Live Events

Join our many live Zoom events!

There will be 4 days of scheduled events both hosted by professors throughout the media studies department as well as nightly events hosted by the showcase staff

May 10-13, 2021

May 10th

Advanced Video Production Live Stream

Running from 2:00-4:00pm, this is the first of a two-part YouTube livestream showcasing the final projects from students in DMS 441 Advanced Video Production. Hosted by Carl Lee

Advanced Video Production Live Stream

Student Showcase Kick-off

From 5:00-6:00 pm, speakers (Kacey & Jillian) will come on and introduce the theme for the 2021 Media Study Student Showcase (rebuilding community). We will have students come on to discuss their experience with the Media Studies department at UB as transfer students as well as talk about the various courses they have taken. There will be time for the audience to ask the students questions about the program and their experiences.

Student Showcase Kick-off

Intermediate Documentary Workshop

From 6:00-8:00 pm, the final projects from the Intermediate Documentary Workship will be streamed. Hosted by Jason Livingston

Intermediate Documentary Workshop

May 11th

Sound & Space

From 12:00-1:40pm Join DJ/VJ by Courtlin Byrd. Live Music Tonight! (Or… Today!) This Max/MSP patch is a combination pedal/effect board, video DJ set, and generative music system. A song will be played…The vocals and guitar will be processed and affected. Drums, pianos, synths, and various noises will be triggered with the touch of a button, turn of a knob, or a vocal undulation. Videos will cycle in and out of rhythm with the music. The process will become overloaded, the system will halt, Zoom will glitch, but the sounds will return….traversing space as best they can. A one-of-a-kind performance not to be repeated.

Sound & Space

Programming for Digital Art

From 3:00-4:30 pm, Hosted by William Sack

Programming for Digital Art Link to Zoom event for Programming for Digital Art

DMS Department Offerings

From 5:00-6:00 pm, our department will be hosting a zoom meeting where graduate students in the media studies department will come on to be interviewed about their respective majors, what they are doing to stay involved in the media studies department, as well as answer questions the audience may have about their fields of study and the departmen

Department Offerings

May 12th

Game Design

From 1:00-3:00 pm, hosted by David Pape

Game Design

Advanced Video Production

Starting at 2:00 pm, this is a YouTube livestream showcasing the final projects from students in DMS 441 Advanced Video Production. Hosted by Carl Lee

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Dissertation Film Showcase Q&A

From 3:00-4:00 pm, hosted by Azalia Muchransyah

Dissertation Film Showcase Q&A

Careers and Oppurtunities

From 5:00-6:00 pm, Sama Waham will begin the live Zoom by discussing internship opportunities within the media study department and answering questions students might have. Then, Ed Brodka from UB’s Career Services department will be discussing how students can also get involved by learning how to search for job opportunities as well as how to get connected with professionals in various media fields. There will be surprise guest UB alumni who will be talking about their past majors at UB as well as their current professions. Guests will have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the speakers throughout the live Zoom.

Careers and Oppurtunites

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Experimental Moving Image

From 6:00-7:00 pm, hosted by Laura Kraning

Experimental Moving Image

Special Topics - Landscape Projections; Undergrad + Grad

From 8:00-9:00 pm, hosted by Laura Kraning

Landscape Projections

May 13th

Korean Drama and Film Course Celebration

At 4:00 pm Please join the Program in Asian Studies and Dept. of Media Study course "Korean Drama and Film" celebration with a special lecture by Dr. Nam Lee, author of The Films of Bong Joon Ho (Rutgers University Press, 2020) and professor at Chapman University held on Thursday May 13th at 4:30 - 5:30 EST.

Dr. Lee's talk is entitled "Class Divide & Catastrophic Imagination in Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer (2013) and Parasite (2019)" and her lecture is preceded by a virtual reception and celebration of student screenings of their Korean Film and Drama Key Term Digital Stories at 4 - 4:30 on May 13th Thursday. This screening will have special commentary by Dr. Terry Park (University of Maryland).

We hope to see you for both the screening of student work and lecture by Dr. Nam Lee to celebrate the students "Korean Drama and Film," AS 393, sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and Department of Media Study. Please see below for the Zoom link registration, further information, and respective fliers for the event.

Korean Drama and Film Course Celebration

May 13, 2021 - Thursday 4 - 4:30 - STUDENT DIGITAL STORIES SCREENING & VIRTUAL RECEPTION

Guest Judge, Dr. Terry Park

4:30 5:30 - SPECIAL LECTURE BY DR. NAM LEE "Class Divide & Catastrophic Imagination in Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer (2013) and Parasite (2019)

Korean Drama and Film Celebration Flier

Korean Drama and Film Course Celebration

Award Ceremony

The award ceremony will begin at 5:30 pm where students will receive recognition for their outstanding work. From roughly 6:00-8:00 we will be showing the winning student’s works to the audience.

Award Ceremony

2021 DMS Courses

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DMS 448 Games, Gender & Culture
5/12/21
DMS 448: Games, Gender And Culture provides a comprehensive investigation of the emerging field of Games Studies, the critical analysis of games and interactive environments made possible by the computer. We will address different theoretical perspectivesthat view games and gaming as historical, social, cultural. aesthetic, technical, performative, and cognitive phenomenon.
DMS 103 Basic Video (Section 1)
5/14/21
Basic Video is a beginner level production class on the uses of digital video, moving image, and media as a medium of artistic expression and communication. There is a mixture of history, theory, artistic practice, technique, analysis, and there is a distinctive focus on learning while making.
DMS 474 Media Theories and Approaches
5/15/21
Media theory investigates the technoculturaloperation of media, including media technologies and social practices. The basic question media theory must ask is “what is media?” If something is identified as media, is it always media or only under certain circumstances? For example, paint is a mediumwhen used for a painting, but what about on a wall or in a can? Air is a medium for sound and music, but what about when the world is silent? Fiber optic cables, wifi signals, and the internal operations of a computer delivering a film on a laptop are media, but so is the film. How do they relate? Conversely, what is not media?
DMS 598 Project Supervision
5/12/21
Graduate Student Project Supervision taught by Margaret Rhee
DMS 201 Green Media
5/11/21
This course analyzes fictional and documentary media that investigate our relationship to nature: climate change, pollution, environmental justice, wildlife extinction. The course interprets the word media broadly to include film, games, social media, media-art, big data visualization, simulation and sensing. It examines the consciousness-raising power of film, media and journalism; traces the ecological impact of our obsession with the latest media device; and ponders the relationship between our feelings about our changing planet (denial, engagement, optimism, hopelessness) and our actions.
DMS 418/518 Landscape Projections
8/18/22
“Landscape Projections” is an advanced special topics course exploring landscape as a medium, predominantly through the lens of time-based media. “Projections” implies cinematic presentation, but we expand this idea of projection (from Latin projectio(n-), from proicere ‘throw forth’), exploring ideas around forecasts, mappings, visions, and transmission, as we consider a wide range of artists and filmmakers re-envisioning both the natural and manufactured landscape through cinematic geographies and spatial practices.
DMS 606 Sound and Space
5/11/21
In this course, students interested in learning more about music and sound, and sound’s relationship with and existence ins pace, have been experimenting with creating virtual spaces. (This was particularly germane since the class took place over Zoom, an entirely virtual space.) We have analyzed how sound behaves in real spaces, both natural and human-built, with the goal of understanding how these spaces influence sound, and human perception.
DMS 462/562 Game Design
5/12/21
DMS 462 is a production course that allows students to explore the fabulous and sometimes frightening world of Game Design. Games are all around us in modern culture, ranging from video games to board and card games to sports to politics (Game of Thrones, anyone?) and beyond.
DMS 480 Social Media & Networks (Section 1)
5/21/21
In this online course, we will learn about, critique, and create social media and networks theory. Through media theory and case studies, we will analyze social media and networks; through online discussion, we will develop our ideas; and finally, through creation we will implement our learning into action. By the end of the course, you will have a better understanding and will be able to critically read, analyze, and write about social media from a variety of perspectives. Along with rigorous reading and writing, students will engage through creative making and collective presentations. In doing so, we adhere to learning through creating.
DMS 534 Media Archaeology
5/11/21
In this theory/practice seminar, students will interrogate the strain of scholarly and artistic practices concerned with the cultural and material histories of media technology known as media archaeology.
DMS 342 Intermediate Documentary Workshop
5/13/21
Intermediate Documentary is an intensive workshop in nonfiction film production, with an emphasis on both hands-on practice of documentary filmmaking and in-depth study of the art of nonfiction filmmaking. Production projects helpedstudents develop conceptual and technicalproficiency, including knowledge of the development, production, and post production ofnonfiction films. Readings, writing assignments, and class presentations will deepen students’understanding of nonfiction filmmaking and storytelling.
DMS 435/535 Scriptwriting
5/15/21
In this production workshop students concentrate on writing and editing script elements for all kinds of media including film, video, game, installation, AR, VR location- or web-based projects. The course explores traditional and experimental methods for generating and structuring text for any genre of fictional, documentary or hybrid work. Scripts include original writing, interviews, collaged or found fragments - which may be performed, heard or displayed in the final piece.
DMS 213 Immigration & Film (Section 2)
5/21/21
This course offers an introduction to South Korean drama and cinema with attention to
Korean culture and history, TV/cinema/visual cultural analysis, and within the contexts Korean cultural global reach also understood as Hallyu or the Korean Wave. Students will study South Korean drama and film through thematics such as historical development, aesthetics, genre, auteur theory, stardom, subtitling, and the politics of distribution.
DMS 441 Advanced Video Production
5/14/21
This production course is designed to build on and further students’ conceptual and technical skills in video production. Through a combination of in-class workshops and exercises, assigned projects, and close attention to visual, creative motion picture ideation, students will strive to produce thoughtful, personally meaningful, technically proficient videos.
DMS 302 Experimental Moving Image
5/14/21
“Experimental Moving Image” is an intermediate level undergraduate production class introducing students to alternative approaches to the moving image, from abstraction and collage, personal documentary and hybrid narratives, to stop-motion and video installation, across single and multiple screens.
DMS 341: Intermediate Video
5/13/21
This course took place in the fall of 2020 and was an intensive workshop in fiction film production, with an emphasis on both hands-on practice of fiction filmmaking and in-depth study of the art of fiction filmmaking.
DMS 103 Basic Video (Section 2)
5/12/21
This course provides an introduction to the technical and aesthetic practice of video production and post-production, with a critical eye to both form and content. Through lectures, readings, exercises, and projects, as well as screenings of historical and contemporary film and video work, students will gain an understanding of film and video language and explore conceptual strategies for the development of creative approaches to digital video making.