BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://squeaky.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001112-1692900000-1692907200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:2D Stop-Motion World Building with Photoshop with Maggie Hazen DESCRIPTION:*New date* Thursday\, August 24\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. Computers with Adobe Photoshop provided.\nIn this hands on workshop\, Workspace Resident Maggie Hazen will lead participants as they create their own stop motion animations. Maggie will first cover the basics of world-building and the process of designing a visual language that represents the world you want to create. Students will then learn to use 2D stop motion animation and Photoshop to create unique worlds. Participants will work in teams to make short animated films\, which will be screened at the end of the workshop. Laptops or desktops with Adobe Photoshop will be provided. \n  \nBiography of the artist\nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/2d-stop-motion-world-building-with-photoshop-with-maggie-hazen/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001113-1692727200-1692734400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Weaving the Magic Back into Reality: Writing Speculative Fiction for Film with Alicia Solstice Hawkins DESCRIPTION:*New date* Tuesday\, August 22\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. Journals and writing material provided\nIn this lecture and workshop\, Workspace Resident Alicia Solstice Hawkins will present on how speculative fiction offers subversive narratives that challenge oppressive worldviews\, while reimagining powerful and liberatory counter-narratives. This will be followed by exercises on how participants can incorporate speculative fiction into their documentary or fiction film projects. \nSpeculative fiction is an umbrella term for artworks that include fantastical aspects and can incorporate sub-genres such as science fiction\, horror\, fantasy\, and magical realism. This workshop will examine speculative fiction in contemporary film\, with an emphasis on BIPOC creators. Although initially associated with works focused on Eurocentric sensibilities\, speculative fiction has become a compelling genre for filmmakers to use to offer social critiques\, reclaim spaces stolen by oppressive practices\, dismantle the logics of oppression\, and explore liberation. \nDuring the first half of the workshop\, we will watch example films\, discuss specific strategies filmmakers use to integrate fantastical elements into their films\, and analyze what critiques their narratives offer. Then\, Alicia will lead a mini-writing workshop. A discussion of some foundations for expanding a cinematic storytelling toolkit through speculative fiction will be included\, such as world-building\, structural techniques\, developing a visual language\, and research. \nBiography of the artist\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nBanner image: Alicia Solstice Hawkins standing on a beach. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/weaving-the-magic-back-into-reality-writing-speculative-fiction-for-film-with-alicia-solstice-hawkins/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001109-1692385200-1692392400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet our residents: Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 18\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2023 Workspace Residents! Alicia Solstice Hawking (Los Angeles\, CA) and Maggie Hazen (Hudson Vallery\, NY) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on media art projects with significant ties to Buffalo’s history and current landscape. Alicia Solstice Hawkins will work on Don’t Go Back to Sleep\, a a poetic and observational 15-minute documentary about Bob\, an elder\, almost 80 years of age\, who attempts to re-engage his art practice while contending with the aftermath of a major stroke. Charting Bob’s life starting from Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood\, the city’s East and West Sides\, and Los Angeles\, where he resides now\, the film will follow several different timelines of his life through his poignant\, witty\, and moving voiceover paired with poetic imagery and sound. Maggie Hazen will work on Night Moth: A Mythology of Escape\, a mixed reality project made in collaboration with DW. DW\, who lives in Western New York\, is a formerly incarcerated young artist who was recently released from Brookwood Secure Center for Youth in New York’s Hudson Valley; Hazen met her while teaching art classes at the facility in 2019. Night Moth revolves around Luna\, a 3D digital avatar for DW\, and Luna’s journey of self-discovery\, liberation\, and healing. Night Moth will culminate in four artworks\, including a video installation exhibition\, a documentary\, a sketchbook\, and an interactive concept website. \nIn-person attendees can enjoy food\, including vegetarian options\, from Ali Baba Kebab. Learn how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. \n Online attendees can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo learn more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Portraits of Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen superimposed on a blue red backgrop. Alicia Solstice Hawkins is standing on a beach in her photograph. Next to her is a portrait of Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-alicia-solstice-hawkins-and-maggie-hazen/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Alicia-and-Maggie.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000878-1681236000-1681246800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:16mm Camera-Less Filmmaking with Dena Kopolovich DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 11\, 2023\, 6–9 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin visiting artist Dena Kopolovich for a special workshop on cameraless filmmaking with 16mm film! Intended for ages 16 and up\, participants will learn about motion picture film\, and manipulate the surface of film using a variety of camera-less techniques: painting\, scratching\, masking\, and tape-lifting to create an original\, collective experimental film on 16mm. The workshop will culminate with a screening at Squeaky Wheel where we’ll watch the film on loop. A light dinner will be provided; you can indicate dietary restrictions during checkout. \nBio of the instructor \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Dena Kopolovich. Several strips of 16mm film against a lighttable. Some are in color and some are in black and white. Some of the films have hand scratched lettering on their emulsion. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/16mm-camera-less-filmmaking-with-dena-kopolovich/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Dena-Kopolovich-film-strips.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000877-1680894000-1680901200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 7\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nClick here for tickets\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Spring 2023 Workspace Residents! Dena Kopolovich (Flushing\, NY)\, Elenie Chung (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Laura Jaramillo (Durham\, NC)\, and Miranda Javid (Port Ewen\, NY) will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on a variety of projects including animations\, hybrid works\, lyrical essays on cinema\, and non-fiction films. Dena Kopolovich will be working towards the completion of her upcoming short film Container Film\, an experimental essay film created in a hybrid 16mm and digital format\, that engages with Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay\, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”. Elenie Chung will be assembling All the Films in My Grandfather’s Closet a planned hybrid docu-fiction\, telling the tale of Chung’s grandfather\, a Chinese Trinidadian whose life had been defined by an early marriage\, resistance to cultural customs and the changing times in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1930s to 2020s. Laura Jaramillo will be developing a book of lyrical essays investigating the fraught history of Colombian national cinema during the War on Drugs and global neoliberalization\, interwoven with her own biography as a diasporic Colombian and her family’s history. Miranda Javid will continue animating\, sound recording\, and editing Human Behavior\, a three-minute hand-drawn film drawn with sumi ink on tracing paper\, which asks viewers how even small gestures can impact others. \nIn-person attendees can find information on how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\n \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nElenie Chung is a filmmaker and artist\, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago\, currently based in Los Angeles\, CA. She is interested in using female relationships as a method of illustrating cultural disconnection and ancestral amnesia. Her films have screened in international festivals and art exhibitions. Since attending the University of California\, Los Angeles to achieve an MFA in Film Directing/Production\, she has been working remotely at Women Make Movies\, a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City and has been contributing to film organizations in Los Angeles to amplify under-recognised films by women\, international and non-white filmmakers. \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Four photographs against a graphic background. Left to right and top to bottom are: a portrait of Dena Kopolovich\, gazing off to the left and smiling\, wearing a light brown turtleneck\, with curly long auburn hair that is styled down. The background is a brick wall painted two different shades of red; A close up of Elenie Chung\, a young woman of East Asian descent wearing glasses and with short black hair. She is wearing a green and pink checkered wool scarf; Laura Jaramillo\, a woman in a black dress stares off to the right of the frame. There are trees and foliage behind her; and Miranda Javid\, a femme iranian woman in her mid-thirties stands in front of lush trees. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Workspace-Spring-2023.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001091-1680717600-1680724800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Visual Media for Poets with Laura Jaramillo DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 5\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nIntended for all audiences\, visiting poet and researcher Laura Jaramillo will lead Visual Media for Poets\, on how to use visual media to write poetry\, even for people who have never written it. \nWhile many assume poetry is incomprehensible or not for them\, almost everyone has a favorite television show or movie that makes them feel things. This workshop takes those feelings as the material of the poem. \nParticipants will look at and discuss samples of written poetry that are in dialogue with the moving image such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee and Tisa Bryant’s Unexplained Presence. We will pay special attention to how these writers use movement between image and text to draw out questions of biography and identity. \nSqueaky Wheel will provide journals and writing tools; bring your laptops\, but laptops can also be requested from Squeaky Wheel. Just bring yourselves! \nBio of the instructor \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry\, Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\, Other Things Seen\, Other Things Heard (Ailleurs)\, 1978\, documentation of performance (rehearsal) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, 1978. A woman is seen with her back turned against us\, holding two rope like objects going down to the floor. In front of her is a wall with a projection on it that says “Redemption.” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/visual-media-for-poets-with-laura-jaramillo/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/jaramillo-cha.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191452Z UID:10000874-1680631200-1680638400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Animation on Paper with Miranda Javid DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 4\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nCome to Squeaky Wheel for a special animation workshop with visiting artist Miranda Javid! Based on the artists own way of working using translucent paper\, participants will learn how they can quickly and intuitively create their own animations with a smartphone\, a free app\, some tracing paper\, and drawing materials. This workshop is intended for participants 16 and up\, and is open to all experience levels. \nParticipants can bring their own smartphones or request an iPad from Squeaky Wheel. You can download the Stopmotion app to be utilized in the class here. \nBio of the instructor \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Miranda Javid. Black ink on crinkly paper. The image is a drawing of a loosely drawn hand holding onto a leaf. Previous frames or past moments of the movement fading in a trail behind the hand. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/animation-on-paper-with-miranda-javid/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Javid-Leaf-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220823T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220823T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191450Z UID:10000867-1661277600-1661284800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:(Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory with Muse Dodd DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 23\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nInstructor: Muse Dodd \nHow can we tap into ancestral ways of re-memory? (Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory will explore Black people’s relationship to memory and time focusing on alternative ways of knowing and the questions; How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? \nIn this workshop intended for Black and brown people of African descent\, ages 16 and up\, Workspace Resident Muse Dodd will guide participants in dissecting the components of memory through meditative exercises\, collage\, sound\, and smell. There will also be a screening of (Re)mnants\, the short film by Muse Dodd\, and a sound bath meditation. Participants will leave with new perspectives on memory making\, a collaborative collage and some journal prompts. Free notebooks and pens will be provided. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructor \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage: Muse Dodd\, Kendi (2018). A young Black child rests their head\, eyes closed on their bike in a field of overgrown grass. The American flag is propped against a rust colored storage unit and blows gently in the wind. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/remnants-the-anatomy-of-memory-with-muse-dodd/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/DoddM_Kendi.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10000863-1660935600-1660942800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Muse Dodd and Rob Cosgrove DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 19\, 2022\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nFor in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2022 artist residents\, Muse Dodd (Atlanta\, GA) and Rob Cosgrove (Sunnyside\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Muse Dodd will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to build models and sets for their installation and performance work Black in Both Directions that supposes that Black people invented time travel. Their project will utilize projection mapping\, draw on Afro-diasporic notions of time using oral testimonies\, and images created by the artist and archival video footage. Rob Cosgrove will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on Floaters\, a networked sonic performance in Silo City Marine A\, performed live for the public at the end of his residency. Inspired by the floating grain elevators used in the First Ward of Buffalo\, and drawing on the artist’s own family history in the area\, Cosgrove’s work contemplates the shifting networked relationship between the industrial and social communities in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Two photographs side by side. On the left is Muse Dodd\, a brown skinned\, Black\, non-binary person with blonde eyebrows\, wears a red camo durag while gazing at the camera and stands in front of a mustard backdrop. Their photograph is by Landon Spears. On the right is a photograph of Rob Cosgrove\, looking down surrounded by trees. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-muse-dodd-and-rob-cosgrove/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Muse-and-Dodd.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10000866-1660759200-1660766400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance with Rob Cosgrove DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 17\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nInstructor: Rob Cosgrove \nRob Cosgrove will lead Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance\, a workshop on how to utilize the internet and other networks for sound production. Intended for participants both new and with intermediate experience in broadcasting online\, the workshop will prepare participants for high-fidelity sound-based networked performance and live-streaming over the web using free\, open-source softwares. \nUp until recently\, tools for networked performance could be expensive\, difficult to use\, and limited to institutions with access to high-speed internet. With the rise of residential internet speeds\, the development of more user-friendly networking applications\, and increased public access to technology\, networked performance has become available for many. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructor \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is a residency open to artists and researchers working in art and technology\, and provides support for new or ongoing projects in collaboration with our partners. Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. \nImage: Rob Cosgrove\, Broadcast presence (2021). Two silhouettes of drummers illuminated in windows of a building at night. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sonic-links-an-introduction-to-networked-performance-with-rob-cosgrove/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/RobCosgrove_Broadcastpresence.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10001059-1647543600-1647550800@squeaky.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Carlos-Castellanos-and-Zain-Alam.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220315T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220315T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10001058-1647367200-1647374400@squeaky.org 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 CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Carlos-Castellanos.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210915T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210915T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10000836-1631718000-1631725200@squeaky.org 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 CATEGORIES:Call for applications,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Katrina-Kira-Rivet.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210827T190000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001048-1630004400-1630090800@squeaky.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Residents_Horizontal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210825T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210825T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001050-1629914400-1629921600@squeaky.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Olivia-Ong-Evans-Work-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210824T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210824T190000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001052-1629828000-1629831600@squeaky.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Campbell_Workshop.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001049-1629741600-1629747000@squeaky.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Lord-After...After_...-Access-Film-Still-2_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191404Z UID:10001040-1617217200-1617224400@squeaky.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mg1DEn.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191404Z UID:10001039-1617130800-1617138000@squeaky.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wiping-the-snow.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191405Z UID:10001038-1616180400-1616187600@squeaky.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/10C351C6-815B-4880-A008-DFCFA9F7033D.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191403Z UID:10001029-1611774000-1611779400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:On the language of anti-Blackness and the Indian Ocean DESCRIPTION:Free or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information:This event will take place over Zoom and feature live closed captions. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nWhat are the afterlives of the Indian Ocean slave trade\, and what is the role of music through them? What are 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? \nIn this presentation and panel discussion\, Hiba Ali\, Jazmin Graves\, and Beheroze Shroff will explore these questions and share their ongoing research. Hiba Ali will present their in-progress interactive 3D artwork On the language of anti-Blackness and the Indian Ocean\, followed by Jazmin Graves who will present on her scholarship on the African diaspora in western India. Beheroze Shroff will present on her documentary and research practice  on contemporary African descended Sidis of Gujarat\, their culture and spiritual practice. The three panelists will then be in conversation on the history of the Indian Ocean slave trade\, and the terminologies and music for the region of South Asia\, East Africa and the Arab world. \nThis event will take place on Zoom. The event will feature live closed captions that you can enable within the event. Audiences will enter the room with their microphones muted\, and an option to turn on their camera. They will be able to leave questions and responses in the event. We ask all participants to respect Squeaky Wheel’s community guidelines. \nAudiences can view a recording of the event for a period of 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will have access to view the event for 72 hours. \nLeft to right: Hiba Ali\, Jazmin Graves\, Beheroze F. Schroff\n\nBios of the artists\nHiba Ali (they/she) is a digital artist\, educator\, scholar\, DJ\, experimental music producer and curator based across Chicago\, IL\, Austin\, TX\, and Toronto\, ON. Their performances and videos concern surveillance\, womxn/ womyn of colour\, and labour. She studies the geographies of Afro-Indo-Arab communities across the Indian Ocean through music\, cloth and ritual. They conduct reading groups addressing digital media and workshops with open-source technology. She is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queens University\, Kingston\, Canada. They are an Assistant Professor of Art\, New Media Artist/Feminist Art Discourse\, College of Design\, Art & Techology\, University of Oregon\, Eugene\, OR. She has presented their work in Chicago\, Stockholm\, Toronto\, New York\, Istanbul\, São Paulo\, Detroit\, Dubai\, Austin\, Vancouver\, and Portland. They have written for C Magazine\, THE SEEN Magazine\, Newcity Chicago\, Art Dubai\, The State\, VAM Magazine\, ZORA: Medium\, RTV Magazine\, and Topical Cream Magazine. \nJazmin Graves (she/her) is a Thurgood Marshall Fellow in the African and African American Studies Program at Dartmouth College and a PhD candidate in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation\, “Songs to the African Saints of India\,” studies the African diaspora in western India through the lens of Afro-Indian devotional music and rituals. A Junior Research Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies supported her ethnographic and archival research in India from 2018-2019. In 2018\, Jazmin was named one of the MIPAD Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40. \nBeheroze Shroff is a documentary film maker and long time scholar of Sidis. Shroff teaches in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. Born in Bombay\, Shroff obtained her Master’s in English Literature from the University of Bombay and went on to obtain an MFA–Master of Fine Arts Degree in Film Production at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She has made five documentaries on contemporary African descended Sidis of Gujarat\, their culture and spiritual practice. Shroff was introduced to the spiritual legacy of the Sidis of Gujarat and their ancestral saint Bava Gor\, from the age of seven\, by her parents who became devotees of Sidi saint Bava Gor. Shroff has published widely in several journals and anthologies on different aspects of contemporary Sidi life\, in Gujarat\, India. Most recently\, in 2020\, Shroff has co-edited a three volume publication titled Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora\, which explores the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have shaped and been shaped by the histories\, cultures\, and societies of South Asia. Her documentaries have been shown at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig\, School of Oriental and African Studies in London\, Commonwealth Institute London\, the Schomburg Library and Museum of Black Culture in New York\, the Pan African Film Festivals in Los Angeles and at the Nairobi and Zanzibar International Arts\, Music and Film Festivals\, among others. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and Adobe TakingITGlobal. \nBanner image: Hiba Ali\, On the language of anti-Blackness and the Indian Ocean. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/on-the-language-of-anti-blackness-and-the-indian-ocean-hiba-ali-and-jazmin-graves/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Symposia & Panels,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/HibaAliIndianOcean.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200904T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200904T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191346Z UID:10000809-1599246000-1599251400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Johann Diedrick's Prelude to Wake DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 4\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nFree and suggested donation\nUpon registration\, you will receive an email with information on how to view the event. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125.\nClick here to register \nJohann Diedrick’s Prelude to Wake is a ~20 minute\, urgent\, mournful\, and world-building sonic performance that centers the loss of ourselves and environments due to climate change. The work is performed by a fictional character named “The Sound Collector” who collects buried vibrations and releases them from material through an ancient technological device. Combining field recordings\, original music composition\, and generative audio techniques\, Prelude to Wake stages an encounter between the audience\, a past that we are losing due to catastrophe\, and what may exist in the future. \nThis digital\, online performance is transmitted digitally from Tortoise Town in Brooklyn\, NY. The artist’s original proposal – titled Wake – was a site-specific\, in-person performance at Silo City’s Marina A\, set as an encounter between the Sound Collector and the histories and ecology of the Buffalo River. Due to the pandemic\, his in-person performance in Buffalo is tentatively rescheduled for late Spring 2021. \nAudiences will be able to participate in a Q&A with the artist through Google Docs at 7:30 pm ET. \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures that allow you to explore the 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 was a Spring 2020 technology artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works and a recipient of a 2020 Brooklyn Arts Fund grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Along with receiving an Asian Cultural Council grant\, his work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (in collaboration with Jonathan González)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nWorkspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Special thanks to Scribe Video Center. See more information about the Workspace Residency here. \nBanner image by Johann Diedrick: “A view of the sunrise as seen from the summit of Panther Mountain\, a mountain in the Catskills which sits atop a meteorite impact crater from around 375 million years ago.” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/johann-diedricks-prelude-to-wake/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-25-at-6.37.11-PM.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200828T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200828T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191346Z UID:10000805-1598641200-1598648400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Race Jam: A panel on memes and online imagined blackness DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 28\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nFree and suggested donation\nUpon registration\, you will receive an email with information on how to view the event. If you encounter any issues accessing the event\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125.\nRegister here \nIn this intimate public knowledge-sharing event led by Jenson Leonard ( @coryintheabyss )\, and featuring Ashley Khirea Wahba ( @th0t_catalog )\, Nicolas Vargas ( @blackpowerbottomtext )\, and Pastiche Lumumba ( @pastichelumumba )\, Leonard and the participants will lead a discussion on the origins of the internet meme\, its mobilization as political ejecta in the 2016 election\, its shared resonances with graffiti and conceptual art practices\, and the structural and ethical pitfalls of the medium in the context of mass surveillance\, data extraction\, and digital blackface. \nAudiences will be able to ask questions to the panelist in the live chat\, which will be sent to the panelists upon moderation by SW. \nWorkspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Special thanks to Scribe Video Center. See more information about the Workspace Residency here. \nBanner image by Jenson Leonard. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/race-jam-a-panel-on-memes-and-online-imagined-blackness/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Racejam.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200826T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191346Z UID:10000803-1598468400-1598475600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Distributed Technology for Digital Cooperation DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 26\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation.\nThis is an online event. Upon registration\, you will receive an email with information on how to participate in the workshop. Attendance is limited. If the event reaches capacity\, you can sign up for the waitlist and be notified if there are any openings.\nRegister here. \nHow do distributed technologies\, peer-to-peer\, and blockchain-based currencies provide corrective measures to ailing economic and political systems? To what extent do these new technologies re-inforce the same power dynamics and abuses as our current systems? \nIn this skill-share\, Eric Barry Drasin will introduce projects that use decentralized technologies to affect progressive social change. Drasin will discuss projects such as Bailbloc\, which mines cryptocurrency to pay for bail funds; CirclesUBI\, which attempts to create a mutual credit solidarity economy; and discuss how blockchain technology has exacerbated the economic and political conditions it was supposed to disrupt. \nAfter his introduction\, audiences will be randomly set in two Zoom breakout rooms to discuss the potential of such technology. Upon the end of the discussion\, Drasin will lead a participatory demonstration of quadratic voting through Google Sheets. Audiences are welcome to participate or simply attend. \nThis skill-share is open to all interested in blockchain as a collaborative tool. Want to learn more about blockchain before the skill-share? Click here for an introductory lecture by the artist. \nThe workshop will be held over Zoom and utilize Google Sheets\, which requires a Google account. If you are encountering any issues accessing the event\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nEric Barry Drasin is a research-based artist exploring the relationship between art and systems of value. Through emerging blockchain technologies\, his current research explores “distributed” processes\, objects\, and organizations that problematize and reprogram fundamental assumptions about how value is constructed and disseminated. Using contracts and legal frameworks as a platform for enacting collectivity\, his work injects cooperation and utopian absurdity into systems designed to consolidate power. The notion of the art object is rematerialized in digital space and expanded to engage notions of cultural production and collective agency. Value is thus performed as a form of disruption\, and capitalism itself is the terrain for the refiguration of the economic landscape. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is a bi-yearly residency open to artists and researchers working in art and technology. The program is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. For more information about the program\, click here. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/distributed-technology-for-digital-cooperation/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-13-at-5.31.53-PM.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200822T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200822T190000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191346Z UID:10000804-1598122800-1598122800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet our Residents: Emily Watlington\, Eric Drasin\, Jenson Leonard\, Johann Diedrick DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 22\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation. Registration required.\nThis is an online event. Upon registration\, you will receive an email with information on how to view the event. Automatic captioning will be provided. \nRegister here \nJoin Squeaky Wheel for a chance to meet our Summer 2020 Workspace Residents and learn more about their past and ongoing projects in this evening of artist talks. \nDuring their residency\, Emily Watlington will be working on a chapter for a book on accessibility as an artistic medium\, focusing on artistic uses of closed captioning. Eric Barry Drasin will be researching digital art cooperatives vis a vis distributed technologies\, online communities spaces\, experimental finance\, and alternative forms of governance. Jenson Leonard will be filming and editing Workflow\, an installation centered around the velocity and momentum of blackness (historically and as imagined online) as it relates to the philosophical concept of acceleration-the idea that the only way out of capitalism is through its intensification. Johann Diedrick will be composing music for Wake\, an hour-long sonic performance relating to the local ecology in and around Silo City and its connection to the Buffalo River\, and that offers a moment to mourn over the loss of our environment\, our world\, and ourselves. The Summer 2020 residency was juried by Ekrem Serdar\, Martina LaVallo\, and Liz Park. Biographies of the residents and juries can be found below. \nA brief presentation before the artist talk will update you on how you can take part in the Workspace Residency with the upcoming application period in September. \nThis event will be streamed live on Youtube with automated captioning. Audiences will be able to ask questions through Youtube’s live-chat function. \nEmily Watlington is assistant editor at Art in America. She writes about contemporary art—primarily video—often through the lenses of feminism and disability justice. A Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree from MIT in the history\, theory\, and criticism of architecture and art\, she has held curatorial positions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries (now the MassArt Art Museum). Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum\, Mousse\, and Frieze\, and she has contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogues\, including Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 (2018)\, An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art (2017)\, and Independent Female Filmmakers (Routledge\, 2018). \nEric Barry Drasin is a research-based artist exploring the relationship between art and systems of value. Through emerging blockchain technologies\, his current research explores “distributed” processes\, objects\, and organizations that problematize and reprogram fundamental assumptions about how value is constructed and disseminated. Using contracts and legal frameworks as a platform for enacting collectivity\, his work injects cooperation and utopian absurdity into systems designed to consolidate power. The notion of the art object is rematerialized in digital space and expanded to engage notions of cultural production and collective agency. Value is thus performed as a form of disruption\, and capitalism itself is the terrain for the refiguration of the economic landscape. \nJenson Leonard\nMy 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. \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures that allow you to explore the 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 currently a Spring 2020 technology artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works and a recipient of a 2020 Brooklyn Arts Fund grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Along with receiving an Asian Cultural Council grant\, his work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (in collaboration with Jonathan González)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nWorkspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Special thanks to Scribe Video Center. See more information about the Workspace Residency here. \nImage\, left to right: Emily Watlington\, Eric Barry Drasin\, Jenson Leonard\, Johann Diedrick. Images courtesy of the residents. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-our-residents-emily-watlington-eric-drasin-jenson-leonard-johann-diedrick/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Landscape-residents.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200821T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200821T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191346Z UID:10001022-1598036400-1598043600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Frameworks for Accessibility in Art DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 21\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation. This workshop will take place with real-time captioning.\nThis is an online event. Upon registration\, you will receive an email with information on how to participate in the workshop. Attendance is limited. If the event reaches capacity\, you can sign up for the waitlist and be notified if there are any openings.\nRegister here. \nHow can we make artworks accessible? What do we presume about an audience’s body and mind when we make art and exhibitions? In this skill-share\, Emily Watlington will provide a framework on accessibility and art\, with examples of accessible artworks\, including both works that were created with accessibility from the start\, and “retrofits”\, which include curatorial approaches to making artwork accessible after it has been made. \nUpon the end of her lecture\, participants will have the opportunity to workshop specific artworks or exhibitions with the group. \nThe workshop will be held over Zoom. If you are encountering any issues accessing the event\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nEmily Watlington is assistant editor at Art in America. She writes about contemporary art—primarily video—often through the lenses of feminism and disability justice. A Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree from MIT in the history\, theory\, and criticism of architecture and art\, she has held curatorial positions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries (now the MassArt Art Museum). Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum\, Mousse\, and Frieze\, and she has contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogues\, including Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 (2018)\, An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art (2017)\, and Independent Female Filmmakers (Routledge\, 2018). \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is a bi-yearly residency open to artists and researchers working in art and technology. The program is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. For more information about the program\, click here. \nBanner image: Shannon Finnegan’s Do you want us here or not\, 2018\, at the Dedalus Foundation\, New York. Image description: A blue bench with hand-painted white text reads: This exhibition has asked me to stand for too long. Sit if you agree. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/frameworks-for-accessibility-in-art/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Watlington_Shannon.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200819T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200819T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191347Z UID:10001021-1597863600-1597869000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:The Great Indoors: An Online Soundscapes Workshop DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 19\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation.\nThis is an online event. Upon registration\, you will receive an email with information on how to participate in the workshop. Attendance is limited. If the event reaches capacity\, you can sign up for the waitlist and be notified if there are any openings.\nRegister here. \nHow can we encounter the soundscapes in our own indoor environments? How can these encounters lead us to find resonances in each other’s experiences? Led by Johann Diedrick\, this collaborative\, participatory workshop will feature a brief presentation on sonic encounter\, upon which participants will be invited to move around their homes/apartments to records sounds with their phones / recording devices. Afterwards\, participants will come back and learn how to compose these sounds with Audacity\, have an opportunity to create a soundscape with everyone’s recordings\, and share them with the group. \nThis workshop requires participants to have a computer with internet access\, an audio recording device like a phone or a field recorder. The workshop will be held over Zoom and use Audacity\, a free audio editing tool. Click the links to download and install ahead of the workshop. \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures that allow you to explore the 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 currently a Spring 2020 technology artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works and a recipient of a 2020 Brooklyn Arts Fund grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Along with receiving an Asian Cultural Council grant\, his work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (in collaboration with Jonathan González)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is a bi-yearly residency open to artists and researchers working in art and technology. The program is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. For more information about the program\, click here. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-great-indoors-an-online-soundscapes-workshop/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/03_Sirens-e1597358637584.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200408T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200408T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191332Z UID:10001009-1586372400-1586379600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Caleb Abrams & Saif Alsaegh DESCRIPTION:Online artist talk & screening | *NEW DATE* Wednesday\, April 8\, 7 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get your ticket\nYou will receive an email with information and a link on how to view the live event. The artists films will be available to view through April 15\, 2020\, 6:59 pm.\n \nClick here to view the video presentations by the artists with an introduction by the curator \nClick here to view the post-event Google Docs Q&A with the artists \nIn response to COVID-19\, our Spring artists in residence\, Caleb Abrams and Saif Alsaegh\, have continued their residencies from home and will engage with the public virtually. We invite you to convene online to learn about their past and ongoing projects at this artist talk and screening. Caleb Abrams will speak about his current film\, The Burning of My Coldspring Home\, an adaptation of a short story by Seneca Elder Stephen Gordon regarding the forced dislocation of the Seneca people following the building of the Kinzua dam by the Allegheny River. Saif Alsaegh will speak of his film Departure\, titled after a poem by Arthur Rimbaud\, which examines the idea of foreignness as it relates to the filmmaker’s past as a Baghdad born filmmaker living in California. Preceding the event will be a brief presentation by Squeaky Wheel curator\, Ekrem Serdar on how you can be part of the Workspace Residency program in the future. \nCaleb G. Abrams is an Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) filmmaker and multimedia artist based out of what is currently considered Buffalo\, New York. Raised on the Seneca’s Allegany Territory\, much of his work emerges from the social\, historical\, and cultural background of the Seneca. Abrams has written and produced multiple independent short films and videos for the Seneca Nation\, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum/Onöhsagwë:dé Cultural Center\, and Odawi Law PLLC. He has also produced work in collaboration with PBS-WNED-TV\, Vision Maker Media\, Skipping Stone Pictures\, and Toward Castle Films. Lake of Betrayal (2017)\, the award-winning national public television documentary on which Abrams served as the associate producer\, examines the impact of the Kinzua Dam on the Seneca Nation – a topic much of his work has explored. Abrams’ films have been presented at universities\, historical societies\, libraries\, museums\, high schools\, and community and cultural resource organizations throughout Haudenosaunee Territory and the Northeast. \nSaif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s\, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in many festivals including Cinema du Reel\, Kruzfilm Festival Hamburg\, Kasseler Dokfest\, Onion City Film Festival and in galleries and museums including the Wisconsin Triennial at MMoCA. He earned his MFA in filmmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \nThe residency is made possible with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and presented in collaboration with Just Buffalo Literary Art Center and the sponsorship of Hostel Buffalo-Niagara. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-caleb-abrams-saif-alsaegh/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Workspace-Residents.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200317T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200319T173000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191332Z UID:10000793-1584462600-1584639000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Non-fiction Poetics: A Youth Writing Workshop DESCRIPTION:***Effective immediately\, all in-person youth and adult workshops\, events\, and screenings will be canceled or available virtually on a case-by-case basis\, and equipment rentals will continue on a reduced basis. Stay tuned for updates!*** \nTuesday\, March 17\, 2020\, 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.\nThursday\, March 19\, 2020\, 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.\n@ Just Buffalo Writing Center\nNo registration required. This workshop is free\, aimed at young students aged 12–18\, and limited to 12 participants.\n \nTaught by poet and filmmaker Saif Alsaegh\, this workshop explores how poetry is established and emerges in documentary and non-fiction films. Students will read poetry and watch films to understand the intersection of the two arts. Presented in collaboration with Just Buffalo Literary Arts Center. \nThe Spring 2020 session of Workspace Residency is sponsored by Hostel Buffalo-Niagara. \nSaif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s\, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in many festivals including Cinema du Reel\, Kruzfilm Festival Hamburg\, Kasseler Dokfest\, Onion City Film Festival and in galleries and museums including the Wisconsin Triennial at MMoCA. He earned his MFA in filmmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \nImage: Saif Alsaegh\, Departure\, in-progress. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/non-fiction-poetics-a-youth-writing-workshop/ LOCATION:Just Buffalo Literary Center\, 468 Washington St #2\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BSTS-STILL-4-SAIF-ALSAEGH-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T210000 DTSTAMP:20260526T045154 CREATED:20251230T191331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191331Z UID:10001012-1583953200-1583960400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Representation in Filmmaking with Caleb Abrams DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 11\, 7–9 pm\nFree and open to the public \nAs a filmmaker\, what does it mean to represent a community? How do you impart the emotion of another person’s experience? Join filmmaker and Spring 2020 Workspace Resident\, Caleb Abrams for a conversation on the questions above through a behind the scenes look at his practice. \nCaleb Abrams is an Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) filmmaker and multimedia artist based out of what is currently considered Buffalo\, New York. Raised on the Seneca’s Allegany Territory\, much of his work emerges from the social\, historical\, and cultural background of the Seneca. Abrams has written and produced multiple independent short films and videos for the Seneca Nation\, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum/Onöhsagwë:dé Cultural Center\, and Odawi Law PLLC. He has also produced work in collaboration with PBS-WNED-TV\, Vision Maker Media\, Skipping Stone Pictures\, and Toward Castle Films. Lake of Betrayal (2017)\, the award-winning national public television documentary on which Abrams served as the associate producer\, examines the impact of the Kinzua Dam on the Seneca Nation – a topic much of his work has explored. Abrams’ films have been presented at universities\, historical societies\, libraries\, museums\, high schools\, and community and cultural resource organizations throughout Haudenosaunee Territory and the Northeast. \nThe Spring 2020 session of Workspace Residency is sponsored by Hostel Buffalo-Niagara. \nImage: Caleb Abrams\, The Burning of My Coldspring Home(in-progress) URL:https://squeaky.org/event/representation-in-filmmaking-with-caleb-abrams/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Stephen-Gordon-at-Coldspring-homestead-e1579983611941.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR