Category Archives: Faculty

SKIN: BINGYI at Contrasts Gallery Shanghai

SKIN: BINGYI
at Contrasts Gallery Shanghai
November 22 – December 22, 2009
Vernissage: Sunday, November 22, 2009 3-6pm
Contrasts Gallery, No. 181 Middle Jiangxi Road, G/F, Shanghai, China 200002
SHANGHAI – Contrasts Gallery is pleased to present SKIN: BINGYI, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Shanghai.
A provocative painter, Bingyi is best known for her strange, exotic imagery exposing the most [...]

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Mixed Reality talk show: Best Practices in Banana Time with Dr. Rodenberger

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 [...]

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Prof. Nickard’s “A Moment of Uncertainty” published in Plastik #01

Gary Nickard’s “A Moment of Uncertainty” was recently published in Plastik #01-  Etre ici et là : la relativité générale et la physique quantique – CERAP, Universite Paris 1 Sorbonne.

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Prof. Rothenberg’s “Invisible Threads – A Virtual Sweatshop” featured in “Feedforward: Angel of History”

FEEDFORWARD: ANGEL OF HISTORY
October 22 – April 5, 2010
LABORAL Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/exhibitions/show/108
“Invisible Threads – A Virtual Sweatshop” a collaboration between Stephanie Rothenberg and Senior Eyebeam Fellow Jeff Crouse, is featured in this new exhibition curated by Steve Dietz and Christiane Paul. The show addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of [...]

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ubVS’s Stratigakos’ “A Woman’s Berlin” Wins 2009 German Academic Book Award

From UB NewsCenter:
BUFFALO, N.Y. — DespinaStratigakos, PhD, assistant professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and assistant professor of Visual Studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, has received the prestigious 2009 Book Prize from the DAAD (Deutcher Akadamischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service), a publicly funded independent [...]

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Megan Michalak & Stephanie Rothenberg: “World X Diagnostics” Redux

World X Diagnostics Redux, Megan Michalak and Stephanie Rothenberg
New York Electronic Art Festival
Friday, October 9, 2009
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Harvestworks, New York, NY
World X Diagnostics is a revolutionary system that evaluates and diagnoses citizen responses to socio-economic conditions resulting from the global economic meltdown. Public data measuring gross national well being is collected from participating users and [...]

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Profs. Paul Vanouse, Steve Kurtz | sk–interfaces: exploding borders in art, technology and society

sk–interfaces
Exploding borders in art, technology and society
Casino Luxembourg
26 September 2009 – 10 January 2010
Opening on Friday, 25 September 2009 from 7 p. m. – 11 p. m.
Art Orienté objet, Maurice Benayoun, Zane Berzina, Critical Art Ensemble, Wim Delvoye, Olivier Goulet, Eduardo Kac, Antal Lakner, Yann Marussich, Kira O’Reilly, Zbigniew Oksiuta, ORLAN, Philippe Rahm, Julia Reodica, [...]

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ubVS Professor BINGYI: Seamlessly Lost

BINGYI: Seamlessly Lost
3 October 2009 – 15 November 2009
*Opening Saturday 3 October 2009*  5-8 pm
Erna Hecey is pleased to present Seamlessly Lost, the first solo exhibition of Bingyi in Europe. One of the most ambitious and provocative painters of her generation from China, Bingyi is known for her large-scale conceptual painting projects, which she terms “largescape”. [...]

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Prof. Jack Quinan curates “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo Venture” at Anderson Gallery

From UB NewsCenter, August 28, 2009
BUFFALO, NY — “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo Venture: From the Larkin Building to Broadacre City,” is an exhibition focused on the context in which Buffalo became a locus for Wright’s architectural activities in the first decades of the 20th century.
It will be presented by the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery [...]

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New Course: Theories of Immersion

VS 500 – Theories Of Immersion
Reg # 488462
T 6:00 PM – 8:40 PM
606 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Opinions are divided on the notion of immersion. Some assume it to be a by-product of the so-called “New Media” and the particular qualities set out by the apparatus itself, which enables those media to simulate an environment into [...]

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