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CONFERENCE
CYBERNETICS: ART, DESIGN, MATHEMATICS — A META-DISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION
July 30—August 2, 2010
Early bird registration still available! EMPAC will be hosting Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics – A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation (C:ADM2010), an international and interdisciplinary conference co-sponsored with the American Society of Cybernetics and the School of Architecture at Rensselaer. C:ADM2010 brings together practitioners and theorists from four disciplines in an extended conversation in order to explore questions that are common to all of them. The conference involves a balanced mix of individuals from art, cybernetics, design and mathematics that have, until now, not assembled simultaneously and purposefully. Here the effort is not to document contemporary development within these fields, that is, to share those things already known, but to generate the interaction that leads to new ideas, discoveries and partnerships. This novel approach distinguishes this conference from those with a more typical disciplinary focus and traditional format. Each of the four disciplines represented at the conference share an interest in certain questions that will be topics for discussion. These include, the nature of transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary work, ways to crossover between discplines, the concepts of metaphor, aesthetics, process in each of these fields, and the relationship between the actual and the abstract. Additional information about the conference and surrounding events can be found at the conference's website.   
 from UKIYO project, DAP Lab (c) 2010, image courtesy of Johannes Birringer
WORKSHOP
LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB
August 16—22, 2010
Résumé and informal letter of application are due by June 30, 2010! EMPAC will present its first summer lab for interactive media in performance this August 16-22, 2010. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation. The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners, scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing a deeper understanding of composing work focused on real time, interactive or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes (video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography, and directing). More information on this workshop can be found on the EMPAC website.
NEWS
EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts' Regional Touring Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation;) and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions. | |
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