Arts and Culture

News about UB’s arts and humanities programs and related events. (see all topics)

How a brick-hauling robot and smart glasses could make life easier for masons
4/14/15
A UB research team aims to bring robotics to construction sites.
Multimedia performances explore relationship between people and place
4/9/15
Places affect people in ways that tap all of the senses. It could be the long shadows of late afternoon cast by the aging pines surrounding a ramshackle cabin; or the sound of exhausted waves struggling to reach a deserted beach; or even the thick smog-burdened heat a crowded city.
Gift extends late philosophy professor’s long tenure at UB
4/8/15
William Baumer’s family has given $500,000 to create a fund benefiting the Department of Philosophy.
June in Buffalo to celebrate 40th anniversary with sparkle aplenty
4/6/15
UB’s pioneering festival and performance institute for new music will include master classes, seminars, lectures and 15 concerts.
UB’s 2015 Black Box Concert explores electro-acoustic and computer music
3/30/15
The event, organized by the UB Department of Music's Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios, will create immersive sonic environments for the listener.
2015 UB Signature Series will celebrate award-winning career of Stephen McKinley Henderson
3/26/15
Henderson is an educator, director and award-winning television, Broadway and off-Broadway actor.
Lovers of music and voice, rejoice: Science & Art Cabaret to tackle sound
3/23/15
The line-up for the March event includes a DJ from The Pink, a record label founder and two researchers in the field of communicative disorders and sciences.
Colloquium explores technology’s impact on social relationships and art
3/19/15
Annie Dorsen, the award-winning performance artist and director of the Broadway hit “Passing Strange” will discuss her groundbreaking algorithmic theatre performances on March 27 at 5:30 p.m. as part of the University at Buffalo’s Technē Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies’ “Structures of Digital Feeling Colloquium of Artists and Scholars in the Digital Age.”
Media Advisory: Come see 1,400 WNY high school students “love” Macbeth
3/18/15
You might expect teenagers to scoff at sitting through a 95-minute, no-intermission performance of Shakespeare’s grim and bloody Macbeth.
UB anthropologist named Max Planck Society Visiting Fellow
3/11/15
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's project is titled, "Memory, Spirits, and Violence in Mapuche Chilean Geographies."

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