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Cody Mejeur was featured in WalletHub's piece about best cities for gamers!
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Doctoral Student András Blazsek's “Machine Listening as Sonification” published in the journal Organised Sound
Professor Juan Carlos Zaldivar has been awarded the 2024 Dementia Impact Award for the interactive photo exhibition entitled The Gold Room.
That’s a wrap! DMS biannual end of the semester PARTY!
Media Study Live!: Interactive Art from the UB Department of Media Study
Professor Christine Marie has been awarded the 2025 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant for her new installation.
Amatryx Game Night Tuesday, November 19th
RPM Fest Presents Landforms: Seven Films by Laura Kraning
Amatryx Game Night Tuesday, October 29th in CFA 235 at 6:00 PM
UB Presidential Fellow András Blazsek on Project Team Awarded 2024 ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grant
Professor Elia Vargas presents New Solar Monuments at BIFF 2024
Laura Kraning's latest short film “ESP” is having its NY Premiere at the New York Film Festival in Lincoln Center
Prof. Cody Mejeur publishes article in the first issue of the new journal Regeneration
Professor Christine Marie will be presenting at the 20th International Convention of the Magic Lantern Society
Media Study represented at BIFF 2024
Carl Lee Screening Work at Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, PA
Amatryx Game Night Tuesday, September 24 in CFA 235 from 6-8 PM
Where We Are: Short Films at Caffe Aroma August 2, 2024
Léwuga Benson’s Fueling Change
Media Study End of Semester Show
Laura Kraning 'Language of Memory' to Screen at the National Gallery of Art
Rushes: Films and actions by Jason Livingston
2024 Annual Department of Media Study Black Box Concert
Collaborative Electroacoustic Music at Buff State 4/18
PLASMA presents TJ Demos - April 15th
DMS Faculty to Participate in FEMeeting Sister Labs 2024
PLASMA presents Jenson Leonard, MONDAY April 1st
Kalpana Submaranian's Work Showing at Ann Arbor Film Festival and Western Michigan University
Blake Barit's MFA Thesis Exhibition and Screening Opening in April
PLASMA presents Ceci Moss - Monday March 25th
DMS PhD Candidate Jason Livingston's Exhibition 'In the Absence of the Sun' Opening Next Week at Squeaky Wheel
Laura Kraning's 'de-composition' to Screen at the Ann Arbor Film Festival
Juan Carlos Zalvidar
PLASMA presents: Tomonari Nishikawa - Monday, March 11.
Crystal Z. Campbell's New Film Makahiya to Screen on Facade of Syracuse's Everson Museum
Akram Shilby
PLASMA presents Dr. Karolina Żyniewicz- Monday, March 4th
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Jason Geistweidt collaboration with Theatre and Dance
PLASMA presents an IN-PERSON talk: Spaces of Exception with Matt Peterson- Monday Feb. 26
PLASMA presents an IN-PERSON talk by Cameron A. Granger, MONDAY February 19th
PLASMA 2024!
Global Game Jam 2024!
Announcing In the Sun’s Absence, an exhibition by Jason Livingston with Phoebe Cohen
Laura Kraning Films at Burchfield Penney Art Center Jan 12-Mar 31, 2024
Media Study is hiring!
Media Study Faculty and Alumni awarded NYSCA 2024 Support for Artists Grants
Scholars@Hallwalls: Cody Mejeur, “Boots Made For Walking: Embodied Storytelling By/With/For Trans People in Video Games”
Artist, activist, researcher, and DMS PhD candidate Gabriela Cordoba Vivas' The “Free Speech Bus”: Making “gender ideology” appear through media and performance.
Art In The Open 2023!
Laura Kraning’s documentary LANDFORMS at CEPA Gallery
DMS @ BIFF OCT 5-9, 2023 AT-A-GLANCE SCHEDULE
“We’re Hiring!”
Media Study Alumn recieves Fulbright!
Department of Media Study Student Show 2023!
PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) series and UB Art Galleries present a REMOTE lecture by artist and filmmaker PEDRO NEVES MARQUES
Emulsified #7 will be on Tuesday May 2nd at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center at 7pm.
PLASMA and UB ART GALLERIES present a special screening of two recent short films by PEDRO NEVES MARQUES.
Michael Chernoff's MFA thesis installation: Videosphere: You Are Always On A Screen Somewhere
DMS's MFA Candidate Joan Nobile to be part of the 2023 Celebration of Student Academic Excellence
Joan Nobile MFA thesis exhibition .glitch//antifascism Friday, 28 April 2023
Meet the Artist: Crystal Z Campbell, April 20 7–8 pm at MAG-University of Rochester
“The Legacy of Love Canal: An Intimate Conversation with Lois Gibbs”
Famous Clark - MFA thesis exhibition and gameplay event – Fantasia In Rouge: Gothic Reworldings of Fantastical Figures in Video Games – next Thursday, April 27th
Media Study does Intermedia…
PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) presents a ZOOM-ONLY presentation by Akil Fletcher, videogame and media scholar.
Premiere of Laura Kraning's film "de-composition"
DMS Grad Student Show "Concentric Circuits" at El Museo April 7, 2023
Media Study's Andrew Lison quoted in article quoted in article on the media history of the shuffle button
Emulsified #6 at Hallwalls. April 6th, 2023 at 7pm
PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) presents an IN-PERSON presentation by hiba ali
PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) presents DMS Visiting Prof. Christina Corfield
Paige Sarlin's film [six years] (2002) premieres at the Anthology Film Archives April 8, 2023
Media Study MFA student Jamie Hager, new film What Is Up With Trans People? was accepted at the Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival!
Lucy Helton/Jason Geistweidt at Rivalry Projects
PLASMA presents a LIVE Performance-Lecture by Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger in CFA 112 at 6:15pm
Exhalations: Films by Kalpana Subramanian
Programmed Paper An Exhibition by Media Study's Christina Corfield
PLASMA presents EVERY OCEAN HUGHES - zoom presentation at 6:15pm in CFA 112
PLASMA presents a LIVE and IN-PERSON presentation by Dr. Elia Vargas, MONDAY FEBRUARY 20th
Every Ocean Hughes @hallwalls 2/24/23
PLASMA presents a LIVE and IN-PERSON presentation by Anna Scime, MONDAY FEBRUARY 13th
Congratulations to Mark and Laura for their OVPRED/HI Research awards!!!
DMS is Hiring!
DMS Grad, Kalpana Subramanian, Recent Screenings
Media Study Recognitions at the Celebrations of Academic Excellence
Media Study Prof. Mark Shepard "There Are No Facts" Book Launch
Announcing the Computational Media Literacies Collaboratory (First Event 10/19)
Media Study at Meaningful Play Conference
Jason Livingston screens film at the National Gallery of Art and Tacoma Film Festival!
Jason Geistweidt awarded MAAF Individual Artist Grant from Wave Farm
Media Study Student work at BIFF 2022!
Robert Lieberman's "Fire in the Sky" at North Park Theatre
Media Study is hiring!
Media Study students inducted into The Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Media Study 2022 Academic and Studnt Show Awards
Media Study Prof. Mark Shepard receives Graham Foundation award.
Submit your project to the DMS Media Show!
The Land Gives Until It No Longer Can- Thesis Installtion by Léwuga Benson
PLASMA Presents:Jordon Lord, filmmaker and writer. Monday 4/25 at 6:10pm
The latest issue of MAST is available!
Media Study Students in UB's Student Academic Excellence Student Showcase 2022
PLASMA presents animator NG'ENDO MUKII on ZOOM, MONDAY 4/18 from 6:10 to 8:40pm EST
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PLASMA presents EMILY MARTINEZ on ZOOM, MONDAY 4/11 from 6:10 to 8:40pm EST
Multiple DMS Students Win Big at Baird Point Film Festival!
Guided tour with Jalil Muntaqim of CaldodeCultivo's "Attica Now" Exhibition at BAS
PLASMA Presents: Art Jones, Video Art and Performance
UB's Baird Point Film Festival March 30th!
DMS/UB Presenters at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2022
PLASMA Presents: Crystal Campbell, multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer
Filmmaker Roger Beebe 16mm Screening and Workshop
PLASMA Presents: JOEL ONG, Computational Media Artist.
Prof. Cody Mejeur on Wordle in the Spectrum News
PLASMA presents: ALMUDENA ESCOBAR LÓPEZ
Cody Mejeur to give the keynote talk for the 7th International Conference on Computer Games
WNY Book Arts Center Announces Laura McGough (DMS PhD) As Incoming Executive Director
PLASMA Presents : Josephine Anstey
PLASMA Presents :SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY - MONDAY 2/14
Kalpana Subramanian curating with New York Immigration Coalition
Joan Nobile giving curated tours at Albright-Knox Northland
DMS Instructors to teach community game design at Albright-Knox
2020 DMS Graduate Daeil Kim accepted to USC MFA Film Production Program
Media Study featured in Art in the Open
2021 DMS BIFF winners
Prof. Cody Mejeur Interviewed in Ethos Magazine
Prof. Margaret Rhee Named Cornell College's 2021-22 Distinguished Visiting Writer
Professor Laura Kraning's Fracture screens at Antimatter [media art] 2021
Professor Laura Kraning's Film in the Mur Murs Film Series at REDCAT (and Online)
DMS students and faculty to participate in Buffalo International Film Festival!
DMS Professor, Andrew Lison, publishes new article!
Jason Livingston's new film "Ancient Sunshine" premieres at UK's Sheffield Doc Festival
Professor Paige Sarlin will be participating in a group discussion tomorrow about documentary film and the rise of the "story" paradigm.
Azalia Muchransyah's latest collaboration screens as part of "Shutter Speed" organized by UB Theater and Dance
Laura Kraning's (DMS Professor) "Fracture" premieres at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival May 1
“Goodbye, World!” Jason Livingston and Jason Geistweidt exhibit at BPAC turns its eyes on climate change
John-Patrick Ayson Installation at The Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal
[Virtual] Scholars@Hallwalls: John Fiege, “Speaking of the Environment: The Ecosphere Podcast” 4/9 @4pm
Goodbye, World!, 2021-Installation by Jason Livingston and Jason E Geistweidt, opening 2/12/21 at Burchfield Penny
DMS PhD candidate, Azalia Muchransyah, participating in a public workshop event
DMS Alumnus, Kristian Mercado won the SXSW Jury Award for Animated Shorts
Azalia Muchransyah Film selected for the 24th Annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
Recent news from DMS PhD candidate, Kalpana Subramanian
Laura McGough, PhD '18 to curate NEA-supported Exhibition at Hallwalls
DMS PhD candidate, Azalia Muchransyah, Wins UB's Fifth Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition!
Palah Light Lab invites you to join a workshop led by Eli Clare!
Tony Conrad in The New York Times!
Mani Mehrvarz and Maryam Muliaee's film entitled: WORK as part of the Buffalo Documentary Project.
DMS Alumnus, Huy Duc Pham named to 2021 Forbes 30 under 30!
Media Study Game Design Student is Unity Awards Finalist
PhD Candidate Mani Mehrvarz in Buffalo Rising
Media Study Events - December 14th- 18th, 2020
Media Study Student Featured in UBNOW!
Professor Laura Kraning awarded the Director's Choice Award at the Spectral Film Festival, for her film “Las Breas”
Margaret Rhee and the Palah Light Lab, in the UBNow newsletter
Cody Mejeur featured in Gender Inst Podcast
Convolutional Neural Networks, AI, and the Physical Limits of Computing with Andrew Lison
DMS Grad Jacqueline Bast receives Mark Diamond Research Award
Free Online Screening this week of Mani Mehrvarz (Director) and Maryam Muliaee’s (Animator) film: WORK.
DMS Visiting Professor, Cody Mejeur's, recent publications
Media Study's Carl Lee awarded NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
Media Study Grads and Alum Screen at BIFF 2020
Congratulations Dr. Vaubel
Congratulations, Dr. Dhillon
Cody Mejeur was featured in WalletHub's piece about best cities for gamers!
Palah Light Lab Launch
DMS Grad Seminar Media Art Exhibition
Alternative Cinema 4/21 • Livestream and Q&A w/ Filmmaker Kalpana Subramanian
Media Study Student Show 2020
PLASMA Presents: METANOIA: AIDS, WOMEN, INCARCERATION AND VIDEO ACTIVISM"
Laura Kraning's film, Meridian Plain, featured on Labocine
PLASMA Presents: Afroditi Psarra
PLASMA Presents: Jeff Deutch, a researcher with Syrian Archive
PLASMA Presents: Geoff Marslett
Now Hiring: Clinical Assistant Professor (10 Month), Film Studies
Punctures: Threading Histories Screening featuring Laura Kraning
Carl Lee's solo show reviewed in Sculpture Magazine
Recent MFA Lee Terwilliger was the lead animator in this short about the Velvet Underground!
SAID BY TONGUES @ Hallwalls
Professor Laura Kraning’s film LAS BREAS in the International Shorts Competition of the 61st Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain.
Screening of ‘Detroiters’ made by Gabriela Cordoba Vivas
Andrew Lison at Hallwalls
Screening of Laura Parnes’ “Tour Without End,”
Art In The Open: UB CFA Open Studios
Kalpana Subramanian: Researcher in Residence at Signal Culture
Laura Kraning screening LAS BREAS at BIFF
Performance by Michael Spears, Sunday September 22nd (6:25pm)
Andrew Lison News
Media Study's John Fiege recieves grant
Build Your Own Transmitter Workshop
Maryam Muliaee, Gender Institute Fellowship Recipient
Experiments in Sound and Image
Enigma: Department of Media Study Graduate Seminar II show.
DMS MFA Sean Feiner's Performance & Event
PLASMA Series Presents Joan Hutton
INDETERMINACY 2019: PASTFUTURE/FUTUREPAST
Laura Kraning receives NYSCA/Wave Farm MAAF Grant
PLASMA Series Presents DAVE PAPE & JASON GEISTWEIDT
Stanzi Vaubel Awarded Fulbright
PLASMA Presents: "Of Fathers and Sons"
Annette Daniels Taylor (DMS Grad) work has been selected by Every Woman Biennial Festival
DMS Prof Sama Waham recognized in the 'Canadian Cinematographer' magazine
DMS Grad, Su Hyun Nam, Awarded Mark Diamond Research Grant and Charing ISEA 2019
PLASMA Presents: Philip Hoffman
Media-As-Things
PLASMA Presents Laura Kraning
PLASMA presents Duraid Munajim
Make Media Matter: media art exhibition in UB Art Galleries Nov-Dec 2018, CFA, University at Buffalo
Prof. Mark Shepard is featured in UBNow newsletter today for an installation that gives you the feeling of playing in the rain, entitled-- PLUVIOUS
Alex Reid promoted to Professor
PLASMA 2024
dms@50+
Cody Mejeur was featured in WalletHub's piece about best cities for gamers!
Cody Mejeur
Check out Cody's Wallethub interview here.
