Queer Studies Research Workshop, Disabilities Studies Workshop, Department of Visual Studies, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Visual AIDS, UB Center for Disabilities Studies, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, WNY Pride Center, Gay and Lesbian Youth Services (GLYS), and UB Student Health Services :  World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art

Radiant Presence: 2015’s event marks the 25th Anniversary of Electric Blanket, an epic slide show about AIDS which interspersed the work of over 200 photographers with slide texts that include demographics, data, and slogans about AIDS worldwide. Radiant Presence revisits this presentation with updated images and data.

Provoking conversations about HIV stigma, treatment and access to treatment, the multiple demographics of people living with HIV, and the work of artists impacted by and responding to HIV/AIDS, a panel discussion will follow the screening and will be moderated by Conor Moynihan, PhD student in Visual Studies, UB.

Panelists include:

Lawrence Brose, experimental film artist

Ally Day, PhD, Assistant Professor, Disability Studies Program, University of Toledo

Matthew Crehan Higgins, Senior Director, Pride Center of Western New York

Jeffrey M. Hutchins, Adult Health Nurse Practitioner, UB Student Health Services

Lance Rintamaki, PhD,Associate Professor, Department of Communications, UB