[HvEXAS] Ralph Lemon + Japanther

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Photos by Dan Merlo + Andrea Dudla WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING Ralph Lemon Thursday, December 1, 1:30 PM FREE Ralph Lemon presents the 2-channel video installation of his latest work, giving a sense of an experience which will eventually encompass live performance, surround sound, and two large scale projections in an open environment where the audience can roam. Evelyn's Café will be open from 11:30 AM to 2 PM for Eat Local Lunch. PERFORMANCE Japanther: The Cake of The 3 Towers Friday + Saturday, December 2 + 3, 8 PM Tickets The three towers are prison, museum, and (housing) project, albeit loosely. Music, video, and performance draw parallel lines between three industrial archetypes. Moving through these structures, the artists utilize fragments of their environment to envision a utopian creative endgame. Meanwhile, an Austrian super villain (Florian Reither) attempts to unite and destroy the dystopian worlds. The Cake of The 3 Towers (TCo3T) is a collaborative project featuring Japanther, Schuyler Maehl, Florian Reither, and Felice Faison commissioned for Quote Unquote: Experiments in Time-Based Text, an interdisciplinary series presenting work by artists that use an existing text as a departure point for installation, film, and performance. Video from Japanther's residency SOON A still from The Inner Life of the Cell - courtesy of the artist TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 6 PM FREE Robert Lue, Harvard director of life sciences education and founder of BioVisions, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in science and education research. The Inner Life of the Cell animation Wim Wender's Wings of Desire (1987) SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN Wings of Desire Thursday, December 8, 7:30 PM Tickets Wim Wender's award-winning existential film about angels who silently watch over all of humanity, comforting individuals as they confront the trials of daily life. Trailer JACK Quartet - photo by Stephen Poff PERFORMANCE JACK Quartet Friday, December 9, 8 PM Tickets A string quartet performance in two acts featuring three pieces from the 1960s to the present that play with conventions of music notation and performance, and a haunting 30-minute piece from the 1990s with an uncanny spectral interplay.   CAMPUS + COMMUNITY TALK Stephen Kieran: Kieran / Timerlake: Inquiry Wed. 11/30, 6 PM FREE CONCERT Neil Rolnick: Scenes from MONO Thurs. 12/01, 7:30 PM FREE CONCERT RMA Annual Winter Concert Sat. 12/03, 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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2011 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] Soon: Michael Century talk, Ralph Lemon work in progress, and Japanther

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vectorial Elevation, Relational Architecture 4 (2010) Vancouver, Canada - photo by Maurice Li TALK: DETAIL VIEW Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines: Vignettes in the History of a Multimedia Century Tuesday, November 29, 12 PM FREE In the final 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. III. Virtuality to Virtuosity, 1974–2011, moves beyond what some have termed the crisis of new media art today—its relegation to "cool obscurity" by the institutional art world, and its simultaneous co-option by the information industries—by sketching out an anti-anti-utopian view of the potential of experimental artworks as "extraordinary freedom machines." Evelyn's Café will be open from 11:30 AM to 2 PM for Eat Local Lunch. Ralph Lemon's How Can You Stay in the House and Not Go Anywhere?; photo by Dan Merlo WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING Ralph Lemon Thursday, December 1, 1:30 PM FREE Ralph Lemon presents the 2-channel video installation of his latest work, giving a sense of an experience which will eventually encompass live performance, surround sound, and two large scale projections in an open environment where the audience can roam. Japanther in residence - image courtesy of EMPAC PERFORMANCE Japanther Friday + Saturday, December 2 + 3, 8 PM Tickets An analog story of grand scale utilizing performance, live music, and animation, inspired by Walt Whitman's The Mystic Saxophonist. TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process Wednesday, December 7, 6 PM FREE Robert Lue, Harvard director of life sciences education and founder of BioVisions, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in science and education research. SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN Wings of Desire Thursday, December 8, 7:30 PM Tickets Wim Wender's award-winning existential film about angels who silently watch over all of humanity, comforting individuals as they confront the trials of daily life. NEWS EMPAC will close on Wednesday, November 23 at 2 PM, and will re-open on Monday, November 28.   CAMPUS + COMMUNITY TALK Stephen Kieran: Kieran / Timerlake: Inquiry Wed. 11/30, 6 PM FREE CONCERT Neil Rolnick: Scenes from MONO Thurs. 12/01, 7:30 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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2011 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys | Thurs. 11/17, 7:30 PM

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN 12 Monkeys Thursday, November 17, 7:30 PM Tickets 12 Monkeys, Terry Gilliam's apocalyptic science fiction film, imagines a future ravaged by disease. In Gilliam's dystopian vision, John Cole (played by Bruce Willis) travels back to 1990 to gather information about the man-made virus that will wipe out the majority of humanity in 1996. Inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetée, the film's narrative is structured by a parallel temporal loop. Trailer SOON Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vectorial Elevation, Relational Architecture 4 (2010) Vancouver, Canada - photo by Maurice Li TALK: DETAIL VIEW Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines: Vignettes in the History of a Multimedia Century Tuesday, November 29, 12 PM FREE III. Virtuality to Virtuosity, 1974-2011, moves beyond what some have termed the crisis of new media art today‚ its relegation to cool obscurity by the institutional art world, and its simultaneous co-option by the information industries‚ by sketching out an anti-anti-utopian view of the potential of experimental artworks as extraordinary freedom machines. Video of the second installment Photo by John Londono PERFORMANCE Japanther Friday + Saturday, December 2 + 3, 8 PM Tickets An analog story of grand scale utilizing performance, live music, and animation, inspired by Walt Whitman's The Mystic Saxophonist. TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process Wednesday, December 7, 6 PM FREE Robert Lue, Harvard director of life sciences education and founder of BioVisions, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in science and education research. CAMPUS + COMMUNITY SCREENING + PERFORMANCE Clara Tomaz: Linear and Aerial Perspectives Wed. 11/16, 7 PM FREE CONCERT Rensselaer Music Association: An Evening of Jazz Fri. 11/18, 7 PM FREE TALK Tod Williams / Billie Tsien: The Work, At work. Mon. 11/21, 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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2011 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] Poor Dog Group: Dionysia | 11/11+12

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Poor Dog Group: Dionysia - image courtesy of the artists PERFORMANCE Poor Dog Group: Dionysia Friday + Saturday, November 11 + 12, 8 PM Tickets Half man and half horse, the wild and badly behaved satyrs were legendary companions of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and theater. Dionysia retells the myth of Thyestes and Atreus, exposing the social and sexual politics of the late fifth century BC. The satyrs invade with their full-blown physical expression of the bestial qualities inherent in contemporary life, channeling forgotten rites and revealing a world both barbaric and beautiful. Clips from the performance SOON Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN 12 Monkeys Thursday, November 17, 7:30 PM Tickets 12 Monkeys is Terry Gilliam's 1995 dystopian vision, inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetée, in which a convict is sent back in time to save humanity from a ravaging man-made disease. Trailer Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vectorial Elevation, Relational Architecture 4 (2010). Vancouver, Canada. Photo by Patricia Taylor. TALK: DETAIL VIEW Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines: Vignettes in the History of a Multimedia Century Tuesday, November 29, 12 PM FREE In the final 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. Video of the first installment Photo by John Londono PERFORMANCE Japanther Friday + Saturday, December 2 + 3, 8 PM Tickets An analog story of grand scale utilizing performance, live music, and animation, inspired by Walt Whitman's The Mystic Saxophonist. CAMPUS + COMMUNITY CONCERT Rensselaer Contemporary Music Ensemble: Piano Waves Wed. 11/09, 7:30 PM FREE SCREENING + PERFORMANCE Clara Tomaz: Linear and Aerial Perspectives Wed. 11/16, 7 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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2011 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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