PLASMA Speaker Series

MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST

Zoom Meeting ID:  983 4611 3436

Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password.

Mark Shepard [www.andinc.org] is an artist, architect and researcher whose work addresses contemporary entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power. His recent book, There Are No Facts: attentive algorithms, extractive data practices and the quantification of everyday life (MIT Press, 2022) examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. He is an editor of the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series (The Architectural League of New York) and editor of Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture and the future of urban space (MIT Press, 2011). His work has been exhibited at museums, galleries and festivals internationally, including the Venice International Architecture Biennial; the Prix Ars Electronica; Transmediale; the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam; The Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF); Arte.Mov Festival for Mobile Media Art, São Paulo, Brazil; Haus für elektronische Künst, Basel; FACT Liverpool; the Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain; and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York. It has been supported by Creative Capital, the European Union Culture Programme 2007-2013, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Architectural League of New York, and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, among others. Mark is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Media Study at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he directs the Media Arts and Architecture Program (MAAP) and the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST).

PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries, and writing on the cutting edge of new media theory and expression.

Each event brings internationally celebrated artists to discuss varied arts practices, models, modes, examples, and experiences in media arts.

The series serves as a kind of hub as to how courses in new media, digital poetics, game studies, locative media, robotics, installation, media theory and performance arts can be experienced.

In this series you can see and interact with artists that you would encounter in New York, Europe and Latin America, offering a rich experience for the University at Buffalo, the city and Western New York.

The series provides, not expressive answers, but raises intriguing questions, exploring new avenues in the digital age, who we are, how we interact and where we are going.

For enrolled students, the class begins at 6:00pm.

For the full Spring 2024 PLASMA series schedule, visit: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/media-study/news-events/plasma.html

PLASMA is presented by the Department of Media Study and the College of Arts and Sciences.