Continuing the presentation of exhibitions and installations throughout the building on an ongoing basis.
Thru November 5
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) + index (v.4) for two pianos
Quote Unquote: Experiments in Time-Based Text
Taking an existing text as a starting point, artists explode the concept of script and bring to life works that imbue music, film, theater, dance, interactive sculpture, and lectures with the essence of the text. With such varied sources as diaries of polar exploration, zine articles, science fiction, ancient Roman play fragments, and an essay on shadows, this series focuses on the process of creating performance and art, sparked by a passage of words.
09/23 + 09/24 — Phantom Limb
11/11 + 11/12 — Poor Dog Group
12/02 + 12/03 — Japanther
onedotzero_adventures in motion
This fall we bring you a double feature night of screenings from the 2010 international touring festival in London, as well as sprites, a program of animations specifically for young children. Curated and compiled by onedotzero, all programs explore new forms and hybrids of moving image across motion graphics, short film, animation, music videos, and more.
09/29 — citystates 10 + robotica
10/29 — sprites
This collection of films begins with the idea that time is a lie. Reveling in déjà vu and non-linear timelines, the series is inspired by such varied sources as Nietzsche’s notion of the eternal recurrence and the multiverse hypothesis in physics. Each of the films in the series is structured by a central narrative loop and a thematic focus on the incommensurability of the momentary and the eternal.
10/06 — La Jetée
11/17 — 12 Monkeys
12/08 — Wings of Desire
Invites thinkers to present their highly integrative work in dialogue with the fields of art and science. This lecture series takes its title from a popularized principle in physics that holds that the act of observation transforms the observed. Outside the natural sciences, the idea that the observer and the observed are linked in a web of reciprocal modification has been deeply influential in philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, and politics.
09/28 — James Elkins
12/07 — Robert Lue
Detail View: Campus Perspectives
This series provides a platform for Rensselaer professors and researchers to share in-depth perspectives on their fields of inquiry. Inviting an exchange of ideas on campus and providing a window into a singular vision, these events are geared toward experts and non-experts alike. Featuring Michael Century.
09/27 — Après le Deluge
10/11 — The Panacea That Failed
11/29 — Virtuality to Virtuosity

EMPAC 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.