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.

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.

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 of 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.