Interview Me By Curry+Dillon
Interview Me is a new multidisciplinary work by Curry+Dillon, presented by the Northwest Film Forum to open its 2011 Live at the Film Forum season.

When: September 15 – 17, 8 pm
Lobby installation begins at 7:30 pm
Where: Northwest Film Forum,  1515 12^th Ave., Seattle WA 98122
Contact Information:
Laura Curry
Lori Dillon
curryanddillon@gmail.com

About Interview Me
Interview Me integrates public installation, multi-media performance, and dance theatre to explore the ways in which interviews function in our society.  Curry+Dillon exploit the drama and architecture of “the interview” in a highly interactive evening where the audience plays a significant role in the experience.  Drawing from historical references and contemporary social media, Interview Me forces an up-close investigation of America’s love affair, and contemporary culture’s fascination, with the interview.

Interview Me is supported in part by 4Culture, Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Northwest Film Forum and other generous donors.

Ticket Information
Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets, at Northwest Film Forum and at the door.

About Curry+Dillon
Curry+Dillon are Seattle & New York artist collaborators who explore recurring themes of reality versus fiction through interactive events. They have presented multi-disciplinary interactive performances in theaters, galleries and installed themselves in retail windows, hotel rooms, and other public spaces in their ongoing experimentation with communication-based, endurance performance. Previous select works include The Agreement (2010), a Seattle / New York cross-country performance installation; the Moore Inside/Out Project (2009); Performance Memoirs (2008) in Seattle’s Hotel Max; and participation in MOTEL (2008). Curry+Dillon have been funded by the Paul G. Allen Foundation, 4Culture, Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Art Patch, and many individuals and businesses.

About Northwest Film Forum
Northwest Film Forum is Seattle’s premier film arts organization, screening over 200 independently made and classic films annually, offering a year-round schedule of film making classes for all ages, and supporting filmmakers at all stages of their careers.  Live at the Film Forum presents innovative, newly commissioned performances that take cinema off the screen and into live theater.  Projects commissioned for Live at the Film Forum bridge disciplines, connect artists with audiences and integrate the temporary exhilaration of live theater with the lasting qualities of film.

Student Game Show
When: Monday, May 2 @ 6-9pm
Where: Room 242 & 278 @ The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

The University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study proudly presents a collection of student games created during the Spring semester of this year under the guidance of Josephine Anstey and Luke Noonan. This year students in the Virtual Worlds class are showcasing their video games. People will get the chance to meet the designers and play the games.

This event coincides with the department’s Student show, which provides free food and sustenance to those in attendance.

Come play some games and have a little fun with us!

For more information on the featured games, descriptions, and screenshots please visit:
http://josephineanstey.com/Teaching/VirtualWorldsTwo?action=browse
To check out on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207705262580815

Announcing a new format for the DMS Student Show!
The evening will include: a program of featured student work; a plenary session where DMS awards will be presented; and parallel exhibitions of student work in multiple rooms (see schedule below). The goal of these changes is to encourage co-mingling of people, ideas and media and to support the diversity of work that is produced in DMS.

Schedule
5:00: Room 112 Featured Student Work
5:20: Room 112 Plenary & Awards
5:40: Intermission & Food
Multiple Screening and Interactive/Installation Rooms
Rooms 112, 232, 235, 242, 246, 278, 286
6:00 – 7:20: Session 1
7:20: Intermission & Food
7:40 – 9:00: Session 2

We hope to see you at the plenary session!

Nickel City Smiler directed by Brett Williams and edited by Tim Gera was featured in the Buffalo News. The article A story of anguish and hope: Film tells a tale of Buffalo’s Burmese residents through the eyes of one refugee was published on April 11, 2011. Nickel City Smiler is a documentary about a proud Burmese refugee named Smiler and all the dreams and burdens he carries with him in his busy life on Buffalo’s West Side.

It’s a documentary with a catchy title — “Nickel City Smiler” — about a proud Burmese refugee named Smiler and all the dreams and burdens he carries with him in his busy life on Buffalo’s West Side.

The story of the Burmese in Buffalo is told through the sometimes anguished thoughts and words of Smiler Greely, and the 103-minute film is a gritty look at the plight of Burmese refugees here.

“Nickel City Smiler — From the Jungle to the Streets” will be shown at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Market Arcade as part of the current 10-day Buffalo Niagara Film Festival.

Why should the plight of the Burmese be so important in Buffalo?

Partly because the Burmese and other refugees represent the only slice of growth in an otherwise hemorrhaging population.

“Ninety-eight percent of the individuals that moved into the city of Buffalo for the past two years were refugees,” said Donna Pepero, who heads the Refugee School Impact Program in the Buffalo schools. “They’re filling these empty houses on the West Side, all over Buffalo.”

To view the entire article, please visit: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article389709.ece.

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.

Selected Festivals / Awards:
film: Colosseum: Prowling a Monument Space
2011 Black Maria Film Festival: Directors Choice Award

film: Miss BlindSight/The Wingwall Auditions
2002 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences/UCLA Documentary Series
2001 New England Film and Video Festival, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (Best Independent Film)
2001 New York Independent Film and Video Festival
2001 Long Island International Film Expo (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Screening Committee considers Miss BlindSight “one of the outstanding documentaries of 2000″)
2001 25th Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, GA
2001 Marin County Festival of Short Films, San Rafael, CA (First Prize, Documentary)
2001 Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH (Documentary Award)
2001 Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ (Directors’ Choice Award)
2001 WinFemme Film Festival: Best of the Fest, Tribeca Screening Center, NYC
2001 22nd Festival International du Film Independent, Brussels, Belgium
2001 Oslo International Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
2001 FAN International Short Film and Animation Festival, Norwich, England
2001 48th Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Columbus, OH
2001 Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film and Video, Victoria, BC
2001 Indiana Film Video Festival, Indianapolis, IN (Indy Award and People’s Choice Award)

film: Samuel Yellin’s Legacy
1995 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

film: Frank Stella at The Fogg, 1984
1988 Museum of Modern Art, NYC (showed continuously as part of a Frank Stella retrospective)

film: Made in Milwaukee
1980 Great Lakes Film Festival (First Prize, Documentary)

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Sponsored by the Department of Media Study and the Open Air Institute

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.

Curated and introduced by Sophie Hamacher.
Schedule:
3:00 Opening remarks and introduction of presenters by moderator Liz Flyntz. Berlin filmmaker,
Sophie Hamacher, will introduce her curated series of films.
4:30 Excerpts of complimentary works by Rust Belt based film & video makers Lisa Jane Davis and
Anna Scime.
5:00 Department of Media Study graduate student Cayden Mak on Adorno’s conception of the
culture industry in relation to new social gaming networks.
5:30 Discussion

Laura Horelli and Gerhard Friedl
Shedding Details (23 min.)

Jan Peter Hammer
The Anarchist Banker (29min.)

Discoteca Flaming Star
El valor del gallo negro (24min.)

Anna Scime
there is no eye in equus (10min. excerpt)

Lisa Jane Davis
total eclipse of the heart of darkness (15min. excerpt)

Cayden Mak
The Schema of Game Culture: the gamification of everyday life and Adorno’s culture industry (presentation)

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.

E-Poetry is the definitive innovative digital language arts festival in the world. With its emphasis on poetics, performance, engaged arts, experimentation, and scholarly and artistic conversation, and with previous events in West Virginia, London, Paris, and Barcelona, it has defined international digital literature poetics today.

The tenth anniversary festival of E-Poetry 2011 is set to launch a new epoch in digital literature. E-Poetry, at its inception, was the first to map this field. E-Poetry has been here since the beginning and continues even stronger today. It has set out to organize the 2011 festival as a culmination of the first ten years as well as a model for future years – advancing the conversation of the digital into the engaged scene of creative and scholarly activity that the field promises.

With its sponsoring organization, the Electronic Poetry Center, often recognized as the world’s first and preeminent Web-based poetry resource, E-Poetry will define the arts as emerging practice in an interdisciplinary, aesthetically complex, and materially delightful manner never before seen. We invite you to be there.

The festival will take place from Wednesday, May, 18th to Saturday May 21st, 2011, with special conference events on Tuesday, May 17 and its Wednesday “Scientific Committee” panels. Please come for as long as you can. The cost of visiting Buffalo is quite reasonable. We will be glad to help with suggestions for your travel and accommodation. E-Poetry offers the chance for a prolonged immersion into considerations of the workings and practices of digital poets, scholars, and artists. Buffalo is a location, fervent with the great powers of the Niagara rushing through the tranquil, flat, maple forested countryside of Western New York, where we can come together, apart from the hustle of a devouring city, to meet as artists and thinkers. It is a location that offers celebration and contemplation. It is a quiet place but a location within New York State’s largest university, its programs direct descendants of Black Mountain College, Language Poetry, various iterations of the Poetics Program, Media Study at Buffalo, and the Electronic Poetry Center. Buffalo is a prime leader in the U.S. in the innovative digital, visual, sound, and language arts.

Information is available via the EPC, where you will always find the latest information on E-Poetry 2011.

When: Sunday, April 10 · 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Market Arcade Films and Arts Centre

Traversing the boundaries of imagination and fact, filmmaker John J. Fink presents a new semi-autobiographical short film, Analog, about a young Buffalo, NY couple. Wade, a long haul truck driver (Benjamin L. Newmark) and his wife, Diana (Tilke Hill) struggle to come to terms with an open secret they must break to their son (Ethan Dempsy).

Written & Directed by John J. Fink
Produced by Isaac DV Johnson & John J. Fink

Screening in Shorts Block E on Sunday April 10th, 2011 at 3PM, Theatre #1 at Dipson Theatres Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre.

For more information, please visit www.johnfinkfilms.com.

PEEPSHOW 2011: It’s Complicated – Squeaky Wheel’s high-energy fundraising art party & art-stravaganza!
When: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 8:00 p.m. – 1:00a.m.
Where: DNIPRO Ukrainian Center (562 Genesee St.)
Price: $15 pre-sale and $20 at door price ($15 for students w/ ID)

Squeaky Wheel is at it again! On February 26th, this Buffalo based media arts center is hosting their annual fundraiser showcase this year at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center. This unique multi-level venue will be the jam-packed with works of art from over 40 artists, featuring a massive dose of live music performances, an art auction, and interactive art projects such as an auto-playing musical instrument consisting of 12 vibrating dildos by Brian Larson Clark, 50-foot-long kinetic sculptures crafted from flexible tubes containing intelligent lights that moves with the rhythm of the music by Joel Resnikoff and even a human mirror ball. Purchase your tickets today and become part of the fun and games this year.

For those of you interested to get the first crack at the art auction, get a ticket for the Peepshow PEEP! Pre-party from 7:00-8:00pm. Pre-party tickets are available online and include adjacent parking, first bid at the art auction, complimentary cocktails, authentic Ukrainian hors d’oeuvres, a VIP video screening at 8:00pm, and music by After Hours.

Advance tickets will be sold for $15 at Squeaky Wheel, Café Taza, Sweetness 7, Talking Leaves and online.

All proceeds from Peepshow will benefit Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Resources, a non-profit media arts center that provides education and opportunities for artist and individuals off all ages across Western New York and beyond!*

In case you were traveling far from the city for PEEPSHOW, we wanted to let you know the Hampton Inn & Suites® hotel on Delaware & Chippewa in Downtown Buffalo is offering a PEEPSHOW Block special, featuring a King-sized bed and Jacuzzi for only $99 plus applicable tax. This hotel is just minutes from the DNIPRO Ukrainian Center and will make it easy to stay the night. Call 716.855.223 to book your room – simply ask for the PEEPSHOW Block!

Complete list of participating artists and entertainment:

ARTISTS INCLUDE: Aaron Oldenburg, Alice Alexandrescu, Alicia Paolucci, Anna Scime, Brian Larson Clark, Brittany Debole, Caitlin Cass, Chelsea Wagner, Dax Norman, Eric Souther, Gratuitous Art Productions, Jason Bernagozzi, Jeff Maciejewski, Jody Lafond, Joel Resnikoff, John Bono, John Fink, John Knecht, Jordan Dalton, Josh Parkins, Katy Brown, Keir Nueringer, Kyle Butler, Lukia Costello, MADDTAT2, Mark Hursty, Mark Madden, Marc Tomko, Morgan Higby-Flowers, Nalani Latrish Williams, Nancy Parisi, Neil Ira Needleman, OCUSONIC: Sound & Vision, Patrick McElnea, Ruth Goldman, Russell Chartier, Stephen Ausherman, Steven Ansell, Susan Stefanski, Tammy McGovern, Tara Najd Ahmadi, Timothy Scaffidi, Tom Holt, Victoria Bradbury, Vince Mistretta, Vincent Ducarne.

LIVE MUSIC AND DANCE PERFORMANCES BY: AVDJ Projex, Boom Boom Betties, DJ Slobanozzle, Habibi of the Nile, Ilya’s Bellydancers, Left Hand of Darkness, MJB Corporation, Poverty Hymns, Reactionary Ensemble, Real Dream Caberet, The Stripteasers, Wooden Waves, Yes Yes & Heaven Tongue, and projections by Level 4 Activated.

Artist Talk presenting Zach Gage
When: Monday, February 7 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Where: CFA 235 (Screening Room)

Workshop by Zach Gage
When: Tuesday, February 8 @ 1:00 – 4:40 pm
Where: CFA 246 (Lab 246)
The Workshop will feature iPhone and OpenFrameworks

Please RSVP to Teri Rueb at terirueb@buffalo.edu
Department of Media Study

Sponsored by: the Open Air Institute | UB Media Study