Andrew Deselm returns for Psycho lecture

Andrew Deselm, MAH 2008, will be giving his lecture “Fixing Hitchcock” as part of Stefani Bardin’s Alfred Hitchcock class this coming Wednesday, November 18th at 5PM. We will be screening Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Hitchcock’s Psycho and having a discussion surrounding the stylistic approaches of each director and how remakes of Hitchcock help to illuminate his directorial style. This event is open to everyone and will take place in CFA 112.

Mr. Deselm is currently an adjunct professor at Indiana University-South Bend in the English department. He has given lectures on Psycho at Notre Dame and Indiana Tech.

Filed under: Event, Lecture, presentation , alfred hitchcock, andrew deselm, psycho

dorkbot BUFFALO

dorkbot BUFFALO
Thursday, November 12, 2009
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY

This week’s Dorkbot will feature the following presentations:

Stefani Bardin – “The Pharmacology of Taste”
Evelyn Killaby – “Theremin as Computer Input Device”

Stefani Bardin is a media maker interested in the intersections of food, technology and science. By examining industrial food production and using such tools as artificial smells (that “flavor” our food supply) and gastroenterology technology Stefani looks at food as both a mediating agent and phenomenological reference point within our society and how its role has changed through the modern influences of technology and corporate culture.

Evelyn Killaby has recently graduated from the Computer Science department at the University at Buffalo and currently works as a web-based software engineer for Synacor, Inc. in downtown Buffalo. Among the many ideas floating around in her brain is the notion of building theremin-based computer input devices that branch into the realm of wearable computing and theremin-based desktop input devices that can be used for manipulating multidimensional data. In this presentation, Eve will demonstrate a proof-of-concept to show how input data is gathered through user interaction with a theremin and will briefly explain the physical phenomenon that makes this type of user interaction possible. Following this, she will present concept sketches pertaining to how we might re-envision the theremin as an advanced input device, leveraging its smart, cheap, and low-tech nature. This presentation will begin a series of critical appreciations of theremin-based innovations.

Filed under: Event, Lecture, performance, presentation , dorkbot buffalo, evelyn killaby, Stefani Bardin

FRAUKE BEHRENDT: “Spaces Rubbing Together: De Certeau on a GPS Sound Walk”

The University at Buffalo, Department of Media Study is pleased to sponsor:

FRAUKE BEHRENDT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Room: CFA 232 (North Campus)
Title: Spaces Rubbing Together: De Certeau on a GPS Sound Walk

Talk will begin at 3:00 p.m. with questions and conversation until 5:00 p.m.
(inquiries: terirueb@buffalo.edu or erikconr@buffalo.edu)

Frauke’s blog: mobilesound.wordpress.com
Frauke’s CV

Frauke Behrendt is a researcher, historian and critical theorist interested in the role of sound in the areas of interactive art, locative media and mobile technology. She studies the increasing number of artists experimenting with mobile phones as means of audience participation in their sound/music-focused projects. Frauke is actively involved with the rapidly growing field of mobile music and is on the steering committee of the International Workshop of Mobile Music Technology. Currently she is completing her PhD at the Department of Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex, England. Frauke has presented her research at various international conferences and published her research both in English and German. Recently she presented a paper on “Sound Art on the Move” at the SoundAsArt Conference in Aberdeen and published the conference paper “Mobile Music Technology: Report on Emerging Community”, presented at the 2006 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-06) at the IRCAM Center in Paris. Her Master’s thesis was awarded a research prize on Digital Media and published as “Handymusik. Klangkunst und ‘mobile devices’ ” in Germany in 2004.

Frauke works on several commercial and governmental advisory committees to help steer progress in mobile and locative media. She has been appointed as Management Committee Member for Germany and is Chair of the Working Group “Interactive Art and Music”. Her work in Sonic Interaction Design is funded by COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research). Frauke is also a Member of the Centre for Material Digital Culture at Sussex, which aims to re-connect media studies with forms of thinking that have traditionally been marginal to the discipline, but which have been more centrally concerned with thinking through early techno-culture: in particular medium theory, cultural geography, and science and technology studies (STS). Frauke is also a Member of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Mobile Music Technology.

Filed under: Event, Lecture, presentation , frauke behrendt, interactive art, locative media, mobile technology

Transgender Day of Remembrance Call for Work

Friday, November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance, an international day to memorialize and reflect on the human loss that results from anti-trans hate and fear of people who do not conform rigidly to the binary gender system. Cayden Mak is curating an event at the Department of Media Study’s Open Graduate Studio (CFA 286) to create space and time for observance and activism. The event will take place on that Friday from 1 until 4 pm.

Creative and/or critical works regarding the issue of oppression and silencing due to gender identity and expression will be considered for the show. There will be space for installation work as well as time for screening, performance or reading. The event will culminate in a social justice workshop.

Please submit work/proposals and direct questions to Cayden Mak (caydenma@buffalo.edu) by Friday, November 12.

Filed under: call for work, exhibition , call for work, dms event, transgender day of remembrance

2 Events with Chris Carlsson

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CAMPUS EVENT:
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CHRIS CARLSSON
Friday Nov. 6th 1:00 pm
Center for the Arts 112 (University at Buffalo, North Campus)

Internationally-recognized author and activist Chris Carlsson lectures on Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!

Sponsored by Graduate Group in Cultural Studies, Humanities Institute and Media Study GSA.

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OFF-CAMPUS EVENT
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Seeds of the New Commons: Building the Future in the Present
Chris Carlsson in conversation with Justin Booth and Kirk Laubenstein
November, 6th 7:00 pm
Sugar City (19 Wadsworth – near Elmwwod and Allen)

Join Chris Carlsson (San Francisco-based activist, author and historian), Justin Booth (Green Options Buffalo, Buffalo Blue Bicycle) and Kirk Laubenstein (Grassroots Gardens) for a discussion on how the future is being built today, in Buffalo and beyond.

Chris Carlsson is the executive director of the multimedia history project
Shaping San Francisco, and has edited four collections of political and historical essays. He helped launch the monthly bike-ins known as Critical Mass, and was the longtime editor of Processed World magazine.

In his current book Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today, San Francisco-based activist and historian Chris Carlsson profiles practices that embody a deep challenge to the basic underpinnings of modern life, as a new ecologically driven politics emerges from below, reshaping our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential.

Justin Booth is the director and founder of Green Options Buffalo which has launched programs including Recycle-A-Bicycle, Blue Bicycle and the Commercial District Bicycle Parking Program. His focus has been on developing interventions focused upon enhancing quality of life through healthier built and natural environments.

Kirk Laubenstein is president of Grassroots Gardens, a community gardening program working with public and private sectors to revitalize neighborhoods and build quality of life through the reuse and beautification of vacant land.

This event is free and open to all ages.

Filed under: Event, Lecture, presentation , buffalo blue bicycle, chris carlsson, critical mass, grassroots gardens, green options buffalo, justin booth, kirk laubenstein, nowtopia, shaping san francisco, sugar city

Digital Media Poetics presents A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz

Monday, November 9, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
A. J. PATRICK LISZKIEWICZ

Monday, November 16, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
JONATHAN MINTON

All events will take place in the Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, North
Campus. Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center , Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and, in part, by Gender Week, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Series Curators: Loss Pequeño Glazier and Anna Scime.

Filed under: Event, Lecture, presentation , a. j. patrick liszkiewicz, digital poetics

Toward the Sentient City on the BBC

Toward the Sentient City, an exhibit curated by Professor Mark Shepard, featured on the BBC’s “Digital Planet.” Listen here.

Filed under: press, radio , bbc, digital planet, Mark Shepard, toward the sentient city

DMS Conference Fundraiser – Night of the Living Dead

The DMS Grad Conference Committee will be presenting a screening of the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968) with LIVE comedians doing commentary. This MST3K inspired event will be held at Squeaky Wheel this Wednesday, October 28th. Doors are at 8PM and admission is a $5 donation. All proceeds go to the DMS “Building Better Worlds” grad conference fund. For more information on the event please visit our facebook event page.

Filed under: Event, Screening, conference, exhibition, performance , dms grad conference, night of the living dead, romero

Chris Carlsson

Chris Carlsson
Friday November 6th,2009, 1:00-3:00
Center for the Arts Room 112, UB North Campus

In his latest book, Nowtopia (AK Press), Carlsson posits “a new politics of work,” examining non-commercial innovation across many spheres and linking together the work of a variety of activists, artists and hobbyists. In Nowtopia, Carlsson profiles the work of open source computer programmers, community gardeners, bio-diesel tinkerers, and contextualizes their activities politically.

Carlsson is a founder of the Critical Mass bike rides, co-founder of the San Francisco alternative arts space CounterPULSE, and a former editor of the magazine Processed World.

Carlsson’s is sponsored by the Graduate Group in Cultural Studies, Humanities Institute, and Media Study GSA. This talk is a prelude to the interdisciplinary “Building Better Worlds” conference being organized for Spring.

If you have questions, or need more information please write: alarsen@buffalo.edu

Links:
Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!

Interview with Chris Carlsson on Youtube

Filed under: Event, presentation , chris carlsson, nowtopia

Elliot Caplan premieres “15 Days of Dance: the Making of ‘Ghost Light’”

Elliot Caplan, DMS professor and artistic director of the Center for the Moving Image premieres his latest work, 15 Days of Dance: the Making of Ghost Light October 15, 2009 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Read more here.

Filed under: Event, Screening, presentation , 15 days of dance, brian reeder, center for the moving image, cmi, elliot caplan