CAMLab Cave Public Opening Celebration：Oct 19 (Wed), 6-9pm
CAMLab Public Visits (Oct 19, 2022 – Dec 16, 2022)：Wed, Thu, Fri, 12pm – 6pm
To register, please visit camlabcave.com
RPM is dedicated to media arts, short-form poetic, personal, experimental film & video, essay documentary, animation, sound art, media installation and audiovisual performance. RPM celebrates cutting edge experimental media art that expands our experience and understand what the moving image and sonic art can be.
The main festival season features week-long intensive screening programs (10 to 15) and several audio-visual performances, exhibitions and workshops. Each year RPM will screen around 100 short media pieces by artists and artist groups who represent more than 32 countries.
RPM was born in 2013, held at Colgate University, in Hamilton, NY and at Experimental Intermedia, NYC. Dajuin Yao and Wenhua Shi co-curated the RPM exhibition: Sound Art China, which featured 30 Chinese sound artists, including Wang Changcun, Yan Jun, Samson Young and Xu Cheng (a member of the renowned Shanghai noise group Torturing Nurse), etc.
In February 2019, RPM relocated to Boston, and was held at U-Mass Boston and Brattle Theater in Cambridge. RPM has collaborated with other art organizations, for example,
Non-Event Boston, Washington Street Art Project, AgX film collective, Documentary Educational Resources, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, and the LEF Foundation.
Integrating humanistic inquiry with cutting-edge technology and design, Harvard FAS CAMLab explores innovative, interdisciplinary ways of showcasing art and culture through immersive installations, exhibitions, films, digital publications, and other multimedia forms. Guiding modern audiences through these immersive, imaginative spaces, we enable them to discover and access forms of knowledge that are otherwise impossible.
Event | RPM Fest 22’ Collaboration
CAMLab is honored to be co-hosting a panel of events in collaboration with the Revolutions per Minute Festival @rpmfestival this year! Look forward to a weekend of special events Oct.22-23, including an exclusive screening and much more.
The week of October 17-23, 2022 will include a selection of screenings as part of a week-long intensive hosted by UMass Boston, Brattle Theatre and Harvard FAS CAMLab respectively. CAMLab will present a host of events that will take place at the brand new CAMLab exhibition location that will open in Cambridge at the beginning of October: look forward to more further updates from us and @rpmfestival in the coming weeks.
#harvarduniversity#harvard#harvardart#harvardfas#film#chinesefilm#contemporaryfilm#calligraphy#biopic #chinesearchitecture #architecture #digitalheritage #digitalarchitecture #collaboration #experimentalfilm
Event | CAMLab Cave Public Visits
Located at the center of the Harvard campus, CAMLab Cave opens following two years of renovation. It serves as a hub of innovative forms of knowledge production, pedagogy, and sensorial media practice.
Beginning October 19th, Harvard FAS CAMLab invites our audiences to explore immersive installations that integrate historical research, digital technologies, and multisensory media art. This fall, Public Visits will feature Cave Dance, a project that harnesses the power of machine learning to recover dances depicted in the medieval Buddhist caves of Dunhuang. The visits also include immersive experiences of episodes from the Embodied Architecture project and Shadow Cave project.
CAMLab is glad to celebrate the assortment of RPM events in the third week of October by offering a special week for its cross discipline audiences interested in experimental film to visit. Guests may register for the CAMLab Public Visits Tour and join us on Oct. 22.
To register, please visit camlabcave.com
#harvarduniversity#harvard#harvardart#harvardfas#film#chinesefilm#contemporaryfilm#calligraphy#biopic #chinesearchitecture #architecture #digitalheritage #digitalarchitecture #collaboration #experimentalfilm #studiotour #arttechexhibition
Event | To the Moon Film Test Screening
The art film To the Moon will be shown on Oct. 23, as part of RPM Fest’s ongoing screening intensive. When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969, he had a spiritual companion with him. A Chinese painter named Liu Guosong (b. 1932) collaged Armstrong into his abstract moonscape. The astronaut became the painter’s lunar avatar. The painter thus vicariously landed on the moon, gazing at the mother earth on the horizon. What did he see?
Join us for an afternoon of discovery and the first ever showing of this film by registering via the link in our bio!
#harvarduniversity#harvard#harvardart#harvardfas#film#chinesefilm#contemporaryfilm#calligraphy#biopic #chinesearchitecture #architecture #digitalheritage #digitalarchitecture #collaboration #experimentalfilm #studiotour #arttechexhibition
CAMLab Set to Celebrate 2022 Revolutions per Minute Festival Alongside UMass Boston, Brattle Theatre, Cohosting Events at New CAMLab Cave Location
The Revolutions per Minute (RPM) Festival presents its new 2022 season of events with Harvard FAS CAMLab. This collaboration will showcase works of media art—including experimental film and dynamic forms of exhibition created by a global roster of artists and artist groups—intending to challenge existing definitions for what visuals, sound, and art can be.
The week of October 17–23, 2022 will include a selection of screenings as part of a week-long intensive, sequentially hosted by UMass Boston, the Brattle Theater, and Harvard FAS CAMLab. CAMLab is pleased to present several events that will take place at the brand new CAMLab space, CAMLab Cave, which will open to the public in mid-October.
CAMLab Cave
Located just outside Harvard Yard, CAMLab Cave opens following two years of renovation. It serves as a hub of innovative forms of knowledge production, pedagogy, and sensorial media practice.
Beginning October 19, Harvard FAS CAMLab invites our audiences to explore immersive installations that integrate historical research, digital technologies, and multisensory media art. This fall, CAMLab Cave’s Public Visits will feature Cave Dance, a project that harnesses the power of machine learning to recover dances depicted in the medieval Buddhist caves of Dunhuang. The visits also include immersive presentations of episodes from the Embodied Architecture and Shadow Cave projects.
CAMLab is delighted to celebrate an array of RPM events in the third week of October by offering a special week of Public Visits for our cross-disciplinary audiences interested in experimental film. Guests may register for CAMLab Cave’s Public Visits via camlabcave.com.
TO THE MOON Multi-screen Installation
A special preview of the multi-screen installation To the Moon will be shown on October 23, as part of RPM Fest’s week-long intensive.
When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969, he had a spiritual companion with him. A Chinese painter named Liu Kuo-sung (b. 1932) collaged a photograph of Armstrong within his abstract moonscape, situating the astronaut as his lunar avatar. And thus, Liu vicariously landed on the moon, gazing at mother earth on the horizon. What did he see?
Produced by Harvard FAS CAMLab, the art film To the Moon reinterprets the artistic and cognitive journey of a contemporary ink painter Liu Kuo-sung (b. 1932). Liu grew up in wartime China, lost his father on the battlefield in 1938, and spent his childhood in poverty and migration. He enrolled in a school for military orphans then relocated to Taiwan, where he became an art student. In the 1960s, Liu pioneered new methods of experimentation—and soon reinvented the medium of traditional ink painting. As he turned to painting moonscapes, Liu’s ultimate artistic dream became to fill the cold, dark cosmos with the warmth and brightness of a home. Having been deprived of household comfort since childhood, and separated from his mother for decades, he now sought universal warmth for all mankind.
RPM@CAMLAB PROGRAMMING:
| Date | Time | Events |
| October 22 (Sat) | 1pm | – Screening Program 5: Intimacies – CAMLab Public Visits |
| 3pm | – Screening Program 6: Lost Worlds – CAMLab Public Visits |
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| 5pm | – Workshop with Professor Patricia Zimmermann | |
| 7pm | – Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside/Out Asia | |
| October 23 (Sun) | 1pm | – Screening Program 7: Loomings and Hauntings |
| 3pm | – Screening Program 8: Temporal Echoes | |
| 5pm | – Screening Program 9: Seasonal Orbits | |
| 7pm | – To The Moon test screening |
CAMLab Cave Public Opening Celebration：Oct 19 (Wed), 6-9pm
CAMLab Public Visits (Oct 19, 2022 – Dec 16, 2022)：Wed, Thu, Fri, 12pm – 6pm
To register, please visit camlabcave.com
RPM is dedicated to media arts, short-form poetic, personal, experimental film & video, essay documentary, animation, sound art, media installation and audiovisual performance. RPM celebrates cutting edge experimental media art that expands our experience and understand what the moving image and sonic art can be.
The main festival season features week-long intensive screening programs (10 to 15) and several audio-visual performances, exhibitions and workshops. Each year RPM will screen around 100 short media pieces by artists and artist groups who represent more than 32 countries.
RPM was born in 2013, held at Colgate University, in Hamilton, NY and at Experimental Intermedia, NYC. Dajuin Yao and Wenhua Shi co-curated the RPM exhibition: Sound Art China, which featured 30 Chinese sound artists, including Wang Changcun, Yan Jun, Samson Young and Xu Cheng (a member of the renowned Shanghai noise group Torturing Nurse), etc.
In February 2019, RPM relocated to Boston, and was held at U-Mass Boston and Brattle Theater in Cambridge. RPM has collaborated with other art organizations, for example,
Non-Event Boston, Washington Street Art Project, AgX film collective, Documentary Educational Resources, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, and the LEF Foundation.
Integrating humanistic inquiry with cutting-edge technology and design, Harvard FAS CAMLab explores innovative, interdisciplinary ways of showcasing art and culture through immersive installations, exhibitions, films, digital publications, and other multimedia forms. Guiding modern audiences through these immersive, imaginative spaces, we enable them to discover and access forms of knowledge that are otherwise impossible.
Event | RPM Fest 22’ Collaboration
CAMLab is honored to be co-hosting a panel of events in collaboration with the Revolutions per Minute Festival @rpmfestival this year! Look forward to a weekend of special events Oct.22-23, including an exclusive screening and much more.
The week of October 17-23, 2022 will include a selection of screenings as part of a week-long intensive hosted by UMass Boston, Brattle Theatre and Harvard FAS CAMLab respectively. CAMLab will present a host of events that will take place at the brand new CAMLab exhibition location that will open in Cambridge at the beginning of October: look forward to more further updates from us and @rpmfestival in the coming weeks.
#harvarduniversity#harvard#harvardart#harvardfas#film#chinesefilm#contemporaryfilm#calligraphy#biopic #chinesearchitecture #architecture #digitalheritage #digitalarchitecture #collaboration #experimentalfilm
Event | CAMLab Cave Public Visits
Located at the center of the Harvard campus, CAMLab Cave opens following two years of renovation. It serves as a hub of innovative forms of knowledge production, pedagogy, and sensorial media practice.
Beginning October 19th, Harvard FAS CAMLab invites our audiences to explore immersive installations that integrate historical research, digital technologies, and multisensory media art. This fall, Public Visits will feature Cave Dance, a project that harnesses the power of machine learning to recover dances depicted in the medieval Buddhist caves of Dunhuang. The visits also include immersive experiences of episodes from the Embodied Architecture project and Shadow Cave project.
CAMLab is glad to celebrate the assortment of RPM events in the third week of October by offering a special week for its cross discipline audiences interested in experimental film to visit. Guests may register for the CAMLab Public Visits Tour and join us on Oct. 22.
To register, please visit camlabcave.com
#harvarduniversity#harvard#harvardart#harvardfas#film#chinesefilm#contemporaryfilm#calligraphy#biopic #chinesearchitecture #architecture #digitalheritage #digitalarchitecture #collaboration #experimentalfilm #studiotour #arttechexhibition
Event | To the Moon Film Test Screening
The art film To the Moon will be shown on Oct. 23, as part of RPM Fest’s ongoing screening intensive. When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969, he had a spiritual companion with him. A Chinese painter named Liu Guosong (b. 1932) collaged Armstrong into his abstract moonscape. The astronaut became the painter’s lunar avatar. The painter thus vicariously landed on the moon, gazing at the mother earth on the horizon. What did he see?
Join us for an afternoon of discovery and the first ever showing of this film by registering via the link in our bio!
#harvarduniversity#harvard#harvardart#harvardfas#film#chinesefilm#contemporaryfilm#calligraphy#biopic #chinesearchitecture #architecture #digitalheritage #digitalarchitecture #collaboration #experimentalfilm #studiotour #arttechexhibition
