EMPAC Artist-in-Residence Program :: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180, USA :: empac_air@rpi.edu :: Phone: +1 518.276.3921 :: Fax: +1 518.276.4107 ::

Since 2005, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) has established a vibrant residency program that has hosted over 40 artists and their collaborators, spanning theater, dance, music, video, and installation. While EMPAC will continue its open call residency program, EMPAC is pleased to announce four additional focused initiatives:

Audio Production / Post‐Production

For sound recording, development of multichannel sound works, documentation, mastering, mixing, film scoring, or any other task involving microphones, speakers, consoles and computers. Continue reading

Firstworks Providence 2010 Presents BLINKING an evening of multimedia dance theater :: created By Jamie Jewett and R. Luke DuBois :: Thursday, October 14 at 7:30pm :: Friday October 15 at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. :: Saturday, October 16 at 9:30pm :: at Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire St., Providence, RI ::

On average, we blink 10 times a minute. What stories accumulate in the blinks of a day? What is lost in these dark moments? BLINKING illuminates the missed sight, splintering dance into tiny moving stills and the hallucinatory cinema of the back of the eyelid. LOSTWAX invites you to enter the waking dream of BLINKING, the impress…ions behind one woman’s eyes.

Performed by Shura Baryshnikov, Amanda DelPrete, Shelby Hayhoe, Kim Johnson, Elise Nuding, Michelle Struckholz, and Meg Weeks :: With Crystal Gandrud, Benjamin Jewett, and George Vavrik :: Costumes by Hannah Winkler :: Lighting by Tim Cryan :: Continue reading

The Little Charlie Festival: a three-day festival of performances, including concerts, multi-media projections, and public art :: celebrating the life’s work of composer, sound artist Charlie Morrow :: September 28, 2010 through October 2, 2010 ::

Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Suite 602, New York, NY :: Voice and Electronics - a workshop in vocal music with electronics led by Charlie Morrow and Dafna Naphtali developing Charlie’s solo voice work, The Song of Deborah, from the Book of Judges. Translated from old Hebrew by Harris Lenowitz and Jerome Rothenberg. Continue reading

Fruit for the Apocalypse debuts with Soundscapes of East London :: Preview: July 16, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL :: Première: Secret Shoreditch Location (Secret Shoreditch Location linked to the Shoreditch Festival) :: July 18, 2010; 4:00 pm :: Soundscapes draws together an international group of Sound Artists and Choreographers to celebrate World Listening Day.

Soundscapes of East London is a music and dance event created by sixteen sound artists and choreographers exploring and responding to sounds heard in the East End of London. A major industrial intersection, goods and humans use East London’s busy roads to leave or enter the metropolis by land. Continue reading

Live Media+Performance.Lab with Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio :: August 16-22, 2010 :: Empac, Troy, NY :: Workshop Fee: $500 :: Résumé and informal letter of application due: June 30, 2010.

Announcing our first summer lab for interactive media in performance! Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation. Continue reading

EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) presents Filament festival:: October 1 - 3, 2010 :: at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, USA 12180 :: 518.276.3921

Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. It highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.

Performances and installations include:

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): a performance ecosystem where sound and dance environments envelop both audience and artists Continue reading

Let Us Imagine a Straight Line by Joseph Butch Rovan, featuring dancer Ami Shulman — A multi-movement intermedia project for interactive image, sound, and performance — one in a series of Studies in Movement :: October 17 - November 8, 2009 :: Opening: October 16; 5:00 pm :: Digital Humanites Lab (lower floor), Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI.

Studies in Movement is a series of intermedia études based in part on the unique visual legacy of the great French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904). From his pioneering work with graphical recording devices to his work with stop-action photography, Marey sought to break down locomotion in order to learn how humans and animals moved in the natural world. Continue reading

Celebrate John Cage and Merce Cunningham — A John Cage Birthday Event :: September 5, 2009; 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. :: St Mark’s Church, Parish Hall, 10 Street and 2nd Avenue, New York City :: admission is free; arrive early to get a seat (no reservations).

Kevin Hufnagel will be playing ambient prepared guitar music and Nurit Tilles will perform 4’33,” after which the feature video (95 minutes long) Cage/Cunningham will be shown and Elliot Caplan, filmmaker, will be on hand to discuss it afterwards.

Cage was born on Sept. 5, 1912, and died on Aug. 12, 1992. Hufnagel was the first of 22 artists performing in the 16th annual celebration at St. Mark’s Church Parish Hall, in New York City.

For more information, contact: gwendeely [at] aol.com Continue reading

Garage Geeks present Experiments in Art, Software, Hardware and UX with Amit Pitaru :: August 21, 2009; 8:30 p.m. :: Holon Industrial Zone, Israel.

Like a typical garage geek, Amit splits his nights and days between experimental and commercial work. In this session he will share recent art projects and discuss how they affect his work as software/hardware designer, user experience freak, and (recent) entrepreneur. This is a free event, please bring DRINKS and snacks to share. It might get hot without cold beers at hand, and Amit recommends one for better UX.

Amits recent projects: Sonic Wire Sculptor :: Rhonda 3D drawing tool :: Smashup Dance Project, Continue reading

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla :: July 11 - September 6, 2009 :: Opening: July 10; 9:00 pm :: Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Schlossplatz, Berlin-Mitte.

Allora & Calzadilla’s new work Compass, conceived specifically for the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, creates a new spatial and acoustic experience. Dividing the Kunsthalle horizontally, a new level is introduced into the space, inaccessible to the viewer and reducing the grand exhibition hall to less than one third of its normal height. Visitors can only hear the vibrations and sounds of an a capella dancer performing a choreography above their heads. The otherwise empty exhibition space is turned into a huge resonating chamber: “The performer is like a specter that moves through this flat horizontal stretch and whose sonic traces become a type of metrical language – a rhythmic and poetic means of communication with the public below.” (Allora & Calzadilla) Continue reading