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PLASMA presents animator NG’ENDO MUKII

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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 […]

DSSN Presentation: Yingjie Hu: “Exploring Geo-Text Data with Machine Learning Models for Knowledge Discovery”

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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 […]

Indigenous @UB – 50 Years of Indigenous Studies at UB w/Jolene Rickard

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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 […]

JUST THEORY LECTURE! Profess Adam Nocek, “Beyond the Automated Left: On the Autonomy of Algorithmic Communalisms”

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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 […]

The Science Studies Research Workshop Presents: Richard York on “Energy Transitions and Unintended Consequences”

170 Academic Center (Ellicott Complex)

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 […]

BioArt in the public sphere @Coalesce: Report from the artist-researchers in residence v4

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

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 […]

PLASMA presents JORDAN LORD [ZOOM]

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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, […]

Indigenous @UB – 50 Years of Indigenous Studies at UB w/Rick Hill

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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 […]

Queer Studies Research Workshop: Queer Works in Progress with Ted Triandos, “On Eroticism and Criticism’s Discursive Spaces, or Reading Rosalind Krauss’s Video Essay”

1004 Clemens Hall

The Queer Studies Research workshop presents a queer works-in-progress talk by Ted Triandos (UB Dept. of Art), on Thursday, April 28th at 12:30pm in 1004 Clemens! The respondent for Ted's talk will be special guest (and our former colleague) Jonathan D. Katz, Associate Professor of Practice, History of Art and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Tanya Shilina-Conte, “Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and The Interstices of Cinema”

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The goal of Tanya's multimodal project, which consists of a scholarly book, Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Interstices of Cinema, and a remixed essay film, This Video Does Not Exist, is to reevaluate film historical objects […]