Reinhard Reitzenstein, associate professor at the UB Department of Visual Studies will be presenting three video projects that accompany three composers works and will be part of the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium and Conference. The events are being held at The New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music and Goethe Institute, Boston, March 7-9. http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org
Meat Me is an edible performance/installation by Geoffrey Krawczyk. It involves a full body sculpture of the artist made from meatloaf, to be cooked and eaten during the opening reception. The work is a meditation on the nature of belief and superstition in societies. Incorporating ideas of transfiguration, cannibalism, community ritual, and funerary rites, it seeks to parody the somber attitudes [...]
Can a doctor perform the same job in the real world and in the virtual? What about a minister? Or a classical musician? What happens when the real life workplace and the virtual collide?
Find out this Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, at the pilot launch of the mixed reality talk show “Best Practices in Banana Time [...]
Move IT! is a game that starts with a HUGE puzzle that must be completed to gain the first clue in a text messaging scavenger hunt that takes you to other locations. You can’t do the puzzle by yourself, so bring some friends or be ready to make some new ones. Since the game lasts [...]
The following awards were presented at the Annual Awards Luncheon, April 2009
Evelyn Lord Rumsey Scholarship
Evelyn Rumsey was born into a prominent Buffalo family. Her brother, Charles Cary Rumsey was a well-known sculptor, some of whose work has been restored by the Casting Institute. Evelyn was a student of Robert Henri and Charles Hawthorne, and one [...]
Paul Vanouse, Associate Professor, UB Department of Visual Studies, presents his latest work, Latent Figure Protocol. He will be performing at the opening, February 28, 2009.
Corpus Extremus (LIFE+), the second exhibition of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator Program, will present work by artists who are using bio- and media- technologies to investigate questions of life and death. [...]
7 p.m. Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Artist Talk and Demonstration: Paul Vanouse
In conjunction with CEPA Gallery’s Trans-Evolution: Examining Bio Art, on view September 19 – December 20, 2008
An Associate Professor of Art in the Visual Studies Department and the Co-Director of the Emerging Practices MFA program at SUNY Buffalo, Paul Vanouse will present a live DNA experiment [...]
The UB Art Galleries and the Department of Visual Studies are presenting an event on Sept 4 to welcome everyone back to UB this fall – we hope that all faculty and students will attend!
Two art openings and a DJ
Thursday, September 4 from 5 to 7pm
Center for the Arts
Exhibition 1:
UB Art Gallery
Lyle Ashton Harris
Blow Up
September [...]
The Department of Visual Studies is inviting you to the TypeCon 2008 conference events in the UB Center for the Arts Main Stage Auditorium, on Thursday night, July 17 This will be the opening session for the conference with introductions preceding a presentation by the conference keynote speakers, a team of three NLXL designers from [...]
“Totally Wired”
at Soundlab
Wed. May 7, 7-10 PM
“Totally Wired” features interactive installations, sonic experiments and media performances by students in Visual Studies courses: Interactive Computer Art and Real-Space Electronic Art. Artists include: Jason Acquilano, Jozef Bajus, Seokhwan Cheon, Sullivan Kerry Sheehan, Josh Petroski, Angel Rivera, Josh Rutski, Rob Rzeznik, Dan Sieracki, Olivier Delrieu-Shulze, Jessica Thompson, [...]