15th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL

The Fifteenth Annual International Women’s Film Festival
@ the Market Arcade 639 Main Street, Buffalo, NY
on February 17, 2011 – March 31, 2011

The festival is running for six consecutive Thursdays and gives film lovers from Western New York a rare chance to see some authentically underground films from all over the world.

The IWFF, which is sponsored by UB’s Gender Institute, consists mostly of little-known films made by un- or underfunded independent women filmmakers. Festival programmer Ruth Goldman, in her second year at the helm, says she likes to cast as wide a net as possible when scheduling the festival. “I believe the festival should provide viewers with the opportunity to see films by women that they would not otherwise have the opportunity to see in a theater,” Goldman says.

Although most mainstream moviegoers will not recognize the filmmakers in the lineup, Goldman, who is an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Media Study and a documentary filmmaker herself, says the point of the festival is not to give viewers something they are comfortable with. Instead, the festival should make viewers uncomfortable, it should make them think, and it should introduce them to new ways of seeing the movies. “As a programmer and educator,” Goldman says, “my intent is to provoke, in the best possible spirit of the word.”

To view the entire Spree Article: http://buffalospreemagazine.com/current/010211film.html

Channel 7 Clip: http://www.wkbw.com/programming/am-buffalo/video/Buffalo-Spree-Magazine—International-Womens-Film-Festival—January-20th-114305439.html

Film Fest Schedule:  http://genderin.buffalo.edu/filmfest.php

 

 

Filed under: Event, festival, Screening, Ruth Goldman

The Eyes of the Skin, Art and Senses: SOUND

The Eyes of the Skin, Art and Senses: SOUND
February 11th through May 22nd
@ Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222

Featuring work by Mark Shepard, J.T. Rinker and Alexandra Spaulding
Curated by Stefani Bardin

Sunday, February 13th at 3pm
Live performance of Mark Shepard’s Hertzian Rain featured in this show.
Hertzian Rain is an interactive and sonorific sound performance.

About the Exhibition:
The Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa wrote a book entitled The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses in which he argued against the isolating ocular-centric paradigm in western culture and its impact on phenomenology in favor of a more holistic model of multi-sensory architecture of integration. The series of exhibitions at The Burchfield
Penney Art Center The Eyes of the Skin: Art and the Senses shifts the focus from visually based art toward work that is grounded in a sensorium of sound, smell, taste and touch.

Work from each individual sense will occupy the for a period of months so the public can focus on each of the four senses separately and over a period of time in order to experience the environment within a different
phenomenological model. After each of the four exhibitions, there will be a comprehensive group show in 2012 throughout the museum, of all the work from each of the four senses (plus some new artists and some new
pieces) that will allow the public to be immersed in this holistic and re-envisioned sensorium of perception.

The first exhibition, Sound, will be an investigation into what Marshall McLuhan calls the re-casting of technology with which to understand and act on the world. The three artists: Mark Shepard, J.T. Rinker and Alexandra Spaulding utilize different aural modalities but also different lenses through which to cultivate and express acoustical
information.

For more information, please visit: http://www.burchfieldpenney.org/?select=exhibitions&data=upcoming

Filed under: Event, exhibition, installation, performance, Alexandra Spaulding, J.T. Rinker, Juhani Pallasmaa, Mark Shepard, Stefani Bardin

Tony Conrad’s “Yellow Movie” audio clip from MoMA Multimedia

Hear an audio interview excerpt with Tony Conrad discussing Yellow Movie (1973):
www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/53/1024

Filed under: exhibition, moma, Museum of Modern Art NY, tony conrad

Küçük Sinemalar! – Experimental Cinema from Turkey

Sun., Jan. 16, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 members

Küçük Sinemalar! (Little Cinemas) is a screening of new experimental shorts by a tight-knit of group film and video makers from Turkey, including Can Eskinazi, Eytan Ipeker, Yoel Meranda, Cengiz Yetken, Mustafa Uzuner and DMS MFA candidate Ekrem Serdar.

“Küçük Sinemalar! is a group of media artists, highly cognizant of ideas and aesthetics coming from the North American and European avant-garde, who together also operate the Turkish experimental cinema blog of the same name,” states curator Ekrem Serdar. “Hoping to provide a small survey of experimental practice originating from a continent-straddling nation, the screening will also provide an initial forum for discovery of Turkish avant-garde cinema with a screening of Cengiz Yetken’s 16mm film Of Eh (1968).” The screening is a follow up to “Formless”, a screening of experimental cinema which took place at Istanbul’s Pera Museum. For more information please visit kucuksinemalar.blogspot.com or hallwalls.org.

Filed under: Event, presentation, Screening, Can Eskinazi, Cengiz Yetken, Ekrem Serdar, Eytan Ipeker, Küçük Sinemalar!, Mustafa Uzuner, Of Eh, Turkish experimental cinema, Yoel Meranda

Glazier: PERFORMANCE, EXHIBITION & PRESENTATION

ELECTRONIC LITERATURE WORKSHOP
20th and 21st of January 2011

@ Palazzo delle Arti of Naples, the PAN Museum in Naples, Italy
OLE (Officina di Letteratura Elettronica)

Glazier Exhibition: Middle Orange | Media Naranja
Glazier Performance: [ 8vo ]
Glazier Presentation: Una Piccola Historia della Poesia Elettronica

Exhibition screening of Middle Orange, performance of digital poem [ 8vo ], and paper presentation of Una Piccola Historia della Poesia Elettronica by Media Study Faculty Member, Dr. Loss Pequeño Glazier, as an invited participant at OLE.

The OLE (Officina di Letteratura Elettronica) Workshop of Electronic Literature conference and festival will be the first significant event in the field of digital literature hosted in Italy. The workshop will allow the OLE to introduce the field of Electronic Literature as it is practiced in Italy. Artists and researchers worldwide shall meet and present their research and works. This will permit researchers to present their latest research and artists to premier their newest works.

Filed under: conference, Event, exhibition, festival, performance, presentation, Loss Pequeño Glazier

2010 in review: blog stats

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2010. That’s about 29 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 82 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 146 posts. There were 5 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3mb.

The busiest day of the year was March 29th with 161 views. The most popular post that day was RON DOUGLAS’ “Unseen Tears” to Screen At Suny Wide Film Festival.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were mediastudy.buffalo.edu, facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, twitter.com, and fluxxlab.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for unseen tears, stefani bardin, ishu patel, unseen tears documentary, and buried land.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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RON DOUGLAS’ “Unseen Tears” to Screen At Suny Wide Film Festival March 2010

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Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series starts February 23, 2010 February 2010
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“BURIED LAND” directed by STEVEN EASTWOOD & GEOFFREY ALAN RHODES premieres @ Tribeca Int’l Film Festival March 2010
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RON DOUGLAS’ “Unseen Tears” Screening Feb. 18th February 2010
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E-POETRY 2011: An International Digital Literature Festival September 2010

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