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Branda Miller - Witness to the Future Wed, Jan 29, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| (suggested donation $10) Benefit to support the Nassau Union of Concerned Citizens' efforts to prevent industrial scale mining in Rensselaer County. Branda Miller presents the world premiere of "Witness to the Future," her powerful video about the transformation of "ordinary" citizens into envitonmental activists. Lois Gibbs, Executive Director and Founder of the Citizens' Clearing House for Hazardous Waste and author of "Dying from Dioxin," will introduce and speak on reclaiming our health and rebuilding democracy. A reception following the screening will bring together environmental activists from the Rensselaer campus and surrounding communities. DEC wildlife pathologists Ward Stone's photographic essay on "Snake Mountain" (focus of the current mining controversies) will be on display, along with the interactive CD-ROM version of "Witness to the Future" |
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Music Juggle Feb 5, 8PM RPI Playhouse |
| (FREE) An evening of music, sound, poetry, music theater, images and french pastries. Xavier Chabot, flutes, clarinet, electronic mime... with faculty Maureen Kinsella, Paulina Shur and SUNY's Piere Joris, and graduate students from iEAR perform works by Cage, Campion, Chabot, Kagel and Varese. |
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Ghosts in the Machine Fri & Sat, Feb 7 & 8, Heffner Alumni House (RPI) |
| (FREE) A two day, interdisciplinary conference from the 5 schools within the Humanities & Social Sciences at RPI meeet, discuss and share scholarly and artistic works centered around the humanities within technological environments. Public Welcome. |
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Yau Ching Thurs, Feb 13th, 8PM iEAR Space |
| (Free) Hong-Kong born, New York City-based Yau Ching in a discussion and showing of her film/video work, exhibitng her obsession with issues of cultural translation and differant kinds of border-crossings. |
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MFA Concert I Wed, Feb 26, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| (Free) MFA candidates present an ecclectic mix of video, computer music, performance and animation. Something for everyone, always a crowd-pleaser... |
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The Edison Black Maria Film and Video Festival Thur, Mar 6, 8PM DCC Room 308 |
| ($8, $5 Student/Faculty) Director John Columbus presents the highly regarded, non-profit festival exhibiting fresh experimental, documentary, animation and narrative works from its annual collection. |
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Ligorano/Reese Wed, Mar 19, 8PM iEAR Space |
| (FREE) Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have been working together for over 17 years. Their installations, videotapes, multiple editions, and artists books are widely shown. They will be presenting a program of videotapes and documentation from their installations. |
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Sacred Selves Fri, Mar 21, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| (FREE) Amy Goodrich presents her Master's Thesis - a video performance integrating storytelling, percussion, costumes and woodcarving. The artists utilizes the spiritual power of art, music, and nature to create fantasy identities inspired by explorations of shamanistic rituals. |
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Down to Earth from RPI Wed, Mar 26, 8PM iEAR Space & Gallery |
| (Free) Julia Scher, renowned installation artist, will present a live surveilance installation and web-site connecting the Rensselaer Campus with M.I.T. and Harvard. Extending the parameters of the idea of secured land ("securityland") and exposing circuits of control, she investigates the language and space of communities under watch. |
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GLITCH Fri, Mar 28, 8PM DCC Room 324 |
| (FREE) Lia Hunter presents her Master's Thesis - a video which confronts the problem of self-representation in a patriarchal society. The word Glitch is slang for a technological error in video signal causes the tape to lose its seamless quality. |
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Apophysesia Tue, Apr 1, 6PM iEAR Gallery |
| (FREE) Jacqueline Goss presents her Master's Thesis - an interactive installation about mutant women and making choices. |
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Fish Love That Wed, Apr 2, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| ($8, $5 students/faculty) Neil B. Rolnick's FISH
LOVE THAT at Rensselaer with music by Neil B. Rolnick, Andrew Sterman and
Steve Rust, and Video instrumentation by John J.A. Jannone (cyber-bass).
Fish Love That is an improvisational Jazz Ensemble exploring the landscape between composition and multimedia improvisation. PLUS!! A performance of Rolnick's Requiem Songs - for the victims of Nationalism with vocalists Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter |
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Holland Hopson Wed, Apr 9, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| (FREE) New and experimental music by iEAR MFA candidate Holland Hopson |
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Ethnimage Fri, Mar 21, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| (FREE) Lisa Erdman presents her Master's Thesis - a multi-media and performance based ad campaign, that rides a thin boundry between fact and fiction. Lisa attempts to sell you her product which was conceptualized out of her desire to cross over between both cultures of her own mixed ethnic identity. |
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7th Annual Medicine Wheel Animation Festival Fri, Mar 21, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| (FREE) Amy Goodrich presents her Master's Thesis - a video performance integrating storytelling, percussion, costumes and woodcarving. The artists utilizes the spiritual power of art, music, and nature to create fantasy identities inspired by explorations of shamanistic rituals. |
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George E. Lewis Wed, Apr 23, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| ($8, $5 faculty/students) Improvisor, trombonist, composer and computer artist, George Lewis will present an evening of music, featuring a new performance/multimedia work. The piece involves the realtime collaboration between trombone, Intelligent Music system (Voyager) and video laser disk projection. |
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MFA Concert II Wed, Apr 30, 8PM Chapel & Cultural Center |
| (Free) MFA candidates present an ecclectic mix of video, computer music, performance and animation. Something for everyone, always a crowd-pleaser... |
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MFA Exhibition Thur, May 1, iEAR Gallery and various venues |
| (Free) MFA candidates exhibit 2 dimensional works, installation and computer -based media projects. |