Non-Western Media Genealogies

In this workshop 6 media artists/scholars in dialogue with Substantial Motion Research Network members will explore alternative genealogies of contemporary media art, re-imagining its roots and connections with non-Western philosophies and practices. There will be a brief introduction to SMRN and the workshop by Laura Marks and Kalpana Subramanian. The participants will share their work in ten minute presentations which will be followed by feedback/discussion sessions of twenty minutes each. There will be two guest presentations by Chris Lee and Jodi Lynn Maracle. Through this workshop we seek to engage the Buffalo humanities and arts communities with the research focus and activities of SMRN.

Date: 20th Feb 2019

Time: 4:00 pm to 7:45 pm 

Venue: Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center 

Free and open to the public

Presentations by:

MANI MEHRVARZ 
Strata of Memory: An Encounter With the Analog Signal Decay and the Digital Mortality 

MARYAM MULIAEE
Off-the-Path: Unfolding Urban Imaginaries through Xerography 

LEONARDO ARANDA BRITO
The Politics and Aesthetics of Technological Appropriation

NIDA ALI
Constructing Identity: Surface and Form

CHRIS LEE: The Banality of Excel {GUEST PRESENTATION}

JODI LYNN MARACLE
Ever Tradish: On Haudenosaunee Media, Language and the Tradition of Modernity

JAMES POLLARD
Cosmopolitan Chronologies: Building Calendars for WorldJournal

AZALIA PRIMADITA MUCHRANSYAH

Representation and Agency of Postcolonial Bodies in Indonesia

Organized and curated by Kalpana Subramanian

Sponsors: Department of Media Study, PLASMA, DMS Graduate Students Association

Acknowledgements: Humanities Institute, Department of English, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center 

Special thanks to Dr. Tanya Shilina-Conte and Dr. Elizabeth Otto for their support.