Thursday / August 28, 2025 at 7:00 pm For TOPOS, prolific composer-visual artist Raven Chacon turns away from the gravitas of the art world and returns to one of music’s most immediate, elemental forms: the band. Though well-versed in the terrain—having played in metal and thrash groups like Tenderizor, Kilt, and White People Killed Them—Chacon now channels the raw energy and aggression of these genres into an exploratory, almost meditative excavation of American musical lineages: country, folk, and their haunted echoes.

August 28-30, 2025 Artists Leslie Cuyjet, Katherine Simóne Reynolds & A.J. McClenon, Justine A. Chambers, Steffani Jemison, and others convene for the Ephemeral Organ Festival, culminating the year-long series from curator-in-residence Tara Aisha Willis. Four exciting festival presentations explore choreography and bodily motion as technologies for transmitting memory, history, and Black lived experience. Festival

Date: 9/18/2025 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Join the RPI Hartford alumni chapter at the Funny Bone Comedy Club. The Funny Bone is hosting Don McMillan, who was featured on America’s Got Talent. His routine regularly features lots of graphs, charts, and engineering humor. McMillan graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Come enjoy an evening of fun and laughs with your fellow RPI alumni.

Date: 9/18/2025 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Join the RPI Hartford alumni chapter at the Funny Bone Comedy Club. The Funny Bone is hosting Don McMillan, who was featured on America’s Got Talent. His routine regularly features lots of graphs, charts, and engineering humor. McMillan graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Come enjoy an evening of fun and laughs with your fellow RPI alumni.

Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM - CASE based startup, FibreWerks is one of the six companies awarded a FuzeHub Manufacturing Grant! The grant, led by Dr. Alexandros Tsamis, Associate Director of CASE and Dr. Daniel Walczyk, Co-Director of the RPI New York Fashion Innovation Center and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will support design and implementation of manufacturing equipment improvements and material innovation for their first product to market, BioBar, a sustainable microbar made from hemp and a new bioplastic.

Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 12:00 AM - Sat , August 30, 2025 12:00 AM - This inaugural music festival from EMPAC brings together some of today’s most innovative artists working at the edge of sound, space, and perception. From ethereal chamber minimalism to immersive electronic ritual, TOPOS invites you to gather, listen, and imagine differently. Join us for TOPOS 2025 at EMPAC and in Troy! August 28–30. 3 FREE events. 7 NEW and rare productions. Experience everything with the all-access Festival Pass. Purchase your pass in advance at empac.rpi.edu.

Fire evacuation drills will take place in residential buildings during the first two weeks of the fall semester. These unannounced drills are required by New York State Fire Code and provide residents an opportunity to practice safe evacuation procedures.

Visiting Critic Lane Relyea will give a lecture titled "Friendship, Community and Other Neoliberal Propaganda in Recent Art and Culture". Lane Relyea is Associate Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. His essays and reviews have appeared in such magazines as Artforum, Afterall, Art in America, Flash Art, Frieze, Parkett, Modern Painters and Texte zur Kunst. Join us in the CBIS Auditorium at 5pm on Wednesday, September 10.

Join us Friday, August 29 in Sage 3510 from 4:30pm-7:30pm. The Games and Experiential Media Department will be holding a fall kick-off event to welcome new and returning majors, featuring pizza, vintage console games, party games, board games, miniature war-gaming, and a marathon of the campiest video game movies and shows of all time. All GEM and CGD students and alumni are welcome!