Our spring 2011 schedule of events is packed with performances, exhibitions, screenings, lectures, concerts, and happenings that continue to question and test the boundaries of what is—and what could be—at the intersection of art, science, and technology.
Mark your calendars now for events that include a sonic rainforest in the Concert Hall; a dinner and discussion series examining the cosmos, aesthetics, and the perception of movement; a rock song-cycle using the final words of theater's heroines (and anti-heroines); radical reconstructions of Lucinda Childs' choreography; two double features of innovative animation, music videos, and more from the onedotzero festival; a concert featuring works by minimalist music guru Steve Reich; an exhibition with hacked ATM machines and rogue Wi-Fi networks; a viewer driven beatboxing slot machine; six percussionists playing 400 instruments in a concert that features signals from distant pulsars; and more.
And as always, we will have an additional surprise or two, so keep your eyes peeled and check back often—or better yet, sign up for our mailing list!
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Continuing the presentation of exhibitions and installations throughout the building on an ongoing basis.
Thru January 29
Uncertain Spectator
Thru March 1
Michael J. Schumacher: Room Pieces Troy 2010
March 3–April 2
Christian Graupner: Mindbox
March 21–April 30
Graham Parker: The Confidence Man
May 11–September 1
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) + index (v.4) for two pianos
onedotzero_adventures in motion
As EMPAC gears up for next season’s onedotzero_adventures in motion festival, two nights of double feature screenings will be presented from the 2010 London festival. 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.
01/27 — wow + flutter 10
01/27 — wavelength 10
03/10 — extended play 10
03/10 — nightfall
Presenting works that strive for a radical synthesis of artistic genres, reviving the notion of the gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork. United by their integration of theater, dance, music, architecture, literature, and visual art, these films also realize the gesamtkustwerk’s technological imperative by making use of advanced cinematic techniques.
02/10 — Prospero’s Books
04/07 — The Red Shoes
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.
03/02 — Jean-Pierre Luminet
04/06 — Martin Kemp
05/04 — Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

EMPAC 2010-2011 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.