Books Exhibition Duo
Funding will support two group exhibitions showcasing artists' books, focused on personal sketchbooks and photo books made of Polaroid photos. The exhibitions will allow visitors to touch and flip through books, providing inspiration and enabling comparisons between artists techniques.
The Sense of Wonder
Analog versus digital. Nature versus destruction. The battle unfolds on a giant cube, where analog devices casting natural landscapes compete with intermittent AI-powered digital projections of disaster. The convergence and clash of these visuals invite reflection on the fragility of our environment and the profound consequences of unchecked technological advancement.
Buffalo ReFuse: Video Theater
ReFuse is a multi-channel screening of films that document the urban landscape of Buffalo NY, made by local filmmakers, and constructed from salvaged building materials and old CRT video monitors. The work will be publicly exhibited at ReUse Action on Buffalo’s East Side neighborhood, and includes artist talks and workshops.
Tangled Gravities
Tangled Gravities is a public sculpture / interactive mixed reality worldbuilding exercise, where people with radically different gravities coexist innocently, traversing a playground of AI-generated nonsense.
Prairie
Prairie is a new center for artistic growth, experimentation, and connection, where artists from diverse backgrounds can come together to collaborate and inspire one another, while cultivating an inclusive artistic ecosystem that helps Buffalo thrive.
Beneath the Soil
Sussan Giallombardo's project is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Stefana Paskoff. She will be creating an installation using Stefana’s vast collection of animal bones. Her intention is to design and produce separate environments using the innumerable bones that have been systematically cataloged for over forty years.
The Heliotechnics/ Heliotechniques Institute for the Study of Solar Practices
Heliotechnics is a speculative media art project that explores new ways of thinking about energetic entities, such as petroleum, whale oil, electricity, and the sun to decenter anthropocentric representations of nature, culture, and technology.
Dumpster
Dumpster is an interactive talking dumpster fire – a fusion of tech, art, and environmental concerns that serves as a megaphone, spotlighting waste, consumerism, and politics, igniting important dialogues.