2015 Spring

January 22—May 8, 2015
EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA

spring 2015 brochure cover

2015 Spring season reel. Courtesy the artists/EMPAC.

Event Type
Season
Program
2015 Spring Brochure1.47 MB
Curator
Argeo Ascani
Ash Bulayev
Vic Brooks
Funding

EMPAC 2014-2015 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, primarily supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, the Boeing Company Charitable Trust, and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks extended to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for continued support of artist commissions.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 7PM
Image
Four empty museum exhibits with green blue orange or red backgrounds.
Talk
Judy Radul
The Contour of Attention
2005—2012
Image
The specter of a woman wearing ragged clothes sitting on the floor with back to the viewer leaning on one arm with the other up over her head.
Film/Video, Series, Commission
DANCE MOViES
Commissions and Screenings
Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 7PM
Image
A wiggling set of brown buttocks wearing a silver thong projected on to a large screen in an empty theater.
Dance/Theater, Film/Video, Commission
DANCE MOViES 2015
Seline Baumgartner, Orit Ben-Shitrit, Chameckilerner, Dana Gingras, & Marianne Kim
February 11—March 21, 2015
Image
A 20's film still of about thirteen woman dressed as water nymphs posed on different tires of a set.
Film/Video, Series
On Animation and Workflow
Film Series + Jaffe Colloquium
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 7PM
Image
Surreal image of two human eyeballs stacked vertically.
Time-Based Visual Art
Dreams that Money Can Buy
Hans Richter + Viking Eggeling
Friday, February 13, 2015 at 8PM
Image
A woman in orange sits int he foreground with legs crossed as three other woman in black leotards walking in a V formation.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
And You Were Wonderful, On Stage
Cally Spooner
Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 8PM
Image
Mark Fell and Keith Fullerton Whitman
Music/Sound
Mark Fell and Keith Fullerton Whitman
Friday, February 27, 2015 at 8PM
Image
Images of ornate corinthian style columns projected on the back wall of the concert hall in blue and red light.
Time-Based Visual Art, Commission
Tales of Love and Fear
Lucy Raven
Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8PM
Image
Three CGI robots walking through a stormy sea as a helicopter pursues.
Film/Video
On Animation and Workflow
Jaffe Colloquium Screening
2013—2015
Image
a beam of light coming out of an observatory overlooking the RPI campus at night.
Talk, Series
Detail View
Campus Perspectives
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 12PM
Image
An open observatory shooting a beam of light into a gray sky.
Talk
Heidi Newberg and Rosa Barba
On the Speculative Intersection of Astronomy and Art
Saturday's in March, 2015 at 8PM
Image
a beam of light coming out of an observatory overlooking the RPI campus at night.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Commission
The Color Out of Space and White Museum
Rosa Barba
Saturday, March 7, at 10PM
Image
Mouse on Mars DJing amongst a plume of red lit theatrical smoke.
Music/Sound
Mouse on Mars
Monday, March 9, 2015 at 7PM
Image
A abstract image of purple panes of glass.
Series
Material Performance
Monday, March 10, 2015 at 7PM
Image
A abstract image of purple panes of glass.
Talk
Giuliana Bruno
Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media
Friday, March 13, 2015 at 8PM
Image
a male conductor in a black suit directs an orchestra on the concert hall stage.
Music/Sound
Talea Ensemble
Enno Poppe – Speicher
Friday, March 20, 2015 at 8PM
Image
Three dancers wearing periwinkle, blue, purple walking around a rectangle of light on the floor
Dance/Theater, Commission
Extra Shapes
DD Dorvillier
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 7PM
Image
Harun Faroki
Film/Video
Parallel I-IV
Harun Farocki
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 12PM
Image
A microscopic image of green bacteria spores.
Talk
Curt Breneman
Changing the World by Mining the Materials Genome
Saturday, April 11, at 7:30PM
Image
An asian woman with a bobbed haircut playing a grand piano on the dimly light concert hall stage.
Music/Sound
Pianoply
Vicky Chow, Stephen Drury, Marilyn Nonken, & Mabel Kwan
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 8PM
Image
A crowd of people dancing on a yellow dance floor in front of a projection of a pink and purple swirl.
Music/Sound
PULSE Live!
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7PM
Image
Two people sitting amongst computers and various electronics in front of a panoramic screen displaying a grid.
Talk
EMPAC from the Inside
Behind the Scenes of Production and Research
Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 7PM
Image
A blurred woman with a green shadow, with red hair and smudged black eyeliner smoking a long cigarette.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Talk
Charles Atlas
Screening and Artist Talk
Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 8PM
Image
Two female musicians playing a viola and a bassoon on a small stage infant of a wall of tan acoustic tiles.
Music/Sound
Architeuthis Walks on Land + Miranda Cuckson
Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 8PM
Image
A woman working an overhead projector in a dark room, projecting four random images onto a large screen.
Performance
The Fortunetellers
Ellie Ga
Friday, May 8, 2015 at 8PM
Image
ellie ga on stage in lecture.
Performance, Commission
Eureka, a lighthouse play
Ellie Ga