Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series starts February 23, 2010

Please join Stefani Bardin
on Tuesday February 23rd at 6 pm
in Room 232 in the Center for Fine Arts
for the launch of the
FOOD AND EMERGING MEDIA SPEAKER SERIES.

The first speaker will be David Szanto an adjunct professor of gastronomy and communications at l’Université du Québec à Montréal and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy. With a master’s degree in Food Culture and Communications, he is currently a graduate student in design and interaction at Concordia University in Montréal. Below is a synopsis of his talk. Click here for a poster for the series (.pdf) (with some dates and times to be added).

Towards Intelligent Gastronomy: Equilibrating Human Food Systems

The current state of human food production and consumption is in social, environmental, economic, and cultural crisis. This condition calls for a new perspective on food-world variables and their interactions, as well as a means to remedy emerging issues. Starting with a modified interpretation of gastronomy that encompasses the entire food realm both as we perceive it and create it, let us consider a new food-systems concept: intelligent gastronomy. What can we learn from biological, economic, or computing systems that might bring control and remediation mechanisms into our food production and consumption chains? And how might borrowing from game theory contribute to collaborative, rather than competitive, food-system models?

Filed under: Event, Lecture, presentation, david szanto, food and emerging media, intelligent gastronomy, Stefani Bardin

14th Annual International Women’s Film Festival February 11 – March 25, 2010

14th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL

FEBRUARY 11 – MARCH 25, 2010
genderin.buffalo.edu/filmfest

SCREENINGS:
Thursdays at 7 p.m., Market Arcade Film & Arts Center
639 Main St., Buffalo, NY

TICKETS:
$9 general admission / $5 for students, seniors, and Hallwalls members
(Your ticket purchase helps support women filmmakers, providing income through the rental costs we pay for their work. )

Programmed by Media Study instructor, Ruth Goldman. This a rare chance to see many excellent films. For a full schedule visit genderin.buffalo.edu/filmfest.

Filed under: Event, Screening, 14th annual international women's film festival, Ruth Goldman

Check out “The Film Stage” Blog founded by JORDAN RAUP and DAN MECCA

Founded by Jordan Raup and Dan Mecca, two Media Study students, The Film Stage (www.thefilmstage.com) is a blog that follows film industry news. Here’s a note from Jordan:

Fellow UB Students,

Do you want to keep up-to-date on all film industry news as well as exclusive interviews, articles, contests, features, podcasts, and reviews? The Film Stage was started by two UB Media Study students, Jordan Raup and Dan Mecca a year and half ago and it has grown now with over 20 writers from all over the world covering many major film festivals from Cannes to Sundance to Toronto. Many of our writers are heavily involved in filmmaking as well. It is a great venue to meet and discuss people that love cinema. Check out all the ways you can follow us below.

The Film Stage site
Facebook Fan Page
Twitter
RSS Feed
Subscribe to our Podcasts in iTunes
Google Buzz

We hope you enjoy all of our content and look forward to many film discussions!

Jordan Raup | Editor-In-Chief | The Film Stage | 585-217-1809 |
www.thefilmstage.com

Filed under: press, publication, dan mecca, film industry blog, jordan raup, the film stage

CAYDEN MAK’s “On Love, and its Place in the Academy” to be published Spring 2010

Congrats to DMS MFA Candidate Cayden Mak whose writing will be published this Spring in the forthcoming book Transforming the culture of higher education and student affairs to empower women: Theory, research, narratives and practice from feminist perspectives, published by Stylus Press/American College Personnel Association Books and Media. Cayden’s chapter is entitled “On Love, and its Place in the Academy.”

Filed under: publication, American College Personnel Association of Books and Media, cayden mak, Stylus Press

RON DOUGLAS’ “Unseen Tears” Screening Feb. 18th

Unseen Tears: The Impact of Native American Residential Boarding Schools in WNY by Media Study MFA candidate Ron Douglas

7:00-9:30 p.m., Thursday, February 18
Bulger Communications, Building South
Buffalo State College
FREE!

First 100 attendees will receive a complimentary DVD of the documentary.

Information tables, 7-7:30 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.
Followed by a panel comprised of former boarding school residents, children/grandchildren of survivors, social workers, K-12 school counselors, and producers/director of the documentary.

Unseen Tears focuses on Western New York Native American communities that are attempting to heal the wounds and break the cycle of intergenerational trauma resulting from the boarding school experience.

This free event is co-sponsored by the SUNY Western Native American Consortium, Seneca Nation Tribal Council Office, Seneca Nation Health Department, Native American Student Organization and Student Social Work Organization (both funded by the USG mandatory student activity fee), Kappa Omega—Social Work Honor Society, and Native American Community Services.

Unseen Tears is produced by Native American Community Services and Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources.

Filed under: Event, Lecture, presentation, Screening, documentary, Native American Community Services, ron douglas

ELLIOT CAPLAN’S film “15 Days of Dance” in New York City

15 DAYS OF DANCE – THE MAKING OF “GHOST LIGHT”

a film by Elliot Caplan with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company
Choreography by Brian Reeder, Music by Aaron Copland, Performed by Leonard Bernstein

“A revolutionary project…” The New York Times

Screening reminder: Upcoming screenings in New York City

February 11, 2010 and March 8, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Admission Free
Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY

Filed under: Event, Screening, 15 days of dance, american ballet theater, brian reeder, elliot caplan, ghost light

DreaMinimalist & SLAP THE GONDOLA w/TONY CONRAD & filmmaker MARIE LOSIER in-person

THU., FEB. 25TH @ 8:00 PM
LOCATION: SQUEAKY WHEEL
COST: $6 NON-MEMBERS / $4 MEMBERS

Marie Losier and Tony Conrad will present a special screening of DreaMinimalist (2008), which captures two years of Tony Conrad’s life playing with costumes, practicing his violin, cooking pickled films and his involvement with Flaming Creatures; and SLAP THE GONDOLA (2009), which captures a beautiful day transformed into a slimy Fish Fight on the great rusted Ferry of Brooklyn involving thirty of the filmmakers friends wildly dressed in handmade costumes dancing to the music of April March, starring two mermaids, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. What a treat!

Filed under: Event, Screening, dreaminimalist, marie losier, slap the gondola, tony conrad

DORKBOT BUFFALO

Thursday, February 4, 2010
7:30pm – 9:00pm
@
Sugar City
19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY
(Entrance at Side)

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=278551694372&ref=ts

After a short hibernation, (OK, it’s still winter) Dorkbot Buffalo returns to Sugar City this Thursday. Featuring presentations from Jax Deluca and Dino Husejnovic.

Presenter Bios:

Jax Deluca is an artist who lives in Buffalo, NY. Her sonic artwork has been designed for gallery and public installation, video and film, performance and theater productions. She teaches workshops in experimental and strategic sound-making at Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources.

Audio recording, sonic compositions, and live sound performance work contains use of vocal toning, electronic and handcrafted instruments, guitar, piano, and found objects ranging in the genres of classical, avant-garde, new folk, free improvisation, and immersive noise. Current projects include multi-dimensional sound paintings under the name of Communication Vault and live vocal and electronic sound processing with W ((aa)) ou w, a free improvisational group.

Jax will be talking about studio practice and will be demonstrating some of her technical processes.

www.myspace.com/communicationvault
www.myspace.com/pronouncedwow

Dino Husejnovic is an undergraduate Media Study student at the University at Buffalo. His interests include sound, video, interface design, social media, and user-generated content. Projects include interactive tilt-shift photography, soundscapes and collaborative location-aware sound mixing.

Dino will be presenting an interactive, participatory performance.

www.dinohusejnovic.com

Next Dorkbot:
Thursday, March 4
Stephanie Rothenburg
Cayden Mak
Paul Vanouse

Filed under: Event, Lecture, performance, presentation, dino husejnovic, dorkbot buffalo, jax deluca