[HvEXAS] Happy holidays from EMPAC

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. WOW & FLUTTER, 10/01+10/02/2004  NEWS Still searching for last minute holiday gifts? Look no further than the EMPAC Box Office! We have several items for purchase, including The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde book (which includes a DVD of their performance at Rensselaer in 2004), three DANCE MOViES Commission DVDs (purchased separately, or as a set for a discount), exhibition catalogs for Uncertain Spectator and Dancing on the Ceiling, and the recently released The Architecture of EMPAC: The Tangible and The Tantalizing book. The Box Office is open Monday - Friday, 9 AM to 6 PM, and Saturday, noon to 6 PM while Uncertain Spectator is on view - however, it will close at 6 PM on Wednesday, December 22 and will reopen on Monday, January 3, 2011. Stop by soon! The full Spring 2011 calendar of events will make its grand appearance in the new year - for those that simply cannot wait, though, we have a few events up on the EMPAC homepage. Start planning your trip(s) now! Book dispensary too far away? Snowed in? Alligator infestation outside? EMPAC has you covered, as there is plenty to read on the Uncertain Spectator(s) blog. Click on over! ON VIEW EXHIBITION Uncertain Spectator November 18, 2010 – January 29, 2011 A group exhibition confronting anxiety in contemporary art, Uncertain Spectator asks individuals to cross a threshold — to place themselves in situations riddled with tension, confront deeply charged emotional content, and grapple with feelings of apprehension. The works presented deal with a general mood of uneasiness arising from recent political and economic events that frames a future rife with imminent threats. Uncertain Spectator not only responds to these unsettling situations, but also creates them by challenging individuals to step outside of a place of comfort both physically and emotionally. » More Information INSTALLATION Michael J. Schumacher: Room Pieces Troy 2010 A building-wide sound installation utilizing the immense size, acoustics, and 100-plus speaker public address system to create a rich sonic environment for anyone passing through the building. A widely varied sound palette creates an ever-changing soundscape that is both pleasurable and unpredictable. » More Information Both are free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM; they will be closing at the end of the day on Wednesday, December 22 and reopening on Monday, January 3, 2011. Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from 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 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), 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. EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. Our mailing address is: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2010 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Uncertain Spectator reopens!

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Marie Sester, Fear (a 2010 EMPAC commission) - photo by Kris Qua ON VIEW EXHIBITION Uncertain Spectator November 18, 2010 – January 29, 2011 A group exhibition confronting anxiety in contemporary art, Uncertain Spectator asks individuals to cross a threshold — to place themselves in situations riddled with tension, confront deeply charged emotional content, and grapple with feelings of apprehension. The works presented deal with a general mood of uneasiness arising from recent political and economic events that frames a future rife with imminent threats. Uncertain Spectator not only responds to these unsettling situations, but also creates them by challenging individuals to step outside of a place of comfort both physically and emotionally. » More Information INSTALLATION Michael J. Schumacher: Room Pieces Troy 2010 A building-wide sound installation utilizing the immense size, acoustics, and 100-plus speaker public address system to create a rich sonic environment for anyone passing through the building. A widely varied sound palette creates an ever-changing soundscape that is both pleasurable and unpredictable. » More Information Both are free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM; they will be closing at the end of the day on Wednesday, December 22 and reopening on Monday, January 3, 2011. NEWS The full Spring 2011 calendar of events will make its grand appearance in the new year - for those that simply cannot wait, though, we have a few events up on the EMPAC homepage. Start planning your trip(s) now! Book dispensary too far away? Snowed in? Alligator infestation outside? EMPAC has you covered, as there is plenty to read on the Uncertain Spectator(s) blog. Click on over! Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from 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 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), 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. EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. Our mailing address is: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2010 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] David Thomas in your living room

 

Just in time for Christmas... David Thomas (PERE UBU; ROCKET FROM THE
TOMBS) available to perform in your living room (or basement?) for
$1000 to a max. of 35 people.

http://www.ubuprojex.net/livingroom.html

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[HvEXAS] Open Call for Artist in Residence Proposals at EMPAC

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Composer Hans Tutschku in residence at EMPAC - photo by Natt Phenjati  Open Call for Artist in Residence Proposals Since 2005, EMPAC has established a vibrant residency program that has hosted over 40 artists and their collaborators, spanning theater, dance, music, video, and installation. While EMPAC will continue its open call residency program, we are pleased to announce four additional focused initiatives: ‐ Audio Production / Post‐Production For sound recording, development of multichannel sound works, documentation, mastering, mixing, film scoring, or any other task involving microphones, speakers, consoles, and computers. ‐ Creative Research Provides artists, writers, and theorists with the opportunity to conduct research over extended periods of time (minimum six weeks). ‐ Dance / Theater To rehearse, workshop, or finalize a production. Provides a group of up to six individuals a two‐week rehearsal period in a 3,300 sq. ft. black box space with full production support. ‐ Video Production / Post‐Production For multiple camera shoots, documentation of a performance, development of multichannel video projection, digital video post‐production, or any project involving HD video cameras, computers, and projectors. EMPAC's unique facilities offer four major venues including a Concert Hall, Theater, and two black box Studios, in addition to artists in residence studios and a state of the art infrastructure. To apply, please include a letter of intent, a project description, a resume or CV for all major collaborators, as well as works, samples, and other supporting materials. Proposals are reviewed by EMPAC curators four times a year. Upcoming reviews will take place on January 14, April 15, July 15, and October 15. In general, residencies are scheduled six months to one year in advance. For more information, please visit: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/residencies/artist/. NEWS If you happen to be in New York City tonight / this weekend (December 9-11), head over to The Kitchen to catch former EMPAC artist in residence Toni Dove's Spectropia! More information and tickets can be found on The Kitchen's website. Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from 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 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), 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. EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. Our mailing address is: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2010 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] Reminder: Lounge @ Daisy's : Lazer & Blazer w/Guest DJ BASIC : This Friday Dec 3rd

 

Tonight don't miss a full night of deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep house music and eclectic, Balearic, getting funky on the damn funky, damn hedonistic isle of get down funk with the DJs who you may or may not know are your favorite DJs on the planet. It'll make you feel good. DJs LAZER & BLAZER w/Guest DJ BASIC Daisy Baker's 33 Second St., Troy $5 Cover (free before 10pm) Bar opens early ... music starts 9pm 18+ w/ID ... 21+ to drink http://www.selectrhythms.com/ http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=168432323189135

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[HvEXAS] REMINDER: Sean Griffin: Cold Spring | 12/03+04 | EMPAC, Troy, NY

Here are some preview stories, with the first few including interviews with creator, cast, and collaborators:

http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Cold-Spring-crosses-artistic-genres-in-850730.php
http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/11/25/entertainment/doc4ced66550b33e462387099.txt

http://www.nippertown.com/2010/11/29/be-here-now-cold-spring-empac-at-rpi-123-410
http://berkshireonstage.com/2010/11/19/sean-griffins-cold-spring-smashes-theatre-music-visuals-together-at-empac/
http://gailsez.org/2010/11/sean-griffins-cold-spring-comes-to-empac-december-3-4/

http://www.benningtonbanner.com/entertainment/ci_16746537

Come early to check out the Uncertain Spectator exhibition + grab a snack from Evelyn's Café (managed by The Epicurean)!

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http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/fall/griffin/

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PERFORMANCE
Sean Griffin: Cold Spring
Friday + Saturday, December 3 + 4, 2010, 8 PM
EMPAC Theater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
$15/10/5

A battering ram for the stage that puts alien abductions, eugenics, snapshots of area theater productions, and roller girls through a kaleidoscopic operatic lens

featuring Curtain Call Theatre, Johnstown Little Theatre, and the Albany All Stars Roller Girls

On Friday and Saturday, December 3 and 4, 2010 at 8 PM in the Theater, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY presents Cold Spring, a theatrical + musical performance created in residence by the Los Angeles-based composer Sean Griffin.

A diversity of musicians, actors, and dancers from all over the United States and Canada turn the EMPAC Theater into a high-energy collision of charged musical and theatrical particles and their underlying ideologies. 

Among these is the Eugenics Archive in Cold Spring Harbor NY. This archive represents the breeding-ground research for the eugenics-based social policies that resulted in mass sterilization of undesirables, forced lobotomies and, ultimately, with support from the Carnegie Foundation, Nazi Germany's master race policies.

In Cold Spring, materials from this archive intersect unexpectedly with the early 20th century spiritualism-meets-pop-supernaturalism of the 1970s. Through an operatic rendition of the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction hypnosis tapes, we follow the embattled, mixed-race couple as they navigate social complications through the hyper-vigilant sanctimony of their pre-civil rights world.

Cold Spring is propelled by a collection of iconic musical and theatrical snap-shots, several performed by actors familiar to Capitol Region theater-goers. Ideas best forgotten and good intentions gone awry unfold onto one another, turning the theater into a crippled ceremonious procession.

Funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.

Sean Griffin lives and works in Los Angeles. 

Encompassing many languages, styles, media and forms, Griffin's unusual compositional works rely on interdisciplinary incongruities positioned at the intersection of sound, image, performance, and the archive.
 
Manifesting as large and small-scale operatic works, collaborative sound and video installations, complex numeric choreographies, or historically weighted political works that defy categorization, Griffin's works obsessively instrumentalize embedded cultures of injustice, racism, and wars of the recent past disturbingly mixed with dated-pop fantasies about self worth and class. Animated by rhythmic regimentation and improvisation, his compositions can be viewed as platforms for the performer's unique talents with whom he collaborates extensively.

Griffin frequently collaborates with Catherine Sullivan, Juliana Snapper, Charles Gaines and Aiyun Huang. His works have been presented internationally at venues including Los Angeles' REDCAT, Armand Hammer Museum, and LACMA, June in Buffalo, Berlin's Volksbühne, Secession Vienna, London's Royal Academy and the Tate Modern, Festival d'Avignon, Taipei City Arts Festival, Walker Art Center, Centre Pompidou, and Festival BOM 2010 in Seoul, Korea. He recieved an MFA from CalArts and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

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Tickets are required for this event and available through the EMPAC box office for $15 general admission; $10 for students, seniors, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty and staff; or $5 for Rensselaer students. 

Parking for this event is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue. Evelyn's Café will be open before the performance for all your culinary needs.

Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website, http://www.empac.rpi.edu/.

Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

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About EMPAC


The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an international hub for art, performance, science, and technology — offering adventurous interdisciplinary public events, support for artists and scholars engaged in creative research, and the resources of a state-of-the art facility for digital media production, research, and performance situated on a college campus.

EMPAC's building is a showcase work of architecture that spans the physical and digital worlds. With a 1,200-seat concert hall, a 400-seat theater, two flexible black box studios, audio and video production rooms, and residency studios, EMPAC is a unique environment where digital technology and human experience can meet.

EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from 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 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), 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.

About Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation's oldest technological university. The school offers degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the social sciences and humanities. For over 30 years, the Institute has been a leader in interdisciplinary creative research, especially in the electronic arts. In addition to its MFA and PhD programs in electronic arts, Rensselaer offers bachelor degrees in electronic arts, and in electronic media, arts, and communication — one of the first undergraduate programs of its kind in the United States. The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies and EMPAC are two major research platforms that Rensselaer established at the beginning of the 21st century.

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110 8th Street 

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http://www.empac.rpi.edu/
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[HvEXAS] Lounge @ Daisy's : Lazer & Blazer w/Guest DJ BASIC : This Friday Dec 3rd

 

THIS SATURDAY don't miss a full night of deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep house music and eclectic, Balearic, getting funky on the damn funky, damn hedonistic isle of get down funk with the DJs who you may or may not know are your favorite DJs on the planet. It'll make you feel good. DJs LAZER & BLAZER w/Guest DJ BASIC Daisy Baker's 33 Second St., Troy $5 Cover (free before 10pm) Bar opens early ... music starts 9pm 18+ w/ID ... 21+ to drink http://www.selectrhythms.com/ http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=168432323189135

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[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Sean Griffin: Cold Spring | 12/03+04

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Photo courtesy Sean Griffin - technology and design artifacts of the Capital Region on loan from the archives at the Schenectady Museum PERFORMANCE Sean Griffin: Cold Spring Friday + Saturday, December 3 + 4, 2010, 8 PM Theater $15/10/5 A curious theatrical collision of hijacked music and theater — an abduction of the audience into an pageant of disturbing 20th century indulgences. Featuring actors, musicians, and dancers from LA, Chicago, Montreal, Minneapolis, NYC, and the Capital Region with industrial relics from the Schenectady Museum. » More Information ON VIEW Claire Fontaine, CHANGE (2006) - courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin EXHIBITION Uncertain Spectator November 18, 2010 – January 29, 2011 An exhibition confronting anxiety in contemporary art, where individuals are asked to cross a threshold into situations riddled with uncertainty.  » More Information INSTALLATION Michael J. Schumacher: Room Pieces Troy 2010 A building-wide sound installation utilizing the immense size, acoustics, and 100-plus speaker public address system to create a rich sonic environment for anyone passing through the building. A widely varied sound palette creates an ever-changing soundscape that is both pleasurable and unpredictable. » More Information Both are free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM; they will be closing on Wednesday, December 8 and reopening on Tuesday, December 14. NEWS While you are at EMPAC before a performance or to check out the ongoing exhibitions, stop by Evelyn's Café (managed by The Epicurean) for a selection from the imaginative French-inspired menu. Open Monday-Friday, 11 AM to 5 PM (as well as additional hours to support events). The Uncertain Spectator(s) blog this week features posts by Clare Carlisle, Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. Check back all this week for her posts on Kierkegaard and anxiety. CAMPUS + COMMUNITY CONCERT Rensselaer Symphony Orchestra & Concert Choir Sat. 12/04, 2 PM FREE Presented by the Rensselaer Music Association and the Rensselaer Union Classical Concert Series Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER! EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from 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 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), 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. EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. Our mailing address is: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2009 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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