EMPAC is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti as the center’s new Curator of Music. An experienced curator as well as a highly accomplished violist, composer, scholar, and educator, Lanzilotti will begin her tenure at EMPAC starting in Fall 2019. At EMPAC she will be developing the music residencies and commissions as well as performances and events in continuation of EMPAC’s artistic directions and with her own perspectives.
On October 3, 2008, Rensselaer opened a bold new chapter in its legacy as the nation’s oldest technological research university. With the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, the institute had not only designed and constructed the most technologically advanced performing arts center in the country, but had initialized a radical new program integrating the methods and mindset of art, science, and engineering, laying the foundation for a new paradigm in cross-disciplinary exploration and education.
Artist Wu Tsang has been named a 2018 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Working in residence at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 2016, the “Genius Grant” honoree will premiere a new collaborative performance work, Sudden Rise, at EMPAC 10YEARS on October 13.
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York is where the arts, sciences, and technology meet under one roof.
Over the course of three days, and across EMPAC’s four main venues and public spaces, the 10YEARS celebration will mark a decade since the building's opening in 2008 by presenting a diverse offering of cross-disciplinary performances spanning music, dance, theater, film, and many experiential spaces in between.
At EMPAC, everything we create is “time-based.” From concerts to dance performances to film screenings and theater, the artworks this season are each a carefully considered play of sight, sound, and movement: experiences that only exist in the span of time given for you to take them in but might dwell within you for hours or days after they end.
EMPAC alum / Early Morning Opera's Lars Jans and former EMPAC curator of Time-Based Arts Kathleen Forde were featured after premiering Jan's latest commission art ArtBasel in Miami this year. Jans' commissions ABACUS (2010) and HOLOCENES (2014) were developed at EMPAC.
The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute regrets to announce that the December 8 performance by Iranian hand-drummer Mohammad Reza Mortazavi has been cancelled due to visa-processing delays.
New York-based British artist Patricia L. Boyd will exhibit Operator (2017), a single-channel video, at New York University's 80wse Gallery between September 23 and November 11. The video was produced through a moving image commission from EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
“Mixed reality.” This is a term that’s been gaining traction as new media technologies expand our human relationship to the digital world.
This summer, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) will present a special season of programming to coincide with Rensselaer’s inaugural Summer Arch semester. In addition to the production residencies and research projects that are regularly conducted at the center throughout the summer, the season will be punctuated by a number of concerts, film screenings, theater performances, and workshops.
Composer Kate Soper has been named a 2017 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Soper's work, Ipsa Dixit, was developed and premiered by the Wet Ink Ensemble at EMPAC on Dec. 9, 2016. Selected by a jury comprised of Harvard professor Carol J. Oja, New Yorker critic Alex Ross, Duke professor John V.
The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, will take part in a conversation with Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson, a recent recipient of the National Medal of Science, on Tuesday, April 11. The event will be held in the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center on the Rensselaer campus.
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