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SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel’s 16th Animation Fest!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 6\, 7:30pm\n@ Albright Knox Art Gallery\nFree as part of M&T First Fridays \nShowcasing animated shorts\, including 3D animations\, crayon kaleidoscopes\, and more this 16th edition of our annual Animation Fest is curated by Leanne Goldblatt\, and features films by Amanda Bonaiuto\, Cassie Shao\, Evan Tapper and Scott Sørli\, Hallie Bahn\, Kristjan Holm\, Krystal Downs and Alex Krokus\, LIZN’BOW\, Lori Malépart-Traversy\, Tammy Renée Brackett\, and Vanja Andrijevic. \nProgram ~47min \nOrbit \nTess Martin\n7 min digital file\, 2019\nThe Sun’s energy circulates through the Earth\, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop\, which repeats\, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess\, throwing the cycle out of orbit and temporarily stopping the circulation of energy in nature. The natural cycle can and will continue\, only without the human race in the mix. Submitted by Vanja Andrijevic. \nThe Clitoris\nLori Malépart-Traversy\n3 min\, digital file\, 2016\, subtitled\nWomen are lucky\, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary\, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory. \nHEDGE \nAmanda Bonaiuto \n6 min\, digital file\, 2018\nA singularly comical/surreal vision of a family visiting a funeral home. \nnée Rabbit \nHallie Bahn \n3 min\, digital file\, 2018\nnée Rabbit confronts the mind’s struggle to maintain a true identity even as our memory begins to fade. Can we continue to know ourselves when we have no recollection of our past actions and reactions? Do we adapt our identity to incorporate this loss into our life’s story? Or do we resign ourselves to wake up each day anew and if so\, who are we? \nYour Black Friend \nKrystal Downs and Alex Krokus \n3 min\, digital file\, 2018\nBen Passmore‘s necessary contribution to the dialogue around race in the United States\, Your Black Friend is a letter from your black friend to you about race\, racism\, friendship and alienation. \nAll Your Photos \nTammy Renée Brackett \n2 min\, digital file\, 2019 \nA photo booth that promises to deliver ALL your photos for a quarter. \nThere Were Four of Us \nCassie Shao \n7 min\, digital file\, 2019\, subtitled\nIn a room\, there are four people. \nLife24 \nKristjan Holm \n9 min\, digital file\, 2019 \nConfirmed bachelor Einar Jernskjegg wins the lottery. \nGay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!)\nEvan Tapper and Scott Sørli\n5 min\, digital video\, 2018\, subtitled\nGay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!) was created for Nuit Rose\, Pride Toronto\, 2017. The previous year\, Black Lives Matter – Toronto intervened in the Toronto Pride parade\, resulting in significant changes to Pride 2017. Among the most controversial of BLM-Toronto’s demands was the removal of police floats in Pride marches and parades. The artists were disturbed by the negative response to this demand from gay cis white men that the artists encountered on social media and in person. These men had no memory\, nor understanding\, of the long history of police violence against the LGBT+ communities\, and especially against People of Colour\, a history that continues today. In solidarity with BLM-Toronto\, the artists animated a satirical Shame Parade in another world\, composed entirely of floats that document police violence against the LGBT+ communities in the greater Toronto area from the 1940s to the present day. \nFlowerbombs \nLIZN’BOW \n2 min\, digital file\, 2016\nFlowerbombs is an infomercial made during a 6 week new media feminist workshop series in partnership with Breakthrough Miami outreach program. \nBios of the artists and curator \nAmanda Bonaiuto (b. 1990) is an animator and artist originally from Massachusetts. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival\, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Films\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Ottawa International Animation Festival\, Slamdance\, Pictoplasma\, and more. She is a 2017 Princess Grace Honoraria in Film. She graduated with an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2018. \nCassie Shao is an Animation Artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of SAIC and Hench-DADA School of Cinematic Arts at USC. She works across the field of independent films\, music videos\, projection mapping\, advertising as well as animated television series. Her last short film Synched screened at festivals such as MIAF\, LIAF\, Athens Animfest and Anim!Arte\, and received two awards. Her collaborative project Black Bird with live action director Haonan Wang screened at Ars Independent\, Cucalorus and KLIK etc. It also won several awards including Best Animation at Ibiza Music Video Festival. She recently completed her MFA graduation film There Were Four of Us and is sending it worldwide. \nEvan Tapper received a BFA Honours from the School of Art\, University of Manitoba and a MFA from the School of Art\, Carnegie Mellon University. His multimedia work has been exhibited throughout Canada\, the United States\, Europe\, South America\, the Middle East\, Australia and Asia. He has received grants and awards from such organizations as the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, New York State Council on the Arts\, the Manitoba Arts Council\, and the Toronto Arts Council. Evan has held academic appointments at the State University of New York Fredonia\, McMaster University\, the Ontario College of Art and Design University\, and the University of Toronto. To view Evan’s work\, please visit: www.evantapper.net. \nHallie Bahn is an interdisciplinary artist working in stop-motion animation. Through her narratives and handcrafted sets\, Bahn’s practice explores themes of time\, memory\, and self-preservation. Bahn is currently completing her MFA in Visual Studies at Minneapolis College of Art & Design. \nKristjan Holm was born in 1976 in Tallinn\, Estonia. Graduated Estonian Academy of Arts in 1999 as an interior designer. In time the understanding that a room is limited to four walls\, started to trouble him though. An unexpected discovery that also film frame has four walls\, gave him the final impulse to change the subject and dedicate his life to investigating the ties between frames and walls. \nDoggo Studios is Krystal Downs and Alex Krokus. We freelance out of Brooklyn\, NY and our goal is to make cartoons of incredible power. Whether that is achieved through humor\, emotional storytelling or just looking really badass depends on the project. \nLIZN’BOW is a project in which we use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. We combine social practice and technology to create empowering collaborations with people. Our work provides space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. We have worked with NSU Art Museum\, Squeaky Wheel Media Center\, The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, Domino Park\, Borscht Film Festival\, the Koubek Center\, and Young at Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale. \nLori Malépart-Traversy was born in 1991 in Montreal\, Canada. She studied in Studio Arts and Film Animation at Concordia University\, where she graduated in 2016. Her graduation film\, The Clitoris\, has since been shown in more than 140 film festivals around the world and has received 15 prizes and mentions. She is now working on a project about female masturbation at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). \nScott Sørli’s transdisciplinary practice concerns itself with the moments when form and matter engage the political and economic forces that produce the city. He has taught design research at several architecture schools and has exhibited and published work internationally\, winning several awards. He was co-curator of “convenience”\, a window gallery that provides an opening for art that engages\, experiments\, and takes risks with the architectural\, urban and civic realms. GASP! is his first short film\, with best Judy and colleague Evan Tapper. \nTammy Renée Brackett creates work that poses epistemological questions regarding identity\, categorization\, and location. Brackett has an MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and has exhibited work in China\, Japan\, Croatia\, Hungary\, and the United States. She is a recipient of the College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship for Visual Artists\, funded by the NEA. Her work has been included in the Albright Knox’s biennial exhibition Beyond/In Western NY\, at the Ball State Museum of Art\, and in a solo show titled Deer Dear at SUArt Galleries in Syracuse NY. Brackett is currently Professor and Chair of Digital Media and Animation at Alfred State College\, Alfred NY. \nTess Martin is an independent animator who works with cut-outs\, ink\, paint\, sand or objects. Her work often blurs the boundary between experimental and narrative\, animation\, film and art. She has received numerous grants\, prizes and artist residencies in support of her work which can be seen in festivals and galleries worldwide. Recent residencies include the Camargo Foundation (France\, 2019)\, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy\, 2017) and Open Workshop (Denmark\, 2016). Filmography: Orbit (2019)\, Ginevra (2017)\, The Lost Mariner (2014)\, Mario (2014)\, They Look Right Through You (2013)\, Hula Hoop (2012)\, The Whale Story (2012)” \n16th Animation Fest curator: Leanne Goldblatt is a mother\, student\, and coach born and raised in Westchester\, N.Y.  She is currently pursuing a masters in Studio Art at the University of Buffalo.  As an interdisciplinary practitioner Leanne works primarily in the mediums of print\, sculpture\, and glass to create an autobiographical body of work.   \n\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is sponsored by Villa Maria College’s Animation program. Villa Maria College’s Animation Program teaches the fundamentals of animation and fine art\, and builds from there. The small classes are instructed by our renowned faculty\, and allow students to get a personalized\, hands-on education. \nBanner image: Gay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!) by Evan Tapper and Scott Sørli. Squeaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is sponsored by Villa Maria College’s Animation program. \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-16th-animation-fest/
LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
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SUMMARY:Silo City: WHY HERE WHY NOW by Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Silo City: WHY HERE WHY NOW by Jodi Lynn Maracle\nAugust 23rd\, 6–8pm\n@ Silo City\, Marina A\nFree and open to the public \nJoin Squeaky Wheel at Silo City for Jodi Lynn Maracle’s multi-media installation WHY HERE WHY NOW\, an exploration of and inquiry into the relationship between body\, land and language. This one-day installation highlights a history that prioritizes not only Indigenous\, Haudenosaunee\, and Onöndowa’ga:’ experiences and relationships in the past\, but prioritizes the contemporary relationship of Haudenosaunee peoples to this land and the stories of this land. What does it mean to move about this land and remember what was done? What does it mean to live with the specter of “Indian” at every turn? \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. \nThis event is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Open to applicants from Buffalo and across the U.S.\, the residency connects artists and researchers with resources\, time\, and studio space to support the creation of new work or to continue ongoing projects. The residency is offered twice a year: A two-week session that takes place in the month of March\, and a three-week session that takes place in August. The residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. More information about the residency\, and how to apply\, can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-why-here-why-now-by-jodi-lynn-maracle/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Endless Dreams and Water Between
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 14\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nRenée Green’s Endless Dreams and Water Between is a feature film with four fictitious characters sustaining an epistolary exchange in which their “planetary thought” is woven with the physical locations they inhabit: the island of Manhattan\, the island of Majorca\, in Spain\, and the islands and peninsula that form the San Francisco Bay Area. Connected through ruminations on the 17th century author George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin)\, the characters’ reflections and dreams enact what could be described as “an archipelagic mind\,” linking worlds\, time\, and space. \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 12: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area. \n  \n  \nImage copyright of the artist\, courtesy of Video Data Bank\, www.vdb.org\, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/endless-dreams/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Haudenosaunee Material Culture with Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 10th\, 12–3 pm\nFree and open to the public\nOpen to audiences age 12 and up\, or younger with a parent or guardian\n \n  \nSpace is limited please register here.  \nIn this hands-on seminar\, Workspace Resident Jodi Lynn Maracle will guide participants through a crash course in Haudenosaunee material culture. Participants will work on and practice different corn husk uses and various stages of deer hide preparation while learning about Haudenosaunee aesthetics\, languages\, and histories. The workshop’s goal is to have participants reimagine their relationships to land\, creation\, and shared places through Haudenosaunee languages and material culture in current and future forms. \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 soundscapes\, 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. \nSpace is limited please register here.  \n  \nThis event is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Open to applicants from Buffalo and across the U.S.\, the residency connects artists and researchers with resources\, time\, and studio space to support the creation of new work or to continue ongoing projects. The residency is offered twice a year: A two-week session that takes place in the month of March\, and a three-week session that takes place in August. The residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. More information about the residency\, and how to apply\, can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/haudenosauneematerialculture/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Meet our Residents: Dana McKnight\, Dessane Lopez Cassell\, Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 9th\, 7pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin Squeaky Wheel for a chance to meet our Summer 2019 Workspace Residents and learn more about their past and ongoing projects in this evening of artist talks\, covering artistic and curatorial approaches to labor & representation as they relate to people of color\, anchored in the geography of the Dominican Republic; speculative black markets and underground communities in our cities east side; and investigations into past and present relationships of Haudenosaunee peoples to the land on which we’ve settled. A brief presentation before the artist talk will update you on how you can take part in the Workspace Residency. \nDana T McKnight is a black\, queer\, multimedia artist currently residing in Austin\, TX. Blending formal studies in Cultural Anthropology (Long Island University\, 2005) and Sculpture (Minerva Kunst Akademie\, Groningen NL) her work lies in a plethora of medium splicing: speculative fiction\, sculpture\, installation\, experimental sound and video\, performance art\, poetry and painting. At the core of Dana McKnight’s work lies a surrealist edge—the real world slowly picked apart through a lens tinted by magical realism and lived experience. Dana McKnight is a founder of Dreamland Art Gallery\, an artist-run contemporary arts and performance space in Buffalo\, NY\, and a Co-Creator for RIQSE (Radical Inclusive Queer Sex Education). In 2016\, she was selected as a Living Legacy Artist by the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She is hood-raised\, but spent several years living in London\, Kyoto\, and Groningen (NL) and travels extensively. \nDessane Lopez Cassell is a curator\, writer\, and film programmer based in New York. She has held curatorial positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem\, The Museum of Modern Art\, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. A former US Fulbright fellow\, Cassell has organized curatorial projects and screenings for Flaherty NYC\, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)\, MoMA Film\, and the Allen. Her writing has been published and is forthcoming in catalogs issued by the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Studio Museum\, MoMA\, and Experiments in Cinema. Cassell has produced podcast and radio projects for Bay FM and Creative X (both South Africa)\, and Roskilde Festival (Denmark)\, and she is a 2019 Advisory Committee member at UnionDocs\, in Brooklyn. Her research interests include experimental film\, contemporary practices that draw upon the archival\, and investigations of race\, gender\, and representation. \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. \nThis event is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Open to applicants from Buffalo and across the U.S.\, the residency connects artists and researchers with resources\, time\, and studio space to support the creation of new work or to continue ongoing projects. The residency is offered twice a year: A two-week session that takes place in the month of March\, and a three-week session that takes place in August. The residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. More information about the residency\, and how to apply\, can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-our-residents-dana-mcknight-dessane-lopez-cassell-jodi-lynn-maracle/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hale County This Morning\, This Evening
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 17\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nNominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019\, Hale County This Morning\, This Evening is composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community\, allowing the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South. A visually stunning film which trumpets the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race\, it is a testament to dreaming – despite the odds.\n \nHow does one express the reality of individuals whose public image\, lives\, and humanity originate in exploitation? Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross employs the integrity of nonfiction filmmaking and the currency of stereotypical imagery to fill in the gaps between individual black male icons. Hale County This Morning\, This Evening is a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film. \nIn the lives of protagonists Daniel and Quincy\, quotidian moments and the surrounding southern landscape are given importance\, drawing poetic comparisons between historical symbols and the African American banal. Images are woven together to replace narrative arc with visual movements. As Ross crafts an inspired tapestry made up of time\, the human soul\, history\, environmental wonder\, sociology\, and cosmic phenomena\, a new aesthetic framework emerges that offers a new way of seeing and experiencing the heat\, and the hearts of people in the Black Belt region of the U.S. as well far beyond. \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 17: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/hale-county/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Blissfully Yours
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 19\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nThe feature debut of Thai director Apichatpong Weeserakathul\, Blissfully Yours (2002) is an enigmatic\, surprising film that charts a road trip and picnic in a jungle between three people –a Burmese national working in Thailand without documentation\, his girlfriend\, and an older woman. Gestures\, glances\, and a lush landscape  releasing emotions\, superstitions\, and eroticism. This is a transformative summer movie of pop music and naps\, sex and sun through leaves\, and launched the director to international acclaim. \nOne of the best entries at Cannes…with its languid pacing and poetic sense of quiet and gesture\, Blissfully Yours would eventually uncover a world of hope\, possibility and bliss at the crossroads of human connection and aesthetic achievement. – Manohla Dargis (LA Weekly) \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 12: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/blissfully-yours/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Worldline ⃝ Timeline
DESCRIPTION:With filmmaker Bryan Oliver Green in-person\, and a live Skype performance by Dana McKnight\nFriday\, April 5\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess Pass holders\n***A limited amount of free tickets for this screening will be set aside for members of the Black and indigenous community. Click here to claim your ticket.***\n \nSqueaky Wheel presents an evening of films and performances that form a constellation of times and spaces outside of colonial thought. The screening features a live science-fiction Skype performance by artist Dana McKnight; Bryan Oliver Green’s Recurrence Plot: The Family Circle (2018)\, adapted from a short story by Black Quantum Futurism’s Rasheedah Phillips; Amanda Strong’s Mia’ (2015)\, a supernatural stop-motion film of a young Indigenous female street artist who finds ways to root herself within her ancestry; and concluding with John Akomfrah’s essential 1996 film\, The Last Angel of History\, which examines the relationships between Pan-African culture\, science fiction\, intergalactic travel\, and rapidly progressing computer technology. Join us for a special evening traveling through space and time\, with visiting filmmaker Bryan Oliver Green in person. \nThis event is presented as part of the public programming accompanying Black Quantum Futurism: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\, on view at Squeaky Wheel\, Jan 25–April 20\, 2019. Special thanks to Vtape and Icarus Films. \nProgram \n\nMia’ (Salmon)\nAmanda Strong\n8 min\, digital\, sound\, 2015\nA young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people. Lacking cultural resources and familial connection within the city\, she paints these images from intuition and blood memory. She has not heard the stories from her Elders lips\, but has found her own methods to re-discover them. The alleyways become her sanctuary and secret gallery\, and her art comes to life. Mia’ is pulled into her own transformation via the vessel of a salmon. In the struggle to return home\, she traverses through polluted waters and skies\, witnessing various forms of industrial violence and imprint that have occurred upon the land. \nMia’ is a hybrid documentary using animation and sound as a vehicle to tell the story of transformation and re-connection. Indigenous people in Canada experienced displacement once commercial trade turned into settlement. Today the urban population of Native people now outnumbers those living on-reserve. Many struggle being disconnected from their land\, rites\, and protocol. This film is not an adaptation or a re-telling of a traditional story but is based in the circular time of\, and passage of\, oral history. Mia’ challenges the notions and format of conventional documentaries and presents Indigenous oral traditions as truth and not myth or legend. (Description courtesy of Vtape.) \n\nRecurrence Plot: The Family Circle\nBryan Oliver Green\, adapted from a short story by Rasheedah Phillips\n16 min\, digital\, sound\, 2018\nA crystal\, memory-storing bracelet transports a young mother back to the day of her own mother’s traumatic death and challenges the notion that time flows in only one direction… \nUntitled live skype performance\nDana McKnight\n~10 min\, 2019 \n\nThe Last Angel of History\nJohn Akomfrah\n45 min\, digital\, sound\, 1996 \nJohn Akomfrah\, director of Seven Songs of Malcolm X\, returns with an engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture\, science fiction\, intergalactic travel\, and rapidly progressing computer technology. \nThis cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction\, estrangement\, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement\, cultural alienation\, and otherness. \nAkomfrah’s analysis is rooted in an exploration of the cultural works of Pan-African artists\, such as funkmaster George Clinton and his Mothership Connection\, Sun Ra’s use of extraterrestrial iconography\, and the very explicit connection drawn between these issues in the writings of black science fiction authors Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia Butler. \nIncluded are interviews with black cultural figures\, from musicians DJ Spooky\, Goldie\, and Derek May\, who discuss the importance of George Clinton to their own music\, to George Clinton himself. Astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. describes his experiences as one of the first African-Americans in space\, while Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols tells of her campaign for a greater role for African-Americans in NASA. Novelist Ismael Reed and cultural critics Greg Tate and Kodwo Eshun tease out the parallels between black life and science fiction\, while Delaney and Butler discuss the motivations behind their choice of the genre to express ideas about the black experience. \nIn keeping with the futuristic tenor of the film\, the interviews are intercut with images of Pan-African life from different periods of history\, jumping between time and space from the past to the future to the present\, not unlike the mode of many rock videos or surfing the Internet. \nBanner image: John Akomfrah\, The Last Angel of History\,1996. Courtesy of Icarus Films.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/worldline-timeline/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Youth Workshop: A Children's Book with LIZN'BOW
DESCRIPTION:1:30–3pm\nOpen to youth ages 7-12\nFree to participate.\nClick here to register. \nSqueaky Wheel invites youth ages 7-12 to participate in A CHILDREN’S BOOK with LIZN’BOW! In this new media youth workshop\, the artists and youth will collaborate on a book that expands on ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. Participating young creatives will create drawings\, portraits\, and texts\, exploring identity\, gender\, and feminism. The workshop will conclude with youth participating in a green screen recording/portrait session that will be remixed into the book. \nContact ekrem@squeaky.org with any questions. \nThis workshop is led by LIZN’BOW (Miami\, FL)\, Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2019 Workspace Residents. LIZN’BOW is a project in which Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. The artists start most of their pieces in a workshop setting. Our workshops focus on providing space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. They usually choose a mainstream cultural format as starting point then deconstruct and experiment from there. LIZN’BOW have worked with The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, En Residencia at the Koubek Center\, Borscht Film Festival\, and Mana Contemporary Miami. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts \, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/youth-workshop-a-childrens-book-with-liznbow/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Workspace Presentations: Alison Nguyen and LIZN'BOW
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 22\, 7pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for a night of artist talks by Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2019 Workspace Residents Alison Nguyen and Liz Ferrer & Bow Tie. Nguyen will speak of her multimedia installation work which draws from home movies\, social media\, soft pornography\, and videos created by religious cults/extremists and explores the porous visual relationships between domestic intimacy\, terror and technology. Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie will be speaking on their project LIZN’BOW\, often featuring youth and utilizing technology and community building exercises to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. \nBios of the artists \nAlison Nguyen is a New York-based artist working in video and installation. She received her B.A from Brown University\, Providence\, RI. Nguyen’s work has been screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival\, True/False Film Festival\, Crossroads presented by SF Cinemateque/SF MoMA\, San Diego Underground Film Festival\, Microscope Gallery\, Tai Kwun Contemporary\, Leeds International Film Festival\, Unseen Film Festival\, L’Alternativa\, Marfa Film Festival\, San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects\, Traverse Vidéo\, Palace Film Festival\, Outpost Artists\, and Zumzeig Cine. Her work has been exhibited at Centre Des Arts Actuels Skol\, The University of Oklahoma\, BOSI Contemporary\, and Satellite Art Show\, Miami. She has participated in group performances at The Whitney Museum of Art: Dreamlands Expanded\, The Parrish Museum\, and Mana Contemporary (in collaboration with Optipus). Nguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, Signal Culture\, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been awarded grants from NYSCA and The New York Community Trust. \nLIZN’BOW is a project in which Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. The artists start most of their pieces in a workshop setting. Our workshops focus on providing space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. They usually choose a mainstream cultural format as starting point then deconstruct and experiment from there. LIZN’BOW have worked with The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, En Residencia at the Koubek Center\, Borscht Film Festival\, and Mana Contemporary Miami.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/workspace-presentations-alison-nguyen-and-liznbow/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Conflicted Image with Alison Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 20 th\, 6-8pm \n$10 Non-Members / $7 Members \nContact kevin@squeaky.org for registration or complete the registration form here. SPACE IS LIMITED! \n\nJoin us for an experimental media workshop led by Workspace resident artist Alison Nguyen. The workshop will explore strategies of critique\, homage\, voyeurism\, parody\, deconstruction\, and fragmentation in works that have appropriated found footage while also teaching participants how to make their own short works using found footage.\n\n\n \n\n\nA beginners knowledge of video editing is required.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe workshop will be divided equally between screenings\, discussion\, and practical explorations. Each participant will be given a thumb drive of heterogeneous found footage as a starting point\, and they will produce their own investigations through a variety of manipulations and interventions using editing\, re-filming\, and projection processes.\n\n\n \n\n\nSpace is limited please contact kevin@squeaky.org for registration.\n\n\n \n\n\nAlison Nguyen’s work explores the ways in which images are produced\, disseminated\, and consumed within the current media landscape\, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent\, she re-articulates mainstream cinematic language in unsettlingly seductive installation\, video\, and sculptural works.\n\n\n \n\n\nAlison Nguyen received her B.A. from Brown University. She has presented work at Ann Arbor Film Festival; CROSSROADS by San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, among others. She has received residencies and fellowships from The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, and Signal Culture. In 2018\, Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/conflicted-image/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Gender + The Non-Binary
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 16\, 2–7pm\nFree and open to the public\nCoffee\, refreshments\, research\, and guidance provided. Email ekrem@squeaky.org for childcare requests.\nRSVP Here \nJoin us for the global do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia. \nAs Art+Feminism enters its sixth year of worldwide activities\, they announce an evolution of their project: Gender+ The Non-Binary. This focus breaks apart “the myth that people are only as valuable as their adherence to gendered stereotypes – only as honorable as their ability to fit into one of two categories: assigned girl at birth or assigned boy.” \nCome to Squeaky Wheel for a day of learning\, and bringing to light histories unknown while impacting the world’s dictionary. Research materials\, coffee\, and food will be provided. Onsite childcare is available by request for those who RSVP by March 13th. \nSupported by Buffalo State University’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor\, UB Departments of Art and the Department of Media Study\, and the Wikimedia Foundation. \nImage credit: Detail of Wendy Red Star\, Ashkaamne (matrilineal inheritance)\, 2019. This artwork was produced for the 2019 Art+Feminism Call to Action Art Commission.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-gender-the-non-binary/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Love & Sex Show: Play with Me
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 15\, 7pm\nGeneral Admission: $10\n*Limited Online only* Threesome Special: 3 Tickets for $25\nFree with ArtsAccess Pass\nClick here to buy your tickets \nThis event is for ages 18+\n \nSqueaky Wheel’s annual erotica bash\, the Love & Sex Show returns\, with a special video game edition curated by Toronto-based Dames Making Games (DMG)! Featuring a lusty\, critical line-up of independent video games that include dating simulators\, coop play-a-longs\, and more\, DMG representatives Izzie Colpitts-Campbell and Jennie Faber will lead group playthroughs\, and highlight works by milkymilkface\, Maxwell Lander\, Robert Yang\, Spooklight games\, and other games that explore how we navigate and understand intimacy. Come\, play\, and flirt! \nDress up in cosplay to enter a costume contest sponsored by Evergreen Health! \nBanner image: Pretzel After Dark by milkymilkface
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/love-sex-show-play-with-me/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction\nBlack Magnolias x Black Quantum Futurism\nSaturday\, February 9\, 2019\, 2–5pm\nFree and open to the public\n \nWhat if your future dreams for society became the dominant narrative for hope in the present? How do we imagine a more liberated future for ourselves? This discussion group and creative workshop led by Black Magnolias will use speculative fiction–Afrofuturism\, science fiction and fantasy–as a tool to create new worlds of hope and change. Participants will be engaged in using ideas of limitless technology\, fantasy\, and science to rewrite the world and walk away with a sci-fi story that replaces negative narratives with possibility and power. \nResponding to a newly commissioned essay by Rasheedah Phillips written for the exhibition by Black Quantum Futurism\, this three hour workshop will be accompanied by presentations\, short films\, and free coffee. Pens and writing materials will be provided. \nInitiated by Marielle Smith and Richmond Wills\, Black Magnolias was created as a creative space to share\, build and develop a strong community of writers of color. This transient workshop series responds to a need for space for Black & Brown\, Queer and LGBT+ writers of all platforms and extend the invitation to those that belong to this community. This event is open to participants ages 14 and up. \nMarielle Smtih is a Buffalo native and mother of two\, who enjoys writing and performing poetry\, essays\, and folklore that are reflective of her life experience and ancestry as a queer Black person. Marielle has been organizing with Just Resisting since 2016\, a people of color community organization that focuses on social justice. She believes one of the greatest acts of resistance is finding healing through artistic expression. She currently co- facilitates Black Magnolias\, a Black and people of color creative writing workshop with Richie Willis. \nRichmond Wills (He/Him) is a poet\, storyteller and cultural organizer currently based in Buffalo New York. He co-founded Black Magnolias\, an ongoing creative workshop series targeting black/brown inner-city populations. He also coordinated outreach for Words on the Street\, an initiative to make literary arts more accessible to disenfranchised communities. From being a social justice activist with Black Love Resist in the Rust\, a not for profit grassroots organization currently involved in a lawsuit against the city of Buffalo over illegal checkpoints to being a sexual health advocate and tour de force for youth who identify as LGBT+\, Richmond hopes to mobilize and grow with Black & Brown communities to work towards collective solidarity and liberation. \nThis event is presented as part of the public programming accompanying Black Quantum Futurism: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\, on view at Squeaky Wheel\, Jan 25–April 20\, 2019. \nBanner image by Richmond Wills.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/futurism-now/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM
DESCRIPTION:ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\nOpening January 25\, 2019\, 7–9pm\nConversation between Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) and Ineil Quaran at 7:30pm\nOn view through April 20\, 2019\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm\nFree and open to the public \nClick here to download the brochure\, featuring Activating Retrocurrences and Reverse Time-Bindings in the Quantum Now(s)\, a new essay by Rasheedah Phillips. \nHow can one examine the unknown? How is this unknown shaped by its temporal realities? How does one resist\, recover\, when facing the erasure of memory? This may involve a reinvestigation and uncovering of hidden histories\, and a hacking into future histories where they have already been erased. \nUtilizing collage\, video\, text\, and sound installations\, this exhibition by Philadelphia-based Black Quantum Futurism (Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother\, and Rasheedah Phillips aka The Afrofuturist Affair) draws from quantum physics\, speculative fiction\, and Black/Afro-diasporan cultural traditions of observing time and space. The works aim to break free into the unknown futures of past selves\, and to honor the ritual casualties and philosophies of Black ancestry\, culture\, and spirit. \nJoin us at Squeaky Wheel on Friday\, January 25th at 7pm for the opening reception of the exhibition and a conversation with Moor Mother at 7:30pm. \nPublic Programs\nFebruary 9\, 2–5pm | Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction: Discussion and Creative Writing Workshop\nApril 5\, 7pm | Worldline ⃝ Timeline: Screening of John Akomfrah’s The Last Angel of History\, and work by Dana McKnight and Amanda Strong \nBios of the artists and contributors \nBlack Quantum Futurism is an interdisciplinary creative practice between Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips that weaves quantum physics\, afrofuturism\, and Afrodiasporic concepts of time\, ritual\, text\, and sound to present innovative works and tools offering practical ways to escape negative temporal loops\, oppression vortexes\, and the digital matrix. BQF has created a number of community-based projects\, performances\, experimental music projects\, installations\, workshops\, books\, short films\, zines\, including the award-winning Community Futures Lab. BQF Collective is a 2018 Solitude x ZKM Web Resident\, 2017 Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow\, a 2017 Pew Fellow\, 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow\, and a 2015 artist-in-residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange. The Collective has presented\, exhibited\, or performed at Red Bull Arts NY\, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion\, Philadelphia Art Museum Perelman Building\, MOMA PS1\, Bergen Kunsthall\, Le Gaite Lyrique\, MOFO Festival\, and more. BQF Collective frequently collaborates with other Black Futurists Joy KMT\, Irreversible Entanglements\, Thomas Stanley\, and Metropolarity to produce literature\, present workshops\, lectures\, and performances. \nIneil Quaran is an afro-futurist multidisciplinary artist and ghetto organizer born in Buffalo\, NY and raised in the Kenfield/Langfield Projects. Through his fine art and multimedia collages he recreates memories and dreamscapes incorporating themes of self-preservation\, Black celebration\, imagination\, and grief. He developed his skill by blocking-out neighborhood sidewalks with chalk drawings and studying digital tutorials. Institutionally he attended Buffalo Academy of Visual Performing Arts and briefly\, Villa Maria College majoring in animation. Growing up Ineil indulged in: Walt Disney animations\, climbing trees\, the epics of ancient religions and folklore\, anime\, early 2000’s hip hop and R&B\, science fiction adventure\, and his gullah/geechee heritage.\nIn 2014 he co-owned\, graphic design business and zine distributor\, VENT. Soon after in 2015 he co-founded D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment)\, a Black youth-led anti-oppressive arts organization that aims to strengthen local resources for creative and exploited communities which resists through art forms and arts movements considered: white-washed\, extreme\, stigmatized\, political\, and/or experimental.\nIneil Quaran is now developing work for his first solo art show and is continuing to cultivate resources supporting the East Side\, melaninated creatives\, and all the black and brown *QTs! \nBanner image courtesy of Black Quantum Futurism.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/blackquantumfuturism/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Institutions
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 2\, 2018\n2–4pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin members of Decolonize this Place\, Amin Husain\, Amy Weng and Marz Saffore\, along with Jodi Lynn Maracle and Caitlin Blue\, for an afternoon of discussion on the urgency of decolonization\, and exploring strategies\, tactics\, and art-making in the struggle for freedom and liberation in Buffalo. Moderated by Nitasha Dhillon. This event is presented on the occasion of The North is a Lie\, on view through December 15\, 2018. \n\nAs a historian and researcher\, Caitlin Blue is focused on making history accessible to the public. Her interests include the African Diaspora in Early Modern Europe\, decolonization\, and repatriation of historical artifacts. Studying through the lens of decolonization\, Caitlin recognizes that it is an ongoing process because colonization continues to happen today. Caitlin currently works as a Visitor Specialist at the new Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. In the fall of 2019\, she hopes to be at the University at Buffalo pursuing her Master’s degree in History so she can eventually go on to get her PhD. Professionally\, Caitlin wants to end up working in a university setting. \nAmin Husain has a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science\, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law\, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. He practiced law for five years before transitioning to art\, studying at the School of the International Center of Photography and Whitney Independent Study Program. Nitasha Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College\, University of Delhi\, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International Center of Photography. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media Study – University of Buffalo in New York. Together\, Amin and Nitasha are MTL Collective\, a collaboration that joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing\, and action in its art practice. MTL is a founder of Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, and most recently MTL+\, the collective facilitating Decolonize This Place\, an action-oriented movement and decolonial formation around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle\, Black Liberation\, Free Palestine\, Global Wage Worker\, and De-Gentrification. \nBorn and raised in Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, scholar and activist currently pursuing her dreams of building her Kanien’keha language proficiency. She received her MA from the University of Buffalo while completing the first year of a Mohawk immersion program in Buffalo\, NY. As an artist\, Jodi has shown work throughout Dish with One Spoon territory working primarily in textile and earth based installations invoking Haudenosaunee material forms and language combined with modern forms of making to interrogate multiple experiential realities of specific locations and landscapes. She works as a consultant and presenter with many arts organizations and academic institutions to foster greater understanding of Haudenosaunee philosophies\, languages\, material culture and contemporary realities. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Buffalo. Of her many accomplishments\, she is most proud of hearing her son excitedly speak his Mohawk language each day. \nMarz Saffore is an artist\, organizer\, and educator born and raised in Richmond\, Virginia. In 2015\, she earned her B.A. in Studio Art and Film & Media Studies from University of Rochester\, and she earned her M.F.A. in Studio Art from NYU in 2017. Her multimedia art practice blurs the line between that which is art/culture\, political/personal\, and private/public through video\, performance\, and installation. Marz is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a group of artists\, writers\, and educators who combine research and aesthetics in political action. MTL+ Collective founded and facilitates Decolonize This Place\, a collaboration between cultural producers and political organizers across struggles and borders. This Fall\, Marz returned to New York University (NYU) for her 4th semester of teaching and her first year as a PhD student in Media\, Culture\, and Communication. \nAmy Weng has a B.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase College\, and a M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University. While working in early childhood education\, she participated in group art exhibitions and performances in Brooklyn and Berlin through Lucky Gallery\, now known as De-Construkt Projekts. She has organized with A New World in Our Hearts\, Occupy Sandy\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Asians for Black Lives – NYC and Justice for Akai Gurley Family. She is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a f She is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a facilitating group of Decolonize This Place\, a decolonial\, action-oriented movement that centers Indigenous struggle\, Black liberation\, free Palestine\, wage workers and de-gentrification. \nBanner image: Decolonize This Place\, Anti-Columbus Day Tour: Decolonize This Museum\, digital video\, 2016
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LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Symposium | Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 16\, 7–9pm | Screening & Performance\nSaturday\, November 17\, 11am–7pm | Artist Presentations + Discussions\n@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (341 Delaware Ave)\nFree and open to the public.\nClick here to RSVP (limited seating available. RSVP by 11:59pm on Thursday\, November 15.) \nSqueaky Wheel presents a convening of artists and scholars from several nations from North America for a convening exploring the interwoven histories of textile arts and media arts from early cinema to the current digital age. Topics include: a participatory media arts project focusing on the lives of Chinese immigrant garment workers; how Lakota hair weaving practices point towards alternative interfaces; and a “biomythography” of Black life through an epic project about a seamstress. \nTaking place in the theatre of Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center\, Punctures functions as a public platform that will inform Squeaky Wheel’s large-scale\, multi-site exhibition of the same name\, opening in late 2019. Using the concept of needlework—sewing\, stitching\, weaving and other textile practices—as a material and metaphorical underpinning\, the symposium and eventual exhibition of Punctures will explore questions regarding gendered labor in domestic\, industrial\, and artistic fields\, along with the material and immaterial threads of 20th and 21st century art and industry. \nThe symposium opens on the evening of November 16th with a screening of films by Jodie Mack\, Laura Huertas Millán\, Abraham Ravett\, and a multi-media performance by Kite followed by presentations and panel discussions on November 17th. Contributors include: Terri Francis\, Kyla Gordon\, Kite\, Beryl Korot\, Chris Lee\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, Tiona Nekkia McClodden\, Stephen Monteiro\, Tina Rivers Ryan\, Ekrem Serdar\, Jasmina Tumbas\, Kelly Walters\, the WASH Project\, and Betty Yu. \nSeating is limited and RSVP is required. Click here to RSVP and confirm your attendance. \n\nSchedule\nFriday\, November 16\, 2018 \n7pm | Digital and Material Time\nFilms and performance\, including Point de Gaze (2012) by Jodie Mack\, La Libertad (2018) by Laura Huertas Millán\, Tziporah (2007) by Abraham Ravett\, and a multi-media performance titled Listener by Kite.\nThe opening of the symposium features a screening of works meant to ground us in the histories and images around the connections between textiles and media art\, while also looking at how textile practices have formed political\, material\, and epistemological points of departure for media artists. \nPoint de Gaze\nJodie Mack\n5min\, 16mm film\, silent\, 2012\nNamed after a type of Belgian lace\, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest. – Jodie Mack \nTziporah\nAbraham Ravett\n7min\, 16mm film\, silent\, 2008\nTziporah is the Hebrew word for “bird.” This is another cinematic response to grief and loss. – Abraham Ravett \nLa Libertad\nLaura Huertas Millán\n29 mins\, HD video\, Spanish with English subtitles\, 2017\nProduced out of Harvard´s Sensory Ethnography Lab\, Laura Huertas Millán´s masterful La Libertad follows a group of matriarchal weavers in Mexico\, whose backstrap loom – a pre-Hispanic technique preserved for centuries by Indigenous women in Mesoamerica – provides the formal structure for the film´s exploration of handicrafts and their ties to freedom. With echoes of the influential ethnographic work of Chick Strand\, La Libertad combines astute observation\, testimony\, subtle transfers in scale\, space and texture\, as it weaves its own singular study of labour\, creativity\, and the mysterious traces that circulate between them. – Andréa Picard \nListener\nKite\nLakota-Sys (L-Sys)\, 2018\nListener is a science fiction story told through a performance artwork. The story is about a woman wandering alone in the future\, receiving transmissions from the Far Place on her Listening devices. During the live performance\, Kite uses a hair-braid with sensors to control sound and video. The hair-braid changes a synthesizer\, which sends sound to machine learning software\, which manipulates the video. This image is a still from the ‘Lakota-System (L-Sys)’ visual interface. The artist asks\, “How can Lakota understandings of hair effect the design of technology? What does a Lakota data-visualizing interface look like?” – Kite \nSaturday\, November 17\, 2018 \n11am | Registration\nCoffee and light refreshments. \n11:30am | Underpinnings\nEkrem Serdar & Kelly Walters. Moderated by Chris Lee.\nThe history of media arts\, of film and electronic arts\, is interwoven with influences\, material\, sociological\, and metaphorical with textile arts. Mirroring the gendered reception of craft in art contexts through the 20th century\, the debt of media arts to textiles remains under-acknowledged. How can a focus on textile arts help us think differently about how we practice media arts? In the opening panel\, curator Ekrem Serdar will chart the research that’s leading to Squeaky Wheel’s exhibition opening in 2019\, while Kelly Walters\, the designer of Punctures\, will speak of her design and textile practice. \n12:30pm | Quilted Americana\nTerri Francis & Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Moderated by Kyla Gordon.\nTextiles are embodied knowledge: their fabrics and patterns\, represent an accumulation of practices through history\, and mark their moment. The way we engage with them are not dissimilar to how we engage with home movies: we watch the flickering images of our families\, studying the bonds between our generations. The following panel features an artist project that aims to mythologize biography\, and a research project that finds the myths in daily life. Dr. Terri Francis will present on her upcoming book Quilted Films: African American Home Movies and Historical Memory\, 1924–1975\, which reframes personal family films as both art and historical artifact. Tiona Nekkia McClodden will speak about her upcoming work The Seamstress\, which forms the second part of her project Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic. \n1:30pm | Break \n3pm | Weaving an Interface\nKite & Stephen Monteiro. Moderated by Jodi Lynn Maracle.\nThe influence of textile practices expands into the current day\, from how Jacquard looms influenced early computing to the very way our fingers interact with our smartphones. What is often forgotten in how these practices are implemented are the histories embedded within them. Bringing together two guests both based in Montreal\, scholar Stephen Monteiro will speak of how textile practices have influenced modern interface designs\, while artist Kite will be talking about Listener\, performed as part of the symposium the night before. \n4pm | Garment Workers\nBetty Yu & the WASH Project. Moderated by Jasmina Tumbas.\nAny discussion on art has the potential for a romanticization of women’s labor\, ignoring the sweatshops and gross exploitation of workers\, displacement\, and other factors inherent in global capitalism. Artist and activist Betty Yu will present on her interactive installation work The Garment Worker (2014) that focuses on the daily life of a garment worker and the hardships they encounter working in a sweatshop\, providing a rare look into garment working conditions that Chinese immigrants face in New York City through the personal story of the artist. Yu is joined by representatives from Buffalo’s The WASH Project\, who will present on how their organization establishes an outlet for simple\, open & free practice of creativity\, play\, and human engagement\, while serving as a human services hub for the immediate Burmese community & beyond. \n5pm | Binding History \nBeryl Korot in conversation with Tina Rivers Ryan.\nMade thirty years after the Holocaust\, Beryl Korot’s haunting Dachau\, 1974 owes its rigorous formalism to the visual structure of woven cloth. Documenting tourists visiting Nazi Germany’s first concentration camp\, the work aims to grapple with both what is there\, and what was. Korot’s life and pioneering practice has been dedicated to finding the material and immaterial threads binding the practice of textiles and media art practice\, elucidating how this relationship can bind histories. The artist is joined in this panel by Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan for a conversation on her life and work. \n\nBiographies of the presenters\, moderators\, and filmmakers\n \nTerri Francis directs the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University\, Bloomington.  She guest edited a close-up on Afrosurrealism in film and video for the 2013 fall issue of Black Camera: A International Film Journal. She published her path breaking study of Jamaican non-theatrical films in “Sounding the Nation: Martin Rennalls and the Jamaica Film Unit\, 1951-1961” in Film History in 2011. Her book Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism\, a study of how the entertainer used humor to master her conundrums\, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. \nKyla Gordon is a scholar and curator. She is the Curatorial Research Assistant at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Centre. She received her MA in Visual Culture from New York University\, has studied Modern Art at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne\, and has BAs in Art History and English from the University at Buffalo\, SUNY. She has a background in curatorial work\, archives\, and arts administration. She has worked in galleries and cultural institutions around the world\, including Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Interview Magazine\, Hallwalls\, 80WSE\, Shakespeare and Company\, and Re:Voir Film Gallery. Her scholarly interests include textiles\, costume studies\, film\, kitsch\, and British history. \nKite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist\, visual artist\, and composer raised in Southern California\, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition\, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School\, and is a PhD student at Concordia University and Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation\, computational media\, and performance practice. Recently\, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances\, carbon fiber sculptures\, immersive video & sound installations\, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint\, Unheard Records. \nBeryl Korot is a pioneer of video art. By applying specific structures inherent to loom programming to the programming of multiple channels of video she brought the ancient and modern worlds of technology into conversation. This extended to a body of work on handwoven canvas in an original language based on the grid structure of woven cloth\, as well as to works on paper that combine ink\, pencil and digitized threads. Two early multiple channel works\, Dachau 1974 and Text and Commentary works have been seen at the Whitney Museum (1980\,1993\, 2000\, 2002); the Kitchen\, New York\, NY (1975); Leo Castelli Gallery\, New York\, NY (1977); Documenta 6\, Kassel\, Germany (1977); The Köln and Düsseldorf Kunstvereins (1989 and 1994); the Carnegie Museum\, Pittsburgh\, PA (1990); the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum\, Ridgefield\, CT (2010); bitforms gallery\, New York\, NY (2012/2018); the Whitworth Gallery\, Manchester\, England (2013); Museum Abteiberg\, Mönchengladbach\, Germany (2013); Art Basel\, Basel\, Switzerland (2014)\, The Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston\, MA (2014); Tate Modern\, London\, England (2014); Center for Media Art (ZKM)\, Karlruhe Germany (2008/2017); The San Francisco MOMA (2016)\, and The Museum of Modern Art\, NYC (2017/18) amongst others. Two video/music collaborations with Steve Reich\, The Cave (1993) and Three Tales (2002) brought video installation art into a theatrical context\, and have been performed worldwide since 1993. Korot’s work is in both private and public collections including MoMA\, NYC\, the Kramlich collection’s New Art  Trust shared with the Tate Modern\, MoMA NYC and SF MoMA\, the Sol LeWitt Collection\, and the Thoma Art Foundation. \nChris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based Buffalo\, NY\, and Toronto\, ON. He is a graduate of OCADU (Toronto) and the Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam)\, and has worked for The Walrus Magazine\, Metahaven and Bruce Mau Design. He was also the designer and an editorial board member of the journal Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy. Clients\, primarily in the cultural sector\, have included cmagazine\, Art Museum\, grunt gallery\, the Aga Khan Museum\, and Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons\, among others. Chris collaborates with designer/developer Seungyong Moon\, under the banner of MuyongJiyong 무용지용 (無用之用). Chris’ research explores graphic design’s entanglement with power\, standards\, and legitimacy. He has contributed projects and writing to the Decolonising Design\, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest\, The Copyist\, Graphic\, Volume\, and Counter Signals. Chris is the guest-co-editor of the “Graphic Design” issue of cmagazine along with Ali Shamas Qadeer. He has facilitated workshops in the US\, Canada\, Scotland\, the Netherlands and Croatia\, and has been invited to lecture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie\, ArtEZ\, The Sandberg Instituut\, The Design Academy Eindhoven\, CalArts and OCADU. Chris is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY\, and a member of the programming committee of Gendai Gallery and Squeaky Wheel. He is a graphic design research fellow of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (2017/18)\, participant of the fifth edition of the Summer University of the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Cairolexicon.com \nJodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film\, video\, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres\, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling\, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. The works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects and question the role of decoration in daily life. Mack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Images Festival\, Projections at the New York Film Festival\, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival\, Anthology Film Archives\, BFI London Film Festival\, Harvard Film Archive\, National Gallery of Art\, REDCAT\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale\, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum\, Cinema Scope\, The New York Times\, and Senses of Cinema. She is an Associate Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College and a 2018/19 Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard University. \nBorn and raised in Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, scholar and activist currently pursuing her dreams of building her Kanien’keha language proficiency. She received her MA from the University of Buffalo while completing the first year of a Mohawk immersion program in Buffalo\, NY. As an artist\, Jodi has shown work throughout Dish with One Spoon territory working primarily in textile and earth based installations invoking Haudenosaunee material forms and language combined with modern forms of making to interrogate multiple experiential realities of specific locations and landscapes. She works as a consultant and presenter with many arts organizations and academic institutions to foster greater understanding of Haudenosaunee philosophies\, languages\, material culture and contemporary realities. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Buffalo. Of her many accomplishments\, she is most proud of hearing her son excitedly speak his Mohawk language each day. \nLaura Huertas Millán is a French-Colombian artist and filmmaker. Entwining ethnography\, ecology\, fiction and historical enquiries\, her moving image work engages with strategies of survival\, resistance and resilience against violence. Building complex visual and sonic worlds infused by the real\, her cinematographic practice circulates between contemporary art venues and international film festivals. Part of the official selections of the Viennale (Vienna)\, the Toronto International Film Festival\, the New York Film Festival\, La Habana or Cinéma du Réel (Paris)\, her films have earned prizes in Locarno\, FIDMarseille\, Doclisboa and Videobrasil\, among others. She has participated in screenings and exhibitions in institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York)\, the Centre Pompidou (Paris)\, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris)\, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín\, Les Laboratories d ́Aubervilliers\, Western Front (Vancouver) and Instituto de Visión (Bogotá). Retrospectives of her films have been held at the ICA (London)\, Mar del Plata Film festival\, Toronto ́s Cinematheque (TIFF Lightbox) and the Flaherty Seminar. Her works are part of public and private collections as the Kadist Foundation (Paris-San Francisco)\, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami). She is currently preparing her first feature film\, after completing in 2017 a PhD between PSL University (SACRe program) and the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). \nStephen Monteiro is the author of The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media\, Design\, and Gender (MIT Press\, 2017) and editor of The Screen Media Reader (Bloomsbury\, 2017). He is an affiliate assistant professor of communication studies at Concordia University\, Montreal. \nTiona Nekkia McClodden\, an artist and curator\, has looked critically at intersections of race\, gender\, sexuality and social commentary through an interdisciplinary practice that includes documentary film\, experimental video\, sculpture\, and sound installation. McClodden is the recipient of numerous awards and honors\, among them the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts in Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work at many venues internationally\, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, Museum of Modern Art\, MOCA LA\, MCA Chicago\, MOMA PS1\, the Kansai Queer Film Festival in Osaka and Kyoto\, Japan\, and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. \nAbraham Ravett holds a B.F.A and M.F.A in filmmaking and photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty-five years. He was born in Polandand raised in Israel and the U.S.A. Mr. Ravett received grants for his work from the Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Foundation for Jewish Culture: Fund for Documentary Filmmaking; National Endowment for the Arts; The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; The Japan Foundation; The LEF Foundation; The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation; and a 1994 filmmaking fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His films have been screened internationally\, including at several one-person shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. His work has won “Top Prize” at the Viennale 2000\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, and Onion City Film/Video Festival. In 1999\, he collaborated with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones on his solo performance “The Breathing Show.” A retrospective of Ravett’s films was shown at the 2014 Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta\, Indonesia. \nDr. Tina Rivers Ryan is Assistant Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo\, New York. As a curator\, scholar\, and critic\, her work focuses on the histories of art and technology from the 1960s to the present. Her writing has been commissioned by museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Walker Art Center\, and the Albright-Knox\, and regularly appears in Artforum. \nEkrem Serdar is the curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\, where he is responsible for the organization’s exhibitions\, public programming\, and artist residencies. He is the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2017). His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail\, Millennium Film Journal\, 5harfliler\, among other publications. \nJasmina Tumbas (PhD\, Art History\, Duke University) is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History & Performance Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. Her teaching and research fields focus on modern and contemporary art history and theory\, histories and theories of performance\, body and conceptual art\, art and activism\, feminist art\, critical theory\, and contemporary East European art history. She is currently finishing her first book\, The Erotics of Dictatorship: A Visual Exegesis of Gender & Sexuality under Yugoslav Socialism\, and her second\, Media Violence\, Ethnic Roma\, and Gender: Feminist Resistance Beyond Citizenship\, and serves as co-editor for the anthology Radical Art in Transition: Counter-Culture\, Protest\, Resistance and Contemporary Art in the Balkans since 1968. Her research has appeared in ArtMargins\, Camera Obscura: Feminism\, Culture\, and Media Studies\, ASAP Journal\, and Art and Documentation/Sztuka i Dokumentacja\, and in the anthologies Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance and Performing Arts in the Second Public Sphere. \nKelly Walters is a designer and educator whose work investigates the intersection of black cultural vernacular in mainstream media. She feels her role as a designer is to understand how socio-political frameworks and shifting technology influence the sounds\, symbols and style of black people. She has worked as a designer for SFMOMA\, the RISD Museum\, Alexander Isley\, and Blue State Digital. She has produced websites\, digital social campaigns\, books and other printed matter for clients such as: Google Fiber\, Google for Entrepreneurs\, FairTrade USA\, Hillel International\, and PayPal. From 2015–2016\, she was awarded an Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship in the Graphic Design program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Kelly received dual degrees at the University of Connecticut\, earning a BFA in Communication Design and a BA in Communication Sciences. She completed her MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Kelly was most recently an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Connecticut. \nUsing the arts as a common denominator\, the WASH Project establishes an outlet for the simple\, open & free practice of creativity\, play\, and human engagement. WASH also serves as a human services hub for the immediate Burmese community & beyond: a neighborhood access point for information regarding a wide range of community services & cultural opportunities. From this effort\, we continue to cultivate the development of a small\, yet dynamic center of local community life\, a place that people of all ages & walks of life come to; a place\, that by the way it is designed & the way it is operated\, strengthens its neighborhood\, collaboratively\, via a model of creativity & open engagement. \nBetty Yu is a multimedia artist\, filmmaker\, educator and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu’s documentary “Resilience” about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions\, screened at national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival.  Yu’s multi-media installation\, The Garment Worker was featured at Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive. She worked with housing activists and artists to co-create Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing that was featured in the Agitprop! show at Brooklyn Museum. Betty was a 2012 Public Artist-in-Resident and received the 2016 SOAPBOX Artist Award from Laundromat Project.  In 2017\, Ms. Yu has been awarded several artist residences from institutions such as the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Skidmore College’s Documentary Studies Collaborative and SPACE at Ryder Farm. In 2015\, Betty co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade\, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing. Betty won the 2017 Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Documentary Award for her film\, Three Tours. Ms. Yu is currently 2017-18 fellow of the Intercultural Leadership Institute.  Betty is also an adjunct assistant professor teaching new media\, film theory\, art and video production at various colleges in NYC which include The New School\, John Jay College\, Marymount Manhattan College and Hunter College. In addition Betty Yu sits on the boards of Third World Newsreel and Working Films\, two progressive documentary film organizations. Ms. Yu holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. \n  \n\nPunctures logo design by Kelly Walters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/symposium-punctures-textiles-in-digital-and-material-time/
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SUMMARY:The North is a Lie
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, September 14\, 7–9pm\nOn view through December 8\, 2018\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm\nFree and open to the public\nThis exhibition is accompanied by public programs featuring guests announced throughout the season. Follow Squeaky Wheel on Facebook\, Instagram and Twitter\,  @squeakybuffalo for updates!\n \nThe North is a Lie is a claiming of space against the myth of a tolerant and more equitable “North.” Thinking about the futures and histories of communities who have suffered most at the hands of this myth\, The North is a Lie present a series of performances\, installations\, screenings\, and potlucks\, with the participation of guest artists. This collaboration between Nitasha Dhillon\, Rhys Hall\, and Elisa Peebles will utilize Squeaky Wheel to gather and provoke questions towards liberation and the possibility of a decolonial existence. This exhibition is accompanied by a brochure featuring newly commissioned writing by Dana McKnight.\n\n— \nThe North is a Lie. We know it because we live it. Your grandmother knew it. Latin American refugees separated from their children know it. Marooners running away from plantations into swamps and mountains knew it. \nThere is no North. If you know\, you know. \nIf there were\, racism would stop at the Mason Dixon line. \nIf there were\, fascism would not be on the rise again. \nIf there were\, there’d be no: \nStolen land \nPolice lynchings \nGentrification \nForced eviction \nRed lining \nDeportations \nThe North is a Lie is not a conclusion\, it is a starting point. During the course of this three month residency\, we seek to overcome the growing desire to escape and begin answering the questions of “where to?” and “what’s next?” by examining the truth of what’s been\, rethinking the possibilities of what can be\, and empowering the imaginary. The North is a lie celebrates the histories\, present and futures of people and communities that have suffered the most at the hands of the Northern myth. It brings these narratives together in hopes of building structures that are imagined and tangible\, for the nourishment and survival of these communities. We begin by acknowledging the land we stand on is stolen land\, this was and is haudenosaunee territory. We base the residency at Squeaky Wheel\, and open the space as a commons for the movements of Buffalo. We will create relations with each other through a series of events that include but are not limited to performances\, parties\, potlucks\, screenings\, conversations\, actions and experiences. The attempt is to create conversations that give us better questions to challenge the Northern myth\, and to create a compass that directs us towards better answers for liberation and decolonial existences. – Nitasha Dhillon\, Rhys Hall\, Elisa Peebles \n  \nAbout the Artists and Contributors \nNitasha Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College\, University of Delhi\, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International Center of Photography. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media Study – University of Buffalo in New York. Nitasha’s practice joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing\, and action as part of MTL Collective with Amin Husain. As MTL\, they are co-founders of Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Occupy Strategy magazine\, Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, the direct action arm of Gulf Labor Artists Coalition\, Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Decolonial Cultural Front\, and most recently\, Decolonize This Place\, a movement space and formations in New York City that combine cultural events with organizing\, art\, and action around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle\, Black Liberation\, Free Palestine\, Global Wage Worker\, and De-Gentrification. \nRhys Hall is an aspiring medicine man from various parts of Bailey and East Ferry\, in Buffalo NY. Between making ends meet\, he raps\, sings and makes films. This has been a pattern for 18 years now\, which is probably why he doesn’t have kids. He tried to escape Buffalo for the military\, but The Universe wasn’t having it. Fortunately\, the B.A. he received in African American studies from SUNY at Buffalo helped him survive as an Assistant Dean in Queens and an emcee and singer with Grand Phee as the Hip Hop duo\, We Stole The Show. 5 years and 5 grams of mushrooms later\, he returned to Buffalo and helped start the artist collective\, The United Melanin Society\, with several other accomplished vocal and visual artists. An avid meditator\, you might see Mr. Hall walking at a snails pace through Delaware Park\, or finishing his Masters degree in Film and Media Studies at the University at Buffalo. \nDana McKnight is a multidisciplinary Black/Queer artist and writer. She is the founder of Dreamland Arts in Buffalo\, NY. She lives in Austin\, TX. \nElisa Peebles is an artist\, activist and producer originally from the East Side of Buffalo\, NY. After receiving a B.S. in Media\, Culture and Communication Studies from New York University\, Elisa has spent the past several years living\, working and creating in Buffalo and New York City. Her most recent exhibition\, Bodies of Light: Exit Strategy\, at the gallery pop up Decolonize This Place\, brought artists of color from both cities together around the themes of resistance and perseverance. Prior to this\, Elisa created and co-directed the Buffalo Myth Project\, and was a producer on the Sundance and SXSW – selected short Actresses\, as well as several other independent and commercial short films. A hip-hop performer\, Elisa was selected to perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2015 Everybooty Pride Festival. She uses music\, film\, audio and other methods of storytelling to contemplate issues around collective memory\, urban development\, social justice\, and the intersection of race\, gender and sexuality. Currently\, Elisa is a producer of the satirical web-series Dark Justice.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-north-is-a-lie/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Silo City: The Average Attendee Live in Person
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 24\, 2018\n@ Marine A\, Silo City (Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203)\n8pm\nFree and open to the public \nSqueaky Wheel returns to the legendary halls of Silo City for the premiere of The Average Attendee Live in Person! An absurdist take on housing market educationals\, The Average Attendee Live in Person features projections\, live and virtual performance\, costumes\, resounding in Silo City’s famous space. Interactive art works in Silo A and a structured\, improvised performance converge for a transformational evening on how anyone\, even you\, could be a master the real estate market. Join us at Silo City for this exciting 40 minute performance by Avye Alexandres\, our Summer 2018 Silo City Workspace Resident! \nAvye Alexandres was born in Athens\, Greece\, and moved to the United States at the age of six. Her multidisciplinary art practice\, which investigates the psychosocial ramifications of structures and space\, stems from her background in photography and theatre. Evolving from site-based performances her work now encompasses immersive sculpture\, locative media\, experimental digital narratives\, conceptual works\, photography and video\, as well as participatory experiences and installations. In 2015\, she received her MFA in Art and Emerging Practices from the University at Buffalo\, and has exhibited at venues such as the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, The Soap Factory\, IFP-MN Center for Media Arts\, and the Weismann Art Museum. \nAbout the program\nWorkspace Residency is a unique artist residency which supports local\, regional and national media artists and researchers who are working on projects in film\, video\, audio\, interactive media and emerging technologies in any stage of production. Founded in 2016 by Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo\, New York\, in collaboration with local partners Buffalo Game Space\, The Foundry\, and Silo City\, the residency provides support through equipment\, facilities\, and technical support for artists experimenting across a range of old and new technologies\, such as video\, sound\, digital platforms\, interactivity\, virtual reality\, and 3D printing. Community outreach and public engagement components include presentation and education activities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-the-average-attendee-live-in-person/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Residencies
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SUMMARY:SILENT/SOUND: Variations on Napoleon
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 10 \, 2018\n8:30pm\n @ Front Yard at the Burchfield Penney Art Center\nFree and open to the general public \nJoin us at the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Front Yard for the 2017 edition of SILENT/SOUND. Artist and filmmaker Brian Milbrand will be live remixing footage from films throughout history featuring the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte\, including Abel Gance’s 1927 epic\, famous for its climactic three screen coda. Set to a live performance of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Sinfonia Eroica (Heroic Symphony aka Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major)\, originally dedicated to Napoleon\, this viscerally arresting evening of sight and sound explores what it is about grandiose\, even dictatorial figures that continues to attract humanities love and admiration. Bring your blankets and lawn chairs\, and prepare for the return of Squeaky Wheel and the Burchfield Penney’s signature summer event.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silentsound-variations-on-napoleon/
LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Workspace Residency: Public Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 8\, 2018\n6:30pm door | 7pm Start\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for an evening with our Summer 2018 Workspace residents\, Avye Alexandres (Buffalo\, NY)\, Devin Hentz (Dakar\, Senegal)\, and Emily Martinez (Glendale\, CA)\, at the first public event as part of their residency. The artists and researchers will be delivering ~20 minute presentations on their work and projects. This free event is an excellent opportunity to get to know the residents and their projects as they begin their three-week time at Squeaky Wheel! \nResearch resident Devin Hentz will be investigating the linguistic implications of the vocabulary that develops around second-hand clothing in African countries. She will also design and construct new textiles that play or refer to these local names and their literal meanings / translations through the use of 3D models in Blender. Artist Resident Emily Martinez will be working on a series of videos for an escape room that builds towards a live-action multimedia escape room game Eternal Boy Playground. The game explores cultural tropes and trends that spring up around cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin as they relate to the utopian ideals of a group of self-proclaimed “Puertopians” who are flocking to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Finally\, Silo City Resident Avye Alexandres will be utilizing Buffalo’s most well-known public landmark\, Silo City\, to present an absurdist performance sparked by the manipulative tactics and rhetoric used in housing market investment education workshops. \nBios of the residents\nAvye Alexandres was born in Athens\, Greece\, and moved to the United States at the age of six. Her multidisciplinary art practice\, which investigates the psychosocial ramifications of structures and space\, stems from her background in photography and theatre. Evolving from site-based performances her work now encompasses immersive sculpture\, locative media\, experimental digital narratives\, conceptual works\, photography and video\, as well as participatory experiences and installations. In 2015\, she received her MFA in Art and Emerging Practices from the University at Buffalo\, and has exhibited at venues such as the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, The Soap Factory\, IFP-MN Center for Media Arts\, and the Weismann Art Museum. \nDevin Hentz is a researcher and writer based in Dakar\, Senegal. She recently participated in the second session of the RAW Academie\, directed by Chimurenga\, at RAW Material Company before working there as a librarian and researcher. She is the founder of the B/Look Club which meets once per month to activate the archive of RAW Base (RAW’s Library). Her writings have been published in LESS Magazine and the upcoming issue of Something We Africans Got. Her areas of interests include\, Afro/African futures\, development narratives in Africa\, dress practices\, and radical pedagogy. \nEmily Martinez is a new media artist\, front-end developer\, digital strategist\, educator\, and serial collaborator. She believes in the tactical misuse of technology\, and makes artworks that take on the sharing economy\, digital labor struggles\, algorithmic bias\, surveillance capitalism\, crypto colonialism\, tech bros\, and tech culture at large. Emily’s art and research has been published in Leonardo Journal (MIT Press)\, Entreprecariat (Institute of Network Cultures)\, Temporary Art Review\, and Filmmaker Magazine. She has exhibited at The Wrong Biennale\, Transmediale\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, MoMA PS1\, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media\, WRO Media Art Biennale\, and The Luminary. \nAbout the program\nWorkspace Residency is a unique artist residency which supports local\, regional and national media artists and researchers who are working on projects in film\, video\, audio\, interactive media and emerging technologies in any stage of production. Founded in 2016 by Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo\, New York\, in collaboration with local partners Buffalo Game Space\, The Foundry\, and Silo City\, the residency provides support through equipment\, facilities\, and technical support for artists experimenting across a range of old and new technologies\, such as video\, sound\, digital platforms\, interactivity\, virtual reality\, and 3D printing. Community outreach and public engagement components include presentation and education activities.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/workspace-residency-public-presentations/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Let's Start the Conversation: Hues of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 30\, 2018\n3:30pm\nFree and open to the public \nAs part of Squeaky Wheel’s Community Screenings\, we are pleased to present Hues of Humanity\, a film produced by Rachel and Dianna Henderson\, co-founders of Colorfully Beautiful. Addressing topics such as empathy and emotional awareness the film attempts to build permanent bridges through authentic conversation. Join us for an audience/filmmaker talk back on how we can all contribute something in order to help positively co-create our existing realities. \nMember Profile: Rachel Henderson \n \nIf you walked into our media lab at any given time this Spring you probably would have come across Squeaky Wheel member\, Rachel Henderson editing her latest film on one of our lab stations. This season we are pleased to introduce Rachel here in our special Members Spotlight.  \nBorn and raised in Buffalo\, Rachel joined Squeaky Wheel as an Artist Member in July of 2017. After a move back home from Los Angeles\, California\, she found that Squeaky Wheel answered all her technical questions! Rachel began her journey in film after receiving her B.A. in Communication from Roberts Wesleyan College where she was also awarded title of Alum of the Year. From the workshops provided to equipment rental\, Squeaky Wheel has given her both the access and the freedom to create her own work. Currently she is assisting on productions for both the Albright Knox and Buffalo Public Schools and is working on her own independent mini-doc.  \nOn her latest film Henderson states: \n“I’m extremely invested in creating a story that the audience feels like it’s something they’ve never seen before or creating a perspective they’ve never thought of. Illuminating new ideas\, concepts\, realities.”
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/lets-start-the-conversation-hues-of-humanity/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 23\, 2018\n2–7pm\nFree and open to the public\nRSVP here \nSqueaky Wheel will host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to take place 2-7pm on Saturday\, June 23\, 2018 at 617 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY. This all-day event is designed to improve coverage of women\, gender\, feminism\, and the arts on Wikipedia. \nWhy we edit? Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia are women. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with more than 40 million articles in more than 250 different languages. The fact is when we don’t tell our stories or participate in the ways our history is preserved\, it gets erased. Let’s build our local contribution to the movement! \nWe provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian\, ongoing editing support\, reference materials\, childcare\, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate\, particularly transgender and cisgender women. \nSqueaky Wheel invites back Toronto artist and Wikipedian extraordinaire Zeesy Powers to facilitate tutorials and discussions. This summer\, we are also excited to host Heather Gring\, archivist at the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, who will be speaking about the woman artists in their collection. \nIf you require childcare\, please email caitcoder@gmail.com with the first names of children requiring care\, their ages\, and what time you plan on attending. \nPlease create a Wikipedia account before the event\, click here to learn how! And remember during the event to hashtag and post online so everyone around the world can see what you’re working on: #artandfeminism #noweditingaf @squeakybuffalo . \nAbout the instructor\nZeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist. She teaches programs for digital illustration\, animation and video through community groups in Toronto\, and facilitates workshops on contributing to Wikipedia as part of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. During her 2017 National Artist-in-Residence at the Toronto Animated Image Society\, she produced This Could be You\, an interactive piece exploring practices of confinement in VR. She has performed and exhibited internationally\, and has been artist-in-residence at CCA Kitakyushu (Japan)\, Palomar5 (Berlin)\, the Banff New Media Institute\, and Studio XX (Montreal). In Toronto\, Powers has worked on several community-based project with children and youth in partnership with organizations like UrbanArts\, Axis Music and the Toronto Public Library. Currently\, she is working on a Canada Council and Chalmers Fellowship funded project on how consumer surveillance impacts how we relate to ourselves and others. She lives in Toronto.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/artfeminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yvette Granata | #d8e0ea: post-cyberfeminist datum
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, June 15\, 7–9pm\nConversation with Yvette Granata and Maiko Tanaka at 7:30pm.\nOn view through August 25\, 2018\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm\nFree and open to the public\n \nSee a review of the exhibition in Canadian Art magazine here.\nSee a review of the exhibition in Buffalo Rising here. \nSqueaky Wheel is proud to present the first solo exhibition of media theorist/artist Yvette Granata. The exhibition poses the concept of a ‘post-cyberfeminist datum’ as a type of data that has been banned in the future. Works in the show include performance video works\, immersive 360 videos\, AI devices in conversation with each other\, and more. \nJoin us on Friday\, June 15th for the opening reception of the exhibition at Squeaky Wheel at 7pm. A newly commissioned essay on Granata’s work by scholar Bogna M. Konior accompanies the exhibition. \nPublic programs presented as part of this exhibition\nJune 15\, 7–9pm: Opening reception\, with conversation between Yvette Granata and Maiko Tanaka at 7:30pm.\nJune 29\, 7pm: Performance: XENOYOGA((I REALLY WANT SOME)) by DJ xenoyoga\nJuly 6\, 9pm: Locative Media Tour with Yvette Granata at secret site. RSVP here.\nAugust 18\, 3pm: Curator’s Tour with Ekrem Serdar of d8e0ea \n\nThere is no freedom celebrated here. Everything is deliberate\, made to function within the same constraints evoked by the materials: disease\, depression\, fear\, fever\, bondage\, torture\, addiction\, the life of “a one-legged glowingly beautiful ex-whore. . .” It’s a far cry from the corporate dream of a cheerful interactivity which lets users choose\, not lose control. . . She isn’t making pictures: these are diagrams. She isn’t an artist\, but a software engineer. —Sadie Plant (Zeros and Ones) \nCan we exploit the fact that our techno-social systems suck? Or is the future already prescribed by the obsessive intrusion of social media platforms\, machine recognition bias\, and the AI arms race to come? \nData is no longer just captured; it is used to predict a particular slice of the future\, to move beyond the 180 degree limit of human linear space-time. Social intelligence is now energy intelligence. Everyone is a data farm. Machine learning systems consume vasts amount of data in order to learn the decisional arc of human-mindsteps. But are we building data walls that make intel-silos? Are we building AI assistant gender-tyrants? Are recognition systems making us into boring products for a shelf? What can we do with the empty silos of this data wasteland? \nThe show thinks through these questions by positing (and depositing) a cyberfeminist data form. It imagines electronic torture chambers in the future used for the policing of data-bodies and poses the concept of a post-cyberfeminist datum as a type of data that has already been banned in the future. From the age of technological reproduction to the age of data reduction\, the topology of cyber-feminist data bytes are an endless VR day\, confined and trapped already. \nWorks include: a webVR essay that explores Google’s Machine Vision API in a fictional cyberfeminist design office\, a series of dead drops that contain intersectional cryptographic syn-sets for machine learning models for training future non-targets (human-bots and/or creatures-fems and/or slime-minds)\, a cyberfem sound sculpture of an AI named ‘Evie’ in conversation with Siri and Alexa (broadcast on the sidewalk)\, and a secret exploration of a possible factory. \n#D8e8ea thinks through a possible fall-out shelter for social intelligence\, a new information ontology that re-spins humans and data\, and performs an interface of zero a user-experience. – Yvette Granata \nYvette Granata. XDDDDDDD\, 3 minutes\, HD video\, 2017-2018  \n \nYvette Granata. Womxn with a Google API (mobile version)\, webVR\, 3-D prints\, 2018 \n \nYvette Granata. Hello Evie\, AI assistant sound sculpture\, Alexa\, Siri\, HD video\, 2018 \n\nAncestral Cyberspace: On the Technics of Secrecy\nBy Bogna M. Konior \n‘Hiding the self through a faithful mapping of the universe is the only path to eternity.’ – Liu Cixin  \nIt was women’s fingers that enfolded the data-corpse into the fabric of the world. Sadie Plant tells us that these fingers are like a spider’s spinnerets\, extruding digital silk\, weaving the history of networked technology\, which at its core is a cunning practice of emasculation: ‘cyberspace is out of man’s control\, [it] destroys his identity…at the peak of his triumph\, the culmination of his machinic erections\, man confronts the system he built for his own protection and finds it female and dangerous.’ For Plant\, man sentenced himself to annihilation when he let the feminine hydra of digital technology out of its black box. Now\, it is everywhere\, slyly completing its task. \n \nCyberfeminism is an occult form of warfare. It understands about ‘cyberspace’ what Liu Cixin’s ‘dark forest’ theory understands about the cosmos: all existence is determined by hostility and so the highest form of intelligence lies in occluding one’s coordinates. The hypothesis explains why the universe\, statistically full of life\, is dead silent. It is not because\, as is commonly thought\, life has not found a way to communicate\, but because it understands that silence is the most advanced form of intelligence. Our physical and virtual spaces\, which are increasingly inseparable\, are alike a dark forest\, where every step must be taken with care\, as revealing one’s existence portends annihilation. The most desirable skill\, the most coveted trick\, and the most longed for disposition can only be this – a fluency in the trading of secrets. The skills we need to strategically deploy concealment\, de-concealment and re-concealment.  \nIn this secrecy lies a genealogy of a post-cyberfeminism that always has been: an ancestral politics of cyberspace. Any feminism is a practice of genealogy but also of desecration – so much technical knowledge has been buried and its practitioners eliminated that a post-cyberfeminist must engage in the excavation\, encoding and decoding of data-corpses\, buried in wet soil of the earth and in the knots of submarine communication cables. \nDecrypting ancestral secrecy trade and a cyberfeminist ancestry\, one might find the corpse of Caterina Sforza\, the progenitrix of the Medici family and one of the women who defined the burgeoning scientific culture of the Italian Renaissance. Remembered for her military genius and personal bravado (in response to an enemy threatening her with the death of her children\, she grabbed her crotch and retorted that she could easily make more)\, she held a keen interest in the trading of secrets\, especially pertaining to natural philosophy\, medicine and alchemy. In Daughters of Alchemy\, Meredith Ray describes the specular economy of secrecy in the early modern Italy\, where secrets circulated in letters\, manuscripts – libri di segreti – and through word of mouth. Secrets were a valued gift and a fitting expression of loyalty.  \nThis arcane internet was a networked web of secrets\, where the exchange of occult data between women formed a clandestine practice of science. From beauty recipes to alchemical attempts at the transmutation of matter into gold (believed to mirror the forming of a fetus in the womb)\, Sforza’s research into concealed knowledge served her in military\, intellectual and political endeavors. In her notebooks\, never intended for publication\, she recorded recipes for poisons distilled from scorpion venom as well as instructions for concealing written text with slowly disappearing\, ‘invisible’ ink. This non-formal practice of science was a way of interacting with the unknown not for its presupposed sanctity but its pragmatic utility. \nSecrets\, Ray writes\, were synonymous with experimentation\, ‘referring not to something unknown but rather to something that was proven.’ The most prized secrets were those that\, when deployed\, produced the desired results. A post-cyberfeminist secret is the proven unknown that loses none of its stealth: a secret is the instruction built for calculated obfuscation\, a mechanism of encryption. Books of secrets\, Ray tells us\, could be deciphered according to a ‘generic code\,’ meant for distinguishing valuable information from mere noise. Reading\, writing\, and circulating libri di segreti was a form of data analysis\, a structural technique of (de)classifying information\, contingent on maintaining the balance between obfuscation and analysis.  \nThis cryptic practice of science was also an alternate economy. Secrets were a non-monetary currency used to establish debt and political influence. This specular economy of occluded knowledge built extended social\, technical and publishing networks between women during the Scientific Revolution. Camilla Erculiani\, an apothecary from Padua\, attracted the attention of the Inquisition for her visibly public contribution to the scientific community and her heretical interpretation of theology. She later found protection with Anna Jagiellon\, the queen of Poland\, herself an intellectual and a potion mistress. Women’s work is a priori heretical by the very fact of its existence. Secrecy thus becomes a necessary form\, both in the web of political life and in the approach to technology and knowledge. Post-cyberfeminist data is a priori banned in the future and exists in a banished land. Predicting its own illegality\, it nevertheless codes a possibility: une autre fin du monde est possible (another end of the world is possible)\, as an anonymous French graffiti recently proclaimed. What post-cyberfeminist data has been already imprisoned in the future?  \nErculiani’s interest was in the material fabric of the world: ‘the causes of the universal deluge\, the composition of rainbows.’  \nAmong Caterina’s medicinal recipes [were] a number of distilled waters\, unguents\, and elixirs produced through alchemical procedures such as multiplication\, a kind of progressive distillation whereby a substance assumes greater and more diverse powers during the course of preparation. \nEncrypting data could be for a post-cyberfeminism a pata-political model. Just like pata-physics is a science of the imaginary realm beyond philosophical metaphysics\, pata-politics is a political science of the coming data-wasteland\, beyond current political practices. Treated as non-existent and excluded from history\, women’s technology endures both in its erased past and its banned future. These technologies do not promise liberation – they instead assure our survival. Post-cyberfeminist data is a type of camouflage: an ancestral practice now augmented and automated with algorithmic technologies. From its genealogy of secrecy into the future\, it mutates and updates itself: what once was a book of secrets now becomes machine vision\, a camera for algorithmic secrecy.♦      \nBibliography  \nEvans\, Claire L. Broad Band: The Untold Story of Women Who Made the Internet. Portfolio\, 2018.  \nCixin\, Liu. The Dark Forest. Translated by Joel Martinsen. Tor Books\, 2015.  \nRay\, Meredith. Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Harvard University Press\, 2015.  \nPlant\, Sadie. On The Matrix: The Cyberculture Reader. Edited by David Bell and Barbara Kennedy. Psychology Press\, 2000. \n  \n\nAbout the artist and the contributors \nYvette Granata is a media artist and Phd Candidate at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Media Study. Her work intersects new media art-research\, design\, theory\, and philosophy. She explores techno-philosophical and socio-political technology\, non-philosophy\, cyberfeminism and feminist media tech art practice. She has presented her work at the Harvard Carpenter Center for the Arts\, The Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam\, The Kunsthalle in Detroit\, Papy Gyro Nights in Norway and Hong Kong\, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center in Buffalo\, among others. Her film design work has appeared on screens at the Sundance film festival\, Tribeca film festival\, Rotterdam\, Cannes\, Berlinale\, the Rome International Film Fest\, SXSW\, and CPH:PIX. She has published in Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy Journal\, TRACE: Journal of Writing\, Media\, and Ecology\, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies\, and the International Journal of Cultural Studies. She received a NYS Council of the Arts Grant in 2017 and was a visiting researcher at the Senselab at Concordia\, where she developed some of the work included in the current exhibit. See more at yvettegranata.com \nBogna M. Konior is the Media and Technology editor at the Hong Kong Review of Books and the director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies\, Asia. She holds a Research Masters in Media Studies\, a PhD in Cultural Analysis and was a visiting researcher in Media and Culture at the ICON Center for the Humanities at the University of Utrecht. Her recent work in media cultures and the Anthropocene is published in Transformations: Journal of Media and Culture and forthcoming in PostMemes from Punctum Press. She is the Polish translator of the Xenofeminist Manifesto. Her curatorial and collaborative work exploring theory in the Anthropocene has been exhibited internationally and can be viewed at http://www.bognamk.com. \nMaiko Tanaka is the Executive Director of Squeaky Wheel. She holds a BFA from OCADU and a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. For over ten years Maiko has curated projects with prestigious and widely recognized arts institutions in Canada and abroad\, including Trinity Square Video\, Nuit Blanche at OCAD University\, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (now Art Museum – University of Toronto)\, InterAccess\, all in Toronto\, as well as Casco – Office for Art\, Design\, and Theory in Utrecht\, NL. Maiko also currently serves on programming committee of Gendai Gallery and editorial advisory of C Magazine. She is the co-editor of several catalogue publications including\, The Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook published by Casco and Valiz\, and Model Minority\, published by Gendai Gallery and Publication Studio. \nBanner image: Yvette Granata. Hello Evie\, AI assistant sound sculpture\, Alexa\, Siri\, HD video\, 2018
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LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Marker’s Level Five
DESCRIPTION:Laura\, a French programmer\, is tasked with creating a video game about the Battle of Okinawa. Using the internet to conduct her research she is led down a rabbit hole of philosophical debates\, while she tries to make sense of her own history in relation to human history. \nReleased when the internet was still in its infancy\, Level Five (104min\, 1997) offers a startlingly prophetic vision of the ability to archive and alter history\, while probing the limitations of human memory. The film is a mesmerizing and utterly unique hybrid of documentary and science fiction. Curated with an introduction by Squeaky Wheel’s Fall 2018 Curatorial Intern James Werick. Courtesy of Icarus Films. \n Preview \nBio of the curator\nJames Werick graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2017\, with a BA in Media Study. In addition\, he spent one semester in 2017 at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka\, Japan. He is currently writing a film script\, and working at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/level-five/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Intro to Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:Before the set is lit and cameras roll\, almost every film production has a script in place to guide the project. This workshop will cover the basics of screenwriting\, one of the greatest creative influences on the filmmaking process. \nTopics include: \n\nResearching story ideas\nDeveloping a narrative\nWriting a screenplay\nStrategies for pitching screenplays to producers\n\n\n \n\nMembers $135 | Non-Members $175 \nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of workshop. Cancellations must take place 48hrs before to receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. \nIf you have any additional questions\, please contact alex@squeaky.org\, or reach us by phone at (716) 884-7172.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-screenwriting/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon!
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nRSVP here \nSqueaky Wheel will host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to take place 2-7pm on Saturday\, March 3\, 2018 at 617 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY. This all-day event is designed to improve coverage of women\, gender\, feminism\, and the arts on Wikipedia. \nWhy we edit? Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia are women. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with more than 40 million articles in more than 250 different languages. The fact is when we don’t tell our stories or participate in the ways our history is preserved\, it gets erased. Let’s build our local contribution to the movement! \nWe provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian\, ongoing editing support\, reference materials\, childcare\, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate\, particularly transgender and cisgender women. \nSqueaky Wheel invites back Toronto artist and Wikipedian extraordinaire Zeesy Powers to facilitate tutorials and discussions. New this year is a collaboration with the Albright Knox Art Gallery\, who will provide reference materials on the artists featured in their exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women\, 1965–85 (on view from February 16–May 27). \nIf you require childcare\, please email caitcoder@gmail.com with the first names of children requiring care\, their ages\, and what time you plan on attending. \nPlease create a Wikipedia account before the event\, click here to learn how! And remember during the event to hashtag and post online so everyone around the world can see what you’re working on: #artandfeminism #noweditingaf @squeakybuffalo . \nThis event is co-presented with Peach Mag\, with partnership support from Buffalo State College’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor\, UB Department of Art\, and UB Department of Media Study. Thank you to our sponsors at the Western New York Book Arts Center & Tipico Coffee. \nAbout the instructor\nZeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist. She teaches programs for digital illustration\, animation and video through community groups in Toronto\, and facilitates workshops on contributing to Wikipedia as part of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. During her 2017 National Artist-in-Residence at the Toronto Animated Image Society\, she produced This Could be You\, an interactive piece exploring practices of confinement in VR. She has performed and exhibited internationally\, and has been artist-in-residence at CCA Kitakyushu (Japan)\, Palomar5 (Berlin)\, the Banff New Media Institute\, and Studio XX (Montreal). In Toronto\, Powers has worked on several community-based project with children and youth in partnership with organizations like UrbanArts\, Axis Music and the Toronto Public Library. Currently\, she is working on a Canada Council and Chalmers Fellowship funded project on how consumer surveillance impacts how we relate to ourselves and others. She lives in Toronto.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-feminism2018/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Web Design
DESCRIPTION:Building your website doesn’t have to require a degree in computer science. This WordPress-based workshop will give you the tools to construct your online presence without any hardcore coding. \nTopics include: \n\nNavigating the WordPress platform\nApplying themes and customizing them to your needs\nUsing posts\, pages\, and events to keep your content up-to-date\n
Preparing videos\, images\, and graphics to be presented on your site\n\n\n \n\nMembers $135 | Non-Members $175 \nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of workshop. Cancellations must take place 48hrs before to receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. \nIf you have any additional questions\, please contact alex@squeaky.org\, or reach us by phone at (716) 884-7172.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/web-design-5/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:The Love & Sex(bot) Show
DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel’s valentine’s erotica bash\, the Love & Sex Show\, returns with a sexy cyborg twist! \nOn February 17th join us for a “fully-functional” Valentine’s featuring films\, installations\, and live & virtual performances by local and international artists including Bhakti Brown\, Maya Ben David\, Seoungho Cho\, Yvette Granata\, Faith Holland\, Shawné Michaelain Holloway\, Lernert & Sander\, Georges Jacotey\, and Margaret Rhee. Don’t miss a live skype performance by Jacotey as well as Rhee’s interactive performance and reading from her new book Love\, Robot! \nBring two dates and get the “Threesome” Special and you’ll be automatically entered in a raffle for a gift from Primrose Path Boutique! Come dressed up as a “lovebot” for your chance to win a prize! \nFebruary 17\, 2018\n7pm door | 7:30pm show\n$10 General\n$25 Threesome Special \nClick here to buy tickets\nOnline sales end February 15\, 2018. Get them before they sell out! \n  \n \nMaya Ben David\, POKÉMORPH ME\, digital video\, 2016\n \nShawné Michaelain Holloway\, EXTREME SUBMISSION : SUBMIT (?) OR SURRENDER (??) (AWARENESS ALERT) . MP4\, 1996\, 2016\n \nLernert & Sander\, Elektrotechnique\, digital video\, 2011\nSponsors and Partners\nPrimrose Path Boutique provides quality sex products for all genders\, sexual orientations\, and identities. In addition to our online store and pop-up shops\, we offer private parties in the Western New York area.\nAll of our products have been hand-selected to ensure quality\, endurance\, and satisfaction. Each toy is made with body-safe materials and chosen with aesthetic appeal in mind. We hope you find something that inspires you\, piques your curiosity\, or expands your sexual horizons. \nThin Ice opened in March of 2006 to provide a location for local and regional artists to sell their work to the local community. Striving to have something for everyone\, Thin Ice sells one of a kind jewelry\, hand blown as well as fused glass\, hand turned wood bowls\, hand made scarves\, hand sewn leather items\, decorative wall art\, kaleidoscopes\, cards\, mugs\, wind chimes\, and much\, much more. \nEvergreen Health fosters healthy communities by providing medical\, supportive\, and behavioral services to individuals and families in Western New York – especially those who are living with chronic illness or who are underserved by the healthcare system. \nImage: Yvette Granata\, Clone\, augmented video\, 2018
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CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Audio Production for Film
DESCRIPTION:Learn the practice of planning\, recording\, & editing sound for use in short films\, documentaries\, or promotional videos. This workshop will cover the core components of sound design\, from basic syncing techniques to the nuanced nature of foley. \nTopics include: \n\nListening to and identifying various sonic techniques\nFoley production\nIntermediate audio recording techniques\nSyncing external audio for film\n\n\n \n\nMembers $135 | Non-Members $175 \nRegistration must occur at least three days prior to the start date of workshop. Cancellations must take place 48hrs before to receive a refund. No walk-ins accepted. \nIf you have any additional questions\, please contact alex@squeaky.org\, or reach us by phone at (716) 884-7172.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/audio-production-for-film/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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