Join us for an evening of re-framing the past with a live musical score curated and performed by Stanzi Vaubel and Tony Yanick.

"So my idea was to just paint the emulsion on and then let the film take its own course, over time, but it needs to do things very slowly, very slowly, and I imagined that the cheap house paint I used would actually turn yellow and disintegrate and fall off and all the things that would happen with aging would happen to it in a very very very slow way, but of course they'd probably happen to the other artwork, but the other artworks aren't movies, this is a movie" (Tony Conrad).

If you were watching this, you'd see Tony Conrad looking straight into the camera with an absurd grin on his face as he proudly declares this 2D painting of a square, to be a movie. Obviously he's outsmarted everyone and he knows it and the gleeful joy he feels is contagious. You want to see whatever it is Tony is seeing in this seemingly empty box painted on the canvas, you want to believe in the world he's claiming exists. Because Tony says so, it's no longer a square box painted on the wall, it's a movie screen, and as we speak, the movie is still playing itself out, and yes, he's made a film longer than anything Andy Warhol came up with when he created his 24-hour film. Tony's film could last 50 years.

Follow this logic and you arrive at some pretty interesting places. Situations, wherein it's just about seeing what is right before you, as long as you're open enough to entirely re-frame the meaning.

The Indeterminacy Festival is a project that invites all of its collaborators (co-creators and audience alike) to re-envision the frame, to imagine that it could be anything, like just a square, painted with some cheap house paint, slapped onto a piece of canvas, finally shown, thirty-eight years after the fact, in a gallery, for its debut moment, inaugurating us into the film which will be in process for the next fifty years.

It's time to start watching that film.

~ Stanzi Vaubel, Director of The Indeterminacy Festival

Stanzi Vaubel started out as a classical cellist and trained at Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard Pre-College. She has collaborated on projects at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center and performed at venues such as Tanglewood, The Long House, and Carnegie Hall. She was hired by the Whitney Museum to design an interactive web project focused around teen engagement with contemporary American art. She graduated from Northwestern University where she ran a radio show called "Ready To Talk" which featured filmmakers, actors, writers, and poets from around the world. She worked for New York Public Radio and was the first person to produce video content for the culture page online. Her audio documentary Practice, Practice, Practice was featured by the Third Coast Audio Festival, and her short film We're Apart of the City won Directors Choice at the Black Maria Film Festival. She produced a poetry series for Chicago Public Radio called The Gift which featured contemporary poets alongside canonical works. She was a fellow at UnionDocs Center for Documentary where she made and premiered her first feature called This Place. Upon arriving in Buffalo, she became interested in site-specific performance projects, creating Sites Do Things to People, staged at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center on April 29, 2015 (<http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/5629.html>). In 2016 she staged her new work Excursions Into Unknowable Worlds at Hi-Temp Fabrication, bringing together dancers and musicians to interact with a site-specific environment (<http://www.hallwalls.org/music/5801.html>). Currently she is a PhD student and teaching fellow in the Media Study Department at The University at Buffalo. The Indeterminacy Festival is her new collaboration with the artists and community members of Buffalo and beyond.

Tony Yanick is a co-organizer of The New Centre for Research & Practice. Philosopher, media-theorist, computer engineer, multimedia artist, and musician from the United States, he holds a Master of Science in computer engineering with a concentration on mobile robotics and artificial intelligence, as well as an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in philosophy and world literature. He has spoken on philosophy, film, media, and technology internationally. Tony's research is driven by trans-disciplinary methodologies and currently is involved in two projects: one is focused on the relation between fiction and philosophy; the other is interested in the development of platforms for collaborative research and digital pedagogy. He is the publisher of the trans-disciplinary journal and publishing platform &&& (tripleampersand.org), as well as the production editor for the Deleuze Audio/Visual Journal (Deleuze A/V) since 2013. Currently he is earning his PhD in the Media Study Department at The University at Buffalo.

About The Indeterminacy Festival:

During the week of May 15-20, 2017, throughout Buffalo, events will take place around the theme of uncertainty. On May 16th Luc Courchesne will give a workshop and artist talk at UB Center for the Arts. On May 18th we will screen a selection of films around the theme of indeterminacy at Hallwalls. Finally, on May 19th and 20th, the festival will take Silo City's Marine A grain elevator and transform it into an immersive multimedia environment. Audience members and performers will be taken through fifteen inflatable worlds that have been designed to carry them through the entirety of Marine A. For more info check here: www.indeterminacyfestival.com