Required Events
Please
attend at least 3 events from the suggested list below and write a short
reaction paper for each, print, and
hand in on the first class after the event. Also post your reaction to your
drop box folder.
Guideline for writing
a critique
Andy Clark
Professor of
Logic and Metaphysics
School of
Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences Edinburgh University, Scotland
Wednesday,
February 9, 2011
12:00-1:30pm
Center
for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Auditorium FREE
http://www.rpi.edu/about/inside/issue/v5n1/clark.html
Cinematic Chimera:
Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books
Feb 10 | EMPAC Theater $5
Dance, opera, and mime are interwoven throughout Prospero’s Books,
Peter Greenaway’s pioneering and celebrated cinematic adaptation of
Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Jean-Pierre Luminet: The Harmony of the Spheres, from Antiquity to
Contemporary Music
Feb 26 | EMPAC Theater
An evening under the stars: the renowned
French astrophysicist — a specialist in black holes and cosmology and co-author
of Le Noir de l’Étoile — will speak about the
link between music and the celestial bodies beyond our horizon.
Jean-Pierre Luminet:
The Harmony of the Spheres, from Antiquity to Contemporary Music
Saturday February 26, 6:30 PM
Evelyn's Café
FREE + Open to the Public
Les Percussions de Strasbourg: Gérard Grisey: Le Noir de l’Étoile
Saturday February 26, 8:00 PM
Concert Hall
Tickets are Required » Saturday, February 26 $15
Observer
Effects: Jean-Pierre Luminet
Mar 2 | EMPAC Evelyn's Café free
An expert on black holes, cosmology, and
cosmic topology, Luminet will discuss the
relationship between principles of aesthetics and the study of the cosmos
through the work of artists, philosophers, and scientists.
Christian Graupner: MindBox
Mar 3 – Apr 2 | EMPAC Video Gallery Free
Using a modified one-armed bandit slot
machine, the viewer plays this dance video sculpture like an instrument,
controlling and remixing the grooves of its beatboxing
man.
onedotzero_adventures in motion: extended play 10
Mar 10 | EMPAC Theater
Championing filmmakers who push the boundaries
of traditional storytelling with adventurous narrative structures and distinct
visual styles, this eclectic and engrossing range of shorts demonstrates how a
powerful visual narrative can be used to create dramatic effect, and even
social change.
Graham
Parker: The Confidence Man
Mar 21 – Apr 30 | EMPAC multiple venues FREE
Parker’s new film and audio work, made while in
residence at EMPAC, explores manifestations of deception including hacked ATM
machines, rogue WIFI networks, monologues drawn from spam emails, and a tribute
to the 1973 film The Sting.
http://www.grahamparker.info/
Observer Effects: Martin Kemp: Splashing Around in Art and Science from the Renaissance to Now
Apr 6 | EMPAC Studio 2 FREE
Certain kinds of art and science find meaning
in the deeper structures behind appearance—"structural intuitions.” This
discussion will examine these expressions in art, architecture, design, and
various sciences from the Renaissance to today.
Observer
Effects: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
May 4 | EMPAC multiple venues FREE
This discussion will examine the primacy of
movement in perception and our basic understanding of aliveness—and how our
interpretation of space and time is fundamentally conditioned by our experience
of movement.
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Additionally there are upcoming
events at the
Sanctuary for Independent Media
Please carpool
together if going as it is beyond walking distance from campus.