Recent Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Telephone), Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty novels and story collections, including The Trees, Telephone, So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Erasure. Everett has won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Dos Passos […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) will feature a remote lecture by new media artist EMILY MARTINEZ. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password. Emily Martinez (they/she) is a new media artist working with machine […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) will feature a screening and discussion with animator, film director, photographer, and writer NG'ENDO MUKII. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password. An independent filmmaker working in Nairobi, NG'ENDO MUKII […]
4/19/22, 2:00-3:00: Yingjie Hu: “Exploring Geo-Text Data with Machine Learning Models for Knowledge Discovery” – online only Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of data that link geographic locations and textual descriptions (geo-text data for short). Examples include geotagged tweets, news articles containing place names, online neighborhood reviews, and many others. Meanwhile, the fast advancements of […]
The Department of Indigenous Studies is pleased to announce the next speaker in our 50 Years of Indigenous Studies at UB Speaker Series. Please join us on Wednesday, April 20th 4:10 - 5:40 EST Guest Speaker: Dr. Jolene Rickard Haudenosaunee Visuality as a Tradition Join Dr. Jolene Rickard for a lecture about the project of […]
Professor Adam Nocek will present, “Beyond the Automated Left: On the Autonomy of Algorithmic Communalisms ” Thursday, April 21 at 5:00pm via ZOOM. Click here to register. Adam Nocek, Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is […]
Abstract: Transitioning away from fossil fuels requires the production of energy from non-fossil sources. However, quantitative analyses and historical assessments of previous shifts in energy use indicate that the expansion of non-fossil energy sources – _in the absence of direct efforts to suppress fossil fuel extraction and challenge the power of the fossil fuel industry […]
Featuring special guest introductory speaker, Dr. Jens Hauser, bio-media scholar and curator based in Paris, France. Discussion and performances with BioArtists: Rae Yuping Hsu • Roland van Dierendonck & Julian Standon • Tosca Terán aka nanotopia Microbes ranging from the bacteria of the human gut to the fungal networks of forests, immersive, mixed-reality environments, post-colonial […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) will feature a remote lecture by filmmaker and writer JORDAN LORD. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password. JORDAN LORD is a filmmaker, writer, and artist, working primarily in video, […]
The Department of Indigenous Studies is pleased to announce the next speaker in our 50 Years of Indigenous Studies at UB Speaker Series. Please Join us on Wednesday, April 27th 4:10 - 5:40 EST Guest Speaker: Rick Hill Who Stole Native American Studies? Join Rick Hill for a short walk down memory lane, exploring what […]
