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SUMMARY:Squeaky's Sneaky Peeky
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 15\, 6–8 pm\nFree at 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\nRSVP here\nWe’re moving and we want to hear from you! Join us for our Annual Meeting and a sneak peek into our new home base at the Tri-Main Center (2495 Main Street\, Suite 310) . Hear from our Executive Director\, renew your membership (or become a new member!)\, and give us your feedback on how to utilize the new space. Wine\, beer\, and light fare will be provided. Be sure to RSVP at the link above! \nImage description: An illustration of young people making a movie together. Illustration by Tom Holt.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reality intensive: Theory and Praxis with Deniz Tortum
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 12 and Sunday\, November 13\, 2022\n11 am – 3 pm\nLunch provided; ASL interpretation available\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\n \nIn this two-day intensive for intermediate media students\, filmmaker Deniz Tortum will introduce participants to a critical history and practice of virtual reality\, from the stereoscope from the 1850s to the Unity / Unreal based systems of today. Participants will leave the workshop with a sense of serious play of what it means and how to engage in VR and 3D image making. \nThis workshop is intended for artists and technologists who have an intermediate experience with digital tools and skills such as animation\, 3D modeling\, film editing\, among others. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend Tortum’s virtual reality showcase September 1955 that takes place on the evening of Friday\, November 11. Lunch will be provided and ASL interpretation is available by request; register by Wednesday\, November 9 to request ASL interpretation and indicate any dietary restrictions. \nBiography of the artist \nDeniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, SxSW\, IFFR\, IDFA\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Hot Docs\, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021\, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival. His latest feature film Phases of Matter (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He has worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative\, where his research focused on immersive media. In 2019\, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. \nThis event is presented in partnership with ASI and the Arts Council for Wyoming County\, and made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Special thank you to Çağrı Hakkı Zaman. \nImage: Documentation of an installation of Deniz Tortum\, September 1955 (2016). A person wearing virtual reality goggles in a sunny room. They are crouched and their hands are facing out as if they are gently pushing something.
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LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deniz Tortum's September 1955 and Floodplain
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 11\, 6–8 pm and Saturday\, November 12\, 2022\, 3–5 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nReserve a viewing time here or show up!\nSqueaky Wheel invites you to a special event for you to experience two virtual reality experience by Deniz Tortum\, September 1955 and Floodplain. We are excited to welcome back Tortum\, who was a Workspace Resident researching virtual reality documentary practices in 2017\, in conjunction with his virtual reality intensive taking place that weekend.  Viewers can sign up at the link above to reserve a viewing time for September 1955. \n \nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). A wide image taken outdoors on a partially sunny day. A dirt road\, plastic chairs\, and some houses are visible. Someone is sitting on a chair\, their back turned against us. On the left\, a minaret is visible.\nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain\nVirtual reality on Oculus Rift\, 15 min\, 2018 \nA mysterious tree watches over a forest while humans traverse its paths\, planning construction zones and searching for a lost person. As civilization slowly unravels\, quiet new dynamics emerge. \nFloodplain is set against a man-made environmental crisis and explores our relationships to each other at the end of nature. If we can no longer be what we were\, can we really become something new? Can we be a forest\, or a stone; can we be a multitude of organisms; can we be nothing? Can we be something that we don’t know we can be yet? \n \nDeniz Tortum\, September 1955 (2016). A sun dappled room with a cabinet full of photography film. Two pictures are hanging on the wall; one of a person with a camera\, the other of a soccer team lined up. A coat and fedora hang in the corner by a comfortable chair.\nDeniz Tortum with Çağrı Hakkı Zaman & Nil Tuzcu\, September 1955\nVirtual Reality on Vive\, 8 min\, 2016 \nThe 8-minute virtual-reality documentary depicts the Istanbul Pogrom\, a government-initiated organized attack on the minorities of Istanbul that took place on September 6-7\, 1955. This interactive installation places the viewer in a reconstructed photography studio in the midst of the pogrom\, allowing one to witness the events from the perspective of a local shop-owner. \nDrawing on the photographic archive of Maryam Şahinyan (1911-1996) and Osep Minasoğlu (1929-2013)\, Armenian photographers who lived in Istanbul at the time\, the installation materializes an extinct space. The wall in the virtual studio that exhibits Sahinyan’s photos is transformed into a documentation of the raids and their aftermath in the physical space; by overlapping the layouts of the two spaces the project experiments with the transition from a virtual to physical experience. The experience of the space induced by participating in the mundane activities of the photography studio aims to generate unique historical narratives that are reproduced and enacted by the viewer. \nBiography of the artist \nDeniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, SxSW\, IFFR\, IDFA\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Hot Docs\, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021\, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival. His latest feature film Phases of Matter (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He has worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative\, where his research focused on immersive media. In 2019\, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. \nThis event is presented in partnership with ASI and the Arts Council for Wyoming County\, and made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Special thank you to Çağrı Hakkı Zaman. \nBanner image: Deniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018).
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SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 19th Animation Fest!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 14\, 2022\, 5:30 pm ET\nIn-person at the Burchfield Penney Art Center as part of M&T Second Fridays\nFree or suggested donation\nTo attend the in-person event\, just come to BPAC!\nFor the online screening\, register here\n \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present the annual 19th Animation Fest! The annual festival features some of the most exciting voices working in animation today\, from Western New York and beyond. \nThe eleven short films in the 19th Animation Fest feature animation techniques such as rotoscoping\, 3D animation\, stop-motion\, hand-drawn celluloid films\, music videos and documentary works. These unique and personal films address topics and concerns such as gender and sexuality\, women in the history of animation\, disability and belonging\, the perceptual possibilities of animation\, and much more. \nFeaturing films by Ahmad Saleh\, Anne-Marie Bouchard\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, James Leong Holston\, Kelly Gallagher\, LIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital)\, Lynn Kim\, Marisa Michaels and Sianna Le\, Poyen Wang\, Wenhua Shi\, and Youmee Lee. Curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh. \nAccess information:  \nFor in-person viewers\, see accessibility information for BPAC here. The in-person screening will feature an ASL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. See individual film descriptions for caption and subtitle information in the “Program” section below. \nFor online viewers: See individual film descriptions for caption and subtitle information in the “Program” section below.The screening will be available to view for 24 hours\, and 72 hours for Squeaky members. Ahmad Saleh’s Night is not available for online viewers. \nPlease see the individual film descriptions for content notes. Some of these films may contain strong themes such as war\, trauma\, body dysmorphia\, flicker\, or images that may be unsuitable for young children. \n            <strong>Program</strong>                        \nYoumee Lee\, Rite of Identity\n4:16 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA \nA 2D animation film about a deaf girl who has exceptional artistic talent but struggles with an overwhelming soundscape. Many deaf symbols and motifs are conveyed through her lens. The film is based on Youmee Lee’s personal experience as a deaf student in a mainstream school. \nWenhua Shi\, Because the Sky is Blue\n4 min\, sound\, 2021\, USA \nMuybridge captured the galloping horse one hundred forty years ago in a brief 12 frames. The duration of today’s social media video clips is similar to Muybridge’s brevity. Wenhua tries to reimagine what subject Muybridge would capture today. All source footage is from Wenhua’s social media feed. He used the cyanotype method to reprint the individual frames to create the final short videos. \nAnne-Marie Bouchard\, Bleue\n2:48 min\, sound\, 2021\, Canada\nContent notes: Flickering imagery \nAn improvised film around the color blue and a questioning. This gestural film is woven over my moods during the pandemic lock-down. Constraints: 100 feet of transparent film; work on the persistence of vision (drawings 1 image out of 2). Acrylic paint\, nail polish\, and inks are applied directly on 16mm film. Marie-Loup Cottinet improvised the music on her cello over the animation. \nJames Leong Holston\, Olive and Otis\n5:20 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Animated nudity\, body dysphoria\, brief animated images of surgery and blood \nA short animated horror film about dysphoria\, gender transition\, and the self. \nMarisa Michaels and Sianna Le\, You Are What You Eat\n1 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA \nA short\, gem-like and precise animated film by two students working collaboratively at Nichols School. Winner of the Squeaky Wheel award at the 2022 Nichols School Flickfest. \nHannah Hamalian\, The Golden Age\n9:58 min\, sound\, English with captions\, 2021\, USA \nAn experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream. \nPoyen Wang\, Recess\n4:16 min\, silent\, 2020\, USA \nRecess is a moving image work from The Black Sun series\, which is informed by the literature of Japanese author Motojiro Kajii. Melancholy atmosphere permeates throughout a series of dreamlike vignettes in Recess\, depicting a boy-man figure sitting alone in a timeless\, cave-like classroom. The wind blows the curtains; ceiling fans operate endlessly; clouds slowly pass through the blue sky; a group of butterflies subtly flap their wings on a bulletin board. Conversely\, the protagonist remains still while a ray of sun breaks the darkness of the room through the window\, almost like a rope\, illuminating the statue-like figure. Written in a confessional manner\, Kajii conflates fiction and autobiography\, reflecting on the banality and wonder of quotidian life through the vision of a dying person. Reinterpreting Kajii’s literature through my lived experience as a queer person and an immigrant from East Asia\, I create a series of portraits and still lifes to explore repressed emotions and foreground mortality and alienation as a universal human experience. \nKelly Gallagher\, In the Future\n3:30 min\, sound\, English with captions\, 2021\, USA \nKnowing that another world is possible\, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future. \nAhmed Saleh\, ليل (Night)\n16 min\, sound\, Arabic with English subtitles\, 2021\, Palestine/Germany\nContent notes: Non-violent depictions of war victims and parental trauma \nThe dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night must trick her into sleeping to save her soul.\nPlease note: This film will only be available in the in-person screening \nLynn Kim\, CONDUIT\n5:25 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Flickering imagery \nA running body powers the cycle between states of being. CONDUIT is a tribute to Korean musical rituals and the wonder of locomotion\, both spiritual and physical. \nLIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital)\, Dame Leche\n3:24 min\, sound\, English and Spanish partially subtitled\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Flickering imagery\, brief language \nLiz Ferrer and Bow Ty’s collaborative work spans film making\, photography\, video\, and performance art. Through a queer and comedic lens\, their work together has been building a reputation for critiquing American and Latin pop. Their most recent projects together are feminist reggaeton band Niña and new media collaborative LIZN’BOW. Niña is a feminist reggaeton duo and performative art project. They started this project to bring diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. Dame Leche was directed\, produced\, written\, edited\, and animated by Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty. This video is part one of our visual album Niñalandia. Niñalandia pushes social constructs by bringing diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. Dame Leche is set in a post climate change Miami where half of the city is underwater\, people ride jet skis to work and everyone has an addiction to leche. This project has been funded by Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award. \n            \n            Filmmaker biographies                        \nAhmad Saleh is a Palestinian/German writer and director. His first film\, HOUSE\, 2012 was nominated for the German Short Film Award and his second film\, AYNY\, 2016 won the Student Academy Award. Recently he finished his third short film\, NIGHT and is developing his first feature. \nAnne-Marie Bouchard lives and works in Québec City. She directed several experimental videos and installations. Her work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it. To sense\, to feel\, to be immersed\, and to question: her cinema is poetry.\n \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions. \nJames Leong Holston is a Los Angeles-based animator and filmmaker originally from Berkeley\, California. He studied Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts and graduated in 2022. \nKelly Gallagher is a filmmaker\, animator\, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. Her creative work is rooted in themes of resistance\, struggle\, political histories\, and personal explorations. Her award-winning films and commissioned animations have screened internationally at venues including: the Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, the Smithsonian Institution\, and Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent animations have also screened on Netflix and PBS. She’s presented solo programs of her work at institutions including: SFMOMA\, Close-Up Cinema London\, SF Cinematheque\, and Wexner Center for the Arts. \nLiz and Bow‘s work has been featured at Mana Contemporary\, Squeaky Wheel\, Borscht Film Festival\, ICA Miami\, The Bass Museum\, The Satellite Show Art Fair Art Basel\, Albright-Knox Art Gallery\,  The Koubek Center\, Cunsthaus\, MOCA Miami\, Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo\, and Albright Knox Center. They are recipients of the Knights Art Challenge award from the Knight Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Grant\, Locust Projects WaveMaker\, Oolite Arts Ellies Award\, Knight Sundance Short Film Miami Intensive Fellows\, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency\, Elsewhere Southern Constellations Fellowship\, Caldera Arts Residency\, Squeaky Wheel Residency\, Borscht Film Festival Grant\, En Residencia Fellowship\, Tempus Projects Residency Fellowship\, Acre Residency\, and La Sierra de Santa Marta Residency. \nLynn Kim is a Korean American filmmaker and educator who uses live-action and animation techniques to create short films that explore the social conditions and realities of the human body. She is particularly interested in how questions around gender\, race\, health and sexuality can be explored through metaphorical and abstract means\, and her work is often centered in her own body and lived experiences. \nPoyen Wang was born in Taiwan and is currently based in New York City. His recent practice employs world building through 3D computer graphics to create narratives that grapple with issues of identity\, sexuality and masculinity. He has solo exhibitions at Taipei Digital Art Center (2020)\, 18th Street Arts Center (Los Angeles\, 2018)\, Flux Factory (New York\, 2018)\, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2016). \nWenhua Shi pursues a poetic approach to moving image making\, and investigates conceptual depth in film\, video\, interactive installations and sound sculptures. His work has been presented at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals. He is the founder and one of curators of RPM Fest. \nBased in upstate New York\, Youmee Lee is a deaf Korean American animator who weaves narrative illustrations into her art. She currently teaches courses on deaf art and cinema after earning her M.F.A. in Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology. Growing up with limited access to the aural world\, she delved entirely into the visual world and studied art in New York City\, Amsterdam\, and Seoul. As a first-generation American raised by an immigrant family\, her work is a colorful tapestry of her intersectionality. She strives to deconstruct the stigma towards people with disabilities. Youmee continues to explore storytelling with different materials\, embodying the nuances of sign language and physical movements. Her goal is to create visually poetic work that is accessible to a wide audience.             \nAbout our Partner Sponsor \nAnimators belong at Villa. Look around: Animation is everywhere—movies and TV\, advertising\, video games. Future animators are curious\, creative\, and embrace technology in meaningful ways. But most importantly—they’re storytellers. They have rich imaginations and take inspiration from other disciplines like photography\, music\, and film. At Villa\, you’ll channel what you discover to create characters and environments that capture the interests of a range of audiences. Click here for more information. \nImage: Lynn Kim\, CONDUIT (2022). A traced image of a person moving over a black backdrop. An abstract white shadow falls on the floor.
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LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, 14222\, United States
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SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's Excellent Adventure!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 24\, 2022\nTeam check-in: starts at 11 AM\nGameplay: 12–4 PM\nParty: 6–9 PM\nSliding scale: $10-25 per person.\nLocation: Anywhere! With optional opening and closing events at Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\nClick here for tickets\nClick here for the event guide+ team placards \n* Event guide available on September 24\, 2022\, at 12 pm ET \n  \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is on!  \nBring your creativity and a team of up to 4 of your friends and family. Compete to win prizes by posting photos and videos to Instagram to solve clues. \n\n\n11:00 am-12 pm – Check in at Five Points Bakery\, grab a team photo\, and register before the clues drop! \n\n\n12:00 pm – Clues released and the Excellent Adventure Begins! \n\n\n4:00 pm-Finish Line. The Excellent Adventure ENDS! No late photo posts will be accepted. \n\n\n6:00 pm-Party! –  and winners are announced \n\n\nHailed by Buffalo Spree magazine as the “Best New Fundraiser”\, the Excellent Adventure is “a brilliant mashup of scavenger hunt and selfie culture…truly family-friendly\, educational\, and\, most of all\, super fun.” \nGet to know the place you live\, share your creativity\, have fun with your friends\, and win prizes.\nHere is the deal: \n\n\nTeams have four hours \n\n\n50 clues in 5 categories \n\n\nBonus points awarded for creativity and effort \n\n\nClues completed by posting photos and videos to instagram with hashtag #squeakyadventure \n\n\nThe Excellent Adventure promises to bring out the artist\, tour guide\, historian\, and/or goofball in all of us! Players can take part  in their own backyard or on the other side of the world. All you need is an internet connection\, a smart phone\, and a few hours for fun. \nAnd did we mention there is an After Party!? \nIf you are local\, celebrate a day of adventuring through Buffalo at Five Points Bakery with music from ABCDJ. There will be food and drinks available for purchase\, and all proceeds benefit Squeaky Wheel\, an excellent excuse to get out and enjoy the last Saturday of September. \nDon’t want to quest for clues – why not come and party anyway!  We have a special party-only ticket available (only $10)\, so you can still support Squeaky Wheel\, check out the work of the Excellent Adventure teams and celebrate the winners at the Five Points After Party\, 6-9 pm. \n“The Squeaky Wheel Excellent Adventure was a great opportunity to get outdoors\, be creative\, and see lots of Buffalo sights that I don’t often take the time to notice. My friends and I had a lovely afternoon of competitive fun and learned some new ways to use digital media!” \n—Sarah Wooton\, 2020 participant\, Team Inspector Catjets \nA panel of Excellent Adventure judges made up of media professionals and community members will review submissions\, assigning points for the completion of each clue\, and assigning bonus points for creativity or effort. At exactly 4 pm\, gameplay ends. No late submissions! At 6 pm we’ll gather at Five Points Bakery for the after-party where posts will be shared on screens and prizes will be awarded. DJ? Check. Dancing? Check. Fun? Absolutely! \nWhat does my ticket support? \nSqueaky Wheel’s mission is to continue a legacy of innovation in media arts through access\, education\, and exhibition. We envision a community that uses digital media and film to celebrate freedom of expression and diversity of voice. Buying a ticket to this fundraising event supports the amazing work that Squeaky Wheel does to bring Media Arts Education to youth\, schools\, seniors\, artists\, and communities throughout and beyond Western New York. \n  \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is made possible through the generous support of Five Points Bakery\, Allen Street Consulting\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo Spree\, Buffalo State College Dept. of Communication\, Catholic Health\, Delaware Camera\, FGI Landscaping\, Lumpy Buttons\, PUSH Buffalo\, Rigidized Metals\, UB Media Study. \nBanner photo: A collage of posts from previous Excellent Adventures responding to prompts such as (left to right\, top to bottom): Favorite Public Artwork\, Favorite Mural\, Hottest Wings\, Photo Finish Team Photo\, Team Headstand\, Make a New Friend\, Five Fall Colors\, Twisted Tongues\, Stupid Human Trick.
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SUMMARY:Silo City Reading Series (with Johann Diedrick)
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 27\, 7:30 pm @ Silo City\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get your tickets\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to collaborate with Just Buffalo Literary Center in presenting the Silo City Reading Series! Featuring poets Jericho Brown\, JBLC Poetry Fellow Ashia Ajani\, a musical performance by Florist\, we are excited to finally welcome artist Johann Diedrick to Silo City as originally intended: Diedrick will be performing Prelude to Wake\, which he worked on remotely for Silo City as a Workspace Resident in 2020. \nPrelude to Wake is an urgent\, mournful\, and world-building sonic performance that centers the loss of ourselves and environments due to climate change. The work is performed by a fictional character named “The Sound Collector” who collects buried vibrations and releases them from material through an ancient technological device. Combining field recordings\, original music composition\, and generative audio techniques\, Prelude to Wake stages an encounter between the audience\, a past that we are losing due to catastrophe\, and what may exist in the future. \nBiography of the artist \nJohann Diedrick is an award-winning artist\, engineer\, and musician that makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for experiencing the world through sonic encounter. He surfaces resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for revealing new sonic possibilities off the grid. He is the Director of Engineering at Somewhere Good\, a 2022 Future Imagination Collaboratory Fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU\, a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a 2020 Pioneer Works Technology resident\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented internationally at MoMA PS1\, the New Museum\, Ars Electronica\, Science Gallery Dublin\, Somerset House\, and multiple NIME conferences\, among others. \nAbout Just Buffalo \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s mission is to create and strengthen communities through the literary arts. And for more than 45 years\, we have brought the world’s greatest writers to Buffalo\, hosted poetry events and readings\, and supported the development of young writers. We believe in the love of reading\, the art of writing\, and the power of the literary arts to transform individual lives and communities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-reading-series-with-johann-diedrick/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Jenson Leonard's Workflow
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 26\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get tickets\nOnline and in-person at Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203). For in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. The online video will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a screening of Jenson Leonard’s newest short video Workflow. Presented as the closing event of the artists exhibition GLAND PRIX\, Leonard will be joined by his Summer 2020 co-resident Johann Diedrick for a conversation on the film after the screening. \nLearn more about GLAND PRIX here. \n“Drawing from Aria Dean’s essay ‘Notes on Blaccelleration’\, Workflow is a film centered around the velocity and momentum of blackness as it relates to the philosophical concept of acceleration-the idea that the only way out of capitalism is through its intensification. Workflow is primarily concerned with the interplay of blackness and aesthetic vocabularies of finance capital\, how the black (non)subject grapples with its commodified status within the labor market despite\, or resultant of its own history as a commodity via chattel slavery\, threading linkages between the primitive accumulation of the New World and speculative accumulation of latter day. Workflow is defined as “the sequence of industrial\, administrative\, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion”\, my film seeks to disabuse notions of completion wherein blackness is\, as Dean notes\, ‘always already accelerationist’ via its incongruence with western humanism\, and thus always already disengaged from the locomotive fetish of capital. The film presents a quarterly earnings report for a fictitious financial advisory firm that depicts a floating phantasmagoric Michael Jackson Halloween mask espousing a surrealist poem/public relations speech that points to the shared grammars inherent in afro pessimism and speculative finance. Behind the floating head\, stock footage premised around the shape of ‘the grid’ and the promise of sustainability & renewability highlight the inherent relationship of infrastructure\, visual knowledge production\, and statecraft.” – Jenson Leonard \nBiographies of the artists \nJenson Leonard\, (artist) b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nJohann Diedrick (guest speaker for Screening: Jenson Leonard’s Workflow\, taking place on August 25\, 2022) is an award-winning artist\, engineer\, and musician that makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for experiencing the world through sonic encounter. He surfaces resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for revealing new sonic possibilities off the grid. He is the Director of Engineering at Somewhere Good\, a 2022 Future Imagination Collaboratory Fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU\, a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a 2020 Pioneer Works Technology resident\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented internationally at MoMA PS1\, the New Museum\, Ars Electronica\, Science Gallery Dublin\, Somerset House\, and multiple NIME conferences\, among others. \nImage description: An image from Workflow\, courtesy of Jenson Leonard. A floating\, plastic\, seemingly smiling mask of Michael Jackson with no eyeballs is super-imposed on a distorted landscape of futuristic blue skyscrapers.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jenson-leonards-workflow/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings
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SUMMARY:(Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory with Muse Dodd
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 23\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nInstructor: Muse Dodd \nHow can we tap into ancestral ways of re-memory? (Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory will explore Black people’s relationship to memory and time focusing on alternative ways of knowing and the questions; How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? \nIn this workshop intended for Black and brown people of African descent\, ages 16 and up\, Workspace Resident Muse Dodd will guide participants in dissecting the components of memory through meditative exercises\, collage\, sound\, and smell. There will also be a screening of (Re)mnants\, the short film by Muse Dodd\, and a sound bath meditation. Participants will leave with new perspectives on memory making\, a collaborative collage and some journal prompts. Free notebooks and pens will be provided. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructor \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage: Muse Dodd\, Kendi (2018). A young Black child rests their head\, eyes closed on their bike in a field of overgrown grass. The American flag is propped against a rust colored storage unit and blows gently in the wind.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/remnants-the-anatomy-of-memory-with-muse-dodd/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Intro to Motion Capture for VR with Eric Souther and Yunda Sun
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 20\, 2022\, 1–4 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nInstructor: Eric Souther\, IEA Media Arts Project Director & Associate Professor of Video Art assisted by Yunda Sun\, EA Research Associate \nLed by former Workspace Resident Eric Souther\, this hands-on workshop will introduce the creative uses of motion capture and 3D scanning for the creation of immersive experiences. Motion capture allows anyone to animate a humanoid avatar with the simple movement of their body in real-time. This allows for the performative and rapid development of animations for use in game engines\, augmented reality applications\, and virtual film production. 3D scanning allows creators to easily create digital models from physical objects. This workshop will focus on the creative use of these technologies for the creation of VR experiences within the Unreal 5 Game Engine. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructors \nEric Souther is a new media artist who draws from a multiplicity of disciplines\, including anthropology\, linguistics\, ritual\, critical theory\, and New Materialism. He develops video instruments that investigate technological & cultural ecologies\, agency\, and emergence. He looks for new ways of seeing beyond the seductive qualities of an image\, and to find unseen connections that help us understand our digital and non-digital existence. His work takes many pathways\, which include single-channel video\, interactive installation\, projection mapping\, print\, virtual reality\, and audiovisual performance. \nHis work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Art and Design\, NYC\, Everson Museum of Art\, Syracuse\, NY\, and the Museum of Art\, Zhangzhou\, China. His work has screened in The Athens Digital Arts Festival\, Athens\, Greece\, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival\, Beyoglu\, Istanbul\, Cronosfera Festival\, Alessandria\, Italy\, the Galerija 12 New Media Hub\, Belgrade\, Serbia\, the Simultan Festival\, Timisoara\, Romania\, and the Festival ECRÃ of Audiovisual Experimentations\, Rio de Janeiro. \nIn 2016\, Eric won the Juried Award for Time-Based at the international art competition ArtPrize. He received his B.F.A. in New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009 and his M.F.A. in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2011. He currently is an Associate Professor of Video Art in the Division of Expanded Media at NYSCC at Alfred University. \n\nThis project is made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \nImage courtesy of Eric Souther.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-motion-capture-for-vr-with-eric-souther-and-yunda-sun/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Muse Dodd and Rob Cosgrove
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 19\, 2022\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nFor in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2022 artist residents\, Muse Dodd (Atlanta\, GA) and Rob Cosgrove (Sunnyside\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Muse Dodd will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to build models and sets for their installation and performance work Black in Both Directions that supposes that Black people invented time travel. Their project will utilize projection mapping\, draw on Afro-diasporic notions of time using oral testimonies\, and images created by the artist and archival video footage. Rob Cosgrove will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on Floaters\, a networked sonic performance in Silo City Marine A\, performed live for the public at the end of his residency. Inspired by the floating grain elevators used in the First Ward of Buffalo\, and drawing on the artist’s own family history in the area\, Cosgrove’s work contemplates the shifting networked relationship between the industrial and social communities in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame.  \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  \nImage description: Two photographs side by side. On the left is Muse Dodd\, a brown skinned\, Black\, non-binary person with blonde eyebrows\, wears a red camo durag while gazing at the camera and stands in front of a mustard backdrop. Their photograph is by Landon Spears. On the right is a photograph of Rob Cosgrove\, looking down surrounded by trees.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-muse-dodd-and-rob-cosgrove/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance with Rob Cosgrove
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 17\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nInstructor: Rob Cosgrove \nRob Cosgrove will lead Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance\, a workshop on how to utilize the internet and other networks for sound production. Intended for participants both new and with intermediate experience in broadcasting online\, the workshop will prepare participants for high-fidelity sound-based networked performance and live-streaming over the web using free\, open-source softwares.  \nUp until recently\, tools for networked performance could be expensive\, difficult to use\, and limited to institutions with access to high-speed internet. With the rise of residential internet speeds\, the development of more user-friendly networking applications\, and increased public access to technology\, networked performance has become available for many. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available.  \nBio of the instructor \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is a residency open to artists and researchers working in art and technology\, and provides support for new or ongoing projects in collaboration with our partners. Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.  \nImage: Rob Cosgrove\, Broadcast presence (2021). Two silhouettes of drummers illuminated in windows of a building at night.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sonic-links-an-introduction-to-networked-performance-with-rob-cosgrove/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:DATA Summer Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 11 at 6 pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel 617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203\nLocation + Accessibility information\nFree and open to the public \nLead Teaching Artist: Nyles Moore\nTeaching Assistant: Naomi Frisch\nStudent Mentor: Diego Diaz \nJoin us to view the work the DATA (Digital Art & Technology Access) students created this summer in the Digital Art + Animation workshops! The showcase will feature digital and printed artwork and animations. Light snacks and drinks will be available. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nGraphic image: Courtesy of Nyles Moore\, 2022 \n  \nSpecial thanks to DATA’s generous funders and partners: \n \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/data-summer-showcase/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Equipment Orientation
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 9\, 2022\, 11am–12pm\nFree\nRegister here\nCurious about Squeaky Wheel’s equipment offerings? Interested in using equipment but don’t know where to start? Have a project concept but aren’t sure how to go about making it? If you answered yes to any of these\, then this orientation is for you! \nIn this free and relaxed workshop\, participants are invited to a hands-on look at Squeaky Wheel’s various equipment and access offerings with Tech Director Mark Longolucco. The orientation will cover the basic operations of camera\, sound and lighting equipient as well as procedures in reserving and renting from Squeaky Wheel. Mark will also discuss the process for applying to the Equipment Access Grant and Big Picture programs. This is a great way to familiarize yourself with the equipment available to you and meet others in Buffalo’s creative community. \nAccess information: This event will take place in person at Squeaky Wheel. Participants must be masked through the duration of the workshop.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/equipment-orientation/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Access
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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:Jenson Leonard: GLAND PRIX
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, May 27\, 2022 at Squeaky Wheel\nOn view through August 29\, 2022\, Tuesday and Wednesdays\, 12–5pm and by appointment.\nClick here to download the GLAND PRIX Strategy Guide (V. 3.00)\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a new solo exhibition by new media artist Jenson Leonard. GLAND PRIX is a multiple-screen video exhibition to explore the stressors and somatic effects that racial capitalism and white supremacy have on Black life. \nFeaturing a drum and bass soundtrack\, the newest work by the Philadelphia based new media artist and poet functions as a manifestation and reflection of the embodied effects of settler-colonial violence. The work is emblematic of Leonard’s singular\, joyous\, and concentrated work: Using the visual tactics and language of viral internet memes\, and wrapped within racing iconography\, GLAND PRIX considers and draws from pop culture\, medical racism/medical apartheid\, the video game Gran Turismo\, Achille Mbembe’s notion of necropolitics\, anime aesthetics\, and much more to raise awareness\, invite conversation\, and reflect upon the cumulative\, cellular burden of chronic stress and traumatic life events. \nThe opening of the exhibition will feature remarks with the artist in person. A “Strategy Guide” for the exhibition provides a walkthrough of the exhibition with visual and audio descriptions\, explanations of Leonard’s key references\, and a newly commissioned essay by Cameron A. Granger. \nThe exhibition is on view Tuesdays and Wednesdays\, 12–5 pm and by appointment. To make an appointment\, email ekrem@squeaky.org. \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nPublic programs \nPOSTPONED – Tuesday\, May 24\, 6–8:30 pm : Workshop | Meme workshop with Jenson Leonard (in-person and virtual). \nFriday\, May 27\, 7 pm: Opening | GLAND PRIX  with Jenson Leonard (in-person) \nWednesday\, June 15\, 12 pm ET: Artist talk | Jenson Leonard and American Artist in conversation. Virtual – Click here to register. \nFriday\, August 26: Screening | Jenson Leonard’s Workflow\, followed by a conversation with Jenson Leonard and Johann Diedrick (in person and virtual). Click here to register. \nAbout the artist\nJenson Leonard\, b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nAbout the writer\nCameron A. Granger came up in Cleveland\, Ohio alongside his mother\, Sandra\, inheriting both her love of soul music\, and habit of apologizing too much. A video artist\, he uses his work as both a site for memory making\, and as means to strategize new ways of remembrance in our age of mass media. His recent projects include “The Get Free Telethon” a 24 hour livestream community fundraiser sponsored by Red Bull Arts\, “Pearl” a body of collaborative works with his mother at Ctrl+Shft in Oakland\, and “A library\, for you” a traveling community library most recently housed at ikattha project space in Bombay\, India. He’s a 2017 alumni of the Skowhegan School for Paint & Sculpture and a current artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. \nBanner image courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jenson-leonard-gland-prix/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Crystal Z Campbell and Allan Jamieson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 3\, 7 pm\nat Journeys End Refugee Services theater (5th floor of Tri-Main Building\, 2495 Main St #530\, Buffalo\, NY 14214)\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination through a Vaccination card or NY Excelsior Pass will be required for entry. Masks will be required for the duration of the event. \nFeaturing three short films of legends that flow from Niagara Falls to Sweden\, Squeaky Wheel and Buffalo Arts Studio present an evening with filmmakers Crystal Z Campbell and Allan Jamieson. The three films bring to fore questions on how we imagine and relate to lands we inhabit\, from the settler-colonial mindset critiqued in Jamieson’s 1996 documentary Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist\, to the fugitivity of migrants in contemporary Sweden in Campbell’s VIEWFINDER. The hour long program will be followed by a Q&A with Campbell and Jamieson on their work and the shared themes between their films. \nThe program is presented as part of Crystal Z Campbell\, VIEWFINDER\, an immersive film installation at Buffalo Arts Studio that takes cues from Swedish folktales\, gestures\, and movements to explore belonging\, allyship\, and living monuments. If our bodies are archives\, what is the currency of place\, of movement\, of memory? \nProgram \nCrystal Z Campbell\, A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse\, 8:12 min\, 2016-2020  \nA Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse is a poetic glimpse of how centuries of extraction\, racism\, pollution\, and commoditizing nature has altered our relationship to sacred land and resources. How has nature been historically shaped and imaged for pleasure\, status\, and control by many hands of invisible labor? Constellated and intersectional histories and source material include testimony from a Water Protector at Standing Rock protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline\, contaminated water in Flint Michigan\, original footage of Hierve el Agua near Oaxaca\, Mexico revered for its healing properties\, archival images of gardens and hands of artists who resided in Tulsa\, Oklahoma and children brushing their teeth––a reflection of the innocuous ways which contaminated water and resources shapes the lives of individuals completing banal\, daily\, routine tasks. \nCritical to the film is the intentional use of unlicensed footage\, bearing a brand across the center that detracts from what’s happening in the actual footage\, and becomes a viewfinder for how that footage is read or deemed important enough to view because there is a branded stamp of approval. Historically\, the watermark is used to connote ownership and authenticity. The film is a consideration of how documentary practice can be another form of resource extraction\, of which this filmmaker is implicated. Licensing fees are an example of the barriers to access\, ultimately deciding who will control critical narratives of environmental racism and discourse. Originally commissioned by Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center\, the work was made in 2017 and reedited in 2020. – Crystal Z Campbell \nAllan Jamieson\, Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist\, 26 min\, 1996\n“This is a Seneca teaching story\, whose true meaning is one of sharing. The sharing of information with each other. The sharing of letting each other know when something is wrong.” – Allan Jamieson \nCharting both a moment in Western New York’s Native American activism and a rare document of a Seneca chief and elder\, Allan Jamieson’s 1996 film Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist takes on a racist educational video and retelling of the Haudenosaunee legend of the Maid of the Mist by the Maid of the Mist corporation\, which operates the famous Niagara Falls boat tours. Jamieson’s documentary showcases segments of the Maid of the Mist corporation’s video\, showcasing how it is informed by Western and colonial viewpoints\, followed by interviews with tourists on their thoughts on the legend. The film is especially notable for featuring an extended interview with the late Seneca Chief and elder Corbett Sundown\, who tells the original story of the Maid of the Mist as it was told to him by his grandparents\, and passed away after filming was completed. \nThe film was part of extended efforts by our region’s Native American communities to pressure the Maid of the Mist Corporation to change its false gallery exhibit and video. Initially resistant\, the Maid of the Mist Corporation eventually did so. \nThe documentary received support from the New York State Council of the Arts\, and was edited in Squeaky Wheel’s post-production studio in 1996. The film is presented here in a digital transfer from a 3/4 tape\, broadcast as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Axlegrease television show in 1997. Learn more about Axlegrease here. – Ekrem Serdar \nCrystal Z Campbell\, VIEWFINDER\, 18:26 min\, 2020 \nFilmed entirely in Swedish spa town\, VIEWFINDER takes cues from political gestures\, and decisive movements to explore belonging\, allyship\, and monuments. – Crystal Z Campbell \nBiographies of the artists \nAllan Jamieson is a Faithkeeper from the wolf clan of the Cayuga people\, one of the Six Nations. Coordinator of Neto\, a Native American managed non-profit organization. He brings a wealth of knowledge and research in his presentations. One of the founding members of Neto\, he is responsible for the overall management of the organization including meeting the goals\, coordinating activities and managing the budget. His experience includes extensive research on the WNY geographic area and oral history related to the WNY. Currently he is responsible for coordinating art exhibits and projects sponsored by Neto… and these activities include scheduling artist workshops\, hiring artists and curators\, scheduling exhibits and providing publicity for all events. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and a Master of Arts from the University of Buffalo\, 1987. While a graduate student he developed and taught the currently offered course in Native American literature. In addition to his interest in art he recently completed training as a Alternative Dispute Resolution facilitator to work with families in crises. He has been an active member of the Native community in the Western New York region which includes the Buffalo and Niagara Falls areas for the past 20 years assisting area art institutions with Native American programming. \nCrystal Z Campbell (they/them) is currently a 2021–22 UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar\, multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipinx\, and Chinese descents. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts\, Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Their archive-driven work in film/video\, performance\, installation\, sound\, painting\, and text\, has been exhibited at The Drawing Center\, Nest\, ICA-Philadelphia\, Bemis\, Studio Museum of Harlem\, SculptureCenter\, and SFMOMA\, and a forthcoming monographic screening at MOMA. Honors and awards include the Pollock-Krasner Award\, MAP Fund\, MacDowell\, Skowhegan\, Rijksakademie\, Whitney ISP\, Franklin Furnace\, Tulsa Artist Fellowship\, UNDO Fellowship\, and Flaherty Film Seminar. Campbell’s writing has been featured in World Literature Today\, Monday Journal\, GARAGE\, and Hyperallergic. Campbell\, a former Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David & Roberta Logie Fellow\, was recently named a Creative Capital Awardee\, and is founder of the virtual programming platform archiveacts.com. \nThis program is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts and presented in collaboration with Buffalo Arts Studio. Special thank you to Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nImage: Crystal Z Campbell\, A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse\, 8:12 min\, 2016-2020
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/crystal-z-campbell-and-allan-jamieson/
LOCATION:Journey’s End Refugee Services\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite #530\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:21st Annual Nichols School Flick Fest Student Film and Video Festival
DESCRIPTION:Call for submissions deadline: April 11\, 2022. Submit your films here.\nScreening: Thursday\, April 28\, 2022\, 7 pm\n@ North Park Theater (1428 Hertel Avenue\, Buffalo\, New York\, 14216)\nFree and open to the public\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to co-present the 21st edition of Nichols School’s fest for young media makers! The festival accepts entries by middle and high school students from all over Western New York. Student work submitted to the festival is judged by a panel of student filmmakers and curated into a single evening screening. Participation in the Flick Fest gives student filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their work to a Western New York audience\, meet fellow filmmakers\, and view work by their filmmaking peers. The festival committee works to make the evening entertaining and informative. In addition to the screening\, there is an award ceremony for the winning films\, with several cash prizes from $25-$50 dollars. \n \nBanner image: courtesy Nichols School. A comic strip like image with Spiderman holding a camera. The words Amazing Flick-Fest are overlaid on it.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/21st-annual-nichols-school-flick-fest-student-film-and-video-festival/
LOCATION:North Park Theatre\, 1428 Hertel Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14216\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Call,Screenings
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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:Crystal Campbell: Viewfinder
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, April 22\, 2022\, 5–8 pm at Buffalo Arts Studio\, part of M&T Bank 4th Friday @ Tri-Main Center.\nOn view April 22–May 14\, 2022.\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to be a co-presenter of a solo exhibition by Crystal Z Campbell\, one of our Summer 2021 Workspace Residents\, at Buffalo Arts Studio. \nCrystal Z Campbell’s multidisciplinary practice centers on public secrets\, or information known by many and yet undertold and underspoken. Campbell’s experimental film\, VIEWFINDER\, was shot entirely in the resort town of Varberg\, Sweden and features recent migrants to Sweden. This immersive film-based installation takes cues from Swedish folktales\, gestures\, and movements to explore belonging\, allyship\, and monuments. If our bodies are archives\, what is the currency of place\, of movement\, of memory? \nCrystal Z Campbell (they/them) is currently a 2021–22 UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar\, multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipinx\, and Chinese descents. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts and 2022 Creative Capital Awardee\, their archive-driven work in film/video\, performance\, installation\, sound\, painting\, and text\, has been exhibited and screened at The Drawing Center\, ICA-Philadelphia\, Bemis\, Studio Museum of Harlem\, MOMA\, SculptureCenter\, SFMOMA\, and a forthcoming screening at the National Gallery of Art. \nPart of Navigating Identity Exhibition and Workshop Series\, which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Visit Buffalo Arts Studio for more information. \n\nImage: Film Still from VIEWFINDER\, Crystal Z Campbell\, copyright 2020\, Digital Video\, Stereo Sound\, 18’26” Minutes.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/crystal-campbell-viewfinder/
LOCATION:Buffalo Arts Studio\, 2495 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Call for Youth Work!
DESCRIPTION:Youth Media Makers\, submit your short film today!  \n  \nCalling all young filmmakers and media makers! Share your voice and vision this October 6-10 at the Buffalo Int’l Film Festival! BIFF and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center are partnering to showcase new\, creative film and media works made by students across the nation. All young filmmakers under 18 are invited to submit any moving image work between 30 seconds and 10 minutes long that they created. There is no submission fee.  \nSubmissions will be judged by a panel of young media makers from Squeaky Wheel’s Teen Council\, made up of advance-track students in Saturday Cafe; and BIFF and Squeaky Wheel staff. \nSubmission Guidelines: \n\nPrincipal filmmakers must be under 18 years old at the time of making the film.\nFilms should be no longer than 10 minutes\, including titles and credits.\nExcerpts of longer works will be considered.\nAll submissions must be made by private Vimeo or YouTube link. (Password required for consideration)\nSelected filmmakers will be asked for a screener version of their film.\n\nDeadline: July 15 at 12 pm EST. \nIf you have questions\, or you are submitting on behalf of a student or group of students\, please email Martina for details – martina@squeaky.org \nBuffalo International Film Festival (est. 2006) champions regional\, national\, and international films that push the limits of independent cinema – presenting quality films from around the world to WNY residents and visitors. BIFF is committed to amplifying diverse voices and exhibiting cutting-edge programming in narrative\, documentary and experimental film. A proud supporter of local filmmaking and the arts; BIFF also offers workshops\, seminars\, industry panel discussions\, fiscal sponsorship and professional development opportunities\, as well as an Offscreen series of art\, music and performance.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/biff-call-for-work/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Call for youth applicants,Open Call
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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:DATA 3D Animation
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2022 \nSound with Zain Alam: March 15 & 17\, 4–6 pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel\, 617 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY 14203\nFree \nOur spring session starts off with a special sound-based workshop with Workspace Resident\, Zain Alam. Through sampling\, remix\, and synthesis techniques students will create collages using sounds\, photos\, and videos. The workshop aims to empower youth not only to look at their favorite media as a model for their own collages but also to question what it means to “borrow” ethically from others.   \n  \n3D Animation 1: April 2–May 7 (No class April 16)\n3D Animation 2: May 14–June 25 (No class May 21 and 28)\nSaturdays 11 am–2 pm\n@ Villa Maria College\, 240 Pine Ridge Rd\, Buffalo\, NY 14225\nFree\nLead Teaching Artist: Nyles Moore\nTeaching Assistant: Naomi Frisch\nStudent Mentor: Ryan Johnson \nAre you interested in stepping into the exciting world of 3D animation? These workshops will introduce animation practices\, animating/understanding rigs\, lighting\, camera work\, rendering\, and texturing. Through a series of projects\, students will learn to create and develop their 3D animations with the professional 3D software\, Maya. \nCan’t do both workshops? No problem! These workshops are designed so participants in both sessions will increase their knowledge while new students can join without previous animation experience. \nDigital Arts and Technology Access Program (DATA) is a media arts and technology program designed for neurodivergent individuals ages 13-26. Learn more about DATA.  \n  \nRegister here\n\nImage: 3D Animation still courtesy of Nyles Moore \n  \nHow are we preventing the spread of COVID-19? \n\nSqueaky Staff and instructors are fully vaccinated \nPrior to and after class equipment will be properly cleaned with 70% Isopropyl alcohol\nStations will be placed with a minimum of three feet distance from each other\nParticipants and instructors will be required to wear a mask covering both their mouth and nose\nWe’re following CDC and NYS guidelines for capacity\n\n  \n\nIn partnership with: \n \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/data_3danimation/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Youth Program
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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
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Intro to Machine Learning with Carlos Castellanos
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 15\, 6 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nAccess information: This event will take place in person at Squeaky Wheel. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination through NY State Excelsior Pass or a Vaccination card required. Participants must be masked through the duration of the workshop. ASL interpretation can be requested in check-out\, and Squeaky Wheel will make every effort to secure one\, and contact you if one is available. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops\, but can also request one of Squeaky Wheel’s laptops\, first-come\, first-serve. \nIn this introductory workshop\, artist Carlos Castellanos will introduce participants to the basics of machine learning and how it can be applied in arts\, design and other creative contexts. The goal of the workshop will be to introduce the basics of the machine learning pipeline using free/open-source\, artist-friendly tools such as Wekinator and RunwayML. Participants will focus on building a simple machine learning application that translates human motion or gesture into sound but the workshop will also include discussions about other strategies for use and a brief demonstration of Beauty. \nNo coding experience is required. This workshop is of interest to artists\, musicians\, and hackers\, especially those with an interest and/or background in electronic media. \nClick here to download Wekinator ahead of the workshop. Click here to download RunwayML ahead of the workshop. \nBio \nCarlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher with a wide array of interests such as cybernetics\, ecology\, embodiment\, phenomenology\, artificial intelligence and transdisciplinary collaboration. His work bridges science\, technology\, education and the arts\, developing a network of creative interaction with living systems\, the natural environment and emerging technologies. His artworks have been exhibited at local\, national and international events such as the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA)\, SIGGRAPH & ZERO1 San Jose. Castellanos is Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Games & Media (IGM)\, Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)\, Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, San Jose State University. \nImage: Carlos Castellanos in collaboration with Bello Bello\, PLANTCONNECT\, 2019-ongoing
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-machine-learning-with-carlos-castellanos/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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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.
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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
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