Friday Fractals in Santa Fe
| July 30, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Jonathan Wolfe, executive director of the Fractal Foundation and inspiration behind the wildly popular First Fractals at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, journeys north to demonstrate the power and beauty of his electronic images. more…
DinoBlender
| July 23, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Dinosaurs have a magical grip on the imaginations of young and old so we begin this blender with the perspective of a paleontologist in the making, six-year-old Ulysses Yarbrough. Uly, as he is known, admits to confusing the Jurassic and Triassic eras upon occasion but he is not confused about his passion for the ancient creatures known to us today only by the fossil remnants they left behind. more…
Industrial Strength Networks
| July 16, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Image: Datasets published in the Linking Open Data community project, from Richard Cyganiak.
UPDATE: Emil Eifrem will offer a TechTalk at 1:00 at the complex on Neo, a high-performance graph database he has developed. The talk will dive into the Neo4j graph database from a software developer’s perspective while looking at some of the pros/cons of working with graph databases in enterprise software development. Admission is free. More information is available in the full article. more…
Stereo/Computational Photography/Holography III
| July 9, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
We continue the discussion started with the Stereo/Computational blender of March 27 (Jason Ordaz, Pete Rogina, Tim Thomas) and the Holographic Blender of June 25 (Fred Unterseher, Rebecca Deem, August Muth).
Stereographer and Book Artist Georgette Freeman will present her stereo camera and viewing rigs, her stereo card designs, digital stereo imagery, and talk about her experiences as a stereographer and artist. more…
Design: Metaphor, Evolution, and Eugenics
| July 7, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
An ongoing discussion that started with Metaphor, Morphometrics, and Category now continues around the pivotal theme of Design. Christina Cogdell, Winner of the 2005 Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology and interactive video-sound artist David Stout will contrast their contemporary work with the historical design trends Cogdell outlines in her research. more…
