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My Town

Friday / March 21, 2025 at 7:00 pm In choreographer and theater director Jack Ferver’s My Town, the small town is a portal that provides special access into questions of self-expression and collective agency. Set loosely in an area of upstate New York, My Town considers the queer experience outside urban metropoles, and the ways physical geography marks the interior terrains of the mind. EMPAC Spring 2025 Dance/Theater, Commission Jack Ferver

Retrospective

Friday / March 14, 2025 at 6:00 pm Multi-instrumentalist composer and electronic music historian Tara Rodgers produces a retrospective concert of selected works from the past 20 years, diffused in an immersive 4.1 sound system. EMPAC / Center for Deep Listening Music/Sound Tara Rodgers

Flesh/Flash

Wednesday / March 12, 2025 at 6:00 pm P. Staff shares their current work in Flesh/Flash: Scanning as Moving Image, a brief screening and open conversation at the culmination of their EMPAC residency. The artist’s research is exploring the act of scanning—as an image practice, as a mechanism of power and surveillance, and as a monitoring of bodily states. Scanning’s capacity to produce moving images without standard film techniques is tied to its ability to orchestrate the body politic—probing the insides of things, organic as well as social.

BSA Fashion Show

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 6:00 pm - This year, the RPI Black Students’ Alliance Fashion Show is presented in partnership with EMPAC Research and PULSE, the RPI student group exploring electronic dance music. In a world overflowing with fast-fashion, this show asks, How can experimental and multisensory media drive progress toward eco-futurism? Student visions merge with custom couture and bleeding-edge research to showcase our collective creativity. Presented by EMPAC Research Performance

BSA X FIC Fashion Show

Wednesday / February 26, 2025 at 6:00 pm This year, the RPI Black Students’ Alliance Fashion Show is presented in partnership with EMPAC Research, the New York Fashion Innovation Center (FIC), and PULSE, the RPI student group exploring electronic dance music. In a world overflowing with fast-fashion, this show asks, How can experimental and multisensory media drive progress toward eco-futurism? Student visions merge with custom couture and bleeding-edge research to showcase our collective creativity. Presented by EMPAC Research Performance

Being & Becoming

Friday / February 21, 2025 at 7:00 pm Soaring trumpet lines transform into haunting, guttural subtones. Resonant vibraphone ferocity hovers over basslines that throb and sear. Torrential drumming pushes toward episodes of improvisatory sonic exploration that is languid at times, boisterous and frenetic at others. EMPAC Spring 2025 Music/Sound

Lean Green Belt Certification: 2/21/25 - 2/23/25

Date: Friday, February 21, 2025 4:00 PM - Sun , February 23, 2025 6:00 PM - The Industrial & Systems Engineering Dept. and IISE student chapter, along with Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Headquarters, present a short course on Lean Green Belt at RPI (2/21 - 2/23). Taught by Dr. Asish Ghosh. Register by 2/7/2025 to receive a discounted rate. Last day to register for the course is 2/17/2025.

Rensselaer at Work Information Session Slated for Feburary 21

Friday, February 21, 2025 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Rensselaer at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph. D., will be reviewing the online, project-based graduate degrees and certificates. Expect to hear details about how RPI Instructor Mentors provide industry expertise, advice, and mentorship in a targeted and experiential learning environment. Please RSVP if you plan to attend and learn more about Rensselaer at Work.

Division of Human Resources Professional Development Workshop: "Leading from Anywhere”

Thursday, February 20, 2025 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - At Rensselaer, we maintain that “leadership” involves a learnable set of actions and behaviors that is available to everyone. In this workshop, participants will explore the tenants that comprise everyday leadership and discuss the behaviors that define leadership not as positional or based on title, but rather on values and actions.

Analytics, Machine Learning and AI Review

Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Join Rensselaer at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., on a 30-minute information session highlighting Rensselaer online, project-based graduate certificate programs in Analytics, Machine Learning & AI. Expect to learn how data can inform better decisions and review an analytic method that can be used regardless of the tools at hand. Please register if you plan to attend.

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