Gridfest: A Monome Music Festival
Gridfest. In the spirit of collaboration, as it is exemplified by artistic endeavor, the monome community is once again organizing a large scale event showcasing the broad spectrum of talent of monome users. Artists from around North America will be attending and performing in a series of concerts and workshops to be held at Corazon and Santa Fe Complex.
The Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience
From the first drawings of microorganisms to the x-ray images of DNA to Apollo’s photograph of earth, scientific images are at once illuminating and beautiful. Whether scientists are delving into how an enzyme unzips a strand of DNA or studying the nanostructure of a gecko’s feet, graphic visualizations convey a wealth of information, inspire new discoveries and delight our eyes and imagination. You are invited to explore some of the newest and most fascinating images from two emergent branches of science during a two-day public celebration held at the Santa Fe Complex on April 1 and 2. The Art of Systems Biology ...
Notions of Time
A Two Day Event at the Santa Fe Complex December 3 & 4 Notions of Time, two days of musical events, short talks by speakers, video, film, and photography will take place on Friday, December 3, and Saturday, December 4. Notions of Time is part of Art and Music 2010 at the Santa Fe Complex and is in part supported by a grant from the Santa Fe Art Commission. "There are many concepts of time in science and in different cultures,” said Orlando Leibovitz, event curator. "Is our perception of time an illusion? What is the present moment? Did the Big Bang create ...
Santa Fe Complex Awarded NSF Grant
The Santa Fe Complex is part of the New Mexico "brain trust,” along with the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts, awarded $597,220 in funding from the National Science Foundation's Partnership for Innovation program. The grant will fund the development of the hardware and software that make it possible to use "fulldome immersive environments"--such as the LodeStar planetarium at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science--to help people visualize, simulate, or experientially comprehend a wide range of information.
Stuart Kauffman: “Res Extensa, Res Potentia And The Poised Realm”
Please join us for a short philosophical discourse with Stuart Kauffman, eminent theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher. "We have lived with scientific “monism” since Newton. Monism is the view, shared by virtually all scientists, that the world is made of one kind of “stuff,” the Actual world of matter and energy and with some question marks, space and time and information. There are very good grounds to accept monism, and it has an ancient history. No less an ancient philosopher Empedocles said, “What is real in the universe is what is actual." Aristotle was ...
Simtable Wins $100,000 VAF Award
Simtable, a company that got its start at the Santa Fe Complex, has been selected as the recipient of a $100,000 award from the Los Alamos National Security, LLC Venture Acceleration Fund. [caption id="attachment_4781" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Chip Garner and Stephen Guerin shed new light on wildfire modeling. Photo Credit: Bill Stengel"][/caption] Simtable is a technology developed for wildfire training, incident command, and community outreach that combines hardware and software to create simulations on sand.
WPI Teams arrive March 20
Once again, Santa Fe Complex will host engineering teams from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The teams will be in Santa Fe from March 20 to May 7. They are working on six project in the community:
- Crash and Congestion
- Bus of the future
- Pueblo Sustainability Model
- High Speed Santa Fe
- Preserving Indigenous Languages
- Watershed Crowdsourcing
Please welcome the students, and watch for announcements of project presentations.
Jonathan Morse: BIONS
We are pleased to announce the installation of a new mini-show in our Alcove Gallery.
BIONS 1-15 is a series of imagined biological images inspired by Jonathan’s involvement as an invited artist in last year’s “Art of Systems Biology and Nanotechnology” at Santa Fe Complex. To see the entire BIONS series and other recent work, go to www.jmorseart.com.
Simtable Returns to TIME Magazine’s Techland for “5 Cool Inventions” List
First featured on the site in June, SimTable’s flagship wildfire training system returns for top-5 honors in the TIME magazines tech blog’s 2011 best-of list.
The brainchild of Stephen Guerin, Santa Fe Complex founder, Simtable developed in the Complex’s unique training-and-entrepreneurship environment. After attracting start-up money from LANL’s Venture Acceleration Fund, Simtable opened its own offices in 2011, and has now sold more than 20 sand table units to firefighting and emergency management organizations around the country.
Read the TIME articles here and here, or visit simtable.com.
Santa Fe Complex Moves to Second St.
Our new location is in Second Street Studios — 1807 Second St. #107. Turn in at Backroad Pizza and go halfway back — we are on your right, up a ramp, in the old Linda Durham Gallery. It is a great space for us, with a main hall similar in size to our old one, a classroom, and spaces for team collaborations.Our spaces are available for informal laptop work space and meeting space for technology-related entrepreneurs and project teams.
We are excited to be in Second Street Studios, and especially to work with CoLab. They have a great facility just across the way, with monthly rental of desk space.
THE STUFF THAT WORKS
Santa Fe Complex is getting ready for a busy year in 2012. We are focusing our efforts and events around specific research areas, with the objective of creating spin-off projects and companies employing Santa Fe residents. more…
Ghosts in Armour
`Ghosts in Armour’ at the Santa Fe Complex
An Immersive exhibition exploring a declining industry
The Santa Fe Complex is proud to announce that to celebrate its 4th anniversary it will
be hosting a unique virtual exhibition showcasing the international art project, ‘Ghosts in Armour’. more…
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