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Jennifer + Kevin McCoy: Index
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- Index is a commissioned public art installation at EMPAC by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute arts alumni Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, which consists of multiple sculptures filmed via small, live cameras. The resulting software based video presentation, as well as the models, appear throughout EMPAC's public spaces. Over the span of the exhibition, the artists will add sculptures at various locations in the building.
Inspired by a J.G. Ballard short story called The Index, in which an alphabetized list of people and places point to global conspiracy, the McCoys’ project examines the Ballardesque scenes of today, referencing globalization, technology, mass migrations, and war. Corporate campuses, film sets, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, and factories all collide in a globalized mediated framework that exists to support utopian goals, even as it rests upon resource depletion, financial instabilities, and entropic decay. These problems of environmental and economic collapse persist in the face of the never-changing rhetoric of the assumed benefits of the technological future.
Free and open to the public.
For hours and other details, see http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/quote/mccoy/.
Visiting Artists Series: In Line
- Description:
- VAS: In Line features the work of three artists working in fiber, drawing, painting and installation. Featured artists Sarah Baldwin, Brian DeRosia, and Kendra Skalski abstractly explore a range of topics such as the connection between body and environment, personal histories and the act of making through the use of line, pattern, texture, and scale.
VAS: In Line will offer a panel discussion with all three artists, moderated by Timothy McMurray, on Sunday, May 6, 2012, at 12:30 p.m.
For further information, visit the Foundry's website.
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[1:00pm-4:30pm] Falls View Park Arts & Music Festival
- Description:
- The fourth annual Falls View Park Arts & Music Festival is an afternoon of performances and student art at the breathtaking Falls View Park overlooking Cohoes Falls. It is sponsored this year by Brookfield Renewable Energy Group, the Cohoes City School District, and the City of Cohoes. Admission is free, and the event will be held rain or shine.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
1:00 p.m. - Opening remarks by Brookfield representative, Cohoes Mayor John T. McDonald III, and Cohoes City School District Superintendent Robert K. Libby
1:15 - 4:30 p.m. - Cohoes City School District art show
1:15 - 1:45 p.m. - Musical performances by Cohoes High School's Director's Choice select chorus
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Musical performance by Rick Rourke & Lost Wages
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Musical performance by BackBeat
For further information, visit http://www.friendsofcohoesfalls.org/news_and_events/index.cfm.
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