Support

The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a place and a program where the arts, technology and science will challenge and transform each other. Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nation’s oldest technological university, EMPAC draws strength from being part of a great research university. It will offer artists, visiting scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities that are available nowhere else under a single roof, providing unsurpassed facilities for creative exploration as well as for research in fields ranging from visualization to immersive environments to large-scale interactive simulations. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creators from around the world, and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.

Reserve Your Seat:

Show your support for this signature venue by having your name inscribed on a seat in the concert hall or theater. Like EMPAC itself, the leather and wood seats are characterized by exquisite detail. Manufactured by a leading Italian furniture maker, they feature a special recess in the arm for the donor’s name. A permanent plaque will recognize your gift now...and into the future. Reserve your seat.

Thanks To Our Supporters:

EMPAC Grand Opening presentations are supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. EMPAC 2008/09 presentations, residencies and commissions are supported by grants from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, Japan Foundation, Bank of America Foundation, and the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MetLife Foundation.) Special thanks to the The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support for artist commissions.