Program

Ineffably Urban Symposium
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
April 30, 2011

Introduction
9:00am – 9:30am
Miriam Paeslack, Organizer: Ineffably Urban



Panel 1:
after_urban
9:30am – 11:30am

keywords: fragmented, obsolete, erased, disappeared, destroyed, forsaken, forgotten

Jean-Michel Reed – Photographer, Buffalo, NY
You Have Heard of Our Fires
Jeff Byles – Author, New York, NY,
Writing Among the Ruins: A Reader’s Guide to Rubble
Dennis Maher – Architect, University at Buffalo, NY
St. Gerard’s and the Battle for the Afterlives of Post-Mortem Architecture

Moderator:
 Miriam Paeslack – Art Historian, University at Buffalo, NY



Coffee Break
11:30am – 11:45am

Panel 2:
retr_urban
11:45am – 1:45pm

keywords: yearned, nostalgiacized, memorialized, reconstructed

Mary Woods – Architectural Historian, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Making the Invisible Visible?  The Aesthetics and Politics of  Urban Disaster Photography from the 1960s to the Present Day
Forgotten Buffalo / Eddy Dobosiewicz & Marty Biniasz – Activists, Buffalo, NY
Julian Meyrick – Theater Historian, University at Buffalo, NY / Melbourne
The Unmade City: Subjectivity, Buffalo and the fate of Studio Arena Theatre

 

Moderator: Kenny Cupers – Architectural Historian, University at Buffalo, NY

Lunch Break (lunch will be provided for panelists)
1:45pm – 2:30pm

Panel 3:
fut_urban
2:30pm – 4:30pm

keywords: regenerated, recomposed, transformed, sustained, activated

Alex Bitterman – Designer / Urban Branding Specialist, RIT Rochester, NY
Place Branding under scrutiny: Advantages and Pitfalls
David Gracon with Marc Moscato, Julie Perini – Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois University / co-producer of Tough Stuff from the Buff
Notes from the Tuff Stuff from the Buff Film and Video Tour
Aaron Bartley – Co-Director, PUSH Buffalo
Buffalo and the Romantic Ideal


Moderator: Jordan Geiger – Architect, University at Buffalo, NY

Closing Remarks
4:30pm – 5pm

Screening:
Tough Stuff from the Buff: Experimental & Activist Video from the Fringes of Buffalo, NY
5pm – 5:30pm



Post-Symposium Exhibition Opening:
Think Bank
6pm – 8pm
Exhibit of speculative works in Buffalo’s Polonia District by Architecture students of the University at Buffalo.
949 Broadway at Filmore.

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