The Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo

Léwuga Tata Benson (MFA '22) examines the social, economic, and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the Niger Delta in his exhibition opening at Buffalo Arts Studio Friday, July 26, 2024. Runs through September 7, 2024. Congratulations, Léwuga! See you at the opening! More info: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/media-study/news-events/recent-news/LewugaBenson-FuelingChange.html

Léwuga Tata Benson (MFA '22) examines the social, economic, and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the Niger Delta in his exhibition opening at Buffalo Arts Studio July 26.

Léwuga Tata Benson’s, “Fueling Change: A Multimedia Exploration of Niger Delta’s Oil Crisis,” July 26 – September 7, 2024 | Buffalo Arts Studio Léwuga Tata Benson’s, “Fueling Change: A Multimedia Exploration of Niger Delta’s Oil Crisis,” July 26 – September 7, 2024 by Shirley Verrico | Jul 27, 2024 | Future Exhibitions Date/Time Date(s) - 07/27/2024 - 09/07/202412:00 am Location Buffalo Arts Studio Categories Future Exhibitions O...

🎬 Media Study End of Semester Show on May 9th, 2024
📍 Location: UB Center for the Arts

🌟 Exciting Announcement! 📚 Assistant Professor Cody Mejeur from the Department of Media Study is thrilled to share that a major project they've been working on for the past few years—a special issue of the journal Narrative focusing on trans narratives and narrative theories—has now been published!

Narrative is the flagship journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and is a leading publisher in the field of narrative research. This special issue is a significant contribution, enriching our understanding of trans narratives and expanding the scope of narrative theory with diverse perspectives.

📖 Cody invites everyone to explore this special issue and join the conversation about the transformative power of narratives in our understanding of identity and experience.

🎬 Media Study End of Semester Show 🌟
Join us for an evening showcasing the incredible talents of our students!

📅 Date: Thursday, May 9th, 2024
🕕 Time: 6 PM
📍 Location: UB Center for the Arts

What’s Happening?
🏆 Awards & Screenings:
👉 Room: 112

🖼 Installations:
👉 Location: 2nd Floor

Don't miss out on the chance to celebrate the hard work and creativity of our students. Mark your calendars and see you there!

Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ presents a talk by Christine Marie tonight at 6:15 pm EST in the Center for the Arts, Room 112.

As always, PLASMA lectures are free and open to the UB community and the public. For remote access to the series, use Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 with PASSWORD: 178187.

Interdisciplinary media artist Christine Marie creates artworks, installations, performances, XR, and immersive cinematic spectacles. While working at the intersection of art and science, Marie is intrinsically tied to ancient forms and the metaphysical exploration of light. She has pioneered large-scale, live 3D stereo-images for performance with her reinvention of the shadow-stereoscope. The device projects the largest known real-time 40’ 3D images into cubic space. Marie uses the term (antiquated) Augmented Reality to describe the analog, anaglyph effect, which is comparable to modern-day augmented reality and can only be experienced live or through a virtual reality headset.

https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/media-study/news-events/plasma.html

🎬 Catch Laura Kraning's evocative short film "Language of Memory" at the National Gallery of Art on May 4th! Screening as part of the "Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction" exhibition, this film delves into the intersections of textile production, clothing, identity, and memory through an experimental lens. Don’t miss this unique exploration of art and history on Saturday, May 4, 2024, 2:00 PM! 🕒🖼️

🔗 Details: https://www.nga.gov/calendar/film-programs/art-films-special-screenings/short-film-program-woven-histories.html/2024/05/04/1400

🚨 Tonight at 6:15 pm EST, don't miss Mark Shepard's talk presented by the Department of Media Study's PLASMA series! 🎤🖥️ Dive into engaging discussions on Media Art in the Center for the Arts, Room 112.

🌐 Can't make it in person? Join us remotely via Zoom with Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 and PASSWORD: 178187.

🎥✨ Join us for an inspiring evening at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center this Tuesday, May 7 at 7 pm ET! Dive into the impactful world of Jason Livingston, a DMS PhD candidate, as he presents a decade of his work through films addressing climate crises and protest movements. Don’t miss his acclaimed film "Ancient Sunshine" and more! 🌍💡

Jason will kick off the event with an artist talk, followed by a screening. Plus, explore his latest exhibition "In the Sun’s Absence" with Phoebe A. Cohen, open post-screening. 🖼️🗣️

📍 Location: Journey’s End Refugee Services, 2495 Main St #530, Buffalo, NY & online.

🎟️ Grab your tickets now! More details in the link https://squeaky.org/event/rushes-films-and-actions-by-jason-livingston/.

We had a wonderful visit from filmmaker and artist Tomonari Nishikawa last Friday, April 19th. Nishikawa conducted a 16mm Bolex multiple exposure workshop in Carl Lee's DMS 417/517 16mm Film Production class. Intense and fun! (Photos by Carl Lee)

🎶✨ Join us tonight at 7:30 PM for an electrifying evening of new compositions! Faculty and students from the Departments of Media Study and Music will be showcasing their talents at the CFA Black Box Theater, UB Center for the Arts.

📍 Where: CFA Black Box Theater
📅 When: Tonight at 7:30 PM

Featuring incredible performances by:

María Lihuen Sirvent
Jason Geistweidt & Zodiaque Dance Company
Cort Lippe
Tim Georger
Andras Blazsek
Ruonan Zhang
Dalton Carlson
Bill Sack
Don't miss this unique collaboration of music and media studies. See you there! 🎵🎬

The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ presents a live remote performance and screening by artist 0rphan Drift tonight at 6:15 pm EST in the Center for the Arts, Room 112.
For remote access to the series, use Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 with PASSWORD: 178187

2024 Annual Department of Media Study Black Box Concert

On Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30 pm faculty members and students from the Department of Media Study and Department of Music will perform new compositions in the CFA Black Box Theater.

Location: CFA Black Box Theater, UB Center for the Arts.

Participants: María Lihuen Sirvent; Jason Geistweidt with Zodiaque Dance Company; Cort Lippe; Tim Georger; Andras Blazsek ; Ruonan Zhang; Dalton Carlson; Bill Sack.

Upcoming Concert Alert! 🎶

Join us for the 7th edition of the Collaborative Electroacoustic Music Series on April 18th, 2024, at 7:30 PM at Louis P Ciminelli Recital Hall, Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State University. This exciting event, organized by Tomás Henriques, will feature innovative music by esteemed composers such as Cort Lippe, Jason Geistweidt, Ethan Hayden, Bill Sack, Tiffany Skidmore, and Tomás Henriques himself.

This series is a collaboration between Buffalo State University and the University at Buffalo’s Media Study and Music departments. It includes a mix of fixed media works and live performances, promising a cutting-edge experience of contemporary electronic music. Don’t miss out on engaging lectures and workshops that explore electronic music theory and practice.

🎟️ Free Admission 🚪 Doors open at 7:00 PM ♿ Handicap accessible 🚗 Free parking available

Make sure to mark your calendars for an evening of groundbreaking sound and artistic partnership!

MONDAY April 15th, The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​presents a talk by art historian TJ Demos at 6:15 pm EST in the Center for the Arts, Room 112. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art.

As always, PLASMA lectures are free and open to the UB community and the public. For remote access to the series, use Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 with PASSWORD: 178187

T. J. Demos teaches art history and visual culture at UC Santa Cruz, and directs its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology and is the author of numerous books, including Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (2016), Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (2017), and most recently, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come (2023). He co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019-21).

https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/media-study/news-events/recent-news/demosplasma24.html

🌟 Exciting News! Join us for the FEMeeting Sister Labs: Women in Art, Science, and Technology event in Buffalo, April 25-27!

Two panels will be moderated by DMS faculty. Love, Embodiment and DNA moderated by Crystal Z Campbell, Visiting Associate Professor of Art & Media Study, as well as Matter, Aesthetics, and the Microbiome moderated by Christina Corfield, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Study.

🎨This 3-day gathering brings together local and global artists, scholars, and community members for a symposium, exhibition, BioArt workshop, and performance at Torn Space Theater. 🌍 FEMeeting promotes direct collaborations and shares projects by women worldwide to advance art-science research and cooperation strategies. 🚀 For more info, click here: https://femeeting.com/2024/04/08/femeeting-sister-labs-buffalo-2024-april-25-27/

Supported by University at Buffalo - Department of Art , Coalesce: Center for Biological Art , Humanities Institute Technoculture Research Workshop, and Ewa Ziarek . Don't miss it! 🌟

FEMeeting SISTER LABS. Buffalo 2024 — April 25-27 PANELS | WORKSHOPS | EXHIBITION Please join the Department of Art and Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts for a special convening in Buffalo of FEMeeting Sister Labs: Women in …

🎮 Dive into the world of gaming with us! Join our Amatryx game night on Tuesday, April 9th, from 6-8 PM at CFA 286. 🕹️ We'll start with feedback and discussion on Tansy Xiao’s VR work, an artist currently in residence in Buffalo and a past participant in the Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 exhibition. 🖌️ Then, we'll jump into playing Detroit: Become Human together! 🤖 Let's explore Gaming in the Rustbelt, focusing on game content, culture, and production in settings like Buffalo. Don't miss out! 🎉

PLASMA presents Jenson Leonard, MONDAY April 1st

Jenson Leonard (b. 1990, Detroit, Michigan) is an artist whose work takes form out of the collapsed context of the internet, often critiquing its slippage of meaning and techno-capital excess while pointing out its attraction at the same time. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute, and has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca, Mexico), Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY). He teaches in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo.

https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/media-study/news-events/recent-news/leonardplasma24.html

This semester Video Two/DMS 341 students visited with UB librarian Michael Kicey to learn the research skills necessary to create video essays featuring historic and contemporary video artists like Joan Jonas, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist and others.

In addition, each student created their own video art installation, object card, and artistic statement. Professor Christine Marie held two group shows featuring their work in CFA 278 earlier this month.

Selected images:
1 Emma Anders multi-channel installation “Cavity.”
2 Seung Yeop Lee multi-channel installation “Searching for Depression.”
3 Phillip Lee single-channel with audio “Alchestera.”
4 Samantha Shotwell single-channel “Untitled.”

On March 27 at 5pm, DMS professor Kalpana Subramanian's film "Tattva" will be showcased at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. The screening is part of a special program titled "Visions from Colorado," curated by Erin Espelie and Jennifer Peterson. This program features films by various artists including Anna Kipervaser, Barbara Hammer, Christin Turner, Erin Espelie, Jeanne Liotta, Jennifer Reeves, Stacey Steers, Taylor Dunne, and Stan Brakhage. The event will take place at The State Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Additionally, Subramanian's film "Incantation" has been selected to be screened as part of the "17 Days" series, which is in its 15th year, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This film will also travel to Alfred State College in Alfred, New York. The series is guest-curated by Eric Souther and Jacklyn Brickman.

More information about the Ann Arbor Film Festival schedule at https://www.aafilmfest.org/62-schedule-page.

🎬 Blake Barit's thesis exhibit "Index of a Painted Film" opens at CEPA Gallery on Main St. in Buffalo on April 12th at 6pm, with an artist talk at 7pm, running through April 26th. 🎥 Additionally, there will be a screening of his experimental film work at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center on Delaware Ave. in Buffalo on April 25th at 7pm, covering the last five years of his filmmaking practice and relating to his thesis work. 🖼️📽️

MONDAY March 25th, The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ presents a talk by curator Ceci Moss at 6:15 pm EST in the Center for the Arts, Room 112. This event is co-sponsored by The Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art.

As always, PLASMA lectures are free and open to the UB community and the public. For remote access to the series, use Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 with PASSWORD: 178187

Ceci Moss is a curator, writer and educator with twenty years of professional practice organizing solo, group, touring, and online exhibitions, as well as public programs, performances and screenings, in museums, galleries and artist-run spaces. She currently serves as the Director and Chief Curator of the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego, a non-collecting institute for contemporary art with a five-decade history of presenting innovative exhibitions in the context of a major research university. She also holds a dual appointment as a Professor of Practice in the Department of Visual Arts, where she teaches courses in Museum and Curatorial Studies. Previously, she was the Founding Director of Gas, the Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Senior Editor of the art and technology non-profit arts organization Rhizome, and Special Projects Coordinator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She has a MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University, and a BA in History and Sociology from U.C. Berkeley.

Join us this Friday, March 22, 6-8 pm at Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo, NY for the opening of "In the Sun’s Absence," an exhibition curated by PhD candidate Jason Livingston and geologist Phoebe A. Cohen, funded by the Simons Foundation In the Path of Totality project, exploring the sun's significance through various temporalities; featuring remarks by Phoebe A. Cohen at 7 pm, it's a singular event not to be missed!

Professor Dave Pape is presenting two papers at this year's IEEE Virtual Reality conference. For the "Immersive Visualization Laboratories" session, he will discuss the work of Media Study's VR Studio in interactive installation and performance. For the "Archiving VR" session, he will talk about the CAVE Art Archive, an ongoing project documenting the history of the many international artists who worked with the CAVE virtual reality system.

Assistant Professor Laura Kraning's film “de-composition” will be screening in the Shorts Film Competition at the 62nd annual Ann Arbor Film Festival on Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

“de-composition" screens in Films in Competition 2.

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Next Friday at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center and across Buffalo, an exhibition titled "In the Sun’s Absence" by DMS PhD Candidate and Presidential Fellow Jason Livingston, with Phoebe A. Cohen, will open, coinciding with an upcoming solar eclipse. From 6-8 pm on March 22, visitors are invited to explore the exhibition, which prompts reflection on the significance of the sun's absence. The event includes brief remarks by Livingston and Cohen at 7 pm. Additionally, billboards throughout the city feature haikus written by participants of Squeaky Wheel’s workshops, reflecting on the exhibition’s theme. One such billboard is already on display at Tri-Main Center on Main Street. Supported by the Simons Foundation, this project offers a unique perspective on celestial events and human perception.

Professor Juan Carlos Martinez Zaldivar's multi-media project 'Remembering to Forget' seeks to redefine dementia care by focusing on the remaining abilities of individuals, aiming to inspire a strength-based care movement and garnering support through participation in the Gotham Media Market in NY in 2023 and receiving research and development funds from various sources including the Warhol Foundation through Locust Projects, Latino Public Broadcasting, and Oolite Arts.

Join us for Amatryx game night on March 12 at 6 PM in CFA 286, showcasing Madison Ford's in-progress work, followed by Mario Party and Mario Kart games on the Nintendo Switch.

Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​presents an IN-PERSON talk and screening by Tomonari Nishikawa tonight at 6:15 pm EST in the Center for the Arts, Room 112.

As always, PLASMA lectures are free and open to the UB community and the public. For remote access to the series, use Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 with PASSWORD: 178187

Tomonari Nishikawa’s films explore the idea of documenting a scene in the public space through a chosen medium and techniques, while his performances focus on the process of producing a visual and sound phenomenon using analog devices. His films have screened at film festivals worldwide, such as Berlinale, Hong Kong, New York, Rotterdam, and Toronto, and he performed at Block Museum, Chicago Film Society, Exploratorium, Microscope Gallery, Nanahari, among others. Nishikawa is also an active film curator, and he founded SEFF Binghamton and co-founded KLEX: Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video, & Music Festival and Transient Visions. Nishikawa currently teaches in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.