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EMPAC founder leaving after 20 years

Johannes Goebel, hired as a consultant 2001, became the RPI facility's director in 2002, six years before it opened as an arts incubator, research space and campus venue. Johannes Goebel, a champion of computer music in Germany who was hired at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2001 as a consultant on what was described as the world's first university-based center for technology and the arts before being named its founding director the following year, is retiring in November.

NYT CRITICS PICK: ‘The African Desperate’ Review: Double Speak

Martine Syms’s whip-smart satire brings the invisible, everyday negotiations of a Black artist to startlingly visual life Martine Syms’s debut feature derives its title from a Freudian slip. In the opening scene, as Palace (Diamond Stingily), a sculptor at an upstate New York art school, describes her thesis project to an all-white faculty panel, she mispronounces “African diaspora” as “African desperate.”

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger hosts a work-in-progress presentation of a new multi-channel moving image installation, followed by a conversation with curators Paulina Ascencio Fuentes and Gee Wesley discussing the production and themes of the work.

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