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2013 F a L L Institute CURTIS R. PRIEM EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 110 8TH STREET, TROY, NY 12180 EMPAC.RPI.EDU EMPAC PERFORMANCES + SCREENINGS + TALKS + INSTALLATIONS + TALKS + SCREENINGS + PERFORMANCES SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2013 CURTIS R . PRIEM EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FALL EVENT SCHEDULE 1/2 DATE EVENT PRESENTED BY DATE EVENT PRESENTED BY PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE J AN 25 EXIT FEB 27 MUSIC FOR VIOLIN, PIANO, AND COMPUTER 7PM Kris Verdonck + Alix Eynaudi empac 7:30PM Neil Rolnick arts department PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE F EB 28– THE MACHINE STARTS schools of J AN 26 HEADSWAP architecture + MAR CH 2 Mary Ellen Strom + Joanna Haigood with HASS ACI + humanities, arts, 7PM CREW / Eric Joris empac 7PM+9PM ARCH PIP classes and the Rusty Pipes & social sciences TALK TALK D E T A I L V I E W MAR 04 ALISA ANDRASEK J AN 29 ROBERT J. LINHARDT school of 6PM Open Synthesis: Increased Resolution architecture 12PM New Frontiers in Glycoscience and Glycoengineering empac Fabric of Architecture TALK OBSERVER EFFECTS PERFORMANCE MAR 06 GREG MOYNAHAN FEB 07 BEN FROST 6PM Experience and Experiment 7:30PM empac in Early Modern Europe empac TALK OBSERVER EFFECTS PERFORMANCE F EB 12 SIMON CRITCHLEY MAR 22 INFLATABLE FRANKENSTEIN 6PM Philosophy and the Art of Dying empac 8PM Radiohole empac TALK SYMPOSIUM FEB 14 LAURIE ANDERSON MAR 25 PREFAB ARCHITECTURE school of 7PM Designing + Customizing Instruments for empac 6PM architecture Performance and Recording TALK OBSERVER EFFECTS PERFORMANCE MAR 27 ALVA NOË FEB 15+16 HOT BOX 6PM See Me if You Can! Art and 8PM Brian Rogers / The Chocolate Factory empac the Limits of Neuroscience empac TALK SCREENING SHADOW PLAY FEB 20 NERI OXMAN school of MAR 28 WORLD ON A WIRE 6PM MIT Media lab architecture 7:30PM Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder empac SCREENING SHADOW PLAY PERFORMANCE F EB 21 HOLY MOUNTAIN MAR 29 PETER EVANS QUINTET 7:30PM Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky empac 8PM empac INSTALLATION SCREENING TALK FEB 22+23 FRI: 7PM—10PM ALLISON BERKOY APR 03 PETER EISENMAN school of SAT: 2PM–5PM Untitled Apocalypse arts department 6PM A Defense of Architecture architecture EVENT SCHEDULE 2/2 DATE EVENT PRESENTED BY DATE EVENT PRESENTED BY TALK PERFORMANCE APR 04 JOHANNES GOEBEL APR 27 TRIESTE 6PM About Differences: Art, Science, Engineering empac 8PM Marie Brassard empac INSTALLATION D A N C E M O V iE S C O M M I S S I O N TALK OBSERVER EFFECTS APR 05+06 COLIN GEE MAY 01 DAVID LINK 10AM —7PM In the First Place... empac 6PM Software Archaeology: On the Resurrection of Programs for the Mark 1, 1948–58 empac SCREENING TALK RECEPTION D A N C E M O V iE S C O M M I S S I O N APR 06 CAYETANA VIDAL SCREENING 7:30PM TAO empac MAY 2 THE FILMS OF LAURIE ANDERSON 5 + 8PM With special guest Pauline Oliveros empac SCREENING APR 10 TELL ME EVERYTHING PERFORMANCE 7PM Joshua Thorson arts department MAY 03 SYN_ 8PM Ryoichi Kurokawa empac TALK APR 15 JORGE SILVETTI school of 6PM Recent Work architecture PERFORMANCE MAY 04 [RADICAL] SIGNS OF LIFE 7:30PM Heidi Boisvert arts department TALK OBSERVER EFFECTS APR 17 N. KATHERINE HAYLES 6PM Performing Technogenesis: The Affective Power of Digital Media empac PERFORMANCE MAY 04 SPRING RECITAL SCREENING SHADOW PLAY RPI Dance Club rpi dance club APR 18 QUAY BROTHERS 7:30PM Selections from Phantom Museums empac SCREENING SHADOW PLAY MAY 09 THE THIRD MAN SCREENING SYMPOSIUM 8PM Directed by Carol Reed empac school of APR 19+20 SENSING THE ENVIRONMENT humanities, arts, 2PM–8PM & social sciences INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE MAY 10—25 ROBERT HENKE school of Fragile Territories empac APR 21 EARTH DAY CONCERT: humanities, arts, 4PM CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS & social sciences PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE MAY 10 IT’S GOING TO GET WORSE AND APR 26 GAME MUSIC SPECTACULAR! school of 8PM WORSE AND WORSE, MY FRIEND empac 8PM ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE GAMEFEST! humanities, arts, Lisbeth Gruwez | Voetvolk Mary Simoni and the Ninja Avatars & social sciences FESTIVAL FESTIVAL games & simulation APR 27 MAY 30– GAMEFEST arts & sciences AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL albany symphony 12PM–6:30PM program JUNE 02 orchestra ESTO / AARON PETER © PHOTOS TICKETS For tickets, directions, or to find out more about the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, visit us on the web at empac.rpi.edu or call us at 518.276.3921. EVENT PRICING: (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED) PERFORMANCES $18: General admission $13: Rensselaer faculty + staff, seniors, and students EVELYN'S CAFÉ $6: Rensselaer students (ID REQUIRED FOR DISCOUNT PRICE) Evelyn’s Café offers a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines before perfor- SCREENINGS mances, screenings, and talks. Service continues during $6: General admission intermissions and after most events. Evelyn’s is also open for lunch weekdays from 11 AM to 2 PM starting January 22, and features a rotating menu using INSTALLATIONS locally-sourced ingredients. On Wednesdays, the student- FREE run Terra Café will be serving a weekly menu of local and organic foods, featuring a meat or vegetarian option as well as dessert. TALKS For questions or more information call Evelyn’s Café at FREE 518.276.2569. rpihospitalityservices.com Please note that the event schedule is subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, please visit: empac.rpi.edu. EMPAC SERIES OBSERVER EFFECTS D A N C E M O V i E S C O M M I S S I O N Observer Effects invites thinkers to present their highly The DANCE MOViES Commission supports the creation integrative work in dialogue with the fields of art and sci- of new works for the screen that vary widely in content ence. This lecture series takes its title from a popularized and form, yet are united because the image on the screen principle in physics that holds that the act of observation was crafted by, or in collaboration with, a choreographer transforms the observed. Outside the natural sciences, or movement-based artist. The works supported combine the idea that the observer and the observed are linked in a the possibilities and range of the moving image in all its web of reciprocal modification has been deeply influential technological facets with the physicality and movement- in philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, and politics. based modes of dance. TALK TALK Examples of works supported by the commission include F EB 12 SIMON CRITCHLEY APR 17 N. KATHERINE HAYLES films that are narrative-driven, using the conventions of 6PM Philosophy and the 6PM Performing Art of Dying Technogenesis: filmic storytelling; abstract works that mine the inherent The Affective Power of sympathies between the time-based, visual aspects of TALK Digital Media both dance and film; works that may not even feature MAR 06 GREG MOYNAHAN 6PM Experience and Experiment TALK dance as is generally defined, but contain a powerful in Early Modern Europe MAY 01 DAVID LINK sense of how movement unfurls in time and how we 6PM Software Archaeology: TALK On the Resurrection of create meaning from the dance of images; works that take Programs for the MAR 27 ALVA NOË advantage of tools such as computer processing, motion Mark 1, 1948–58 6PM See Me if You Can! Art and capture, simulation, animation, and image processing; the Limits of Neuroscience and works that extend the confines of the single screen to multiple screens or projections. SHADOW PLAY The DANCE MOViES Commission is supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. 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, INSTALLATION SCREENING TALK RECEPTION the origins of cinema in phantasmagoria, and Plato’s APR 05+06 COLIN GEE APR 06 CAYETANA VIDAL 10AM —7PM In the First Place... 7:30PM TAO “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 DETAIL VIEW CAMPUS PERSPECTIVES the difference between truth and illusion. Many writers have noted that “Allegory of the Cave” (written c. 360 This series provides a platform for Rensselaer professors BCE), bears great resemblance to the contemporary and researchers to share in-depth perspectives on their movie theater. fields of inquiry. Inviting an exchange of ideas on campus and providing a window into a singular vision, these SCREENING SCREENING events are geared toward experts and non-experts alike. F EB 21 HOLY MOUNTAIN APR 18 QUAY BROTHERS 7:30PM Directed by 7:30PM Selections from TALK Alejandro Jodorowsky Phantom Museums J AN 29 ROBERT J. LINHARDT 12PM New Frontiers in Glycoscience and Glycoengineering SCREENING SCREENING MAR 28 WORLD ON A WIRE MAY 09 THE THIRD MAN 7:30PM Directed by 8PM Directed by Carol Reed Rainer Werner Fassbinder FRI SEP 06TH 8PM PERFORMANCE ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER $18 Oneohtrix Point Never—aka Daniel Lopatin—is a Brook- lyn-based composer who creates electronic music that is often described as “cinematic” and “orchestral.” While broad in range, Lopatin does not ignore the small stuff; his sound engineering crafts and controls every detail and effect. Pulling from a wide range of influences—synth sounds, television commercials, classical minimalism, and high-end audio production—Lopatin condenses the disparate sounds to form music that slopes forward with self-contained narratives. Oneohtrix Point Never per- forms new music with visuals from his upcoming album. Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN) is Daniel Lopatin, a Brooklyn-based artist whose celebrated emergence has opened the general public’s ears to daring combi- nations of electronic sound in ways unheard of in recent cultural memory.
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