The Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists)​​ will feature a lecture by Jenson Leonard (@coryintheabyss). The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for password.​

Jenson Leonard’s practice involves the intersection of poetry, conceptual art, and internet memes. Not unlike the earliest forms of oral poetry, memes transmit our cultural memory. Leonard (@coryintheabyss) scours the web for these preserves…the copies and reproductions of our collective digital id, dragging and dropping(sculpting) his findings into the Adobe Suite to create a bricolage of text and image that call into question notions of identity and empire. In doing so, his art charts an internet psychogeography that questions the sensorial exhaustiveness of audiovisual capitalism. Working within the framework of predictive algorithms and data extractions, Leonard attempts intervention within the infrastructure of social media. For examples of his work, see @coryintheabyss.

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 password and/or additional information.

Upcoming PLASMA talks

Monday April 12 Ekrem Serdar
Monday April 19 Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
Monday April 26 Gregg Bordowitz
Monday May 3 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.

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.

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

The recordings of previous presentations can be found on MediaStudy@UB’s PLASMA 2021 YouTube Channel​