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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
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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.”
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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.
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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
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/post-cyberfeminist-datum/
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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.
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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.
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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
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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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
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/loveandsexbot/
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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SUMMARY:Video Editing
DESCRIPTION:Learn the craft of manipulating narrative and meaning with the art of editing. In this workshop you’ll learn how to take raw footage and assemble it into a narrative\, whether for short films\, documentaries\, interviews\, promotional videos\, or experimental films. \nTopics include: \n\nNavigating the Adobe Premiere interface\nStructuring your workflow for ease and efficiency\nUtilizing continuity editing and juxtaposition to create meaning\nExporting your videos for sharing on various platforms\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/video-editing-4/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:belit sağ : Let Me Remember
DESCRIPTION:Download the brochure with new essays by Almudena Escobar López and Chi-hui Yang \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center presents Let Me Remember\, the first solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sağ (Netherlands/Turkey) in North America. Comprised of five new video installations\, Let Me Remember functions as an investigation into the state of being racialized in Europe\, taking a series of brutal murders by the German National Socialist Underground (NSU) as its context. The NSU was a terror group that killed ten people and planted bombs in migrant neighborhoods between 2000–2008. German media reports at the time ignored the racial motivations of their violence.\n \nbelit sağ’s work explores how media imagery can render the visibility (and invisibility) of personhood in a personal and essayistic form. The works in Let Me Remember bring together archival footage of the NSU’s victims\, images of objects from the crime scenes\, and transcripts of the trials made by local activist groups to ask questions on how white supremacy and whiteness in a European context affect and change narratives. Squeaky Wheel is proud to present the first North American exhibition of this emerging artist\, and bring to the public the acuity with which sağ questions the role of media. \nJoin us on Friday January 19th for the opening reception of the exhibition at Squeaky Wheel at 7pm and don’t miss a public conversation between the artist and Jasmina Tumbas at 7:30pm. Two newly commissioned essays on the belit sağ’s work by Almudena Escobar López and Chi-hui Yang also accompany the exhibition. Squeaky Wheel members are invited to a special VIP between 6–7pm with complimentary wine and refreshments. \nLet Me Remember is presented in collaboration with The Flaherty as part of the Flaherty NYC program COMMON VISIONS\, programmed by Almudena Escobar López & Herb Shellenberger. \n  \n \nbelit sağ. overexposed\, HD video (2017)\n  \n \nbelit sağ. overexposed\, installation view (2017)\n  \nAbout the Artists and Contributors \nbelit sağ is a videomaker and visual artist living in Amsterdam. She studied mathematics in Ankara; audio-visual arts in Amsterdam. Her video background is rooted in video-activist groups in Ankara and Istanbul\, where she co-initiated projects like karahaber.org (2000-2007) and bak.ma (a growing online audiovisual archive of social movements in Turkey). Her recent video work focuses on ‘the violence of representation’ and ‘representation of violence’. She completed residencies in Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten\, Amsterdam in 2014-2015; and International Studio and Curatorial Program\, New York in 2016. She has presented her work at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals worldwide\, including Toronto/Rotterdam/San Francisco/New York International Film Festival//International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA); EYE Filmmuseum\, Amsterdam; documenta14\, Kassel; MOCA\, Taipei; Tütün Deposu\, Istanbul; Tabakalera Film Seminar\, San Sebastian; Marabouparken\, Stockholm. \nAlmudena Escobar López is an archivist\, film curator\, and scholar from Spain. She is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester where she also holds a Public Humanities Fellowship. Her dissertation explores the notion of collaborative aesthetics in relation to ideas of artistic cooperativism\, paying particular attention to the filmmaker’s cooperatives founded in the 1960s in New York\, San Francisco\, and London. She combines her academic research and writing with her practice as a film archivist and curator having worked at institutions such as Lux Artists’ moving image\, The Academy Film Archive\, the Archives of American Art and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She has published essays in MUBI Notebook\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Afterimage: the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism\, Journal of Film Preservation\, Little White Lies\, Desistfilm Magazine\, and has collaborated with the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, the London Spanish Film Festival\, and the East End Film Festival of the London International Film Festival. She is co-programmer of the collective screening project On-Film\, serves in the Advisory Board of Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center in Buffalo\, NY\, and in the Board of Trustees of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester\, NY. \nJasmina Tumbas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art\, holds a Ph.D. from Duke University and teaches courses on modern and contemporary art and theory\, histories and theories of performance\, body and conceptual art\, art and activism\, and feminist art. Her research focuses on performance and conceptual art in former Yugoslavia\, as well as contemporary activist art practices by artists of Romani descent in the Balkan region. As a fellow\, Tumbas will be working on the book project\, The Erotics of Dictatorship: Art\, Sex\, and Politics under Yugoslav Socialism. \nChi-hui Yang is a curator based in New York. He is currently Program Officer for Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative\, a global effort that supports non-fiction filmmakers and organizations whose work addresses the most urgent social issues of our time. As a curator\, he has presented programs such as: MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight\, “Lines and Nodes: Media\, Infrastructure\, and Aesthetics” (2014\, Anthology Film Archives) and “The Age of Migration” (2008\, Flaherty Film Seminar). From 2000-2010 he was director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Yang is also an instructor at Brooklyn’s UnionDocs and has served as an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Hunter College. He earned a master’s degree in film studies from San Francisco State University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University. \nIN COLLABORATION WITH THE FLAHERTY\nThe Flaherty is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the proposition that independent media can illuminate the human spirit. Its mission is to foster exploration\, dialogue\, and introspection about the art and craft of all forms of the moving image. It was established to present the annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, named after the maker of such seminal documentaries as Nanook of the North\, Man of Aran\, and Louisiana Story. The Seminar remains the central and defining activity of The Flaherty. Other activities include: Flaherty NYC\, a seasonal screening series showcasing innovative nonfiction media; Flaherty on the Road\, presenting films from the Seminar at venues across the country; and the preservation and distribution of Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North and Louisiana Story\, as well as audio recordings from Seminar discussions dating back to 1958. For more information\, visit www.flahertyseminar.org \nBackground Image: belit sağ. overexposed\, HD still (2017)
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/belit-sag-let-me-remember/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Video Production
DESCRIPTION:Gain the skills you’ll need to light\, shoot\, and record your own films\, documentaries\, interviews\, and advertisements.  Get hands-on experience with professional equipment and software in an intimate\, small-class setting. \nTopics include: \n\nManipulating a camera to properly expose shots\nBasic audio recording for film\nCommunicating ideas with cinematic grammar\nLighting shots for best effect\nPreparing footage for editing\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. \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-production-8/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Chantal Akerman's One Day Pina Asked...
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 29\, 2017\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel members \nAn encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century\, One Day Pina Asked…(1983) is Chantal Akerman’s look at the work of choreographer Pina Bausch and her Wuppertal\, Germany-based dance company. \nIn the film\, the Belgian film director gives us an opportunity to consider Bausch’s architectural stage and complex emotional practice. Bausch’s work (as expressed in Akerman’s film) expresses a movement that encompasses both gendered violence and expressions of love\, with a kindness generated by pacing. One Day Pina Asked… gives us careful\, sharply aimed shots of stage movements\, backstage practice sequences\, and an iconic eye-to-eye closing sequence with Bausch herself. We’re invited to do more than watch a film transcription of a dance event; instead\, Akerman’s work challenges us by suggesting the interstices of the physical and the emotional\, the structured and incidental\, and the space before the curtain rises. \nCurated\, and featuring an introduction by Squeaky Wheel Curatorial Intern Colleen Stapleton. \n“Both [Bausch and Akerman] create reflective\, large-scale visual compositions that convey a powerful but ambiguous emotional intensity.” —Stephen Holden\, The New York Times
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/one-day-pina-asked/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171119T150000
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SUMMARY:To and From 1967: Ephraim Asili's African Diaspora Series
DESCRIPTION:Ephraim Asili\, Fluid Frontiers (2015)\nNovember 19\, 2017\n3pm\n@ Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\, 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208 (map)\nFree and open to the general public\nWith Ephraim Asili in person\, and followed by a Q&A with the artist moderated by Max Anderson. \nAs part of To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to present an in-person screening with Hudson based filmmaker Ephraim Asili and his African Diaspora Series. \n“In seven years\, the filmmaker Ephraim Asili has completed a remarkable cycle of five films regarding his own relationship with the greater African diaspora. These films—Forged Ways (2011)\, American Hunger (2013)\, Many Thousands Gone (2015)\, Kindah (2016)\, and Fluid Frontiers (2017)—document not only his travels across Brazil\, Canada\, Ethiopia\, Ghana\, Jamaica\, and the United States\, but also a personal search for the connections of cultures across space and time. American Hunger\, for example\, features images of a vandalized statue of Ghana’s first prime minister Kwame Nkrumah accompanied by recordings of his speeches in which he declares his hope for Ghana’s future. Asili cuts from this lost vision of accomplishment and idealism to a shot of a woman on the street in Ghana holding a mass-produced bag bearing Barack Obama’s face\, bringing together the legacy of US imperialism and the complicated feelings that accompanied the first black president of the United States. With its observational 16mm cinematography and its precise use of sound and music\, Asili’s work is critical and speculative\, listening intently to the resonances of words and gestures that span centuries and oceans.” Ekrem Serdar\, Brooklyn Rail. \nProgram \nForged Ways\n2011 | 15min | Ethiopia / United States\nFilmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia\, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker\, a man navigating the streets of Harlem\, and the day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. \nAmerican Hunger\n2013 | 19min | Ghana / United States\nOscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia\, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana\, and the New Jersey shore\, American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies. \nMany Thousands Gone\n2015 | 8min | Brazil / United States\nFilmed on location in Salvador\, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem\, NY ( an international stronghold of the African Diaspora)\, Many Thousands Gone draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to use an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real time “sight reading” of the score. \nKindah\n2016 | 00:12:00 | Jamaica / United States\nKindah was shot in Hudson\, NY and Accompong\, Jamaica. Accompong was founded in 1739 after rebel slaves and their descendants fought a protracted war with the British leading to the establishment of a treaty between the two sides. The treaty signed under British governor Edward Trelawny granted Cudjoe’s Maroons 1\,500 acres of land between their strongholds of Trelawny Town and Accompong in the Cockpits. Cudjoe\, a leader of the Maroons\, is said to have united them in their fight for autonomy under the Kindah Tree — a large\, ancient mango tree that still stands to this day. The tree symbolizes the kinship of the community on its common land. \nFluid Frontiers\n2017 | 00:23:00 | Canada / United States\nFluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in an ongoing series of films exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River\, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad\, Broadside Press\, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit Windsor region and were shot without rehearsal. \nBio\nEphraim Asili is a Filmmaker\, DJ\, and Traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world\, including the New York Film Festival\, NY; Toronto International Film Festival\, Canada; Ann Arbor Film Festival\, MI; San Francisco International Film Festival\, CA; Milano Film Festival\, Italy; International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Netherlands; MoMA PS1\, NY; LAMOCA\, CA; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, MA; and the Whitney Museum\, NY. As a DJ\, Asili can be heard on his radio program In The Cut on WGXC\, or live at his monthly dance party Botanica. Asili currently resides in Hudson\, NY\, and is a Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/1967-ephraimasili/
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:To and From 1967: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Brett Story\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes\, 2015\nSaturday\, November 18\n4pm\n@ Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\, 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208 (map)\nFree and open to the general public\nWith Brett Story in person. The screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Meg Knowles. \nAn ingenious\, prismatic approach with a consistent formal beauty. — Variety \nAs part of To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to present of the acclaimed documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes with director Brett Story in person. \nThe Prison in Twelve Landscapes\, 90min\, 2015\, USA\nMore people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history\, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead\, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives\, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires\, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system\, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs. \nBio\nBrett Story is a writer and independent non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. Her films have screened at True/False\, Oberhausen\, Hot Docs\, the Viennale\, and Dok Leipzig\, among other festivals. Her first feature-length film\, the award-winning Land of Destiny (2010)\, screened internationally and was broadcast on both Canadian and American television. Her second feature documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs\, the Prize for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Festival\, and a Special Jury Mention at the Camden International Film Festival. The film will be broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2017. Her journalism and film criticism have appeared in such outlets as CBC Radio and The Nation magazine\, and she is currently completing a book manuscript for the University of California Press titled The Prison out of Place. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institute’s 2014 New Visions Award and the 2016 Governor General’s Gold Medal from the University of Toronto for academic excellence. Brett is a 2016-2017 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow.
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SUMMARY:To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre
DESCRIPTION:Ephraim Asili\, Fluid Frontiers\, 2017\nSaturday\, November 18\, 2–6pm | Sunday\, November 19\, 12–5pm\n Location: Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\, 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208 (map)\n Free and open to the general public \nA two day series of screenings and discussions\, with Karima Amin\, Max Anderson\, Ephraim Asili\, Obsidian Bellis\, Paris Henderson\, Meg Knowles\, Savion Mingo\, Elisa Peebles\, and Brett Story. See the full schedule below. \nOn the 50th anniversary of the Long Hot Summer—an urban rebellion that took place around the United States\, including on Buffalo’s East Side—Squeaky Wheel\, Just Buffalo Literary Center\, and Open Buffalo present To and From 1967\, a two-day series of screenings\, discussions and events inspired by prison justice activist Martin Sostre (1923-2015). \nFeaturing filmmakers\, journalists and storytellers from Buffalo and beyond\, Sostre’s story and commitment act as a prism for this event series\, refracting the ways in which incarceration envelops society at large\, situating 1967 in Buffalo\, and exploring possible futures rooted among a celebration of the African diaspora\, among other discussions. \nThe event also marks the installation of Reviving Sostre\, a participatory artwork centering Martin Sostre. Local artists Paris Henderson\, Savion Mingo\, and Obsidian have hand-made custom bookshelves with the goal of recreating Sostre’s presence where his store once stood on Jefferson Avenue. Sostre’s store carried progressive\, leftist and Black radical literature. In order to make this revival true to his legacy we call on you to donate your books of these genres. Bring your books to the event on Saturday\, or drop them off at Squeaky Wheel by 5pm\, Friday\, November 17. \nSchedule\nAll events take place at the Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library at 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208. Light refreshments will be available between sessions. \nSaturday\, November 18 \n\n\n2pm\nScreening + Talk | Framing 1967 with Karima Amin\nWe begin our weekend with a screening of the documentary Frame Up: The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre (Pacific Street Films\, 30min\, 1974\, USA)\, which charts Martin Sostre’s wrongful imprisonment following the rebellion on Buffalo’s east side\, his rise as a prisoner’s rights activist\, and his role as one of the most noted political prisoners of his time. The screening will be followed by a conversation on the history of 1967 in Buffalo and the effects of the incarceral state upon our city with storyteller and activist Karima Amin (Prisoners are People Too!) \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation on the history of 1967 in Buffalo and the effects of the incarceral state upon our city with storyteller and activist Karima Amin (Prisoners are People Too!) \n  \n \n4pm\nScreening + Q&A | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes with Brett Story and Meg Knowles\nReflecting on Martin Sostre’s work on exposing the gross human rights violations of the prison system\, we present The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (90min\, 2015\, USA). Story’s film depicts the way today’s systems of mass incarceration affect our communities far outside the prison walls. Unfolding as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA\, The Prison… shows us where prisons do work and affect lives\, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires\, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system\, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs. \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with Meg Knowles and director Brett Story in person. \nSunday\, November 19 \n \n12pm\nArt Tour + Call to Action | Reviving Sostre with Obsidian Bellis\, Paris Henderson\, and Savion Mingo\nLocation: Starting at Merriweather Library\, traveling to 1412 Jefferson Ave.\nBRING YOUR BOOKS! Before his arrest in 1967\, Martin Sostre was known in Buffalo as the proprietor of the Afro-Asian Bookstore on 1412 Jefferson Ave\, which he envisioned as a political center for Afro-American youth. Local artists Obsidian Bellis\, Paris Henderson and Savion Mingo have created an art installation comprised of three hand-made bookshelves with the goal of recreating Sostre’s presence where his store once stood. Join us for a walk to Reviving Sostre\, led by the artists\, and donate your own progressive\, leftist and Black radical literature to the shelves. \n  \n \n1pm\nPerformance + Talk | Operations of Freedom with Elisa Peebles and Max Anderson\nMartin Sostre’s activism was not limited to the prison system. He continually reflected on how issues regarding justice and equity affected the situations he was in at that moment\, and how his efforts could be most effective. Reflecting on the different shapes activism can take\, Elisa Peebles\, an artist\, activist and producer originally from the East Side of Buffalo\, NY\, presents a special performance called Operations of Freedom: The Case for Culture as the New Frontline. \nThe performance will be followed by a conversation between Elisa Peebles and Max Anderson on the merits of different approaches to activism. \n  \n \n3pm\nScreening + Q&A: Ephraim Asili’s African Diaspora Series\, with Max Anderson\nBringing together pasts\, presents\, and possible futures of the African diaspora\, To and From 1967 concludes with a screening of five short films by Ephraim Asili. As we look from 1967 to 2017 and beyond\, Asili’s films listen to sounds and gestures across centuries and oceans. These personal\, speculative films allow us to imagine where a trace of a movement may lead\, rooted in collective histories. \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation between Ephraim Asili and Max Anderson. \nThe films to be screened in the African Diaspora series include: \nForged Ways\n2011 | 15min | Ethiopia / United States\nFilmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia\, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker\, a man navigating the streets of Harlem\, and the day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. \nAmerican Hunger\n2013 | 19min | Ghana / United States\nOscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia\, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana\, and the New Jersey shore\, American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies. \nMany Thousands Gone\n2015 | 8min | Brazil / United States\nFilmed on location in Salvador\, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem\, NY ( an international stronghold of the African Diaspora)\, Many Thousands Gone draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to use an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real time “sight reading” of the score. \nKindah\n2016 | 00:12:00 | Jamaica / United States\nKindah was shot in Hudson\, NY and Accompong\, Jamaica. Accompong was founded in 1739 after rebel slaves and their descendants fought a protracted war with the British leading to the establishment of a treaty between the two sides. The treaty signed under British governor Edward Trelawny granted Cudjoe’s Maroons 1\,500 acres of land between their strongholds of Trelawny Town and Accompong in the Cockpits. Cudjoe\, a leader of the Maroons\, is said to have united them in their fight for autonomy under the Kindah Tree — a large\, ancient mango tree that still stands to this day. The tree symbolizes the kinship of the community on its common land. \nFluid Frontiers\n2017 | 00:23:00 | Canada / United States\nFluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in an ongoing series of films exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River\, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad\, Broadside Press\, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit Windsor region and were shot without rehearsal. \n\nBios \nKarima Amin is a storyteller\, educator\, and author from Buffalo\, NY who shares tales in her repertoire throughout the US and Canada with storylovers of all ages. With 24 years in public school education to her credit\, and more than three decades of storytelling\, she provides performances\, workshops\, keynotes and author visits to promote literacy\, increase cultural awareness\, enliven staff development\, and improve human relations. Her voice is very familiar in a community where she has shared fables on local radio (WBLK-FM) for a decade.\nKarima is a co-founder of “Spin-A-Story Tellers of WNY” and “Tradition Keepers: Black Storytellers of WNY.” She is also a member of the National Storytelling Network and the National Association of Black Storytellers. Her most recent stories in print appear in The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Friends\, African American Children’s Stories: A Treasury of Tradition and Pride\, and My First Treasury: Grandma Loves You. In 2004 she reissued some of her favorite stories on the CD You Can Say That Again! with local musician S’wayne\, which earned a “Parents Choice Foundation Gold Award” and “Storytelling World” honors. In 2012\, Karima received the Zora Neale Hurston Legacy Award from the National Association of Black Storytellers\, Inc.\, for striving to preserve and perpetuate the art of storytelling. \nA lifelong New Yorker\, Max Anderson (Director of Communications\, Open Buffalo) has lived and grown in the state’s Capital\, Mid-Hudson\, Central and Finger Lakes regions before putting down stakes in Buffalo. As a son and brother of West Indians who ventured to the United States in search of opportunity\, Anderson is passionate about supporting all individuals and families struggling for a foothold in the evolving Buffalo/Niagara economy. Prior to joining Open Buffalo\, Anderson spent about 10 years working in the newspaper industry. During the latter part of his journalism career\, Anderson covered city governance\, economic development and criminal justice (focusing on police-community relations) as an editorialist for Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. Anderson serves on the Next Generation United Advisory Council (through the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County)\, the board of The Foundry (a hub of business incubation and hands-on education)\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center. \nEphraim Asili is a Filmmaker\, DJ\, and Traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world\, including the New York Film Festival\, NY; Toronto International Film Festival\, Canada; Ann Arbor Film Festival\, MI; San Francisco International Film Festival\, CA; Milano Film Festival\, Italy; International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Netherlands; MoMA PS1\, NY; LAMOCA\, CA; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, MA; and the Whitney Museum\, NY. As a DJ\, Asili can be heard on his radio program In The Cut on WGXC\, or live at his monthly dance party Botanica. Asili currently resides in Hudson\, NY\, and is a Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College. \nObsidian Bellis is a black genderqueer artist born and raised on the East Side of Buffalo\, NY. Obsidian expresses themselves with their work using elements of nature and the divine. Their work is often analog and they work with a variety of mediums such as found objects\, paper collage\, watercolor\, acrylic\, pencil\, pen\, markers & charcoal. They are a co-founder for D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment) which was started in 2015 by black youth of the city to hold space for marginalized people by providing education and performance spaces. In Spring of 2017\, Obsidian created Maybe Heaven to use their creative and caregiving passions to provide a safe space for other Femmes of Color and “non-traditionally” taught artists and their artistic endeavors. \nParis J Henderson is a visual artist born & raised in Buffalo NY. His work ranges from hand drawn illustrations\, digital work & video art. Active in the organizing scene\, Paris is also a founding member of local creative collective United Melanin Society\, a group aimed at uplifting artist of color in the WNY area. \nA producer of more than 40 short documentary films\, Meg Knowles is an assistant professor of media production in the Communication Department at Buffalo State College. Her award-winning films have been screened at festivals\, galleries\, and museums\, including the Museum of Modern Art\, Anthology Film Archives\, Portland PDX Film Festival\, the Athens International Film and Video Festival (1st Prize\, Experimental Documentary Category) as well as on Free Speech TV and PBS. Meg recently served as a judge for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Emmy Awards (Editing Category) and for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award (Television Documentary Category). Meg has a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College\, an M.A. in Media Study from the University at Buffalo and an M.F.A. in Film Media Arts from Temple University. \nSavion Mingo is a multidisciplinary artist born in Buffalo\, NY and raised in the Kenfield/Langfield Projects. Although his work varies from fine arts to graphic design\, his medium of choice is digital: including collage\, vector illustration\, and painting. Savion is a ghetto organizer\, co-founding D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment) in 2015\, a Black youth-led anti-oppression arts organization which provides decolonial education\, access to health services\, and builds alternative arts spaces for marginalized peoples. He is also a sexual health advocate for youth and is a proud lover of zines! \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. \nBrett Story is a writer and independent non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. Her films have screened at True/False\, Oberhausen\, Hot Docs\, the Viennale\, and Dok Leipzig\, among other festivals. Her second feature documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs\, the Prize for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Festival\, and a Special Jury Mention at the Camden International Film Festival. The film was broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. Her journalism and film criticism have appeared in such outlets as CBC Radio and The Nation magazine\, and she is currently completing a book manuscript for the University of California Press titled The Prison out of Place. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institute’s 2014 New Visions Award\, and is a 2016-2017 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow.
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CATEGORIES:Symposia & Panels
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SUMMARY:Graphic Design
DESCRIPTION:Need to design a logo\, icon\, or complex image for use in web\, print\, or video? In this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator\, the industry standard vector graphics tool used for these applications and many more. \nTopics include: \n\nNavigating the Illustrator interface\nCreating\, manipulating\, and coloring symbols and shapes\nBasic design techniques\nExporting projects for web\, print\, or video\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. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/graphic-design/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:The Commercial
DESCRIPTION:The Commercial\nNovember 4th – 25th\nSaturdays\, 10am-1pm \nWe all see ads on television or our computers every day\, but do we ever really think about them and how they are produced? This workshop will explore one of the most popular and hidden forms of media\, the commercial. Through an investigation of the history and evolution of this artform\, students will work together to create their very own. Participants will learn: \n\nThe history of the commercial\nAdvertisement strategies and analysis\nBasic video production & editing\nTeam-based production strategies\n\n\nMembers $40 | Non-Members $60 \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. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-commercial/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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SUMMARY:Sound Design 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\nLearning how to listen to and identify various sonic techniques\nFoley production\nIntermediate audio recording techniques\nSyncing external audio for film\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. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sound-design-for-film/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Video Editing
DESCRIPTION:Learn the craft of manipulating narrative and meaning with the art of editing. In this workshop you’ll learn how to take raw footage and assemble it into a narrative\, whether for short films\, documentaries\, interviews\, promotional videos\, or experimental films.\n \nTopics include: \n\nNavigating the Adobe Premiere interface\nStructuring your workflow for ease and efficiency\nUtilizing continuity editing and juxtaposition to create meaning\nExporting your videos for sharing on various platforms\n\n\nMembers $135 | Non-Members $175\n \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. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-editing-3/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reality
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Reality\nOctober 7th – 28th\nSaturdays\, 10am-1pm \nMany have asked the question: ‘what is virtual reality?’ Strangely enough\, it turns out that the answer is a unanimous ‘anything you want it to be.’ This workshop will drop students directly into the word of VR\, harnessing the powers of this rapidly expanding technology to manipulate time and space in ways that were never possible before. Participants will learn to: \n\nCapture 360 video\nVisualize space outside of the standard frame\nDraw the viewer to key elements\nExport projects for viewing on a headset or computer\n\n\nMembers $40 | Non-Members $60 \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. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/virtual-reality/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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SUMMARY:Kristen Johnson's Cameraperson
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 4th\, 2017\n 7pm\n Free and open to the public \nWhat does it mean to film another person? How does it affect that person – and what does it do to the one who films? \nA boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Cameraperson (2016)\, a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions\, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects\, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera\, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative. A work that combines documentary\, autobiography\, and ethical inquiry\, Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker’s personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world. \nPresented by Cultivate Cinema Circle.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/cameraperson/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Super Quick! Presentations from UB Grads
DESCRIPTION:Kyla Kegler\, Sensing in the Soft Room\nWednesday\, September 27\, 2017\n7pm\nFree and open to the public \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to welcome back the very popular “pecha-kucha”-style event Super Quick! organized by University at Buffalo graduate and PhD students from Media Study\, Studio Art\, Visual Studies\, and more. Each presenter will make 5-7 minute presentations on a range of topics and their current research. Join us for a stimulating evening of talks\, images\, demonstrations\, and Q&A with local art scholars. The lineup of speakers will be announced soon!
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/super-quick-presentations-from-ub-grads/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Video Production
DESCRIPTION:Gain the skills you’ll need to light\, shoot\, and record your own films\, documentaries\, interviews\, and advertisements.  Get hands-on experience with professional equipment and software in an intimate\, small-class setting. \nTopics include: \n\nManipulating a camera to properly expose shots\nBasic audio recording for film\nCommunicating ideas with cinematic grammar\nLighting shots for best effect\nPreparing footage for editing\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. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/video-production-7/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Angela Washko | The Game: The Game 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Opening September 15\, 2017\, 7–9pm\n Conversation with Angela Washko and Stephanie Rothenberg: 7:30pm\n On view through December 9\, 2017\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm \nPublic Programs:\nSeptember 18\, 6pm: Angela Washko @ University at Buffalo Art Department Speaker Series\nSeptember 19\, 4pm: Angela Washko @ Digital Humanities Group at Canisius College\nOctober 28\, 2pm: Playthrough at Squeaky Wheel with Feminista Social Club \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Pittsburgh based artist\, Angela Washko\, opening September 15th. Featuring Washko’s latest iteration of her video game The Game: The Game\, the exhibition invites audiences to engage with the world of pick-up artists from the point of view of a femme presenting person. The opening will feature a public conversation between Washko and artist Stephanie Rothenberg. A newly commissioned essay by Dorothy Santos accompanies the exhibit. Please be advised that The Game: The Game features challenging content. This game contains sexual scenarios and may not be suitable for audiences under 18\, and contains situations depicting sexual violence and non-consensual exchanges. \nThe Game: The Game is a video game presenting the practices of several prominent seduction coaches (aka pick-up artists or PUAs) through the format of a dating simulator. In the game these pick-up gurus attempt to seduce the player using their signature techniques taken verbatim from their instructional books and video materials. The game sets up the opportunity for players to explore the complexity of the construction of social behaviors around dating as well as the experience of being a femme-presenting individual navigating this complicated terrain. \n \nThe Game: The Game is a continuation of BANGED\, a two year-long project during which Angela Washko interviewed Bang series author and manosphere figurehead Roosh V\, and tried to get in contact with his alleged sexual partners. After working on BANGED\, the black and white ways in which this field has been portrayed through the media seemed too simple and unfair to all parties who encountered it and provoked this question: Is practicing “game” inherently wrong and dishonest\, or can it be practiced in a way that simply levels the dating playing field in favor of those who are otherwise socially or physically disadvantaged? By disguising the most notorious PUAs alongside “game-less” individuals and PUAs-in-training\, and placing the player into the often unsafe position of trying to distinguish between them all\, Washko hopes to add levels of complexity to public conversations around both pick-up and feminism which have both found themselves presented in highly polarized\, dichotomous positions in mainstream media. \n \n“One of the most fascinating aspects of The Game: The Game is the ability to respond to words taken verbatim from Pick-up Artist (PUA) instructionals. PUA culture may seem marginal to most\, restricted to specialized DVDs and obscure internet forums\, however interacting with The Game: The Game provides a much more subtle understanding of these social behaviors in our culture. Dating-simulators have a history of depicting disturbing behavior\, presented with a normalizing touch and from the perspective of a male; The Game: the Game\, has players embody a woman who is the target of PUA’s\, upending the genre’s conventions. The images–abstract\, dark\, with disturbing or absurd details\, and static like most dating-sims–work in tandem with Xiu Xiu’s low beats and drones to illustrate a systemic nature to the behaviors on display. Crucially\, the game’s depiction of male aggression is anything but simple. Washko’s long-term research has been about bridging communities – in this case feminists and the manosphere – to understand each other outside of their echo chambers. The multiple paths and possibilities in the game allows the player to safely explore these behaviors through replays. It’s an essential work\, giving us a nuanced view of how desire\, violence\, and complicity function in our day to day lives.” – Ekrem Serdar \nBiography of Angela Washko\nAngela Washko is an artist\, writer and facilitator devoted to creating new forums for discussions of feminism in spaces frequently hostile toward it. Since 2012\, Washko has operated The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft\, an ongoing intervention inside the most popular online role-playing game of all time. Washko’s most recent project\, The Game: The Game is a video game presenting the practices of several prominent seduction coaches (aka pick-up artists) through the format of a dating simulator. In the game these pick-up gurus attempt to seduce the player using their signature techniques taken verbatim from their instructional books and video materials. \nA recent recipient of a Franklin Furnace Performance Fund Grant\, a Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier Grant from the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry\, and a Rhizome Internet Art Microgrant\, Washko’s practice has been highlighted in Art in America\, Frieze Magazine\, Time Magazine\, The Guardian\, ArtForum\, ARTnews\, The Hairpin\, VICE\, Hyperallergic\, Rhizome\, the New York Times\, Neural Magazine and more. Her projects have been presented nationally and internationally at venues including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki)\, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Milan Design Triennale\, the Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her writing has been published in Creative Time Reports\, FIELD Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism\, Copenhagen University Peer Reviewed Journal (NTIK)\, Neural Magazine\, VASA Journal of Images and Culture\, .dpi Feminist Magazine of Art and Digital Culture\, ANIMAL NY and more.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/angela-washko-the-game-the-game-2-0/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Tech Arts for Youth: Summer Works
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: Summer Works\nOpening: September 15th\, 6:00 to 10:00pm\nExhibit will be on view through September 23rd \n\nSqueaky Wheel & CEPA Gallery are proud to present a collection of youth artworks made this past summer during our media art and photography workshops. Incorporating a range of mediums and methods\, participants in the summer programs engaged in active experimental media creation with a variety of local teaching artists. The exhibition will be on view beginning September 15th and continue until September 23rd. \nThe exhibition will take place in CEPA’s Underground Gallery located at 617 Main St in downtown Buffalo. \nSqueaky Wheel would like to thank the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment of the Arts\, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature for making these vital youth education experiences possible.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tech-arts-for-youth-summer-works/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:eCollage
DESCRIPTION:eCollage\nSeptember 9th – 30th\nSaturdays\, 10am-1pm \nThis workshop will explore the history and impact of collage on the art world and social justice. Using a mix of both Photoshop and Final Cut Pro X\, students will learn to create and animate digital collages that explore topics that they want to make a statement about. This course focuses on post-production and animation and will be a benefit to anyone interested in animation or media arts. Participants will learn to: \n\nVideo Post Production\nKey Frame Animation\nMotion Graphics\nIntro to Photoshop\n\n\nMembers $40 | Non-Members $60 \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. \nWhile our website is under construction\, please register via phone (716) 884-7172 or contact alex@squeaky.org
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/ecollage/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls
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SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 14th Animation Fest
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Bjork\, Tectonics\, digital video\, 2015\nFriday\, September 1\, 2017\n7:30pm\n@ the Albright-Knox Art Gallery \nFree and open to the public as part of M&T First Fridays. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest returns for its 14th year with animations by emerging and established artists from around the world! Designed for ages 6 and up\, this family-friendly affair is an annual showcase culled from a public call for submissions and features some of the most innovative artists working across various media. \nThis year’s 49 minute program will take place once again at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery during M&T First Friday. Demonstrating a wide range of animation methods\, from stop-motion\, hand-drawn works\, pieces made with open source custom software\, analogue video effects\, and more\, the program tells stories about diverse forms of existence and the nature of life. The screening includes works such as a philosophical science fiction film\, a screen-printed life story\, an absurd domestic drama\, and a mysterious trip towards enlightenment\, among others. Throughout the program you will witness all kinds of transformations\, either of life itself or of emotions that lead to surprising outcomes. Bring your family\, bring your friends! \nCurated by Jean Zhu\, Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2017 Curatorial Intern. Squeaky Wheel’s 14th Animation Fest is generously sponsored by Villa Maria’s Animation Program. \nProgram ~49 minutes \nShip of Fools | Josh Shaffner\n6:00min\, digital\, 2016\nLife on earth through time and space from the present time to 4000 years ahead\, in non-chronological order. The settings change\, humans do not. It’s “a cry for help.” \nWednesday with Goddard | Nicolas Ménard\n4:30min\, digital\, 2016\nA personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. \nAdam | Evelyn Jane Ross\n2:27min\, digital\, 2017\nIn the beginning of them\, she created us. She is not the Adam that you’ve known for your whole life. \nBatfish Soup | Amanda Bonaiuto\n4:35min\, digital\, 2016\nWacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls\, boiling stew\, and a bang. A fictionalized absurdist film based on memories of freakish childhood visitations. \nLo | Ted Wiggin\n3:10min\, digital\, 2017\nWe must protect this house. \nHeavy Blanket | Cory Feder\n6:57min\, digital\, 2016\nUnderneath the heavy blanket there is a train stopping in all the same places and it is passing between all the known and unknown evils of today and yesterday. Who is to say what evil really is; what makes a train stop in one place over and over again? \nIllusions | Dominica Harrison\n5:22min\, digital\, 2016\nSometimes the most tragic accidents could lead to the happiest endings… Animated beautifully with screen-printing technique. \nHead Cleaner | Emily Pelstring\n7:00min\, digital\, 2015\nHand-drawn and digital animation\, analog video effects\, re-photography and video feedback transform images issuing from an apparently malfunctioning machine. Tongue-in-cheek commentary on entertainment technology’s fraught relationship to individual agency and identity\, and its role in the standardization of expression and behaviour\, underlies a loosely suggested coming-of-age narrative. \nTectonics | Aaron Whitney Bjork\n2:56min\, digital\, 2015\nAn examination of the human life process\, birth–life–death. This video is a collection of Aaron’s signature hand cut vinyl drawings. \nBio of the curator\nJean Zhu (b. Shanghai\, China) is a New York City and Buffalo based artist and recently studying Media Study and Sociology at University at Buffalo. She has exhibited at a number of venues in New York State including Silo City\, BT&C Gallery\, Gallery r\, Honey Ramka\, Tender Trap\, University at Buffalo with seasoned artists and peer student artists from Pratt Institute\, School of Visual Arts\, New York University\, Rochester Institute of Technology\, and Parsons School of Design.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-14th-animation-fest/
LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Lea Bertucci at Silo City
DESCRIPTION:Lea Bertucci at Silo City\nSaturday\, August 26th\, 2017\n7pm Door\, 7:30pm performance\n@ Silo City (Marine A)\nFree and open to the general public \nPlease note: The time of this event is now 7pm door\, 7:30pm performance. The performance will last 30 minutes. Please arrive accordingly. \nJoin us at Silo City (Marine A) for the premiere of a new\, site-specific composition by our Silo City resident Lea Bertucci and her electroacoustic saxophone quartet with Steve Baczkowski\, Kyle Ohlson\, and Bill Sack! During her three-week residency at Squeaky Wheel\, Bertucci will be working on the first of a two-part suite of compositions\, specifically developed for the uniquely resonant space of Silo City. Join us for the unveiling of this ambitious project\, featuring musicians from Buffalo\, and capping the end of our Summer 2017 residency program. \nLea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice\, (alto saxophone and bass clarinet)\, her work often incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays\, electroacoustic feedback\, extended instrumental technique and tape collage. Her discography includes a number of solo and collaborative releases on independent labels in the US and Europe\, including I Dischi Del Barone\, Obsolete Units\, Telegraph Harp and Clandestine Compositions. In 2017\, she will release All That is Solid Melts Into Air: Works for Strings\, on NNA Tapes. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe at venues such as The Kitchen\, PS1 MoMA\, The Drawing Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, Abrons Arts\, ISSUE Project Room\, Pioneer Works\, The Queens Museum\, Artists’ Space\,
Caramoor\, The High Zero Festival\, and Experimental
Intermedia\, among many others. She is a 2016 MacDowell Fellow in composition and a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in- Residence.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/lea-bertucci-at-silo-city/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Residencies
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