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Valentine's, Albany NY
January 19, 2008 7:00 PM

presented by The Metroland

Caren Canier: Juxtapositions
Mark Potter Gallery, The Taft School, Watertown, CT
January 25, 2008 5:00 PM

January 25 through March 5, 2008 at the Mark Potter Gallery in Watertown, CT.

Fresh Picked
Arts Center of the Capital Region
January 25, 2008 5:00 PM

Recent graduates of three regional master's programs: RPI, The College of Saint Rose, and SUNY Albany.

Troy Night Out Window Installation
Revolution Hall, Troy NY
January 25, 2008 5:30 PM

Kicking off the Official Unofficial Troy Night Out Afterparty

Jefferson Pitcher: MFA Thesis Show
West Hall Gallery, Room 111, RPI Campus
January 30, 2008 7:00 PM

Opening Reception 7-10PM.

Brian Holmes, new media theorist
West Hall Auditorium, RPI Campus
February 6, 2008 7:30 PM

New media theorist Brian Holmes kicks off the series "Art & Islam: Electronic Representations and Local Communities".

How Did I Get Here
Yates Gallery, Siena College
February 13, 2008 4:00 PM

An exhibition of work by Ken Ragsdale

Bruce Odland
West Hall Gallery, Room 111, RPI Campus
February 13, 2008 7:30 PM

Join us for the public presentation of a new sound work created during the artist's 2007 iEAR residency sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts.

The Great Snowball Tour at UAG
Upstate Artists Guild
February 16, 2008 7:30 PM

Presented by the Albany Sonic Arts Collective

Screening: "A Love During the War"
The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 Sixth Ave., Troy, NY
February 22, 2008 7:00 PM

Cameroonian director Osvalde Lewat-Hallade will introduce her film "A Love During the War".

Pink Bloque Revisited
February 24, 2008 2:00 PM

at PS1 MOMA

C. Ryder Cooley: MFA Thesis Installation
West Hall Gallery, Room 111, RPI Campus
February 25, 2008 10:00 AM

Gallery exhibition February 25 through March 2, 2008.

Jim Finn: MFA Thesis Presentation
First United Presbyterian Church, 1913 5th Ave., Troy, NY
February 27, 2008 7:00 PM

Screening of MFA thesis film "The Juche Idea" (62 min, 2008).

C. Ryder Cooley: MFA Thesis Performance
Darrin Communications Center, Room 174, RPI Campus
March 2, 2008 5:00 PM

A multi-media inter-species fairytale inspired by the performative behavior of animals and insects.


Soyo Lee: MFA Thesis Show
Bruggeman Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, RPI Campus, Troy, NY
March 3, 2008 6:00 PM

MFA Thesis Presentation.  Opening reception March 3, 2008 at 6:00PM.  Presentation at 6:30PM.

March Fourth to the Subliminal State
March 4, 2008 7:30 PM

The Society for a Subliminal State's first annual members party.

Wafaa Bilal, video artist
West Hall Auditorium, RPI Campus
March 5, 2008 7:00 PM

Iraqi Artist Becomes Virtual Jihadi in RPI visit


Arts On The Edge
Saratoga Arts Center
March 15, 2008 6:00 PM

If you haven’t already, please consider attending the Saratoga County Arts Council’s Arts on the Edge event on Saturday, March 15th from 6-9pm at the Arts Center, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Sp

Harvestworks Interactive Music Workshop at RPI
West Hall, Room 118
March 26, 2008 4:00 PM

The Artist's Guide to Useful Technology is a two-year project of workshops, symposia, consultations, tutorials and problem-solving forums taught by the Harvestworks staff at art and music centers around New York State.

J. Craig Tompkins in Thumbnail/Scale Model
Fulton Street Gallery
March 26, 2008 5:00 PM

a benefit auction with Capital Region artists

Dafna Naphtali
Darrin Communications Center, Room 174, RPI Campus
March 26, 2008 7:30 PM

Join us for the public presentation of a new sound work created during the artist's 2007 iEAR residency sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts.


Ethan Bach: MFA Thesis Show
51 Third Street, Troy, NY 12180
March 28, 2008 5:30 PM

Art Show and Screening - Reclaiming the Pieces. Exhibit runs March 28 (one day only. Screening Times 5:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm; Reception 6pm.

Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
University Art Museum, SUNY-Albany
April 1, 2008 7:00 PM

An Art and Culture Talk Program

Leonard Retel Helmrich
West Hall Auditorium, RPI Campus
April 2, 2008 7:30 PM

Screening of film "Eye of the Day" and short presentation on the Single Shot Cinema method.

Steve Kurtz presents "Strange Culture", a documentary by Lynn Hershman
Christ Church, 35 State St., Troy
April 4, 2008 7:00 PM

Part of the Sanctuary-in-Exile Art, Freedom, Democracy Series at Christ Church

"Single-Shot Cinema" Workshop for Local Producers
The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 Sixth Ave., Troy, NY
April 6, 2008 1:00 PM

Leonard Retel Helmrich has given workshops to lecture his "single-shot cinema" theory all over the world, a method to carefully compare film history with the history of other forms of art, like painting, sculpture, a


Music of Weather Report
University at Albany Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall
April 6, 2008 3:00 PM

Presented by Alum Bob Gluck (MFA, 2001)

BIOART Mixer Event!!
Center for Biotechnology, 2nd Floor
April 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Music + Food + Drink

Mamadou Diabate Ensemble
AME Zion Church, 103rd St. and 5th Ave.
April 11, 2008 8:00 PM

The Mamadou Diabate Ensemble performs live.

African Film Festival
AME Zion Church, 103rd St. and 5th Ave.
April 15, 2008 7:00 PM

The 12th annual traveling show of the New York African Film Festival winds it way to Troy, NY.

African Film Festival
AME Zion Church, 103rd St. and 5th Ave.
April 16, 2008 7:00 PM

The 12th annual traveling show of the New York African Film Festival winds it way to Troy, NY.

EMAC Junior-Senior Show
Arts Center of the Capital Region
April 18, 2008 5:00 PM

Selected works by RPI undergraduates in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication

Hasnul Saidon
West Hall Auditorium, RPI Campus
April 23, 2008 7:30 PM

Event cancelled.

Avian Embryo Development: Micromanipulation, Teratology and Morphological
BW01 Basement of the Jrow Science Center
April 24, 2008 2:00 PM

BioArt presentation by Adam Zaretsky and Kathy High.

Troy Night Out
Troy, NY
April 25, 2008 5:00 PM

Celebrate Troy Night Out! Last Friday of every month.

"Stereo-Lucidity" exhibit by Shawn Lawson opens Fri April 25
205 River Street, Troy, NY
April 25, 2008 5:00 PM

Shawn Lawson presents the (De)Construction series as a solo exhibition Stereo-Lucidity at Dusk Gallery in Troy, NY.

Year-long MASS MoCA exhibit features RPI MFA grad work
MASS Moca, North Adams, MA (413) 662-2111
April 30, 2008 11:00 AM

MFA grad student Todd Chandler part of year-long group exhibit at MASS MoCA.


Screening: "Still We Ride"
Upstate Artist Guild
May 2, 2008 9:00 PM

Documentary (37 minutes) co-produced, directed and edited by Andrew Lynn (MFA grad).

Department of the Arts, MFA Show
West Hall, RPI Campus
May 4, 2008 5:00 PM

MFA work investigates the relationship between past and present, imagination and despair, creating particular electronic pathways for future movements.


Screening: Touring Video Artists from Philadelphia
51 Third Street, Troy, NY 12180
May 14, 2008 7:00 PM

Experimental films and videos and music videos from Philadelphia.


Albany Sonic Arts Collective presents YEAH! SWEET! YUMMY!
Upstate Artist Guild, 247 Lark Street, Albany NY
May 17, 2008 7:30 PM

The Upstate Artist Guild event features Ph.D candidate Mike Bullock.


THE FREE TRANSLATORS
51 3rd Street, Troy, NY 12180
May 21, 2008 7:00 PM

Video screening plus special performance by Miss Reading and Miss Recognition


Plugged In
Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY
May 25, 2008 9:00 PM

Inaugural "PLUGGED IN" electronic arts festival on view through the end of the month.


Spectres of Liberty
Liberty Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, Troy, NY
May 30, 2008 8:30 PM

A collaborative project by Olivia Robinson, Josh MacPhee, and Dara Greenwald


Sacred Harp All Day Singing Event
Old Songs Center, Voorheesville, NY
June 7, 2008 10:00 AM

Jesse P. Karlsberg (MFA 2006) invites one and all to a large Sacred Harp All Day Singing


Annmarie Lanesey & Penny Lane's SITTIN' ON A MILLION - local film premiere
The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 Sixth Ave., Troy, NY
June 14, 2008 7:00 PM

MFA alum Penny Lane, and Co-Director/Co-Producer Annmarie Lanesey, announce local premiere of Mame Faye film.


re: Soundings presents The Downtown Ensemble Pro/JECT
The Brick Elephant, Valley Falls, NY
June 15, 2008 3:00 PM

A concert of works by Harley Gaber, Tom Hamilton, and Karl Korte


Waste to Work: Everyman's Source - Daniela Kostova (MFA 2005) & Olivia Robinson (MFA 2004)
Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, 15 Nott Terrace Heights, Schenectady, NY 12308
June 28, 2008 2:00 PM

Come see this presentation by Olivia Robinson and Daniela Kostova entitled Waste to Work, which transforms our everyday sweat into powerful energy that promises to surprise and illuminate you!


Sittin' On A Million: The Mame Faye Story to screen at the Spectrum in Albany
Spectrum 8 Theaters in Albany, NY
July 16, 2008 7:00 PM

 

A one-night screening event, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

SWOON and Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
Riverfront Park, Troy, NY (Downtown)
August 15, 2008 8:00 PM

A fleet of seven intricately crafted boats fashioned out of scrap wood and other salvaged materials, will give it's inaugural performance before beginning its voyage down the Hudson River from Troy, NY to Deitch Studios in Long Island City, Queens.


Mike Bullock to appear at Upstate Artists Guild
Upstate Artists Guild, 247 Lark Street, Albany, NY
August 29, 2008 8:00 PM

Other artists with Mike include: Vic Rawlings (cello, electronics) - Somerville MA; Andrew Lafkas (contrabass) - Queens; and Bryan Eubanks (electronics) - Brooklyn


Stephanie Loveless performs as part of Contranym
chashama ABC Gallery, 169 Avenue C at 10th Street, NYC
September 4, 2008 4:00 PM

Exploring the complexities and dubious nature of visual expression and vocal utterance, CONTRANYM will present how language is dependent on the dualities of silence and absence, presence and matter.


Kyle deCamp
Darrin Communications Center, Room 174, RPI Campus
September 4, 2008 7:30 PM

A Create @ iEAR Residency presentation.


Urban Echo: Circle Told featuring Pauline Oliveros
Part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, Philadelphia, PA
September 6, 2008 4:00 PM

The rest of 2008 is packed full of events and performances from artists of the Deep Listening Institute.  September features a number of events on both the East & West Coasts.


Nao Bustamante performs in New Blood Exhibition
Brooklyn, NYC
September 13, 2008 7:00 PM

A group exhibition which probes the empty, vacant, and vacuous nature of a world full of things where perception and the direct experience of real-life are blurred by the dense atmosphere of media, consumption, and entertainment.


NY Art Ensemble presents Neil Rolnick's THE ECONOMIC ENGINE
The Flea Theater, 41 White St., New York City
September 14, 2008 3:00 PM

An exciting new musical and multimedia work for an octet of Chinese and Western instruments, video projections, and real time digital audio processing.

Jordan Crandall: SOMETHING is HAPPENING
West Hall Auditorium, RPI Campus
September 17, 2008 7:30 PM

Media artist and theorist Jordan Crandall will present alecture/performance for the Fall 2008 iEAR Presents! Series Out of Time.


Byeong Sam Jeon Exhibit at ArtBots 2008
Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
September 19, 2008 12:00 PM

An international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots, September 19th to 21st, 2008


ANIMALIA - a performance by C. Ryder Cooley
Proctors Mainstage, Downtown Schenectady, NY
September 19, 2008 8:00 PM

A multi-media inter-species fairytale combining video, sound, live music and aerial movement.  Exhibit 5-7:45pm.


Signs of Social Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street in NYC
September 20, 2008 7:00 PM

Chronicling 50 years of the cultural productions of social movements, Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee have curated over 600 posters, prints, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and other ephemera from over 30 countries.


Bob Gluck (MFA 2001) Trio to Perform at Opalka Gallery
The Sage Colleges, Opalka Gallery
September 21, 2008 3:00 PM

Bob Gluck Trio explores music of the Herbie Hancock Mwandishi Band


David Rokeby
West Hall Gallery, Room 111, RPI Campus
September 24, 2008 5:00 PM

Part of the Fall 2008 iEAR Presents! Series Out of Time, Rokeby's video installtion "Machine for Taking Time" will be on exhibit September 24-October 17, 2008.

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 Sixth Ave., Troy, NY
October 22, 2008 4:00 PM

Human Rights Watch's International Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme.


Holland Hopson to appear at Upstate Artists Guild Oct 25th
Upstate Artists Guild, 247 Lark Street, Albany, NY
October 25, 2008 7:30 PM

Other performing artists include Aaron Phillip Tate and Twilight of the Century.


Caren Canier featured in Multiple Exhibits
Various
November 1, 2008 1:00 PM

Planned shows include The Martinez Gallery, Salena Gallery and the George Marshall Store Gallery


Neil Rolnick performs at Roulette
20 Greene Street
November 1, 2008 8:30 PM

Show will include some solo laptop pieces, pieces for violin and piano separately with computer, and together acoustically, and a trio for flute, harp and percussion


Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
EMPAC, RPI Campus
November 6, 2008 7:30 PM

Digital media theorist, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, will present a guest lecture for the Fall 2008 iEAR Presents! Series Out of Time.  Co-sponsored by EMPAC.


Charles Veasey MFA Thesis Presentation
EMPAC, RPI Campus
November 17, 2008 8:00 PM

Electroacoustic Concert premiered in three dimensional surround sound technology


Rensselaer Contemporary Music Ensemble
EMPAC, Studio 2
November 19, 2008 7:30 PM

New Music Performance featuring works by Frederic Rzewski and Pauline Oliveros.  Part of the Fall 2008 iEAR Presents! Series Out of Time.


Pleiades Featuring Tintinabulate - A Mixed Reality Event
Studio One, EMPAC, RPI Campus, Troy, NY
November 20, 2008 3:00 PM

The real world of the Tintinnabulate improvisation ensemble and the virtual world of Avatar Orchestra Metaverse in Second Life meet in EMPAC


PhD Candidate Jonathan Chen Exhibits in NYC
Monkeytown, 58 N 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
December 6, 2008 8:30 PM

Catch his newest installation Platform at Monkeytown in Brooklyn - Part of the Continuity exhibit


Department of the Arts, MFA Show
West Hall, RPI Campus
December 7, 2008 5:00 PM

A public exhibition of both works-in-progress and finished pieces.  Installations and gallery viewing 5-9pm.  Auditorium show and live performances begin 7pm.


Byeong Sam Jeon's Telematic Drum Circle at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008
Singapore
December 13, 2008 8:30 AM

Telematic Drum Circle project at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008 in Singapore December 11 - 13, 2008.

Transitland: Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989 - 2009

Boryana Rossa (Ph.D. candidate) and Oleg Mavromatti's work included in selection of 100 video works.

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