“About as far away from New York City as you can get and still be in New York State, Buffalo has a thriving community of independent media and other artists that, as critic Louis Marcorelles wrote in Le Monde, is "the spearhead of experimentation in the United States" (1975). Buffalo has been the creative laboratory where influential avant-garde artists such as Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Paul Sharits, and Hollis Frampton got their start or settled, and through teaching and organizing artists, inspired hundreds of others to produce not only new art, but new art movements (such as postmodernism, the roots of which lie largely in Buffalo) … ”