EMPAC HOSTS SLOW WAVE, A THREE-DAY FESTIVAL ON THE ART
AND SCIENCE OF SLEEP
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SCHEDULE FOR EXHIBITION
Friday September 25: 5 to 7 pm
Saturday September 26: noon to midnight
Sunday September 27: 11 am to 2 pm
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday September 25, 2009
5 – 7 pm: Opening for the exhibition
Saturday, September 26 2009
6 pm – midnight: Lullabies from all around all around you
Concert Hall
Sit in the concert hall and listen to lullabies from all over the world played simultaneously from many directions.
6:30 pm: Portraying the Body in Sleep
Mezzanine
A workshop on reading polysomnograms, the primary means used by sleep labs to depict the changes that take place in the body during sleep.
8 pm + 9 pm: Alvin Lucier’s Music for Solo Performer
Concert Hall
Lucier’s piece uses the brain waves of a seated, still performer to create spatial percussion music of resonances, rattles, and crashes. A rarely produced, radical composition from the 1960s with special guest performers from the Rensselaer community.
10 pm: Waking Life (Directed by Richard Linklater, 2001)
Theater
Taking its title from George Santayana’s statement that, “Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled,” Waking Life follows a young man through a series of philosophical conversations that take place while he is caught in a lucid dream.
10:30 pm: Sleepover under Warhol’s Sleep (1963)
Studio 2
Bring a sleeping bag and pillow and sleepover in Studio 2 under a projection of Warhol’s marathon five-and-a-half hour film, Sleep. Prior to the sleepover, a selection of teas for sleeping will be served. Space is limited; please reserve your ticket in advance.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
9 am: Coffee and tour of the exhibition, followed by brunch and discussion (for participants of the sleepover)
Evelyn’s Cafe
List of Works in the Exhibition
Jennifer Hall, Epileptiforms: 5 Rem, 1999
Consciousness as a Property of Matter Series
Rapid Prototyping Polymer Resin
Sterling Silver 12’x12’x’1.5″
Permanent Collection Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park
J. Allan Hobson, Hidden Landscapes, The Time-Lapse Sleep Photography of Ted Spagna, 2009
DVD
Courtesy of the artist
Pierre Huyghe, Sleeptalking 1998
Video projection, 16mm transferred on video (3 min.) sound recording (60 min.)
Courtesy of Marianne Goodman Gallery
Rodney Graham, Halcion Sleep, 1994
Single channel video with sound
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns, Sleep Waking, 2008
Wood, aluminum, electronics, servo motors, Plexiglas
2’x2’x7′
Courtesy of the artist
Ana Rewakowicz, A Modern-day Nomad Who Moves as She Pleases, 2005
Inflatable object (vinyl, nylon, mattress, blower) and video projection (speakers, video loop)
152 cm (diameter), 457 cm (length)
24 minutes 15 seconds
Courtesy of the artist
Andy Warhol, Sleep, 1963
16mm film transferred to digital files (DVD)
Black and white, silent, 5 hours 21 minutes at 16 frames per second
Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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.
EMPAC
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
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