Thursday, September 29, 2011

[HvEXAS] TNO Afterparty | Friday, Sept. 30th, 2011 | We Are Architects, DJ WashClothes and il! | Daisy Baker's | 9:30pm | FREE

 

The Troy Night Out Afterparty – September 30th, 2011
9:30pm - 2:30am
18 to get in, 21 to drink (ID required)
FREE!

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Returning for another double-slot, Patrick + Angie, aka We are Architects + DJ WashClothes, are set to show you what they think a proper TNO should be. What I like about their sets are 1) they are dancetastic, 2) music you've never heard, and 3) the option to dance your face off or listen to music you never heard while talking about the corporatization of Hoosick Street. 

And in part 4 of our 4 part series, "Better Know a DJ," Il-young will be starting us off with our favorite music from 2012 (we just don't know it yet). It's like he's from the future. Or it's like he just got back from 3 years in Cali and is making up for lost time.

Come enjoy a bit of Indian Summer at Daisy Baker's! Drink specials, free to get in, and the hot nerd from your differential equations class. Maybe you can take him/her leaf peeping...

9:30 il!
11:00(ish) DJ WashClothes
12:30(ish) We Are Architects

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[HvEXAS] REMINDER: onedotzero double feature screenings | tonight @ 7 + 9 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING 
onedotzero: citystates 10 + robotica 
Thursday, September 29, 7 + 9 PM 
Theater 
$6 each


Presenting a double feature night of screenings from the international touring festival. Curated and compiled by onedotzero, all programs explore new forms and hybrids of moving image across motion graphics, short film, animation, music videos, and more.

7 PM: citystates 10
run time: 83 minutes

A continued exploration of onedotzero's fascination with the city via an eclectic series of filmic responses to urban environments and fast-paced city living. As we accelerate toward becoming nations of super-cities, this year's festival selection presents and questions utopian desires, bringing a sense of adventure, hope, and positivity about our shared future world.

9 PM: robotica

onedotzero's partiality to our mechanical friends of the future has been demonstrated over the years throughout the festival programming. This selection touches on the ethics, social effects, and pure fun of a world shared with robots or androids, from spy messengers and declarations of love to extraterrestrial robotic invasions of earth.

Evelyn's Café is open from 6 to 9 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: http://empac.rpi.edu/. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

onedotzero is an international moving image and digital arts organization that commissions, showcases, and promotes innovation across all aspects of moving image, digital, and interactive arts. Founded in 1996, it is known for representing a diverse array of artistic endeavors. Its collaborative approach is attuned to technological advances and changes within digital arts and the contemporary cultural landscape. onedotzero is critically acclaimed for producing the annual pioneering audiovisual touring festival, onedotzero_adventures in motion. The festival travels the world, showcasing the most exciting ideas and brightest up-and-coming filmmaking talent alongside visionary new work by leading creative luminaries.

onedotzero brings together high-end and grass roots talent within a comprehensive package and delivers contemporary arts and audiovisual entertainment to a broad, international demographic of connected audiences. http://onedotzero.com/

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TALK: DETAIL VIEW
Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines: Vignettes in the History of a Multimedia Century
Tuesday, September 27, 12 PM
Theater
FREE

In the first installment of this three-part lecture series, Rensselaer professor Michael Century presents a fresh reading of today's experimental media art scene by surveying key works, personalities and movements of the past century and laying out a framework for forecasting its future. 

I. Après le Deluge, 1913–47, surveys key moments and tensions within the historical avant-garde, with examples from dance, abstract film and animation, experimental music, and critical theory.

Evelyn's Café will be open from 11:30 AM to 2 PM for Eat Local Lunch.

Michael Century is a professor of new media and music in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As a practitioner and educator for over 30 years in the intersections between classical and experimental arts, Century brings a unique vantage to the history of art, technology, and culture. In his early career, he worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts, heading its inter-arts program and founding the renowned new media research and production unit. During the 1990s, he worked as program director at a national IT lab, and as policy advisor for art and new technology to the Department of Canadian Heritage. He was responsible for creating opportunities for collaborative research among artists, technologists, and scientists in a host of settings, from studio and lab practice to setting national policies for media innovation. As a new media consultant, Century advised numerous clients, notably authoring the widely cited report Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture for The Rockefeller Foundation. At Rensselaer, he teaches courses on the history and theory of art and technology, music history, and also leads the Rensselaer Contemporary Music Ensemble.

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James Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University 
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 6 PM 
Studio 2
FREE

Renowned art historian James Elkins will discuss the wide range of image interpreting practices that take place across the departments of a university: lawyers, doctors, scientists, engineers, humanists, and social scientists all produce images and make arguments about them in different ways. This talk assesses the state of scholarship on links between art and science, and asserts that it is possible to consider images in various fields without using tropes from the humanities or social sciences as explanatory tools.

The Observer Effects series invites thinkers to present their highly integrative work in dialogue with the fields of art and science. This lecture series takes its title from a popularized principle in physics that holds that the act of observation transforms the observed. Outside the natural sciences, the idea that the observer and the observed are linked in a web of reciprocal modification has been deeply influential in philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, and politics.

A limited number of complimentary light dinners will be served at 6 PM to enjoy as part of the talk. Wine and refreshments will also be available as part of our paid cafe service.

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He writes on art and non-art images, and his recent books include On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction, What Happened to Art Criticism? and Master Narratives and Their Discontents. He edited two book series for Routledge: The Art Seminar (conversations on different subjects in art theory) and Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts (short monographs on the shape of the twentieth century). Currently, he is organizing a seven-year series called the Stone Summer Theory Institute (stonesummertheoryinstitute.org).


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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 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, research, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, 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.

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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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
110 8th Street 
Troy, NY  12180
http://empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

[HvEXAS] James Elkins talk + dinner & onedotzero double feature

 

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TALK + DINNER: OBSERVER EFFECTS
James Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University
Wednesday, September 28, 6 PM
FREE

Renowned art historian James Elkins will discuss the wide range of image interpreting practices that take place across the departments of a university: lawyers, doctors, scientists, engineers, humanists, and social scientists all produce images and make arguments about them in different ways. This talk assesses the state of scholarship on links between art and science, and asserts that it is possible to consider images in various fields without using tropes from the humanities or social sciences as explanatory tools.

A limited number of complimentary light dinners will be served at 6 PM to enjoy as part of the talk. Wine and refreshments will also be available as part of our paid cafe service. We recommend arriving early to secure not only a meal, but also a seat in the lecture space.
 

citystates 10: Richard Hardy, The Transcendent City
citystates 10: Richard Hardy, The Transcendent City


SCREENING
onedotzero: citystates 10 + robotica
Thursday, September 29, 7 + 9 PM

Tickets

Presenting a double feature night of screenings from the international touring festival. onedotzero programs explore new forms and hybrids of moving image across motion graphics, short film, animation, music videos, and more.

7 PM: citystates 10 - trailer
An eclectic series of film responses to urban environments and fast-paced city living that presents and questions utopian desires.

9 PM: robotica - trailer
The ethics, social effects, and pure fun of a world shared with robots or androids.

Evelyn's Café will be open for citystates 10 and robotica screenings from 6-9 PM.

 

SOON

SCREENING + TALK: THE ETERNAL RETURN
Time and Time Again: La Jetée & the Eternal Recurrence
Thursday, October 6, 7:30 PM
Tickets

A film program of Chris Marker's La Jetée and two short films it inspired launches The Eternal Return screening series, followed by a discussion led by experimental filmmaker Keith Sanborn.


Photo by Thomas Bethge
Photo by Thomas Bethge


PERFORMANCE
AKOUSMA at EMPAC
Friday, October 7, 8 PM

Tickets

International works across the spectrum of electronic music from this year's AKOUSMA festival in Montréal, featuring artists from France, Canada, and Argentina playing live music over a 16-channel audio system.


 
ON VIEW

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) + index (v.4)
Monday - Saturday, 12-6 PM

FREE


NEWS

For those of you in the UK, Yvon Bonenfant's EMPAC-commissioned voice + projections performance piece Beacons is on tour through October - be sure to check it out!

 

CAMPUS + COMMUNITY

TALK
Neil Denari: Facticity
Wed. 09/28, 6 PM

TALK + PERFORMANCE
Dr. Dmitri Tymoczko: A Geometry of Music
Wed. 10/05, 2 PM
part of the Vollmer Fries Lecture series

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EMPAC 2011-2012 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.



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Friday, September 23, 2011

[HvEXAS] REMINDER! Phantom Limb: 69ºS. | Fri. 09/23 + Sat. 09/24 | EMPAC, Troy, NY

Tickets still available!

Some previews:


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Phantom Limb: 69ºS. 
Friday + Saturday, September 23 + 24, 2011, 8 PM 
Theater 
$18 general admission / $13 students + seniors

A stunning vision of Antarctica's past, present, and future—uniting puppetry, junk-rock, dance, film, history, and photography with contemporary music


Inspired by Sir Ernest Shackleton's harrowing expedition to Antarctica in 1914, Phantom Limb unites puppetry, dance, film, history, and photography with contemporary music to create a stunning vision of the great arctic continent—past, present, and future. Dim light plays across a lunar terrain dotted with icebergs. Shackleton's crew, played by half-life-size puppets, struggles to survive in this vast landscape, putting into stark relief the power of endurance and camaraderie and the price of knowledge. With sound that combines the junkyard dog aesthetic of the band Skeleton Key playing live, a score recorded by the Kronos Quartet, and glacial field recordings, 69˚S. mines the inherently bittersweet and complex nature of the Shackleton experience and what the future may hold for this fragile environment.
 
Following a two-week residency at EMPAC with the entire cast and crew, these performances are the final workshop showings before the piece officially premieres at Dartmouth College.

The New York City-based Phantom Limb Company, founded by composer and marionette maker Erik Sanko and visual artist Jessica Grindstaff, is critically acclaimed for its reinvention of traditional theatrical forms, incorporating marionette puppetry, music, and large-scale installation in order to probe issues of contemporary life. Since the success of their first marionette play The Fortune Teller in 2006, Sanko and Grindstaff have collaborated on numerous original theatrical works with such diverse artists as Ping Chong & Company, Ulrike Quade, Geoff Sobelle of Pig Iron and rainpan 43, and Mark Z. Danielewski.
 
+ Phantom Limb Company's site: http://www.phantomlimbcompany.com
+ Skeleton Key's site: http://www.skeletonkey.org

+ context on the production of the piece: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~phantomlimb/
+ notes from a past residency showing at MASS MoCA: http://gailsez.org/2010/03/comments-on-69°-south-the-shackleton-project/
+ Wiki on Shackleton's 1914 journey to Antartica: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition

Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues after the event. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

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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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 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, research, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, 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.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
110 8th Street 
Troy, NY  12180
http://www.empac.rpi.edu
Box Office: 518.276.3921

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

[HvEXAS] Phantom Limb: 69°S. | Fri. 09/23 + Sat. 09/24, 8 PM

 

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Phantom Limb: 69°S. - Photo by Sarah Walker
Phantom Limb: 69°S. - photo by Sarah Walker
Phantom Limb: 69°S.
Friday + Saturday, September 23 + 24, 8 PM
Tickets

Inspired by Sir Ernest Shackleton's harrowing expedition to Antarctica in 1914 and the mystique of the great arctic continent, Phantom Limb unites puppetry, dance, film, history, and photography with the junkyard dog aesthetic of the band Skeleton Key performing live, a score recorded by the Kronos Quartet, and haunting glacial field recordings to create a stunning vision of Antarctica—past, present, and future. Shackleton's crew, played by half-life-size puppets, struggles to survive in this vast landscape. 69°S. mines the inherently bittersweet and complex nature of the Shackleton experience and what the future may hold for this fragile environment.


Athanasius Kircher Musurgia Universalis
Athanasius Kircher Musurgia Universalis


TALK: DETAIL VIEW
Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines
Tuesday, September 27, 12 PM
FREE

In the first installment of this three-part lecture series, Rensselaer professor Michael Century presents a fresh reading of today's experimental media art scene by surveying key works, personalities and movements of the past century and laying out a framework for forecasting its future.

I. Après le Deluge, 1913-1947, surveys key moments and tensions within the historical avant-garde, with examples from dance, abstract film and animation, experimental music, and critical theory.

Evelyn's Café will be open from 11:30 AM to 2 PM for Eat Local Lunch.

 

SOON

TALK + DINNER: OBSERVER EFFECTS
James Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University
Wednesday, September 28, 6 PM
FREE

In this interdisciplinary lecture, renowned art historian James Elkins will discuss the differential role images play across the departments of a university.

A limited number of complimentary light dinners will be served at 6 PM to enjoy as part of the talk. Wine and refreshments will also be available as part of our paid cafe service.
 

SCREENING
onedotzero: citystates 10 + robotica
Thursday, September 29, 7 + 9 PM
Tickets

Presenting a double feature night of screenings from the international touring festival. onedotzero programs explore new forms and hybrids of moving image across motion graphics, short film, animation, music videos, and more.

7 PM: citystates 10 - trailer
9 PM: robotica - trailer

Evelyn's Café will be open for citystates 10 and robotica screenings from 6-9 PM.

 

ON VIEW

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) - photo by Kris Qua
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) - photo by Kris Qua


EXHIBITION
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) + index (v.4)
Monday - Saturday, 12-6 PM
FREE

 

 

 

CAMPUS + COMMUNITY

TALK
Heather Roberge: Sheet Logics
Wed. 09/21, 6 PM
FREE

CONFERENCE
Techconnex: 2011 Techapalooza
Thurs. 09/22, 5 PM

TALK
Neil Denari: Facticity
Wed. 09/28, 6 PM
FREE

Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER!


EMPAC 2011-2012 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

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EMPAC
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Troy, NY 12180

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

[HvEXAS] Four Tet + Jon Hopkins sold out! Plus upcoming events

 

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Phantom Limb: 69°S. - Photo by Sarah Walker
Phantom Limb: 69°S. - photo by Sarah Walker
PERFORMANCE
Four Tet + Jon Hopkins
Thursday, September 15, 8 PM
This event is sold out!

A stellar double bill featuring two of Britain's hottest musicians, producers, and composers of electronic music performing their trademark energetic knob-twisting beats intertwined with live video and a unique instrumental piano set.

 

SOON

QUOTE UNQUOTE
Phantom Limb: 69°S.
Friday + Saturday, September 23 + 24, 8 PM
Tickets

69°S. is inspired by Ernest Shackleton's harrowing 1914 expedition to Antarctica. Phantom Limb unites puppetry, dance, film, history, and photography with a score that melds live junk-rock by Skeleton Key, recordings of the Kronos Quartet, and glacial field recordings to create a stunning vision of Antarctica's past, present, and future.

A look inside the creative process in the making of 69°S.


TALK: DETAIL VIEW
Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines
Tuesday, September 27, 12 PM
FREE

In the first installment of this three-part lecture series, Rensselaer professor Michael Century presents a fresh reading of today's experimental media art scene by surveying key works, personalities and movements of the past century and laying out a framework for forecasting its future.
 

TALK + DINNER: OBSERVER EFFECTS
James Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University
Wednesday, September 28, 6 PM
FREE

In this interdisciplinary lecture, renowned art historian James Elkins will discuss the differential role images play across the departments of a university.

A limited number of complimentary light dinners will be served at 6 PM to enjoy as part of the talk. Wine and refreshments will also be available as part of our paid cafe service.


citystates 10: Richard Hardy, The Transcendent City
citystates 10: Richard Hardy, The Transcendent City


SCREENING
onedotzero: citystates 10 + robotica
Thursday, September 29, 7 + 9 PM
Tickets

Presenting a double feature night of screenings from the international touring festival. onedotzero programs explore new forms and hybrids of moving image across motion graphics, short film, animation, music videos, and more.

7 PM: citystates 10 - trailer
9 PM: robotica - trailer

Evelyn's Café will be open for citystates 10 and robotica screenings from 6-9 PM.

 

ON VIEW

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) - photo by Kris Qua
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) - photo by Kris Qua


EXHIBITION
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) + index (v.4)
Monday - Saturday, 12-6 PM
FREE

Recent review from the Get Visual blog

 

CAMPUS + COMMUNITY

TALK
Heather Roberge: Sheet Logics
Wed. 09/21, 6 PM
FREE

Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER!


EMPAC 2011-2012 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
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Troy, NY 12180

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