medium in lieu of a harddrive to draw attention to the impermanence of digital storage methods. \nSee more more information on their residency here. \nBios of the artists \nHanae Utamura is a Japanese visual artist based in Buffalo\, New York. Utamura’s media include video\, performance\, installation\, and sculpture. Negotiations and conflicts between the human and earth\, and how all the varieties of the wills of life manifest\, have been the central focus of her practice. She has been awarded Shiseido Art Egg Award\, Art Omi residency\, the Pola Art Foundation\, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary Award\, and Axis/Florence Trust Award. She was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2019-2020\, supported by Japanese Ministry of Culture\, Japanese government as a part of Japan – United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Art. Image of Hanae Utamura by Peter Rosemann. \nJacob Nelsen-Epstein is a Buffalo based performer\, software developer and multi-media artist specializing in works contemplating the intersections of technology\, longevity\, and consumer culture. He is attending SUNY Buffalo’s Library/Information Science graduate program\, and has a background in media studies. Jacob has received awards working with the Institute for Aesthetic Modulation\, for choreographed performances involving monster costumes made from reclaimed e-waste. Jacob has also won awards for musical submissions to Re/Mixed Media Festival\, with media features in Do Androids Dance and Vice Magazine. Other previous works include attempts to physicalize software\, by visualizing compiled code as printed images. \nWorkspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-hanae-utamura-and-jacob-nelsen-epstein/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T203000
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Adam Khalil
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 15\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with filmmaker and artist Adam Khalil. This artist talk precedes our screening of the feature film EMPTY METAL\, directed by Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer\, on April 7. Click here for more information about the screening. \nEach event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nAdam Khalil\, a member of the Ojibway tribe\, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie\, Michigan\, whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor\, relation\, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, Walker Arts Center\, Lincoln Center\, Tate Modern\, HKW\, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit\, Toronto Biennial 2019 and Whitney Biennial 2019\, among other institutions. Upcoming exhibitions will be held at Gasworks in London\, Spike Island in Bristol\, and Artists Space in NYC. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants\, including but not limited to Sundance Art of Nonfiction\, Jerome Artist Fellowship\, Cinereach and the Gates Millennium Scholarship. \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-adam-khalil/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210403T180000
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SUMMARY:Passing Through the Heart: Episode 3
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 26\, 6 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegistration required. Click here to register.\nAccess information: This event will be live-streamed with automated closed captions. The Google Doc Q&A features screen reader and screen magnification support. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nPassing Through the Heart\, Episode 3 from Squeaky Wheel on Vimeo. \nPoached chicken with ginger and rice is the star of the third episode of Passing Through the Heart. Presented by Public Visualization Studio (PVS)\, and guest starring artist and cook Cheng Yang “Bryan” Lee and food journalist Evelyn Kwong\, this multi-media art and cooking show will be accompanied by a conversation on immigrant and refugee knowledge sharing\, animated with PVS’ motion capture tools. You’re invited to watch\, cook\, and ruminate on how food is intertwined with memory and heritage in this live virtual episode. Episode 3 is co-presented with El Museo. Special thank you to our media sponsor Yelp. \nAudiences will be able to leave reactions\, comments\, and questions through a shared Google Doc. Instructions for how to view and participate in the event will be communicated via email. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nPassing through the Heart is a multi-media installation and series of virtual events by Public Visualization Studio that utilize non-optical motion capture\, photogrammetry\, videography\, and audio recording come together to create a dialogue about migration\, community\, political conflicts\, mourning\, healing\, and transformation. \nPoached Chicken with rice and ginger sauce by Cheng Yang “Bryan” Lee\nIngredients \n\n1 whole chicken (3 to 4 pounds)\nginger\nscallion\ngarlic\ncucumber\ncilantro\nrice\noil\n\nRecipe \n\nClean the chicken: remove any stray feathers\, rinse both the exterior and the cavity\, and pat dry.\nLightly salt the chicken all over and set aside for at least 15 minutes\, up to 1 hour.\nBring a large pot of water to just a simmer\, and add a few scallions and slices of ginger.\nHolding the chicken either by the neck (if attached) or with tongs (careful not to rip the skin)\, submerge the chicken in the hot water\, swirl it around for a few seconds\, then remove and let water drain back into the pot. Repeat this\ndipping process a few times\, allowing the water to come back up to temperature if needed. The skin of the chicken will start to look tight and smooth and slightly opaque.\nReturn the chicken to the pot\, cover\, and adjust the heat to maintain a water temperature of about 180-185F (82-85C). Do not let the water boil or you will end up with chicken soup.\nPoach for 40 minutes to 1 hour depending on size of chicken.\nIf you’re not sure whether it’s cooked\, you can test with a thermometer (175F in the thickest part of the thigh)\, but ideally you shouldn’t pierce the chicken at this point.\nCarefully transfer chicken to a large bowl of ice water to chill completely. Do not discard the cooking broth.\nWhile the chicken cools\, make the rice.\nRinse and drain jasmine (or other medium-grain) rice\, then use the chicken cooking broth instead of water to cook the rice.\nOptional step: Saute minced garlic in some oil until fragrant\, add the rice and stir to coat\, before adding to rice cooker.\nNow\, make the ginger sauce.\nPeel and roughly chop a lot of ginger.\nUsing a food processor\, blitz the ginger to a fine texture. It will start to give off some liquid\, and there should be no more long fibers remaining. Transfer the ginger to a heatproof bowl.\nPress the ginger to squeeze out most of the juice. It does not have to be totally dry\, but too much ginger juice will make the sauce too spicy.\nUsing same food processor\, finely mince 1 or 2 scallions and add to ginger. Season with some salt.\nHeat up a few tablespoons of peanut or vegetable oil in a small skillet or saucepan until it is extremely hot and begins to smoke.\nPour the oil slowly all over the ginger mixture and stir. It should sizzle vigorously and form a paste.\nAdd some of the chicken cooking broth to adjust the consistency\, and more salt if desired.\nWhen the chicken is fully cooled\, the skin should have a firm\, snappy bite\, and the meat will be succulent with jellied chicken juices.\nCarve and arrange on a platter with sliced cucumbers and chopped cilantro. Serve with rice. The cooking broth also makes a good side soup (add some salt and garnish with cilantro/scallion).\nIn addition to the ginger sauce\, the chicken goes well with soy sauce\, various chili sauces\, or fish sauce.\n\nBios of the artists \nCheng Yang “Bryan” Lee is the curator at El Museo\, a contemporary arts organization that focuses on underserved artists and communities in Buffalo and Western New York. Originally from Malaysia\, he is a graduate of the University at Buffalo. \nEvelyn Kwong is a journalist based in Toronto whose passion is covering inequities\, stories on identity\, and spotlighting voices that are often unheard. Growing up raised by a single-mother (and watching her do three jobs to put food on the table for a family of 3)\, her inspirations to fight for equity came from discovering her own identity as a Chinese-Canadian woman\, overcoming abuse as a survivor\, and being introduced to mental health struggles earlier on in her life. Due to those life experiences\, she decided to go into journalism as a career to provide a platform for those who feel voiceless. Her latest work as an editor of the Star is leading the charge on the opinion column “In Their Own Voices” where she takes stories\, experiences\, opinions on identity with an intersectional lens from humans across Canada. \nImmony Mèn is an artist\, educator\, and community-based researcher. He is an Assistant Professor of Interaction Design in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies at OCAD University. \nPatricio Dávila is a designer\, artist\, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor\, Cinema and Media Arts\, and core member of Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) at York University. \nPublic Visualization Studio is a design collective whose members are designers\, artists\, creative technologists and researchers. The collective creates projects as a means to pursue inquiries into the political and conceptual aspects of interaction\, space and media. Its members attempt to investigate how specific technologies of vision\, communication and gesture support our experiences in participatory spaces. Members of the collective have exhibited nationally and internationally\, and have worked in a variety of areas including public projection\, media architecture\, locative media\, video installation\, exhibition design\, interaction\, communication design and media scholarship. PVS works in collaboration with the Public Visualization Lab\, a university-based lab in Toronto. PVS founding members are Patricio Dávila\, Dave Colangelo\, and Immony Mèn. PVS is located in Toronto\, Canada. \nEl Museo is a 501(c)3 nonprofit\, professionally directed visual arts organization dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary work by underserved artists\, and cultural programming that engages diverse communities through the arts and humanities. More information about El Museo here. \nSpecial thank you to our media sponsor Yelp.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/passing-through-the-heart-episode-3/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual
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