Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator exhibition
Dates:
Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:00 - Sat Jul 28, 2012
Location:
Troy,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language exhibition
Monday, March 5–Saturday, July 28, 2012
Troy, NY — The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is pleased to announce A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language, an exhibition by New York City-based media artist Ben Rubin.
As Rubin works out concepts and algorithms for Shakespeare Machine, a permanent installation that will open at the Public Theater in New York in fall 2012, he will transform EMPAC’s public interior into a laboratory of words and motion, projecting glowing white text from Shakespeare’s complete dramatic works onto walls, walkways, and other surfaces.
Shakespeare’s plays are structured around the powerful forces of love, death, family, trust, jealousy, fate, and desire. But in the universe of Shakespearian physics, the subatomic forces that hold words together encompass puns, rhymes, alliteration, rhythms, and unexpected constructions. “These subtle forces of language are essential to the transcendent power of Shakespeare’s work,” says Rubin. "I want to create a kind of supercollider for Shakespeare’s texts, where the particles to be accelerated and smashed together are scenes, lines, and phrases. Which words, when hurled toward each other, will cause a reaction? Which collisions will most likely provide traces of the incandescent energy, wit, and emotion that existed at the moment of these plays’ creation?”
Ben Rubin is a New York City-based media artist. He has worked closely with major figures in contemporary culture, including composer Steve Reich, architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Renzo Piano, performers Laurie Anderson and Arto Lindsay, theorists Bruno Latour and Paul Virilio, and artists Ann Hamilton and Beryl Korot. He frequently collaborates with UCLA statistician Mark Hansen, and their joint projects include Moveable Type (2007) and Listening Post (2002). Rubin has created large-scale public artworks for the New York Times, the city of San José, and the Minneapolis Public Library. In 2011, Rubin and Mark Hansen joined forces with the Elevator Repair Service theater ensemble to present Shuffle, a new performance and installation that re-mixes text from three American novels of the 1920s. He has taught at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, as well as the Bard MFA program and the Yale School of Art.
The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday – Saturday from 12 PM – 6 PM, and additionally until 9 PM this spring during evening public events (see the website for this schedule). Free two hour parking is available adjacent to EMPAC on College Avenue and 8th Street.
Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.
Monday, March 5–Saturday, July 28, 2012
Troy, NY — The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is pleased to announce A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language, an exhibition by New York City-based media artist Ben Rubin.
As Rubin works out concepts and algorithms for Shakespeare Machine, a permanent installation that will open at the Public Theater in New York in fall 2012, he will transform EMPAC’s public interior into a laboratory of words and motion, projecting glowing white text from Shakespeare’s complete dramatic works onto walls, walkways, and other surfaces.
Shakespeare’s plays are structured around the powerful forces of love, death, family, trust, jealousy, fate, and desire. But in the universe of Shakespearian physics, the subatomic forces that hold words together encompass puns, rhymes, alliteration, rhythms, and unexpected constructions. “These subtle forces of language are essential to the transcendent power of Shakespeare’s work,” says Rubin. "I want to create a kind of supercollider for Shakespeare’s texts, where the particles to be accelerated and smashed together are scenes, lines, and phrases. Which words, when hurled toward each other, will cause a reaction? Which collisions will most likely provide traces of the incandescent energy, wit, and emotion that existed at the moment of these plays’ creation?”
Ben Rubin is a New York City-based media artist. He has worked closely with major figures in contemporary culture, including composer Steve Reich, architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Renzo Piano, performers Laurie Anderson and Arto Lindsay, theorists Bruno Latour and Paul Virilio, and artists Ann Hamilton and Beryl Korot. He frequently collaborates with UCLA statistician Mark Hansen, and their joint projects include Moveable Type (2007) and Listening Post (2002). Rubin has created large-scale public artworks for the New York Times, the city of San José, and the Minneapolis Public Library. In 2011, Rubin and Mark Hansen joined forces with the Elevator Repair Service theater ensemble to present Shuffle, a new performance and installation that re-mixes text from three American novels of the 1920s. He has taught at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, as well as the Bard MFA program and the Yale School of Art.
The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday – Saturday from 12 PM – 6 PM, and additionally until 9 PM this spring during evening public events (see the website for this schedule). Free two hour parking is available adjacent to EMPAC on College Avenue and 8th Street.
Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.
Ryan + Trevor Oakes: The Periphery of Perception
Dates:
Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:00 - Thu May 31, 2012
Location:
Troy,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Ryan + Trevor Oakes: The Periphery of Perception exhibition
Tuesday, February 21 – Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday – Saturday, 12 – 6 PM
Troy, NY — The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is pleased to announce The Periphery of Perception exhibition, an exhibition of work by Ryan and Trevor Oakes.
Identical twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes engage in probing studies into the nature of visual perception through material investigations, discovering methods that constitute key advancements in the representation of visual reality. This winter they will be in residence at EMPAC, creating a commissioned drawing of EMPAC’s Concert Hall. This commission constitutes a paradigm shift in the Oakes’ drawing process. Marking the first time they re-envision the structure of their canvases to encompass the full 240-degree field of human sight, the drawing will also account for the experience of binocular vision. The commission for EMPAC will be shown as part of an exhibition looking at the development of the Oakes’ work over the past 10 years, opening on February 21 and closing on May 31, 2012.
In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion on Wednesday, April 18 at 6 PM between Ryan and Trevor Oakes, writer Damien James, and photographer Michael Benson on optics, the nature of light, and the rendering of visual reality.
The work of Ryan and Trevor Oakes is held in the permanent collections of The Field Museum and the Spertus Museum in Chicago, and the New York Public Library. Their public art projects include a large-scale outdoor sculpture that debuted in Chicago's Millennium Park in the summer of 2009, and is now installed at O'Hare International Airport. They have exhibited and lectured about their artwork across the US and abroad, most recently working with the Palazzo Strozzi Museum in Florence, and exhibiting at CUE Art Foundation in New York City.
In the fall of 2011, they completed a drawing of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. In the fall of 2012, they'll return to Florence to re-envision an artwork of Brunelleschi, creator of the first perspective experiment on record, demonstrated around 1425.
http://oakesoakes.com/
a behind-the-scenes video: http://vimeo.com/35961911
The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday – Saturday from 12 PM – 6 PM. Free two hour parking is available adjacent to EMPAC on College Avenue and 8th Street.
Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: http://empac.rpi.edu/ Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.
Tuesday, February 21 – Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday – Saturday, 12 – 6 PM
Troy, NY — The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is pleased to announce The Periphery of Perception exhibition, an exhibition of work by Ryan and Trevor Oakes.
Identical twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes engage in probing studies into the nature of visual perception through material investigations, discovering methods that constitute key advancements in the representation of visual reality. This winter they will be in residence at EMPAC, creating a commissioned drawing of EMPAC’s Concert Hall. This commission constitutes a paradigm shift in the Oakes’ drawing process. Marking the first time they re-envision the structure of their canvases to encompass the full 240-degree field of human sight, the drawing will also account for the experience of binocular vision. The commission for EMPAC will be shown as part of an exhibition looking at the development of the Oakes’ work over the past 10 years, opening on February 21 and closing on May 31, 2012.
In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion on Wednesday, April 18 at 6 PM between Ryan and Trevor Oakes, writer Damien James, and photographer Michael Benson on optics, the nature of light, and the rendering of visual reality.
The work of Ryan and Trevor Oakes is held in the permanent collections of The Field Museum and the Spertus Museum in Chicago, and the New York Public Library. Their public art projects include a large-scale outdoor sculpture that debuted in Chicago's Millennium Park in the summer of 2009, and is now installed at O'Hare International Airport. They have exhibited and lectured about their artwork across the US and abroad, most recently working with the Palazzo Strozzi Museum in Florence, and exhibiting at CUE Art Foundation in New York City.
In the fall of 2011, they completed a drawing of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. In the fall of 2012, they'll return to Florence to re-envision an artwork of Brunelleschi, creator of the first perspective experiment on record, demonstrated around 1425.
http://oakesoakes.com/
a behind-the-scenes video: http://vimeo.com/35961911
The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday – Saturday from 12 PM – 6 PM. Free two hour parking is available adjacent to EMPAC on College Avenue and 8th Street.
Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: http://empac.rpi.edu/ Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.
EMPAC | Open call for artist-in-residence proposals
Deadline:
Tue Jan 17, 2012 23:59
Location:
Troy,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Since 2005, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) has established a vibrant residency program that has hosted over 150 artists and their collaborators, spanning theater, dance, music, video, and installation. We are pleased to announce the new deadlines for 2012 artist-in-residence open call program on January 17, May 14, and September 17, and new application guidelines and application form.
We encourage applications for a wide range of projects from a diversity of artists, composers, directors, choreographers, and performers from international artists of different cultural and geographical backgrounds.
We are open to proposals for all phases of a project, from initial concept to full production.
In addition to our ongoing residency open call, we also have additional special initiatives:
Creative Research: Provides artists, writers, and theorists with the opportunity to conduct research over extended periods of time (minimum six weeks).
Audio Production / Post-Production: For sound recording, development of multichannel sound works, documentation, mastering, mixing, film scoring, or any other task involving microphones, speakers, consoles and computers.
Video Production / Post-Production: For multiple camera shoots, documentation of a performance, development of multichannel video projection, digital video post-production, or any project involving HD video cameras, computers, and projectors.
** Please note that residency proposals do not need to fall into one of these special initiatives.
Our unique facilities offer four major venues including a concert hall, theater, and two black box studios, in addition to artist-in-residence studios, and a state of the art infrastructure.
For more information including application guidelines, please visit http://empac.rpi.edu/.
We encourage applications for a wide range of projects from a diversity of artists, composers, directors, choreographers, and performers from international artists of different cultural and geographical backgrounds.
We are open to proposals for all phases of a project, from initial concept to full production.
In addition to our ongoing residency open call, we also have additional special initiatives:
Creative Research: Provides artists, writers, and theorists with the opportunity to conduct research over extended periods of time (minimum six weeks).
Audio Production / Post-Production: For sound recording, development of multichannel sound works, documentation, mastering, mixing, film scoring, or any other task involving microphones, speakers, consoles and computers.
Video Production / Post-Production: For multiple camera shoots, documentation of a performance, development of multichannel video projection, digital video post-production, or any project involving HD video cameras, computers, and projectors.
** Please note that residency proposals do not need to fall into one of these special initiatives.
Our unique facilities offer four major venues including a concert hall, theater, and two black box studios, in addition to artist-in-residence studios, and a state of the art infrastructure.
For more information including application guidelines, please visit http://empac.rpi.edu/.
EMPAC Announces Recipients of the DANCE MOViES Commission 2011-2012
DANCE MOViES COMMISSION 2011-2012
EMPAC - the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY - announces the winning projects of this year’s DANCE MOViES Commission! Ranging from a six-minute hand-drawn animation seen in a built theater set, to a ten-part visual meditation of a man in Rome, to a love story told through shadowy overlays, these projects all test the definition of what dance on screen can be.
Chosen out of 93 proposals by a panel of dance artists, filmmakers, and curators, the three projects will be created over the course of one year and will premiere in the fall of 2012 as part of the Filament festival at EMPAC.
DANCE MOViES Commission 2011-2012 Projects
Animated Dance Film (US)
Choreographer/Director/Set designer: Sarah Michelson
Composer: Pete Drungle
Animator: Joanna Quinn
Sarah Michelson continues her willful collision of the elements of choreography and visual art, as she shifts her vision to animation in this new work developed with filmmaker Joanna Quinn. Presented in a built set environment, this hand-drawn dance cartoon created from an original live dance amplifies ideas of artifice in theater.
In the first place… (US)
Created and performed by Colin Gee
Composer: Erin Gee
Colin Gee’s work hovers at the intersection of architecture, film, and performance, finding its expression through a restrained physical presence. Comprised of 10 short films shot in Rome, this new work reframes the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an Italian pastoral romance published in 1499, as a series of 10 decisive moments in which the protagonist uses landmarks to reorient himself while pursuing his beloved.
Overlay (Argentina)
Director: Cayetana Vidal
Choreographer/Dancer: Sofia Mazza
Dancer: Diego Poblete
Director Cayetana Vidal and choreographer Sofia Mazza come together once again to create a single-channel installation that explores the film technique of overlay as a narrative device. In an illusory world, two lovers living parallel lives, day for one and night for the other, with seasons inverted, only meet in the artful interlocking of image and sound.
The DANCE MOViES Commission is a program that supports the creation of new works in which dance meets the technologies of the moving image. Established in 2007, it has already had a significant national and international impact, with the creation of 17 new works to date.
The commission is supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. It is open to artists based in North and South America who are making movement-based video, film, and installation work.
Press release and more information
EMPAC - the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY - announces the winning projects of this year’s DANCE MOViES Commission! Ranging from a six-minute hand-drawn animation seen in a built theater set, to a ten-part visual meditation of a man in Rome, to a love story told through shadowy overlays, these projects all test the definition of what dance on screen can be.
Chosen out of 93 proposals by a panel of dance artists, filmmakers, and curators, the three projects will be created over the course of one year and will premiere in the fall of 2012 as part of the Filament festival at EMPAC.
DANCE MOViES Commission 2011-2012 Projects
Animated Dance Film (US)
Choreographer/Director/Set designer: Sarah Michelson
Composer: Pete Drungle
Animator: Joanna Quinn
Sarah Michelson continues her willful collision of the elements of choreography and visual art, as she shifts her vision to animation in this new work developed with filmmaker Joanna Quinn. Presented in a built set environment, this hand-drawn dance cartoon created from an original live dance amplifies ideas of artifice in theater.
In the first place… (US)
Created and performed by Colin Gee
Composer: Erin Gee
Colin Gee’s work hovers at the intersection of architecture, film, and performance, finding its expression through a restrained physical presence. Comprised of 10 short films shot in Rome, this new work reframes the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an Italian pastoral romance published in 1499, as a series of 10 decisive moments in which the protagonist uses landmarks to reorient himself while pursuing his beloved.
Overlay (Argentina)
Director: Cayetana Vidal
Choreographer/Dancer: Sofia Mazza
Dancer: Diego Poblete
Director Cayetana Vidal and choreographer Sofia Mazza come together once again to create a single-channel installation that explores the film technique of overlay as a narrative device. In an illusory world, two lovers living parallel lives, day for one and night for the other, with seasons inverted, only meet in the artful interlocking of image and sound.
The DANCE MOViES Commission is a program that supports the creation of new works in which dance meets the technologies of the moving image. Established in 2007, it has already had a significant national and international impact, with the creation of 17 new works to date.
The commission is supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. It is open to artists based in North and South America who are making movement-based video, film, and installation work.
Press release and more information
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot exhibition | May 11 – September 1 | EMPAC, Troy, NY, USA
Dates:
Wed May 11, 2011 12:00 - Thu Sep 01, 2011
Location:
Troy,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
EXHIBITION
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) + index (v.4)
May 11 – September 1
Monday – Saturday, 12-6 PM
FREE + open to the public
EMPAC public spaces
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA
Two sound installations untitled (series #3) and index (v.4) by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot create a special sonic atmosphere in EMPAC’s lobby spaces. The first involves floating bowls and glasses in several pools of moving water. As these objects touch, the space is filled with their fleeting, floating music. The other sounds moving through the lobby come from two computer-played pianos. The music is an articulation of EMPAC staff's typing activity. Software written by the artist maps linguistic properties to musical properties, translating letters, phrases, and punctuation into aspects of musical language like pitch, dynamics, repetitions, and chords.
+ A preview in this month's Chronogram
+ Paul Cooper Gallery
Curator: Micah Silver
The exhibition is free and open to the public. It will be closed on Monday, May 30. Parking can be found on 8th Street and College Avenue adjacent to EMPAC (parking on 8th Street is paid noon to 5, Monday-Friday).
Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s work merges the realms of the musical and the visual, mining unexpected sources for their musical potential and creating situations or devices in which sonic events turn into visual material or visual objects and events get transposed sonically. A native of Nice, France, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot was born in 1961. He lives and works in Sète, France. His works has been exhibited worldwide and are part of major public and private collections, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Old and New Art, Australia; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: untitled (series #3) + index (v.4)
May 11 – September 1
Monday – Saturday, 12-6 PM
FREE + open to the public
EMPAC public spaces
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA
Two sound installations untitled (series #3) and index (v.4) by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot create a special sonic atmosphere in EMPAC’s lobby spaces. The first involves floating bowls and glasses in several pools of moving water. As these objects touch, the space is filled with their fleeting, floating music. The other sounds moving through the lobby come from two computer-played pianos. The music is an articulation of EMPAC staff's typing activity. Software written by the artist maps linguistic properties to musical properties, translating letters, phrases, and punctuation into aspects of musical language like pitch, dynamics, repetitions, and chords.
+ A preview in this month's Chronogram
+ Paul Cooper Gallery
Curator: Micah Silver
The exhibition is free and open to the public. It will be closed on Monday, May 30. Parking can be found on 8th Street and College Avenue adjacent to EMPAC (parking on 8th Street is paid noon to 5, Monday-Friday).
Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s work merges the realms of the musical and the visual, mining unexpected sources for their musical potential and creating situations or devices in which sonic events turn into visual material or visual objects and events get transposed sonically. A native of Nice, France, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot was born in 1961. He lives and works in Sète, France. His works has been exhibited worldwide and are part of major public and private collections, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Old and New Art, Australia; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris.
