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Please note:
All installations, lounge, café and Studio 1 performances are free and open to the public.
The three day pass includes first come first serve entrance to all screenings in Studio 2
A separate ticket is required for The Nature of Being.
We encourage you to purchase tickets directly from the EMPAC box office. You'll avoid paying any service fee, and we'd love to meet you.
Stop by Monday through Friday 9 AM to 6 PM, or two hours prior to any performance. (Box Office hours subject to change.)
You may also purchase tickets by calling 276-3921.
The US premiere of the onedotzero_adventures in motion festival comes to EMPAC Friday, April 17 through Sunday, April 19, with an explosive showcase of internationally curated moving image. Featuring ground-breaking short film screenings, playful installations, spectacular live cinematic performances, vj/dj events and presentations.
All-day screenings feature compilations of short form videos that represent the latest innovative work in moving image including music videos, character animation, experimental digital shorts and motion graphic design.
Extraordinary installations by Troika and Quayola will be installed in the EMPAC studios and mezzanine, which also includes a lounge and café.
Performances include Scanner and Olga Mink’s live multi-channel audiovisual performance that kicks off the festival in the theater on Friday, followed by local luminaries skfl and jenks who will bring the café alive with a mix of bouncy music and cinematic video on multiple screens throughout the space.
On Saturday night local musician and multimedia artist Jesse Stiles presents a new live score for and within Quayola’s brilliant video installation viewed on a massive screen suspended on the ceiling. Quayola will then follow with his own performance, Path to Abstraction a live synesthetic audiovisual event.
Curator: Kathleen Forde
Food and refreshments will be available throughout the weekend.
The London-based onedotzero — a self-described “hybrid” organization that is both a media production company in its own right and a network of events — makes EMPAC the only US stop on its 2008-2009 international tour, presenting selections from their acclaimed international festival.
| Dates/Times | Location | Duration |
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| Friday April 17, 2009 | ||
| INSTALLATIONS | ||
| 6:00 PM - 10:30 PM | ||
| Quayola, Strata #1 | Studio 1 | ongoing |
| Troika: Digital Zoetrope | Mezzanine | ongoing |
| onedotzero lounge | Mezzanine | ongoing |
| SCREENINGS | ||
| 6:30 PM — wow + flutter 08 | Studio 2 | 70 min. |
| 9:15 PM — wavelength 08 | Studio 2 | 80 min |
| PERFORMANCE | ||
| 6:00 – 9:00 PM — Opening Reception with music by CML | Evelyn’s Café | |
| 8:00 PM — The Nature of Being by Scanner and Olga Mink - live cinematic performance » Buy Ticket | Theater | |
| 9:00 – 10:30 PM — hooplah. live video and music by EMPAC luminaries skfl and jenks | Evelyn’s Café | |
| Saturday, April 18 2009 | ||
| INSTALLATIONS | ||
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM | ||
| Quayola, Strata #1 | Studio 1 | ongoing |
| Troika: Digital Zoetrope | Mezzanine | ongoing |
| onedotzero lounge | Mezzanine | ongoing |
| SCREENINGS | ||
| 12:30 PM — citystates | Studio 2 | 75 min. |
| 2:15 PM — terrain 08 | Studio 2 | 75 min |
| 4:45 PM — top draw | Studio 2 | 75 min. |
| 6:15 PM — extended play 08 | Studio 2 | 60 min |
| 7:30 PM — advanced beauty | Studio 2 | 80 min. |
| 9:45 PM — j-star | Studio 2 | 70 min |
| PERFORMANCE | ||
| 7:00 PM — Jesse Stiles w/ Strata live! | Studio 1 | 30 min |
| 8:45 PM — Quayola Path to Abstraction | Studio 1 | 45 min |
| Sunday, April 19 2009 | ||
| INSTALLATIONS | ||
| 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | ||
| Quayola, Strata #1 | Studio 1 | ongoing |
| Troika: Digital Zoetrope | Mezzanine | ongoing |
| onedotzero lounge | Mezzanine | ongoing |
| SCREENINGS | ||
| 12:00 PM — terrain | Studio 2 | 75 min. |
| 3:30 PM — campus creatives New short form video & animation from Rensselaer’s creative community | Studio 2 | |
| 4:15 PM — new british talent | Studio 2 | 70 min |
| 5:45 PM — top draw | Studio 2 | 70 min |
| PRESENTATIONS | ||
| 2:00 PM — Presentation and Q&A with onedotzero director Shane Walter | Studio 2 | |
| Epicurean @ Evelyn’s Café | ||
| As you wander in and out of screenings, grab some succulent snacks and a fabulous cup of coffee brought to you by our good friends Sandy, Claire and Dominique from the Epicurean Café in Troy. | ||
| Friday — 6:00 PM - 10:30 PM — Food and drink available in Evelyn’s Café |
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| Saturday — 12:30 PM– 9:45 PM Food and drink available in Evelyn’s Café 12:30 PM – 6:00 PM Coffee available on the mezzanine @ the onedotzero lounge |
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| Sunday — 11:00 AM – 5:30 PM Food and drink available in Evelyn’s Café 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Coffee available on the mezzanine @ the onedotzero lounge |
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