Metropolis + THE CHUPPERS

Programs with UNM ARTS Lab

TALKS & EVENTS

for Artificial Selection exhibition

Metropolis + THE CHUPPERS


Friday, April 30, 8pm

at UNM ARTS Lab, 131 Pine Street NE, Albuquerque

505-277-2253, artslab.unm.edu

Admission: $8 / $5 UNM faculty, students & 516 members


516 ARTS & UNM ARTS Lab present
a unique evening of film, music and
hybrid technologies, with a screening
of Fritz Lang’s classic film Metropolis
(1927) accompanied by live sound
performance by Electric Ensemble/
THE CHUPPERS. The group, facilitated
by Manny Rettinger, creates musical
instruments called “chuppers” which
combine old and new technology,
including audio processors, speakers,
computers, microphones, cameras,
traditional and non-traditional instruments,
projectors and more. Rettinger
says, “Standing on the shoulders of
giants, we boldly go where others have gone before.” Electric Ensemble is a
collaboration between the UNM Music Dept., UBIK Sound and IFDM ARTS Lab.
Metropolis portrays a futuristic urban dystopia including robots and science
gone wrong in an ominous look at the future from the past.

516 ARTS

Panel Discussion: ROBOTOCS + ART

Saturday, May 1, 2pm at 516 ARTS

516 ARTS & UNM Arts Lab present a panel discussion
with artists and scientists to explore common graound
and cross-over between fine art, robotics, technology
and new media. At last learn the answer to the essential
question: Must robotics technology alienate us from
our humanity? This event is moderated by Andrea Polli,
Director of UNM ART Lab & UNM Interdisciplinary Film
& Digital Media Program. Panelists to be announced.


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