[HvEXAS] Tomorrow night! Violinist Jennifer Koh's Bach and Beyond concert | Fri Nov 30 at 8 PM | EMPAC Concert Hall, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/jennifer-koh

PERFORMANCE

Jennifer Koh: Bach and Beyond

Friday, November 30, 2012, 8 PM

EMPAC Concert Hall

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty & staff; and $6 Rensselaer students

Jennifer Koh presents a concert from her Bach and Beyond series, a set of three solo violin recitals that strengthen the connections of the Six Sonatas and Partitas by Bach and the present day through a historical journey of solo violin works by Béla Bartók, Phil Kline, Kaija Saariaho, and John Zorn.

Violinist Jennifer Koh is recognized for her intense, commanding performances. Since the 1994-95 season, when she won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Koh has been heard with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. Also a prolific recitalist, she appears frequently at major music centers and festivals.
 
In 2009, she debuted Bach and Beyond, a six-year, three-recital series that explores the history of the solo violin repertoire from Bach's Sonatas and Partitas to works by modern day composers and new commissions.

+ Jennifer Koh: http://jenniferkoh.com

+ recent interview that touches on Bach and Beyond series: http://jenniferkoh.com/features/120518_TheNewsJournal.html

+ Koh performing Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0mi9KfOPhc

+ video of Koh discussing the Bach and Beyond series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaee1HYcdm0

Tickets are $18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students (must provide ID for discounted tickets).

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 performance. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: 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)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

[HvEXAS] The Spring Schedule

 

Presenting our Spring schedule of events Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Spring 2013 This Spring we bring you a season of performances, talks, screenings, exhibitions, concerts, and happenings that play with and challenge the boundaries of the arts, sciences, and technology. We invite you to experience adventures that cross the lines of what we think we know; prepare to be engaged and sometimes provoked. Highlights include: PERFORMANCE CREW / Eric Joris: HeadSwap JAN 26, 7 PM CREW, a Belgian-based multidisciplinary team of artists and researchers, will present the outcome of their three-week residency at HeadSwap. FREE TALK Johannes Goebel: About Differences: Art, Science, Engineering APR 4, 6 PM This lecture does not go along with putting art, science, and technology into one bag and shaking it before deep-frying the mixture. A perspective on the differences in motivations and goals may open up a respectful view of the other fields and potential collaborations. FREE SCREENING Holy Mountain Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky FEB 21, 7:30 PM Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 cult film, Holy Mountain, creates an uncompromising vision of the rituals and power of religion in an uproar of provocative images. Part of the Shadow Play series. TICKETS SCREENING DISCUSSION RECEPTION Cayetana Vidal: TAO APR 6, 7 PM TAO, the third collaborative dance film between Argentian-based filmmaker Cayetana Vidal and choreographer Sofia Mazza, explores the superimposition of movement and image. Part of the 2011 DANCE MOViES Commission series. TICKETS PERFORMANCE Radiohole: Inflatable Frankenstein MAR 22, 8 PM Inspired by meditations on horror films, Radiohole's Inflatable Frankenstein is a visually and sonically driven performance based on Mary Shelley's early life and her novel Frankenstein. TICKETS INSTALLATION Robert Henke: Fragile Territories APR 12, 7:30-10 PM APR 13, 12-10 PM An installation using a state-of-the-art laser system to create floating patterns of volatile luminosity. FREE TALK Alva Noë: See Me if You Can! Art and the Limits of Neuroscience MAR 27, 6 PM Alva Noë, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, will question if our experience of the world stems from the firing of neurons in our brains or from our interactions with our surroundings. Part of the Observer Effects series. FREE PERFORMANCE Ryoichi Kurokawa: syn_ MAY 3, 8 PM An audiovisual performance of impossibly detailed vibrating geometric constellations that overrun and distort everyday life as clouds of sound pulse in time. TICKETS And there's more! The entire schedule is available online now. News EMPAC will be closed on Thursday, November 22, and will reopen on Monday, November 26. Berkshire On Stage previews the upcoming Jennifer Koh and Dimitris Papaioannou performances. Reviews of Ralph Lemon's 4Walls in the Albany Times Union and the Schenectady Daily Gazette.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Photo Credits: Stephane Lintermans; courtesy of the artist; Holy Mountain (1973) ABKCO;  Paula Court; Peter Dobey; Leonardo da Vinci (public domain); Cayetana Vidal; courtesy of the artist; courtesy of the artist. EMPAC 2012-2013 presentations, residencies, and commissions are made possible by continuous support from the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. Additional project support by 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 and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the New York State Council for the Arts; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, and Fond for Utøvende Kunstner. Box Office: 518.276.3921 Mailing Address: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Copyright © 2012 EMPAC, All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] Violinist Jennifer Koh's Bach and Beyond concert | Fri Nov 30 at 8 PM | EMPAC Concert Hall, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/jennifer-koh

PERFORMANCE

Jennifer Koh: Bach and Beyond

Friday, November 30, 2012, 8 PM

EMPAC Concert Hall

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$6 Rensselaer students; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty & staff; $18 general admission

Jennifer Koh presents a concert from her Bach and Beyond series, a set of three solo violin recitals that strengthen the connections of the Six Sonatas and Partitas by Bach and the present day through a historical journey of solo violin works by Béla Bartók, Phil Kline, Kaija Saariaho, and John Zorn.

Violinist Jennifer Koh is recognized for her intense, commanding performances. Since the 1994-95 season, when she won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Koh has been heard with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. Also a prolific recitalist, she appears frequently at major music centers and festivals.
 
In 2009, she debuted Bach and Beyond, a six-year, three-recital series that explores the history of the solo violin repertoire from Bach's Sonatas and Partitas to works by modern day composers and new commissions.

+ Jennifer Koh: http://jenniferkoh.com

+ recent interview that touches on Bach and Beyond series: http://jenniferkoh.com/features/120518_TheNewsJournal.html

+ Koh performing Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0mi9KfOPhc

+ video of Koh discussing the Bach and Beyond series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaee1HYcdm0

Tickets are $18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students (must provide ID for discounted tickets).

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 performance. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: 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)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

[HvEXAS] Ralph Lemon's 4Walls | Fri + Sat, Nov 16 + 17 | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/four-walls

PERFORMANCE

Ralph Lemon: 4Walls

Friday, November 16, 2012, 8 PM

Saturday, November 17, 2012, 4 PM

EMPAC Studio 1 - Goodman

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$6 Rensselaer students; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty & staff; $18 general admission

With 4Walls, an EMPAC commissioned work, Ralph Lemon, in collaboration with Shoko Letton and Mike Taylor, premieres a live multimedia dance installation that provides four points of view on one dance, giving a new shape to the "dance with no form."
 
The basis of the amorphous collaborative work is a play on time, energy, and the disappearing body. This exploration engages the spectator in a creative process that is relentless in questioning the nature of what passes between performers and audiences.

Live performance by Gesel Mason and Darrell Jones.

Ralph Lemon is a choreographer, writer, and visual artist. He currently serves as the artistic director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation.

 
Lemon's most recent work, How Can You Stay in The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere? (2008-2010) was a four-part project consisting of live performance, film, and visual art.
 
Awards include a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Artist Award and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, two "Bessie" (NY Dance and Performance) Awards, two Foundation for Contemporary Art Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many others.

+ Ralph Lemon: http://www.ralphlemon.net/

+ Four Walls: http://mappinternational.org/blocks/view/404/

4Walls is co-produced by Cross Performance Inc. and MAPP International Productions. 4Walls is co-commissioned and has been developed during residencies at EMPAC and at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Tickets are $18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students (must provide ID for discounted tickets).

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 performance. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: 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)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

[HvEXAS] onedotzero double feature screening: code warriors + future cities | Thurs Nov 15, 7 + 9 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/onedotzero

SCREENING

onedotzero double feature: code warriors: a decade of processing + future cities

Thursday, November 15, 2012, 7 + 9 PM

EMPAC Theater

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$6 each

This double feature (curated and compiled by onedotzero) presents programs that look to the future, with exuberant renderings of the next generation of urban landscapes, and to the past, with a retrospective of key works produced through the Processing programming language.

 
7 PM - code warriors: a decade of processing
Celebrating 10 years of the open source programming language, Processing, used by tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production.
 
9 PM - future cities
An eclectic selection of short films, animations, and motion graphics presenting evocative visions of future cities and urban destinies.

+ code warriors: a decade of processing trailer: http://vimeo.com/18701987
+ future cities trailer: http://www.onedotzero.com/video/32667060/

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/

Tickets are $6 for each screening.

Evelyn's Café will open at 6 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues between the screenings. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: 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)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

[HvEXAS] Yegor Shevtsov concert | Tues Nov 13, 7 PM | FREE | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/yegor-shevtsov

PERFORMANCE: WORK IN PROGRESS
Yegor Shevtsov
Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 7 PM
EMPAC Concert Hall
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

FREE

As part of an artist-in-residence recording project, pianist Yegor Shevtsov presents an in-progress performance of solo works by two giants of twentieth-century music. Separated by almost a century, Debussy's Etudes and Boulez's Incises intersect in both their French heritage and their substantial demands on a pianist's control and technique. Rounding out the recital is Boulez's most recent work for solo piano, une page d'éphéméride.

Yegor Shevtsov is a Ukrainian-born pianist based in New York City. As a soloist and a collaborative pianist, he has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Whitney Museum, and Tanglewood, among others.
 
In 2010, The New York Times lauded the "Mozartean elegance" that Shevtsov brought to his performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9. In a performance of Ralph Vaughn Williams' On Wenlock Edge, he was praised by the Miami Herald for his "superb musicianship and evocative piano playing." He holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

+ Yegor Shevtsov: http://yegorshevtsov.com/

+ Shevtsov performing Debussy's Etude pour les notes répétées: http://youtu.be/KAmN_9l47J4

This performance is free + open to the public.

Evelyn's Café will open at 6 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues after the performance. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: 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)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

[HvEXAS] Tarsem Singh's The Fall screening | Thurs 11/08, 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/shadow-play/fall

SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY

The Fall

Directed by Tarsem Singh

Thursday, November 8, 2012, 7:30 PM

EMPAC Theater

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$6

Set it a 1915 Los Angeles hospital, The Fall is a visually stunning fantasy film about a bedridden stunt man who entertains a curious little girl by telling her a fantastical story of exotic heroes and far off places that reflect his psyche. The reality of the hospital and the imaginary epic narrative become increasingly interdependent as the film progresses, until the demarcations of reality and fiction can no longer be discerned. The film takes place during the period of Hollywood's formation, and reflects on the fantastical and illusory nature of cinema.

Indian director Tarsem Singh is the son of an aircraft engineer. He was educated at Bishop Cotton Boy's School in Shimla. He studied business at Harvard and then film at the Art Center College of Design in California. Upon graduating, he embarked on a career as a director of music videos, working with such artists as Suzanne Vega, En Vogue, Vanessa Paradis, and R.E.M. He went on to make his feature film directorial debut with the visually striking The Cell (2000). Other films include The Fall (2006), Immortals (2011), and Mirror Mirror (2012).

+ trailer: http://youtu.be/iO0LYcCoeJY

+ imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/

+ wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(2006_film)

Shadow Play is a series of films that tread nimbly between reality and illusion, acknowledging the artificial nature of cinema. Referencing the tradition of shadow puppetry, the origins of cinema in phantasmagoria, and Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," each film draws on the metaphors of light as reality and shadow as artifice.
 
In Plato's The Republic, the allegory of the cave illustrates the difference between truth and illusion. Many writers have noted that "Allegory of the Cave" (written c. 360 BCE), bears great resemblance to the contemporary movie theater.

Films begin at 7:30 PM; tickets are $6. Evelyn's Café will open at 6:30 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.

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: 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)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

[HvEXAS] Tomorrow night: Kurt Hentschlager's 3D audiovisual performance CLUSTER | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/cluster

PERFORMANCE

Kurt Hentschläger: CLUSTER

Saturday, November 3, 2012, 8 PM

EMPAC Concert Hall

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$18 (discounted tickets available)

The next phase in Kurt Hentschlägerʼs generative video and audio work, CLUSTER moves the focus to group behavior and interaction, particularly swarm phenomena. A simple yet absurd setting is proposed—3D human characters turn into a school of fish. In the weightless choreography, human figures appear mostly as a pulsing, amorphous mass, a cloud of blurry matter from body parts and light. The soundscape is created by swarm motion and behavior, as well as changes in light and color.

Chicago-based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates audiovisual performances and installations. He began to exhibit his work in 1983, creating surreal machine-objects, and since has been working with time-based media, film, video, animation, and sound. Between 1992 and 2003 he worked collaboratively as one half of Granular-Synthesis, employing large-scale projected images and drone like soundscapes.
 
Select presentations include the Venice Biennale, the Venice Theater Biennale, National Art Museum of China (Beijing), PS1 (New York), Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna), National Museum for Contemporary Art (Seoul), ICC (Tokyo). In 2010, he received a Quartz Electronic Music Award. 

+ more information on CLUSTER: http://www.kurthentschlager.com/portfolio/cluster/cluster.html + http://www.anti-utopias.com/kurt-hentschlagers-cluster-at-empac-troy-november-3

+ video+audio from the piece: http://vimeo.com/40784705

+ interview with Hentschläger about the piece: http://www.kurthentschlager.com/portfolio/cluster/pdf/ElectroScene_QuestionsKH.pdf

Tickets are $18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students. (must provide ID for discounted tickets). Seating for this performance is very limited.

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 performance. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: 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)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180