Oct 22 (Sat), 1-9PM EST
Oct 23 (Sun), 1-9PM EST
To register for CAMLab Public Visits, 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.
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 18–23, 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.
Oct 22 (Sat), 1-9PM EST
Oct 23 (Sun), 1-9PM EST
To register for CAMLab Public Visits, 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.
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: The Old and the New: Histories, Platforms, Experiments | |
| 7pm | – Film Screening: 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 | – Test Screening: To The Moon |
As part of the 2022 RPM Fest @rpmfestival programming, CAMLab is honored to invite Prof. Patricia R. Zimmermann, Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communication at Ithaca College, to present a special workshop titled “The Old and the New: Histories, Platforms, Experiments” on campus. With specialization in diverse areas such as video and new media history and theory, documentary studies, amateur film, and critical historiography, Prof. Zimmermann has published over 200 scholarly research articles and essays on related topics and currently serves as the Director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, a major international festival housed at Ithaca College.
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.
