Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main Street, Buffalo
Migrating Media will present a short program of summer favorites at Squeaky Wheel on Tuesday August 30 at 7:00 p.m. Screening highlights include clips from the archives of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Just Buffalo Collection at The Poetry Collection, a special collection of the University Libraries at the University at Buffalo (UB).
Migrating Media is an analog video to digital migration project based in Buffalo that offers non-profit arts and cultural organizations in Upstate New York a means to safeguard significant videotape collections. The project was made possible by the donation of a SAMMA Solo machine by Jim Lindner of Media Matters, which allows for the creation of archival and access files of videos in danger of being lost to format changes and tape decay. Migrating Media is a partnership of Squeaky Wheel, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, the Burchfield-Penny Arts Center and the Experimental Television Center. It has been funded by support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Concil on the Arts, and the John R. Oishei Foundation.
Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources is a grassroots, artist run non-profit media arts center founded in 1985 to promote and support film, video, computer, digital, and audio art by media artists and community members.
Join us at Squeaky Wheel for a screening of favorite videos migrated this summer, see the SAMMA Solo, learn about the project, and enjoy some popcorn. For more information, visit http://migratingmedianet.org, or contact Tammy McGovern, Interim Director/Education Director, Squeaky Wheel, (716) 884-7172, office@squeaky.org.
The Program will include:
Just Buffalo Videopoetics - Just Buffalo Collection at The Poetry Collection, UB
Leslie Fiedler reading a short story "What Used to Be Called Dead" and an interview by Allen DeLoach, 1/27/1981.
Just Buffalo Videopoetics - Just Buffalo Collection at The Poetry Collection, UB
Ted Berrigan reading "A Farewell Address to Richard Taylor" from Buffalo Days, 5/1/1981.
Richard Artschwager Interview - Albright-Knox Art Gallery collection.