[HvEXAS] EMPAC Spring 2012 schedule

 

Spring is here and packed with more performances, exhibitions, screenings, talks, concerts, and happenings that continue to question and test the boundaries of what is‚ and what could be‚ at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Spring 2012 Spring is here and packed with more performances, exhibitions, screenings, talks, concerts, and happenings that continue to question and test the boundaries of what is‚ and what could be‚ at the intersection of art, science, and technology.  A brief glimpse into the next few events includes: Vertigo JAN 26, 7:30 PM A rare screening of Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychological thriller, where the present is inextricably entangled with memories of the past. Part of The Eternal Return series. TICKETS Tethered: Vertical Performance FEB 4, 7 PM Two divergent artist-in-residence performances navigate vertical space through the tale of a man who slowly realizes he is living upside down, and a dance study of falling and floating that plays with perspective, time, and reality. FREE John D. Barrow: Better Than a Thousand Words FEB 8, 6 PM The famed physicist will discuss the observer effects principle and the impact of images on the development of science throughout history. Part of the Observer Effects series. FREE Lucky Dragons: Actual Reality FEB 15, 8 PM A complex audiovisual piece that is a performance and document all at once. TICKETS And that's just the beginning! The entire schedule is available online now. Other News Two of the ten projects in Sundance Film Festival's category for cinematic innovation are commissions developed in residence here at EMPAC. Lars Jans' Abacus and Brent Green's To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given will both be featured in the annual January event. Newly appointed music curator S. Argeo Ascani gave readers some background in a recent interview with the Bennington Banner.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  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. Box Office: 518.276.3921 Mailing Address: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2012 EMPAC, All rights reserved.

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