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2026

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The Wire Reviews: TOPOS Music Festival 2026
Kurt Gottschalk—The Wire
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A Look Behind WAKE and the Process Behind Choreographing Grief
Sina Basila Hickey—Hudson Mohawk Magazine / Sanctuary for Independent Media
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Storytelling and Catastrophe: World Rebuilding, World Reimagining
Amadeus Julian Regucera—TOPOS 2026 ZINE ESSAY
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WGXC/Wave Farm Audio Buffet: Edward George
Jimmy Gar—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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Edward George speaks with WOOC about Black Atlas at TOPOS 2026
Carolyn Tennant—Hudson Mohawk Magazine / Sanctuary for Independent Media
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TOPOS 2026 Music Festival Brings Experimental Art to EMPAC
Natalie St. Denis—Metroland Now
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Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)’s Corpus Festival
Katie Leach—Metroland Now
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"Raft" and "preámbulo" come to Corpus Festival at EMPAC
Sina Basila Hickey—Hudson Mohawk Magazine / Sanctuary for Independent Media
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From inflatables to interactive rafts: Experimental Corpus Festival debuts at Troy's EMPAC
Tresca Weinstein—Times Union
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Corpus Festival at EMPAC in Troy Explores the Body as Performance System
Brian K. Mahoney—Chronogram
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WGXC/Wave Farm Discusses Corpus Performance Festival
—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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At EMPAC, 'staging grounds' filters performance and visual art through SE Asia
Tresca Weinstein

2025

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The Wire Reviews: TOPOS Music Festival 2025
Xenia Benivolski—The Wire
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WGXC/Wave Farm Discusses TOPOS Music Festival
—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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Metroland Preview: Explore a new type of music festival with EMPAC’s TOPOS Festival
Rory Graham—Metroland Now
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EMPAC remains at forefront of experimental music - Upstate Beat
Kirsten Ferguson—Nippertown
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'Our Town' gets alternate look in EMPAC production
Tresca Weinstein—The Times Union
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‘Permanent Trespass’: Looking Beyond the American Century
Shiv Kotecha—Frieze

2024

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Lakota Ontologies, AI, and Graphic Scores Find a Symbiotic Home in the Waking Dreams of Kite
Vanessa Ague—I Care if you Listen
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EMPAC Welcomes Dena Beard as its New Executive Director
Sina Basila Hickey—Hudson Mohawk Magazine / Sanctuary for Independent Media
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WGXC Discusses Cellist Charles Curtis’s upcoming series ‘Within | Without Limit’
—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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15th Gwangju Biennale
Andrew V. Uroskie
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Bassem Saad’s “Century Bingo”
Lua Vollaard
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A musical installation for your living room – that takes an entire week to hear
Michael Andor Brodeur—The Washington Post
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The heartbreak of 'Permanent Trespass'
Wendy ​Liberatore—To the Pointe
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WGXC Discusses Premiere of EMPAC-commission ‘Permanent Trespass’
Katherine C. M. Adams—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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Nicolas Bourriaud Animates the Gwangju Biennale
Nicholas Bourriaud—ArtReview
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“Reverberating Light” Installation Recognized
Tracey Leibach—news.rpi.edu
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5 Questions to Jessie Marino and Antonia Barnett McIntosh
Jacob Kopcienski—I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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From Emergency to Emergence: Aura Satz’s Preemptive Listening
Sophie Cavoulacos—MoMA Magazine
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WGXC Afternoon Show: Katherine C.M. Adams on A PLOT / A SCANDAL
Katherine C. M. Adams—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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Choreographer to tell Dominican Republic story in EMPAC performance
Tresca Weinstein—Times Union
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WGXC Afternoon Show: Amadeus Julian Regucera, Matthew Goodheart, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein
Amadeus Julian Regucera—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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REVIEW: ‘Poetry and Fairy Tale’ — Conrad Tao’s unique solo piano program at EMPAC
Larry Wallach—The Berkshire Edge
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EMPAC’s Spring 2024 Season Has Begun
Katherine C. M. Adams—Hudson Mohawk Magazine
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Poetry & Fairy Tale Coming to EMPAC Friday
Amadeus Julian Regucera—Sanctuary for Independent Media
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How Ligia Lewis Drew on Stories of Her Great-Grandmother in Her First Solo Exhibition
Sheila Regan—Dance Magazine

2023

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Here Are 8 of the Best Works We Saw Around the World in 2023
Taylor Dafoe—Artnet
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This Nvidia Cofounder Could Have Been Worth $70 Billion. Instead He Lives Off The Grid
Phoebe Liu—Forbes Magazine
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Beatriz Cortez Visualized the Mayan Underworld and Traveled It Up the Hudson River
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand—Cultbytes
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Experimental music and a school of rock
Lucas Willard—The Best of Our Knowledge
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Ellen Fullman’s Singular and Suitably-Named ‘Long String Instrument’ Reverberates at EMPAC
Vanessa Ague—I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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The Volcano that Journeyed up the Hudson River
Sarah Amandolare—The Times Union
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Beatriz Cortez Sails a Steel Volcano up the Hudson
Jesse Dorris—SurfaceMag
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Classical notes: 80-foot-long musical instrument star at EMPAC
Joseph Dalton—Times Union
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Ellen Fullman Interview with Tom Roe
—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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Art Shows and Exhibitions to See This Fall
Will Heinrich—The New York Times
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Nomadic Volcano Sculpture Lands at Storm King
Matt Stromberg— HYPERALLERGIC
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DeForrest Brown Jr. Interview with Tom Roe
—Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7FM: Radio for Open Ears
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Sage Ni’Ja Whitson Illuminates Our Fear of the Dark
Jesse Dorris—SURFACE
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Sage Ni’Ja Whitson's Creative Capital Artist Diary
Sage Ni'Ja Whitson—Creative Capital Journal
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Classical Notes: Interviews, live music tell tale of refugee plight
Joseph Dalton—Times Union
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Expect more inclusion from new curator at EMPAC
Joseph Dalton—The Times Union
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23 for ’23: Composers and performers to watch this year
Michael Andor Brodeur—The Washington Post

2022

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

2021

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Short of the Month: Annie Saunders’ "REST"
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Collaborative Creativity and Artistic Evolution
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Sincere, Outdoorsy, Trippy, a Music Festival Breathes Los Angeles
Zachary Woolfe—The New York Times

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2013

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Laurie Anderson to speak at EMPAC as part of her three-year residency
Amy Biancolli—The Times Union

2012

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EMPAC voted best arts programming
Metroland Staff

2011

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Humanities Students and Scientists Collaborate on BioArt

2010

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

2006

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entre-deux a mystery with every show
Jody Dalton—The Times Union