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Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
As a signature venue, unique in the world, EMPAC offers the latest digital and analog technologies to provide the infrastructure needed for artists and researchers to develop and showcase their works. Drawing strength from being part of a great research university, it will offer artists, researchers, and audiences opportunities that are available nowhere else under a single roof:
- A distinguished 1,200-seat concert hall for major lectures, premieres, and campus-wide events
- A 400-seat theater with exceptional staging and lighting capabilities
- Two "black-box" studios (3,500 square foot and 2,500 square foot) ideal for dance, multi-screen presentations and immersive research environments.
- A 1,400 square foot rehearsal studio
- Four studios for artists-in-residence
- Professional-level recording, editing, and post-production facilities, and
- Recording, editing and broadcasting facilities for WRPI.
Read more in the EMPAC Brochure (PDF).
EMPAC Theater Lobby named for Trustee Gary DiCamillo ’73 and his wife Susan
Your gift can provide opportunities for artists-in-residence and campus researchers to use and develop the latest in experimental media to turn their ideas into experiences never imagined before. Opportunities also exist to name important venues within EMPAC as recognition for gifts unrestricted endowment. A sample of such opportunities follows:
| Programs: Artist-in-Residence | $5 million |
| Programs: Sponsored Programs | $2 million |
| Programs: Commissioned Works | $2 million |
| Programs: Opening Performances | $1 million |
| 1200 Seat Concert Hall | $10 million |
| Concert Hall/Terrace Café | $750,000 |
| Lobby Main Entrance/Ticket Counter | $1.5 million |
| Lobby Main Level | $1.5 million |
| Lobby | $750,000 |
| East Plaza (Main Entrance) | $1 million |
| West Plaza (Eighth St. Entrance) | $850,000 |
| Black Box Studio 1/Visualization Video | $2.5 million |
| Black Box Studio 2/Recital Hall Recording | $2.5 million |
| Founder's Room | $1.5 million |
| WRPI | $1 million |
| Video Suite | $750,000 |
| Audio Suite | $500,000 |
| Artist's in Residence Studio 1 | $500,000 |
| Artist's in Residence Studio 2 | $500,000 |
| Artist's in Residence Studio 3 | $500,000 |
| Artist's in Residence Studio 4 | $500,000 |
| Administrative Suite | $350,000 |
| Student Rehearsal Studio | $250,000 |
| Control Room 1 | $250,000 |
| Control Room 2 | $250,000 |
| Control Room 3 | $250,000 |
| Green Room/Lounge | $200,000 |
| Conductor's Suite | $150,000 |
| Soloist's Suite 1 | $100,000 |
| Soloist's Suite 2 | $100,000 |
| Changing Room 1 | $100,000 |
| Changing Room 2 | $100,000 |
| Control Room for Theater | $100,000 |
Curtis Priem '82, Rensselaer Trustee and chair of the Experimental Media and the Arts fundraising effort, encourages your involvement and support.
Give Now Online or Contact Us to make your gift to EMPAC.