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Features: March 25, 2002
Johannes Goebel Named To Lead Experimental
Media and Performing Arts Center
 Rensselaer
has chosen Johannes Goebel, a respected curator and renowned
composer of electronic music, to lead the university's experimental
media and performing arts center.
"Johannes Goebel's impressive resume
mirrors exactly what we are looking for in an artistic director,"
said President Shirley Ann Jackson. "He will bring
scholarship and innovation to our program of experimental
media and performing arts. With other faculty, he will create
a center that is unprecedented as a site of new knowledge
in disciplines that range from art and architecture to physics
and information technology."
Since 1990, Goebel has established
the IMA [Germany's Institute for Music and Acoustics]
as one of the foremost production and research sites
around the world for combining experimental music with
digital technology.
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Goebel is the founding director of Germany's
Institute for Music and Acoustics (IMA) at the Zentrum für
Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. A center
for art and media, the ZKM is a forum for international
exchange that combines art with research in science, art,
politics, and finance.
He will begin his new appointment July 1.
As the artistic director for Rensselaer's
experimental media and performing arts center, Goebel will
conceive, implement, and manage the artistic programming
for the arts facility.
He will relate advanced technology to the
arts, and work with Rensselaer's artists in electronic media
and with faculty in traditional academic disciplines who
are interested in research and scholarly collaborations
with artists. Goebel also is expected to be influential
in the latter stages of the performing art center's design.
Since 1990, Goebel has established the IMA
as one of the foremost production and research sites around
the world for combining experimental music with digital
technology. Goebel is well-known at Stanford University,
where he was co-director of the university's Center for
Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in 1996. Goebel
has taught and lectured at universities around the world
on the aesthetic implications of computers in the music
domain.
Born in Wittorf, Germany, Goebel earned
what is equivalent to a master's of arts degree at the Staaliche
Hochschule für Music und Theater in Hannover. He and
his wife, a former music teacher, have four children.
Members of the Rensselaer community can
read more about the experimental media and performing arts
center at https://www.rpi.edu/AFS/campus/rpi/
rpinfo/public_html/web/President/empac/
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