The Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) will host a presentation by Dr. Elia Vargas, Visiting Assistant Professor in Media Study. Dr. Elia Vargas is an artist and a scholar working across multiple mediums, ranging from video and sound to writing and performance, focused on naturecultural media practices. His […]
This workshop, hosted by the Digital Scholarship Studio and Network (DSSN), will provide an overview of ArcGIS Storymaps, a cloud based tool which combines GIS maps with text, photos, and sometimes video to present a topic in an interactive way. Participants will be taken through the steps of Storymap planning in order to help them […]
In honor of Black History Month, the UB Libraries will present a screening of Killer of Sheep, a film by legendary black filmmaker Charles Burnett. Dr. Donte McFadden, Director of the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, will present opening remarks. About Killer of Sheep Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts […]
Please join the Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) in the cinema space at the Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center for a screening of Every Ocean Hughes's film One Big Bag (40 min, 2021). This event is free and accessible to all. About One Big Bag A millennial death doula […]
The Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) welcomes Every Ocean Hughes. This hybrid presentation follows a free screening of Every Ocean Hughes's film One Big Bag on Friday, February 24 at the Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Every Ocean Hughes, a.k.a. Emily Roysdon, is a transdisciplinary artist and writer. Every’s […]
The Digital Scholarship Studio and Network (DSSN) welcomes Derek Strykowski. Strykowski (Clinical Assistant Professor, Music) will present on his visual guide project and his experience learning R! First launched in 2020, A Visual Guide to Some Nineteenth-Century Composers and Their Publishers (https://dstrykowski.shinyapps.io/visualguide/) is an R-based data visualization project that illustrates the publishing activities of (at […]
The Technoculture Research Workshop welcomes M. Beatrice Fazi from the University of Sussex. In this talk, M. Beatrice Fazi will advance two parallel propositions that aim to define what digital theory is. First, she will argue that digital theory is a theory that investigates the digital as such and, second, that it is a theory […]
The University of Buffalo is hosting a roundtable discussion on the topic of ChatGPT, the cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. The event will bring together experts from various fields to discuss the implications and applications of this technology. This promises to be a thought-provoking and enlightening conversation on the future of AI and its […]
Hypericin Yellow Movie: A Performance-Lecture Hypericin is a phytochemical produced by the flowering plant St John’s wort. The plant has been used medicinally in different cultures for centuries, primarily as an antidepressant. In this performance-lecture Kerstin Schroedinger and Oliver Husain relate the flower to health, skin, light, and film by discussing their use of St […]
Nineteenth-century French art was eclectic, but you would never know it. This eclecticism was considered a problem in the nineteenth century itself—an impediment to creating a cohesive narrative for the art production of the time. Joris-Karl Huysmans and Émile Zola in particular railed against what they saw as the eclectic nature of the art of […]
