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Irradiant Fields by Laura Kraning
Of Palimpsestic Memory and Reverse Merging: Mani Mehrvarz, Private Nostalgia, 2014
Mani Mehrvarz, Ph.D. candidate in Media Study, has been featured and reviewed in an article by Ewa Wójtowicz
2/14/19
Private Nostalgia, a project by Mani Mehrvarz, Ph.D. candidate in Media Study, has been featured and reviewed in an article by Ewa Wójtowicz, who is a new media scholar and art critic on Journal de ABCA—Art Critics Brazilian Association.
Non-Western Media Genealogies
Non-Western Media Genealogies
2/12/19
A Substantial Motion Research Network workshop with Laura U. Marks and Kalpana Subramanian
LAS BREAS (12 min, 2019) - DIRECTED BY LAURA KRANING & BLUE KRANING
Media Study faculty member Laura Kraning will premiere her latest film collaboration (with Blue Kraning), Las Breas, at MoMA Doc Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media
2/1/19
UB Department of Media Study faculty member Laura Kraning will premiere her latest film collaboration (with Blue Kraning), "Las Breas", at MoMA Doc Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media which runs from February 21–28, 2019. Las Breas will screen as part of “The Presence of Place” shorts program on Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 4:00pm. The filmmakers will be in attendance for the Q&A.
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Carl Lee's "myoptic" at Hallwalls
1/18/19
Media Study staff member and instructor, Carl Lee, has new video installation work at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in an exhibition entitled Myoptic. The show is up from January 11 to March 1, 2019 along with the work of Rochester-based artist Rebecca Aloisio.
Motion-sensing technology activates lights and rain sticks suspended from the ceiling.
Prof. Mark Shepard is featured in UBNow newsletter today for an installation that gives you the feeling of playing in the rain, entitled-- PLUVIOUS
12/12/18
Take a walk through 220 Crosby Hall and you'll enter Pluvious, a responsive environment that evokes the childhood sensation of playing in the rain. The installation, generated from a graduate architecture studio in situated technologies, integrates sound, light and motion with sensing technology to investigate questions of spatial contingency and the limits of predictability through an interactive, multisensory experience. It is on view from 5-8 p.m. Dec. 10, 12 and 14.
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Six DMS students selected for Student Experimental Film Festival in Binghamton!
11/1/18
The selections for Binghamton University's 2018 Student Experimental Film Festival program has been announced and of the 19 films selected for the festival, 6 of them were made by UB Media Study students! The festival takes place Friday, Nov. 16th-17th, 2018.  
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DMS Open Studio 2018
11/1/18
UB GRADUATE OPEN STUDIOS + MAKE.MEDIA.MATTER OPENING 
Departments of Art & Media Study
Thursday, November 1, 2018
5:00 - 9:00 PM

Center for the Arts
UB North Campus
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MAKE.MEDIA.MATTER : Media Study Grad Student Exhibition
10/29/18
MAKE.MEDIA.MATTER
NOVEMBER 1, 2018—DECEMBER 1, 2018
UB ART GALLERY AT UB Center for the Arts