The Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ will feature a remote lecture by ELIANE BETTOCCHI, Narrative Game Designer, Illustrator, and Scholar. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password.​

ELIANE BETTOCCHI is a black woman, who knows and feels what it is to be on the outskirts of a dominant civilization. As an Educator, she/they think it’s her/their duty to help healing these wounds, which she/they try to do through her/their research/teaching/design method as means to bring a dream into reality, a dream of seeing the entertainment and media industry as an inclusive place where people like her/them once was (a poor black woman from a third world country) can build a career; a place where the once oppressed can tell their stories, relate to their own role models and finally open the gates of diversity to everybody else. She/they is a tenured professor of the Art Teacher Licensure Course at the Institute of Arts and Design of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She/they coordinates the research groups Interactive Stories: study and project of playful narratives and Laroyê: research in decolonial bodies, arts, culture and languages, and the Interdisciplinary Language Laboratory for undergraduate degrees at UFJF. She/they was a Design Consultant at the UNESCO Chair in Reading at PUC-Rio, where she/they coordinated a high school teacher training project with support from Faperj. She/they worked for 19 years as a Graphic Design and Illustration professional, with an emphasis on commercial and educational narrative games. Lato sensu postgraduate degree in Art Theory at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1998), Master’s (2002) and Doctorate (2008) in Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Brief remarks addressed to the students who are enrolled in PLASMA as a course will begin at 6:00 PM sharp. ELAINE BETTOCCHI’s presentation will begin at 6:10 pm EST.

As always, PLASMA lectures are free and open to the UB community and the public.​

PLASMA is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is curated by Dr. Paige Sarlin, Assistant Professor of Media Study, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.

For more information: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/media-study/news-events/plasma.html

The recordings of previous presentations can be found on MediaStudy@UB’s PLASMA 2021 YouTube Channel​.​​​

UPCOMING: MONDAY MAY 9^th

Special Screening of The PLASMA MANIFESTO FILM –

a compilation film comprised of one-minute videos that document 110 “truths” that individual PLASMA students have come to know and believe!