Past exhibitions and events
Since its founding in 1985, Squeaky Wheel has hosted a wealth of public events, exhibitions, screenings, off-site events at local treasures like Silo City, visiting artists, special workshops, and much more.
This page lists events going back to 2016. We hope to list all our previous events in the future.
February 1, 2022
Info-session | Workspace Residency, Summer 2022
February 8, 2022
Info-session | Workspace Residency, Summer 2022
February 9, 2022– February 14, 2022
Virtual project | [ E N | C L O S I N G ], curated by SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon
February 14, 2022 @ PLASMA at the Department of Media Study
Artist talk | PLASMA: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY
March 15, 2023
Skill-share | Intro to Machine Learning with Carlos Castellanos
March 17, 2023 @ Squeaky Wheel and online
Artist talk | Meet the Residents: Carlos Castellanos and Zain Alam
March 28, 2022
Artist talk | PLASMA: Crystal Z Campbell
April 11, 2022
Artist talk | PLASMA: Emily Martinez
April 22, 2022. On view through May 14, 2022 @ Buffalo Arts Studio
Exhibition | Crystal Z. Campbell: Viewfinder
April 25, 2022
Artist talk | PLASMA: Jordan Lord
April 28, 2022 @ North Park Theater
Youth Screening | 21st Annual Nichols School Flick Fest Student Film and Video Festival
May 3, 2022 @ Journey’s End Refugee Services
Screening | Crystal Z Campbell and Allan Jamieson
May 27, 2022. On view through August 29, 2022
Exhibition | Jenson Leonard: GLAND PRIX
June 15, 2022 @ online
Artist talk | In conversation: Jenson Leonard and American Artist
August 11, 2022
Youth showcase | DATA Summer Showcase
August 17, 2022
Skill-share | Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance with Rob Cosgrove
August 19, 2022
Artist talk | Meet the Residents: Muse Dodd and Rob Cosgrove
August 23, 2022
Skill-share | (Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory with Muse Dodd
August 26, 2022
Screening and artist talk | Jenson Leonard’s Workflow
August 27, 2022 @ Silo City
Special Event | Silo City Reading Series (with Johann Diedrick)
September 24, 2022 @ Five Points Bakery
Fundraiser | Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure!
October 14, 2022 @ Burchfield Penney Art Center
Screening | Squeaky Wheel’s 19th Animation Fest!
October 15, 2022
Call for applications | Workspace Residency, Spring 2023
November 11 and 12, 2022
VR Exhibition | Deniz Tortum’s September 1955 and Floodplain
December 15, 2022
Special event | Squeaky’s Sneaky Peeky
January 21, 2021
Panel | On the language of anti-Blackness and the Indian Ocean with hiba ali, Jazmin Graves, and Beheroze Shroff
February 5, 2021
Screening | Public Visualization Lab: Passing through the Heart: Episode 3, with Bryan Lee and Evy Kwong
March 15, 2021
Artist talk | PLASMA: Adam Khalil (presented by the Department of Media Study, UB)
March 19, 2021
Artist talk | Meet the Residents: Hanae Utamura and Jacob Nelsen-Epstein
March 30, 2021
Skill-share | Pandemic, care, and healing with Hanae Utamura
March 31, 2021
Skill-share | Intro to Machine Code with Jacob Nelsen-Epstein
April 5, 2021
Artist talk | PLASMA: Jenson Leonard (presented by the Department of Media Study, UB)
April 7, 2021
Screening | Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s Empty Metal
April 12, 2021
Artist talk | PLASMA: Ekrem Serdar (presented by the Department of Media Study, UB)
April 19, 2021
Artist talk | PLASMA: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy (presented by the Department of Media Study, UB)
April 24, 2021
Screening | Sindhu Thirumalaisamy’s The Lake and The Lake
June 18, 2021. On view through September 10, 2021
Exhibition and web project | Johann Diedrick: Dark Matters
June 18, 2021
Artist Talk | Johann Diedrick on Dark Matters
May 20–July 2, 2021 @ Space Gallery (Portland, ME)
Exhibition | Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time
August 23, 2021
Skill-share | Starting with Access: Where a Film Begins with Jordan Lord
August 24, 2021
Skill-share | Generating Sounds Collaboratively with Crystal Z Campbell
August 25, 2021
Skill-share | Creating Identity: Asian American Subjectivities with Olivia Ong Evans
August 26, 2021
Artist talk | Meet the Residents: Crystal Z Campbell, Jordan Lord, Olivia Ong Evans
September 3, 2021
Screening | Squeaky Wheel’s 18th Animation Fest!
September 15, 2021
Skill-share and info-session | Applying for Things! + Workspace Info-session with Katrina Neumann and Kira-Simon Kennedy
October 6, 2021. On view through February 14, 2022.
Exhibition and online project | SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY: i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back
October 6, 2021
Artist talk | SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon
November 17, 2021
Screening | helloiamandra8: Alison Nguyen in Conversation with Sophie Cavoulacos
December 2, 2021
Screening | Poetics of Breath: Cinema of Migrancy, curated by Kalpana Subramanian
January 10, 2020. On view through February 7, 2020
Opening | Punctures: Betty Yu and Sabrina Gschwandtner
January 11, 2020
Special Workshop | Punctures: Threading Roots with Augmented Reality
January 15, 2020
Screening | Punctures: no idle hands and Hearts and Hands
January 29, 2020
Screening | Punctures: Threading Histories
February 7, 2020
Artist Talks & Closing | Punctures: Charlie Best and Jodi Lynn Maracle
February 14, 2020
Special Event | Love & Sex Show: Sweet Nothings
February 19, 2020
Special Workshop | Data and Human Rights: Open Source Research Tools
Opportunity | Workspace Residency, Summer 2020 session
Deadline: February 20, 2020
March 11, 2020
Skill-share | Representation in Filmmaking with Caleb Abrams
Youth Workshop | Non-fiction Poetics: A Youth Writing Workshop with Saif Alsaegh
March 25, 2020. On view through April 1.
Online Screening | Miko Revereza’s No Data Plan
April 8, 2020. On view through April 15.
Online Artist Talks | Meet the Residents: Caleb Abrams and Saif Alsaegh
April 15, 2020. On view through April 22.
Online Screening | Tiara Roxanne’s I cannot decolonize my body
April 25, 2020. On view through May 1.
Online Screening | Sindhu Thirumalaisamy’s The Lake and The Lake
May 1, 2020. On view through May 30.
Virtual Youth Exhibition | SIMULATION
Call for Applications: Artist & Mentor in Residence
Deadline: August 14, 2020
August 19, 2020
Skill-share | The Great Indoors: Online Soundscapes Workshop with Johann Diedrick
August 21, 2020
Youth Screening | From the Out There
August 21, 2020
Skill-share | Frameworks for Accessibility in Art with Emily Watlington
August 22, 2020
Artist talk | Meet our Residents: Emily Watlington, Eric Drasin, Jenson Leonard, Johann Diedrick
August 26, 2020
Skill-share | Distributed Technology for Digital Cooperation with Eric Barry Drasin
August 28, 2020
Panel | Race Jam: A panel on memes and online imagined blackness, led by Jenson Leonard and with Ashley Khirea Wahba, Nicolas Vargas, and Pastiche Lumumba
September 4, 2020
Performance | Johann Diedrick’s Prelude to Wake
September 25, 2020
Screening | Squeaky Wheel’s 17th Animation Fest
October 10, 2020
Fundraiser | Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure
October 16, 2020
Screening | Lana Lin’s The Cancer Journals Revisited, with Dessane Lopez Cassell (as part of Timelines of Care)
October 28, 2020
Screening | Hala Lotfy’s Coming Forth by Day (as part of Timelines of Care)
November 6, 2020
Screening | Jordan Lord’s Shared Resources, with Albert Lord, Deborah Lord, and Emily Watlington (as part of Timelines of Care)
November 13, 2020. On view through April 2, 2021.
Exhibition | Public Visualization Lab: Passing through the Heart
November 13, 2020
Screening and artist talk | Public Visualization Lab: Passing through the Heart, Episode 1
November 20, 2020
Workshop | What Would An Uprising Doula Do? with What Does a HIV Doula Do? Collective (as part of Timelines of Care)
December 9, 2020
Presentation and Artist Talk | Taraneh Fazeli on Sick Time, Crip Time, Sleepy Time, with Amalle Dublon
December 11, 2020
Screening and artist talk | Public Visualization Lab: Passing through the Heart, Episode 2 with Kalpana Subramanian
Opening January 25, 2019. On view through April 20, 2019.
Exhibition | BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN
February 9, 2019
Skill Share | Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction / Black Magnolias x Black Quantum Futurism
February 15, 2019
Special Event | Love & Sex Show: Play with Me
March 16, 2019
Skill Share | Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Gender and the Non-Binary
March 22, 2019
Artist Talk | Workspace Presentations: Alison Nguyen & LIZN’BOW
April 3, 2019
Screening | Worldline – Timeline: Work by John Akomfrah, Dana McKnight, and Amanda Strong
June 10, 2019
Call for Submissions | Squeaky Wheel’s 16th Animation Fest
June 19th, 2019
Screening | Three Storms for Summer Eves: Blissfully Yours
July 17th, 2019
Screening | Three Storms for Summer Eves: Hale County This Morning, This Evening
July 26, 2019
Artist Talk | Meet our Designer: Nicole Killian
August 9, 2019
Artist Talk | Meet our Residents: Dana McKnight, Dessane Lopez Cassell, Jodi Lynn Maracle
August 10, 2019
Workshop | Haudenosaunee Material Culture with Jodi Lynn Maracle
August 14, 2019
Screening | Three Storms for Summer Eves: Endless Dreams and Water Between
August 23, 2019 @ Silo City, Marina A
One night exhibition | Silo City: WHY HERE WHY NOW
September 6, 2019 at Albright Knox Art Gallery
Screening | Squeaky Wheel’s 16th Animation Fest
September 20, 2019. Cecilia Vicuña on view through November 8, 2019. Charlie Best on view through February 7, 2020.
Opening | Punctures: Cecilia Vicuña and Charlie Best
September 25, 2019
Screening | Punctures: Wang Bing’s Bitter Money
Deadline: October 5, 2019
Opportunity | Workspace Residency, Spring 2020 session
October 12, 2019
Screening | Buffalo International Film Festival
October 19, 2019 at Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center
Special Event | Peepshow: Scary-oke!
October 23, 2019
Screening | Environments of Race and Place
November 22, 2019. On view through December 21, 2019.
Opening | Punctures: Eniola Dawodu and Kite
December 7, 2019
Performance | Punctures: Kite’s Everything I Say Is True
December 11, 2019
Screening | Punctures: Jodie Mack’s The Grand Bizzare
January 19, 2018. On view through April 14, 2018
Exhibition | belit sağ : Let Me Remember
February 17, 2018
Special Event | The Love & Sex(bot) Show
February 23, 2018
Screening | A Few Short Films that Engage in Struggle
March 1, 2018
Deadline to submit your work | BRING YOUR OWN TONY
March 3, 2018
Skill Share | Art+ Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
March 9, 2018
Screening | Shu Lea Cheang presents: I.K.U. This is not LOVE. This is SEX.
March 14, 2018
Master Class | Art Talk: Neither Living Nor Dead: Documentary photography in the 1970’s and 80’s with Dana Tyrrell
March 16, 2018
Artist Talk | Workspace Residency Presentation: Elizabeth Tannie Lewin & Dana Tyrrell
April 6, 2018
SOS Sound Series | Null Point Presents: Weston Olencki
April 25, 2018
Screening | Chris Marker’s Level Five
May 9, 2018. On view through May 31, 2018.
Youth Exhibition | Experimentation: Works by our Youth Media Makers
May 11, 2018
Screening | BRING YOUR OWN TONY
May 12, 2018
Symposium | The Unseen Marion Faller. Pesented by CEPA Gallery.
June 15, 2018. On view through April 14, 2018
Exhibition | Yvette Granata | #d8e0ea: post-cyberfeminist datum
June 29, 2018
Performance | XENOYOGA((I REALLY WANT SOME)) by DJ xenoyoga
July 6, 2018 @ Secret location
Locative Mobile Media Tour with Yvette Granata
August 4, 2018
Squeaky Wheel’s 15th Animation Fest (Screening 1)
August 8, 2018
Workspace Residency: Public Presentations
August 10, 2018 @ Burchfield Penney Art Center
SILENT/SOUND: Variations on Napoleon
August 15, 2018
Master Class: DIY Chrome Extensions with Emily Martinez
August 18, 2018
Master Class: Live Mirror, Camera Mirror with Avye Alexandres
August 24, 2018
Silo City: The Average Attendee Live in Person by Avye Alexandres
August 29, 2018 @ CEPA Gallery
Youth Summer Exhibition & Fall Open House
August 30, 2018 @ Burchfield Penney Art Center
Premiere: A Long, Long Now, a film by the Buffalo Youth Media Institute
September 7, 2018 @ Albright Knox Art Gallery
Screening | Squeaky Wheel’s 15th Animation Fest
September 8, 2018
Scavenger Hunt | Squeaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure
September 15, 2018
Opening | The North is a Lie
September 26, 2018
Artist Talk | Super/Quick! Presentations by UB Grads
October 6, 2018
Screening | Buffalo International Film Festival
November 3, 2018 @ Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library
Skill Share | Art+ Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
November 16 and November 17, 2018 @ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
Symposium | Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time
December 1, 2018 @ Varsity Theatre
Screening | Leilah Weinraub’s SHAKEDOWN
January 18, 2017
Screening | Nude on the Moon
January 20, 2017. On view through May 6, 2017.
Exhibition | Sondra Perry: flesh out
February 12, 2017
Screening | TimeTraveller™: Skawennati in Person
February 17, 2017
Screening | SEXY WHEEL: Anti-Valentine’s Erotica Show
March 1, 2017
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: The State I Am In
March 11, 2017
Skill share | Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
March 15, 2017
Screening | Black Celebration + in complete world
April 5, 2017
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: Ghosts
April 15, 2017
Screening | Visions of an Island: Sky Hopinka in Person
April 26, 2017 @ Dreamland
Screening | Reel Queer: Bijou
April 29, 2017
Workshop | Feminist Cybersecurity Workshop
May 1, 2017 @ Department of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo
Artist Talk | Plasma: Sondra Perry
May 6, 2017
Closing | Sondra Perry: flesh out
May 10, 2017
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: Yella
May 13, 2017
Screening | Villa Maria College Film & Animation Screening
May 17, 2017
Screening | Kathleen Collins’ Losing Ground
May 19, 2017. On View through June 2, 2017
Thesis Exhibition | Joseph Frank: The Continuous Journey
May 25 and 26, 2017 @ Silo City
Media Performance | [Noo Phone in the Black Space]: or How to Avoid Roaming Charges: An augmented reality-performance by Andrew Blanton & Yvette Granata
May 27, 2017
Artist Talk | Andrew Blanton
June 3, 2017 @ Silo City
Screening, Reading, Music | Silo City Reading Series with Mathias Svalina, Mary Helena Clark, Cages, and Aidan Ryan
June 7, 2017
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: Jerichow
July 7, 2017. On view through August 26, 2017
Exhibition Opening | Shape of a Pocket
July 29, 2017
Sound Walk + Artist Talk | Shape of a Pocket: Dislocations with Kalpana Subramanian
August 11, 2017
SILENT/SOUND | Variations on Napoleon
August 12, 2017
Master Class | Devised Performance for Camera with Caroline Doherty
August 12, 2017
Master Class | Shape of a Pocket: Ad Hoc Network Workshop with Tony Yanick
August 16, 2017
Seminar | Art and the Documentary Turn with Rachael Rakes & Leo Goldsmith
August 19, 2017 @ Silo City
Master Class | Field Recording at Silo City with Lea Bertucci
August 23, 2017
Master Class | VR DOC with Deniz Tortum
August 24, 2017
Artist Talk | Presentations by Workspace Residents with Lea Bertucci, Caroline Doherty, Ja’Tovia Gary, Rachael Rakes & Leo Goldsmith, and Deniz Tortum
August 25, 2017
Screening | Shape of a Pocket Video Program
Work by Morgan Arnett, Jason Bernagozzi, Charlie Best and Jaz Palermo, Kyla Kegler, and Carl Spartz. Closing event of Shape of a Pocket.
August 26, 2017 @ Silo City
Special Performance | Lea Bertucci at Silo City
September 1, 2017 @ Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Festival | Squeaky Wheel’s 14th Animation Fest
September 7, 2017
Special Performance | Silent/Sound: Variations on Napoleon @ Front Lawn at Burchfield Penney Art Center
September 15, 2017. On view through December 6, 2017
Exhibition | Angela Washko | The Game: The Game 2.0
September 18, 2017 @ UB Art Department Speaker Series
Artist Talk | Angela Washko
September 19, 2017 @ Digital Humanities Group at Canisius College
Artist Talk | Angela Washko
September 27, 2017
Artist Talk | Super Quick! Presentations by UB Grads
October 4, 2017
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: Cameraperson
October 10, 2017
Festival | Buffalo International Film Festival
October 21, 2017
Party | Peepshow: Scary-oke
October 28, 2017
Tour | The Game: The Game with Feminista Social Club
November 1, 2017
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: The Strange Little Cat
November 10, 2017
Screening + Artist Talk | Christine Choy presents: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
November 18 and 19, 2017 @ Frank E. Merriweather Library
Symposium | To and from 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre
November 29, 2017
Screening | Chantal Akerman’s One Day Pina Asked…
December 6, 2017
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: Sleeping Sickness
January 20, 2016
Screening | Images of the World and the Inscription of War
January 27, 2016
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: How to Change the World
February 3, 2016
Screening | Christiane F. – Wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo
February 7–June 4, 2016
Exhibition | Squeaky@x0 (14 exhibits over 14 weeks)
February 17, 2016
Screening | Kaleidotropes: Bleak Street
February 20, 2016
Screening/Performance | The Rebuilt Environment: Jason Livingston in Person
February 24, 2016
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: Almost Holy
February 25, 2016 @ Dreamland
Screening | Reel Queer: I’m So Excited!
March 2, 2016 @ Sugar City
Screening | Note to Self: The Psychosexual Films of Nazlı Dinçel
March 5, 2016
Screening/Performance | Muybridge Studies: Eric Souther in Person
March 23, 2016
Screening | Kaleidotropes: Fruit of Paradise
March 24, 2016 @ Dreamland
Screening | Reel Queer: Born in Flames with Lizzie Borden via Skype
March 25, 2016
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga with Jessica Oreck in Person
April 6, 2016
Screening | Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie, with guest speaker Genevieve Yue
April 20, 2016 @ UB Art Galleries
Screening | The Moon Returns at Dawn: Films by A.K. Dewdney, J.J. Murphy, Scott Stark
April 27, 2016
Screening | Kaleidotropes: David Holzman’s Diary + My Girlfriend’s Wedding
April 28, 2016 @ Dreamland
Screening | Reel Queer: Community Action Center, with A.L. Steiner via Skype
May 13–15, 2016
Conference | Squeaky Wheel’s 30th Anniversary Closing Celebration + Conference
June 12, 2016
Performance | Jason Lescalleet + VWLS
June 17, 2016. On view through September 3, 2016
Exhibition | A Year from Monday: Recent Works by Wenhua Shi
July 2, 2016
Special Screening | Silo City Blockbuster: Rocky III + Creed
July 6, 2016
Screening | Teruo Ishii’s Horrors of Malformed Men (presented by CEPA Gallery)
July 8, 2016
Screening | The Misbehaving Image: Carl Elsaesser in Person
July 12, 2016
Master Class | Appropriated Media with Carl Elsaesser
July 15, 2016
Screening | Kaleidotropes: Le Révélateur! With live music by Low Prospects
July 31–August 4, 2016
Screening | Infringement Festival: Youth Filmmakers Screening
August 3, 2016 @ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
Screening/Performance | Hybrid Cinema: Films, Videos, and Performances by Michael A. Morris
August 5, 2016 @ Sugar City
Screening | Hypnosis by a Different Name: Mary Helena Clark in Person
August 6, 2016
Master Class | Repetition and the Avant-Garde with Mary Helena Clark
August 10, 2016
Screening | Ritualistic Spaces of Media: Eric Souther in Person
August 12, 2016 @ Silo City
Screening/Performance | Silent/Sound: Noveller + arc
August 15, 2016
Master Class | Audio Visual Software Instruments with Eric Souther
August 20, 2016
Screening | STRONG-THING: H.A. Campbell and Jon Dieringer in Person
August 27, 2016
Master Class | 3D Mapping with Wenhua Shi
August 27, 2016
Screening | A Year from Monday: Screening of works by Wenhua Shi
September 2, 2016 @ the Albright Knox Art Gallery
Screening | Squeaky Wheel’s 13th Animation Fest
September 16, 2016
Virtual Reality | Liminal Labyrinth by Eric Souther
September 24, 2016 @ the Curtis Malting Agway Building
Peepshow | The Third Party
September 28, 2016
Screening | Cultivate Cinema Circle: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
October 5, 2016
Artist Talks | Super/Quick: Presentations by UB Grads
October 6, 2016. On view through November 1, 2016.
Exhibition | Send Blank Tape: Radical Software magazine and early video distribution networks (guest curated by Liz Flyntz)
October 8, 2016
Screenings | Buffalo International Film Festival
October 15, 2016
Master Class | Inflatables with Stella Marrs (Tech Arts for Girls Special Edition)
October 21, 2016
Dance Party | Disco Deployment Unit: The Sound of Female Desire by Stella Marrs
October 26, 2016
Screening | otherworlds: Victory Over the Sun
October 29, 2016
Media Lab | Media Logging Party: The Stokes Tapes
November 5, 2016. On view through January 10, 2016.
Exhibition | Soft Science: Science Fictions by Kathy High
November 11–13, 2016
Performance/Critique | Lori Waxman, 60wrd/min art critic
November 16, 2016
Screening | Between Pop Culture and the Avant-Garde: Little-Seen Films by Women from the Collection of Canyon Cinema presented by guest curator Tess Takahashi
November 23, 2016
Screening | otherworlds: Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles with Joe Ziemba via Skype
December 2, 2016 @ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
Screening | otherworlds: Not of this Earth presented by guest curator Herb Shellenberger
December 6, 2016
Master Class | 3D Projection Mapping with Max Bernstein
December 8, 2016
Master Class | In Between Personal with Arisleyda Dilone
December 10, 2016
Artist Talks | Workspace Presentations: Max Bernstein + Arisleyda Dilone
December 17, 2016
Party | Dysfunctional Holiday Party 2016!
Image: Sondra Perry, flesh out, January 20–May 6, 2017.