BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://squeaky.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10000879-1677870000-1677875400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Exhalations: Films by Kalpana Subramanian DESCRIPTION:***New date: Friday\, March 3\, 2023\, 7 pm ET***\nIn-person @ Journey’s End Refugee Services\, and online\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nFor over 20 years\, Kalpana Subramanian has created a remarkable body of work spanning films\, media art\, children’s books\, scholarship\, and curatorial work. Her recent work is invested in a cinema of breath: a framework for radical cinema grounded in intersectional-feminist and decolonial thought\, alternative approaches to embodiment\, and what Achille Mbembe calls “the universal right to breathe.” This solo screening by the celebrated film and media practitioner brings together recent and older short films from 2002 to the present day\, including the entirety of her Light Mediated series. The filmmaker will be present for a Q&A following the screening. \nThis online and event will take place in the theater of Journey’s End Refugee Services\, located at the 5th floor of Tri-Main Center. Please note that the online event will only have the films\, not the Q&A with the artist. The online films will be available for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive extended access for 72 hours. \nProgram\nTotal duration: 54 minutes. Please note that woolgathering contains flickering imagery. \nThe Maze of Lanes (SD\, 6 min\, Sound\, Color\, 2002) \nIncantation (HD\, 8 min 37 sec\, sound\, color\, 2021) \nwoolgathering (HD\, 3 min 10 sec\, sound\, color\, 2020) \nTattva (HD\, 4.34 min\, Sound\, Color\, 2018) \nLight Mediated Series \nLiquid is Light (8mm transferred to Digital\, 4 min 2 sec\, sound\, B&W\, 2016) \nEmpyrean (HD\, 6 min 20 sec min\, silent\, color\, 2016) \nLight Rooms (HD\, 1 min 45 sec\, silent\, color\, 2016) \nPrismatic Resonance (HD\, 12 min 46 sec\, sound\, color\, 2016) \nA Dialogue of Dissonance (HD\, 6 min 23 sec\, Sound\, Color\, 2016) \nBio\nKalpana Subramanian is an artist-filmmaker and scholar of experimental film and media. Her current research investigates the poetics of breath in experimental film using a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach. Her work has been supported by grants including a Humanities Institute Advanced PhD Fellowship (University at Buffalo\, 2022-23)\, the UK Environmental Film Fellowship (2006) and the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (University of Colorado Boulder\, 2015-16). Her films have been presented at venues including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, Toronto International Film Festival\, Interfilm Berlin\, National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai\, India)\, UNESCO (France)\, Antimatter Media Arts (Canada)\, Asia Society\, Union Docs and Flaherty NYC Seminar (USA) among others. She has received awards for her films at the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology (Perugia\, Italy\, 2015)\, Montana CINE International Film Festival (2003\, 2005) and CMS Vatavaran (2008). Her curated film programs have been screened at the Alternative cinema series (Colgate University\, USA)\, Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (UK) and Simon Fraser University (Canada) among others. She is presently a doctoral candidate and an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Media Study\, University at Buffalo. \nSpecial thank you to Kathy Spillman and Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nBanner image: Kalpana Subramanian\, Incantation (2021). A photograph depicting multiple images projected on a surface. The shadows of what look like two young people\, arms on each other’s shoulders\, standing under an arched gateway to a historic building in Delhi\, India. Upon this image is an extended hand\, palm open. It looks like the young people are in the palm. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/exhalations-films-by-kalpana-subramanian/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Kalpana-Subramanian-Incantation-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001090-1677002400-1677787200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Intro to Choice-Based Game Design DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays and Thursdays\, 6:00 – 8:00 pm\nFebruary 21 – March 2\, 2023\nTotal price for all 4 sessions:\n$135 members/$175 non-members\nClick here to register\nLearn how to make interactive games! Using the free Inky engine\, build a scalable text-based game that takes into account player choices when progressing its narrative. Inky is a very simple narrative scripting language for games that can stand alone in web browsers and be integrated into game production engines like Unity. No experience necessary\, beginners welcome! All equipment provided. \nClass limited to 8 participants. Members receive a discounted rate. Not a member? Click here to sign up! \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Famous Clark \nFamous Clark is a current MFA student at the University at Buffalo’s Media Study program. His specific field of study is an interweaving of mythology and folklore\, queer and feminist scholarship\, and interactivity and portrayal within games. Famous’s research and projects to date aim to develop queer allegories of being\, utilizing tropes of fantastical narratives in folklore and fairytales. These allegories\, in turn\, are injected into game mediums\, facilitating the embodiment\, interactivity\, and portrayal of non-heteronormative realities. \nImage: A screenshot of a computer coding environment\, with white text on a black screen. The text is readable as a conversation. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/choices-matter-intro-to-text-based-game-design/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/game_image.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191450Z UID:10001089-1676379600-1678374000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Afternoon Filmmaking Workshop: Dreams\, Gestures\, and Memoir DESCRIPTION:February 14 – March 9\, 2023 (8 sessions)\nTuesdays and Thursdays\, 1–3 pm\n$20 members/$55 nonmembers\nClick here to register\nWe are excited to announce this inaugural weekday afternoon workshop for older adults. The workshop is open to students of all levels\, no experience necessary. \nIn this playful and experimental video workshop for older adults (ages 55+)\, participants will create short films about dreams and memories. Participants will work individually and collaboratively to conduct interviews\, record and edit sound and video\, and learn technical skills while exploring the artistic potential of free association\, repetition\, lighting\, and layering. The instructor will guide students of all levels in using digital cameras\, audio recorders\, iPads\, and Adobe Premiere editing software. The resulting short films may question the line between dream and memory or lead to a narrative story. The workshop will end with a screening and celebration of the finished work. No experience necessary\, beginners welcome! All equipment provided. Space limited to 8 participants. \nRegister here or contact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Avye Alexandres (www.avye.art) \nAvye Alexandres is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work bridges film\, photography\, experimental media\, sculpture and performance. She has produced and exhibited her work nationally since 2005\, including in Squeaky Wheel’s 2018 Workspace Residency at Silo City. She received her MFA from The University at Buffalo and a BFA from Southern Methodist University. \n  \n  \n  \nThis Afternoon Filmmaking Workshop is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This activity is made possible by a grant provided by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in partnership with E.A. Michelson Philanthropy and supported by Lifetime Arts. \n \nBanner image: A photograph of the shadows of two people on a wall. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/afternoon-filmmaking-workshop-dreams-gestures-and-memoir/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/avye-class-scaled.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240101 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191450Z UID:10000875-1672531200-1704067199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel has moved to the Tri-Main Center! DESCRIPTION:  \nSqueaky Wheel has found a new home at the Tri-Main Center! Our new\, larger space offers more flexibility to adapt to communities’ needs\, new partnerships with neighboring organizations\, and greater accessibility for students\, artists\, and friends. The possibilities are endless! \nStay tuned for our re-opening date\, and see our updated visit\, transportation\, and accessibility information below and on our Visit page. \nSqueaky Wheel is located in the Tri-Main Center on 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310. You can enter the Tri-Main Center from its main entrance on Halbert Street\, parallel to Main Street. We are located in Suite 310\, which you can find by taking the elevator in the lobby to the 3rd floor and walking left and following the signage on the walls. \nParking is available for visitors across from the Halbert Street entrance. The Tri-Main Center can be reached by taking the #8 bus\, the Filmore-Hertel Bus\, #23 Fillmore-Hertel bus\, or via rail to the Amherst Station. \nThe Tri-Main Center has automated doors and lever handles. There is a dedicated lift for wheelchair users on the left when you enter\, so you may avoid the stairs and continue to the elevator. \nRight outside of Squeaky Wheel’s suite are gender-segregated restrooms with accessible stalls. Inside Squeaky Wheel is a gender-inclusive restroom. \nPlease see individual program pages for additional access information\, including virtual attendance options\, ASL interpretation\, CART\, and more. \nArtsAccess Pass holders can gain free entry and request accessible transportation to and from Squeaky Wheel for events. Find out more about the ArtsAccess program\, and how you can sign up\, by clicking here. Note you must make transportation requests at least two weeks in advance. Click here to request transportation. You can also sign up to be an ArtsAccess pass holder at Squeaky Wheel. ArtsAccess is a program offered by Arts Services Initiative\, and Squeaky Wheel is not responsible for the ArtsAccess program. \nWe expect all visitors\, students\, artists\, instructors\, staff\, board members\, and community members to abide by Squeaky Wheel’s Community Guidelines. \n  \nImage: Tri-Main Center – fmr Ford Motor Company assembly plant\, Trico Plant No. 2 – Buffalo\, New York – 20200624 by Andre Carrotflower\, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. A photograph of the Tri-Main Center during the day. You can see four stories with large glass windows on each floor. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheel-has-moved-to-the-tri-main-center/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Updates ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Tri-Main-Center-fmr-Ford-Motor-Company-assembly-plant-Trico-Plant-No.-2-Buffalo-New-York-20200624-Andre-Carrotflower-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001086-1671127200-1671134400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky's Sneaky Peeky DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 15\, 6–8 pm\nFree at 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\nRSVP here\nWe’re moving and we want to hear from you! Join us for our Annual Meeting and a sneak peek into our new home base at the Tri-Main Center (2495 Main Street\, Suite 310) . Hear from our Executive Director\, renew your membership (or become a new member!)\, and give us your feedback on how to utilize the new space. Wine\, beer\, and light fare will be provided. Be sure to RSVP at the link above! \nImage description: An illustration of young people making a movie together. Illustration by Tom Holt. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeakys-sneaky-peeky/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TomHolt-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001085-1668250800-1668351600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Virtual Reality intensive: Theory and Praxis with Deniz Tortum DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 12 and Sunday\, November 13\, 2022\n11 am – 3 pm\nLunch provided; ASL interpretation available\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\n \nIn this two-day intensive for intermediate media students\, filmmaker Deniz Tortum will introduce participants to a critical history and practice of virtual reality\, from the stereoscope from the 1850s to the Unity / Unreal based systems of today. Participants will leave the workshop with a sense of serious play of what it means and how to engage in VR and 3D image making. \nThis workshop is intended for artists and technologists who have an intermediate experience with digital tools and skills such as animation\, 3D modeling\, film editing\, among others. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend Tortum’s virtual reality showcase September 1955 that takes place on the evening of Friday\, November 11. Lunch will be provided and ASL interpretation is available by request; register by Wednesday\, November 9 to request ASL interpretation and indicate any dietary restrictions. \nBiography of the artist \nDeniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, SxSW\, IFFR\, IDFA\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Hot Docs\, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021\, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival. His latest feature film Phases of Matter (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He has worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative\, where his research focused on immersive media. In 2019\, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. \nThis event is presented in partnership with ASI and the Arts Council for Wyoming County\, and made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Special thank you to Çağrı Hakkı Zaman. \nImage: Documentation of an installation of Deniz Tortum\, September 1955 (2016). A person wearing virtual reality goggles in a sunny room. They are crouched and their hands are facing out as if they are gently pushing something. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/virtual-reality-intensive-theory-and-praxis-with-deniz-tortum/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Media Art Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Tortum-Documentation-September-1955.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001084-1668189600-1668283200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Deniz Tortum's September 1955 and Floodplain DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 11\, 6–8 pm and Saturday\, November 12\, 2022\, 3–5 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nReserve a viewing time here or show up!\nSqueaky Wheel invites you to a special event for you to experience two virtual reality experience by Deniz Tortum\, September 1955 and Floodplain. We are excited to welcome back Tortum\, who was a Workspace Resident researching virtual reality documentary practices in 2017\, in conjunction with his virtual reality intensive taking place that weekend.  Viewers can sign up at the link above to reserve a viewing time for September 1955. \n \nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). A wide image taken outdoors on a partially sunny day. A dirt road\, plastic chairs\, and some houses are visible. Someone is sitting on a chair\, their back turned against us. On the left\, a minaret is visible.\nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain\nVirtual reality on Oculus Rift\, 15 min\, 2018 \nA mysterious tree watches over a forest while humans traverse its paths\, planning construction zones and searching for a lost person. As civilization slowly unravels\, quiet new dynamics emerge. \nFloodplain is set against a man-made environmental crisis and explores our relationships to each other at the end of nature. If we can no longer be what we were\, can we really become something new? Can we be a forest\, or a stone; can we be a multitude of organisms; can we be nothing? Can we be something that we don’t know we can be yet? \n \nDeniz Tortum\, September 1955 (2016). A sun dappled room with a cabinet full of photography film. Two pictures are hanging on the wall; one of a person with a camera\, the other of a soccer team lined up. A coat and fedora hang in the corner by a comfortable chair.\nDeniz Tortum with Çağrı Hakkı Zaman & Nil Tuzcu\, September 1955\nVirtual Reality on Vive\, 8 min\, 2016 \nThe 8-minute virtual-reality documentary depicts the Istanbul Pogrom\, a government-initiated organized attack on the minorities of Istanbul that took place on September 6-7\, 1955. This interactive installation places the viewer in a reconstructed photography studio in the midst of the pogrom\, allowing one to witness the events from the perspective of a local shop-owner. \nDrawing on the photographic archive of Maryam Şahinyan (1911-1996) and Osep Minasoğlu (1929-2013)\, Armenian photographers who lived in Istanbul at the time\, the installation materializes an extinct space. The wall in the virtual studio that exhibits Sahinyan’s photos is transformed into a documentation of the raids and their aftermath in the physical space; by overlapping the layouts of the two spaces the project experiments with the transition from a virtual to physical experience. The experience of the space induced by participating in the mundane activities of the photography studio aims to generate unique historical narratives that are reproduced and enacted by the viewer. \nBiography of the artist \nDeniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, SxSW\, IFFR\, IDFA\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Hot Docs\, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021\, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival. His latest feature film Phases of Matter (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He has worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative\, where his research focused on immersive media. In 2019\, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. \nThis event is presented in partnership with ASI and the Arts Council for Wyoming County\, and made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Special thank you to Çağrı Hakkı Zaman. \nBanner image: Deniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). URL:https://squeaky.org/event/deniz-tortums-september-1955/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-11.46.12-AM.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221119T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000585-1667808000-1668877200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Test RSVP Event DESCRIPTION: URL:https://squeaky.org/event/test-rsvp-event/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001083-1665768600-1665774000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 19th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 14\, 2022\, 5:30 pm ET\nIn-person at the Burchfield Penney Art Center as part of M&T Second Fridays\nFree or suggested donation\nTo attend the in-person event\, just come to BPAC!\nFor the online screening\, register here\n \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present the annual 19th Animation Fest! The annual festival features some of the most exciting voices working in animation today\, from Western New York and beyond. \nThe eleven short films in the 19th Animation Fest feature animation techniques such as rotoscoping\, 3D animation\, stop-motion\, hand-drawn celluloid films\, music videos and documentary works. These unique and personal films address topics and concerns such as gender and sexuality\, women in the history of animation\, disability and belonging\, the perceptual possibilities of animation\, and much more. \nFeaturing films by Ahmad Saleh\, Anne-Marie Bouchard\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, James Leong Holston\, Kelly Gallagher\, LIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital)\, Lynn Kim\, Marisa Michaels and Sianna Le\, Poyen Wang\, Wenhua Shi\, and Youmee Lee. Curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh. \nAccess information: \nFor in-person viewers\, see accessibility information for BPAC here. The in-person screening will feature an ASL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. See individual film descriptions for caption and subtitle information in the “Program” section below. \nFor online viewers: See individual film descriptions for caption and subtitle information in the “Program” section below.The screening will be available to view for 24 hours\, and 72 hours for Squeaky members. Ahmad Saleh’s Night is not available for online viewers. \nPlease see the individual film descriptions for content notes. Some of these films may contain strong themes such as war\, trauma\, body dysmorphia\, flicker\, or images that may be unsuitable for young children. \n Program \nYoumee Lee\, Rite of Identity\n4:16 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA \nA 2D animation film about a deaf girl who has exceptional artistic talent but struggles with an overwhelming soundscape. Many deaf symbols and motifs are conveyed through her lens. The film is based on Youmee Lee’s personal experience as a deaf student in a mainstream school. \nWenhua Shi\, Because the Sky is Blue\n4 min\, sound\, 2021\, USA \nMuybridge captured the galloping horse one hundred forty years ago in a brief 12 frames. The duration of today’s social media video clips is similar to Muybridge’s brevity. Wenhua tries to reimagine what subject Muybridge would capture today. All source footage is from Wenhua’s social media feed. He used the cyanotype method to reprint the individual frames to create the final short videos. \nAnne-Marie Bouchard\, Bleue\n2:48 min\, sound\, 2021\, Canada\nContent notes: Flickering imagery \nAn improvised film around the color blue and a questioning. This gestural film is woven over my moods during the pandemic lock-down. Constraints: 100 feet of transparent film; work on the persistence of vision (drawings 1 image out of 2). Acrylic paint\, nail polish\, and inks are applied directly on 16mm film. Marie-Loup Cottinet improvised the music on her cello over the animation. \nJames Leong Holston\, Olive and Otis\n5:20 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Animated nudity\, body dysphoria\, brief animated images of surgery and blood \nA short animated horror film about dysphoria\, gender transition\, and the self. \nMarisa Michaels and Sianna Le\, You Are What You Eat\n1 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA \nA short\, gem-like and precise animated film by two students working collaboratively at Nichols School. Winner of the Squeaky Wheel award at the 2022 Nichols School Flickfest. \nHannah Hamalian\, The Golden Age\n9:58 min\, sound\, English with captions\, 2021\, USA \nAn experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream. \nPoyen Wang\, Recess\n4:16 min\, silent\, 2020\, USA \nRecess is a moving image work from The Black Sun series\, which is informed by the literature of Japanese author Motojiro Kajii. Melancholy atmosphere permeates throughout a series of dreamlike vignettes in Recess\, depicting a boy-man figure sitting alone in a timeless\, cave-like classroom. The wind blows the curtains; ceiling fans operate endlessly; clouds slowly pass through the blue sky; a group of butterflies subtly flap their wings on a bulletin board. Conversely\, the protagonist remains still while a ray of sun breaks the darkness of the room through the window\, almost like a rope\, illuminating the statue-like figure. Written in a confessional manner\, Kajii conflates fiction and autobiography\, reflecting on the banality and wonder of quotidian life through the vision of a dying person. Reinterpreting Kajii’s literature through my lived experience as a queer person and an immigrant from East Asia\, I create a series of portraits and still lifes to explore repressed emotions and foreground mortality and alienation as a universal human experience. \nKelly Gallagher\, In the Future\n3:30 min\, sound\, English with captions\, 2021\, USA \nKnowing that another world is possible\, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future. \nAhmed Saleh\, ليل (Night)\n16 min\, sound\, Arabic with English subtitles\, 2021\, Palestine/Germany\nContent notes: Non-violent depictions of war victims and parental trauma \nThe dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night must trick her into sleeping to save her soul.\nPlease note: This film will only be available in the in-person screening \nLynn Kim\, CONDUIT\n5:25 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Flickering imagery \nA running body powers the cycle between states of being. CONDUIT is a tribute to Korean musical rituals and the wonder of locomotion\, both spiritual and physical. \nLIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital)\, Dame Leche\n3:24 min\, sound\, English and Spanish partially subtitled\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Flickering imagery\, brief language \nLiz Ferrer and Bow Ty’s collaborative work spans film making\, photography\, video\, and performance art. Through a queer and comedic lens\, their work together has been building a reputation for critiquing American and Latin pop. Their most recent projects together are feminist reggaeton band Niña and new media collaborative LIZN’BOW. Niña is a feminist reggaeton duo and performative art project. They started this project to bring diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. Dame Leche was directed\, produced\, written\, edited\, and animated by Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty. This video is part one of our visual album Niñalandia. Niñalandia pushes social constructs by bringing diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. Dame Leche is set in a post climate change Miami where half of the city is underwater\, people ride jet skis to work and everyone has an addiction to leche. This project has been funded by Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award. \n \n Filmmaker biographies \nAhmad Saleh is a Palestinian/German writer and director. His first film\, HOUSE\, 2012 was nominated for the German Short Film Award and his second film\, AYNY\, 2016 won the Student Academy Award. Recently he finished his third short film\, NIGHT and is developing his first feature. \nAnne-Marie Bouchard lives and works in Québec City. She directed several experimental videos and installations. Her work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it. To sense\, to feel\, to be immersed\, and to question: her cinema is poetry.\n \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions. \nJames Leong Holston is a Los Angeles-based animator and filmmaker originally from Berkeley\, California. He studied Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts and graduated in 2022. \nKelly Gallagher is a filmmaker\, animator\, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. Her creative work is rooted in themes of resistance\, struggle\, political histories\, and personal explorations. Her award-winning films and commissioned animations have screened internationally at venues including: the Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, the Smithsonian Institution\, and Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent animations have also screened on Netflix and PBS. She’s presented solo programs of her work at institutions including: SFMOMA\, Close-Up Cinema London\, SF Cinematheque\, and Wexner Center for the Arts. \nLiz and Bow‘s work has been featured at Mana Contemporary\, Squeaky Wheel\, Borscht Film Festival\, ICA Miami\, The Bass Museum\, The Satellite Show Art Fair Art Basel\, Albright-Knox Art Gallery\,  The Koubek Center\, Cunsthaus\, MOCA Miami\, Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo\, and Albright Knox Center. They are recipients of the Knights Art Challenge award from the Knight Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Grant\, Locust Projects WaveMaker\, Oolite Arts Ellies Award\, Knight Sundance Short Film Miami Intensive Fellows\, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency\, Elsewhere Southern Constellations Fellowship\, Caldera Arts Residency\, Squeaky Wheel Residency\, Borscht Film Festival Grant\, En Residencia Fellowship\, Tempus Projects Residency Fellowship\, Acre Residency\, and La Sierra de Santa Marta Residency. \nLynn Kim is a Korean American filmmaker and educator who uses live-action and animation techniques to create short films that explore the social conditions and realities of the human body. She is particularly interested in how questions around gender\, race\, health and sexuality can be explored through metaphorical and abstract means\, and her work is often centered in her own body and lived experiences. \nPoyen Wang was born in Taiwan and is currently based in New York City. His recent practice employs world building through 3D computer graphics to create narratives that grapple with issues of identity\, sexuality and masculinity. He has solo exhibitions at Taipei Digital Art Center (2020)\, 18th Street Arts Center (Los Angeles\, 2018)\, Flux Factory (New York\, 2018)\, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2016). \nWenhua Shi pursues a poetic approach to moving image making\, and investigates conceptual depth in film\, video\, interactive installations and sound sculptures. His work has been presented at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals. He is the founder and one of curators of RPM Fest. \nBased in upstate New York\, Youmee Lee is a deaf Korean American animator who weaves narrative illustrations into her art. She currently teaches courses on deaf art and cinema after earning her M.F.A. in Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology. Growing up with limited access to the aural world\, she delved entirely into the visual world and studied art in New York City\, Amsterdam\, and Seoul. As a first-generation American raised by an immigrant family\, her work is a colorful tapestry of her intersectionality. She strives to deconstruct the stigma towards people with disabilities. Youmee continues to explore storytelling with different materials\, embodying the nuances of sign language and physical movements. Her goal is to create visually poetic work that is accessible to a wide audience. \nAbout our Partner Sponsor \nAnimators belong at Villa. Look around: Animation is everywhere—movies and TV\, advertising\, video games. Future animators are curious\, creative\, and embrace technology in meaningful ways. But most importantly—they’re storytellers. They have rich imaginations and take inspiration from other disciplines like photography\, music\, and film. At Villa\, you’ll channel what you discover to create characters and environments that capture the interests of a range of audiences. Click here for more information. \nImage: Lynn Kim\, CONDUIT (2022). A traced image of a person moving over a black backdrop. An abstract white shadow falls on the floor. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-19th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Lynn-Kin-Conduit.jpg GEO:42.932726;-78.8783211 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave Buffalo 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1300 Elmwood Ave:geo:-78.8783211,42.932726 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001082-1664020800-1664053200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's Excellent Adventure! DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 24\, 2022\nTeam check-in: starts at 11 AM\nGameplay: 12–4 PM\nParty: 6–9 PM\nSliding scale: $10-25 per person.\nLocation: Anywhere! With optional opening and closing events at Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\nClick here for tickets\nClick here for the event guide+ team placards \n* Event guide available on September 24\, 2022\, at 12 pm ET \n  \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is on!  \nBring your creativity and a team of up to 4 of your friends and family. Compete to win prizes by posting photos and videos to Instagram to solve clues. \n\n\n11:00 am-12 pm – Check in at Five Points Bakery\, grab a team photo\, and register before the clues drop! \n\n\n12:00 pm – Clues released and the Excellent Adventure Begins! \n\n\n4:00 pm-Finish Line. The Excellent Adventure ENDS! No late photo posts will be accepted. \n\n\n6:00 pm-Party! –  and winners are announced \n\n\nHailed by Buffalo Spree magazine as the “Best New Fundraiser”\, the Excellent Adventure is “a brilliant mashup of scavenger hunt and selfie culture…truly family-friendly\, educational\, and\, most of all\, super fun.” \nGet to know the place you live\, share your creativity\, have fun with your friends\, and win prizes.\nHere is the deal: \n\n\nTeams have four hours \n\n\n50 clues in 5 categories \n\n\nBonus points awarded for creativity and effort \n\n\nClues completed by posting photos and videos to instagram with hashtag #squeakyadventure \n\n\nThe Excellent Adventure promises to bring out the artist\, tour guide\, historian\, and/or goofball in all of us! Players can take part  in their own backyard or on the other side of the world. All you need is an internet connection\, a smart phone\, and a few hours for fun. \nAnd did we mention there is an After Party!? \nIf you are local\, celebrate a day of adventuring through Buffalo at Five Points Bakery with music from ABCDJ. There will be food and drinks available for purchase\, and all proceeds benefit Squeaky Wheel\, an excellent excuse to get out and enjoy the last Saturday of September. \nDon’t want to quest for clues – why not come and party anyway!  We have a special party-only ticket available (only $10)\, so you can still support Squeaky Wheel\, check out the work of the Excellent Adventure teams and celebrate the winners at the Five Points After Party\, 6-9 pm. \n“The Squeaky Wheel Excellent Adventure was a great opportunity to get outdoors\, be creative\, and see lots of Buffalo sights that I don’t often take the time to notice. My friends and I had a lovely afternoon of competitive fun and learned some new ways to use digital media!” \n—Sarah Wooton\, 2020 participant\, Team Inspector Catjets \nA panel of Excellent Adventure judges made up of media professionals and community members will review submissions\, assigning points for the completion of each clue\, and assigning bonus points for creativity or effort. At exactly 4 pm\, gameplay ends. No late submissions! At 6 pm we’ll gather at Five Points Bakery for the after-party where posts will be shared on screens and prizes will be awarded. DJ? Check. Dancing? Check. Fun? Absolutely! \nWhat does my ticket support? \nSqueaky Wheel’s mission is to continue a legacy of innovation in media arts through access\, education\, and exhibition. We envision a community that uses digital media and film to celebrate freedom of expression and diversity of voice. Buying a ticket to this fundraising event supports the amazing work that Squeaky Wheel does to bring Media Arts Education to youth\, schools\, seniors\, artists\, and communities throughout and beyond Western New York. \n  \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is made possible through the generous support of Five Points Bakery\, Allen Street Consulting\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo Spree\, Buffalo State College Dept. of Communication\, Catholic Health\, Delaware Camera\, FGI Landscaping\, Lumpy Buttons\, PUSH Buffalo\, Rigidized Metals\, UB Media Study. \nBanner photo: A collage of posts from previous Excellent Adventures responding to prompts such as (left to right\, top to bottom): Favorite Public Artwork\, Favorite Mural\, Hottest Wings\, Photo Finish Team Photo\, Team Headstand\, Make a New Friend\, Five Fall Colors\, Twisted Tongues\, Stupid Human Trick. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-excellent-adventure-3/ LOCATION:Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14213\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-09-16-at-3.38.47-PM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220826T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10000864-1661540400-1661547600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Jenson Leonard's Workflow DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 26\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get tickets\nOnline and in-person at Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203). For in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. The online video will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a screening of Jenson Leonard’s newest short video Workflow. Presented as the closing event of the artists exhibition GLAND PRIX\, Leonard will be joined by his Summer 2020 co-resident Johann Diedrick for a conversation on the film after the screening. \nLearn more about GLAND PRIX here. \n“Drawing from Aria Dean’s essay ‘Notes on Blaccelleration’\, Workflow is a film centered around the velocity and momentum of blackness as it relates to the philosophical concept of acceleration-the idea that the only way out of capitalism is through its intensification. Workflow is primarily concerned with the interplay of blackness and aesthetic vocabularies of finance capital\, how the black (non)subject grapples with its commodified status within the labor market despite\, or resultant of its own history as a commodity via chattel slavery\, threading linkages between the primitive accumulation of the New World and speculative accumulation of latter day. Workflow is defined as “the sequence of industrial\, administrative\, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion”\, my film seeks to disabuse notions of completion wherein blackness is\, as Dean notes\, ‘always already accelerationist’ via its incongruence with western humanism\, and thus always already disengaged from the locomotive fetish of capital. The film presents a quarterly earnings report for a fictitious financial advisory firm that depicts a floating phantasmagoric Michael Jackson Halloween mask espousing a surrealist poem/public relations speech that points to the shared grammars inherent in afro pessimism and speculative finance. Behind the floating head\, stock footage premised around the shape of ‘the grid’ and the promise of sustainability & renewability highlight the inherent relationship of infrastructure\, visual knowledge production\, and statecraft.” – Jenson Leonard \nBiographies of the artists \nJenson Leonard\, (artist) b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nJohann Diedrick (guest speaker for Screening: Jenson Leonard’s Workflow\, taking place on August 25\, 2022) is an award-winning artist\, engineer\, and musician that makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for experiencing the world through sonic encounter. He surfaces resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for revealing new sonic possibilities off the grid. He is the Director of Engineering at Somewhere Good\, a 2022 Future Imagination Collaboratory Fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU\, a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a 2020 Pioneer Works Technology resident\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented internationally at MoMA PS1\, the New Museum\, Ars Electronica\, Science Gallery Dublin\, Somerset House\, and multiple NIME conferences\, among others. \nImage description: An image from Workflow\, courtesy of Jenson Leonard. A floating\, plastic\, seemingly smiling mask of Michael Jackson with no eyeballs is super-imposed on a distorted landscape of futuristic blue skyscrapers. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jenson-leonards-workflow/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/wfscreencap2-min.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220823T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220823T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191450Z UID:10000867-1661277600-1661284800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:(Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory with Muse Dodd DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 23\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nInstructor: Muse Dodd \nHow can we tap into ancestral ways of re-memory? (Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory will explore Black people’s relationship to memory and time focusing on alternative ways of knowing and the questions; How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? \nIn this workshop intended for Black and brown people of African descent\, ages 16 and up\, Workspace Resident Muse Dodd will guide participants in dissecting the components of memory through meditative exercises\, collage\, sound\, and smell. There will also be a screening of (Re)mnants\, the short film by Muse Dodd\, and a sound bath meditation. Participants will leave with new perspectives on memory making\, a collaborative collage and some journal prompts. Free notebooks and pens will be provided. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructor \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage: Muse Dodd\, Kendi (2018). A young Black child rests their head\, eyes closed on their bike in a field of overgrown grass. The American flag is propped against a rust colored storage unit and blows gently in the wind. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/remnants-the-anatomy-of-memory-with-muse-dodd/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/DoddM_Kendi.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10000863-1660935600-1660942800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Muse Dodd and Rob Cosgrove DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 19\, 2022\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nFor in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2022 artist residents\, Muse Dodd (Atlanta\, GA) and Rob Cosgrove (Sunnyside\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Muse Dodd will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to build models and sets for their installation and performance work Black in Both Directions that supposes that Black people invented time travel. Their project will utilize projection mapping\, draw on Afro-diasporic notions of time using oral testimonies\, and images created by the artist and archival video footage. Rob Cosgrove will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on Floaters\, a networked sonic performance in Silo City Marine A\, performed live for the public at the end of his residency. Inspired by the floating grain elevators used in the First Ward of Buffalo\, and drawing on the artist’s own family history in the area\, Cosgrove’s work contemplates the shifting networked relationship between the industrial and social communities in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Two photographs side by side. On the left is Muse Dodd\, a brown skinned\, Black\, non-binary person with blonde eyebrows\, wears a red camo durag while gazing at the camera and stands in front of a mustard backdrop. Their photograph is by Landon Spears. On the right is a photograph of Rob Cosgrove\, looking down surrounded by trees. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-muse-dodd-and-rob-cosgrove/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Muse-and-Dodd.jpeg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10000866-1660759200-1660766400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance with Rob Cosgrove DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 17\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nInstructor: Rob Cosgrove \nRob Cosgrove will lead Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance\, a workshop on how to utilize the internet and other networks for sound production. Intended for participants both new and with intermediate experience in broadcasting online\, the workshop will prepare participants for high-fidelity sound-based networked performance and live-streaming over the web using free\, open-source softwares. \nUp until recently\, tools for networked performance could be expensive\, difficult to use\, and limited to institutions with access to high-speed internet. With the rise of residential internet speeds\, the development of more user-friendly networking applications\, and increased public access to technology\, networked performance has become available for many. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructor \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is a residency open to artists and researchers working in art and technology\, and provides support for new or ongoing projects in collaboration with our partners. Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. \nImage: Rob Cosgrove\, Broadcast presence (2021). Two silhouettes of drummers illuminated in windows of a building at night. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sonic-links-an-introduction-to-networked-performance-with-rob-cosgrove/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/RobCosgrove_Broadcastpresence.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001077-1655294400-1655298000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:In conversation: Jenson Leonard and American Artist DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 15\, 12 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nAccess information: ASL interpretation and automated captions provided\nJenson Leonard is joined by American Artist for a virtual conversation on the occasion of Leonard’s exhibition GLAND PRIX. GLAND PRIX is a multiple-screen video exhibition to explore the stressors and somatic effects that racial capitalism and white supremacy have on Black life. Learn more about the exhibition here. \nThe live artist talk will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nThis event was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nAbout the artists \nJenson Leonard\, b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nAMERICAN ARTIST makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology\, race\, and knowledge production\, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture\, software\, and video. Artist is a 2022 Creative Capital and United States Artists grantee\, and a recipient of the 2021 LACMA Art & Tech Lab Grant. They are a resident at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and a former resident of Red Bull Arts\, Abrons Art Center\, Recess\, EYEBEAM\, Pioneer Works\, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel\, Switzerland; and Nam June Paik Center\, Seoul. They have had solo museum exhibitions at The Queens Museum\, New York and The Museum of African Diaspora\, California. Their work has been featured in the New York Times\, Artforum\, and Huffington Post. Artist is a lecturer at Parsons\, NYU\, UCLA and a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation. \nBanner image courtesy of Jenson Leonard. A digital image with two giant wheels\, a logo stating “GLAND PRIX: The Bio Labor Simulator” over a field of flames. On the left of the image is a portrait photograph of Jenson Leonard\, a portrait of a brown skinned person smiling while wearing glasses and a yellow sad face emoji hat. On the right is a portrait photograph of American Artist\, a brown-skinned person wearing a white hoodie\, blue puffer jacket on a red curtain backdrop. On the bottom is the text “In conversation: Jenson Leonard & American Artist”. American Artists photograph by Myles Loftin. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-jenson-leonard-and-american-artist/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220527 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220830 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001076-1653609600-1661817599@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Jenson Leonard: GLAND PRIX DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, May 27\, 2022 at Squeaky Wheel\nOn view through August 29\, 2022\, Tuesday and Wednesdays\, 12–5pm and by appointment.\nClick here to download the GLAND PRIX Strategy Guide (V. 3.00)\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a new solo exhibition by new media artist Jenson Leonard. GLAND PRIX is a multiple-screen video exhibition to explore the stressors and somatic effects that racial capitalism and white supremacy have on Black life. \nFeaturing a drum and bass soundtrack\, the newest work by the Philadelphia based new media artist and poet functions as a manifestation and reflection of the embodied effects of settler-colonial violence. The work is emblematic of Leonard’s singular\, joyous\, and concentrated work: Using the visual tactics and language of viral internet memes\, and wrapped within racing iconography\, GLAND PRIX considers and draws from pop culture\, medical racism/medical apartheid\, the video game Gran Turismo\, Achille Mbembe’s notion of necropolitics\, anime aesthetics\, and much more to raise awareness\, invite conversation\, and reflect upon the cumulative\, cellular burden of chronic stress and traumatic life events. \nThe opening of the exhibition will feature remarks with the artist in person. A “Strategy Guide” for the exhibition provides a walkthrough of the exhibition with visual and audio descriptions\, explanations of Leonard’s key references\, and a newly commissioned essay by Cameron A. Granger. \nThe exhibition is on view Tuesdays and Wednesdays\, 12–5 pm and by appointment. To make an appointment\, email ekrem@squeaky.org. \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nPublic programs \nPOSTPONED – Tuesday\, May 24\, 6–8:30 pm : Workshop | Meme workshop with Jenson Leonard (in-person and virtual). \nFriday\, May 27\, 7 pm: Opening | GLAND PRIX  with Jenson Leonard (in-person) \nWednesday\, June 15\, 12 pm ET: Artist talk | Jenson Leonard and American Artist in conversation. Virtual – Click here to register. \nFriday\, August 26: Screening | Jenson Leonard’s Workflow\, followed by a conversation with Jenson Leonard and Johann Diedrick (in person and virtual). Click here to register. \nAbout the artist\nJenson Leonard\, b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nAbout the writer\nCameron A. Granger came up in Cleveland\, Ohio alongside his mother\, Sandra\, inheriting both her love of soul music\, and habit of apologizing too much. A video artist\, he uses his work as both a site for memory making\, and as means to strategize new ways of remembrance in our age of mass media. His recent projects include “The Get Free Telethon” a 24 hour livestream community fundraiser sponsored by Red Bull Arts\, “Pearl” a body of collaborative works with his mother at Ctrl+Shft in Oakland\, and “A library\, for you” a traveling community library most recently housed at ikattha project space in Bombay\, India. He’s a 2017 alumni of the Skowhegan School for Paint & Sculpture and a current artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. \nBanner image courtesy of the artist. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jenson-leonard-gland-prix/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-28-at-3.38.05-PM.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001075-1651604400-1651611600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Crystal Z Campbell and Allan Jamieson DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 3\, 7 pm\nat Journeys End Refugee Services theater (5th floor of Tri-Main Building\, 2495 Main St #530\, Buffalo\, NY 14214)\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nAccess information: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination through a Vaccination card or NY Excelsior Pass will be required for entry. Masks will be required for the duration of the event. \nFeaturing three short films of legends that flow from Niagara Falls to Sweden\, Squeaky Wheel and Buffalo Arts Studio present an evening with filmmakers Crystal Z Campbell and Allan Jamieson. The three films bring to fore questions on how we imagine and relate to lands we inhabit\, from the settler-colonial mindset critiqued in Jamieson’s 1996 documentary Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist\, to the fugitivity of migrants in contemporary Sweden in Campbell’s VIEWFINDER. The hour long program will be followed by a Q&A with Campbell and Jamieson on their work and the shared themes between their films. \nThe program is presented as part of Crystal Z Campbell\, VIEWFINDER\, an immersive film installation at Buffalo Arts Studio that takes cues from Swedish folktales\, gestures\, and movements to explore belonging\, allyship\, and living monuments. If our bodies are archives\, what is the currency of place\, of movement\, of memory? \nProgram \nCrystal Z Campbell\, A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse\, 8:12 min\, 2016-2020 \nA Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse is a poetic glimpse of how centuries of extraction\, racism\, pollution\, and commoditizing nature has altered our relationship to sacred land and resources. How has nature been historically shaped and imaged for pleasure\, status\, and control by many hands of invisible labor? Constellated and intersectional histories and source material include testimony from a Water Protector at Standing Rock protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline\, contaminated water in Flint Michigan\, original footage of Hierve el Agua near Oaxaca\, Mexico revered for its healing properties\, archival images of gardens and hands of artists who resided in Tulsa\, Oklahoma and children brushing their teeth––a reflection of the innocuous ways which contaminated water and resources shapes the lives of individuals completing banal\, daily\, routine tasks. \nCritical to the film is the intentional use of unlicensed footage\, bearing a brand across the center that detracts from what’s happening in the actual footage\, and becomes a viewfinder for how that footage is read or deemed important enough to view because there is a branded stamp of approval. Historically\, the watermark is used to connote ownership and authenticity. The film is a consideration of how documentary practice can be another form of resource extraction\, of which this filmmaker is implicated. Licensing fees are an example of the barriers to access\, ultimately deciding who will control critical narratives of environmental racism and discourse. Originally commissioned by Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center\, the work was made in 2017 and reedited in 2020. – Crystal Z Campbell \nAllan Jamieson\, Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist\, 26 min\, 1996\n“This is a Seneca teaching story\, whose true meaning is one of sharing. The sharing of information with each other. The sharing of letting each other know when something is wrong.” – Allan Jamieson \nCharting both a moment in Western New York’s Native American activism and a rare document of a Seneca chief and elder\, Allan Jamieson’s 1996 film Thunderbeings and the Maid of the Mist takes on a racist educational video and retelling of the Haudenosaunee legend of the Maid of the Mist by the Maid of the Mist corporation\, which operates the famous Niagara Falls boat tours. Jamieson’s documentary showcases segments of the Maid of the Mist corporation’s video\, showcasing how it is informed by Western and colonial viewpoints\, followed by interviews with tourists on their thoughts on the legend. The film is especially notable for featuring an extended interview with the late Seneca Chief and elder Corbett Sundown\, who tells the original story of the Maid of the Mist as it was told to him by his grandparents\, and passed away after filming was completed. \nThe film was part of extended efforts by our region’s Native American communities to pressure the Maid of the Mist Corporation to change its false gallery exhibit and video. Initially resistant\, the Maid of the Mist Corporation eventually did so. \nThe documentary received support from the New York State Council of the Arts\, and was edited in Squeaky Wheel’s post-production studio in 1996. The film is presented here in a digital transfer from a 3/4 tape\, broadcast as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Axlegrease television show in 1997. Learn more about Axlegrease here. – Ekrem Serdar \nCrystal Z Campbell\, VIEWFINDER\, 18:26 min\, 2020 \nFilmed entirely in Swedish spa town\, VIEWFINDER takes cues from political gestures\, and decisive movements to explore belonging\, allyship\, and monuments. – Crystal Z Campbell \nBiographies of the artists \nAllan Jamieson is a Faithkeeper from the wolf clan of the Cayuga people\, one of the Six Nations. Coordinator of Neto\, a Native American managed non-profit organization. He brings a wealth of knowledge and research in his presentations. One of the founding members of Neto\, he is responsible for the overall management of the organization including meeting the goals\, coordinating activities and managing the budget. His experience includes extensive research on the WNY geographic area and oral history related to the WNY. Currently he is responsible for coordinating art exhibits and projects sponsored by Neto… and these activities include scheduling artist workshops\, hiring artists and curators\, scheduling exhibits and providing publicity for all events. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and a Master of Arts from the University of Buffalo\, 1987. While a graduate student he developed and taught the currently offered course in Native American literature. In addition to his interest in art he recently completed training as a Alternative Dispute Resolution facilitator to work with families in crises. He has been an active member of the Native community in the Western New York region which includes the Buffalo and Niagara Falls areas for the past 20 years assisting area art institutions with Native American programming. \nCrystal Z Campbell (they/them) is currently a 2021–22 UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar\, multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipinx\, and Chinese descents. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts\, Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Their archive-driven work in film/video\, performance\, installation\, sound\, painting\, and text\, has been exhibited at The Drawing Center\, Nest\, ICA-Philadelphia\, Bemis\, Studio Museum of Harlem\, SculptureCenter\, and SFMOMA\, and a forthcoming monographic screening at MOMA. Honors and awards include the Pollock-Krasner Award\, MAP Fund\, MacDowell\, Skowhegan\, Rijksakademie\, Whitney ISP\, Franklin Furnace\, Tulsa Artist Fellowship\, UNDO Fellowship\, and Flaherty Film Seminar. Campbell’s writing has been featured in World Literature Today\, Monday Journal\, GARAGE\, and Hyperallergic. Campbell\, a former Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David & Roberta Logie Fellow\, was recently named a Creative Capital Awardee\, and is founder of the virtual programming platform archiveacts.com. \nThis program is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts and presented in collaboration with Buffalo Arts Studio. Special thank you to Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nImage: Crystal Z Campbell\, A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse\, 8:12 min\, 2016-2020 URL:https://squeaky.org/event/crystal-z-campbell-and-allan-jamieson/ LOCATION:Journey’s End Refugee Services\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite #530\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-4.05.04-PM-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220402T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220625T140000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10001060-1648897200-1656165600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:DATA 3D Animation DESCRIPTION:Spring 2022 \nSound with Zain Alam: March 15 & 17\, 4–6 pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel\, 617 Main St\, Buffalo\, NY 14203\nFree \nOur spring session starts off with a special sound-based workshop with Workspace Resident\, Zain Alam. Through sampling\, remix\, and synthesis techniques students will create collages using sounds\, photos\, and videos. The workshop aims to empower youth not only to look at their favorite media as a model for their own collages but also to question what it means to “borrow” ethically from others.   \n  \n3D Animation 1: April 2–May 7 (No class April 16)\n3D Animation 2: May 14–June 25 (No class May 21 and 28)\nSaturdays 11 am–2 pm\n@ Villa Maria College\, 240 Pine Ridge Rd\, Buffalo\, NY 14225\nFree\nLead Teaching Artist: Nyles Moore\nTeaching Assistant: Naomi Frisch\nStudent Mentor: Ryan Johnson \nAre you interested in stepping into the exciting world of 3D animation? These workshops will introduce animation practices\, animating/understanding rigs\, lighting\, camera work\, rendering\, and texturing. Through a series of projects\, students will learn to create and develop their 3D animations with the professional 3D software\, Maya. \nCan’t do both workshops? No problem! These workshops are designed so participants in both sessions will increase their knowledge while new students can join without previous animation experience. \nDigital Arts and Technology Access Program (DATA) is a media arts and technology program designed for neurodivergent individuals ages 13-26. Learn more about DATA. \n  \nRegister here\n\nImage: 3D Animation still courtesy of Nyles Moore \n  \nHow are we preventing the spread of COVID-19? \n\nSqueaky Staff and instructors are fully vaccinated \nPrior to and after class equipment will be properly cleaned with 70% Isopropyl alcohol\nStations will be placed with a minimum of three feet distance from each other\nParticipants and instructors will be required to wear a mask covering both their mouth and nose\nWe’re following CDC and NYS guidelines for capacity\n\n  \n\nIn partnership with: \n \n \n  \n \n  URL:https://squeaky.org/event/data_3danimation/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Youth Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_9203-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220315T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220315T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10001058-1647367200-1647374400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Intro to Machine Learning with Carlos Castellanos DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 15\, 6 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nAccess information: This event will take place in person at Squeaky Wheel. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination through NY State Excelsior Pass or a Vaccination card required. Participants must be masked through the duration of the workshop. ASL interpretation can be requested in check-out\, and Squeaky Wheel will make every effort to secure one\, and contact you if one is available. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops\, but can also request one of Squeaky Wheel’s laptops\, first-come\, first-serve. \nIn this introductory workshop\, artist Carlos Castellanos will introduce participants to the basics of machine learning and how it can be applied in arts\, design and other creative contexts. The goal of the workshop will be to introduce the basics of the machine learning pipeline using free/open-source\, artist-friendly tools such as Wekinator and RunwayML. Participants will focus on building a simple machine learning application that translates human motion or gesture into sound but the workshop will also include discussions about other strategies for use and a brief demonstration of Beauty. \nNo coding experience is required. This workshop is of interest to artists\, musicians\, and hackers\, especially those with an interest and/or background in electronic media. \nClick here to download Wekinator ahead of the workshop. Click here to download RunwayML ahead of the workshop. \nBio \nCarlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher with a wide array of interests such as cybernetics\, ecology\, embodiment\, phenomenology\, artificial intelligence and transdisciplinary collaboration. His work bridges science\, technology\, education and the arts\, developing a network of creative interaction with living systems\, the natural environment and emerging technologies. His artworks have been exhibited at local\, national and international events such as the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA)\, SIGGRAPH & ZERO1 San Jose. Castellanos is Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Games & Media (IGM)\, Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)\, Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, San Jose State University. \nImage: Carlos Castellanos in collaboration with Bello Bello\, PLANTCONNECT\, 2019-ongoing URL:https://squeaky.org/event/intro-to-machine-learning-with-carlos-castellanos/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Carlos-Castellanos.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220215 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10001053-1644364800-1644883199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:[ E N | C L O S I N G ] DESCRIPTION:February 9–14\, 2022\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\n“[i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me] is an unflinching reckoning with the irreparable: Can we truly “let go” in the wake of a rupture? How does one recover from loss\, and its accumulation\, other than by inhabiting it? What does it take to give oneself over to grief? With these questions in mind\, I understand the three screens\, as well as the bubbles and text that they contain\, as a set of layers\, each one necessarily encrypting the next.” – Camille Bacon \nA five day series of emails featuring writing and media\, [ E N | C L O S I N G ] features responses by artists to SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY’s exhibition and web project i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me. \nCurated by the artist and Camille Bacon\, audiences can sign up to receive one email per day starting February 9th and through February 14th\, featuring a different artist speaking to both the themes of the exhibition\, and to Camille Bacon’s writing on HOLLOWAY’s work. Artists include Cy X\, Natalie Jasmine Harris\, and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal. The final day will feature a jointly written letter by Bacon and HOLLOWAY. \nBy signing up\, you consent to receive one email per day between February 9 through February 14 to the email address you sign up with. Please check your spam folder if you do not see the email in your inbox. Emails will be sent out near midnight. Sign up by 8 pm ET on February 9 to receive the emails on a daily schedule between February 9 and 14. Audience members who sign up after February 9 will receive the emails the following week\, between February 16 – 21. \nYou can view and learn more about SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY’s exhibition here. \nBiographies \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nCY X (they/we) is a black queer non-binary storyteller and cyber witch merging sound\, video art\, installation\, and performance. Their practice is grounded in the art of synthesis: truth generation and sound generation which is used to create portals that may aid us in exploring black queer futures and abolitionist possibilities. Fusing art and technology with the practice of witchcraft\, they use spells\, rituals\, and alchemic practices as modes of activation. Cy earned a BA in Film and Media Studies from Colorado College and a Masters Degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. \nNatalie Jasmine Harris is a Black queer filmmaker from Maryland currently based in New York City. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in May 2020. Her work spans narrative\, documentary\, and experimental forms but is centered around a mission to tell stories that capture coming-of-age experiences\, showcase Black joy\, and reimagine liberation for marginalized communities. Natalie’s most recent short film “Pure” received The 2020 Directors Guild of America’s Student Film Award and completed a film festival run that included over 40 festival screenings worldwide. The film received commendations from several film festivals that include ABFF\, Outfest\, The British Film Institute\, The Pan African Film Festival\, and many more. After placing as a Finalist in The 2021 American Black Film Festival’s HBO Short Competition\, “Pure” was acquired by HBO and is now streaming on HBOMax. Natalie is currently adapting the concept behind “Pure” into a feature-length film of the same name that has received support from SFFILM\, The Gotham (formerly known as IFP)\, and The Outfest Screenwriting Lab. \nzakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal makes work to further understand how the specificity of her own lived experiences are connected to historical and contemporary movements that involve embodied knowledge production. She explores this through social portraiture\, video assemblage\, collage\, drawing\, and found images. She seeks to reinforce a different kind of gaze (and gazing) which she processes through empathy\, desire\, love\, queer identity\, family\, intimacy\, illegibility\, and poetics. Within her projects there’s an overlying theme of trying to make sense of what and who she belongs to.\nUltimately\, she intends for her work to encourage ways of being and feeling beyond the systems we inhabit. zakkiyyah has been included in numerous group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions at Mana Contemporary\, Blanc Gallery\, Indiana University\, and South Bend Museum of Art.\nHer work has been presented in various forms at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, NADA\, The Art Institute of Chicago\, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center\, Chicago Humanities Festival\, DePaul University\, and Harvard Graduate School of Design to name a few. She has also curated exhibitions at spaces such as Chicago Art Department\, Blanc gallery and Washington Park Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago. She was recently an Artist in Residence at Arts and Public Life at University of Chicago and an Artist in Residence at Indiana University in Bloomington\, IN. zakkiyyah is a Co-founder of CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers): a collective of Black artists\, thinkers\, and curators that prioritize shared experiences and concerns by lens based artists of the Black diaspora. \nThis program was funded in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: A GIF from a screen capture on January 24\, 2022  at 5 pm ET of SHAWNE MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY\, https://iwouldvesaidgoodbyeif.ithoughtyouloved.me \, 2021 URL:https://squeaky.org/event/e-n-c-l-o-s-i-n-g/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Online Project,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SHAWNE-GIF.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10000850-1638468000-1638475200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Cinema of Breath: Poetics of Migrancy DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 2\, 2021\, 6 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nRegister here\nDoes cinema breathe? Can we understand migration through cinematic poetry?  \nCurated by Kalpana Subramanian\, Cinema of Breath: Poetics of Migrancy brings together a series of cinematic experiments that range across registers of the personal\, collective\, scientific\, and archival. Together\, these short films explore ideas of home and mobility\, exile and displacement\, and memories of place. \nThe program showcases films by Alexandra Cuesta\, Crystal Z Campbell\, Erin Espelie\, Gariné Torossian\, MTL Collective\, Sky Hopinka\, Sonali Gulati\, Suneil Sanzgiri\, and Kalpana Subramanian. It will be followed by a discussion with the curator and guest filmmakers. \nCinema of Breath is based on Subramanian’s doctoral research in Media Study at the University at Buffalo. Her research into experimental film draws from breath practices in Yoga and Buddhist philosophy. Through this lens\, “breath” can be thought of as the creational force of cinema that brings it to “life.” \nClick here to download the program notes and learn more about the individual films and filmmakers. \nThe event will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nThis event is presented by the New York Immigration Coalition with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. \nThe New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York. The NYIC not only establishes a forum for immigrant groups to voice their concerns\, but also provides a platform for collective action to drive positive social change. Since its founding in 1987\, the NYIC has evolved into a powerful voice of advocacy by spearheading innovative policies\, promoting and protecting the rights of immigrant communities\, improving newcomer access to services\, developing leadership and capacity\, expanding civic participation\, and mobilizing member groups to respond to the fluctuating needs of immigrant communities. See more at nyic.org \nBanner image: Detail of Erin Espelie\, A Free Inquiry Into Air: 110721\, 2021 URL:https://squeaky.org/event/cinema-of-breath-poetics-of-migrancy/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ErinEspelie.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10000848-1637262000-1637353800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:helloiamandra8: Alison Nguyen in conversation with Sophie Cavoulacos DESCRIPTION:*New date* Thursday\, November 18\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nAccess information: ASL interpretation and automated captions provided\nAn evening of conversation on labor\, AI\, performance\, among other topics\, this artist talk by Alison Nguyen with curator Sophie Cavoulacos looks at the history\, underpinnings\, and the digital and physical work surrounding her multifaceted project Andra8. \nAndra8 takes its name after a computer-generated woman based on the artist’s physicality. From the apartment where she has been ‘placed’ Andra8 works as a digital laborer\, surviving off the data from her various ‘freemium’ jobs as a virtual assistant\, a data janitor\, a life coach\, an aspiring influencer\, and content creator. Something begins to trouble Andra8: her life depends on her compulsory consumption and output of human data – or so she’s been told. Andra8 explores the implications of such an existence\, and what arises when one attempts to subvert them. First exhibited in 2020\, the project spans video\, installation\, sculpture\, and interactive online performances. \nAudiences who register will have access to the full performances and short film that Nguyen has created as part of the project. The live artist talk will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event. Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nAbout the artist \nAlison Nguyen is a New York-based artist whose work spans video\, installation\, performance\, and new media. Her screenings include: e-flux\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, International Film Festival Oberhausen\, CPH:DOX\, Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Crossroads presented by SF MoMA/SF Cinemateque\, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art\, True/False Film Festival\, Open City Documentary Festival\, and Microscope Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, AC Gallery Beijing\, The Dowse Art Museum\, Hartnett Gallery\, La Kaje\, and The University of Oklahoma\, Contemporary Art and Digital Fair\, Miami\, among others.  \nNguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, Signal Culture\, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been awarded grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, NYSCA\, and The New York Community Trust. In 2018 Alison Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” In 2021 she was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Video/Film.  \nAlison Nguyen has been a Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic at numerous institutions and organizations including Cooper Union\, The New School\, Rhode Island School of Design\, The School of Visual Arts\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, and Squeaky Wheel. Nguyen graduated from Brown Univerisity with a B.A. in Literary Arts. She currently lives and works in Harlem where she is a MFA candidate in Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. \nSophie Cavoulacos is an Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art where she organizes moving image projects across the museum’s cinemas and galleries. Recent exhibitions include the expanded cinema installation Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Cinematic Illumination (2020) and Club 57: Film\, Performance\, and Art in the East Village\, 1978–1983 (2017-8). She has been a programmer for the New Directors/New Films and Doc Fortnight festivals and leads Modern Mondays\, MoMA’s artist’s cinema series to which she has contributed programs with Jibade-Khalil Huffman\, Habibi Collective\, Bernadette Mayer\, Metahaven\, Nazlı Dinçel\, Monira al Qadiri\, Emilija Skarnulyte\, Raha Raissnia\, Alexander Kluge\, and many others. Recent film exhibitions also include Currents: Re-Viewing Cineprobe\, 1968–2002 (2019) and special projects with The Residents and Ken Okiishi. She is also active in the museum’s collection displays and was part of the curatorial team for MoMA’s 2019 reinstallation. \nProduction assistance for Andra8 provided by Jonathan Beilin (Technical Director + Cinematographer)\, Scott Kiernan (Composer)\, Tim Bruniges (Vocal Sound Designer)\, Achim Koh (Programmer)\, Stephanie Neptune (Co-Editor and Post-Production Supervisor)\, Andrew Nerviano (Sound Mix)\, and Shisanwu LLC (Drafting). \nBanner image: Alison Nguyen\, my favorite software is being here\, HD video\, color\, sound\, 19 minutes\, 2020 – 2021. Image description: An image of a digital environment with the avatar Andra8 with her head leaning over a bag of Lays chips. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/helloiamandra8-alison-nguyen-in-conversation/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-25-at-2.28.49-PM-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211006T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10000846-1633546800-1633636800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 6\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nClick here to register\nAccess information: ASL interpretation provided. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nAn intimate event incorporating both pre-recorded and live video\, SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is joined by Camille Bacon for a virtual conversation about her work. Taking the form of letters written to each other\, HOLLOWAY and Bacon will speak to yearning\, irresolution\, letting go\, and the passing of time\, with Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula functioning as a touchstone. The conversation will be followed by a public Q&A. The event marks the opening of HOLLOWAY’s exhibition and web project\, i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back. \nAn email with instructions and a link will be sent to you on the event date and will be accessible on Eventbrite’s Online Event Page. The event will be accessible for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members get extended access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nTo see more information about the exhibition\, click here. \nBiographies \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nThis program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/shawne-michaelain-holloway-and-camille-bacon/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Rectangle-Square-SHAWNÉ-and-Camille.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220215 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191419Z UID:10000840-1633478400-1644883199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY: i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back DESCRIPTION:Opening Wednesday\, October 6\, 2021 in Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery and online\nOn view through February 14\, 2022\nClick here to access the online project\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a solo exhibition and web project by artist and poet SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY. \nA memory stone and love letter\, i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back is a four channel realtime multimedia installation and part two of HOLLOWAY’s DOG WHISTLE series. Using the series’ signature blue light and heavy bold text\, the work thinks through the aesthetics of accumulation and the vocabulary of loss using poetry and 3D objects that pile up and overflow. Each object on screen is a manipulation of a digital scan of an item that once held significance in the artist’s life and will be destroyed on a continuous loop for the duration of the installation. Parallel to the window installation\, i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back is also accessible at home via the web and is programmed to evolve with audience participation through Valentine’s Day 2022. The exhibition will be accompanied by a newly commissioned essay on the artists work by Camille Bacon. Web development support provided by Nick Briz. \nThe artist invites you to submit photos of your own objects to be part of the work. These can be photographs of things you no longer have\, want\, or feel connected to\, that remind you of those you can no longer love. You can send the photograph as a text message to the number ‪(716) 650-0687‬ or via email to youlovedmeback@gmail.com . Please note that photos may be modified for privacy and technical purposes (such as the removal of identifiable faces.) \nPublic programs \nWednesday\, October 6\, 7 pm ET\nVirtual artist talk: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon. Register here. \nWednesday\, February 9–14\, 2022\nOnline project: [ E N | C L O S I N G ]. Register here. \nMonday\, February 14\, 2022\, 6:00 pm ET\nPLASMA: Virtual artist talk with SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY. Presented by the Department of Media Study\, University at Buffalo SUNY. More information here. \nAbout the artist and contributors \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Through works of video installation\, software\, and real-time performance\, her work often critically engages the technical language of instruction\, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities\, to direct viewers to read\, play\, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories\, asking them to confront intense emotions like desire\, shame\, or regret\, and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC)\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, The Time-Based Art Festival (Portland)\,  Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Hebbel am Ufer HAU (Berlin)\, and NTS Radio (London). SHAWNÉ was a 20-21 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre & Performance Resident as well as a resident at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab. \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based critic and writer who recently graduated from Smith College in Northampton\, MA\, and is crafting a “sweet Black writing life\,” as inspired by the words of poet Nikky Finney. \nNick Briz is an internationally recognized new-media artist\, educator and organizer. His work investigates the promises and perils of living in an increasingly digital and networked world. He is an active participant in various online communities and conversations including glitch art\, net art\, remix culture\, digital literacy\, hacktivism and digital rights. He’s co-founder of netizen.org a nonprofit focused on digital literacy and digital culture\, he’s Associate Professor Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, Lecturer at the University of Chicago\, and a freelance Creative Technologist. \nThis program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \n \n  \nImage: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY\, dog-whistle-unity-still_1unfinished-rose-obj+1petal-(slow)spawn.png\, unity still\, 2019 URL:https://squeaky.org/event/shawne-michaelain-holloway-i-wouldve-said-goodbye-if-i-thought-you-loved-me-back/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Online Project ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/shawné-rose-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10000834-1633028400-1633035600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Coalition Building Towards Liberatory Technologies DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED – Stay tuned for the new date!\nWednesday\, September 30\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nAccessibility: ASL interpretation and open captions provided. \nOn the occasion of Johann Diedrick’s Dark Matters\, this panel with artists Johann Diedrick and Jenson Leonard and moderated by Richie Wills will discuss both the discriminatory and exploitative artificial intelligences of our current moment\, and imagine libertory future technologies. How would a libertatory artificial intelligence act? What are the networks\, communities\, and infrastructures we need to build our tomorrows? \nThe event will be available for 24 hours for everyone who registers\, and 72 hours for Squeaky Wheel members. This event is co-presented with Just Buffalo Literary Center. \nAbout the panelists \nJohann Diedrick is a Caribbean-American artist\, engineer\, and musician who makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for encountering our world through your ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back sonic layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for delightfully encountering our environment and each other. He is a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented at MoMA PS1 (Queens\, NY)\, Somerset House (London\, UK)\, Social Kitchen (Kyoto\, Japan)\, Common Ground (Berlin\, Germany)\, Recess (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nJenson Leonard b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nRICHIE WILLS holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Richie has worked as a Writing Center and BABEL volunteer and as an outreach coordinator for Words on the Street and The Mocha Center. He is also contributing writer for The Galactic Tribe and continues to work as a community organizer. Richie believes in the power of the written word and storytelling to bring people together and break barriers. \nAbout Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s Civil Writes Project CELEBRATES the legacy of prominent Black writers who have called Buffalo home\, whose voices shape history\, inspire radical change\, and influence current and future generations of poets and writers; DRAWS INSPIRATION from Buffalo’s history as a gateway to freedom along the Underground Railroad; and CHALLENGES our community to grapple with racism and inequities through literature\, to find pathways toward justice in the power of the written word\, and to open hearts & minds as we confront our shared past and present in order to shape a more equitable future. See more information here. \nBanner image courtesy of Johann Diedrick. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/coalition-building-towards-liberatory-technologies/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Symposia & Panels,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Dark-Matters.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210915T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210915T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191435Z UID:10000836-1631718000-1631725200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Applying for things! + Workspace Residency Info-Session DESCRIPTION:Free\nAccess information: This event will take place as a Zoom meeting. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125.\nClick here to register\nIn this presentation and workshop\, Rivet’s co-founders Katrina Neumann and Kira Simon-Kennedy will share resources\, strategies\, and things to watch for for artists who are applying to opportunities such as grants\, residencies\, and fellowships\, followed by a Q&A for attendees. Of interest for artists of all experience levels\, the presentation will be a brief info-session by curator Ekrem Serdar on the Spring 2022 application for Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency program. For more information about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nYou can now watch the event below. Scroll to the 20 minute mark of the video to skip to Rivet’s presentation on Applying to Things. \nBios of the presenters \nKatrina Neumann began her career as a visual artist while working in arts institutions as an in-house designer\, web manager\, marketing\, and communications specialist for the past 18 years. On nights and weekends\, she founded the startups “Rate My Artist Residency” and co-founded “Rivet“; both are platforms that help artists find residency opportunities\, funding\, and transparency within this niche market. Neumann freelances as a graphic designer\, web designer\, social media\, marketing\, and communications specialist for artists\, small businesses\, non-profits\, and arts institutions. For more details here is my full resumé. \nKira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder & co-director of China Residencies\, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported hundreds of different international creative exchanges to China since its inception in 2013. She has been a fellow at NEW INC\, the New Museum’s incubator for art\, design & technology\, as well as the IFP Made in NY Media Center\, building Rivet to connect creative people with opportunities worldwide. She also produces independent films and documentaries\, including 登楼叹 Ascension (Tribeca winner for Best Documentary 2021) as well as ongoing series about the creative scenes in China’s 2nd and 3rd tier cities\, and a previous year long project about China’s underground music scene for the record label Modern Sky. \nKira holds a BA in East Asian Studies and Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania\, and was a member of the inaugural class of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice program in Social Impact Strategy and Arts & Culture. She is a translator of French and Chinese texts on art and philosophy and co-wrote “Holy Shit My Friend Has Cancer\,” a website to help young people deal with tough situations. \nPhotograph of Kira Simon-Kennedy by Joy Ding. Image description: Kira is a white woman with long brown curly hair\, wearing glasses and a peacock blue jacket. She is standing outside in front of trees and smiling. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/applying-for-things-workspace-residency-info-session/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Call for applications,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Katrina-Kira-Rivet.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210903T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210904T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001051-1630699200-1630789200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 18th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:September 3\, 2021\, 8 pm ET\n@ Albright-Knox Northland and virtually\nFree\nReserve your in-person spot here or register for the virtual screening here. \n\nSqueaky Wheel’s family-friendly Animation Fest returns to delight\, amaze\, and excite with a program of short films from Western New York and around the world! In partnership with Villa Maria College\, this year’s Animation Fest will be an outdoor drive-in and sit-down screening at the Albright-Knox Northland in Buffalo\, NY. Join us under the stars for a dazzling showcase of artist-made animations\, from the hand-drawn to stop-motion to 3D modeling\, and more. If you can’t make it in person\, be sure to join the virtual Fest\, screening simultaneously wherever you are! \nThe 18th Animation Fest features films by Abby Castillo\, Becky Brown\, Benjamin Rosenthal and Eric Souther\, Emma Geiger\, Gabriella Mykal\, Hanlin Wang\, Lydia Moyer\, Petra Zlonoga\, S4RA\, Terrance Houle & Neko Wong-Houle. This years event welcomes back curator Tabia Lewis who will provide a special remote introduction to the event. A post-screening Q&A with the curator and filmmakers will take place on Google Docs after the screening. Please note that some of the films include flashing images\, and distorted video and audio. See details in the program below. \nHow to attend in-person: \nRSVP for the event at the link above on the Albright Knox to reserve your spot! Drive-in and view the event from your car\, or bring blankets and lawnchairs for an open air screening. See more information\, including guidance regarding COVID-19\, at the Albright-Knox event page. \nHow to attend virtually: \nRegister above at the link. An email with a link will be sent to your email address\, accessible on the event date. The films will be accessible for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members get extended access to the films for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up here. \nClick on the arrows below to expand. \n[expand title=”Program”] \nTotal duration: 45 minutes. Please note that some films feature flashing images\, distorted video\, and distorted audio. You can see which films below. Descriptions and images for the films provided by the filmmakers. \nThese pieces speak to disruption or (re)construction\, largely by non-narrative means. It felt really relevant considering the world at large had experienced a huge disruption and almost simultaneous reconfiguration of their lives so recently. These two things aren’t necessarily opposites\, but complementary and sometimes the very antidote to one another.  When something we know to be just or honest isn’t\, we make a motion to disrupt that; that which we don’t understand\, we examine in an attempt to. – Tabia Lewis. \n \nTerrance Houle & Neko Wong-Houle\, Otanimm/Onnimm (Daughter/ Father)\, 3:33 min\, 2020\nA short animation based on the relationship of an Indigenous artist and his daughter\, and their deep connection to one another. Using dialogue\, music\, traditional animation\, stop-motion\, experimental DIY photography using Caffenol (coffee/vitamin C developer) and 2D rotoscoping Terrance and his daughter Neko share a unique look at an indigenous father/daughter story. \n \nEmma Geiger\, Elysian\, 1:06 min\, 2021\nElysian is an expression of a memory of connection\, reduced to momentary sketches.  In it the passage of time is experienced as the alternating absence and presence of light.  The images are a collection of memories in Southern California\, linked by their emotional content- a found paradise.   \n \nLydia Moyer\, Study for Unsettling\, 2:16\, 2016. This film features flashing images.\nSourced from images on cabinporn.com\, a popular website that catalogs pictures of tiny cabins in sublime landscapes\, Study for Unsettling is a frame-by-frame animation that erases the focal point of the built structures to recast the viewers’ attention on the natural environments in which the structures sit. The marks left are remnants of the disruptive energy of settlers. \n \nBecky Brown\, dark parts\, 4:51 min\, 2020. This film features distorted audio and video.\n“I was learning Blender when I started making this piece\, and while browsing related content\, I frequently saw renders posted of manicured houses too perfect to imagine myself living in them. These were renders of houses so well done you could mistake them for reality\, but so uncluttered that no one could possibly live there. So I decided I wanted to make a piece about putting some ugliness back in. I wrote and finished everything by February 2020\, just a month before the dream-like house-trap shown in this piece became a reality for everyone! Or\, said another way:\nThis piece is inspired by perfect\, impossible homes\,that exist only between magazine covers and the visions of architects. Homes before the people are in them\, before the newspaper pile on the sofa\, before the rotting grapefruit in the back of the fridge\, before the overflowing laundry basket beside the bed. Homes when they are just ideas\, places that seem to smudge all their textures away when you dream about them\, illuminated by axioms you are so certain of until you wake up. Homes that make you feel less like yourself. Homes when you’re not sure how to change. Homes that are just houses\, raw buildings in someone else’s plan for no one’s future.”\n \n \nBenjamin Rosenthal and Eric Souther\, the gleaners\, and: ritual for signaled bodies\, 8:33 min\, 2020. This film features flashing images and distorted audio.\nthe gleaners\, and: ritual for signaled bodies performs at the edges between body and the external\, oscillating and eroding those boundaries. A ritual for creating new worlds and situations for fragmented bodies\, signals pass through the joints of animated and genderless bodies and body parts entangling the body-signal-actions both materially and conceptually as these control mechanisms interfere with pre-animated content. Perpetually shifting surfaces and skins serve as sites of projection and interference\, contributing to the further “”queering”” of the state of these bodies and fragments that are stretched and submerged into and outside of the environment they inhabit\, as they encounter desire\, distress\, and ritualized oscillations. Signals that generate sounds and compel movement\, the making of the images\, and the body\, further challenges the stability and integrity of the space; it’s otherworldliness and the spatial relationships it establishes with the audience. At the edge between crisis and satisfaction\, the work adopts the role of Millet’s own “”gleaners\,”” making-do on the boundary between sustenance and the devoid.\nExtended Technical Information/Statement on LGBTQ Content:\nThis is an experimental animation that is made in part with live techniques where 3D animations are “”performed”” in synchronization with sound to produce images that are recorded\, layered\, re-performed\, and re-recorded. The process in which we make this is an innovative process that pushes the boundaries of what is possible via real-time rendering.\nIt is important for us to clarify as artists that we feel strongly that this film comes from a queer point of view and a queer perspective. Rosenthal (as a member of the LGBTQ community) and Souther as a strong ally\, are interested in disrupting hegemonic structures around what constitutes gay and queer aesthetics\, which often privilege cis-white\, gay male sexual desire as opposed to more diverse and divergent points of departure. The bodies in our work are both fundamentally queer in their presentation and in their actions\, but the work also subjects viewers to an experience of queer “”fragmentation.”” Rosenthal describes this “”fragmentation”” as related to a kind of slippage\, rather than traditional compartmentalization\, where identity and body construction become unstable. By subjecting the viewer to sensorially intense fragmentation\, we destabilize normative viewing experiences and “”queer”” the space of the audience.” \n \nPetra Zlonoga\, One of Many\, 5:32 min\, 2018\nI am one. One of many. One of everyone yet the only one. What is it that I am looking for\, that always seems out of reach? \n \nS4RA\, privacy-GrDN. Info\, 8:00 min\, 2021\nHybrid emulation of a website that deals with prediction (in a broad sense) which uses the coding produced into programming its own simulation as the backbone structure into a semiotic < container >  / metalanguage. \n \nAbby Castillo\, easy_v3.4\, 2:21\, 2020\nThis is the music video for my song easy_v3.4\, which is composed of looping animations superimposed on clips of Portland\, OR during 2020 (back when I went as “Twin Chicken” instead of “abbymachines”). Some of the clips focus on animals and nature\, and one is from last year’s wildfires. The song itself is a pop song about perseverance and strength\, inspired by my recovery from an abusive relationship. \n \nGabriella Mykal\, all i have pt iii\, 1:47\, 2021. This film features captions.\na deep dive into reality stardom and digital death\, ‘all i have pt iii’ explores online archetypes and politics surrounding light skin black women by focusing on four case studies: Disney star turned adult actress and producer Zendaya\, widely loved reality star and former Bachelorette Tayshia Adams\, conservative political commentator Candace Owens\, and former actress turned Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.\nThe four women’s images grind and faze into each other in an illusion of cohesion as the automated voice considers how far they must be willing to go to be desired\, accepted\, protected\, or respected.” \n \nHanlin Wang\, Neither Here Nor There\, 7:47 min\, 2021. This film features flashing images.\nTold solely through images captured from Google Street View\, Google Maps\, and Google Earth coupled with text\, Neither Here Nor There traverses a life from birth to death via the places that define it. \n[/expand]\n[expand title=”Bios of the filmmakers and curator”] \nAbby Castillo (she/her) is a transgender Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist working primarily in music\, literature\, visual and video art. She currently lives and works in Portland\, OR\, and she grew up at the US-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana. \nBecky Brown is a composer\, harpist\, artist\, and web designer\, interested in producing intensely personal works across the multimedia spectrum. She focuses on narrative\, emotional exposure\, and catharsis\, with a vested interest in using technology and the voice to deeply connect with an audience\, wherever they are. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia. \nBenjamin Rosenthal holds (b.1984\, New York\, NY\, Lives and Works in Kansas City\, Missouri) an MFA in Art Studio from the University of California\, Davis and a BFA in Art (Electronic Time-Based Media) from Carnegie Mellon University. His work has been exhibited internationally in such venues/festivals as the Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart\, Germany)\, High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary (Chicago\, IL)\, ESPACIO ENTER: Festival International Creatividad\, Innovacíon y Cultural Digital (Tenerife\, Canary Islands\, Spain)\, FILE Electronic Language International Festival (São Paulo\, Brazil)\, Vanity Projects (New York\, NY)\, Locomoción Festival de Animacion (Mexico City\, Mexico)\, the LINOLEUM Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art (Kyiv\, Ukraine)\, and SIGGRAPH Asia (Bangkok\, Thailand)\, among others. He has been in residence at the Fjúk Arts Centre (Husavík\, Iceland)\, Signal Culture (Owego\, New York) and the Ox-Bow School of Art (Saugatuck\, Michigan)\, the Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City\, Missouri)\, and is currently in residence at The Studios Inc (Kansas City\, Missouri). His work across media explores what he theorizes as queer “technosexuality” and challenges the supremacy of physical contact in a technocultural age. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of Expanded Media in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas\, where he has been since 2012\, and teaches video art\, performance art\, experimental animation\, a variety of special topics seminars and interdisciplinary practices. \nEric Souther is a new media artist who draws from a multiplicity of disciplines\, including anthropology\, linguistics\, ritual\, critical theory\, and New Materialism. He develops video instruments that investigate technological & cultural ecologies\, agency\, and emergence. He looks for new ways of seeing beyond the seductive qualities of an image\, and to find unseen connections that help us understand our digital and non-digital existence. His work takes many pathways\, which include single-channel video\, interactive installation\, projection mapping\, print\, virtual reality\, and audiovisual performance. His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Art and Design\, NYC\, Everson Museum of Art\, Syracuse\, NY\, and the Museum of Art\, Zhangzhou\, China. His work has screened in The Athens Digital Arts Festival\, Athens\, Greece\, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival\, Beyoglu\, Instanbul\, Cronosfera Festival\, Alessandria\, Italy\, the Galerija 12 New Media Hub\, Belgrade\, Serbia\, the Simultan Festival\, Timisoara\, Romania\, and the Festival ECRÃ of Audiovisual Experimentations\, Rio de Janeiro. In 2016\, Eric won the Juried Award for Time-Based at the international art competition ArtPrize. He received his BFA in New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009 and his MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2011. He currently is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Expanded Media at NYSCC at Alfred University. Eric is also a board member of Signal Culture\, where he co-develops experimental video instruments (software). \nEmma Geiger is a filmmaker and photographer currently based in Durham\, North Carolina. \nGabriella Mykal is a West Indian American visual artist and filmmaker. Through film\, video installation\, writing\, and sculpture\, her work treats personal trauma as an access point to humor and social hyperreality. She combines narrative and experimental techniques to explore vulnerability\, femme friendship\, romance\, and sexual disfunction as grounds for political discourse. Found footage\, unreliable narrators\, and oversharing craft a technicolor\, Cyberfeminist sensibility. Mykal’s films have been shown nationally and internationally. \nHanlin Wang grew up in Fremont\, California. He discovered a love for filmmaking in the many video projects he created during high school. In college he explored this storytelling instinct through various mediums from live-action narrative and experimental shorts to virtual reality and computer-generated imagery. He admires the creative work of Richard Linklater\, Wong Kar-Wai\, Alfonso Cuarón\, and Philip Glass. Hanlin is currently exploring the fields of VFX and computer graphics and hopes to pursue a career at the intersection of moviemaking and technology. \nLydia Moyer is a visual artist and media maker who lives and works in Central Virginia\, USA.  She is a professor in the art department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. \nPetra Zlonoga (1982) holds an MA in Graphic Design from the School of Design (2007) and MA in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2011). Since 2009 she works as a freelance graphic designer\, illustrator and animator. Filmography: One of Many (2018)\, Dota (2016)\, Hunger (2014)\, Daniil Ivanovich\, You Are Free (2011\, graduation film)\, Fox (2010\, student film)\, Gregor (2010\, student film)\, Daniil Ivanovich\, Marry Me (2007\, student film). \nS4RA is a non-binary && genderqueer transmedia artist that spent endless hours fighting monsters & strolling through mazes. so\, it only felt natural 2 evolve through an experimental & explorative process of gaming visual culture & popular gif files. also feeds on social media platforms 2 engage animations into the depths of gender role play & political plots. still plays old school video games. \nTabia Lewis is a Black\, trans writer\, curator\, and DJ living on Catawba Nation territory in Charlotte\, NC. While they mostly creative non-fiction and critical essays they also have an affinity for poetry. Their work is aligned with Black radical imagination\, memory\, mythography\, and transness beyond physical matter. They’re also a big fan of cartoons. \nTerrance Houle and Neko Wong-Houle are an award winning father/daughter duo team who have collaborated on the recent short animation Otanimm/Onnimm. Terrance has worked extensively in the Arts Film/ Video and Performing Arts internationally\, nationally & locally\, Neko recently graduated from a High School program in a Performance Visual Arts and is the Award winner of the Golden Sheaf Indigenous Art Award  at the Yorkton Film Festival for Otannim/Onnimm (writer\, director actor) \n[/expand]\nAbout our Partner Sponsor \nAnimators belong at Villa. Look around: Animation is everywhere—movies and TV\, advertising\, video games. Future animators are curious\, creative\, and embrace technology in meaningful ways. But most importantly—they’re storytellers. They have rich imaginations and take inspiration from other disciplines like photography\, music\, and film. At Villa\, you’ll channel what you discover to create characters and environments that capture the interests of a range of audiences. Click here for more information. \nSponsors \nSqueaky Wheel wishes to thank the following event sponsors: Clover Group Inc.\, Rigidized Metals\, Buffalo State College Communication Department\, Department of Art at the University of Buffalo\, Department of Media Study at the University of Buffalo\, Fox Pest Control\, Pan American Sound\, and Stephens & Stephens Law Offices. \n \n\n\n\n \n  \n  \nBanner image: Petra Zlonoga\, One of Many\, 2018 URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-18th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Albright-Knox Northland\, 612 Northland Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14211\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/OneofMany-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210827T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001048-1630004400-1630090800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Crystal Z Campbell\, Jordan Lord\, Olivia Ong Evans DESCRIPTION:Image description: A rectangular image with three photographs side by side. From left to right: Portrait of Crystal Z Campbell\, a Black and Asian artist in the studio gazing directly into camera\, with just above the shoulder length curly hair wrangled into a half-ponytail. Light from the industrial window creates a pink and reddish glow on their cheek\, filtered through a transparency the artist is holding. The transparency is a film still from a found 35mm film the artist found at a now demolished Black Civil Rights Theater. The photograph is courtesy of Melissa Lukenbaugh. In the middle photograph is Jordan Lord\, a 30 year-old white person with short brown hair\, stands in front of a tank of bioluminescent jellyfish\, wearing a face mask printed with the nose and mouth of a tiger. Their eyes seem to be smiling. The photograph on the right is of Olivia Ong Evans\, facing the camera and smiling. She has long\, black hair and is wearing metal framed glasses and a black and white shirt. Behind her is a pink\, purple\, gray\, and aqua blue video still showing tree branches\, river branches\, and a smoke stack in the background.⁠\nThursday\, August 26\, 2021\, 7 pm ET\nFree or pay what you can\nClick here to register\nAccess information: TBA. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this artist talk with our three Summer 2021 artist residents\, Crystal Z Campbell (Oklahoma City\, OK)\, Jordan Lord (New York\, NY)\, and Olivia Ong Evans (Tonawanda\, NY). The three artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engaging in a conversation with curator Ekrem Serdar. \nCrystal Z Campbell will be working on SLICK\, an experimental feature film considering the longstanding reverberations of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on the city of Tulsa and beyond. Jordan Lord is working on editing an essay film with their grandmother\, Prophetic Memory\, which examines the stakes in re-animating personal and collective history. Olivia Ong Evans will be working on Identity Karma\, an experimental video that explores the connections between identity construction and social structures. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nJordan Lord is a filmmaker\, writer\, and artist\, working primarily in video\, text\, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at venues including MoMA\, ARGOS\, Camden Arts Centre\, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts\, and Performance Space NY (as part of the festival “I wanna be with you everywhere”). Their exhibition “Prophetic Memory” is currently in-progress online and at various sites via Artists Space (New York\, NY). They teach at Hunter College\, CUNY (New York). \nOlivia Ong Evans (she/her/hers) is a video artist currently living on occupied Haudenosaunee land (Western New York). She uses experimental practices to create glitchy\, distorted visuals that explore positionality.  Her work centers on themes of identity construction\, migration\, connection to land\, and Hokkien Indonesian heritage. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-crystal-z-campbell-jordan-lord-olivia-ong-evans/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Residents_Horizontal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210825T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210825T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001050-1629914400-1629921600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Creating Identity: Asian American Subjectivities with Olivia Ong Evans DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 25\, 2021\, 6 pm\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here\nThis is a space that is for and prioritizes Asian Americans/Asian and Pacific Islander Diaspora individuals\, but all are welcome to attend.  All participation is optional\, and participants welcome to engage with prompts and exercises in any way that feels best for them. \nThis skill-share by Olivia Ong Evans will be a space for Asian American/Asian and Pacific Islander Diasporic individuals to explore the connections between identity and creativity. Through a series of prompts and exercises facilitated by Olivia Ong Evans\, participants will have the opportunity to work on creative projects in a structured\, shared space intended to foster creativity\, imagination\, and connection. The workshop will provide time for participants to reflect on how they can use their own experiences to create meaning from the social and political contexts that shape our identities. The artist will share reference materials and resources related to concepts of identity construction and positionality\, and their own creative process to showcase strategies for participants. All skill levels are welcome and individuals with no background in the arts are encouraged to attend. \nBio of the artist \nOlivia Ong Evans (she/her/hers) is a video artist currently living on occupied Haudenosaunee land (Western New York). She uses experimental practices to create glitchy\, distorted visuals that explore positionality.  Her work centers on themes of identity construction\, migration\, connection to land\, and Hokkien Indonesian heritage. \nThis event is part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. To find out more about the program\, click here. \nBanner image: Olivia Ong Evans\, Work #2. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/creating-identity-asian-american-subjectivities-with-olivia-ong-evans/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Olivia-Ong-Evans-Work-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210824T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210824T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T234516 CREATED:20251230T191418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191418Z UID:10001052-1629828000-1629831600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Generating Sounds Collaboratively with Crystal Z Campbell DESCRIPTION:*New date* Tuesday\, August 24\, 2021\, 6 pm\nFree or pay what you can\nRegister here. Limited capacity.\nCrystal Z Campbell will lead Generating Sounds Collaboratively\, a participatory sound workshop where attendees will generate new sound and reinterpret iconic music that will be featured in the artists upcoming film SLICK. Participants will learn creative strategies for sound design\, including foley sounds\, vocals\, and the specific ways sound can be a critical component of a film. This event will be recorded. \nBio of the artist \nCrystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist\, experimental filmmaker\, and writer of Black\, Filipino\, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—rumored information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cell line\, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape\, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma\, and founder of archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. \nThis event is part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. To find out more about the program\, click here. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/generating-sounds-collaboratively-with-crystal-z-campbell/ LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Residencies,Skill Share,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Campbell_Workshop.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR