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SUMMARY:Online access | Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 27–Sunday\, March 29 online\n$10 General / Free for Squeaky Wheel members\nFor one weekend only\, you can watch all four films as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance in the comfort of your own home! The four films\, by Alex Rivera\, Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra\, and Khaled Jarrar\, take on the human toll of borders and the organized and individual ways people evade and resist them. Featuring both cult classic works and acclaimed documentaries\, the films – with Rivera’s work focusing on the maintenance and violence of the US border\, and Jarrar’s focusing on power struggles\, in particular as they relate to Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora – showcases the logistical\, ethical\, and bureaucratic logics of border regimes\, and points to intertwined solidarities. Along with the films\, you will also receive a recording of the artist talk with Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar that took place on March 24th. \nThe films include: \n\nKhaled Jarrar’s Notes on Displacement\nAlex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators\nAlex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer\nKhaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators (US viewers only)\n\nOnline access to the screenings are free for members of Squeaky Wheel. Not a member yet? Memberships start at $30/year (that’s $2.50/mo). Click here to sign up. \nFor online attendees: Private links will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the films through Sunday\, March 29. Please note that Khaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators is only available for US viewers. \nAccessibility: Spanish subtitles are available for Alex Rivera & Christina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators\, and closed captions are available for both The Infiltrators and Rivera’s Sleep Dealer. Khaled Jarrar’s films are in Arabic with English subtitles. \nThis event series is supported by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our co-presenters at Jewish Voice for Peace – Buffalo. Khaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators is courtesy of Third World Newsreel\, and his film Notes on Displacement is courtesy of Cinema Politica. Special thank you to Paige Sarlin\, Jason Livingston\, and Leo Goldsmith. \nBiographies of the filmmakers\nAlex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization\, migration\, and technology. Rivera’s first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a cyberpunk thriller set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial theatrical release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Rivera’s second feature\, The Infiltrators\, won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Infiltrators uses documentary and scripted forms to tell the true story of Dreamers who ‘infiltrate’ a detention center to get immigrants out. Rivera is currently developing a few new cyberpunk projects and\, with support from the Ford Foundation\, a feature documentary on the history of deportation titled Banishment. Alex Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow\, Sundance Fellow\, Creative Capital Grantee and was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. He studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles. He is an Associate Professor of Filmmaking Practice at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School. \nCristina Ibarra is a Sundance award-winning filmmaker with a 20-year practice rooted in her border crossing roots along the Texas-Mexico border. The Infiltrators is a docu-thriller about undocumented activists on a secret mission inside a detention center is currently being distributed by Oscilloscope. It won the Audience and the Innovator Award in the NEXT section at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019\, among other notable festival awards. The New York Times calls her previous award-winning documentary\, Las Marthas\, about wealthy South Texas border debutantes who honor George Washington in Laredo\, Texas “a striking alternative portrait of border life”. It premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2014 and is distributed by Women Make Movies. The Last Conquistador\, a documentary about the racially conflicted construction of a monument to a conquistador in El Paso\, Texas\, was broadcast on POV in 2008. USA Today describes it as “Heroic”. Her award-winning directorial debut\, Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela\, was broadcast on PBS in 2001. She is the recipient of fellowships from Soros\, Rauschenberg\, Rockefeller\, NYFA\, CPB/PBS\, NALIP\, Firelight\, the Sundance Women’s Initiative and Creative Capital\, among others. \nKhaled Jarrar was born in Jenin\, Occupied Palestine in 1976. He lives and works in Ramallah. Jarrar completed his studies in interior design at Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996. Upon graduating he smuggled himself to work as a carpenter in Nazareth\, living as an underground “illegal” worker. In 1998 Jarrar enlisted in an intensive military training which resulted in working for Arafat as a personal body guard until Arafat’s death in 2004. Attempting to create a life between the military and an artistic practice\, Jarrar entered the field of photography in 2005. Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art – Palestine\, Ramallah in 2011 and completed an MFA in fine art from the University of Arizona in 2019. \nJarrar\, a multidisciplinary artist\, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens through highly symbolic photographs\, videos\, film\, and performative interventions. His State of Palestine project was featured in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Where We Lost Our Shadows\, his filmic collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun\, was shown at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Jarrar’s work has been featured at Maraya Art Centre\, Sharjah; the New Museum\, New York City; the University of Applied Arts\, Vienna; the 15th Jakarta Biennale; 52nd October Salon\, Belgrade; Al-Ma’mal Foundation\, Jerusalem; and the London Film Festival. Infiltrators\, Jarrar’s first feature length film\, was a documentary about the business of Palestinian’s “illegally” crossing and won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Documentary\, Jury Special Award and the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012. Notes on Displacement\, his second feature length\, about a Palestinian refugee’s flight from Syria to Germany\, received a world premiere at the IDFA Envision Competition in November 2022. \nBanner image: An orange gradient overlaid with the text “INFILTRATORS: Films on borders and resistance. Online this weekend! Free for members of Squeaky Wheel.”
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/online-access-infiltrators-films-on-borders-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alex Rivera & Khaled Jarrar
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 24\, 7 pm ET\nOnline on Zoom. Click here to register.\nSqueaky Wheel presents a virtual artist talk with artists Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar to discuss their films that are screening as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance\, and answer questions from the audience. The screening series take on the human toll of borders and the organized and individual ways people evade and resist them. Featuring both cult classic works and acclaimed documentaries\, the films – with Rivera’s work focusing on the maintenance and violence of the US border\, and Jarrar’s focusing on power struggles\, in particular as they relate to Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora – showcases the logistical\, ethical\, and bureaucratic logics of border regimes\, and points to intertwined solidarities. \nInfiltrators: Films on borders and resistance is supported by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our co-presenters at Jewish Voice for Peace – Buffalo. Khaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators is courtesy of Third World Newsreel\, and his film Notes on Displacement is courtesy of Cinema Politica. Special thank you to Paige Sarlin and Leo Goldsmith. \nBiographies of the artists\nAlex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization\, migration\, and technology. Rivera’s first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a cyberpunk thriller set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial theatrical release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Rivera’s second feature\, The Infiltrators\, won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Infiltrators uses documentary and scripted forms to tell the true story of Dreamers who ‘infiltrate’ a detention center to get immigrants out. Rivera is currently developing a few new cyberpunk projects and\, with support from the Ford Foundation\, a feature documentary on the history of deportation titled Banishment. Alex Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow\, Sundance Fellow\, Creative Capital Grantee and was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. He studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles. He is an Associate Professor of Filmmaking Practice at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School. \nKhaled Jarrar was born in Jenin\, Occupied Palestine in 1976. He lives and works in Ramallah. Jarrar completed his studies in interior design at Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996. Upon graduating he smuggled himself to work as a carpenter in Nazareth\, living as an underground “illegal” worker. In 1998 Jarrar enlisted in an intensive military training which resulted in working for Arafat as a personal body guard until Arafat’s death in 2004. Attempting to create a life between the military and an artistic practice\, Jarrar entered the field of photography in 2005. Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art – Palestine\, Ramallah in 2011 and completed an MFA in fine art from the University of Arizona in 2019. \nJarrar\, a multidisciplinary artist\, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens through highly symbolic photographs\, videos\, film\, and performative interventions. His State of Palestine project was featured in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Where We Lost Our Shadows\, his filmic collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun\, was shown at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Jarrar’s work has been featured at Maraya Art Centre\, Sharjah; the New Museum\, New York City; the University of Applied Arts\, Vienna; the 15th Jakarta Biennale; 52nd October Salon\, Belgrade; Al-Ma’mal Foundation\, Jerusalem; and the London Film Festival. Infiltrators\, Jarrar’s first feature length film\, was a documentary about the business of Palestinian’s “illegally” crossing and won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Documentary\, Jury Special Award and the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012. Notes on Displacement\, his second feature length\, about a Palestinian refugee’s flight from Syria to Germany\, received a world premiere at the IDFA Envision Competition in November 2022. \nPhotographs of Alex Rivera courtesy of the artist. Photograph of Khaled Jarrar courtesy of Cinema Politica.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/alex-rivera-khaled-jarrar/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Info-session: Workspace Residency\, Summer 2026
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 3\, 2026\, 7 pm ET\nVirtual on Zoom; register here\nJoin us for a virtual info-session with Squeaky Wheel Curator Ekrem Serdar on how to apply to Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The curator will go over the program\, the application questions\, how panels rating criteria\, and answer questions from the audience. Click here to learn more and apply to the residency. \nBanner image: A GIF of Jaehoon Choi working on a 3D mapped projection project in a dark room.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/info-session-workspace-residency-summer-2026-2/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Info-session: Workspace Residency\, Summer 2026
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, January 26\, 2026\, 12 pm ET\nVirtual on Zoom; register here\nJoin us for a virtual info-session with Squeaky Wheel Curator Ekrem Serdar on how to apply to Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The curator will go over the program\, the application questions\, how panels rating criteria\, and answer questions from the audience. A recording of the info-session will be released on the residency page a week after the event. \nClick here to learn more and apply to the residency. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is made possible with support from Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nBanner image: A GIF of Jaehoon Choi working on a 3D mapped projection project in a dark room.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/info-session-workspace-residency-summer-2026/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing Diasporic Dreams and Futures with CAO Collective
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 20\, 3–5pm ET / 12–2 PT over Zoom\nFree; register here\nJoin us in the deep of December as we  welcome Chinese Artists & Organizers (CAO) Collective to lead a virtual writing workshop on dreams\, nostalgia\, and diasporic home-making. What alternative knowledges\, homes\, and futures can we access through dreaming and writing together? How do dreams and nostalgia open up a portal for future-making\, in connection with our own bodies and the bodies of land\, water\, and time? Join CAO Collective’s huiyin zhou and Laura Dudu for a virtual session on dreaming as a relational method and collective writing practice. Participants are invited to share bedtime stories\, dreams\, and reflect on their relationships to home/land\, rest and sleep. Through somatic practice\, guided writing activities and facilitated conversations\, participants are invited to weave a collective dreamscape for resistance and healing. \nPlease ensure stable access to the internet and writing tools such as journals\, pens\, and online collaborative documents. This event will be facilitated in English but participants are encouraged to write/doodle/create in whatever languages they feel called to. \nThe stories co-created in this workshop will be included in CAO Collective’s long-term social practice project\, “One Thousand and One Nights: A Queer Journey of Dreams & Diaspora”\, culminating in a collective dream archive. This event is presented as an invitation to deepen into Olivia Ong Evans’ upcoming film Kota Hujan (City of Rain) on December 5. This event is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and Teiger Foundation. \nAbout the artists\n \nhú-tu (Laura 嘟嘟 & huiyin zhou) is an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology\, working across moving image\, photography\, performance\, and collaborative writing. Dedicated to multidisciplinary art and transnational organizing\, huiyin and Laura co-founded and co-direct the Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草. \nAbout CAO Collective\n\n  \nFounded in 2022\, CAO Collective creates art to empower relational community healing. Their works investigate systems of discipline\, control\, censorship\, and capitalist extraction and reimagine memory/memorials\, rituals\, intimacy\, and queer/feminist kinship to (re)build sustainable community infrastructures. caocollective.com / @caocollective \nBanner image: Image courtesy of CAO Collective. Colorful handwriting in blue\, green\, orange\, and black in both Chinese and English. Someone with a red bracelet is seen writing on white rice paper.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/writing-diasporic-dreams-and-futures-with-cao-collective/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wave Farm & NYSCA: Media Arts Breakfast Zoom with Squeaky and BIFF
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 3\, 2025\, 10:30 am – 12 pm\nOnline on zoom\nRegister here\nWaveFarm & NYSCA present their latest online convening in early November for the next Media Arts Breakfast with a focus on the media arts ecosystem in Buffalo\, NY\, along with updates from NYSCA’s Fabiana Chiu-Rinaldi and Wave Farm’s Galen Joseph-Hunter. Recent Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) grantees Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center and the Buffalo International Film Festival will share updates from MAAF-funded projects and will highlight recent and upcoming programming. Finally\, we’ll go round the room to hear updates from attendees! \nMeeting Agenda: \n\nWelcome and introductions from Wave Farm’s Galen Joseph-Hunter\nNYSCA updates from Fabiana Chiu-Rinaldi\nMAAF for Organizations grantees share short presentations:\n\nAnna Scime\, Executive Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival\nEkrem Serdar\, Curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\n\n\nQ&A\nRound the Room updates from all of you!\n\nBanner image: Dense\, black and white television static.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/wave-farm-nysca-media-arts-breakfast-zoom-with-squeaky-and-biff/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partners,Special Event,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Work in progress: Kalpana Subramanian's Breath Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 21\, 12 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nOnline over Zoom. RSVP below\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to welcome back Kalpana Subramanian for an online artist talk on her in-progress project Breath Worlds – an interdisciplinary project composed of sound works\, emerging technologies\, moving image and performance. \nWith breathing in crisis\, our existence as a respiratory species is becoming increasingly precarious and inequitable. This project speculates on what it means to breathe\, in an era when breath itself can no longer be taken for granted. How can breath be reclaimed from the forces that imperil it? Can breath be cultivated and shared? These are just some of the motivations that guide this project – exploring breath and breathing as a universal right (Mbembe\, 2020)\, a form of interconnectedness and a future paradigm. \nThe project is supported by the New York State Council of the Arts’ Support for Artists grant. \nBiography of the artist \nKalpana Subramanian\, PhD\, is a multidisciplinary artist\, filmmaker and scholar whose recent practice explores transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches to experimental film and media. Her arts-based doctoral research at the Department of Media Study\, University at Buffalo\, proposes a novel mode of experiencing cinema through an attention to breath philosophy and poetics. Her films have been exhibited at venues including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, Toronto International Film Festival\, Images Festival (Canada)\, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Scotland)\, Chicago Underground Film Festival\, Flaherty NYC Seminar (USA) UNESCO (France)\, Wildscreen UK\, and National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai\, India) among others. Her films have received awards from the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology (Italy\, 2015)\, Montana CINE International Film Festival (USA\, 2003\, 2005) and the Center for Media Studies Vatavaran Film Festival (India\, 2008). Her curated programs have screened at Simon Fraser University (Canada)\, Harvard FAS CAMLab\, Alternative Cinema series (Colgate University\, USA) and Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (UK) among others. Subramanian is recipient of a UK Environmental Film Fellowship (2006)\, Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2015-16) and a New York State Council on the Arts grant (2024) among other honors. She is an Assistant Professor of Cinema Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder. \nBanner image: Blue and orange light curved around a flecked surface. On top of the image are the logos of Squeaky Wheel and the New York State Council of the Arts and the words “Breath Worlds. Kalpana Subramanian”.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/work-in-progress-kalpana-subramanians-breath-worlds/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Extended: Jordan Lord | Works from The Voice of Democracy\, with Abby Sun and Pooja Rangan
DESCRIPTION:A still from the film An All-Around Feel Good by Jordan Lord. Prominent black borders are on the left\, right and bottom edges of the image.  Framed by the black borders is an image of the Colorado State Fair\, taken from the bleachers on a bright sunny day. The camera is facing outside the main stage\, where there are horses and riders in a pen\, numerous parked cars and a tractor\, and several U.S. flags\, and audience members both near the camera and across the stage. On the bottom is the caption “Belonging to the nation-state is not premised on seeing or attending.”\nNow extended through March 8: Online access to works in the exhibition\nOnline and in-person: Friday\, February February 23:\n5:30 pm ET: Screening of How Is It That You Frame Old Glory in Your Mouth?\n7 pm ET\, online and in-person: Conversation with Jordan Lord\, Abby Sun\, and Pooja Rangan.\nASL interpretation and CART provided\, catering from Alibaba Kebab for in-person attendees.\nFree or suggested donation; get tickets below\nCelebrating the closing of Jordan Lord’s solo exhibition The Voice of Democracy\, Squeaky Wheel invites audiences from Buffalo and beyond to watch the works in the exhibition online\, and join us for a screening and conversation between the artist\, Abby Sun\, and Pooja Rangan. The works in the exhibition analyze the politics of voice and accent across disability\, race\, class\, and gender\, and how they shape the terms of entry to democracy. \nAttendees will have the opportunity to experience the four works by the artist included in the exhibition anytime between February 19 through February 23. \n\nHow Is It That You Frame Old Glory in Your Mouth? (digital video\, 74 minutes\, sound\, open captions\, audio description\, 2023)\nAn All-Around Feel Good (digital video\, 25 minutes\, sound\, open captions\, audio description\, 2024)\nI didn’t set out to make a film about religion (digital video\, 30 minutes\, sound\, open captions\, audio description\, 2024)\nDocumentary Participation Agreement (PDF contract template\, 2023)\n\nOn Friday\, February 23\, online and in-person attendees are invited to a dedicated screening of How Do You Frame Old Glory in Your Mouth? at 5:30 pm ET and a conversation about the exhibition with Lord\, Rangan\, and Sun at 7 pm ET. Catering with vegetarian options will be provided for in-person attendees; ASL interpretation and CART will be provided for all. \nLearn more about the exhibition here. \nBiographies of the artist and participants\nJordan Lord (US) is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access\, and documentary. Their films have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA Doc Fortnight\, Dokufest Kosovo\, Union Docs\, and the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. Their film Shared Resources (2021) won the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival and the Critics Jury Prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys and Artists Space. In 2021\, they were profiled as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine\, and their work has been featured in publications such as Screen Slate\, Millennium Film Journal\, and Hyperallergic. \nAbby Sun (she/her) is IDA’s Director of Artist Programs and Editor of Documentary magazine. Before joining IDA\, Abby was the Curator of the DocYard and co-curated My Sight is Lined with Visions: 1990s Asian American Film & Video with Keisha Knight. As a graduate student researcher in the MIT Open Documentary Lab\, Abby edited Immerse. She has bylines in Film Comment\, Filmmaker\, Film Quarterly\, Notebook\, Sight & Sound\, and other publications. Abby has served on festival juries for Hot Docs\, Dokufest\, Palm Springs\, New Orleans\, and CAAMfest\, as well as nominating committees for the Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye. She has reviewed projects for IDFA Forum\, BGDM\, NEA\, SFFILM\, LEF Foundation\, Princess Grace Foundation\, the Boston Foundation\, Sundance Catalyst\, and spoken on and facilitated panels at Locarno\, IFFR\, TIFF\, NYFF\, EFM\, and other film festivals. Along with Keisha\, Abby received a fall 2022 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship. She produced Shared Resources and\, with Jordan Lord\, received a 2022 American Stories Documentary Fellowship for the upcoming The Voice of Democracy. Her hometown is Columbia\, Missouri\, US. \nPooja Rangan is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. Her research explores the humanitarian preoccupations of documentary media\, with an emphasis on the ethics of voice and listening. Rangan is author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke University Press\, 2017) and co-editor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object\, Method\, and Practice (University of California Press\, 2023). Her forthcoming book The Documentary Audit (from Columbia University Press)\, explores the politics of listening in documentary\, asking how accented\, disabled\, and abolitionist practitioners trouble established documentary values of justice and accountability. Rangan co-edits the Investigating Visible Evidence book series at Columbia University Press and serves on the editorial board of the journal World Records; she also served as Board President of the documentary arts showcase\, The Flaherty. \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jordan-lord-works-from-the-voice-of-democracy-with-pooja-rangan/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Screenings,Virtual
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SUMMARY:In conversation: hiba ali with Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 21\, 2023\, 11:30 am ET\n@ online and viewable for 24 hours\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin us for a virtual event celebrating the closing of hiba ali’s solo exhibition\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. hiba ali will be joined by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham to have a conversation on the histories\, themes of their exhibition\, followed by a brief Q&A. The exhibition utilizes videos\, music\, textiles\, amongst other media. Through storytelling\, oceans we carry: rough as silk explores the figure of the silk worm through visualizing the history and continued presence of African-descent communities from the Swahili-Indian ocean. They map the relationships between the Swahili coast of East Africa\, South India and the Arab world. \nAudiences are invited to join live\, or can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive a code to view the event for 72 hours. \nYou will see the Zoom link after you checkout and receive it in your email inbox within 24 hours. If you have issues registering\, please email ekrem@squeaky.org \nRead more about hiba ali’s exhibition at Squeaky Wheel here. \nBiographies\nhiba ali is a producer of moving images\, sounds\, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago\, toronto and eugene. born in karachi\, pakistan\, they belong to east african\, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili\, urdu\, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term art and publication projects: the first being an art-based phd project that examines womyn of colour’s labour\, and architecture of surveillance as it exists within the monopoly of amazon (corp.) and the second being a series of works that addresses music\, cloth and ritual practices that connect east africa\, south asia and the arabian peninsula in the swahili-indian ocean region. \nthey are an assistant professor at the college of design in the art & technology program at the university of oregon in eugene and they teach on decolonial\, feminist\, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies. currently\, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at queens university in kingston\, ontario. their work has been presented in chicago\, stockholm\, vienna\, berlin\, toronto\, new york\, istanbul\, são paulo\, detroit\, windsor\, dubai\, austin\, vancouver\, and portland. they have written for the following magazines: “c”\, the seen\, newcity chicago\, art chicago\, art dubai\, the state\, medium’s zora\, rtv\, and topical cream. \nnote: the profile picture indicates the need to not be perceived by all carceral\, surveillant and monitoring systems including the corporeal\, digital and virtual. the use of lowercase on this site denotes a turn away from egotism embedded in the english language (danah michele boyd) and towards ideas of the collective (bell hooks) and reminds us of the many realities\, names and glyphs that cannot be said in such a colonial language. \nBeheroze Shroff teaches in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis\, Indians of African descent in Gujarat\, Shroff has published widely in several journals and anthologies\, and documented on film different aspects of contemporary Siddi life\, in Gujarat. Most recently\, in 2020\, Shroff co-edited a three-volume publication titled Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora\, which explores the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have shaped and have been shaped by histories\, cultures\, and societies of South Asia. Her documentaries have been shown in public and academic venues: at Monsoons and Migrations: Unleashing Dhow Synergies– Conference in Association with the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF); The African Diaspora in Asia conference (TADIA) Goa; Samosa Arts and Culture Festival (Nairobi);  Max Planck Institute (Halle); School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London; Schomburg Library and Museum of Black Culture (New York); Malcolm X Library (San Diego\, California) and Pan African Film Festivals (Los Angeles)\, among others.   \nZavier Wingham (he/they) is a writer\, editor\, and PhD candidate in the joint program for History and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University\, with an additional concentration in the history of the African Diaspora. Their dissertation research explores how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race\, slavery\, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914\, as well as how Africans in the Ottoman empire experienced these processes of racialization and sought to create new kinds of community and ways of living. Their work has been supported by Fulbright\, ARIT\, and Koç University’s ANAMED. More of their work can be found at zavierwingham.com \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: documentation of hiba ali\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. The video in the cyclone (rough as silk) is projected on a wall; a green wavelike video is projected on a canvas on the floor. There are two green chairs facing the wall.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-hiba-ali-with-beheroze-shroff-and-zavier-wingham/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:In conversation: Jenson Leonard and American Artist
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 15\, 12 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nAccess information: ASL interpretation and automated captions provided\nJenson Leonard is joined by American Artist for a virtual conversation on the occasion of Leonard’s exhibition GLAND PRIX. GLAND PRIX is a multiple-screen video exhibition to explore the stressors and somatic effects that racial capitalism and white supremacy have on Black life. Learn more about the exhibition here. \nThe live artist talk will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nThis event was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nAbout the artists \nJenson Leonard\, b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nAMERICAN ARTIST makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology\, race\, and knowledge production\, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture\, software\, and video. Artist is a 2022 Creative Capital and United States Artists grantee\, and a recipient of the 2021 LACMA Art & Tech Lab Grant. They are a resident at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and a former resident of Red Bull Arts\, Abrons Art Center\, Recess\, EYEBEAM\, Pioneer Works\, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel\, Switzerland; and Nam June Paik Center\, Seoul. They have had solo museum exhibitions at The Queens Museum\, New York and The Museum of African Diaspora\, California. Their work has been featured in the New York Times\, Artforum\, and Huffington Post. Artist is a lecturer at Parsons\, NYU\, UCLA and a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation. \nBanner image courtesy of Jenson Leonard. A digital image with two giant wheels\, a logo stating “GLAND PRIX: The Bio Labor Simulator” over a field of flames. On the left of the image is a portrait photograph of Jenson Leonard\, a portrait of a brown skinned person smiling while wearing glasses and a yellow sad face emoji hat. On the right is a portrait photograph of American Artist\, a brown-skinned person wearing a white hoodie\, blue puffer jacket on a red curtain backdrop. On the bottom is the text “In conversation: Jenson Leonard & American Artist”. American Artists photograph by Myles Loftin.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-jenson-leonard-and-american-artist/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Jordan Lord
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 25\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist and filmmaker Jordan Lord\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2021\, and whose film Shared Resources we screened in Fall 2020. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at festivals and venues including DOCNYC\, QueerLisboa\, Anthology Film Archives\, Performance Space NY\, Artists Space\, and Camden Arts Centre\, and they have been in study with the group No Total since 2012. Their solo exhibition of video work “After…After…” was presented at Piper Keys in London\, UK in 2019. They received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College\, CUNY\, where they also teach. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nImage: Jordan Lord\, a 30 year-old white person with short brown hair\, stands in front of a tank of bioluminescent jellyfish\, wearing a face mask printed with the nose and mouth of a tiger. Their eyes seem to be smiling.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-jordan-lord/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Emily Martinez
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 11\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist Emily Martinez\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2018. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nEmily Martinez (they/she) is a 1st generation Cuban immigrant/ refugee\, raised by Miami and living in Los Angeles since 2012. They are a new media artist and serial collaborator who believes in the tactical misuse of technology. Their most recent works explore new economies and queer technologies. Long-term projects explore collective trauma\, diasporic and transnational identities\, archetypal roles\, and post-apocalyptic narratives. When Emily is not working\, they are learning to love and doing their energy work. \nEmily’s art and research has been published in Art in America\, Media-N\, Leonardo Journal (MIT Press)\, Temporary Art Review\, and Filmmaker Magazine. Their work has been exhibited at international venues\, including Drugo More (Rijeka\, Croatia)\, Transmediale (Berlin\, DE)\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)\, MoMA PS1 (New York)\, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam\, NL)\, The Luminary (St. Louis)\, The Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam\, NL)\, and The Wrong Biennale. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nImage provided by the artist. Image description: A portrait of a white\, gender-ambiguous person\, with short brown hair\, hazel eyes\, and a warm smile. they are wearing a hoodie with an all-over-print of a synthetic-sliced-mineral-looking\, acid pattern that is seafoam green\, light cyan\, and navy blue. behind them is an artificial background gradient that is peach at the top and seafoam green at the bottom. #acidtropical
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-emily-martinez/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Crystal Z Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 28\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present a virtual artist talk with artist Crystal Z Campbell\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel in 2021\, and whose upcoming exhibition at Buffalo Arts Studio we are co-presenting. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nBanner image: Portrait of Crystal Z Campbell\, a Black and Asian artist in the studio gazing directly into camera\, with just above the shoulder length curly hair wrangled into a half-ponytail. Light from the industrial window creates a pink and reddish glow on their cheek\, filtered through a transparency the artist is holding. The transparency is a film still from a found 35mm film the artist found at a now demolished Black Civil Rights Theater. The photograph is courtesy of Melissa Lukenbaugh.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-crystal-z-campbell/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Carlos Castellanos and Zain Alam
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 17\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Spring 2022 artist residents\, Carlos Castellanos (Rochester\, NY) and Zain Alam (Brooklyn\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Carlos Castellanos will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to work on Beauty\, a machine-microbial system featuring a bio-driven artificial intelligence system. The project remediates contaminated soil ecology while generating audio and visuals of the process in real-time. Zain Alam will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on I Am Sitting in a Room\, an audio-visual exercise in layering recitations of the azaan (the Islamic call to prayer) to distill them into tonal content. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nCarlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher with a wide array of interests such as cybernetics\, ecology\, embodiment\, phenomenology\, artificial intelligence and transdisciplinary collaboration. His work bridges science\, technology\, education and the arts\, developing a network of creative interaction with living systems\, the natural environment and emerging technologies. His artworks have been exhibited at local\, national and international events such as the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA)\, SIGGRAPH & ZERO1 San Jose. Castellanos is Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Games & Media (IGM)\, Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)\, Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, San Jose State University. \nZain Alam is an artist and musician of Indian-Pakistani origin based in Brooklyn\, NY. Described as “a unique intersection\, merging the cinematic formality of Bollywood and geometric repetition of Islamic art\,” his recording project Humeysha began during his year working as an oral historian for the 1947 Partition Archive. His work is a project of translation using contemporary pop forms\, found sound\, and oral history as means of investigating one’s position in an outside tradition or community. Alam’s practice extends his sonic vision into video\, performance\, and writing. His works are braided together by a passion for the borrowed voice\, re/de-contextualization\, and bricolage — for how a personal mosaic of sound can empower minority and marginalized to engage in self-creation on their own terms. His essays have been published in Miami Rail\, Buzzfeed\, and The New Yorker\, and Humeysha has been covered by the New York Times\, Vice\, and Village Voice. His performances have been staged at venues including Public Arts\, Webster Hall\, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Alam has most recently completed fellowships with Bruce High Quality Foundation\, Marble House\, and South Asian American Digital Archive. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you to Hostel-Buffalo Niagara for sponsoring this session of the program.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-carlos-castellanos-and-zain-alam/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, February 14\, 2022\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend\nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY on the closing date of her exhibition i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me at Squeaky Wheel. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. Holloway has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nPLASMA 2022 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-shawne-michaelain-holloway/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:[ E N  | C L O S I N G ]
DESCRIPTION:February 9–14\, 2022\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\n“[i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me] is an unflinching reckoning with the irreparable: Can we truly “let go” in the wake of a rupture? How does one recover from loss\, and its accumulation\, other than by inhabiting it? What does it take to give oneself over to grief? With these questions in mind\, I understand the three screens\, as well as the bubbles and text that they contain\, as a set of layers\, each one necessarily encrypting the next.” – Camille Bacon \nA five day series of emails featuring writing and media\, [ E N | C L O S I N G ] features responses by artists to SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY’s exhibition and web project i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me. \nCurated by the artist and Camille Bacon\, audiences can sign up to receive one email per day starting February 9th and through February 14th\, featuring a different artist speaking to both the themes of the exhibition\, and to Camille Bacon’s writing on HOLLOWAY’s work. Artists include Cy X\, Natalie Jasmine Harris\, and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal. The final day will feature a jointly written letter by Bacon and HOLLOWAY. \nBy signing up\, you consent to receive one email per day between February 9 through February 14 to the email address you sign up with. Please check your spam folder if you do not see the email in your inbox. Emails will be sent out near midnight. Sign up by 8 pm ET on February 9 to receive the emails on a daily schedule between February 9 and 14. Audience members who sign up after February 9 will receive the emails the following week\, between February 16 – 21. \nYou can view and learn more about SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY’s exhibition here. \nBiographies \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nCY X (they/we) is a black queer non-binary storyteller and cyber witch merging sound\, video art\, installation\, and performance. Their practice is grounded in the art of synthesis: truth generation and sound generation which is used to create portals that may aid us in exploring black queer futures and abolitionist possibilities. Fusing art and technology with the practice of witchcraft\, they use spells\, rituals\, and alchemic practices as modes of activation. Cy earned a BA in Film and Media Studies from Colorado College and a Masters Degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. \nNatalie Jasmine Harris is a Black queer filmmaker from Maryland currently based in New York City. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in May 2020. Her work spans narrative\, documentary\, and experimental forms but is centered around a mission to tell stories that capture coming-of-age experiences\, showcase Black joy\, and reimagine liberation for marginalized communities. Natalie’s most recent short film “Pure” received The 2020 Directors Guild of America’s Student Film Award and completed a film festival run that included over 40 festival screenings worldwide. The film received commendations from several film festivals that include ABFF\, Outfest\, The British Film Institute\, The Pan African Film Festival\, and many more. After placing as a Finalist in The 2021 American Black Film Festival’s HBO Short Competition\, “Pure” was acquired by HBO and is now streaming on HBOMax. Natalie is currently adapting the concept behind “Pure” into a feature-length film of the same name that has received support from SFFILM\, The Gotham (formerly known as IFP)\, and The Outfest Screenwriting Lab. \nzakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal makes work to further understand how the specificity of her own lived experiences are connected to historical and contemporary movements that involve embodied knowledge production. She explores this through social portraiture\, video assemblage\, collage\, drawing\, and found images. She seeks to reinforce a different kind of gaze (and gazing) which she processes through empathy\, desire\, love\, queer identity\, family\, intimacy\, illegibility\, and poetics. Within her projects there’s an overlying theme of trying to make sense of what and who she belongs to.\nUltimately\, she intends for her work to encourage ways of being and feeling beyond the systems we inhabit. zakkiyyah has been included in numerous group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions at Mana Contemporary\, Blanc Gallery\, Indiana University\, and South Bend Museum of Art.\nHer work has been presented in various forms at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, NADA\, The Art Institute of Chicago\, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center\, Chicago Humanities Festival\, DePaul University\, and Harvard Graduate School of Design to name a few. She has also curated exhibitions at spaces such as Chicago Art Department\, Blanc gallery and Washington Park Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago. She was recently an Artist in Residence at Arts and Public Life at University of Chicago and an Artist in Residence at Indiana University in Bloomington\, IN. zakkiyyah is a Co-founder of CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers): a collective of Black artists\, thinkers\, and curators that prioritize shared experiences and concerns by lens based artists of the Black diaspora. \nThis program was funded in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: A GIF from a screen capture on January 24\, 2022  at 5 pm ET of SHAWNE MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY\, https://iwouldvesaidgoodbyeif.ithoughtyouloved.me \, 2021
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/e-n-c-l-o-s-i-n-g/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Project,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Cinema of Breath: Poetics of Migrancy
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 2\, 2021\, 6 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nDoes cinema breathe? Can we understand migration through cinematic poetry?  \nCurated by Kalpana Subramanian\, Cinema of Breath: Poetics of Migrancy brings together a series of cinematic experiments that range across registers of the personal\, collective\, scientific\, and archival. Together\, these short films explore ideas of home and mobility\, exile and displacement\, and memories of place. \nThe program showcases films by Alexandra Cuesta\, Crystal Z Campbell\, Erin Espelie\, Gariné Torossian\, MTL Collective\, Sky Hopinka\, Sonali Gulati\, Suneil Sanzgiri\, and Kalpana Subramanian. It will be followed by a discussion with the curator and guest filmmakers. \nCinema of Breath is based on Subramanian’s doctoral research in Media Study at the University at Buffalo. Her research into experimental film draws from breath practices in Yoga and Buddhist philosophy. Through this lens\, “breath” can be thought of as the creational force of cinema that brings it to “life.” \nClick here to download the program notes and learn more about the individual films and filmmakers. \nThe event will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nThis event is presented by the New York Immigration Coalition with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nThe New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York. The NYIC not only establishes a forum for immigrant groups to voice their concerns\, but also provides a platform for collective action to drive positive social change. Since its founding in 1987\, the NYIC has evolved into a powerful voice of advocacy by spearheading innovative policies\, promoting and protecting the rights of immigrant communities\, improving newcomer access to services\, developing leadership and capacity\, expanding civic participation\, and mobilizing member groups to respond to the fluctuating needs of immigrant communities. See more at nyic.org \nBanner image: Detail of Erin Espelie\, A Free Inquiry Into Air: 110721\, 2021
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/cinema-of-breath-poetics-of-migrancy/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual
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SUMMARY:helloiamandra8: Alison Nguyen in conversation with Sophie Cavoulacos
DESCRIPTION:*New date* Thursday\, November 18\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nAccess information: ASL interpretation and automated captions provided\nAn evening of conversation on labor\, AI\, performance\, among other topics\, this artist talk by Alison Nguyen with curator Sophie Cavoulacos looks at the history\, underpinnings\, and the digital and physical work surrounding her multifaceted project Andra8.  \nAndra8 takes its name after a computer-generated woman based on the artist’s physicality. From the apartment where she has been ‘placed’ Andra8 works as a digital laborer\, surviving off the data from her various ‘freemium’ jobs as a virtual assistant\, a data janitor\, a life coach\, an aspiring influencer\, and content creator. Something begins to trouble Andra8: her life depends on her compulsory consumption and output of human data – or so she’s been told. Andra8 explores the implications of such an existence\, and what arises when one attempts to subvert them. First exhibited in 2020\, the project spans video\, installation\, sculpture\, and interactive online performances. \nAudiences who register will have access to the full performances and short film that Nguyen has created as part of the project. The live artist talk will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nAbout the artist \nAlison Nguyen is a New York-based artist whose work spans video\, installation\, performance\, and new media. Her screenings include: e-flux\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, International Film Festival Oberhausen\, CPH:DOX\, Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Crossroads presented by SF MoMA/SF Cinemateque\, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art\, True/False Film Festival\, Open City Documentary Festival\, and Microscope Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, AC Gallery Beijing\, The Dowse Art Museum\, Hartnett Gallery\, La Kaje\, and The University of Oklahoma\, Contemporary Art and Digital Fair\, Miami\, among others.  \nNguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, Signal Culture\, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been awarded grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, NYSCA\, and The New York Community Trust. In 2018 Alison Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” In 2021 she was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Video/Film.  \nAlison Nguyen has been a Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic at numerous institutions and organizations including Cooper Union\, The New School\, Rhode Island School of Design\, The School of Visual Arts\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, and Squeaky Wheel. Nguyen graduated from Brown Univerisity with a B.A. in Literary Arts. She currently lives and works in Harlem where she is a MFA candidate in Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. \nSophie Cavoulacos is an Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art where she organizes moving image projects across the museum’s cinemas and galleries. Recent exhibitions include the expanded cinema installation Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination (2020) and Club 57: Film\, Performance\, and Art in the East Village\, 1978–1983 (2017-8). She has been a programmer for the New Directors/New Films and Doc Fortnight festivals and leads Modern Mondays\, MoMA’s artist’s cinema series to which she has contributed programs with Jibade-Khalil Huffman\, Habibi Collective\, Bernadette Mayer\, Metahaven\, Nazlı Dinçel\, Monira al Qadiri\, Emilija Skarnulyte\, Raha Raissnia\, Alexander Kluge\, and many others. Recent film exhibitions also include Currents: Re-Viewing Cineprobe\, 1968–2002 (2019) and special projects with The Residents and Ken Okiishi. She is also active in the museum’s collection displays and was part of the curatorial team for MoMA’s 2019 reinstallation. \nProduction assistance for Andra8 provided by Jonathan Beilin (Technical Director + Cinematographer)\, Scott Kiernan (Composer)\, Tim Bruniges (Vocal Sound Designer)\, Achim Koh (Programmer)\, Stephanie Neptune (Co-Editor and Post-Production Supervisor)\, Andrew Nerviano (Sound Mix)\, and Shisanwu LLC (Drafting). \nBanner image: Alison Nguyen\, my favorite software is being here\, HD video\, color\, sound\, 19 minutes\, 2020 – 2021. Image description: An image of a digital environment with the avatar Andra8 with her head leaning over a bag of Lays chips.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/helloiamandra8-alison-nguyen-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 6\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nClick here to register\nAccess information: ASL interpretation provided. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nAn intimate event incorporating both pre-recorded and live video\, SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is joined by Camille Bacon for a virtual conversation about her work. Taking the form of letters written to each other\, HOLLOWAY and Bacon will speak to yearning\, irresolution\, letting go\, and the passing of time\, with Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula functioning as a touchstone. The conversation will be followed by a public Q&A. The event marks the opening of HOLLOWAY’s exhibition and web project\, i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back. \nAn email with instructions and a link will be sent to you on the event date and will be accessible on Eventbrite’s Online Event Page. The event will be accessible for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members get extended access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nTo see more information about the exhibition\, click here. \nBiographies \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nThis program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/shawne-michaelain-holloway-and-camille-bacon/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Coalition Building Towards Liberatory Technologies
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED – Stay tuned for the new date!\nWednesday\, September 30\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nAccessibility: ASL interpretation and open captions provided. \nOn the occasion of Johann Diedrick’s Dark Matters\, this panel with artists Johann Diedrick and Jenson Leonard and moderated by Richie Wills will discuss both the discriminatory and exploitative artificial intelligences of our current moment\, and imagine libertory future technologies. How would a libertatory artificial intelligence act? What are the networks\, communities\, and infrastructures we need to build our tomorrows? \nThe event will be available for 24 hours for everyone who registers\, and 72 hours for Squeaky Wheel members. This event is co-presented with Just Buffalo Literary Center. \nAbout the panelists \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist\, engineer\, and musician who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for encountering our world through your ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for delightfully encountering our environment and each other. He is a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (Queens\, NY)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nJenson Leonard b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nRICHIE WILLS holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Richie has worked as a Writing Center and BABEL volunteer and as an outreach coordinator for Words on the Street and The Mocha Center. He is also contributing writer for The Galactic Tribe and continues to work as a community organizer. Richie believes in the power of the written word and storytelling to bring people together and break barriers. \nAbout Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project CELEBRATES the legacy of prominent Black writers who have called Buffalo home\, whose voices shape history\, inspire radical change\, and influence current and future generations of poets and writers; DRAWS INSPIRATION from Buffalo’s history as a gateway to freedom along the Underground Railroad; and CHALLENGES our community to grapple with racism and inequities through literature\, to find pathways toward justice in the power of the written word\, and to open hearts & minds as we confront our shared past and present in order to shape a more equitable future. See more information here. \nBanner image courtesy of Johann Diedrick.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/coalition-building-towards-liberatory-technologies/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Symposia & Panels,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Applying for things! + Workspace Residency Info-Session
DESCRIPTION:Free\nAccess information: This event will take place as a Zoom meeting. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125.\nClick here to register\nIn this presentation and workshop\, Rivet’s co-founders Katrina Neumann and Kira Simon-Kennedy will share resources\, strategies\, and things to watch for for artists who are applying to opportunities such as grants\, residencies\, and fellowships\, followed by a Q&A for attendees. Of interest for artists of all experience levels\, the presentation will be a brief info-session by curator Ekrem Serdar on the Spring 2022 application for Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency program. For more information about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nYou can now watch the event below. Scroll to the 20 minute mark of the video to skip to Rivet’s presentation on Applying to Things. \nBios of the presenters \nKatrina Neumann began her career as a visual artist while working in arts institutions as an in-house designer\, web manager\, marketing\, and communications specialist for the past 18 years. On nights and weekends\, she founded the startups “Rate My Artist Residency” and co-founded “Rivet“; both are platforms that help artists find residency opportunities\, funding\, and transparency within this niche market. Neumann freelances as a graphic designer\, web designer\, social media\, marketing\, and communications specialist for artists\, small businesses\, non-profits\, and arts institutions. For more details here is my full resumé. \nKira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder & co-director of China Residencies\, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported hundreds of different international creative exchanges to China since its inception in 2013. She has been a fellow at NEW INC\, the New Museum’s incubator for art\, design & technology\, as well as the IFP Made in NY Media Center\, building Rivet to connect creative people with opportunities worldwide. She also produces independent films and documentaries\, including 登楼叹 Ascension (Tribeca winner for Best Documentary 2021) as well as ongoing series about the creative scenes in China’s 2nd and 3rd tier cities\, and a previous year long project about China’s underground music scene for the record label Modern Sky. \nKira holds a BA in East Asian Studies and Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania\, and was a member of the inaugural class of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice program in Social Impact Strategy and Arts & Culture. She is a translator of French and Chinese texts on art and philosophy and co-wrote “Holy Shit My Friend Has Cancer\,” a website to help young people deal with tough situations. \nPhotograph of Kira Simon-Kennedy by Joy Ding. Image description: Kira is a white woman with long brown curly hair\, wearing glasses and a peacock blue jacket. She is standing outside in front of trees and smiling.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/applying-for-things-workspace-residency-info-session/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Call for applications,Residencies,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Crystal Z Campbell\, Jordan Lord\, Olivia Ong Evans
DESCRIPTION:Image description: A rectangular image with three photographs side by side. From left to right: Portrait of Crystal Z Campbell\, a Black and Asian artist in the studio gazing directly into camera\, with just above the shoulder length curly hair wrangled into a half-ponytail. Light from the industrial window creates a pink and reddish glow on their cheek\, filtered through a transparency the artist is holding. The transparency is a film still from a found 35mm film the artist found at a now demolished Black Civil Rights Theater. The photograph is courtesy of Melissa Lukenbaugh. In the middle photograph is Jordan Lord\, a 30 year-old white person with short brown hair\, stands in front of a tank of bioluminescent jellyfish\, wearing a face mask printed with the nose and mouth of a tiger. Their eyes seem to be smiling. The photograph on the right is of Olivia Ong Evans\, facing the camera and smiling. She has long\, black hair and is wearing metal framed glasses and a black and white shirt. Behind her is a pink\, purple\, gray\, and aqua blue video still showing tree branches\, river branches\, and a smoke stack in the background.⁠\nThursday\, August 26\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nClick here to register\nAccess information: TBA. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this artist talk with our three Summer 2021 artist residents\, Crystal Z Campbell (Oklahoma City\, OK)\, Jordan Lord (New York\, NY)\, and Olivia Ong Evans (Tonawanda\, NY). The three artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engaging in a conversation with curator Ekrem Serdar. \nCrystal Z Campbell will be working on SLICK\, an experimental feature film considering the longstanding reverberations of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on the city of Tulsa and beyond. Jordan Lord is working on editing an essay film with their grandmother\, Prophetic Memory\, which examines the stakes in re-animating personal and collective history. Olivia Ong Evans will be working on Identity Karma\, an experimental video that explores the connections between identity construction and social structures. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at venues including MoMA\, ARGOS\, Camden Arts Centre\, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts\, and Performance Space NY (as part of the festival “I wanna be with you everywhere”). Their exhibition “Prophetic Memory” is currently in-progress online and at various sites via Artists Space (New York\, NY). They teach at Hunter College\, CUNY (New York). \nOlivia Ong Evans (she/her/hers) is a video artist currently living on occupied Haudenosaunee land (Western New York). She uses experimental practices to create glitchy\, distorted visuals that explore positionality.  Her work centers on themes of identity construction\, migration\, connection to land\, and Hokkien Indonesian heritage.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-crystal-z-campbell-jordan-lord-olivia-ong-evans/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Creating Identity: Asian American Subjectivities with Olivia Ong Evans
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 25\, 2021\, 6 pm\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nThis is a space that is for and prioritizes Asian Americans/Asian and Pacific Islander Diaspora individuals\, but all are welcome to attend.  All participation is optional\, and participants welcome to engage with prompts and exercises in any way that feels best for them. \nThis skill-share by Olivia Ong Evans will be a space for Asian American/Asian and Pacific Islander Diasporic individuals to explore the connections between identity and creativity. Through a series of prompts and exercises facilitated by Olivia Ong Evans\, participants will have the opportunity to work on creative projects in a structured\, shared space intended to foster creativity\, imagination\, and connection. The workshop will provide time for participants to reflect on how they can use their own experiences to create meaning from the social and political contexts that shape our identities. The artist will share reference materials and resources related to concepts of identity construction and positionality\, and their own creative process to showcase strategies for participants. All skill levels are welcome and individuals with no background in the arts are encouraged to attend. \nBio of the artist \nOlivia Ong Evans (she/her/hers) is a video artist currently living on occupied Haudenosaunee land (Western New York). She uses experimental practices to create glitchy\, distorted visuals that explore positionality.  Her work centers on themes of identity construction\, migration\, connection to land\, and Hokkien Indonesian heritage. \nThis event is part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. To find out more about the program\, click here. \nBanner image: Olivia Ong Evans\, Work #2.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/creating-identity-asian-american-subjectivities-with-olivia-ong-evans/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210824T190000
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SUMMARY:Generating Sounds Collaboratively with Crystal Z Campbell
DESCRIPTION:*New date* Tuesday\, August 24\, 2021\, 6 pm\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here. Limited capacity.\nCrystal Z Campbell will lead Generating Sounds Collaboratively\, a participatory sound workshop where attendees will generate new sound and reinterpret iconic music that will be featured in the artists upcoming film SLICK. Participants will learn creative strategies for sound design\, including foley sounds\, vocals\, and the specific ways sound can be a critical component of a film. This event will be recorded. \nBio of the artist \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nThis event is part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. To find out more about the program\, click here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/generating-sounds-collaboratively-with-crystal-z-campbell/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T193000
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SUMMARY:Starting with Access: Where a Film Begins with Jordan Lord
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 23\, 2021\, 6 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can.\nRegister here. Limited capacity.\nAccessibility: ASL interpretation and live-captions will be available.\nNew and experienced filmmakers are invited to a private workshop to learn critical concepts to creatively integrate forms of accessibility for disabled audiences into their films. Forms of access are usually treated as so-called “accommodations\,” left to third-party service providers to perform after a film or video has been completed. Understanding access as a way in or a means of approach\, participants will be asked to reimagine their creative process beginning with access as the first step in conceiving what a film is and how it will communicate with its audiences. \nWorkshop participants will be invited to frame access at intersections of disability\, race\, language\, class\, and gender\, while primarily focusing on two more-or-less codified access technologies––audio description (AD) for Blind\, low vision\, and other audiences and captioning for Deaf\, hard-of-hearing\, and other audiences.  \nLord will present examples of how disabled filmmakers have used access as integrated formal tools in their films\, while working through critical questions that emerge around practices of audio description and captioning––asking how the access needs of our audiences might guide our approaches to filmmaking. These complex and layered forms of communication are often presented as apparently neutral translations of images and sounds. But\, of course\, as numerous Blind\, Deaf\, and disabled audiences\, artists\, and activists have shown\, these translations are anything but neutral and often render segregation\, censorship\, and insufficient information\, while presenting manifold possibilities as creative and artistic tools.  \nBio of the artist \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at venues including MoMA\, ARGOS\, Camden Arts Centre\, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts\, and Performance Space NY (as part of the festival “I wanna be with you everywhere”). Their exhibition “Prophetic Memory” is currently in-progress online and at various sites via Artists Space (New York\, NY). They teach at Hunter College\, CUNY (New York). \nThis event is part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. To find out more about the program\, click here. \nBanner Image: Jordan Lord\, After… After… (Access)\, HD video\, 2018. Image description: The inside of a body\, including a spine and other organs\, appears on a laptop screen. A white person’s hand reaches toward the laptop’s keyboard. On top of the hand\, a caption reads: “In learning to make a film\, students are taught to show rather than tell.”
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/starting-with-access-where-a-film-begins-with-jordan-lord/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210618T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210618T203000
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SUMMARY:Johann Diedrick
DESCRIPTION:June 18\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: The artist talk will take place with automated open captions and ASL interpretation. The Q&A will take place over a shared Google Doc. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nOn the occasion of the opening of Dark Matters at Squeaky Wheel\, join us for an artist talk with Johann Diedrick. Dark Matters exposes the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. Utilizing 3D modeling\, sound\, and storytelling\, the project challenges our communities to grapple with racism and inequity through speech and the spoken word\, and how AI systems underserve Black communities. More information about the exhibition\, online project\, and public programs can be seen here. \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist\, engineer\, and musician who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for encountering our world through your ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for delightfully encountering our environment and each other. He is a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (Queens\, NY)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nThis event is presented with support from and as part of Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project. \nBanner image: Johann Diedrick. Photograph provided by the artist.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/johann-diedrick/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T170000
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 19\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with filmmaker Sindhu Thirumalaisamy; this co-presentation follows our screening with Thirumalaisamy in Spring 2020 of her film The Lake and the Lake. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nSindhu Thirumalaisamy‘s work across moving images\, sound\, and text\, is rooted in a critical listening practice. It engages common places such as hospitals\, parks\, streets\, temples\, mosques\, and lakes\, as sites of collective resistance and care\, paying close attention to possibilities for speech and action with/in them. \nSindhu holds a diploma in digital video production from Srishti School of Art\, Design\, and Technology\, Bangalore\, and an MFA in visual art from the University of California\, San Diego. She has participated in the Whitney Independent Study program\, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, and the SOMA Summer program. She is a 2020-21 Core artist-fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. \nSindhu’s most recent film\, The Lake and The Lake\, won the Best Documentary Award at the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Recent exhibitions include programs at Camden International Film Festival\, Open City Documentary Festival\, BlackStar Film Festival\, DokuFest\, Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)\, Kinodot Experimental Film Festival\, EFA Project Space\, Union Docs\, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center\, Artists’ Television Access\, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival\, Current:LA Triennial\, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego\, and San Diego Museum of Art. \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-sindhu-thirumalaisamy/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210412T203000
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Ekrem Serdar
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 12\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. Squeaky Wheel co-presents a talk with our curator Ekrem Serdar\, who will be speaking about his curatorial practice\, and recent work in our exhibitions programs. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nEkrem Serdar is the curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (2015–present)\, where he is responsible for the organization’s exhibitions\, public programming\, and artist residencies. Previously\, he was a programmer with Experimental Response Cinema (Austin\, TX) which he co-founded. He is the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2017). He is an advisory member of Experimental Response Cinema\, and the FOL Cinema Society (Istanbul). His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail\, Millennium Film Journal\, 5harfliler\, among other publications. He completed his BA in Critical Studies\, and his MFA in Media Arts Production at the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. He is from Ankara\, Turkey. \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-ekrem-serdar/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's EMPTY METAL
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 7\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: The film is available with Spanish  subtitles. The  Q&A will take place over a shared doc on pad.riseup . If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nAdam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer\, EMPTY METAL\, 83 minutes\, 2018. \nAn unsettling and cutting political thriller\, EMPTY METAL features an apathetic punk band who are ensnared to commit a series of assassinations by an Indigenous family whose mother communicates telepathically with her meditation companions\, a Rastafarian hacker\, and a Buddhist whose son is a member of a secret militia. These disparate actors are united by rage\, boiled in the history of the United States\, and finding itself at a point of no return in our contemporary moment. Inspired by Lizzie Borden’s classic Born in Flames (1983)\, Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s film has been widely acclaimed since its debut in 2018. It is an essential portrait of current day American violence and politics\, and posits its inevitable consequences. \nThe artists will be present for a post-screening Q&A on April 7. Audiences will be able to leave reactions\, comments\, and questions through a shared Google Doc. Instructions for how to view and participate in the event will be communicated via email. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nEMPTY METAL is co-presented with the PLASMA series at the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study. Adam Khalil will be presenting an artist talk on Monday\, March 15. Click here to see more information about their artist talk. \n“Filled with energy\, rage\, and the smallest measure of hope\, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for these extraordinary times” -Film Society Lincoln Center \nBios of the artists \nBayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His practice revolves around a dynamic\, high-mobility engagement with the margins\, as well as taking an earnest look at the chronomorphic qualities of narrative\, specifically the camera’s ability to consolidate dimensions. His work has been shown at Film Society Lincoln Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, Pacific Film Archive\, Motel Gallery (Brooklyn)\, Other Cinema (San Francisco) and MIIT House (Osaka). Bayley works professionally as a camera assistant and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild\, IATSE Local 600. \nAdam Khalil is a filmmaker and artist. His practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor\, relation\, and transgression. Adam’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, Walker Arts Center\, Spektrum (Berlin)\, Trailer Gallery (Sweden)\, Carnival of eCreativity (Bombay). Khalil is a 2017 Sundance Art of Nonfiction grantee\, 2017 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Opportunity Fellow\, UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow and Gates Millennium Scholar. \nThe PLASMA speaker series brings cutting-edge guests to UB to discuss innovations in media art and culture shaping the new millennium communication world. PLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. PLASMA 2021 is curated by Paige Sarlin.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/bayley-sweitzer-and-adam-khalils-empty-metal/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual
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SUMMARY:PLASMA: Jenson Leonard
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 5\, 6 pm ET\nFree; click here to see how to attend \nUniversity at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances\, Lectures\, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries\, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression. As part of PLASMA\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to co-present an artist talk with Jenson Leonard\, who was a Workspace Resident with Squeaky Wheel for the Summer 2020 session. \nEach PLASMA event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices\, models\, modes\, examples\, and experiences in media arts. \nThe series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media\, digital poetics\, game studies\, locative media\, robotics\, installation\, media theory and performance arts can be experienced. \nIn this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York\, Europe and Latin America\, offering of a rich experience for the University at Buffalo\, the city and Western New York. \nThe series provides\, not expressive answers\, but raises intriguing questions\, exploring new avenues in the digital age\, who we are\, how we interact and where we are going. \nJenson Leonard‘s practice involves the intersection of poetry\, conceptual art\, and internet memes. Not unlike the earliest forms of oral poetry\, memes transmit our cultural memory. I scour the web for these preserves…the copies and reproductions of our collective digital id\, dragging and dropping(sculpting) my findings into the Adobe Suite to create a bricolage of text and image that call into question notions of identity and empire. I chart an internet psychogeography that questions the sensorial exhaustiveness of audiovisual capitalism–An art that\, in the framework of predictive algorithms and data extractions attempts intervention within the infrastructure of social media. Instagram: @coryintheabyss \nPLASMA 2021 is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin\, Assistant Professor of Media Study\, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plasma-jenson-leonard/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual
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