Required Events

Please attend at least 3 of the following events and write a short reaction paper for each, print, and hand in on the first class after the event.


Exhibitions/Performances:

REQUIRED to attend for this semester: 3 events from the following list and to write a reaction paper review. Guideline for the paper and a guide to writing a critique


UNFICTION SERIES —The Sounds of Science
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/unfiction/science/
September 17, 7:30 PM Theater a series of documentary films that turn truth into something other than fact, using poetry and imagination

Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/slowwave/
September 25 through 27 multiple venues
Over three days, visitors will have a chance to view exhibitions by Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Hall, Rodney Graham, Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns, Ana Rewakowicz, and Andy Warhol; attend a performance by Alvin Lucier, and revisit milestones in sleep science.

Mads Lynnerup "Take A Day Off!"
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/lynnerup/
Installation (Opens Thursday Oct 1 EMPAC Mezzanine 5 - 7 pm reception with artist) closes November 20
performative-installation, lo-fi, one toe in relational esthetics and certainly an unconventional approach to documentary and/or the archive.


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DANCE MOViES Commission 2007-2008
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/dmc_screening/
Saturday October 3, 7:00 PM | Theater

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Unfiction: White Sky
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/unfiction/whitesky/
Thursday October 8, 7:30 PM | Theater

Marc Bamuthi Joseph: The Break/s: a mixtape for the stage
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/breaks/
October 23 or 24  8:00 PM | Theater
traces hip-hop’s evolution from a local and highly political art movement to a worldwide cultural force.

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Workspace Unlimited: They Watch
October 30 - November 20 | Studio 1 – Goodman
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/workspace/
Opens Friday October 30, 5 -7 pm - closes Nov 20
game engines
"interactive art" that takes into account that interactivity is/can be more that a one to one correlation, but a more complex and psychological and dramaturgical sense of interactivity as well. Artificial intelligence. infrared tracking systems


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Marc Downie: FIELD Talk
Friday November 6, 7:00 PM | Studio 2
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/downie/

 

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DANCE MOViES Commission 2008-2009 Premiere
Saturday November 7, 7:30 PM | Theater

 

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Experts in panoramic art talk
Wednesday November 18, 7:00 PM | Studio 1 – Goodman
Bernd Lintermann from ZKM coming to talk about a slew of projects that they have cooked up for the panoramic screen they have there
a panel and/or show and tell with experts from the field.