The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an international hub for art, performance, science, and technology — offering adventurous interdisciplinary public events, support for artists and scholars engaged in creative research, and the resources of a state-of-the art facility for digital media production, research, and performance situated on a college campus.
EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture that spans the physical and digital worlds. With a 1,200-seat concert hall, a 400-seat theater, two flexible black box studios, audio and video production rooms, and residency studios, EMPAC is a unique environment where digital technology and human experience can meet.
EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is pleased to announce that Laurie Anderson has been named EMPAC's inaugural distinguished artist-in-residence for a three-year term beginning in 2012. As one of America's forem[...]
May 9, 2012
EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY, USA 12180 518.276.3921 A newly commissioned drawing and exhibition of work that[...]
March 14, 2012
EMPAC is pleased to announce The Confidence Man, an exhibition of projects by New York-based artist Graham Parker. New film and audio work, made by the artist while in residence at EMPAC in spring 2010, is shown alongsid[...]
March 2, 2011
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an international hub for art, performance, science, and technology — offering adventurous inter[...]
December 17, 2010
With over 15 premieres spanning theater, 24-channel sound, contemporary dance, video, and a barn-raising; exchanges with artists, curators, and creative engineers; and a dynamic archive of the artistic process, this thre[...]
September 6, 2010
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.
May 28, 2010
From Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2, 2010, EMPAC will host the second collaboration with the London-based onedotzero_adventures in motion festival. Comprised of screenings as well as live a/v performances, intera[...]
April 12, 2010
On Thursday, March 25 and Friday, March 26 at 7 PM (with a matinee at 2 PM on Saturday, March 27), the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, Ne[...]
March 10, 2010
Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity is a group exhibition in which contemporary artists explore - and on occasion recreate - the condition of weightlessness on earth. The exhibition presents the work of multiple n[...]
March 1, 2010
The genre-crossing Lynnerup has long been interested in the everyday: His last installation was devoted to routines. But with Take A Day for Yourself!, he charts what happens when people depart from those routines—or e[...]
October 7, 2009
