What is Squeaky Wheel?
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. We provide low-cost access to video and film equipment rental, editing suites, workshops, and screenings of independent and avant-garde film and video. We are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Baird Foundation, the Cameron Baird Foundation, the Children's Foundation of Erie County, the Experimental Television Center, the Fund for the Arts, Hodgson Russ LLP, M&T Bank, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the John R. Oishei Foundation, and our members. The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Be in Touch with Squeaky
Keep up with Squeaky Wheel activities online by becoming myspace or facebook friends with us, viewing our videos on vimeo and youtube or subscribing to our rss feeds. Become a member and receive mailing about our events, workshops and various artist opportunities. Also, stop in and visit anytime during our office hours!
When I am not busy being the executive director of Squeaky Wheel I make documentary and experimental films and videos. In my work explores topics close to my heart, such as my mother, urban agriculture, the seven deadly sins and the craziness of e-mail. My work has shown nationally and internationally and has been awarded with First Place (NJ Super 8 Film Festival, 2003) and Third Place (Athens International Film and Video Festival, 2008) Documentary Awards, production awards from PBS stations WHYY and WYBE, and grants from the Pennsylvania and New York Councils on the Arts. Most recently I have been awarded a Fulbright senior lecture award to create a documentary about interactive artistic initiatives in the German State of Brandenburg. I live in Buffalo with my husband, daughter, and three cats.
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Jax Deluca creates visual and sonic artworks for gallery and public installations, videos, films, and performances that incorporate elements of religious and ethnographic studies, communications and experimental media making. She enjoys performing at various DIY and independent art spaces across the United States and has shown her work internationally. Current projects include immersive noise, free-wave sounds, drones and dirges under the name of Communication Vault and W ((aa)) ou w. Always on the hunt for emerging artists, she has exhibited more than 600 media art works and performances through the various facets of Squeaky Wheel programming and has provided opportunities and resources for emerging and established media artists worldwide through the Media Artists Cheat Sheet, a Squeaky newsletter that reaches approximately 3,000 individuals.
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I have a long-standing love affair with Squeaky Wheel. It all began with an internship in 2005, followed by a successful few years directing the Buffalo Youth Media Institute. I left to earn a Masters of Science in Media Management with an emphasis in Computer-Mediated Communication from Indiana University. After graduation, I moved back to my hometown with my husband and eagerly reignited my relationship with Squeaky and all the wonderful people involved. My work involves teaching media literacy to anyone who will listen. When I'm not working, I enjoy documentaries, conspiracy theories and laughing way too loudly.
Mark Longolucco is an active musician and video artist with a BFA from Alfred University. His works revolve around folk artist storytelling and the elusive nature of modern fact. He is currently the Technical Director at Squeaky Wheel.
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Tammy is a media artist with interests in interactive and electronic media. Her film, video, installation and interactive works have been included in several Hallwalls Artists and Models, UB Poetics Wed@4 Series, E-Poetry festivals, Schwienfurth Memorial Art Center, Visual Studies Workshop, various online net art exhibits as well as film and video screenings locally and internationally. Since joining the staff in 2004, Tammy has been programming the workshops series and education programs, developing and maintaining the Squeaky Wheel website and has most recently become the technical director for the newly formed video preservation network, Migrating Media.
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Brenda J Smith SUNYAB, BS Accounting, 1976 Accountant, Squeaky Wheel, 8 yrs School bus driver, 32 yrs Like photography, reading, sports, being on my computer.
Goda likes reading, writing, drawing, making videos, and doing things outside. She gets to do all of these things as part of her work at Squeaky Wheel where her tasks include facilitating media-centered educational programming at area schools + community centers, organizing off-site screenings + workshops, and coordinating the Channels documentary production initiative.
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