If you’ve been wanting to make a trip to Silo City, but you haven’t found the right time or the right reason, tomorrow just might be the perfect opportunity to do so. The public is invited to visit the Marine A grain silo as the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute unveils part of its 2012 Fluid Culture series. The free arts event will showcase technological media in a number of different forms, with a schedule that looks something like the following:
“Demon Girl Duet” by Millie Chen, professor and chair of the UB Department of Visual Studies, a “sonic-video duet” that juxtaposes and interweaves separate but simultaneous journeys on rivers of mythic proportions.
“Cargill Grain Animator” by architect and UB alumnus Seth Amman, which uses stop-frame animation, digital reproduction and historical records to re-present Buffalo’s massive Cargill Superior Grain Elevator, a 1,000-foot-long storage facility constructed in 1915, 1923 and 1925.
“Fata Morgana” by Buffalo video and installation artist Jody Hanson, and “Where Away Is,” a dance piece choreographed by Angela Lopez, who works at the intersection of dance and technology. It will be performed by Collective Collective, an intermedia performance group that focuses on site specific sculptural-, movement- or installation-based presentations.
Also an MFA thesis installation by Christopher Fox – using multidimensional space to present statistical data.
The event is free and starts May 9 at 7:30pm @ Marine A Grain Elevator, at “Silo City” on Childs Street at the intersection of Ohio Street.