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: conference, Event, exhibition, performance, Screening, 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, presentation, Screening, 15 days of dance, brian reeder, center for the moving image, cmi, elliot caplan

Center for the Moving Image announces “Bridge Project” student grant awards

Seven DMS graduate students have been awarded grants through the Center for the Moving Image (CMI) in the Department of Media Study to support individual films based on their participation in “The Bridge: An International Art Initiative”.

Last spring the CMI hosted Richard Foreman, a pioneer of American avant-garde theater, and his collaborator Sophie Haviland for an intensive two week film and theater production at the Ukrainian Center in Buffalo. The footage created from that project is now part of “The Bridge”, which has been to nine countries conducting similar workshops. The students will be using the footage made in Buffalo to create their own films.

The seven grant recipients for 2009-10 are: Anna Scime ($1000), Scott Ries ($1000), Kerri Kieser ($1000), Yuichiro Yamada ($1000), Olivier Delrieu-Schulze ($1000), Loren Sonnenberg ($1000), and Brett Williams ($500). A screening of their work will be held in Buffalo and New York City next spring.

Emmy award-winning filmmaker Elliot Caplan, Artistic Director of the CMI and UB professor of Media Study said, “We were the first location chosen in the United States for this prestigious and far-reaching project. We are thrilled that our students will be able to contribute to its continued success and capitalize on this opportunity by producing another generation of work.”

The grants were made possible through the generous support of the Liberace Foundation and the Dean’s Office in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information on The Bridge: http://www.bridgefilm.com/Site/INDEX/INDEX.html

Filed under: grant award, anna scime, brett williams, Bridge Project, center for the moving image, cmi, elliot caplan, kerri kieser, liberace foundation, Loren Sonnenberg, olivier delrieu-schulze, Richard Foreman, scott, scott ries, Sophie Haviland, yuichiro yamada

“We Need Food Not Bombs” on FSTV

MFA Candidate Ron Douglas’ documentary We Need Food Not Bombs (SUBHUMANS IN THE SOUNDTRACK!!) is scheduled to run on Free Speech TV

October 30th:
11:30 AM

October 31st:
4:30 AM
7:30 AM
5:30 PM

The cost of Iraq and Afghanistan laid out end-to-end in $100 bills…

…would extend 846,157.6 miles – or just short of 34 times around the Earth’s circumference. (Stat from: The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation)

Man I just need a few of those bills…. Help me out man….I’ll make art not bombs….

alchemicalmedia.com

alchemicalmedia.blogspot.com

alchemicalmedia.com/spangetheworld

Filed under: exhibition, Screening, documentary, ron douglas, we need food not bombs

Digital Media Poetics presents Sandy Baldwin

Monday, October 19, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
SANDY BALDWIN

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, digital poetics, sandy baldwin

John Fink’s Mary May’s Suicide Letter to screen @ Big Apple Film Festival

First year MFA candidate John J. Fink’s short narrative film Mary May’s Suicide Letter has been selected to screen opening night at this year’s Big Apple Film Festival. The film tells the story of Mary, a women haunted by a personal tragedy that tears her marrage to a successful banker apart.

The film will screen on Tuesday November 3, 2009 at 6:30PM at Tribeca Cinemas – Theater #2, and will play before the opening night feature Against The Current staring Joseph Fiennes, Mary Tyler Moore and Michelle Trachtenberg. Tickets for the program are $20.00 and can be purchased in advance at www.bigapplefilmfestival.com.

Filed under: Event, exhibition, festival, Screening, big apple film festival, john fink, mary may's suicide letter

&NOW: Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts

The 4th Biennial &Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts will be held in Buffalo, NY from October 14-17, 2009.

The &Now Festival explores intersections between creative and critical praxes, examines innovative and experimental acts of writing, and advances a serious inquiry into theories of language.

Panel: “POETICS ACROSS MEDIA”
featuring Media Study students Anna Scime (poetics of moving images) and Adam Liszkiewicz (poetics of video games) and Media Study faculty Josephine Anstey (virtual reality and stream of consciousness), and Loss Pequeño Glazier (language arts practice).

“Poetics Across Media” proposes to examine innovative incursions of the poetic into and across media. Through analyses of digital/poetry, film, video games, and virtual reality, this panel hopes to expand and better delineate the potentials of contemporary literature.

Moderator/co-moderator: Loss Pequeño Glazier/Adam Liszkiewicz.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009,
8:00-8:50 pm, Hallwalls Cinema (340 Delaware Ave, Buffalo).

Filed under: conference, Event, presentation, &now, adam liszkiewicz, anna scime, hallwalls, josephine anstey, Loss Pequeño Glazier

Dorkbot Buffalo Returns!

People doing strange things with electricity

Dorkbot Buffalo presents:
Erik Conrad
Luke Noonan
Scott Ries

Thursday, October 8, 2009
7:30pm – 9:30pm @ Sugar City
19 Wadsworth St., Buffalo, NY

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Filed under: Event, Lecture, performance, presentation, erik conrad, luke noonan, scott ries