University at Buffalo Department of Media Studies

Celebration of the 35th Anniversary
of the Founding of Media Study

May 1-3, 2009 (Friday - Sunday)

112 Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo

Friday, May 1

• 2:00 PM: Welcome

  Vibeke Sorensen, Professor and Chair, Department of Media Study

  Bruce D. McCombe, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Physics



• Memories of Administrators, Moderator: Marguerite Dorrity

  Marguerite Dorrity

  Louisa Bertch Green

  Christine E. Downing



• 3:30 PM Memories of Distinguished Early Visitors, Moderator: Professor Brian Henderson

  Noël Carroll

  Vladimir Petric

  Robert Haller



• 7:30 PM Screening of Media Works by Early Students, 1973-1983, Selected by Professor Tony Conrad

Saturday, May 2

• 10:00 AM Memories of Media Study Academics, Moderator: Professor Peter Weibel

  Seth Feldman

  J. Ronald Green

  Scott Nygren

  Peter Lunenfeld



• 2:00 PM Presentations by Student Artists, Moderators: Woody Vasulka and Steina

  Andrej Zdravic

  Arnold Dreyblatt

  Henry Jesionka

  Robert O'Kane



• 4:30 PM Memories of Teacher/Curators, Moderator: John Minkowsky

  John Minkowsky

  Alan Williams

  Bruce Jenkins

  Thom Andersen



• 7:30 PM Memories of the Founding Faculty, Moderator: Professor Vibeke Sorensen
  Video Tributes to the Departed

  Paul Sharits

  Hollis Frampton

  James Blue

  
  Woody Vasulka

  Steina

  Brian Henderson

  Tony Conrad

  Peter Weibel

  Gerald O'Grady

  
  Complete biographies, lists of films, videos and other works, television interviews and bibliographies are published in Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, editors, BUFFALO HEADS – MEDIA STUDY, MEDIA PRACTICE, MEDIA PIONEERS, 1973-1990 (ZKM/Center for Arts and Media , Karlsruhe, Germany and The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008), 839 pages



• 9:00 PM Reception for Founding Faculty

Sunday, May 3

• 10:00 AM Memories of Graduates, Now Chairs, Moderator: Dr. Gerald O’Grady

  Barry Keith Grant

  Peer Bode

  Vibeke Sorensen

  Anthony Bannon

Participants:

• Anthony Bannon is Director of the George Eastman House at Rochester, New York
• Peer Bode is an independent maker and Chair at Alfred University
• Noël Carroll is a leading film theorist, the author of 16 books and is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the City University of New York Graduate Center
• Marguerite Doritty was Assistant to the Chair, Department of Media Study
• Christine Downing was an administrator at the Center for Media Study, the Coordinator of OVRMAC, and of the Ohio Council on Arts, and Vice President of the Boston Film and Video Foundation
• Arnold Dreyblatt is an independent media maker from Germany
• Seth Feldman is Director of the Robards Centre for Canadian Studies and a Professor in the Department of Film and Video at York University, and the author of books on Vertov, the documentary, etc.
• J. Ronald Green is Professor, Department of Film Studies at Ohio State University, and the author of two books on Oscar Micheaux
• Louisa Bertch Green worked at the Center for Media Study and is now an administrator at the Columbus Museum, Ohio
• Robert Haller is Director of Collections and Special Projects at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, the former Director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and the author of many books on Jim Davis, Ed Emshwiller, Stan Brackhage, etc.
• Henry Jesionka taught at Simon Fraser University, the Department of Media Study and is an independent filmmaker living in New York City
• Peter Lunenfeld is Professor of Design/Media Arts at UCLA, and the author of three books on the digital arts
• Jonas Mekas is a filmmaker, the founder of Anthology Film Archives and the former film critic for the Village Voice
• Annette Michelson is Professor Emerita at the Graduate Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, and the Founding Editor of October
• Scott Nygren is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville and the author of a book on Japanese cinema
• Robert O'Kane is an independent media maker and designer from Cologne, Germany - the designer of Media Frames at ZKM
• Vladimir Petric is the Luce Professor of Film Studies at Harvard University and Founding Curator of the Harvard Film Archive
• Vibeke Sorensen is an independent media maker and Chair of the Department of Media Study
• Andrej Zdravic is an independent film and media maker from Slovenia

Founding Faculty Participants:

• Thom Andersen is Professor of Film Criticism at the California Institute of the Arts, and an independent documentary filmmaker
• Tony Conrad is Professor in the Department of Media Study
• Berry Keith Grant is Professor of Film and Popular Culture at Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, and the author of books on documentary film
• Brian Henderson is Professor in the Department of Media Study
• Bruce Jenkins is Professor of Film and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the editor of a recent collection of Hollis Frampton's writings
• John Minkowsky is an independent writer and the Founding Curator of Video, Electronic Arts and New Music at Media Study/Buffalo
• Gerald O'Grady is the Founding Director of the Department of Media Study and an independent scholar
• Steina is an independent video maker from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a pioneer in video making
• Woody Vasulka is a pioneer video maker, the Founder of the Kitchen and lives in Santa Fe
• Peter Weibel is Director of the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologies in Karlsruhe, Germany, the author of many books, and an independent maker
• Alan Williams is Professor of French and Film at Rutgers University and the author of books on French Cinema