Filament: Festival of New Work in Performance, Visual Arts, Sound, and Media :: October 1-3, 2010 :: EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.

• MTAA (NYC): a barn raising driven by audience participation
• Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA): a 24-channel immersive sound installation
• BalletLab (Australia): choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscape
• Yanira Castro (NYC): dance, sound, and audience all contained within a 40 ft. oval of mulch
• Early Morning Opera (LA): evangelistic jumbotron diatribe on the dissolution of national borders
• DANCE MOViES Commission: five videos and installations at the intersection of dance and the moving image

Filament will also unveil a program of commissioned short-form performance works across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. Participating artists include: Wally Cardona; SUE-C & Laetitia Sonami; Jen Denike; Yehuda Duenyas; Sam Hillmer, Miro Dance Theatre; MTAA; Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle.

The festival highlights works created in tandem with EMPAC’s mission to support national and international artists in the production of new work via its residency and commissioning programs.