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SUMMARY:Cut-out Animation Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:July 27–31 \n9 am–12 pm  \nCost: $160 | Members $140  \nInstructor – Amanda Long \nThis workshop will introduce 2D stop motion animation with paper cutouts\, drawings\, and rephotography. By using mixed media materials participants will create an animated drawing series from books\, magazines\, and collage materials. Words\, phrases\, and images can be incorporated inspired by the Surrealist’’s idea of “automatic writing.” \n  \n*Needed – Camera enabled iPad\, Tablet\, or Smartphone\, with Stop Frame Studio installed on it iOs\, Android  \n \nBack to Summer Schedule \nTeaching Artist \n \nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $50 for any cancelations. Cancelations with less than one-week notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. Limited scholarships are available to students. Please contact kevin@squeaky.org for more information. \nLooking for more! Check out our creative neighbor CEPA gallery for virtual offerings this summer!
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/cut-out-animation/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200720T130000
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SUMMARY:Game Making and Storytelling Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:July 20–24 \n1 pm–4 pm   \nCost: $160 | Members $140  \nGames have a strange\, almost magical relationship with storytelling. What kind of stories are best told through play? In this workshop\, we’ll tell short\, interactive games/stories using free tools and a tiny bit of code. \n  \nTech Requirements: access to a computer\, laptop\, or tablet with a keyboard. \n \nBack to Summer Schedule \n  \nTeaching Artist \n \nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $50 for any cancelations. Cancelations with less than one-week notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. Limited scholarships are available to students. Please contact kevin@squeaky.org for more information. \nLooking for more! Check out our creative neighbor CEPA gallery for virtual offerings this summer!
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/game-making-and-storytelling/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200720T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200724T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T001635
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SUMMARY:Visual Poetry Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:July 20–24 \n9 am–12 pm  \nCost: $160 | Members $140  \nInstructor – Kaitlyn Lowe \nWhat do words and images have in common? This workshop explores poetry and imagery through a series of media art exercises. Students will use a series of apps and web-based tools to create meaningful images and videos on a variety of platforms.  \n  \n \nBack to Summer Schedule \nTeaching Artist \n \nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $50 for any cancelations. Cancelations with less than one-week notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. Limited scholarships are available to students. Please contact kevin@squeaky.org for more information. \nLooking for more! Check out our creative neighbor CEPA gallery for virtual offerings this summer!
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/visual-poetry/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200815
DTSTAMP:20260430T001635
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SUMMARY:Call for Applications from Youth: Saturday Cafe\, Fall 2020
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: August 14\, 2020\nNotification of acceptance: August 24\, 2020\nSaturday Cafe is Squeaky Wheel’s Advance Track Youth Media Art Program\, open to youth aged 13–19.\nClasses take place Saturdays 12–3 pm ET\, September 12–December 19\, 2020 for a total of fifteen weeks. \nSqueaky Wheel is looking for enthusiastic and driven young makers interested in art and technology to join our Saturday Cafe program. Students will explore the potential of virtual spaces to create work and learn new media and technology skills with an experimental focus. \nStudents will participate in our weekly meetings facilitated by Lead Mentors from Squeaky Wheel staff\, and work with a series of visiting designers\, media artists\, and collectives\, to create experimental virtual studios in Mozilla Spoke. Students will make and present new and ongoing work in virtually built environments. Classes are conducted in English. \nSaturday Cafe is an experimental advanced track youth media education project\, that provides students with artistic mentorship\, professional development\, and customized learning opportunities for young makers 13-19 based in Buffalo\, NY. You can see more information about Saturday Cafe here. \nIndigenous people\, people of color\, women\, 2SLGBQTIA+ individuals\, and young artists who face systemic and structural barriers are highly encouraged to apply. We welcome questions regarding the types of access we can provide to youth with disabilities: please contact the Director of Education. \nWhy should I apply?  \n\nDo you want to express yourself through making videos\, gifs\, and abstract virtual environments? \nDo you love tinkering with programs and pushing the limits of how apps are “supposed to” function?  \nAre you excited about teaming up with cool artists who can show you all the tips\, tricks\, and trappings in making a real space inside a virtual universe? \n\nThen this program is for you! \n  \nSupport Offered \n\n$150 project stipend\n$160 internet access waiver\nA free headset with microphone for video conferencing\nAccess to Squeaky Wheel technology and support\n\nExpectations \n\nParticipants are expected to attend all meetings. The program runs on Saturdays\, September 12 – December 19\, 2020\, from 12–3 pm ET for a total of 45 contact hours. \nA collaborative spirit for group projects with fellow members and mentors.  collaborate with their fellow members and mentors in the program. \nWill agree to adhere to Squeaky Wheel’s Community Guidelines to foster a positive and safe environment for everyone.\nEnthusiasm and some previous experience working with digital or media arts.\n\nEligibility \n\nApplicants must be between 13-19 at the time of applying. \nIf you reside outside of the United States and are interested in being part of the program\, please contact martina@squeaky.org.\n\nJurying Process \nApplication materials will be be reviewed by a panel of Saturday Cafe mentors based on three criteria\, on a 1-5 scale: \n\nArtistic Quality of work sample(s) (may submit up to 3 samples)\nInventiveness\nDemonstration of willingness to collaborate\n\nIf you have questions about the application or process\, please contact Martina LaVallo at martina@squeaky.org. \nClick here to apply
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-for-applications-from-youth-saturday-cafe-fall-2020/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Open Call
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SUMMARY:Call for Applications: Artist & Mentor in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: August 14\, 2020\nNotification Date: August 24\, 2020\nResidency Dates: August 29–December 19\, 2020\nTotal support offered: $2500 \nSqueaky Wheel is seeking applications for an Artist & Mentor in Residence. This call is open to artists working in 3D modeling software\, working critically at the junction of art\, technology\, community\, and collaborative pedagogy. \nThe residency will take place from August to December\, 2020 through which the resident will be given flexible support to develop new or ongoing projects. Through this time period\, they will serve as an artistic and technical mentor for our Saturday Cafe youth program. \nAt the end of their residency\, the resident will be asked to present on their work and can submit a proposal for a project with Squeaky Wheel\, to take place in Fall 2021. With this residency\, we wish to establish longer-term relations and plans between artists\, our youth\, and our audiences.  \nIndigenous people\, people of color\, women\, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals\, and artists who face systemic and structural barriers are highly encouraged to apply. We encourage applicants to inquire with the curator regarding any accessibility needs for the residency\, including assistance with filling out the application. Due to the pandemic\, this is a shelter-in-place residency. Workshops\, events\, and communication will take place entirely online. \nQuestions can be directed to Squeaky Wheel’s Curator Ekrem Serdar at ekrem@squeaky.org \nSupport Offered \n\n$1000 stipend for the resident to work on their existing or new projects.\n$1000 Saturday Cafe mentor fee.\n$300 Artist fee for their artist presentation in December.\nAccess to Squeaky Wheel’s equipment roster in conversation with the Technical Director with up to $200 in shipping costs.\nMonthly studio visits with the Curator.\n\nExpectations \n\nKnowledge of 3D modeling software such as Blender\, and experience or interest in working with software and programs such as Mozilla Hubs and Spoke.\nAvailability to provide six contact hours to Saturday Cafe members with artistic and technical support (between August and December)\, and attend four hours of planning meetings in August with Education staff. Saturday Cafe takes place on Saturdays\, between August 29–December 5\, 2020\, between 12–3 pm ET. \nAbility to dedicate up to 120 hours working on their project between August and December 2020.\nPresent their upcoming project in the form of a one-night event (such as an artist talk\, screening\, performance\, etc.) in December 2020\, in conversation with the Curator.\n\nEligibility\nApplicants must be able to fill out a W9 form in order to receive payment. All payments are made via check. \nJurying Process \nApplicants will be rated by Squeaky Wheel staff on three criteria as they relate to critical approaches to technology\, on a 1-5 scale: \n\nInterest in collaborative pedagogy and youth media\nThe artistic quality of their project proposal\nWork samples\n\nClick here to apply \nFrequently Asked Questions\n\nDoes it cost money to apply?\nNo. \nCan collectives or collaboratives apply?\nYes. However\, please note that if accepted\, the group would share the resources offered by Squeaky Wheel. \nDoes the residency provide feedback to unsuccessful applications?\nAt this time Squeaky Wheel does not have the capacity to offer feedback for unsuccessful applications. \nDo you have to be a US Citizen to apply?\nNo. We accept all applicants who can fill out a W9 form for payment\, including permanent residents\, OPT holders\, Indigenous people born in Canada who can live and work in the United States as part of the Jay Treaty\, among others.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-for-applications-artist-mentor-in-residence/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Open Call
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SUMMARY:House Alive! - Stop Motion Animation Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:July 13–17 \n1 pm–4 pm  \nCost: $160 | Members $140  \nInstructor – Amanda Long \nThis workshop will introduce the art of animating readymade and found objects with stop motion animation. Participants will create a series of animations exploring the potential for everyday items to come alive and move magically. Anthropomorphic objects will be introduced as a theme. How do artists give inanimate objects an emotion\, a personality? Frame by frame we will find out. \n  \nTech Requirements – Camera enabled iPad\, Tablet\, or Smartphone\, with Stop Frame Studio installed on it.  \nDownload Stop Frame Studio here: iOs\, Android  \n \nBack to Summer Schedule \n  \nTeaching Artist \n \nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $50 for any cancelations. Cancelations with less than one-week notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. Limited scholarships are available to students. Please contact kevin@squeaky.org for more information. \nLooking for more! Check out our creative neighbor CEPA gallery for virtual offerings this summer!
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/house-alive-stop-motion-animation/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200713T090000
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SUMMARY:Creative Code & DIY tools Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:July 13–17 \n9 am–12 pm  \nCost: $160 | Members $140  \nInstructor – Luke Williams \nCost: Non-member $160 I Member $140   \nWhen we make art\, we are always collaborating with our tools. How does that change when we make our own? In this workshop\, we’ll learn just enough code to hack together our own unique digital tools for making art and music in Processing. \n  \nTech Requirements: access to a computer\, laptop\, or tablet with a keyboard. \n \nBack to Summer Schedule \n  \nTeaching Artist \n \nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $50 for any cancelations. Cancelations with less than one-week notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. Limited scholarships are available to students. Please contact kevin@squeaky.org for more information. \nLooking for more! Check out our creative neighbor CEPA gallery for virtual offerings this summer!
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/creative-code-diy-tools/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200626T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200820T170000
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: BIFF Youth Mirco Blocks
DESCRIPTION:BIFF: Youth Micro Blocks Showcase \nDeadline: August 20\, 2020\, 11:59 PM ET\nNotification Date: September 15\, 2020 \nThe Buffalo International Film Festival and Squeaky Wheel invite submissions for the Youth Mirco Blocks showcase. Share your voice and vision this fall at the Buffalo International Film Festival! BIFF and Squeaky Wheel are collaborating to showcase the creative power and talent in youth-produced film and media. We are seeking\, new\, creative film and media work from students nationwide. All young filmmakers under 18 can submit any moving image works 10 mins or shorter in duration.  \nA series of virtual micro-block screenings with live filmmaker talks proceeding the screenings during the BIFF festival. Submissions will be judged by a panel of young makers from Squeaky Wheel’s advance-track youth media program Saturday Cafe.  \nClick here to submit!\nPlease direct any questions about the application process or submission requirements to Martina LaVallo at martina@squeaky.org \n  \nSubmission Guidelines:  DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: AUGUST 20\, 2020 \n\nPrincipal Filmmakers must be under 18 years old at the time of making the film\nIf you are submitting for a student(s) please contact martina@squeaky.org for details\nFilms can be no longer than 10 minutes including titles and credits\nExcerpts of longer works will be considered\nAll submissions must be either Vimeo or YouTube link. (if it is password protected\, must provide a password at the time of submission )\nSelected Filmmakers will be asked for a screener version of their film. \nMultiple submissions per artist are accepted. \nArtists who are African/Black\, Indigenous / Native / Aboriginal\, POC\, people with disabilities\, women\, 2SLGBTQIA+\, and artists who face systemic and structural barriers are highly encouraged to apply and will be prioritized.\n\n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-for-submissions-biff-youth-mirco-blocks/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Open Call
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200612T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200612T170000
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SUMMARY:Tech Talk Virtual Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Having questions about anything tech related and want to speak to a (mostly) real human being? \n  \nEvery Wednesday from noon to 1pm\, our Tech Director\, Mark Longolucco will be available to meet with you virtually through google meet. Just have your question(s) ready and head to the link. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoogle hangout link: https://bit.ly/weeklytechwednesdays\nJoin by phone: +1 513-666-7160‬ PIN: ‪873 134 264‬# \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nIf you’re unable to meet during this time\, or wish to use a different meetup service\, just contact Mark at mark@squeaky.org to schedule a session based on your schedule or needs.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/__trashed-2/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200608T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200608T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T001635
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Adobe After Effects
DESCRIPTION:After Effects \nJune 8 \n6 pm–8 pm \nJune 12 *Tech Meetup \nCost: $50 | Members $45 \n  \nNeed more pizazz in your business’s social media platforms? Want to up Youtube video game? Adobe After Effects is a powerful motion graphics editor that allows you to create all kinds of branding and special effects. This introductory course you will learn how to navigate and work with this software and learn the fundamentals of motion and file formating for best use.  \n*Each of our Virtual Media Arts Workshops will have an additional hour of tech meetup on the Friday of the week the class runs. The time of the meetup will be determined by the instructor and participants at the end of the session.  \n  \nRegister here
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/adobe-after-effects/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Education,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200601T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200601T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Intro to Photoshop
DESCRIPTION:Intro to Photoshop \nJune 1 \n6 pm–8 pm \nJune 5 *Tech Meetup \nCost: $50 | Members $45 \n  \nThe ability to edit and craft your photos is what makes a simple snapshot transform it into a photographic work of art. This intro to editing in Photoshop will introduce you to color correction\, black and white conversion\, cropping\, file formatting\, and introduction to layers.  \n*Each of our Virtual Media Arts Workshops will have an additional hour of tech meetup on the Friday of the week the class runs. The time of the meetup will be determined by the instructor and participants at the end of the session.  \n  \nRegister here
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-photoshop/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Education,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200525T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200525T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T001635
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Podcasting from Home
DESCRIPTION:Podcasting from Home \nMay 25 \n6 pm–8 pm \nMay 29 *Tech Meetup \n  \nCost: $50 | Members $45 \nNow is the time to record and produce that podcast you have always wanted to make! Join us in this DIY virtual workshop that will give you all the tips and tricks to get you started on your audio odyssey.  \n*Each of our Virtual Media Arts Workshops will have an additional hour of tech meetup on the Friday of the week the class runs. The time of the meetup will be determined by the instructor and participants at the end of the session.  \n  \nRegister here
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/podcasting-from-home/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200801T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition: SIMULATION
DESCRIPTION:May 1st – August 1st\, 2020 \nSIMULATION is a virtual exhibition created and designed by Saturday Cafe that explores the feelings of uncertainty\, changing perceptions of time\, and increased digital interactions since the beginning of social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The exhibition consists of generated “gifalage’s” (.gif + collage) created by Cafe members using various software and sourced imagery. The process utilizes accessible technologies that allow the members to adapt and create media arts having low access to digital processes. The exhibition reflects on how our students are adapting to virtual learning\, collaboration\, socializing\, and the unfamiliar and surreal nature of their daily lives during this time. \nSaturday Cafe is an experimental advanced track youth media education project\, that provides students with artistic mentorship\, professional development and learning opportunities. \nClick to Image to enter the gallery. \n \nFAQ’s for joining our virtual gallery \nWe are hosting our virtual gallery in Mozilla’s Hub rooms\, please watch the video below for a full set of instructions for entering. \n-The Gallery will be viewable on any browser. \n-Click on the linked image above and you will be taken to a page where you will see the gallery\, this is known as the “lobby” \n-Click “enter room” and you will be prompted to create an avatar. One will be generated for you and you can just accept or have some fun making your own. \n-Once you have created your avatar\, click in the text box directly above to add your name\, and accept. User Setting FAQ can be found here \n-Click “enter room” and you will be prompted to allow permissions to your device’s camera and microphone. \nAfter you have entered the space you will be placed at one of many “spawn points” throughout the space. \n-To move use the directional keys of W (forward) A (Left) D (Right) and S (Backwards) \n-Simply use these keys and your cursor to point and click in the directions you want to move. Full “Controls” FAQ for desktop and mobile can be found here \n–Full Hub Room FAQ can be found here \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nImage: Raymarri Hugh\, SIMULATION (2020) \n\nAbout Saturday Cafe \nSaturday Cafe is an experimental advanced track youth media education project\, that provides students with artistic mentorship\, professional development and customized learning opportunities. \nAbout the Artists: \n \nJolie Criscione is a multi-disciplinary media artist and humorist interested in social justice. Her satirical and meticulously crafted work often utilizes puns. Showcasing a sensitive approach to internet culture\, Criscione’s works display a subtle beauty and humor. \n \nMatthew Dearmyer is a hopeless multimedia “illustrator” with too much time and zero motivation to pick up a pencil\, Matthew is a relentless believer in representation for all. Through digital and traditional storytelling and experimentation\, he finds a pedestal for himself. He’s most inspired by pop culture and music you don’t hear on the radio. He isn’t hesitant to explore dark topics and push the comfort zone of his viewers. \n \nZaire Goodman is a fantasy writer and media artist. Goodman’s work utilizes gaming and anime stories to investigate the real world. His work has been included in numerous screenings and exhibitions across the country. \n \nRaymarri Hugh is a video maker and young media educator. He is known for his inventiveness and systematic method of creating work and is a consummate perfectionist and collaborator. His work is driven by compassion for and curiosity of spaces of injustice. \n \nFiona Rigney is a polymath moonlighting as an illustrator\, animator\, and experimental filmmaker. Her work ranges from the absurd to the deeply thoughtful all while maintaining a high degree of aesthetic prowess. Her pursuits are limited only by imagination. The central focus of her work revolves around the beauty in humor and digital social spaces from the past and present. \n \nBreanna Roberts is an experimental filmmaker and motion graphic artist. Her works focus on the impacts of governmental policies on underrepresented communities. Roberts’ videos have been exhibited and screened in numerous festivals around the country\, with her recent work\, Flint II (2019) being included in the Albright Knox Future Curators 2019 exhibition. \n \nDominique Scruggs is an experimental media maker and artist. Her work addresses intimate loss and structures of power. She is interested in playfully destroying elements to create new ones. The textures in her work often communicate their emotions. Scruggs’ work has been screened nationally at numerous film festivals. \n  \nMember illustrations: Matthew Dearmyer \n  \nSqueaky Wheel Educational Programming is made possible in part by the generous support of the Wendy Pierce Simple Gifts Fund\, Adobe’s TakingITGlobal Equity and Access\, M&T Charitable Foundation\, First Niagara Foundation\, Josephine Goodyear Foundation\, Cameron & Jane Baird Foundation\, Children’s Foundation of Erie County\, Marks Family Foundation\, Margaret L. Wendt Foundation\, Best Buy Foundation\, Erie County Cultural Funding\, City of Buffalo\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and New York State Council on the Arts.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/virtual-exhibition-simulation/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sindhu Thirumalaisamy’s The Lake and The Lake
DESCRIPTION:Online Screening | Friday\, April 24\, 7 pm\nFree or suggested donation. Registration required.\nClick here to register \nClick here to view the post-screening Google Docs Q&A with Sindhu Thirumalaisamy \nSindhu Thirumalaisamy’s 2019 film ಕೆರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕೆರೆ (The Lake and The Lake)  dwells in the peripheries of a polluted lake in Bangalore\, “India’s Silicon Valley”\, where the act of observation is interrupted by flying foam\, noxious gases\, daydreams\, and questions from passers-by. Despite its spectacular toxicity\, the lake remains a valuable resource and refuge for counter-publics. The Lake and The Lake will be preceded by Thirumalaisamy’s short film Different Colourful Designs (2016) on state-sponsored murals in Bangalore. We are excited to host filmmaker Sindhu Thirumalaisamy\, who will be present for an introduction and Q&A. \nDifferent Colourful Designs\, 15 mins\, SD video\, 2011–2016\nDescribed as “a beautification exercise”\, the Bangalore Beautification Project is a city-sponsored effort to prevent posters and advertisements from being pasted on public walls. In 2009 the Bangalore Bruhat Mahanagra Palike (BBMP) hired sign-painters to produce a number of prescribed murals on public walls across the city. Familiar symbols of myths\, heroes and nature—cursory tales of national identity and pride—were chosen to greet Bangalore’s residents and guests. But there are several gaps between instruction and realization in this beautification exercise. The resulting images complicate the official narratives that they try to portray. Fantastical images\, fearful images\, duplicitous images\, and incomplete images all stand together in trying to keep the walls clean. Different Colourful Designs takes a closer look at these images and the city that etches over them. Footage was shot over several years\, adding to the film over the years\, observing the decay of these murals. It was completed at a time when the BBMP voiced intent to repaint the walls in the spirit of Swachh Bharat. \nಕೆರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕೆರೆ (The Lake and The Lake)
\, 38 mins\, HD video\, India/USA\, 2019\nThe Lake and The Lake dwells in the peripheries of a polluted lake in Bangalore\, “India’s Silicon Valley”\, where the act of observation is interrupted by flying foam\, noxious gases\, daydreams\, and questions from passers-by. Despite its spectacular toxicity\, the lake remains a valuable resource and refuge for counter-publics. Standing alongside fishing communities\, migrant waste workers\, private security guards\, street dogs\, and children\, it is evident that there is no nature that doesn’t also include all of us. Hindi\, Tamil\, Kannada\, English\, and Bangla\, are spoken and sung in the film amidst a chorus of non-human sounds. \nBiography\nSindhu Thirumalaisamy is an artist working across video\, sound\, text\, and installation. Sindhu holds an MFA in visual art from the University of California\, San Diego\, is a participant of the Whitney Independent Study program\, an almunus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, and the SOMA Summer program. Sindhu’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego\, San Diego Museum of Art\, Current:LA Public Art Triennial\, Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)\, Artists’ Television Access\, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival\, Edinburgh Festival of Art\, Flux Factory\, Kunsthaus Langenthal\, Khoj International Artists’ Association\, International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala\, and Dharamshala International Film Festival. \nImage: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy\, The Lake and The Lake (2019). Co-presented with PLASMA at the Department of Media Study\, SUNY University at Buffalo.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sindhu-thirumalaisamys-the-lake-and-the-lake/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tiara Roxanne's I cannot decolonize my body
DESCRIPTION:Online Screening & Artist Talk | Wednesday\, April 15\, 8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get your tickets\nTo help keep our communities safe and healthy and reduce the spread of COVID-19 this event has moved online. Live Introduction and presentations by the artist begin at 7:10 pm. You will receive an email with information on how to view the event live. Roxanne’s film will be available to view through April 22\, 2020\, 6:59 pm. \nA short film that serves to highlight the disvowal and silencing Indigenous peoples encounter historically\, presently and futuristically in social\, political and technological paradigms\, I cannot decolonize my body\, was made as an incantation for recovery and transformation. The short film is accompanied by a new text by the Berlin-based cyberfeminist\, scholar and artist titled Data Colonialism: Decolonial Gestures of Storytelling. Following the short film\, the artist will be in conversation with writer and curator Nora Khan on her work with the audience invited to participate in the Q&A. \nBiographies\nDr. Tiara Roxanne is an Indigenous cyberfeminist\, scholar and artist based in Berlin. Her research and artistic practice investigates the encounter between the Indigenous Body and AI. More particularly\, she explores the colonial structure embedded within artificial intelligence learning systems in her writing and her performance art through textile. Currently her work is mediated through the color red. She received the Zora Neale Hurston Award from Naropa University in 2013 where she graduated from with her MFA. Under the supervision of Catherine Malabou\, Tiara completed her dissertation\, “Recovering Indigeneity: Territorial Dehiscence and Digital Immanence” in June 2019. Tiara has presented her work at SOAS (London)\, SLU (Madrid)\, Transmediale (Berlin)\, Duke University (NC)\, re:publica (Berlin)\, Tech Open Air (Berlin)\, AMOQA (Athens)\, among others. She is currently a Researcher at DeZIM-Institut in Berlin\, Germany. \nNora N. Khan is a writer of criticism. Her research practice extends to a large range of artistic collaborations\, from librettos to a tiny house. She is a critic on the faculty at Rhode Island School of Design\, in Digital + Media\, teaching critical theory\, artistic research\, writing for artists and designers\, and technological criticism. She has two short books: Seeing\, Naming\, Knowing (The Brooklyn Rail\, 2019)\, on machine vision\, and with Steven Warwick\, Fear Indexing the X-Files (Primary Information\, 2017). Forthcoming this year is The Artificial and the Real through Art Metropole. She is a longtime editor at Rhizome and publishes in Art in America\, Flash Art\, Mousse\, and California Sunday. She has written commissioned essays for exhibitions at Serpentine Galleries\, Chisenhale\, the Venice Biennale\, Centre Pompidou\, Swiss Institute\, and Kunstverein in Hamburg. This year\, as The Shed’s first guest curator\, she organized the exhibition Manual Override\, featuring Sondra Perry\, Simon Fujiwara\, Morehshin Allahyari\, Lynn Hershman Leeson\, Martine Syms. Her writing has been supported by a Critical Writing Grant given through the Visual Arts Foundation and the Crossed Purposes Foundation (2018)\, an Eyebeam Research Residency (2017)\, and a Thoma Foundation 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art. \nThis event is co-presented with Trinity Square Video\, Images Festival\, and PLASMA at the Department of Media Study\, SUNY University at Buffalo. \nImage courtesy of Tiara Roxanne\, by Charlotte de Bekker.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tiara-roxannes-red-contd/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - POETRY IN MOTION
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 Program Update \nTo help keep our communities safe and healthy and reduce the spread of COVID-19 this workshop is postponed until further notice \n  \nIf you have any further questions or concerns please reach out to our Director of Education\, Kevin Kline\, kevin@squeaky.org or our Education/Communications Coordinator Martina LaVallo\, martina@squeaky.org  \nInstructor: Jamie Hager \nSaturdays\, 10 am–1 pm  \nApril 11th–May 2nd  \nCost: $60 | $40 members \n  \nCollaborating with Just Buffalo’s Writing Center\, students will use poetry written by youth to create dynamic animated video poems. Students will use Adobe After Effects to create kinetic typography animations and designs that bring poetry to life.   \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/poetry-in-motion/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Caleb Abrams & Saif Alsaegh
DESCRIPTION:Online artist talk & screening | *NEW DATE* Wednesday\, April 8\, 7 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get your ticket\nYou will receive an email with information and a link on how to view the live event. The artists films will be available to view through April 15\, 2020\, 6:59 pm.\n \nClick here to view the video presentations by the artists with an introduction by the curator \nClick here to view the post-event Google Docs Q&A with the artists \nIn response to COVID-19\, our Spring artists in residence\, Caleb Abrams and Saif Alsaegh\, have continued their residencies from home and will engage with the public virtually. We invite you to convene online to learn about their past and ongoing projects at this artist talk and screening. Caleb Abrams will speak about his current film\, The Burning of My Coldspring Home\, an adaptation of a short story by Seneca Elder Stephen Gordon regarding the forced dislocation of the Seneca people following the building of the Kinzua dam by the Allegheny River. Saif Alsaegh will speak of his film Departure\, titled after a poem by Arthur Rimbaud\, which examines the idea of foreignness as it relates to the filmmaker’s past as a Baghdad born filmmaker living in California. Preceding the event will be a brief presentation by Squeaky Wheel curator\, Ekrem Serdar on how you can be part of the Workspace Residency program in the future. \nCaleb G. Abrams is an Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) filmmaker and multimedia artist based out of what is currently considered Buffalo\, New York. Raised on the Seneca’s Allegany Territory\, much of his work emerges from the social\, historical\, and cultural background of the Seneca. Abrams has written and produced multiple independent short films and videos for the Seneca Nation\, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum/Onöhsagwë:dé Cultural Center\, and Odawi Law PLLC. He has also produced work in collaboration with PBS-WNED-TV\, Vision Maker Media\, Skipping Stone Pictures\, and Toward Castle Films. Lake of Betrayal (2017)\, the award-winning national public television documentary on which Abrams served as the associate producer\, examines the impact of the Kinzua Dam on the Seneca Nation – a topic much of his work has explored. Abrams’ films have been presented at universities\, historical societies\, libraries\, museums\, high schools\, and community and cultural resource organizations throughout Haudenosaunee Territory and the Northeast. \nSaif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s\, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in many festivals including Cinema du Reel\, Kruzfilm Festival Hamburg\, Kasseler Dokfest\, Onion City Film Festival and in galleries and museums including the Wisconsin Triennial at MMoCA. He earned his MFA in filmmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \nThe residency is made possible with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and presented in collaboration with Just Buffalo Literary Art Center and the sponsorship of Hostel Buffalo-Niagara.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-caleb-abrams-saif-alsaegh/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 Program Update \nTo help keep our communities safe and healthy and reduce the spread of COVID-19 this workshop is postponed. Please stay tuned for updates! \nIf you have any questions or concerns please email Education & Communications Coordinator Martina LaVallo\, martina@squeaky.org \n\n  \nApril 7–16  \nTuesdays and Thursdays 6 pm–8 pm  \nBefore the lights\, the camera\, and the action you need a plan. In this introductory workshop\, you will learn the structure and format of bringing a screenplay to life. \n  \n \n\nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $25 for any cancellations and cancellations with less than 48 hours notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/screenwriting-2/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T210000
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SUMMARY:Miko Revereza’s No Data Plan
DESCRIPTION:Online Screening | Wednesday\, March 25\, 7 pm\nLive Q&A at 8:30 pm.\nFree or suggested donation. Click here to get tickets.\nA private link will be sent to your email account upon registration.\n \nClick here to view the introduction to the film by curator Ekrem Serdar and Justice for Migrant Families’ Anna Porter \nClick here to view the post-screening Google Docs Q&A with Miko Revereza \nMiko Revereza’s acclaimed feature documentary No Data Plan features a narrator rehashing details about his mother’s affair as he crosses America by train. “Mama has two phone numbers. We do not talk about immigration on her Obama phone. For that we use the other number with no data plan.” Taking place entirely within a three day trip upon a train—including a tense stop near Buffalo—Revereza’s film evokes images and thoughts from far away\, illustrating an undocumented subjectivity\, a site of precarious movement\, migration\, and fugitivism in the United States. \nThis screening is co-presented with Justice for Migrant Families. JFMF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that promotes justice for migrant families by providing support to individuals in the federal detention facility in Batavia\, information and resources to families in the community\, and advocacy both within and beyond the local community.\nJFMF is currently seeking donations to allow detainees in the Batavia Detention Center to make phone calls to their loved ones as all visitations have been cancelled due to COVID-19. Find out about JFMF current activities on their Facebook page and donate to them here. \nBiography of the filmmaker\nMiko Revereza (b.1988 Manila\, Philippines) is an experimental filmmaker and undocumented immigrant. Since relocating from Manila as a child\, he has lived illegally in the United States for over 25 years. This life long struggle with documentation\, assimilation and statelessness informs his films\, DROGA! (2014)\, DISINTEGRATION 93-96 (2017) and his debut feature\, No data plan (2018). Miko’s films have been widely screened and exhibited internationally at festivals such as\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen\, True/False Film Festival\, Images Festival\, and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. DISINTEGRATION 93-96 was featured and streamed on MUBI.com. He is listed as Filmmaker Magazine’s 2018 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema. \n\nImage: Miko Revereza\, No Data Plan\, 70 minutes\, digital video\, 2019. Courtesy of Sentient Art Film.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/miko-reverezas-no-data-plan/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Digital Animation
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 Program Update \nTo help keep our communities safe and healthy and reduce the spread of COVID-19 this workshop is postponed. Please stay tuned for updates! \nIf you have any further questions or concerns please reach out to Education & Communications Coordinator Martina LaVallo\, martina@squeaky.org \n\nwith Character Animator \nMarch 24–April 2 \nTuesdays and Thursday 6–8 pm \n  \nCharacter Animator is a creative and adaptable digital animation tool. This workshop will lead you through the process of creating your own character with this versatile Adobe software. \n  \n \n\nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $25 for any cancellations and cancellations with less than 48 hours notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/digital-animation/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200317T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200319T173000
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SUMMARY:Non-fiction Poetics: A Youth Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:***Effective immediately\, all in-person youth and adult workshops\, events\, and screenings will be canceled or available virtually on a case-by-case basis\, and equipment rentals will continue on a reduced basis. Stay tuned for updates!*** \nTuesday\, March 17\, 2020\, 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.\nThursday\, March 19\, 2020\, 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.\n@ Just Buffalo Writing Center\nNo registration required. This workshop is free\, aimed at young students aged 12–18\, and limited to 12 participants.\n \nTaught by poet and filmmaker Saif Alsaegh\, this workshop explores how poetry is established and emerges in documentary and non-fiction films. Students will read poetry and watch films to understand the intersection of the two arts. Presented in collaboration with Just Buffalo Literary Arts Center. \nThe Spring 2020 session of Workspace Residency is sponsored by Hostel Buffalo-Niagara. \nSaif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s\, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in many festivals including Cinema du Reel\, Kruzfilm Festival Hamburg\, Kasseler Dokfest\, Onion City Film Festival and in galleries and museums including the Wisconsin Triennial at MMoCA. He earned his MFA in filmmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \nImage: Saif Alsaegh\, Departure\, in-progress.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/non-fiction-poetics-a-youth-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Just Buffalo Literary Center\, 468 Washington St #2\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Residencies
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED -Stop Frame Go!
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 Program Update \nTo help keep our communities safe and healthy and reduce the spread of COVID-19 this workshop has been canceled. \n If you have any further questions or concerns please reach out to our Director of Education\, Kevin Kline\, kevin@squeaky.org or our Education/Communications Coordinator Martina LaVallo\, martina@squeaky.org \n\nInstructor: Jamie Hager \nMarch 14th–April 4th \nSaturdays 10 am–1 pm  \nCost: $60 | $40 members \n  \nIn this stop motion animation workshop\, students will collaborate to make an elaborate cut out animation video. Using professional cameras and software students will storyboard\, construct and bring to life a vibrant world. \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/stop-frame-go/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T210000
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SUMMARY:Representation in Filmmaking with Caleb Abrams
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 11\, 7–9 pm\nFree and open to the public \nAs a filmmaker\, what does it mean to represent a community? How do you impart the emotion of another person’s experience? Join filmmaker and Spring 2020 Workspace Resident\, Caleb Abrams for a conversation on the questions above through a behind the scenes look at his practice. \nCaleb Abrams is an Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) filmmaker and multimedia artist based out of what is currently considered Buffalo\, New York. Raised on the Seneca’s Allegany Territory\, much of his work emerges from the social\, historical\, and cultural background of the Seneca. Abrams has written and produced multiple independent short films and videos for the Seneca Nation\, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum/Onöhsagwë:dé Cultural Center\, and Odawi Law PLLC. He has also produced work in collaboration with PBS-WNED-TV\, Vision Maker Media\, Skipping Stone Pictures\, and Toward Castle Films. Lake of Betrayal (2017)\, the award-winning national public television documentary on which Abrams served as the associate producer\, examines the impact of the Kinzua Dam on the Seneca Nation – a topic much of his work has explored. Abrams’ films have been presented at universities\, historical societies\, libraries\, museums\, high schools\, and community and cultural resource organizations throughout Haudenosaunee Territory and the Northeast. \nThe Spring 2020 session of Workspace Residency is sponsored by Hostel Buffalo-Niagara. \nImage: Caleb Abrams\, The Burning of My Coldspring Home(in-progress)
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/representation-in-filmmaking-with-caleb-abrams/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Skill Share
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200319T200000
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SUMMARY:Illustration and Design
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 Program Update \nTo help keep our communities safe and healthy and reduce the spread of COVID-19 the remainder of this workshop is being offered virtually. \n  \nIf you have any further questions or concerns please email Education/Communications Coordinator Martina LaVallo\, martina@squeaky.org \n\nwith Adobe Illustrator \nMarch 10–19  \nTuesdays and Thursdays 6–8 pm \nCost: $175 | $155 members \nTap into the powerful illustration and design potential of Adobe Illustrator. Learn to navigate the software and take control of your design and illustration needs. \n  \n \n\nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $25 for any cancellations and cancellations with less than 48 hours notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/illustration-and-design/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T210000
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SUMMARY:Data and Human Rights: Open Source Research Tools
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 19\, 7–9 pm\nFree; ages 18+ \nThe Syrian Archive develops open-source tools to document human rights violations around the world. Learn about the organization’s practice through a hands-on workshop introducing you to online research techniques. Facilitated by Lead Researcher Jeff Deutsch. A limited number of computers will be available for use\, and we ask that participants bring their laptops if they have one. \nAll participants should download Google Earth Pro and the following image below ahead of the workshop. \n\n \nThe Syrian Archive aims to support human rights investigators\, advocates\, media reporters\, and journalists in their efforts to document human rights violations in Syria and worldwide through developing new open source tools as well as providing a transparent and replicable methodology for collecting\, preserving\, verifying and investigating visual documentation in conflict areas. \nCo-presented with PLASMA at the Department of Media Study\, SUNY University at Buffalo.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/data-and-human-rights-open-source-research-tools/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO with HOP HOP!
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Jamie Hager \nSaturdays\, 10 am–1 pm  \nFebruary 15th–March 7th \nCost: $60 | $40 members \n  \nJoin local musician HOP HOP and us as we collaborate to create an original music video. Students will work together to storyboard\, shoot\, and edit a fantastical representation of HOP HOP’s magical music.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/make-a-music-video-with-hop-hop/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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SUMMARY:Love & Sex Show: Sweet Nothings
DESCRIPTION:Special Event | Friday\, February 14\, 7–10 pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess Pass holders\nAges 18+ only. Please review our community guidelines.  \nSqueaky Wheel’s annual Valentine’s day event celebrating intimacy and sexuality returns with a special auditory edition. Listen to headphones filled with ASMR and other tracks by artists Erin Gee and Hope Mora; create a live soundtrack to a new film by Caroline Doherty; sing along to karaoke films by Michael Robinson\, and Wayne Yung\, and enjoy a performance by lyricist and hip hop artist Desiree Kee\, and much more! \nProgram\n7–8 pm: Listen to artist made audio tracks by Hope Mora and Erin Gee on remote headphones\, and sing your heart out with karaoke! \n8 pm: Come together in the microcinema to watch\, listen\, sing\, and vocalize to films by Caroline Doherty\, Dina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, Jess Dobkin\, Lauren Fournier\, Michael Robinson\, Thirza Curthand\, and Wayne Yung! \n9 pm: Gather in the gallery to listen to a performance by lyricist Desiree Kee\, followed by more karaoke! \nAudio Works\nChannel 1\nErin Gee\, of the soone\, 18:39 min\, digital sound\, 2019\nErin Gee leads the listener in a first-person roleplay as a specialist of a new experimental neural treatment: language processing and deprocessing. After a brief testing of equipment and EEG monitoring\, Gee reads out the processes of a long-short term memory algorithm as it “learns” language from the classic book of passions gone awry\, “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë. This exposure to machined-evolution of linguistic patterns is intended to reset or recalibrate human linguistic patterns in your brain\, offering a form of abstracted\, deep tissue neural “massage”. \nChannel 2\nHope Mora\, Sex With Harmony\, 1:48 min; Basic Need With Dajah\, sound\, 1:21 min; My Neck My Back\, Bell Hooks Love\, and Magic Booty\, 5:03 min\, digital sound\, all 2020 \nScreening program\nThirza Curthand\, Helpless Maiden Makes An “I” Statement\, 6 min\, digital video\, 1999\nBy using clips of evil queens/witches this video plays off the sadomasochistic lesboerotic subtexts commonly found in children’s entertainment. A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual s/m relationship with her lover\, and “evil” queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames. This video was inspired by the artist’s own childhood “kiddie porn”\, Disney movies which turned her on to no end and kicked off many a prepubescent masturbation session. \nLauren Fournier\, Sex and Death\, 4 min\, digital video\, 2015\nThe performer re-frames the Freudian tension between eros and thanatos using the feminist tradition of performance for video. She repeats the locution “sex and death and sex and death and sex and death” aloud as she shimmies across the screen. The formal integrity of the loop meets the failures of the body\, as the performer playfully moves across the screen\, trying to catch her breath to continue the spell-like invocation. Sex and death— the drive toward binding (eros) and the drive toward destruction (thanatos)— are configured by Freud to be the two fundamental drives behind Western civilization. In this video\, the Freudian tension is taken up through a floundering\, vaguely sexual performance. The function of humour is something which has been increasingly (re)claimed by Canadian feminist video and performance artists in recent years\, and is something that I find both politically efficacious and formally refreshing. \nJess Dobkin\, It’s Not Easy Being Green\, 3 min\, digital video\, 2011\nA heartfelt and provocative rendition of Kermit the Frog’s melancholic It’s Not Easy Being Green\, where the artist\, in the role of Kermit the Frog\, is fisted by a woman in drag in the role of Jim Henson. Together\, as human puppet and puppeteer\, they lip sync the much loved song. This film is a for-camera version of a performance previously presented to live audiences. For mature audiences. \nDina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, In Queer Corners\, 6 min\, digital video\, 2013\nIn Queer Corners is a collaborative video by Dina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat. The video examines the ways in which archives harbour stories\, those that are spoken\, and those left unsaid. Based on serendipitous encounters\, and employing the language of dreams and desire\, Georgis and Bamboat narrate each other’s stories and address the complications of queer re-tellings. In Queer Corners explores the limits and possibilities of the archive through the theme of narration and storytelling. Working with a found object from the dusty and neglected corners of the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archive\, this work explores how archival objects can come to life through their encounter with the present\, with other desires\, and with unexpected responses and meanings.\nThe archive\, if left unexamined\, works authoritatively to construct and stabilize knowledge. Though it selects and gathers signs unconsciously\, what is held within its walls is neither arbitrary nor innocent. In resistance to interpret archival objects into a synchronized story of the past\, In Queer Corners looks to its archival object as an affective placeholder from which new meanings and new stories can be made. The narratives recorded in this work respond to the found image in narrative accounts where the line between dream and reality is distorted. They speak a non-literal truth about desire\, insecurity\, despair\, sex\, race and class\, and the difficulty of uttering and representing these very things. Knowledge itself is vulnerable\, made in relation\, and articulated in broken stories. Reaching for some thing or some place\, the bodies represented tell unfinished narratives. Though the bodies stand alone\, the line between self and other is obfuscated and they depend on each other to tell their stories. \nWayne Yung\, One Night in Heaven\, 5 min\, digital video\, 1995\nIn this queer Asian spoof of karaoke\, a new boy in town discovers the dark side of the big city. The story follows his adventures to an underground club where sex and murder are in store. \nCaroline Doherty\, Rock\, Soft Place\, ~5 min\, digital video\, 2020 \nMichael Robinson\, Hold Me Now\, 5 min\, digital video\, 2008\nPlagued by blindness\, sloth\, and devotion\, a troubled scene from Little House On The Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism. \n \n \nDesiree Kee \n \nDina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, In Queer Corners (2013) \nBios of the artists \nCaroline Doherty is an artist based in Buffalo\, NY. She employs multiple mediums\, including performance\, video\, sculpture\, and public projects. She has participated in residencies including the Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency in Buffalo; the SOMA Summer Program in Mexico City; Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology in Michoacán\, Mexico; and ArtPark in Lewiston\, NY. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America\, in Europe\, and in China. Caroline has been an educator for over 15 years\, facilitating art making for youth\, university students\, and adults in formal and informal settings in the US\, Mexico\, and Canada. \nDesiree Kee is a 25 year old lyricist that was born and raised Queens\, Ny. She moved from NYC to Maryland in 2002 and later relocated to Buffalo\, NY in 2011. She currently has two projects available on her soundcloud which is I AM NOT A RAPPER EP (2017) and This Mixtape Is A Cry For Help (2019) as well as 4 self-directed visuals which can be found on her youtube. \nHope Mora is a visual artist from West Texas\, currently teaching and completing her MFA at The University at Buffalo and holds a BFA from Texas State University in San Marcos. She has shown work in selected gallery and public space exhibitions in Central Texas and Western New York\, such as Mexic-Arte Museum\, Public Art San Antonio\, Anna Kaplan Contemporary\, and The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art. \nThe Love & Sex Show: Sweet Nothings is sponsored by City Wine Merchants and SE2 Silent Disco. \nBanner image: Wayne Yung\, One Night in Heaven (1995).
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/love-sex-show-sweet-nothings/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Podcast Production
DESCRIPTION:February 11th–February 20th  \nTuesdays and Thursdays 6–8 pm \nCost: $175 | $155 members \n  \nYou listen to them\, you love them. Our introductory course on podcast production will give you the know-how to make one of your own. \n  \n \n\nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of the workshop. There is a fee of $25 for any cancellations and cancellations with less than 48 hours notice of the start of the workshop will not receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/podcast-production-3/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Charlie Best & Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Artist talks & Closing | Friday\, February 7\, 7 pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for the closing event of Punctures with artist talks by Charlie Best and Jodi Lynn Maracle. Best will speak about their window installation We Interrupt this Program\, made as “an invitation for confusion and joy\, full of noise\, for trans people.” Jodi Lynn Maracle will share her video work A Song to the Water from a Loving Child which explores generational relationships to and for lands and waters. The artists will be joined by curator Ekrem Serdar for a conversation and Q&A following their presentations. \nCharlie Best is an artist and seamstrix living and working in what is currently known as buffalo\, ny. Picking and choosing between fiber and textiles\, video\, collage\, performance\, and sculpture\, Charlie’s work interrupts transmissions of the gender binary\, lack of imagination\, capitalism\, and other ills lurking in common cultural forms. Richard Scarry illustrations\, men’s shirts\, catholic mass\, and network television are just some of what awaits the cut of the scissors. Charlie is committed to the joys\, lessons\, fears\, and aesthetics of nonbinary imagination practices. They received a bfa in sculpture and expanded media from alfred university’s school of art and design (2018)\, and were the recipient of a fellowship to the cite internationale des arts\, paris\, france. They have exhibited locally and nationally\, most recently at sugar city (buffalo\, ny) with “something from the basement”. The current interests of their practice include the application of anarchist tactics/thoughts/dreams and children’s stories to garment and accessory design\, and the history of VHS. Charlie and collaborator Jaz Palermo are in pre production for their first film\, titled st. tilapia’s school for gayward girls\, which they both hope gets banned somewhere. \nBorn and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, teacher and language learner. Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques\, such as hand tanning deer hides\, and corn husk twining\, in conversation with sound scapes\, projections\, video\, and performance to interrogate questions of place\, power\, erasure\, story making\, and responsibility to the land. She has shown her work throughout Dish With One Spoon Territory in site specific installation performances such as the Mush Hole Project at the defunct Mohawk Institute Residential School (home of the Woodland Cultural Centre) in Brantford\, ON\, as well as the Gardiner Museum in Toronto\, ON\, Artpark in Lewiston\, NY\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, in Buffalo\, NY. Her research as a PhD student at the University at Buffalo focuses on Haudenosaunee material culture\, language\, land and birth practices. Of her accomplishments\, she is most proud to hear her son speak his Mohawk language each day. \n\nThis exhibition is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nImage: Jodi Lynn Maracle\, A Song to the Water from a Loving Child (2020)
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/punctures-charlie-best-jodi-lynn-maracle/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Threading Histories
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 29\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for Arts Access Pass Holders \nHow do textiles and media speak to individual\, collective\, and social histories? Featuring films by Alta Kahn\, Cydnii Wilde Harris\, Eytan İpeker\, Laura Kraning\, Lesley Loksi Chan\, the Manaki Brothers\, Senga Nengudi\, and Susie Bennally\, the eight films in this group screening include a found-footage film that utilizes Gone with the Wind to explore the cotton industry and transatlantic slavery in the United States; two films made as part of the project Navajo Film Themselves (1966) by Alta Kahn and Susie Bennally; and one of the few films shot in the Ladino language by Eytan Ipeker. With filmmaker Laura Kraning in person who will be present for a conversation and Q&A for her film Language of Memory. \nProgram \nCydnii Wilde Harris\, Cotton: Fabric of Genocide\n4 min\, digital\, sound\, 2018\n“This is a video essay about slavery. Oops. I mean\, cotton.” – Cydnii Wilde Harris \nLesley Loksi Chan\, Curse Cures\n11 min\, digital\, sound\, 2009\n“The arrival of a new worker to a jeans factory causes changes to the rhythms of the workplace. This mysterious narrative integrates personal and collective history with fiction. The visuals were created with both found images and original photography reproduced on acetate sheets which were subsequently sewn together and projected onto a wall and video-taped. This mixed-media work is a reflection on the repetitive labour and materiality of textile work and the im/possibilities for resistance to challenging working conditions.” – Lesley Loksi Chan. Courtesy of Vtape. \nLaura Kraning\, Language of Memory\n3 min\, 16mm on digital video\, sound\, 2009\n“Language of Memory is a hand-processed\, optically printed film composed of rayographs of my grandmother’s still negatives from the early 1900s\, strips of her old lace casting abstract patterns on high contrast film\, and the overlapping gestures of sewing and splicing film\, related techniques historically attributed to women. It is both homage to my grandmother’s creative influence and a deconstruction of memory through fragmentation and the accretion of associations surfacing from the tactile processes of the film’s making.” – Laura Kraning \nSusie Bennally\, A Navajo Weaver\n24 min\, 16mm on digital\, silent\, 1966 \nAlta Kahn\, Second Weaver \n10 min\, 16mm on digital\, silent\, 1966 \nA Navajo Weaver and Second Weaver are two films produced in a workshop in 1966 taught by Sol Worth\, John Adair and Richard Chalfen. They traveled to Pine Springs\, Arizona\, where they taught a group of Navajo students to make documentary films\, including Alta Kahn and her daughter Susie Bennally. In her life\, Kahn was known as a renowned weaver\, and Bennally was an accomplished weaver\, having worked with her mother since the age of eight. \nThe series of films made through this workshop is known as Navajo Film Themselves. Emerging by a critique from the anthropologists that anthropological film had been “dictated by American (or Western) trained eyes and hands and guided by the emotions\, attitudes\, and values of that culture”\, the project nonetheless evinces several colonial presumptions on the part of the instructors. The two films\, which have been shown in venues such as the Flaherty Film Seminar and the Navajo National Museum\, are both depictions of two experienced and skilled weavers (Kahn and Bennally)\, but also open important questions on the nature of ethics\, aesthetics\, and pedagogy. Courtesy of Visionmaker Media. \nSenga Nengudi\, The Threader \n6 min\, digital\, sound\, 2007\n“…The Threader (2007)\, Nengudi shows the moving body actively engaged with sculptural material. Produced from a residency at The Fabric Mills Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia\, this film follows the movements of a worker carefully striding across the factory floor with a collection of threaded spools. His gestures\, practiced movements used in his daily work\, are as seamless as a choreographed dance. She cuts to close ups of his fingers delicately tying thread to a hook and of the swaying metal machinery… the artistry of this work relies on the medium of the moving image to build narrative by cutting to discrete moments\, or exploring the space of the factory itself.” – Simone Krug\, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles. Digital file courtesy Thomas Erben Gallery. \nYanaki and Milton Manaki\, The Weavers (also known as Grandmother Despina)\n1 min\, 35mm on digital\, silent\, 1905\nWidely considered to be the first film shot in the Ottoman Empire\, this film shot in the city of Monastir (modern day Bitola\, North Macedonia)\, which was a economic and cultural center of the empire. Originally titled “Our 114-year-old grandmother at work weaving”\, the film and its filmmakers have come to symbolize an enigmatic moment at the turn of the 20th century\, coinciding with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire\, and emergence of the many modern states throughout the region.\n\nEytan İpeker\, Dantelacı (The Lace Peddler)\n18 min\, 16mm on digital video\, Turkish and Ladino with English subtitles\, 2005\n“Adapted from the award-winning short story by Eli Aji\, Dantelacı (The Lace Peddler) depicts traveling lace seller Yasef Efendi as he adjusts to societal changes in 1950s Istanbul.” – Eytan İpeker \n\nThis screening is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/punctures-threading-histories/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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