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2023

May 25, 2023
Press Mention
Nomadic Volcano Sculpture Lands at Storm King
Matt Stromberg— HYPERALLERGIC
April 27, 2023
Press Mention
DeForrest Brown Jr. Interview with Tom Roe
—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
April 11, 2023
Press Mention
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson Illuminates Our Fear of the Dark
Jesse Dorris—SURFACE
March 30, 2023
Press Mention
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson's Creative Capital Artist Diary
Sage Ni'Ja Whitson—Creative Capital Journal
February 19, 2023
Press Mention
Classical Notes: Interviews, live music tell tale of refugee plight
Joseph Dalton—Albany Times Union
January 22, 2023
Press Mention
Expect more inclusion from new curator at EMPAC
Joseph Dalton
January 20, 2023
Press Mention
23 for ’23: Composers and performers to watch this year
Michael Andor Brodeur—The Washington Post

2022

November 28, 2022
Press Mention
The African Desperate Nominated for John Cassavetes Award
—Film Independent Spirit Awards
November 1, 2022
Press Mention
ANTHEM
By Brian K. Mahoney and Peter Aaron—Chronogram
September 6, 2022
Article
Permission to Return Home: Clarissa Tossin Interviewed by Mariana Fernández
Mariana Fernández—BOMB Magazine
July 6, 2022
Press Mention
Martine Syms’ film ‘The African Desperate’ to be Distributed by Cinema Streaming Platform Mubi
Andreas Wiseman—DEADLINE
June 16, 2022
Article
Chameleonic Survivalism
Ashley Ferro-Murray—Cambridge University Press
April 29, 2022
Press Mention
Martine Syms' First Feature Film Satirizes the MFA Experience
Greta Rainbow—i-D Magazine
March 11, 2022
Press Mention
A sense of time and space: A Slightly Curving Place at Concrete
—magpie
March 11, 2022
Press Mention
Alserkal Arts Foundation announces 2021-22 program
Jane O'Neill—Commercial Interior Design
February 2, 2022
Press Mention
The First Feature Film From Martine Syms Is a Hazy, Alluring Send-Up of the Art World
RÓISÍN TAPPONI—VOGUE

2021

April 30, 2021
Press Mention
Short of the Month: Annie Saunders’ "REST"
January 25, 2021
Article
Collaborative Creativity and Artistic Evolution
January 21, 2021
Press Mention
Sincere, Outdoorsy, Trippy, a Music Festival Breathes Los Angeles
Zachary Woolfe—The New York Times

2020

October 16, 2020
Press Mention
EMPAC giving artists support, time, space
Tresca Weinstein—The Times Union
October 1, 2020
Press Mention
A Rich and Revitalizing Legacy: Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance
Esmé Hogeveen—The Brooklyn Rail
September 18, 2020
Press Mention
All the best movies we saw at New York Film Festival, ranked
Brian Truitt—USA TODAY
September 16, 2020
Press Mention
TIFF 2020: The Inheritance
James Lattimer—Cinema Scope
September 16, 2020
Press Mention
Interview: Ephraim Asili
Jordan Cronk—Artforum
September 10, 2020
Press Mention
Radical Collectivity: Ephraim Asili Interviewed by Chrissie Iles
Chrissie Iles—Bomb Magazine
May 11, 2020
Press Mention
Lady M listed in approval matrix for the week of May 11, 2020
—New York Magazine
May 8, 2020
Press Mention
Heartbeat Opera: “Lady M”
Oussama Zahr—The New Yorker
May 6, 2020
Press Mention
Covid-era opera is getting more intimate, accessible and experimental
Michael Andor Brodeur—The Washington Post
April 21, 2020
Press Mention
Interview with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and Ashley Ferro-Murray
Sarah LaDuke—WAMC
April 15, 2020
Press Mention
This Artist Proposes a Community Space ‘to Dream, to Imagine’
Siobhan Burke—The New York Times
January 30, 2020
Press Mention
Sarah Hennies Video Review
Jennifer Lucy Allan

2019

November 7, 2019
Press Mention
Tour Reveals EMPACs Behind-the-Scenes Treasures
Anushka Potdar —The Polytechnic
November 5, 2019
Press Mention
Feminist Art Coalition
—e-flux
November 4, 2019
Press Mention
Women artists take over museum schedules in 2020 to coincide with US presidential election
Jori Finkel—The Art Newspaper
September 12, 2019
Press Mention
10 Months of Classical Concerts You Won't Want to Miss
Zachary Woolfe—The New York Times
September 9, 2019
Article
The EMPAC High-resolution Modular Loudspeaker Array for Wave Field Synthesis
Johannes Goebel—Paper presented at the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, 2019
July 23, 2019
Press Mention
Tickling the Ear With Sounds That Are Almost Tangible
Seth Colter Walls—The New York Times
March 26, 2019
Article
Professor takes podium at globally renowned concert hall to showcase unique immersive audio technology
Laura Butler—University of Surry
January 31, 2019
Article
After by Andrew Schneider et al. (review)
Matthew Clinton Sekellick—Theatre Journal

2018

October 15, 2018
Press Mention
Review: A Lost Highway Suite Refracts David Lynch
Seth Colter Walls—The New York Times
October 5, 2018
Press Mention
MacArthur winner to perform Oct. 13 at EMPAC
—The Albany Times Union
October 5, 2018
Press Mention
EMPAC to celebrate 10th birthday with 3-day festival
Joseph Dalton—timesunion
October 4, 2018
Press Mention
10YEARS Artist Wu Tsang Wins 2018 MacArthur “Genius” Grant
—MacArthur Foundation
October 3, 2018
Press Mention
Experiments in Time
Josh Potter—Rensselaer Magazine
October 1, 2018
Press Mention
EMPAC Holds 10-Year Anniversary Festival
Peter Aaron—Chronogram
September 27, 2018
Press Mention
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw to receive Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
—architecture.com
September 5, 2018
Press Mention
Director of EMPAC shares creative vision
Nicholas Luczak—The Poly
June 6, 2018
Press Mention
Rensselaer Hosts Second Annual Lavender Graduation Ceremony for Class of 2018 Graduates
—Every Day Matters
May 30, 2018
Press Mention
EMPAC Sets the Stage for a Memorable Date Night With Its Experimental Performances and Artistic Innovation
Suzanne Wentley—datingadvice.com
March 31, 2018
Press Mention
Oneohtrix Point Never’s Quest to Make Music That Freaks People Out
Jon Pareles—The New York Times
March 20, 2018
Press Mention
Project Overview: MICHAEL GORDON’S ANONYMOUS MAN
—New Music USA
March 14, 2018
Press Mention
Longleash Presents Debut Album Passage on New Focus Recordings
Kathleen McGowan—I Care If You Listen
January 30, 2018
Press Mention
I CAN SEE A VOICE: The Making of They Are Waiting For You
Vic Brooks—Walkerart.org—Fourth Wall
January 30, 2018
Article
I CAN SEE A VOICE
Vic Brooks—Fourth Wall — The Walker

2017

December 14, 2017
Press Mention
Tesseract Shoots for the Stars, but Half of It Falls to Earth
Brian Seibert—The New York Times
December 12, 2017
Press Mention
A Science-Fiction Dreamscape for the Stage Arrives at BAM
LAURA REGENSDORF—Vogue
July 30, 2017
Press Mention
LAURE PROUVOST, « THEY ARE WAITING FOR YOU »
infernolaredaction —Inferno Magazine
July 14, 2017
Press Mention
Surround Sound? You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet
Seth Colter Walls—New York Times
June 28, 2017
Press Mention
Pitchfork reviews Laurel Halo's Dust, album produced at EMPAC
Chal Ravens
June 28, 2017
Press Mention
New York Times profiles Laurel Halo and her new EMPAC-produced record
Andy Beta
June 21, 2017
Press Mention
The Fader interviews Laurel Halo about her new EMPAC-produced record, Dust
Aimee Cliff
April 12, 2017
Article
Charles Atlas
Elsa Vettier—zerodeux.fr
March 13, 2017
Article
Camera as Body
Vic Brooks—Fourth Wall — The Walker
January 5, 2017
Press Mention
Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener: Tesseract
—Art and Education

2016

September 29, 2016
Press Mention
Lucy Raven At the Armory
—Park Avenue Armory
September 16, 2016
Press Mention
Elder Ones' Holy Science, recorded at EMPAC
Ben Ratliff—The New York Times
May 13, 2016
Press Mention
RPI musicians transform the musical experience with groundbreaking inventions
Courtney Ward—WTEN News
May 11, 2016
Press Mention
Tarek Atoui and Pauline Oliveros on WAMC
Joe Donahue—WAMC
May 11, 2016
Press Mention
Collaboration Develops Musical Instruments for the Hearing Impaired
—Inside Rensselaer
March 30, 2016
Press Mention
Atlas Revisited at EMPAC makes a political statement — with camels
Tresca Weinstein—The Albany Times Union
February 22, 2016
Press Mention
Heart of a Dog joins the Criterion Collection
Ryan Gallagher—criterioncast.com

2015

December 23, 2015
Press Mention
The Guardian Names EMPAC-Produced Recording of Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" Among Year's Best
Andrew Clements - The Guardian
December 11, 2015
Press Mention
Ensemble Signal's EMPAC-Produced Album Named By New York Times as Year's Best
The New York Times
November 4, 2015
Press Mention
Artist Silas Riener's Thinging explores overlaps of movement and language
Tresca Weinstein—The Albany Times Union
October 22, 2015
Article
Listening and Hearing
Johannes Goebel—Sound American
October 8, 2015
Press Mention
Tarek Atoui / MATRIX 258
BAMPFA—MATRIX
September 17, 2015
Press Mention
Mary Halvorson's New Album Meltframe
Seth Colter Walls—Pitchfork
September 10, 2015
Press Mention
Capitalism is a disaster for human relations
Catherine Shoard—The Guardian
June 23, 2015
Article
EMPAC, The Future of Multimedia
Rebecca Lentjes, I Care If You Listen
June 15, 2015
Article
The Sound of EMPAC
Zackery Belanger
April 6, 2015
Press Mention
EMPAC: Where the Arts and Sciences Cross-Pollinate
Elizabeth Floyd Mair — Capital Region Living
April 2, 2015
Press Mention
Rosa Barba by Joan Jonas
BOMB Magazine
April 2, 2015
Press Mention
EMPAC Shrugs Popularity to Promote Creative Liberty in Troy, N.Y.
Zachary Woolfe—New York Times

2013

February 8, 2013
Press Mention
Laurie Anderson to speak at EMPAC as part of her three-year residency
Amy Biancolli—The Times Union

2012

July 19, 2012
Press Mention
EMPAC voted best arts programming
Metroland Staff

2011

September 1, 2011
Press Mention
Humanities Students and Scientists Collaborate on BioArt

2010

October 25, 2010
Article
EMPAC: Scales, Senses and the Creation of Meaning
Johannes Goebel

2006

October 8, 2006
Press Mention
entre-deux a mystery with every show
Jody Dalton—The Times Union