Friday, February 22, 2013

[HvEXAS] TNO Afterparty | Friday, February 22nd, 2013 | Scooby, Ryan Kick and special guests Lazer + Blazer!!

 

The Troy Night Out Afterparty
Scooby Do It Night
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
9:30pm - FREE!


lineup..
9:30 Ryan Kick
11:00 Scooby
12:30 Lazer + Blazer

This month is a special celebration/dedication for the one and only Mr. Scooby Carolan.  If there was an award for lifetime achievement in Capital Region Dancetastic Funtime, I'm sure he would have won at least a few times.  Scooby is leaving our lovely city to on a journey of enlightenment to prove that Troy, NY really is the best place to live.  

He asked that a few of his local favorites join him for what might be the best of his many last shows in the area: 

Ryan Kick will be starting it off right.  That's not a prediction, it's a fact.  Also, a special treat from TNO past, Lazer + Blazer return to blow your face off with the last set of the night.  We're setting up an overflow dancefloor in the alley.

And if you don't know Scooby and you're looking for a pen pal, you're in luck...

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

[HvEXAS] TONIGHT: Holy Mountain | Thurs Feb 21, 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY
Holy Mountain
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 7:30 PM
EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
$6


 
Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain sparked a riot at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 and has been the source of controversy ever since. The film creates an uncompromising vision of the rituals and power of religion and Western desires for Eastern spirituality through beautiful, fantastic, and visceral images. Inspired by St. John of the Cross' Ascent of Mount Carmel and René Daumal's Mount Analogue, it depicts a group of individuals on a quest for enlightenment and immortality through a journey to a holy mountain that is said to unite heaven and earth.
 
A catalytic figure within cinema, Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker, playwright, actor, and author. After entering the theater at an early age, Jodorowsky eventually enrolled at the University of Chile, where he developed an interest in puppetry, poetry, and mime. His first film, Fando Y Lis provoked a riot in Mexico at its debut at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival. In 1971, the cult classic El Topo followed. Holy Mountain premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 and today is still considered his most daring 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.
 
Tickets for this film 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,USA  12180

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

[HvEXAS] Holy Mountain | Thurs Feb 21, 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY
Holy Mountain
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 7:30 PM
EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
$6


 
Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain sparked a riot at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 and has been the source of controversy ever since. The film creates an uncompromising vision of the rituals and power of religion and Western desires for Eastern spirituality through beautiful, fantastic, and visceral images. Inspired by St. John of the Cross' Ascent of Mount Carmel and René Daumal's Mount Analogue, it depicts a group of individuals on a quest for enlightenment and immortality through a journey to a holy mountain that is said to unite heaven and earth.
 
A catalytic figure within cinema, Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker, playwright, actor, and author. After entering the theater at an early age, Jodorowsky eventually enrolled at the University of Chile, where he developed an interest in puppetry, poetry, and mime. His first film, Fando Y Lis provoked a riot in Mexico at its debut at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival. In 1971, the cult classic El Topo followed. Holy Mountain premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 and today is still considered his most daring 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.
 
Tickets for this film 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,USA  12180

Friday, February 08, 2013

[HvEXAS] Hot Box | Fri Feb 15 and Sat Feb 16, 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

PERFORMANCE
Brian Rogers/The Chocolate Factory: Hot Box
Friday & Saturday, February 15 + 16, 8 PM
EMPAC Studio 2
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/hot-box


  
Hot Box is loud, dark, foggy, sweaty, and very live.
 
Hot Box draws inspiration from a cinematic vocabulary—pans, zooms, cuts, etc.—while attempting to find a sustained stillness in an uncomfortable environment. Inspired by films like Apocalypse Now and Fitzcarraldo, a live performance situation is constructed that is violent and chaotic; and from that chaos, it attempts to compose a sequence of video images that are quiet, sustained, focused, and organized.
 
Conceived, directed, and performed by Chocolate Factory artistic director Brian Rogers, Hot Box is a companion piece to his Bessie-nominated 2010 performance Selective Memory. Where Selective Memory was extremely clean and minimalist in its approach, Hot Box is noisy and messy.
 
Brian Rogers is a director, video artist, co-founder, and artistic director of the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens. Since 1997, Rogers has conceived and/or directed numerous large scale performances at the Chocolate Factory and elsewhere including Hot Box (2012, co-presented with FIAF's Crossing the Line Festival), the Bessie-nominated Selective Memory (2010/11), (re)DEVELOP (death valley) (2009), 2 Husbands (2007), Gun Play (2006), Audit (2004), and Fundamental (2002). Rogers also curates the Chocolate Factory's visiting artist program. He has collaborated with Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty, Aynsley Vandenbroucke, Tara O'Con, and Jillian Sweeney, among others.
 
Hot Box was first presented at the Chocolate Factory in September 2012 as part of FIAF's Crossing the Line Festival, and re-performed in January 2013 as part of PS122's COIL Festival. Major production support is provided by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional commissioning support is provided by NYSCA's Individual Artists Program. Residency support is provided by Mount Tremper 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.

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, USA  12180
518.276.3921

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

[HvEXAS] Laurie Anderson: Designing + Customizing Instruments for Performance and Recording | Thurs Feb 14, 7 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

NOTE: While all tickets for the theater have been reserved, the talk will also be streamed live to the concert hall and all will be accommodated. Please join us!

TALK
Laurie Anderson: Designing + Customizing Instruments for Performance and Recording 
Tuesday, February 14, 2013, 7 PM
EMPAC Theater + Concert Hall 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
FREE
 
EMPAC distinguished artist-in-residence Laurie Anderson will talk about her ever-evolving development of new instruments and interfaces for her productions and performances, and her "new rig," which finally allows her to travel with a suitcase of her custom configuration of instruments. Anderson will be joined by her software and hardware collaborators Konrad Kaczmarek, Liubo Borissov, and Shane Koss. She will also discuss her new work with the Kronos Quartet, which premieres in March as part of the inaugural performances of the Bing Concert Hall at Stanford.
 
Later this spring on Thursday, May 2, Anderson will provide audiences with a unique opportunity to be fully immersed in her films by presenting a screening of many of her works. The evening will include special guest and Rensselaer Arts Department professor Pauline Oliveros, who will join Anderson on stage to perform music together to a silent film. Tickets will be available to the public on Tuesday, March 12.
 
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 and has numerous major works to her credit, including United States I-V (1983), Empty Places (1990), Stories from the Nerve Bible (1993), Songs and Stories for Moby Dick (1999), and Life on a String (2001), among others. She has had countless collaborations with an array of artists, from Jonathan Demme and Brian Eno to Bill T. Jones and Peter Gabriel.
 
Anderson has invented several technological devices for use in her recordings and performance art shows, including voice filters, a tape-bow violin, and a talking stick. In 2002, she was appointed NASA's first artist-in-residence, and she was also part of the team that created the opening ceremony for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. 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/
 
The talk is free and open to the public. The seats in the theater have all been reserved; however, due to overwhelming demand, the event will also be streamed live to the Concert Hall. Reservations are not needed for the Concert Hall.
 
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 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.

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

Monday, February 04, 2013

[HvEXAS] Simon Critchley: Philosophy and the Art of Dying talk | Tues Feb 12, 6 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS
Simon Critchley: Philosophy and the Art of Dying
Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 6 PM
EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
FREE



Simon Critchley, author of The Book of Dead Philosophers, will recount anecdotes of philosophers' deaths since antiquity that range from noble to ridiculous. Through the lens of their last moments, Critchley will reflect on the relationship between a philosopher's work and his death. In the process, he will question the adage "to philosophize is to die well" and meditate on the role of philosophy in living a good life in a society like ours that spends so much time and space denying the reality of death.

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, where he has taught since 2004. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (Blackwell, 1992); Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2001), which was translated into nine languages; and On Humour (Routledge, 2002), which was translated into eight languages. The Book of Dead Philosophers (Vintage, 2009) was on the New York Times extended bestseller list and so far has been translated into 15 languages. Critchley is a series moderator and regular contributor of "The Stone," a popular online philosophy column for the New York Times. He also writes for The Guardian. Two books of interviews with Critchley have recently been published: How to Stop Living and Start Worrying (Polity, 2010) and Impossible Objects (Polity, 2011). The Faith of the Faithless, a major new work on the relationship between politics and religion, was published by Verso in February 2012. A new book on Shakespeare's Hamlet will be published by Pantheon Books next summer. He lives in Brooklyn.

+ interview with Critchley from February's Chronogram: http://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/simon-critchley/Content?oid=2144196

The talk 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.

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