LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB Workshop
Deadline:
Sat Jul 31, 2010 00:00
Location:
United States of America
WORKSHOP
LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB
August 16 - 22, 2010
There is still time to register for EMPAC's summer lab for interactive media in performance to be held August 16-22, 2010. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation.
The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners, scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing a deeper understanding of composing work focused on real time, interactive or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes (video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography, and directing).
More information on this workshop can be found on the EMPAC website.
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA
LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB
August 16 - 22, 2010
There is still time to register for EMPAC's summer lab for interactive media in performance to be held August 16-22, 2010. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation.
The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners, scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing a deeper understanding of composing work focused on real time, interactive or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes (video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography, and directing).
More information on this workshop can be found on the EMPAC website.
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA
Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics - A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation
Dates:
Fri Jul 30, 2010 00:00 - Wed Jun 09, 2010
Location:
United States of America
Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics - A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation
Friday, July 30 - Monday, August 2, 2010
http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/
Early bird registration still available!
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York is pleased to announce Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics - A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation (C:ADM2010), an international and inter-disciplinary conference co-sponsored with the American Society of Cybernetics and the School of Architecture at Rensselaer.
C:ADM2010 brings together practitioners and theorists from four disciplines in an extended conversation in order to explore questions that are common to all of them. The conference involves a balanced mix of individuals from art, cybernetics, design and mathematics that have, until now, not assembled simultaneously and purposefully. Here the effort is not to document contemporary development within these fields, that is, to share those things already known, but to generate the interaction that leads to new ideas, discoveries and partnerships. This novel approach distinguishes this conference from those with a more typical disciplinary focus and traditional format.
Each of the four disciplines represented at the conference share an interest in certain questions that will be topics for discussion. These include, the nature of transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary work, ways to crossover between discplines, the concepts of metaphor, aesthetics, process in each of these fields, and the relationship between the actual and the abstract.
Additional information about the conference and surrounding events can be found at the conference website: http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010
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EMPAC
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
http://www.empac.rpi.edu
Box Office: 518.276.3921
Friday, July 30 - Monday, August 2, 2010
http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/
Early bird registration still available!
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York is pleased to announce Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics - A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation (C:ADM2010), an international and inter-disciplinary conference co-sponsored with the American Society of Cybernetics and the School of Architecture at Rensselaer.
C:ADM2010 brings together practitioners and theorists from four disciplines in an extended conversation in order to explore questions that are common to all of them. The conference involves a balanced mix of individuals from art, cybernetics, design and mathematics that have, until now, not assembled simultaneously and purposefully. Here the effort is not to document contemporary development within these fields, that is, to share those things already known, but to generate the interaction that leads to new ideas, discoveries and partnerships. This novel approach distinguishes this conference from those with a more typical disciplinary focus and traditional format.
Each of the four disciplines represented at the conference share an interest in certain questions that will be topics for discussion. These include, the nature of transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary work, ways to crossover between discplines, the concepts of metaphor, aesthetics, process in each of these fields, and the relationship between the actual and the abstract.
Additional information about the conference and surrounding events can be found at the conference website: http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010
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EMPAC
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
http://www.empac.rpi.edu
Box Office: 518.276.3921
Filament
Dates:
Fri Oct 01, 2010 00:00 - Thu May 27, 2010
Location:
United States of America
EMPAC
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/
Filament
October 1-3, 2010
Save the Date!
Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media.
The festival highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.
Performances and installations include:
MTAA (NYC): a barn raising driven by audience participation
Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA): a 24-channel immersive sound installation
BalletLab (Australia): choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscape
Yanira Castro (NYC): a performance ecosystem where sound and dance environments envelop both audience and artists
Early Morning Opera (Los Angeles): evangelistic jumbotron diatribe on the dissolution of national borders
Volkmar Klien (Austria): a 44-channel encore of Start-Ziel-Siege
DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010 Premieres: five projects at the intersection of dance and moving image
Filament will also unveil a program of commissioned short-form performance works across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. Participating artists include: Wally Cardona; SUE-C & Laetitia Sonami; Jen DeNike; Yehuda Duenyas; Sam Hillmer; Miro Dance Theatre; MTAA; Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle.
Stay up to date on all Filament news by visiting the EMPAC website and signing up for our email list!
About EMPAC
Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.
EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation) and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.
EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, USA 12180
518.276.3921
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/
Filament
October 1-3, 2010
Save the Date!
Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media.
The festival highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.
Performances and installations include:
MTAA (NYC): a barn raising driven by audience participation
Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA): a 24-channel immersive sound installation
BalletLab (Australia): choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscape
Yanira Castro (NYC): a performance ecosystem where sound and dance environments envelop both audience and artists
Early Morning Opera (Los Angeles): evangelistic jumbotron diatribe on the dissolution of national borders
Volkmar Klien (Austria): a 44-channel encore of Start-Ziel-Siege
DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010 Premieres: five projects at the intersection of dance and moving image
Filament will also unveil a program of commissioned short-form performance works across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. Participating artists include: Wally Cardona; SUE-C & Laetitia Sonami; Jen DeNike; Yehuda Duenyas; Sam Hillmer; Miro Dance Theatre; MTAA; Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle.
Stay up to date on all Filament news by visiting the EMPAC website and signing up for our email list!
About EMPAC
Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.
EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation) and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.
EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY, USA 12180
518.276.3921
onedotzero: adventures in motion
Dates:
Fri Apr 30, 2010 00:00 - Fri Apr 09, 2010
THE LONDON-BASED FESTIVAL RETURNS TO EMPAC WITH A DELIRIOUS SHOWCASE OF THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ART OF THE DIGITAL MOVING IMAGE
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/spring/onedotzero/
Troy, NY - From Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2, 2010, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host the second Troy appearance of the London-based onedotzero\_Adventures in Motion festival. Comprising feature-length films and shorts as well as installations and live performances, the event is a weekend-long celebration of the moving image that’s guaranteed to inspire, provoke, and delight.
Special guests include the projected-light visual label AntiVJ, in residence at EMPAC in April, who will premiere a mesmerizing audiovisual performance on opening night with minimal techno artist Sleeparchive. Also featured will be a late-night performance by DJ superstar Diplo, who will be joined by a cadre of the area’s finest VJs to get your ears, eyes, and feet vibrating.
The onedotzero\_Adventures in Motion Festival will take place throughout the EMPAC space. A full schedule of events will be announced on the EMPAC website in early April.
The Screenings:
•Wow + Flutter - A compilation of fresh and original short-form moving images. This year’s standouts are Xavier Chassaing’s ‘Scintillation,’ created from over 35,000 photographs, and Johnny Hardstaff’s ‘Cherry Girl.’
•Wavelength - The most exciting and offbeat music videos from around the world, with works composed for Röyksopp, N.A.S.A, and Fleet Foxes.
•Citystates - A digital exploration of the human impulse toward urbanism, with a prophetic eye on the next generation of supercities.
•Extended Play - Short narratives from an eclectic range of international auteurs that pursue entirely new visual approaches to storytelling.
•Terrain - Arresting moving image vistas from directors from different disciplines who share a common fascination with the diverse environments we inhabit, both real and virtual.
•New British Talent -BBC Film Network, in collaboration with onedotzero, presents moving image work by the rising stars of the UK’s filmmaking scene.
•J-star -The latest and most inspiring music videos, shorts, and motion graphics from Japan.
•Sprites - A special new children’s program, including a Studio AKA animation workshop, a mini-festival of shorts for young people, and opportunities for interactive play.
•Cascade - Leading up to the onedotzero Festival, EMPAC has organized a series of educational artist exchanges with the students and faculty of Rensselaer including workshops with visiting artists, critiques and lunches. The student presentations and critique will be open to the public and held on the Sunday of the onedotzero festival at 2:30pm.
•A new video by Brian Alfred whose work is inspired by his interest in globalization, civil unrest, political and social opposition, and influential figures and locations. The animation will feature multiple soundtracks by musicians Flying Lotus, Ghislain Poirier, Roberto Carlos Lange, and many others.
All installations, lounge, café and Studio 2 performances are free and open to the public.
Parking for this event is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue. Food and refreshments will be available for purchase throughout the weekend.
Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website, http://www.empac.rpi.edu.
onedotzero is a contemporary digital arts organization dedicated to promoting innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts. Activities encompass public events, artist + content development, publishing projects, education, production, creative direction, and related consultancy services. onedotzero\_adventures in motion is a global network of film festivals, showcasing the best of new digital film and animation.
AntiVJ is an international visual label that creates monumental projections in public spaces, combining powerful video projectors with digital mapping techniques and holographic illusions.
Links
http://www.onedotzero.com/
http://antivj.com/
Vitals
FESTIVAL
onedotzero\_\_adventures in motion
Friday, April 30 - Sunday, May 2, 2010
Multiple venues
Curated by Kathleen Forde
About EMPAC
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.”
Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.
EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation’s oldest technological university. The school offers degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the social sciences and humanities. For over thirty years, the Institute has been a leader in interdisciplinary creative research, especially in the electronic arts. In addition to its MFA and Ph.D. programs in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer offers Bachelor degrees in Electronic Arts, and in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication - one of the first undergraduate programs of its kind in the United States. The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies and EMPAC are two major research platforms that Rensselaer has established at the beginning of the 21st century.
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EMPAC
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
http://www.empac.rpi.edu
Box Office: 518.276.3921
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/spring/onedotzero/
Troy, NY - From Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2, 2010, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host the second Troy appearance of the London-based onedotzero\_Adventures in Motion festival. Comprising feature-length films and shorts as well as installations and live performances, the event is a weekend-long celebration of the moving image that’s guaranteed to inspire, provoke, and delight.
Special guests include the projected-light visual label AntiVJ, in residence at EMPAC in April, who will premiere a mesmerizing audiovisual performance on opening night with minimal techno artist Sleeparchive. Also featured will be a late-night performance by DJ superstar Diplo, who will be joined by a cadre of the area’s finest VJs to get your ears, eyes, and feet vibrating.
The onedotzero\_Adventures in Motion Festival will take place throughout the EMPAC space. A full schedule of events will be announced on the EMPAC website in early April.
The Screenings:
•Wow + Flutter - A compilation of fresh and original short-form moving images. This year’s standouts are Xavier Chassaing’s ‘Scintillation,’ created from over 35,000 photographs, and Johnny Hardstaff’s ‘Cherry Girl.’
•Wavelength - The most exciting and offbeat music videos from around the world, with works composed for Röyksopp, N.A.S.A, and Fleet Foxes.
•Citystates - A digital exploration of the human impulse toward urbanism, with a prophetic eye on the next generation of supercities.
•Extended Play - Short narratives from an eclectic range of international auteurs that pursue entirely new visual approaches to storytelling.
•Terrain - Arresting moving image vistas from directors from different disciplines who share a common fascination with the diverse environments we inhabit, both real and virtual.
•New British Talent -BBC Film Network, in collaboration with onedotzero, presents moving image work by the rising stars of the UK’s filmmaking scene.
•J-star -The latest and most inspiring music videos, shorts, and motion graphics from Japan.
•Sprites - A special new children’s program, including a Studio AKA animation workshop, a mini-festival of shorts for young people, and opportunities for interactive play.
•Cascade - Leading up to the onedotzero Festival, EMPAC has organized a series of educational artist exchanges with the students and faculty of Rensselaer including workshops with visiting artists, critiques and lunches. The student presentations and critique will be open to the public and held on the Sunday of the onedotzero festival at 2:30pm.
•A new video by Brian Alfred whose work is inspired by his interest in globalization, civil unrest, political and social opposition, and influential figures and locations. The animation will feature multiple soundtracks by musicians Flying Lotus, Ghislain Poirier, Roberto Carlos Lange, and many others.
All installations, lounge, café and Studio 2 performances are free and open to the public.
Parking for this event is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue. Food and refreshments will be available for purchase throughout the weekend.
Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website, http://www.empac.rpi.edu.
onedotzero is a contemporary digital arts organization dedicated to promoting innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts. Activities encompass public events, artist + content development, publishing projects, education, production, creative direction, and related consultancy services. onedotzero\_adventures in motion is a global network of film festivals, showcasing the best of new digital film and animation.
AntiVJ is an international visual label that creates monumental projections in public spaces, combining powerful video projectors with digital mapping techniques and holographic illusions.
Links
http://www.onedotzero.com/
http://antivj.com/
Vitals
FESTIVAL
onedotzero\_\_adventures in motion
Friday, April 30 - Sunday, May 2, 2010
Multiple venues
Curated by Kathleen Forde
About EMPAC
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.”
Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.
EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation’s oldest technological university. The school offers degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the social sciences and humanities. For over thirty years, the Institute has been a leader in interdisciplinary creative research, especially in the electronic arts. In addition to its MFA and Ph.D. programs in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer offers Bachelor degrees in Electronic Arts, and in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication - one of the first undergraduate programs of its kind in the United States. The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies and EMPAC are two major research platforms that Rensselaer has established at the beginning of the 21st century.
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EMPAC
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
http://www.empac.rpi.edu
Box Office: 518.276.3921
LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB Workshop
Deadline:
Fri May 07, 2010 00:00
EMPAC
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA
www.empac.rpi.edu
LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB Workshop
August 16 - 22, 2010
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/summer/workshop/
Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio
Résumé and informal letter of application due June 30, 2010
EMPAC announces its first summer lab for interactive media in performance, to be held August 16-22, 2010 at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation.
The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners, scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing a deeper understanding of composing work focused on real time, interactive or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes (video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography and directing).
Participants will be in residence for the duration of the lab and offered exceptional facilities at EMPAC for investigating performance and design techniques that will develop skills and inspire new ideas for working in mixed realities and interlinked physical/virtual or distributed aesthetics. The workshop will include examples and references to international stage works, choreographic systems, installations and site-specific works, as well as hands-on experimentation in full resolution with interactive systems.
Methodologies for the laboratory are conceived by theatre director and media artist Johannes Birringer, founder of the annual Interaktionslabor and professor of performance technologies at Brunel University (London), and Mark Coniglio, artistic co-director of Troika Ranch and creator of the Isadora software. Both artists are widely recognized for their pioneering work in the international performance and media network. Interaktionslabor was last offered on tour in Belo Horizonte, Brasil (2008), and Birringer’s and Coniglio’s work has been featured in numerous festivals and exhibitions around the world.
The activities of the lab are open to visitors, and information about the proceedings and the research process can be found on the EMPAC website: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/.
Résumé and informal letter of application are due by June 30, 2010.
For more information, please contact Hélène Lesterlin, Curator, Dance - lesteh@rpi.edu or 518.276.3918.
Skill requirements: Intermediate/advanced experience in performing with audio/visual technologies and/or programming. Previous experience with Isadora or Max/MSP recommended. This workshop is geared for those already working with technology but wishing to improve their skills and get new perspectives.
WHAT TO BRING: It is recommended that participants bring rehearsal clothing and their own laptop and other tools (camera, recorder, etc.). Digital equipment will also be available.
WORKSHOP FEE: $500
HOUSING: Participants in the workshop will be able to choose from several shared or single on-campus housing options, or may organize their own housing while in Troy.
SCHEDULE: The lab is intensive and will run from 10 AM - 10 PM daily. Registration will be held Monday morning, August 16, and work that day will start at noon. Participants will wrap up their work Sunday morning, August 22, and depart Sunday afternoon.
TRAVEL TO EMPAC: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/visit/
BIOS
Johannes Birringer
Johannes Birringer is an independent choreographer and media artist. As artistic director of AlienNation Co. (www.aliennationcompany.com), he has created numerous dance-theatre works, videos, digital media installations and site-specific performances in collaboration with artists in Europe, the Americas, China, Japan and Australia. He has taught at several universities in the US, including Yale University, Rice University, and Northwestern University, and in 2000 he created the new Dance & Technology MFA at Ohio State University. His books include Theatre Theory Postmodernism (1989), Media and Performance (1998), Performance on the Edge (2000), and Performance, Technology, and Science (2008). In 2005 he co-edited a book on dance and neuroscience (Tanz im Kopf/Dance and Cognition). As co-founder of ADaPT (Association for Dance and Performance Telematics), he developed a number of online performances in the early years of this century; his contributions to online collaborative networks were recognized by ars electronica in 2005. He has won numerous awards and commissions, and taught workshops in performance technologies and composition in many parts of the world. In 2003 he founded the international Interaktionslabor Göttelborn in a former coalmine in Germany, initiating long-term research into interactive systems and real time theatrical processes. In 2006 he was appointed professor of performance technologies at Brunel University in London, where he directs the Design and Performance Lab (www.brunel.ac.uk/dap). Recent production include the digital oratorio Corpo, Carne e Espírito, premiered in Brasil at FIT Theatre Festival (2008), and Suna no Onna (2007-08), an interactive dance work created with his London-based lab featuring wearable designs by fashion designer Michèle Danjoux. His new mixed reality installation UKIYO will go on European tour in June 2010.
Mark Coniglio
Recognized as a pioneering force in the integration of dance and media, composer/media artist Mark Coniglio creates large-scale performance works that integrate music, dance, theater and interactive media. With choreographer Dawn Stoppiello he is co-founder of Troika Ranch (http://www.troikaranch.org), a dance theater company committed to creating hybrid, media intensive performances. As Troika Ranch, they have been honored with a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award, an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica, and the "Eddy" award from Live Design magazine.
From the start, Coniglio's artistic practice has included the creation of custom interactive systems that allow performers to manipulate video, sound, and light in real-time. His first technological breakthrough came in 1989 when he created MidiDancer, a wireless system that allowed a performer to interactively control music. His passion for giving control to the performer led him to create the award-winning software Isadora®, a flexible graphic programming environment that provides interactive control over digital media. Isadora is now the tool of choice for hundreds of artist's worldwide including such notables as The Wooster Group, Morton Subotnick, Bebe Miller and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A native of Nebraska, he received his BFA degree in music composition in 1989 from California Institute of the Arts where he studied with electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick. From 1990-94, he taught courses in interactive music at CalArts and was an integral member of the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology. Coniglio is the recipient of two consecutive ARM Fellowships from Dance Theater Workshop (2004/05) and was facilitator for that program in 2006. His writings about new media in performance have appeared in numerous books and journals, including "New Visions In Performance", "La Scena Digitale: Nuovi Media Per La Danza" and Movement Research Journal. He relocated from New York to Berlin, Germany in 2008.
About EMPAC
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.”
Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.
EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivalled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation’s oldest technological university. The school offers degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the social sciences and humanities. For over thirty years, the Institute has been a leader in interdisciplinary creative research, especially in the electronic arts. In addition to its MFA and Ph.D. programs in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer offers Bachelor degrees in Electronic Arts, and in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication - one of the first undergraduate programs of its kind in the United States. The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies and EMPAC are two major research platforms that Rensselaer has established at the beginning of the 21st century.
EMPAC
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA
www.empac.rpi.edu
LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB Workshop
August 16 - 22, 2010
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/summer/workshop/
Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio
Résumé and informal letter of application due June 30, 2010
EMPAC announces its first summer lab for interactive media in performance, to be held August 16-22, 2010 at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation.
The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners, scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing a deeper understanding of composing work focused on real time, interactive or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes (video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography and directing).
Participants will be in residence for the duration of the lab and offered exceptional facilities at EMPAC for investigating performance and design techniques that will develop skills and inspire new ideas for working in mixed realities and interlinked physical/virtual or distributed aesthetics. The workshop will include examples and references to international stage works, choreographic systems, installations and site-specific works, as well as hands-on experimentation in full resolution with interactive systems.
Methodologies for the laboratory are conceived by theatre director and media artist Johannes Birringer, founder of the annual Interaktionslabor and professor of performance technologies at Brunel University (London), and Mark Coniglio, artistic co-director of Troika Ranch and creator of the Isadora software. Both artists are widely recognized for their pioneering work in the international performance and media network. Interaktionslabor was last offered on tour in Belo Horizonte, Brasil (2008), and Birringer’s and Coniglio’s work has been featured in numerous festivals and exhibitions around the world.
The activities of the lab are open to visitors, and information about the proceedings and the research process can be found on the EMPAC website: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/.
Résumé and informal letter of application are due by June 30, 2010.
For more information, please contact Hélène Lesterlin, Curator, Dance - lesteh@rpi.edu or 518.276.3918.
Skill requirements: Intermediate/advanced experience in performing with audio/visual technologies and/or programming. Previous experience with Isadora or Max/MSP recommended. This workshop is geared for those already working with technology but wishing to improve their skills and get new perspectives.
WHAT TO BRING: It is recommended that participants bring rehearsal clothing and their own laptop and other tools (camera, recorder, etc.). Digital equipment will also be available.
WORKSHOP FEE: $500
HOUSING: Participants in the workshop will be able to choose from several shared or single on-campus housing options, or may organize their own housing while in Troy.
SCHEDULE: The lab is intensive and will run from 10 AM - 10 PM daily. Registration will be held Monday morning, August 16, and work that day will start at noon. Participants will wrap up their work Sunday morning, August 22, and depart Sunday afternoon.
TRAVEL TO EMPAC: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/visit/
BIOS
Johannes Birringer
Johannes Birringer is an independent choreographer and media artist. As artistic director of AlienNation Co. (www.aliennationcompany.com), he has created numerous dance-theatre works, videos, digital media installations and site-specific performances in collaboration with artists in Europe, the Americas, China, Japan and Australia. He has taught at several universities in the US, including Yale University, Rice University, and Northwestern University, and in 2000 he created the new Dance & Technology MFA at Ohio State University. His books include Theatre Theory Postmodernism (1989), Media and Performance (1998), Performance on the Edge (2000), and Performance, Technology, and Science (2008). In 2005 he co-edited a book on dance and neuroscience (Tanz im Kopf/Dance and Cognition). As co-founder of ADaPT (Association for Dance and Performance Telematics), he developed a number of online performances in the early years of this century; his contributions to online collaborative networks were recognized by ars electronica in 2005. He has won numerous awards and commissions, and taught workshops in performance technologies and composition in many parts of the world. In 2003 he founded the international Interaktionslabor Göttelborn in a former coalmine in Germany, initiating long-term research into interactive systems and real time theatrical processes. In 2006 he was appointed professor of performance technologies at Brunel University in London, where he directs the Design and Performance Lab (www.brunel.ac.uk/dap). Recent production include the digital oratorio Corpo, Carne e Espírito, premiered in Brasil at FIT Theatre Festival (2008), and Suna no Onna (2007-08), an interactive dance work created with his London-based lab featuring wearable designs by fashion designer Michèle Danjoux. His new mixed reality installation UKIYO will go on European tour in June 2010.
Mark Coniglio
Recognized as a pioneering force in the integration of dance and media, composer/media artist Mark Coniglio creates large-scale performance works that integrate music, dance, theater and interactive media. With choreographer Dawn Stoppiello he is co-founder of Troika Ranch (http://www.troikaranch.org), a dance theater company committed to creating hybrid, media intensive performances. As Troika Ranch, they have been honored with a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award, an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica, and the "Eddy" award from Live Design magazine.
From the start, Coniglio's artistic practice has included the creation of custom interactive systems that allow performers to manipulate video, sound, and light in real-time. His first technological breakthrough came in 1989 when he created MidiDancer, a wireless system that allowed a performer to interactively control music. His passion for giving control to the performer led him to create the award-winning software Isadora®, a flexible graphic programming environment that provides interactive control over digital media. Isadora is now the tool of choice for hundreds of artist's worldwide including such notables as The Wooster Group, Morton Subotnick, Bebe Miller and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A native of Nebraska, he received his BFA degree in music composition in 1989 from California Institute of the Arts where he studied with electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick. From 1990-94, he taught courses in interactive music at CalArts and was an integral member of the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology. Coniglio is the recipient of two consecutive ARM Fellowships from Dance Theater Workshop (2004/05) and was facilitator for that program in 2006. His writings about new media in performance have appeared in numerous books and journals, including "New Visions In Performance", "La Scena Digitale: Nuovi Media Per La Danza" and Movement Research Journal. He relocated from New York to Berlin, Germany in 2008.
About EMPAC
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.”
Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.
EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivalled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation’s oldest technological university. The school offers degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the social sciences and humanities. For over thirty years, the Institute has been a leader in interdisciplinary creative research, especially in the electronic arts. In addition to its MFA and Ph.D. programs in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer offers Bachelor degrees in Electronic Arts, and in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication - one of the first undergraduate programs of its kind in the United States. The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies and EMPAC are two major research platforms that Rensselaer has established at the beginning of the 21st century.
EMPAC
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921
