To celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop, UB will host a conversation between visual artist Eric Haze and writer & activist Bakari Kitwana, a 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Both have been deeply immersed in hip hop culture throughout their lives, and this conversation will focus on when they first became immersed into the elements of […]
Still image from Unseen. Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program. Please join us for a screening of unseen, directed by Set Hernandez. FREE and open to the public. 6:00 pm | Reception | complimentary food with cash beer & wine bar benefiting Hallwalls 7:00 pm | […]
Latvian media artists Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, founders of the historic RIXC media center in Riga, will be screening and discussing their environmental sensing multimedia VR project, "Atmospheric Forest" as well as other works on Friday, November 17th, 2023 from 12:00-2:00pm in the CFA 278 Production Studio (located in the Department of Media Study). In […]
Scholars@Hallwalls is a monthly series featuring talks by Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows. Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Complimentary wine and light fare will be served for a brief, pre-talk mingling session at this free and open-to-the-public event. "Boots Made For Walking: Embodied Storytelling By/With/For Trans People in Video […]
The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists and researchers working in intersection of art, science and emerging technologies since the […]
The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Julian Montague (b. 1973) is a Buffalo-based artist, graphic designer, and photographer. Since the late 1990s, Montague has been making art with […]
"Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies : A European Perspective" The lecture will focus on the main question - what happens when cultural policy turns digital, that is, what happens when cultural policy gets changed and challenged by digital culture? The presentation will outline key findings of the multi-disciplinary comparative analysis of different digital cultural policies from seven European countries (UK, Germany, […]
Scholars@Hallwalls is a monthly series featuring talks by Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows. Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Complimentary wine and light fare will be served for a brief, pre-talk mingling session at this free and open-to-the-public event. "'The Journey-work of the Stars': A Cultural History of Astrology in […]
The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Burak Arikan is a New York-based artist who explores emerging political economies of data, decentralized infrastructures, and blockchain technology. He […]
Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, in conjunction with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center. Please join us for a screening of If From Every Tongue it Drips, directed by Sharlene Bamboat. FREE and open to the public. 6:00 pm | […]
