Art & Labor Panel
Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, United StatesThe livelihood of the majority of artists in the US is not gained through their artistic practice. While the NEA’s job and income statistics don’t…
The livelihood of the majority of artists in the US is not gained through their artistic practice. While the NEA’s job and income statistics don’t…
Digital preservation keeps materials alive so that they remain usable as technological advances render original media, hardware and software obsolete. Historical knowledge, collective and cultural…
Taking its title from Chris Hill and Barbara Lattanzi’s 1992 article of the same name, this panel will critically examine the lively and highly productive…
Canadian-born writer, performer, media artist, musician, and teacher Fred Bacher (1957–2014) spent much of his adult life and artistic career in Buffalo. In the 1980s…
Over the past 30 years, Buffalo media activists have addressed issues as varied as reproductive freedom, AIDS, First Nation rights, the environment, urban blight, prisoners…
Community engagement is a term that has been used and abused a lot in the not-for-profit world. These days, it seems like everyone is practicing…
A two day series of screenings and panel discussions inspired by prison justice activist and radical bookstore owner Martin Sostre. With Karima Amin, Max Anderson, Ephraim Asili, Brett Story, the United Melanin Society, and others.
For two days, Squeaky Wheel will host artists and scholars from across the country for a convening exploring the secret and not-so-secret history connecting textile arts and media arts.
Hiba Ali and Jazmin Graves explore the afterlives of the Indian Ocean slave trade, the role of music through them, and the politics of the archive in re-imagining the linguistic and historical connections between South Asia, the Arab world and the Swahili coast of East Africa.
A panel led by Johann Diedrick to discuss both the discriminatory and exploitative artificial intelligences of our current moment, and imagine libertory future technologies.