In Production

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Welcome to In Production, conversations on the research and development of time-based artworks. Hosted by EMPAC’s engineering and curatorial staff, we talk to artists, technicians, curators, scholars, and makers associated with the production of new work here at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Through interdisciplinary exchange, this podcast series contributes insight into the creative and technical act of producing artistic works by those who work backstage and behind the camera.

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In Production: Curatorial Roundtable Spring 2025

Music Curator Amadeus Julian Regucera hosts a roundtable discussion with Associate Time-based Visual Arts Curator Katherine Adams and Dance & Theater Curator-in-Residence Tara Willis to preview the Spring 2025 season as well as talk about curatorial approaches and styles. Projects include the Ephemeral Organ festival featuring Lesie Cuyjet and others, Ontopoiesis with Rama Gottfried & Yarn/Wire, Ghost Images with Korakrit Arunanondchai, and MY TOWN with Jack Ferver.

Jan 08, 2025•34 min•Ep. 5

In Production: Curatorial Roundtable Fall 2024

Music Curator Amadeus Julian Regucera hosts a roundtable discussion with Associate Time-based Visual Arts Curator Katherine Adams and Dance & Theater Curator-in-Residence Tara Willis to preview the Fall 2024 season as well as talk about curatorial approaches and styles. Season Image: Marina Rosenfeld, μ (mu), film still, 2024. Courtesy the artist....

Aug 09, 2024•57 min•Ep. 4

Clarissa Tossin: Before the Volcanoes Sing

Released on the occasion of the film’s inclusion in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, this episode of On Production looks back at the creation of artist Clarissa Tossin’s Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los Volcanes Canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing at EMPAC, which took place over the course of a three-year period. EMPAC’s Video Engineer Ryan Jenkins talks with artist Clarissa Tossin and her Director of Photography Jeremy Glaholt about the process of producing the project. They discuss ...

Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 3

Bailey Sciezka w/ Bard CCS curators, Conspiracy Influencer

In the second episode of In Production, EMPAC video engineer Ryan Jenkins talks with Bailey Scieszka and curators Isabella Achenbach, Eduardo Andres Alfonso, Angelica Arbelaez, Min Sun Jeon, and Guy Weltchek about producing their large-scale multimedia theatrical project Conspiracy Influencer at EMPAC. Bailey Scieszka’s Conspiracy Influencer is a four-part theatrical extravaganza that premiered live at EMPAC on May 13, 2022 and will premiere online May 26th at 7PM. This newly-commissioned perfor...

May 24, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 2

Welcome to In Production

Welcome to In Production, conversations on the research and development of time-based artworks. Hosted by EMPAC’s engineering and curatorial staff, we talk to artists, technicians, curators, scholars, and makers associated with the production of new work here at the Curtis R Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Through interdisciplinary exchange, this podcast series contributes insight into the creative and techn...

Dec 03, 2020•38 sec

Annie Saunders & Wild Up in conversation with Ashley Ferro-Murray on their new work, Rest

In this first episode of In Production, EMPAC curator Ashley Ferro-Murray talks with theater maker Annie Saunders, conductor and composer Christopher Rountree, and their collaborators about the making of their EMPAC commissioned work, Rest . This look behind the scenes of the project features source material from research interviews and original music by composer Emma O’Halloran. Rest interrogates sensory overwhelm, sensory deprivation, hallucinations, and the nature of consciousness. The audien...

Dec 03, 2020•42 min•Ep. 1

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