A talk about the book and its polyauthored process. A rollicking romp of signaling without signification, hueing and crying across Civil War dirigibles, deathbed toe tags, and bobby call-boxes, from the Circus Maximus to the highway, all of it ending in an invisible prison of our own design. This polyauthored book will ask you for […]
Adham Faramawy is an artist based in London. Their work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation, and print, thinking through issues of materiality, touch, and toxic embodiment to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalized communities. They lecture at both Goldsmiths University in London and Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. Faramawy’s […]
xtine burrough (x/x or she/her) is a media artist. Her projects center on bringing visibility to women’s experiences, invisible labor, and the dehumanizing effects of capitalism. x creates participatory works crafted for the web browser, the media wall, or person-to-person exchange. She also creates printed etchings, engravings, and hybrid digital transfer prints with alternative photographic […]
This talk draws upon Reed-Danahay’s longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork (since 2015) among French citizens who migrated to London in recent decades. She will focus on issues of emplacement and displacement among middle-class French women, and will explore their motivations, desires, and aspirations for moving to London through examples of life stories and personal narratives. This discussion draws upon a book manuscript […]
Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Materials embody the capacity to carry, preserve, and reveal the memory of places and users. When original materials are modified or eliminated, the identity of places is partially lost. This presentation examines the loss of material memory in the American landscape through processes of ground occupation and material modification […]
Workshop on a pre-circulated chapter-in-revision, “The Widening Gap: The 1980s Crisis of Black Infant Survival.” WANGUI MUIGAI, PHD, ASSISTANT PROF., BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 545 Park Hall, 10:45am to 12:15pm, and can also be attended by Zoom at https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/97306125070?pwd=VDlQMFR1Y0paemhFZEJTM0hKSFpTdz09 The chapter traces the historical origins of the Black infant mortality crisis, and how new medical theories and […]
Formal talk, “To Protect the Mother and Baby: Black Infant Death in Historical Perspective.” WANGUI MUIGAI, PHD, ASSISTANT PROF., BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 532 Park Hall, 3-5pm, and can also be attended by Zoom at https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/91630026180?pwd=djdDM2ZDN3NlNFF0bTVSUVVmY3FwZz09 Dr. Muigai will trace the long history of efforts to reduce Black infant mortality. Through exploring how politicians, physicians, midwives, and […]
Ilona Gaynor works across photography, narrative texts, schemata, objects and film. Her work is drawn from the methods and histories of a wide range of research and disciplines: from design, architecture, literature, theatre and cinema, to the histories of labour, forensic science, risk management and insurance. Using the language and methods from non-visual enterprises such […]
This event was rescheduled from November 18. Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! In this presentation, Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller uses the concept of the impossible to explore the political and intellectual ideas of African-born and African-identified persons in post-emancipation Cuba who dared to imagine a future for […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) series kicks off their season with a screening of Visiting Professor Juan Carlos Zaldívar's award-winning documentary film 90 MILES (2001). Zaldívar will join us for Q and A after the screening. In 90 MILES (2001), Cuban-American filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldívar, recounts the strange twist […]
