FILMMAKER JOHN TERRY: Public Lecture and Screening

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
@ 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
UB North Campus
Center for the Arts Room 112 (Auditorium)

A very special opportunity to hear internationally recognized filmmaker John Terry speak about and present his films in person!

An independent filmmaker who has made more than 28 films, John Terry has taught at RISD, Yale, the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT he was instrumental in founding MIT’s documentary film/video program. He has been a Professor of Film/Animation/Video at RISD for more than two decades. In 1999 and 2004 Terry was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and lectured there in 1975. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. A capable administrator, he served as RISD’s acting associate provost in the late 1990s. He was department head Film Animation & Video from 1995-2001 and was been Dean of Fine Arts from 2002-2010.

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EXCHANGE STORIES SYMPOSIUM at Hallwalls

Exchange Stories Symposium
A one-day symposium, free and open to the public

Sunday, March 20th from 3 – 6 pm
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202

Exchange Stories:
Economics, Labor, and Interchange Explored in the Moving Image

How can we use make and use media to envision the ever-shifting connections of global economics?

Exchange Stories seeks to explore how current economies are being represented in contemporary European video and film. Incorporating the films of several artists, this seminar will examine different forms of economic practice as forms of cultural practice, raising questions such as how economic practice operates in contemporary cultures. The film program employs a wide range of approaches including experimental, documentary, auto-ethnographic and vérité strategies, which sometimes analytically, sometimes ironically deal with these topics. The presented films each individually try to activate new forms of understanding and “doing” or “thinking” economy.

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AN INVITATION TO ATTEND E-POETRY 2011

E-POETRY 2011
International Digital Language | Arts Festival
TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL
May 18-21, 2011
University at Buffalo
Web registration now available! Specially-priced advance registration offered during March 2011 only!

If you are interested in the emerging edge of language-informed arts practice, whether as a poet, writer, artist, media innovator, scholar, teacher, performer, or in any other disciplines, E-Poetry offers a context for practice and analysis that can’t be found anywhere else in the world. For its tenth anniversary, E-Poetry has been brought back to Buffalo, a central and accessible location for its activities. It will provide a mix of practices, with the emphasis on emerging practices in multiple disciplines that find themselves embedded or even just on the edge of the digital. It will convene a celebratory (in the triumphant spirit of preceding historic poetry festivals) and thought-filled gathering of 150 artists, writers, and scholars from 40 countries — a diversity and culturally rich offering that won’t be found elsewhere.

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