[HvEXAS] TONIGHT!! TNO Afterparty | Friday, May 31st, 2013 | Ryan Kick, Jay Travis, Jay Balance, Properly Chilled

 

The Troy Night Out Afterparty - Pre-Cicada Edition
Friday, May 31st, 2013
9:30pm - FREE!

lineup (approximate times)
9:30 Properly Chilled
11:30 Ryan Kick & Jay Balance (GoodHood)

1:00 Jay Travis

Did you know Cicada's invented DJing? For real. And since this month's lineup defines the TNO Afterparty, I've included the definition of DJing from the Cicada page on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada#Cicada_song

Male DJs have loud noisemakers called "turntables" on the sides of the abdominal base. Their "spinning" is not the stridulation (where one structure is rubbed against another) of many other familiar sound-producing artists. Contracting the internal turntable muscles produces a bumping sound as the turntables buckle inwards. As these muscles relax, the turntables return to their original position producing another bump. 

The interior of the male abdomen is substantially hollow to amplify the resonance of the sound. A DJ rapidly vibrates these membranes, and enlarged chambers derived from the dancefloor make its body serve as a resonance chamber, greatly amplifying the sound. The DJ modulates the sound by positioning its abdomen toward or away from the substrate, also know as "shaking it." Additionally, each species has its own distinctive "song".

Average temperature of the natural habitat for the North American species Trojan Disjockus is approximately 29 °C (84 °F). During sound production, the temperature of the turntable muscles was found to be significantly higher. DJs bump most actively in hot weather and do their most spirited bumping during the later hours of the last Friday in May, in a roughly 5 hour cycle.

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[HvEXAS] REMINDER! Lisbeth Gruwez: It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend | Fri May 10 at 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

Come catch the last performance of EMPAC's Spring season!

An interview with Lisbeth Gruwez in today's Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Rants-serve-as-muse-for-dancer-at-EMPAC-4499741.php

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PERFORMANCE

Lisbeth Gruwez: It's going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend

Friday, May 10, 2013, 8 PM

EMPAC Studio 1 – Goodman

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

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

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/worse-and-worse

 

Belgian-based choreographer and dancer Lisbeth Gruwez transforms a recorded speech by ultraconservative American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart into a disturbing gesture and dance form. Her body juggles with words, makes syllables, shouts, stammers, horrifies, and fascinates.
 
A speech can be a mighty weapon. Throughout the centuries it has enthused countless masses and mobilized them into action, for better or worse. It has unleashed revolutions and fueled wars. Such is the power of words.
 
The piece deals less with the direct meanings of words and phrases and more with the violence that can lie in the rhetorical strategies of someone in a trance-like state.

+ trailer: https://vimeo.com/41662794

 
Lisbeth Gruwez | Voetvolk is a performance group founded by dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez and composer/musician Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. Since 2007, Voetvolk has developed as an international contemporary dance and performance company. Lisbeth Gruwez and Maarten Van Cauwenberghe are artists-in-residence in the Troubleyn/Laboratorium of multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre.
 
Lisbeth Gruwez studied dance at the Stedelijk Instituut voor Ballet and at P.A.R.T.S. In 2006, she founded the dance performance group Voetvolk with Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. She starred in Caroline Strubbe's film Lost Persons Area, which won best screenplay at the Cannes film festival in 2009; she was nominated as Best Actress at the Flemish Film Awards for her role in the film. She also choreographed and danced with actress Juliette Lewis in a music video for her band Juliette and the Licks.
 
Gruwez has been working with multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre since 1999, and during her career has worked with Pierre Coulibeuf, Needcompany | Jan Lauwers, Grace Ellen Barkey, Riina Saastamoinen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Peter Verhelst, Arco Renz, and Silvia Defrance, among others. http://www.voetvolk.be/

 
Musician and composer Maarten Van Cauwenberghe graduated from KU Leuven in 1998 with a degree in commercial engineering. Shortly thereafter, he started playing as a musician and performer with Jan Fabre. Their first joint project was As Long as the World Needs a Warrior's Soul. In 2006, Van Cauwenberghe and dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez founded the dance performance company Voetvolk. Their first production, Forever Overhead, premiered in 2007.
 
Van Cauwenberghe has composed music for Julia Sugranyes; the PolyDan production See-Sick; La Nuit est mère du jour of the Comédie de Valence; Ay'n, a dance performance of Louise Charon and Luc Van Den Dries; the documentary Yell for Cadel; and Voetvolk's Birth of Prey, among others; and composed the music and danced in Voetvolk's HeroNeroZero.

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 event. 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.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] Lisbeth Gruwez: It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend | Fri May 10 at 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

PERFORMANCE

Lisbeth Gruwez: It's going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend

Friday, May 10, 2013, 8 PM

EMPAC Studio 1–Goodman

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

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

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/worse-and-worse

 

Belgian-based choreographer and dancer Lisbeth Gruwez transforms a recorded speech by ultraconservative American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart into a disturbing gesture and dance form. Her body juggles with words, makes syllables, shouts, stammers, horrifies, and fascinates.
 
A speech can be a mighty weapon. Throughout the centuries it has enthused countless masses and mobilized them into action, for better or worse. It has unleashed revolutions and fueled wars. Such is the power of words.
 
The piece deals less with the direct meanings of words and phrases and more with the violence that can lie in the rhetorical strategies of someone in a trance-like state.

+ trailer: https://vimeo.com/41662794

 
Lisbeth Gruwez | Voetvolk is a performance group founded by dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez and composer/musician Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. Since 2007, Voetvolk has developed as an international contemporary dance and performance company. Lisbeth Gruwez and Maarten Van Cauwenberghe are artists-in-residence in the Troubleyn/Laboratorium of multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre.
 
Lisbeth Gruwez studied dance at the Stedelijk Instituut voor Ballet and at P.A.R.T.S. In 2006, she founded the dance performance group Voetvolk with Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. She starred in Caroline Strubbe's film Lost Persons Area, which won best screenplay at the Cannes film festival in 2009; she was nominated as Best Actress at the Flemish Film Awards for her role in the film. She also choreographed and danced with actress Juliette Lewis in a music video for her band Juliette and the Licks.
 
Gruwez has been working with multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre since 1999, and during her career has worked with Pierre Coulibeuf, Needcompany | Jan Lauwers, Grace Ellen Barkey, Riina Saastamoinen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Peter Verhelst, Arco Renz, and Silvia Defrance, among others. http://www.voetvolk.be/

 
Musician and composer Maarten Van Cauwenberghe graduated from KU Leuven in 1998 with a degree in commercial engineering. Shortly thereafter, he started playing as a musician and performer with Jan Fabre. Their first joint project was As Long as the World Needs a Warrior's Soul. In 2006, Van Cauwenberghe and dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez founded the dance performance company Voetvolk. Their first production, Forever Overhead, premiered in 2007.
 
Van Cauwenberghe has composed music for Julia Sugranyes; the PolyDan production See-Sick; La Nuit est mère du jour of the Comédie de Valence; Ay'n, a dance performance of Louise Charon and Luc Van Den Dries; the documentary Yell for Cadel; and Voetvolk's Birth of Prey, among others; and composed the music and danced in Voetvolk's HeroNeroZero.

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 event. 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.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] The Third Man free outdoor screening | Thurs May 9 at 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY

The Third Man 

Directed by Carol Reed

Thursday, May 9, 2013, 8 PM

Outdoor screening

EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

FREE

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/third-man

Shrouded in darkness, Carol Reed's classic film noir, The Third Man, follows pulp novelist Holly Martin as he unravels the circumstances behind his friend's death in Vienna, a situation that increasingly resembles a plot from one of his own novels. Starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, The Third Man won an Academy Award in 1951 for Robert Krasker's lush cinematography. Hailed as one of the greatest British films ever made, The Third Man combines wit with a sense of existential crisis, which is visually reinforced through the film's dramatic use of light and shadow.

+ trailer: http://youtu.be/2wlKhPtq5J8

+ wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man

+ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/

 
One of the English cinema's best craftsmen, Sir Carol Reed distinguished his career from contemporaries Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock by considering himself an entertainer, not an artist. Director Michael Powell observed that Reed "could put a film together like a watchmaker puts together a watch." Reed was prolific over his 40-year career, and is best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968). He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for The Third Man in 1949 and the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!

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.
 
This event is free and open to the public. In the case of inclement weather, the free screening will move indoors to the Theater.
 
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 during the event. 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.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] Ryoichi Kurokawa: syn_ | Fri May 3 at 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

PERFORMANCE

Ryoichi Kurokawa: syn_
Friday, May 3, 2013, 8 PM
EMPAC Studio 1 – Goodman
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

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

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/syn

  
Ryoichi Kurokawa's audiovisual work syn_ obscures familiar everyday imagery with vibrating, impossibly detailed geometric constellations. Performed live on dual projection screens, his visuals are accompanied with clouds of sound that pulse in accord to construct a sensory experience of overwhelming energy.
 
Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa's works take multiple forms, including installations, recordings, and concert pieces. His audiovisual compositions bring visual and sonic materials together using a completely revolutionary perspective. His works have been shown at international festivals and museums including the Tate Modern (London), Venice Biennale, Transmediale (Berlin), and Sonar (Barcelona). In 2010, he was awarded the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Music and Sound Art category. He lives and works in Berlin.

+ Ryoichi Kurokawa: http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/

+ video+audio clip: http://vimeo.com/61347519

 

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 event. 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.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] The Films of Laurie Anderson with special guest Pauline Oliveros | Thurs May 2, 5+8PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING + PERFORMANCE

The Films of Laurie Anderson

with special guest Pauline Oliveros

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 5+8PM

EMPAC Concert Hall

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$6 each

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/films-laurie-anderson

An evening of film and video screenings with Laurie Anderson and special guest Pauline Oliveros

  
These back-to-back presentations will provide audiences with a unique opportunity to be fully immersed in Laurie Anderson's films and videos. She will lead us through two separate screening programs, including many of her works. The 8PM presentation will be capped off with a screening of a silent film to which Anderson and Pauline Oliveros play together.
 
One of America's most renowned performance artists, Laurie Anderson's genre-crossing work encompasses performance, film, music, installation, writing, photography, and sculpture. She is widely known for her multimedia presentations and musical recordings. She has had countless collaborations with an array of artists, from Jonathan Demme and Brian Eno to Bill T. Jones and Peter Gabriel. She has published six books, produced numerous videos, films, radio pieces, and original scores for dance and film. In 2007, she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the arts. She lives in New York City. http://www.laurieanderson.com/
 
Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer, and humanitarian is about opening her own and others' senses to the many facets of sound. Since the 1960s, she has profoundly influenced American music through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth, and ritual. All of Oliveros' work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and improvisational skills. Many credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music, and she has been celebrated worldwide. Sounding the Margins, a forty-year retrospective, was recently released in a six CD boxed set from Deep Listening. http://www.paulineoliveros.us/

+ Albany Times Union article on residency + Spring 2013 presentations: http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Laurie-Anderson-to-speak-at-EMPAC-as-part-of-her-4261470.php 

Tickets are $6 for each screening; to see both, tickets must be purchased separately for each.
 
Evelyn's Café will open at 4 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues between and after 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.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] Marie Brassard: Trieste free multimedia theater performance | Sat Apr 27, 8 PM | EMPAC

PERFORMANCE

Marie Brassard: Trieste
Saturday, April 27, 2013, 8 PM
EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

FREE (reservations recommended)

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/trieste

Trieste: a contemporary fable inspired by the town of Trieste woven through movement, text, and video

 
Marie Brassard and Infrarouge, her Montreal-based theater company, will finish developing their latest work, Trieste, during an EMPAC production residency. Trieste is a contemporary fable inspired by the Italian city of the same name located on the Adriatic Sea.
 
The performance unfolds in five segments, each relating to one feature of Trieste: The Abyss, The Caves, The Sea, The Castles, and The Bora. As in the board game Snakes and Ladders, where destiny is randomly decided, protagonists climb or fall from one level to another through breaches in the storyline.
 
During their residency, the company will concentrate on the development of reactive video, light, and sound environments. The intention is to adapt stage technology to create an environment where each component behaves with a mix of accidental and planned responses to the actions of the performers.
 
After several years of collaboration with director Robert Lepage, actress, director, and author Marie Brassard decided to set up her own platform for creating work.
 
Since 2001, her Montreal-based company, Infrarouge, has created diverse and multidisciplinary works such as Jimmy (2001), The Darkness (2003), Peepshow (2005), The Glass Eye (2007), The Invisible (2008), and Me Talking to Myself in the Future (2010). In addition to the company's newest work Trieste, a dance solo for Sarah Williams entitled Moving in this World is in development. Infrarouge has presented work in several countries throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australia.
 
Current collaborators include musicians and performance artists Jonathan Parant and Alexandre St-Onge, set designer Simon Guilbault, lighting designer Mikko Hynninen, filmmaker Karl Lemieux, and technical director Vincent Repentigny.

+ Marie Brassard: http://infrarouge.org/?cat=26&lang=en

+ Infrarouge: http://infrarouge.org/

 
This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made in person at the EMPAC Box Office or over the phone at 518.276.3921. Tickets will be available for pick-up starting at 6 PM the evening of the performance; they must be claimed by 7:45 PM or they will be released.

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.
 
More information can be found on the EMPAC website: empac.rpi.edu. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] Quay Brothers: Selections from Phantom Museums screening | Thurs April 18, 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY

Quay Brothers: Selections from Phantom Museums

Thursday, April 18, 2013, 7:30 PM

EMPAC Theater

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$6

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/quay-brothers

Featuring selections from the Quay Brothers' compendium of short films, Phantom Museums spans their 30-year career. Renowned for their unparalleled contributions to the field of puppet film, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay combine visual, literary, musical, and philosophical influences with a singular sensibility. Inspired by the films of Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Barta, the Quay Brothers bring together the quaintness and delicacy of early animation with painstakingly hand assembled sets in their films.

Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are Philadelphia-born, London-based masters of stop-motion puppet animation and live-action film. Collaborating since 1969, their work has been deeply influential in the field of puppet film. They attended art school together at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and at the Royal College of Art in London in the late 1960s. After moving to London, they made their first short animated films: Der der Loop Loop; Il Duetto; and Palace in Flames. Their most famous film, Street of Crocodiles (1986), is a 21-minute animation based on a short novel by Bruno Schulz.
 
The work of the Quay Brothers has also appeared in advertising and music videos, most notably the music video for Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. The Brothers Quay are the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play The Chairs. Stephen and Timothy Quay are both professors of animated film at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

+ excerpt from Street of Crocodiles (1986): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNOfsJz4TjA

+ wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Quay

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.
 
Tickets for this screening 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.

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.

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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] TONIGHT!!! TNO Afterparty | Friday, March 29th, 2013 | Brad Lee Farewell Set, Cintron, and Properly Chilled!!!!

 

The Troy Night Out Afterparty
Friday, March 29th, 2013
9:30pm - FREE!

Check out the Facebook Event Page:

http://www.facebook.com/events/149511391882999/

lineup..
9:30 Properly Chilled
11:00 Cintron
12:30 Brad Lee (Farewell set!!)

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[HvEXAS] An evening of DANCE MOViES premieres | Sat Apr 6, 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING + TALK + RECEPTION

DANCE MOViES Commission Premieres
Saturday, April 6, 2013, 7:30 PM
EMPAC Theater

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
$6

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/tao

 

This evening event marks the official premiere of the 2011 DANCE MOViES Commission projects, which were supported by this ongoing unique arts funding initiative. Cayetano Vidal's TAO will be screened along with excerpts from past DMC recipients. The event will also feature presentations and talks by the commissioned artists as well as founding EMPAC dance and theater curator Hélène Lesterlin and current curator Ash Bulayev. The evening will conclude with an open reception on the Theater stage featuring light fare and beverages. Colin Gee's installation In the First Place… will be open throughout the event as well as 10 AM to 7 PM on Friday, April 5.
 
Colin Gee, a Lecoq trained actor, principal clown for Cirque du Soleil, and contemporary artist, will present In the First Place…, a multi-layered dance film installation. The project, filmed in Rome, reframes The Strife of Love in a Dream, an Italian pastoral romance published in 1499. In the First Place… applies a relationship between memory and location by referencing a mnemonic technique called "Memory Palace" that uses architectural spaces to organize and remember information.
 
TAO is the third collaborative dance film between Argentinian filmmaker Cayetana Vidal and choreographer and dancer Sofia Mazza, who explore the superimposition of movement and image. Male and female, winter and summer, day and night, and nature and city are overlayed, creating a new single image in which opposites coexist. The technique of video overlay proposes an imaginary world of new shapes, proportions, and perspectives. The film was shot in the city of Buenos Aires and on the Argentine Atlantic Coast. Footage was also shot in Germany, Spain, and Tigre, a river delta near Buenos Aires. As it was winter in Europe and summer in South America, and since dancer Diego Poblete was traveling around Europe, a "live experiment" was conducted and images were collected during the same time period in both hemispheres.
 
The DANCE MOViES Commission supports the creation of new works for the screen that vary widely in content and form, yet are united because the image on the screen was crafted by, or in collaboration with, a choreographer or movement-based artist. The works supported combine the possibilities and range of the moving image in all its technological facets with the physicality and movement-based modes of dance.
 
The DANCE MOViES Commission is supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts.
 
Trained as an actor at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, Colin Gee was a principal clown for Cirque du Soleil, and the founding Whitney Live artist-in-residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recent commissions have included works for SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum. Recipient of the 2012 Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize and a 2011 EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission, he has frequently collaborated with sibling/composer Erin Gee, providing the libretto for her opera, SLEEP (2009), which premiered at the Zürich Opera House, and Mouthpiece XIII, Mathilde of Loci, Part I (2009) presented with the American Composer's Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, in which he also performed.
 
Cayetana Vidal is a film director and writer. She started her career as an advertising creative working for different media companies in Argentina and the United States. In 2000, she entered the NYU Graduate Film Program, graduating in 2004 with her thesis film Armadillo, which received awards at festivals worldwide. Since 2005, she has written, directed, and edited several dance-for-the-camera projects in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Sofía Mazza.
 
Tickets for the screening are $6; admission to the installation is free.
 
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.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] EMPAC director Johannes Goebel to speak on different goals of art, science, and engineering | Thurs April 4, 6 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

TALK

Johannes Goebel: About Differences: Art, Science, Engineering
Thursday, April 4, 2013, 6 PM
EMPAC Theater 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

FREE
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/johannes-goebel

 

Engineering, science, and art are often seen as having common ground. This is fed by a romantic view of Leonardo da Vinci, the genius who brought these disciplines together in his mind, life, and practice, and by an enthusiastic view of computer technology that continuously provides new scenarios and tools, which are used in all three fields.
 
This evocative lecture does not go along with the idea of putting everything into one bag and shaking it before deep-frying the mixture, but instead gives a perspective on the differences of the three fields in their motivations, methodologies, and goals. And out of a clear and respectful view of differences, a potential for collaboration and cross-pollination might evolve.
 
Johannes Goebel is the founding director of EMPAC. He joined Rensselaer in 2001 to work on the planning of the new building and to build EMPAC's program and team. Thoughts about arts, science, research, and technology have been important to him since he became involved in computer music at Stanford University in 1977. Johannes Goebel likes to find bridges between thoughts, what we can do with our hands, and what we perceive with our senses.

This event is free and open to the public
 
Evelyn's Café will open at 5 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.

 

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: empac.rpi.edu. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] Peter Evans Quintet | Fri Mar 29 at 8 PM | EMPAC Concert Hall, Troy, NY

PERFORMANCE

Peter Evans Quintet
Friday, March 29, 2013, 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

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/peter-evans-quintet


 
Taking jazz ensembles into the 21st century, the Peter Evans Quintet incorporates real-time sound processing with traditional instruments. These live electronics allow the group to change their sound fluidly from mellow tones to jagged rattling to cacophonous reverberation. The quintet draws on traditional jazz idioms as source material and contorts them into something resembling classical European avant-garde—complete with complex rhythms played with pinpoint accuracy and confounding extended techniques.
 
The Peter Evans Quintet has been performing since 2009, and has played in New York, as well as toured internationally. In 2010, they performed commissioned music at the historic Donaueschingen Musiktage festival in Germany. The group embarked on a full European tour in 2012. The album Ghosts was released to wide critical acclaim in 2011 on Evans' More is More label. It was at the top of best-of-the-year lists worldwide and has continued to garner praise. In late 2011, Evans was commissioned by the Jerome Foundation and Roulette Intermedium in New York to present a set of new pieces. The quintet premiered four new pieces, which will be expanded upon, performed, and recorded at EMPAC. http://www.moreismorerecords.com/peterevans.html
 
"For this group [Evans] has written pieces that merge articulately composed sections—everyone, including the drummer, sight-reading his way through the staccato tone rows and sudden changes of tempo—with melodic free improvisation on grooves and vamps.... He wove this all together into an unbroken set of music, making a fledgling band at a tiny place bring a dramatic arc to a huge amount of information." —Ben Ratliff, New York Times, December 7, 2009
 
"I start with adjectives: amazing, abrasive, excessive, overwhelming, amazing, extreme, revolutionary, incendiary..." —Carlos Perez Cruz, El Club de Jazz, Madrid
 
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 event. 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.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] Fassbinder's World on a Wire | Thurs March 28, 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY

World on a Wire (Welt am Draht)

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Thursday, March 28, 2013, 7:30 PM

EMPAC Theater

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$6

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/world-wire-welt-am-draht

 

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's rarely screened science fiction thriller World on a Wire (Welt am Draht) is an adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye's novel Simulacron-3.
 
A film in which the boundary between reality and simulation is ceaselessly questioned, World on a Wire follows Fred Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a conspiracy at the Institute for Cybernetics and Future Science. The narrative centers on a simulation project in development at the institute called Simulacron 1, which will be able to predict future social, economic, and political occurrences as precisely as though they were reality. After the initiator and the head of the research project, Professor Vollmer (Adrian Hoven), dies under mysterious circumstances, Stiller is asked to assume his responsibilities and begins exhibiting symptoms uncannily similar to his predecessor.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder made an astonishing 44 movies—theatrical features, television movies, miniseries, and shorts among them—in a career that spanned a mere 16 years, ending with his death at 37 in 1982. He is perhaps best remembered for his intense and exquisitely shabby social melodramas (e.g., Ali: Fear Eats the Soul), which were heavily influenced by Hollywood films, especially the female-driven tearjerkers of Douglas Sirk, and featured misfit characters that often reflected his own fluid sexuality and self-destructive tendencies, but his body of work runs the gamut from epic period pieces (Berlin Alexanderplatz, the BRD Trilogy) to dystopic science fiction (World on a Wire). One particular fascination of Fassbinder's was the way the ghosts of the past, specifically those of World War II, haunted contemporary German life—an interest that wedded him to many of the other artists of the New German Cinema movement, which began in the late 1960s.

+ Trailer: http://youtu.be/mS64DGOIT88

+ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904/

+ wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welt_am_Draht

+ Criterion article: http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2152-world-on-a-wire-the-hall-of-mirrors

+ Documentary on the film's production: http://youtu.be/OujZZ9HsRtQ

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.
 
Tickets for this screening 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.

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.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

[HvEXAS] Radiohole’s Inflatable Frankenstein | Fri Mar 22, 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

PERFORMANCE

Radiohole: Inflatable Frankenstein

Friday, March 22, 2013, 8 PM

EMPAC Studio 1 – Goodman

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

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

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/inflatable-frankenstein

Inflatable Frankenstein: a performance filled with whimsical creature fantasy, technological absurdity, and electric air

  

Inspired by meditations on horror films, the work of Antonin Artaud, and Ardunio open-source electronics, Radiohole's Inflatable Frankenstein is a visually and sonically driven performance based on Mary Shelley's early life and her novel Frankenstein.
 
Arising from a world of gods and monsters (and thousands of Walmart and Price Chopper grocery bags) is a desecration too terrible to behold and too beautiful to turn away from, leading to an improbable question: what is it like to be a metaphor for everything?
 
The project was supported by EMPAC's 2012 production residency.
 
Radiohole is a Brooklyn-based performance collective founded in 1998 by Erin Douglass, Eric Dyer, Maggie Hoffman, and Scott Halvorsen Gillette. At the heart of the company's ethic is collaboration and play. Their cut-up techniques; rich object oriented visual sense; amplified, sampled sound; and raw, energetic performance style owe as much to the Punk and New Wave movements of the '70s and '80s as to any formal theatrical tradition. One of New York's preeminent and most rigorous experimental ensembles, The Drama Review described Radiohole as "the quintessential American performance group." In 2009, the group received the Spalding Gray Award in recognition of their achievements.
 
Radiohole began by performing in basements and bars around Brooklyn and the Lower East Side. Since then, the company has toured nationally and internationally. In 2000, the group co-founded the Collapsable Hole, a rehearsal and performance venue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Collapsable Hole is Radiohole's artistic home and the base for its Associated Hole Program, which fosters the work of a wide range of innovative artists through space grants and performance presentations. Artists that have participated in the Associated Hole Program include Elevator Repair Service, Banana Bag & Bodice, Joseph Silovsky, Big Dance Theater, and Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, among others.

+ Radiohole: http://www.radiohole.com/

+ video interview from last summer's residency: http://vimeo.com/50072686

+ New York Times review (January 7, 2013): http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/theater/reviews/radioholes-inflatable-frankenstein-at-the-kitchen.html

+ Culturebot interview with Radiohole's Eric Dyer: http://www.culturebot.net/2013/01/15453/eric-dyer-on-inflatable-frankenstein-and-radioholes-scenographic-approach/

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.

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.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

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