EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) presents Filament festival:: October 1 – 3, 2010 :: at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, USA 12180 :: 518.276.3921

Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. It highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.

Performances and installations include:

MTAA (NYC): a barn raising driven by audience participation
Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA): a 24-channel immersive sound installation
BalletLab (Australia): choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscape
Yanira Castro (NYC): a performance ecosystem where sound and dance environments envelop both audience and artists
Early Morning Opera (Los Angeles): evangelistic jumbotron diatribe on the dissolution of national borders
Volkmar Klien (Austria): a 44-channel encore of Start-Ziel-Siege
DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010 Premieres: five projects at the intersection of dance and moving image

Filament will also unveil a program of commissioned short-form performance works across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. Participating artists include: Wally Cardona; SUE-C & Laetitia Sonami; Jen DeNike; Yehuda Duenyas; Sam Hillmer; Miro Dance Theatre; MTAA; Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle

Stay up to date on all Filament news by visiting the EMPAC website: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/

About EMPAC: 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.