An EMPAC art-science installation. 

March 20, 2026   EMPAC    10 - 2pm

PLACE: Studio 1, EMPAC, Troy, NY

10 am-12:30 pm: wander freely thru Studio 1 (installation loops every 26 minutes)

1 pm: screening with talk back at ~1:30pm

Transforming microbes articulate Gertrude Stein language riddles.

Multi-generational microscopic communities documented with novel high-resolution photography are combined with ambisonics and Wave Field spatialization of Gertrude Stein’s Composition as Explanation (1926) to produce an ever-evolving state and psychedelic status of all the same matter, differently.

Created by Jenifer Wightman in collaboration with composer Kamala Sankaram, dramaturg Jessi Pipert, photographer Mark Shelby Perry, and film-maker Araby Kelley. Supported in part by RPI Electronic Arts Department, HASS & SRCA Grants, Stanford Art Institute, and EMPAC team. Thanks all!