Media Study Faculty and Alumni awarded NYSCA 2024 Support for Artists Grants

Congratulations to Department. of Media Study faculty and alumni who were awarded NYSCA FY2024 Support for Artist grants!

• Léwuga Benson (MFA, '22) for Fueling Change: A Multimedia Exploration of Niger Delta’s Oil Crisis through Art Services Initiatives of Western NY, Inc.; Léwuga's project will be installed at Buffalo Arts Studio in July of 2024.
  
• Associate Professor Mark Shepard (https://www.andinc.org) for Unattributable Urbanism, through Art Services Initiatives of Western, NY Inc.
• Assistant Teaching Professor Kalpana Subramanian (PhD, '23) for Breath Worlds, through Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center/Buffalo Media Resources; Kalpana writes: "Breath Worlds explores the tensions between the imperiled and the empowering aspects of breath as a fundamental practice and paradigm for life. The project integrates sound works, moving image, poetics, and performance."
• Visiting Assistant Professor Elia Vargas (https://www.eliavargas.com) for The Heliotechnics/ Heliotechniques Institute for the Study of Solar Practices, through Wave Farm; Heliotechnics/Heliotechniques is a speculative media art project that explores new ways of thinking about energetic entities, such as petroleum, whale oil, electricity, and the sun to decenter anthropocentric representations of nature, culture, and technology.