| 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. | |
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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