[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!

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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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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, 12180

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[HvEXAS] Greg Moynahan: Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe | Wed March 6, 6 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS

Greg Moynahan: Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe
Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 6 PM
EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

FREE
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/greg-moynahan

In this lecture, Greg Moynahan, an associate professor in the history and science, technology, and society programs at Bard College, will consider the rise of scientific experimentation and its relation to experimentation in the arts. He will examine the early history of both through their common location in collections and museums, suggesting that the appearance of the problem of infinity in natural philosophy was important for the modern relationship between scientific and artistic experimentation. The talk will focus on thinkers such as Nicholas of Cusa and Gottfried Leibniz (the inventor of calculus and founder of modern computing), whose article An Odd Thought Concerning a New Sort of Exhibition described a "museum of everything that could be imagined," which informed the first plan for the Prussian Academy of Science.

Greg Moynahan has taught in the history and science, technology, and society (STS) programs at Bard College since 2001. He specializes in modern European intellectual and cultural history and the history of technology, and his research interests include the history of theoretical biology, systems theory, and "scientific" racism and political history of computing and cybernetics in the two Germanys. His book, Force and Form: Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1902-1919, is forthcoming from Anthem Press (London). He is presently working on a history of cybernetics and systems theory in Germany, tentatively entitled: The Politics of Complexity: Biology, Society, and Systems Theory in Germany: 1890 to the Present. Moynahan received his BA from Wesleyan University, and his MA, DPhil, and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has received fellowships from Bundeskanzler, DAAD, and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, and has contributed articles to Science in Context, Simmel Studies, and Qui Parle. http://www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty.php?action=details&id=629

The Observer Effects series invites thinkers to present their highly integrative work in dialogue with the fields of art and science. This lecture series takes its title from a popularized principle in physics that holds that the act of observation transforms the observed. Outside the natural sciences, the idea that the observer and the observed are linked in a web of reciprocal modification has been deeply influential in philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, and politics.

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.

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