Wednesday, April 30, 2014

UB Exhibition: First Year MFA Show

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The University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts and UB’s Department of Visual Studies are excited to present It’s Not Me, It’s You, an exhibition of work by thirteen first year MFA candidates from the Department of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo.
The exhibition features the artwork of Avye Alexandres, Liz Bayan, Tricia Butski, Megan Conley, Patrick Foran, Nate Hodge, Alicia Marvan, Brain  McSherry, Tommy Nguyen, Stacey Robinson, Nekita Thomas,  Dana  Tyrrell and Sangjun Yoo. These artists engage in a variety of mediums including performance, painting, sculpture, site-­specific installation, and emerging practices. Collectively the work presented will explore themes including, but not limited to, radical and sexual identity, surveillance, spatial intervention, and post-­apocalyptic sublime.
UB Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 5pm; Saturday 1pm to 5pm. For information, please call 716-645-6912. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will be on view in the second floor gallery through May 10, 2014.    
Location: Center for the Arts, UB North Campus, Buffalo, New York 14260-6010

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Canisius: Film Screening



Olmsted’s Enduring Legacy on Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center.
The documentary explains Frederick Law Olmsted’s concept for the first urban park system in the United States, which was created here in Buffalo in 1869. The film will be broadcast on WNED as part of the Designing America Series.
Come learn more about Buffalo’s Historic Olmsted Parks System, including Cazenovia Park, Delaware Park, Front Park, Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Riverside Park and South Park. The event is co-hosted by the college’s Environmental Studies Program. A reception will follow the screening.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Squeaky Wheel: Lecture

Zen and the Art of Game Design

Sunday, April 13 at 5:00pm • FREE

Zen and the Art of Game Design is an exhibition of Devin Wilson's Buddhism-inspired games. The artist will give a short talk about the challenges inherent to navigating the medium of games as a Buddhist, and a number of his games will be available for guests to play.

Location:
Squeaky Wheel
712 Main St
Buffalo, NY 14202

Hallwalls: Movie Screening

UB Department of Visual Studies, Hallwalls, & Squeaky Wheel present The Leslie Lohman Queer Art Lecture Series

This is Not a Dream: Queer & Alternative Artists Talking Back to TV

Wednesday, April 16 at 8:00pm • Presented at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Ave.)

This event features a screening of part one of the 2013 film This Is Not A Dream, directed by Gavin Butt and Ben Walters. The film charts a path across four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism. The screening will be accompanied by a talk by Gavin Butt about the making of the film, and about his collaboration with London-based performer Dickie Beau who is also featured in the film.

Squeaky Wheel: Exhibition Opening

Exhibition: Regional Artist Access Residency

Opening reception on Thursday, April 10 at 7:00pm
Artist talks at 8:00pm

Free gallery hours: Tuesday-Thursday 1:00-7:00pm • Friday-Saturday 1:00-5:00pm

Something in Me Has to Die!

Caitlin Cass & Marc Tomko

An animated projection mapped installation featuring a synoptic dialogue between two old friends, combining Cass’ passion for comics and history with Tomko's passion for new media and psychology. 

Internalization

Annie Krol & Marianna Kreidler

Krol and Kreidler present a video installation designed to trigger emotional responses for collective exploration of the resulting grey areas.

This event is presented as part of our Regional Artist Access Residency program, supported by New York State Council on the Arts: Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds Grant Program - administered by the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. Each artist will instruct a free workshop relevant to their practice, while exhibiting work during our 2014 season.

Location:
Squeaky Wheel
712 Main St
Buffalo, NY 14202

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Buffalo History Museum: Lecture

Wednesday, April 9th, 2014  
*  AIA Kress Lecture *
"They Died With Their Boots On: The Roman Hobnail Burials at Gordion (Turkey)"
Andrew Goldman, Gonzaga University
Where: Buffalo History Museum
When: Wednesday April 9th  at 6:30 p.m.
Directions: http://www.buffalohistory.org/
Co-Sponsored by IEM

Abstract:
Burial practices tend to vary widely between disparate cultures, and this is perhaps nowhere more evident than at the site of Gordion, located in central Turkey approximately 95 km. southwest of modern Ankara. Situated at the confluence of two rivers and at the nexus of several ancient trade routes, Gordion was occupied almost continuously from the Early Bronze Age to Medieval times. Among the wide variety of burial types are Hittite pithos burials, the great tumuli of the Phrygian kings and nobles, simple Lydian and Persian inhumations, Hellenistic chamber tombs, wooden coffins of the Roman period, and Byzantine cist graves. Three Roman cemeteries were excavated at the site between 1950 and 1994, and the objects and skeletal remains recovered from these necropoleis have helped to shape our understanding of Roman life at this rural town. Perhaps the most enigmatic of all the burial types are those containing the remains of hobnail boots, found in nearly a third of the total Roman period graves currently known. This burial type, dating from the 1st to 3rd century A.D. and common to sites along the Rhine and Danube frontiers, are unattested elsewhere in Anatolia. Their appearance at Gordion, in the graves of men, women and children, represents an intriguing phenomenon. Such boots have often been found at military sites, a fact which led the original excavators to hypothesize that either veterans or soldiers lived at Gordion during the Roman Empire. New excavations at the site in 2004 and 2005 have now settled this issue: the discovery of Roman weapons, armor and a barracks building have provided conclusive evidence that soldiers inhabited this small settlement. Indeed, as the chance discovery in 1997 of a Roman auxiliary soldier’s tombstone has shown, at least some of these men never made it home alive from their post on the Anatolian plateau, dying with their boots on.

Suggested Bibliography/Websites
“Roman Military Occupation at Yass?höyük (Gordion), Ankara Province, Turkey”. With J. Bennett. Antiquity 81, Issue 314 (forthcoming December 2007). “The Roman-period Cemeteries at Gordion in Galatia”. Journal of Roman Archaeology 20 (2007) 299-320. “From Phrygian Capital to Rural Fort: New Evidence for the Roman Military at Gordion, Turkey”. Expedition 49.3 (Winter 2007) 6-12. “Reconstructing the Roman-period Town at Gordion,” Chap. 5 in Lisa. K. Kealhofer (ed.), The Archaeology of Midas and the Phrygians: Recent Work at Gordion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, 2005).