Three days of installations, films, music, presentation and discussion that investigate the devices and forms through which we seek to decode the enigma of sleep. The works on display employ both poetic and empirical channels and range from Andy Warhol’s five-hour film Sleep to the historic polysomnograms that first captured REM sleep to Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burn’s Sleep Waking, in which a customized robot moves in response to the sleeping artists’ brainwaves.

Snag your spot to sleep over in EMPAC under Andy Warhol's Sleep on Saturday night! Space is limited; please email John Cook, EMPAC Box Office Manager [cookj4@rpi.edu], to reserve your ticket.

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The genre-crossing Danish artist mounts a whimsical yet searching investigation of the everyday, incorporating video, posters, and ordinary people from the Troy and Rensselaer communities.

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Four dance films commissioned by EMPAC and premiered at EMPAC's opening festival. Fusing dance with the moving image, these works span a wide geographic, visual and emotional range.

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On the anniversary of his performance as soloist in EMPAC's Opening Concert, pianist and ambassador of classical music Per Tengstrand presents a concert tracking the evolution of the piano during the life of Beethoven.

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A portrait of human relationships and adaptability set in the Russian nickel mining town of Monchegorsk.

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