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2/23/2012 - 2/23/2012
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Last Year at Marienbad
SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN
$6
Alan Resnais’ award-winning 1961 film, where narrative unfolds into uncertainty, and time and space are not always what they seem.
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2/29/2012
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Test Event
Test Event.
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3/3/2012 - 3/3/2012
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Jean-François Peyret: RE: Walden
PERFORMANCE: QUOTE UNQUOTE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
Jean-François Peyret’s melding of theater, music, live performance, and large-scale
video projection. Using voice and movement, a single performer interacts with sonic and visual elements to create a multi-layered interpretation of Thoreau’s...
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3/4/2012 - 3/4/2012
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Sand Lake Center for the Arts presents Irish Step Dancers on March 4?
Sundays at the Center present Irish Step Dancing with members of the Farrell School of Irish Dance on March 4 at 1:30pm. $5pp.
Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day just a couple of weeks early with this very special opportunity. The Sand Lake Center for the Arts is is located at 2880 NY 43, Averill Park,...
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3/5/2012 - 7/28/2012
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Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language
EXHIBITION: QUOTE UNQUOTE
FREE
Ben Rubin will transform the public interior of EMPAC into a laboratory of words and
motion, projecting glowing white text from Shakespeare’s complete dramatic works onto walls, walkways, and other surfaces.
Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM
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3/7/2012 - 3/7/2012
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Jonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour
TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS
FREE
McGill University professor Jonathan Sterne offers a history of digital media through the MP3 format and its impact on the meaning of hearing.
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3/10/2012 - 3/10/2012
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Sand Lake Center for the Arts presents Kim and Reggie Harris in concert on Mar. 10?
Sand Lake Center for the Arts presents in concert Kim and Reggie Harris on March 10 at 8pm.
Kim and Reggie Harris are dynamic and superbly talented traditional folk performers, whose captivating stage presence and
unique harmonies has earned the respect and love of audiences throughout the US, Canada...
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3/12/2012 - 3/12/2012
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onedotzero: wow + flutter 11 & wavelength 11
SCREENING
$6 each
A double feature screening that forecasts the future of moving image and serves up
radical new takes in music video.
Screenings at 7 + 8:30 PM
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3/23/2012
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Capital District Garden & Flower Show
The Capital District Garden & Flower Show is the Capital Region's only gardening exhibitionof its magnitude.
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3/31/2012 - 3/31/2012
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Talea Ensemble: Music of Fausto Romitelli
PERFORMANCE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
Talea Ensemble performs the work of Fausto Romitelli, who twisted the sound field of psychedelic rock to create his own artificial palette for composition.
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4/2/2012 - 9/29/2012
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Jennifer + Kevin McCoy: Index
EXHIBITION: QUOTE UNQUOTE
FREE
Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM
Inspired by J.G. Ballard’s short story “The Index,” sprawling sculptures filmed by live
cameras present a landscape of people and places that implies an overarching narrative of the 1960s to the present day.
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4/3/2012 - 4/3/2012
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John Zorn
PERFORMANCE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
Legendary avant-garde saxophonist John Zorn comes to EMPAC for a rare solo
performance.
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4/5/2012 - 4/5/2012
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Colin Stetson + Tyshawn Sorey
PERFORMANCE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
Two extraordinary composer/performers take their instruments into uncharted territory.
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4/6/2012 - 4/6/2012
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Kota Yamasaki | fluid hug hug: (glowing)
PERFORMANCE: QUOTE UNQUOTE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
A subtle and powerful work for six dancers that combines butoh, a Japanese dance form that embraces shadows and darkness, with traditional African dance and contemporary movement to create a scenario in which lightless vision ignites...
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4/11/2012 - 4/11/2012
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Tim McGee: Biomimicry: Bridging Biology to Design, Engineering, and Business for a Thriving Planet
TALK
FREE
Part of the Susan Sgorbati Creative Research Residency
Through examples and stories, biologist Tim McGee shares where biological wisdom is changing the way we work, think, and create, and where increasingly our technologies have more in common with 3.8 billion years of evolution.
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4/12/2012 - 4/12/2012
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SUE-C + AGF: Infinite Jest
PERFORMANCE: QUOTE UNQUOTE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
A live handmade film and electronic music event inspired late author David Foster
Wallace’s remarkable novel of the same name.
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4/12/2012 - 4/12/2012
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Zbigniew Oksiuta: A Biological Future?
TALK: DETAIL VIEW
FREE
Using biological polymers as construction material, Rensselaer Architecture professor
Zbigniew Oksiuta will present his research on creating biological living habitats and
projects developed by his students.
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4/14/2012 - 4/14/2012
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Emergent Improvisation
WORK IN PROGRESS PERFORMANCE
FREE
part of the Susan Sgorbati Creative Research Residency
Observe dancers as they address Sgorbati’s concept of the emergent process, and
witness how patterns naturally emerge through improvisation in dance and music.
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4/18/2012 - 4/18/2012
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Ryan + Trevor Oakes panel discussion: The Periphery of Perception
TALK
FREE
A conversation on optics, the nature of light, and the rendering of visual reality with writer Damien James, photographer Michael Benson, and artists Ryan and Trevor Oakes.
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4/19/2012 - 4/19/2012
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Dead Man
SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN
$6
Jim Jarmusch’s re-imagining of classic Hollywood Westerns, featuring Johnny Depp and an eerie, improvised soundtrack by Neil Young.
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4/20/2012 - 4/21/2012
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Wally Cardona + Jennifer Lacey with Jonathan Bepler: TOOL IS LOOT
PERFORMANCE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
Friday + Saturday, April 20 + 21, 2012, 8 PM
Choreographers/dancers Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey come together in this duet with their identities simultaneously undone and strengthened. They ask the question: What comes after you don’t know anymore?
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4/25/2012 - 4/25/2012
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Leslie Vosshall: Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and Not Others
TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS
FREE
Rockefeller University neuroscientist Leslie Vosshall gives an in-depth presentation on
the origins and complexities of smell and its impact on our behavior.
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4/27/2012 - 4/27/2012
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Jem Cohen
PERFORMANCE: QUOTE UNQUOTE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
This premiere of Cohen’s EMPAC-commissioned project, a documentary-based hybrid built from film footage of Nova Scotia, various texts, and live music featuring such stellar musicians as Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Todd Griffin, and Jim White...
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5/2/2012 - 5/2/2012
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Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy
TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS
FREE
A multimedia screening, performance, and lecture exploring what the senses experience in the austere environment of surgery.
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5/3/2012 - 5/3/2012
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Before Sunrise
SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN
$6
A film that tracks a conversation between two people through the streets of Vienna as they reflect on topics such as time and eternity.
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5/9/2012 - 5/9/2012
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Marco Iacoboni: Mirror Neurons and Our Capacity for Empathy
TALK
FREE
part of the Susan Sgorbati Creative Research Residency
Marco Iacoboni’s work in mirror neurons illuminates the remarkable human ability to accurately interpret the feelings and intentions of others. Taking imitation as a
fundamental form of learning and non-verbal communication, he...
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5/10/2012 - 5/10/2012
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Pauline Oliveros: Oliveros at 80
PERFORMANCE
FREE
Celebrating the 80th birthday of Pauline Oliveros, complete with a musical performance in a re-creation of the two-million-gallon Fort Worden Cistern.
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5/13/2012 - 5/13/2012
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musikFabrik
PERFORMANCE
$18 (discounted tickets available)
20th Century masterpieces juxtapose with cutting edge compositions in a performance by one of Europe’s foremost new music ensembles that is sure to push the technical limits of the performers and stretch the ears of the audience.
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