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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Equipment Orientation
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 9\, 2022\, 11am–12pm\nFree\nRegister here\nCurious about Squeaky Wheel’s equipment offerings? Interested in using equipment but don’t know where to start? Have a project concept but aren’t sure how to go about making it? If you answered yes to any of these\, then this orientation is for you! \nIn this free and relaxed workshop\, participants are invited to a hands-on look at Squeaky Wheel’s various equipment and access offerings with Tech Director Mark Longolucco. The orientation will cover the basic operations of camera\, sound and lighting equipient as well as procedures in reserving and renting from Squeaky Wheel. Mark will also discuss the process for applying to the Equipment Access Grant and Big Picture programs. This is a great way to familiarize yourself with the equipment available to you and meet others in Buffalo’s creative community. \nAccess information: This event will take place in person at Squeaky Wheel. Participants must be masked through the duration of the workshop.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/equipment-orientation/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Access
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Apply: Executive Director
DESCRIPTION:Executive Director\nDeadline to apply: September 22\, 2021 \n\nSqueaky Wheel seeks a new Executive Director who is dynamic\, dedicated\, and passionate. The position is an opportunity for an innovative and agile leader\, experienced in the arts\, to steer Squeaky Wheel in the programming and profile of this nationally recognized media arts organization. Candidates should have exceptional writing skills\, be able to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of managing an arts organization\, work well with diverse groups of people\, and effectively represent Squeaky Wheel publicly. Strengths should include knowledge and enthusiasm for the media arts\, writing grants\, overseeing programs and finances\, and fostering relationships within a passionate constituency.\n\n\n\nAbout Squeaky Wheel\n\n\nSqueaky Wheel is a place where art\, technology\, and community intersect. Located in Buffalo’s downtown Theater District inside the historic Market Arcade Complex\, it is the only organization in Western New York with programming entirely dedicated to media arts. Squeaky Wheel collaborates with other cultural organizations\, institutions\, and schools throughout the region. The organization’s longstanding history of providing community-based media art related programs has established an expansive network of national and international artists\, scholars\, and media arts practitioners. By offering uniquely interconnected education\, exhibition\, and equipment access programs\, Squeaky Wheel will connect and engage emergent creative communities in the Buffalo region and across the globe.\n\n\n\nSqueaky Wheel is guided by the following intentions:\n\n\n\nDeepen relationships\nCreate spaces for difference\nApproach the unimaginable\nBe intersectional\nInvent new vocabularies\nPractice reflection+action\nRealize continuities\nTransform internally to make change externally\nShape new forms of connection\n\n\n\nThe Executive Director leads an organization that is\, and supports:\n\nCross section of local and international media art community\nDiverse and intergenerational constituency\nA dynamic hub for generating new ideas\, sharing skills\, future thinking\, hands-on learning\, engaged participation\nOperating at the convergence of physical and virtual space\nCreativity\, connection\, wellness and community\nSupport and foster local talent\nCollaborate with community partners across spaces and platforms\nExploring the meaning of Access: opening\, availability\, approachability\, possibilities\n\n\n\nThe Executive Director is responsible for\, and accountable to:\n\n\n\nBoard of Directors\nVision & Strategy\nFinance & Development\nCommunity Relations\nLeading People\n\nKey duties and responsibilities:\n\n\n\nOversee general operations of the organization\, including:\nManage and coordinate finances\, budgets\, fundraising and development plans.\nHire and supervise full-time and part-time staff\, independent contractors\, interns\, and volunteers.\nWrite and manage grants for general operation\, exhibition and educational programs and capital initiatives.\nLead the charge in facilitating DEI initiatives and training\nWork with Board of Directors and staff to develop and implement short and long term strategic plans and policies aligned with the organization’s mission.\nFoster and maintain relationships with regional\, national\, and international audiences in the media arts\, non-profit\, and community development sectors.\nRepresent\, promote\, and advocate on behalf of the organization within larger media art fields.\n\nQualities we are looking for:\n\n\n\nAdaptable: ability to respond to external and internal changes with agility and mission-centricity\nForward-thinking: ability to think long term about the big picture trajectory of the organization\nCourageous: willing to take risks and try new things to best meet the needs of a diverse constituency\nDriven: committed to Squeaky’s mission and vision\nCulturally Competent: Committed to the ability to understand and interact effectively with people from diverse cultures\, backgrounds and lived experiences\nSpirited leader: Ability to inspire and engage staff and Board of Directors in the organization’s work\n\n\n\nQualifications\n\n\n\n3+ years experience in non-profit arts organization or program management in a role focused on strategy\, leadership\, and decision-making\nBachelor’s degree (4+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree will be considered. An advanced degree in Media Arts\, Arts Administration or related field is a bonus but not a requirement.)\nExcellent oral and written communication skills\, and web and social media literacy.\nExperience with developing and executing operating budgets.\nSuccessful track record of grant writing and management\nDevelopment of fundraising initiatives\nExperience working with a variety of organizations\, corporations\, and community groups in building meaningful partnerships and programs.\nEnthusiasm interacting with a broad array of people; ability to navigate local\, regional\, and national art communities.\nStrong commitment to Squeaky Wheel’s equal access policies.\nEmbrace experimentation and creativity.\n\nCompensation/Benefits\n\n\nCompensation in the range of $45\,000 to $55\,000 annually. Healthcare costs are split between the organization and employee; paid vacation\, sick and personal days.\n\n\n\nHow to apply\n\n\nPlease send cover letter and résumé in a single PDF document via email to: edsearch@squeaky.org\n\n\nSubject: Executive Director Search.\n\n\n\nBIPOC\, and sexual & gender minority applicants\, are encouraged to apply.\n\n\nEarly applications encouraged. No phone calls\, please.\n\n\nDeadline: September 22\, 2021
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/apply-executive-director/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Call
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SUMMARY:Electronic Music
DESCRIPTION:July 12–16\n1–4 pm\nCost: $200 | $180 members\nLocation: In the city of Buffalo TBA \nStudents will find and record original real-world audio samples\, edit and mix their sounds to compose electronic beats\, and then remix and rearrange each others’ sounds to put together a class mixtape. \nRegister here \n  \n  \n  \n  \nHow are we preventing the spread of COVID-19? \n\nSqueaky Staff and instructors will be handling equipment with proper PPE equipment\, including masks and gloves\nBefore and after class equipment will be properly cleaned with 70% Isopropyl alcohol\nStations will be placed with a minimum of six feet distance from each other\nParticipants and instructors will be required to wear a mask covering both their mouth and nose unless they are exempt due to age or health conditions (Please notify us before the workshop)\nWe’re following CDC and NYS guidelines for capacity.\n\nSee the rest of our summer offerings here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/electronic-music-2/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Youth
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SUMMARY:Johann Diedrick: Dark Matters
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, June 18\, 2021 at Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery. On view through September 10\, 2021. \nClick here to access the public beta of the web experience. It is best experienced on desktop computers. Click here to provide feedback for the works development.\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a public beta of Johann Diedrick’s Dark Matters\, an interactive web experience\, exhibition in Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery\, and series of events \nDark Matters exposes the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. Utilizing 3D modeling\, sound\, and storytelling\, the project challenges our communities to grapple with racism and inequity through speech and the spoken word\, and how AI systems underserve Black communities. \nA video installation version of Dark Matters will be on view 24/7 for free at Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery in downtown Buffalo. An iterative online version will be available on our website June 18–September 10\, 2021\, which the artist intends to present as a way to receive feedback from the public on the work’s development. An outdoor soft opening will take place at Squeaky Wheel’s storefront space on Friday\, June 18\, between 4–6 pm\, with in-person remarks by Curator Ekrem Serdar at 5 pm\, and a virtual artist talk and public Q&A with the artist at 7 pm ET. An American Sign Language interpreter will be present for the virtual artist talk. More information about the exhibition\, including virtual public programs led by Just Buffalo Literary Center beginning June 15\, can be seen below. \nPublic programs \nJune 15 and 22\, 4:30 pm-6:00 pm ET:\nVirtual creative writing workshop for youth\, led by Richmond Wills at Just Buffalo. Free and open to ages 12–18. Email rwills@justbuffalo.org to register. See more information here. \nPOSTPONED: June 18\, 4–6 pm ET:\nOutdoor soft opening at Squeaky Wheel\, with curatorial remarks at 5 pm\, 617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203. Free and open to the public. \nJune 18\, 7 pm ET:\nVirtual artist Talk with Johann Diedrick. ASL interpretation provided. Free and open to the public. You can view the artist talk here. \nAbout the artist \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). \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. \n  \nImage: Johann Diedrick\, Dark Matters (2021). Web Development by Xuan Ye. Narrative written by Alex Smith.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/johann-diedrick-dark-matters/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Dark Matters: Youth Workshop
DESCRIPTION:June 15 and 22\, 2021\n4:30–6 pm\nFree and open to youth ages 12–21. The workshop is limited to ten participants.\nTo register\, email jbwc@justbuffalo.org \nHow does your relationship with Artificial Intelligence like Siri and Alexa affect the way you navigate the world? What does inclusive technology look like? What kind of technology would you like to see in the world? \nJoin Just Buffalo Literary Center for a virtual youth workshop! Led by Just Buffalo’s Teaching Artist Richie Wills\, participants will have a discussion session where they analyze the technology around us\, followed by a creative writing session where they envision possible futures with transformative technologies surpassing racism and inequities. This workshop is presented as part of the public programs accompanying Johann Diedrick’s Dark Matters\, an exhibition and interactive web experience exposing the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. \nOptional: To prepare for the workshop\, read this article from The Verge. \nACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Writers are welcome to participate with or without video and audio during any of our virtual sessions. If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities\, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate. \nAbout the Teaching Artist\n\n\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. \n  \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. \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/dark-matters-youth-workshop/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Become a member
DESCRIPTION:Join or renew today\nA Squeaky Wheel membership means being part of a vibrant\, engaging community of people that explore together\, create together\, and learn together. \nEnjoy the benefits that come with having a Squeaky Wheel membership\, including discounts on classes and workshops\, 10% off all equipment rentals\, special invites\, and extended access to virtual events.  \nAs a special thanks for purchasing a membership\, we’re giving away one custom-designed Squeaky Wheel ENAMEL PIN for joining/renewing at the Standard level or higher until April 20\, 2021.  \nSqueaky Wheel thrives on having a dynamic\, eclectic\, and engaged membership base\, so we hope you consider signing up for another great year of media making and/or viewing by joining today!   \nBecome a member\n  \n*If you’re already a member and don’t want to miss out\, we will extend your membership by a year from your expiration date. \n  \nImage: Pin and sticker you’ll receive with your membership featuring Squeaky Wheel’s visual identity designed by Buffalo-born artist\, designer\, and educator\, Nicole Killian.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/become-a-member/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Offer
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SUMMARY:Tech Art for Girls
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Spring Session\nMarch 27–June 19\, 2021\nWednesdays 4:30–5:30 pm and Saturdays 11–1 pm\nTaking place on Microsoft Teams\nInstructor: Kaitlyn Lowe\nFree\nIn this virtual session of Tech Art for Girls (TAG)\, participants will learn to create videos\, animations\, and code through visual storytelling\, collaging\, and more! \nTAG is a space to socialize\, collaborate\, express your creativity and a place where you’ll meet and talk to professionals working in the Tech Arts and Computer Science fields. \nWho can participate?\nTAG is for middle-high school girls\, non-binary people\, and those that feel most comfortable in a female-centric environment. \nWhat do I need to participate?\nA computer or tablet with the ability to download Microsoft Teams.\nAll software used will be free and open-source or provided by Squeaky Wheel. \nHow can I participate?\nSimply by filling out our registration form (see below). If you need assistance filling out the registration form\, please email martina@squeaky.org. \nRegistration is closed\, check back fall 2021
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/join-tech-art-for-girls/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Cafe
DESCRIPTION:March 20–June 19\, 2021\nWednesdays 5:30–6:30 pm & Saturdays 1:30–3:30 pm\nTaking place on Zoom\nMentors: Kaitlyn Lowe and Mark Longolucco\nFree\nSupport Offered\n– $250 project stipend\n– Internet access waiver\n– Access to Squeaky Wheel technology and support \nPerformance is part of everyday life. Whether we are aware of it or not\, we are performing. Now that our lives and personas are entangled with virtual spaces\, it’s becoming increasingly important to understand\, through making\, what the creative and technological possibilities of performance could be. Participants of Saturday Cafe will learn to create\, write\, and produce performance art pieces for virtual space in a fun\, supportive and challenging environment. This session will cover artistic and technical areas such as poetry\, spoken word\, video and sound production\, graphics\, and live streaming. \nStudents will meet and learn from artists\, be exposed to contemporary and historical examples in the field of virtual performance\, and have chances to share and discuss examples of their own choosing. Explore the boundaries of what’s real and what’s performed. Discuss issues related to safety and ethical considerations underlying each. Learn to unpack mediated performances by creating your own! \nIndigenous people\, people of color\, women\, 2SLGBQTIA+ individuals\, and young artists who face systemic and structural barriers are highly encouraged to apply. We welcome questions regarding the types of access we can provide to youth with disabilities: please email Martina LaVallo Education Coordinator at martina@squeaky.org \nWho can participate?\nSaturday Cafe is for Western New Yorkers ages 13–19. \nWhat do I need to participate?\nA computer or tablet with the ability to download Zoom\, and run Adobe Creative Cloud.\nAll software used will be free and open-source or provided by Squeaky Wheel.\nWe have a limited number of laptops available for those who may need one\, please email mark@squeaky.org. \nHow can I participate?\nSimply by filling out our registration form (see below). If you need assistance filling out the registration form\, please email martina@squeaky.org. \nWhy should I apply? \n– Do you want to express yourself by making videos\, gifs\, or poetry? \n– Do you love tinkering with programs and pushing the limits of how apps are “supposed to” function?  \n– Are you excited about meeting cool artists to collaborate and who can show you what it’s like to be a working artist? \nThen this program is for you! \nRegistration is closed check back fall 2021
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/saturday-cafe/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Public Visualization Studio: Passing Through the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, November 13\, 2020 @ Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery. On view through April 2\, 2021.\nOpening event: virtual cooking show with Immony Mèn and Patricio Dávila at on November 13\, 6:00 pm ET.\n\nPassing through the Heart is a multi-media installation and series of virtual events by Public Visualization Studio that focus on immigrant and refugee family and knowledge-sharing through cooking. Members of Public Visualization Studio (PVS) cook recipes from their heritage that are recorded through traditional and emergent technologies. Non-optical motion capture\, photogrammetry\, videography\, and audio recording come together to create a dialogue about migration\, community\, political conflicts\, mourning\, healing\, and transformation. \nInstalled as a synchronized multi-screen work in Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery\, Passing Through the Heart features four interactive\, virtual\, multi-media cooking shows\, with members of PVS cooking traditional recipes provided by local and international guests\, who will be in dialogue through the event. Playing on traditional cooking show tropes\, the events are documented through a seven-screen set-up in PVS’ studios. The conversations in the cooking show prompt how we can acknowledge the formation of transnational identities within North America while asking critical questions on data visualization. What are the recipes that preserve our stories through generations and migration? What does it mean for these gestures to be so precisely captured through data visualization? How do our stories live where we are? \nAudiences are invited to view the installation in Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery in downtown Buffalo through February 27 and join the monthly cooking shows hosted by the artists (and are encouraged to cook together.) Recipes and shopping lists will be provided in advance. The cooking shows will be made available on our website for those who miss the live events. \nVirtual events as part of this exhibition\nClick on the links to find out more and view the individual episodes. Information about upcoming episodes TBA. \nNovember 13\, 2020\, 6 pm ET\nEpisode 1 with Immony Mén and Patricio Dávila\n \nDecember 11\, 2020\, 6 pm ET\nEpisode 2 with Kalpana Subramanian \nFebruary 26\, 2021\, 5 pm ET\nEpisode 3 with Bryan Lee \nMarch 10\, 2021\, 6 pm ET\nEpisode 4 with Alexandra Gelis & Jorge Lozano (Postponed: We will share a new date soon.) \n \n\n\n \nBio \nPublic Visualization Studio is a design collective whose members are designers\, artists\, creative technologists and researchers. The collective creates projects as a means to pursue inquiries into the political and conceptual aspects of interaction\, space and media. Its members attempt to investigate how specific technologies of vision\, communication and gesture support our experiences in participatory spaces. Members of the collective have exhibited nationally and internationally\, and have worked in a variety of areas including public projection\, media architecture\, locative media\, video installation\, exhibition design\, interaction\, communication design and media scholarship. PVS works in collaboration with the Public Visualization Lab\, a university-based lab in Toronto. PVS members are Patricio Dávila\, Dave Colangelo\, Immony Mèn\, Jay Irizawa\, Maggie Chan\, Preethi Jagadeesh\, David Schnitman\, Robert Tu\, Symon Oliver\, Bohdan Anderson\, David Czarnowski\, Alexis Mavrogiannis\, Tim Macleod\, Tati Petkovic\, and Jeff McArthur. PVS is located in Toronto\, Canada. \nImages provided by the artists.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/public-visualization-studio-passing-through-the-heart/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jordan Lord's Shared Resources
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 6\, 2020\, 7–9:30 pm ET\nConversation with Jordan Lord and Emily Watlington at 8:45 pm ET.\nFree or suggested donation\nRegistration required. Click here to register.\nAccess information: The film is presented with open captions and audio description. Video introductions and conversations will feature live captions and ASL interpretation. The Google Doc Q&A features screen reader and screen magnification support. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nWatch the conversation with Jordan Lord\, Albert Lord\, Deborah Lord\, and Emily Watlington above. \nMade over five years\, Jordan Lord’s feature-length documentary Shared Resources depicts the filmmaker and their family after Lord’s father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Following their parents day to day lives and the filmmaker’s complicated relationship with them\, the film self-reflexively utilizes open captions and visual descriptions both to provide access to Blind and Deaf audiences and to open the processes of documentary-making and reception. Much as the film finds the ties of moral\, institutional\, societal\, and financial debt amongst the filmmaker and their family members\, it accordingly asks what debts are owed to audiences. Moving\, humorous\, and propelled by Lord’s central question – what does it mean to owe each other everything – Shared Resources depicts a Southern\, white\, middle-class family navigating the devastating effects of capitalism to propose a documentary practice based in continual consent and acknowledgment of the debts between filmmakers\, the people whose lives they document\, and audiences. \nThe filmmaker will be present for a conversation and Q&A with Emily Watlington following the screening. Audiences will be able to leave reactions\, comments\, and questions through a shared Google Doc. Instructions for how to view and participate in the event will be communicated via email. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \n \n \nThis event is part of Timeline(s) of Care. Comprised of five single-night screenings\, artist talks\, and interactive events taking place throughout Fall 2020. The series focuses on illness\, disability\, and care work across generations\, crisscrossing timelines\, and the minutiae of personal\, social\, political\, and institutional life. These works acknowledge the lives and work of those who came before us to create different tomorrows. \n\nBios of the artists \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 work has been shown internationally at festivals and venues including DOCNYC\, Artists Space\, Anthology Film Archives\, and Camden Arts Centre. Their solo exhibition of video work “After…After…” was presented by Piper Keys at Raven Row in London\, UK\, and their work was screened as part of the festival on art and disability “I Wanna Be with You Everywhere” at Performance Space NY. \nEmily Watlington is assistant editor at Art in America. She writes about contemporary art—primarily video—often through the lenses of feminism and disability justice. A Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree from MIT in the history\, theory\, and criticism of architecture and art\, she has held curatorial positions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries (now the MassArt Art Museum). Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum\, Mousse\, and Frieze\, and she has contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogues\, including Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 (2018)\, An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art (2017)\, and Independent Female Filmmakers (Routledge\, 2018). \nImages provided by Jordan Lord and Emily Watlington. Jordan Lord’s picture by Mengwen Cao.
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LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hala Lotfy's Coming Forth by Day
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 28\, 2020\, 7–9:30 pm ET\nFree or suggested donation\nConversation with Hala Lotfy and Ekrem Serdar at 8:50 pm ET.\nRegistration required. Click here to register.\nAccess information: The film is presented in Arabic\, with English subtitles. Video introductions and conversations will feature ASL interpretation and open captions. The Google Doc Q&A features screen reader and screen magnification support. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nHala Lotfy’s 2012 intimately observed narrative feature film Al-khoroug lel-nahar (Coming Forth by Day) follows a day and night in the life of a young woman named Suad living in Cairo on the days before the Egyptian Revolution. Living with her sick and disabled father\, whom she takes care of with her nurse mother\, Lotfy’s quiet and powerful film depicts the vigilance\, routines\, exhaustion and isolation that can accompany care work. When Suad decides to leave the house for a few hours\, a tide of change is set into motion. Set against the backdrop of a country at a moment of change\, and titled after the Egyptian Book of the Dead\, Lofty’s award-winning film heralded a new Egyptian cinema as it stretches time to imagine what comes tomorrow. \nI had this feeling that we were suffocating. Anyone who visited Egypt before the revolution just caught this feeling in the air. It was a huge despair and everyone had the feeling we could not proceed this way. So the film was not intended to be like this but it was something I could not avoid. Losing hope\, I could not avoid that. – Hala Lotfy\, The National \nFollowing the screening\, the filmmaker will be present for a conversation and Q&A with Ekrem Serdar. Audiences will be able to leave reactions\, comments\, and questions through a shared Google Doc. Instructions for how to view and participate in the event will be communicated via email. The event will be available to view for 24 hours after the event and SW members will have access for 72 hours. \nHala Lotfy\, Al-khoroug lel-nahar (Coming Forth by Day)\, 100 min\, 2012\nThis event is part of Timeline(s) of Care. Comprised of five single-night screenings\, artist talks\, and interactive events taking place throughout Fall 2020. The series focuses on illness\, disability\, and care work across generations\, crisscrossing timelines\, and the minutiae of personal\, social\, political\, and institutional life. These works acknowledge the lives and work of those who came before us to create different tomorrows. \nBio \n\nHala Lotfy is an Egyptian director\, producer and the founder of Hassala Films collective. Ann Al Sho’our Bel Berouda (“Feeling Cold”\, 2005) is one of her notable documentary works\, which received numerous awards including the Special Jury Prize at the National Film Festival in Egypt. Lotfy also created seven documentaries for the TV series Arabs of Latin America for Al Jazeera. In 2011\, she was chosen by Charlotte Rampling to receive the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award. Lotfy’s feature fiction debut “Al-khoroug lel-nahar (Coming Forth by Day\, 2012) had its European premiere at the Berlinale Forum in 2013 and won many awards including the Prize of the FIPRESCI jury and Best Director from the Arab World at Abu Dhabi Film Festival. EXT./Night (2018) is the latest feature fiction she produced\, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018. \nEkrem Serdar is the curator at Squeaky Wheel.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/hala-lotfys-coming-forth-by-day/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lana Lin's The Cancer Journals Revisited
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 16\, 2020\, 7 pm ET\nConversation with Lana Lin and Dessane Lopez Cassell at 8:45 pm ET.\nFree or suggested donation\nRegistration required. Click here to register.\nAccess information: The film is presented with closed captions. Video introductions and conversations will feature automated open captions and ASL interpretation. The Google Doc Q&A features screen reader and screen magnification support. If you encounter any issues\, please send us a text message at 716-427-4125. \nLana Lin’s 2018 poetic non-fiction film The Cancer Journals Revisited features a chorus of women who recite and ruminate on Black lesbian poet Audre Lorde’s 1980 memoir of her experience with breast cancer\, The Cancer Journals. Lorde’s resistance\, grief\, and transformational voice are brought into the present by twenty-seven writers\, artists\, activists\, health care advocates\, and current and former breast cancer patients. The filmmaker–who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010–weaves Lorde’s life across generations\, and powerfully into the present. \nFollowing the screening\, the filmmaker will be present for a conversation and Q&A with Dessane Lopez Cassell. Audiences will be able to leave reactions\, comments\, and questions through a shared Google Doc. Instructions for how to view and participate in the event will be communicated via email. The event will be available to view for 24 hours after the event and SW members will have access for 72 hours. \nLana Lin\, The Cancer Journals Revisited\, 98 min\, 2018. \n\nThe film is an ode to this breaking of silence – for Lorde\, for the women interviewed\, and for the filmmaker Lin\, who eventually reveals her own cancer diagnosis…Ultimately\, like Lorde herself\, the film makes interesting connections between the personal and the political that at once underscore the timelessness and timeliness of her writing. – Beandrea July\, Hyperallergic \nThis event is part of Timeline(s) of Care. Comprised of five single-night screenings\, artist talks\, and interactive events taking place throughout Fall 2020. The series focuses on illness\, disability\, and care work across generations\, crisscrossing timelines\, and the minutiae of personal\, social\, political\, and institutional life. These works acknowledge the lives and work of those who came before us to create different tomorrows. \n\nBios of the artists \nLana Lin is an artist\, filmmaker\, and writer who has made experimental films since the early 1990s and collaborative mixed media projects as ‘Lin + Lam’ since 2001. Her work examines the fragilities and contradictions of human and discursive bodies\, emphasizing the conceptual and poetic capacities of moving image media. Her art and films have been shown at international venues including the Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival 2020\, BAMcinemaFest 2019\, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest\, London\, Oberhausen Film Festival\, Cinema Politica Concordia\, Montreal\, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival\, REDCAT contemporary arts center\, Los Angeles\, Busan Biennale 2018\, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum\, NY\, Stedelijk Museum\, Gasworks and Whitechapel Gallery\, London. She has been awarded fellowships from the Jerome Foundation\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, MacDowell\, Wexner Center for the Arts\, and Vera List Center for Art and Politics\, among others. The Cancer Journals Revisited won the Favorite Experimental Film Award at BlackStar Film Festival\, Philadelphia and Best Feature Documentary at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. She is the author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (Fordham UP\, 2017) and is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School\, NY. \nDessane Lopez Cassell is a curator\, writer\, and editor based in New York. Her research interests include artist’s moving image\, documentary\, and experimental film concerned with race\, gender\, and representation. Cassell has organized curatorial projects and screenings for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)\, MoMA Film\, and Flaherty NYC\, among numerous others. Currently\, she chairs the experimental film subcommittee for BlackStar Film Festival and serves as Editor of Reviews at Hyperallergic. \nFilm courtesy of Women Make Movies. Images of the film courtesy of Lana Lin. Special thank you to Dessane Lopez Cassell.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/lana-lins-the-cancer-journals-revisited/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Timeline(s) of Care
DESCRIPTION:Timeline(s) of Care is comprised of five virtual single-night screenings\, artist talks\, and interactive events taking place throughout Fall 2020. The series focuses on illness\, disability\, and care work across generations\, crisscrossing timelines\, and the minutiae of personal\, social\, political\, and institutional life. These works acknowledge the lives and work of those who came before us to create different tomorrows. \nAll events in this series will be available to access and view for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will have access to the event for 72 hours. Please see the individual event pages for access information. \n  \n\nFriday\, October 16\, 2020\, 7 pm\nScreening | Lana Lin’s The Cancer Journals Revisited\nFollowed by a conversation and Q&A between Lana Lin and Dessane Lopez Cassell \n \nWednesday\, October 28\, 2020\, 7 pm\nScreening | Hala Lotfy’s Coming Forth by Day\nFollowed by a conversation and Q&A between Hala Lotfy and Ekrem Serdar \n \nFriday\, November 6\, 2020\, 7 pm\nScreening | Jordan Lord’s Shared Resources\nFollowed by a conversation and Q&A between Jordan Lord and Emily Watlington \n \nFriday\, November 20\, 2020\, 7 pm\nWorkshop | What Would an Uprising Doula Do?\nAn interactive workshop by the What Does a HIV Doula Do? Collective \n \nWednesday\, December 9\, 2020\, 7 pm\nPresentation and Q&A | Taraneh Fazeli on Sick Time\, Sleepy Time\, Crip Time \nA presentation and conversation with Taraneh Fazeli and Amalle Dublon.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/timelines-of-care/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event Series,Virtual
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