The Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists)​​ ​begins NEXT Monday February 8th with Amelia Winger-Bearskin. Her lecture will begin at 6:00pm EST. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for the password.​ The complete line-up is listed below.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who empowers people to leverage bleeding edge technology to effect positive change in the world. In 2019, she was an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama’s World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion. In 2018, she was awarded a McArthur and Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360 video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star (supported by the Google JUMP Creator program and exhibited at the Newark Museum and ASU in 2019). The non-profit she founded, IDEA New Rochelle, in partnership with the New Rochelle Mayor’s Office, won the 2018 One Million Dollar Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge for their VR/AR Citizen toolkit to help the community co-design their city. She is a Sundance Institute Creative Advisor and artist of their New Frontier Story Lab and Festival (AR/VR/XR/AI tech section). In 2018 she was awarded the 100K Alternative Realities Prize for her Virtual Reality Project from Engadget and Verizon Media. Amelia is the founder and host of wampum.codes podcast and the stupidhackathon.com. She is also the host and producer of the Contentful + Algolia Developer Podcast DreamStacks. Amelia is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan.

As always, PLASMA lectures are free and open to the UB community and the public.​ Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for the password and/or additional information.

I hope to see you on Monday (Zoom ID: 959 5554 2975).

UB Department of Media Study’s PLASMA 2021 Schedule:

Monday February 8 Amelia Winger-Bearskin​
Monday February 15 Chris Stults – Cinetracts ‘20
Monday February 22 Stephanie Rothenberg
Monday March 1 Jon-Sesrie Goff
Monday March 8 Rebekah Rutkoff on Lillian Schwartz
Monday March 15 Adam Khalil
Monday March 22 Jason Geistweidt – Performance and Lecture
Monday March 29 Girish Shambu
Monday April 5 Jenson Leonard / @coryintheabyss
Monday April 12 Ekrem Serdar
Monday April 19 Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
Monday April 26 Gregg Bordowitz
Monday May 4 PLASMA CINETRACTS Screening

Brief remarks addressed to the students who are enrolled in PLASMA as a credit-course will begin at 6:00PM sharp. As a result, the guest lectures often begin a little later than 6:00. It should be noted that Jason Geistweidt’s performance on March 22nd will begin at 6:00pm sharp.

PLASMA is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin, Assistant Professor of Media Study, in collaboration with Liz Park – UB Art Galleries and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.