Weaving a GLASS Web
| March 30, 2009 8:30 am | to | April 3, 2009 12:00 pm |
Building sophisticated multi-media, intensely interactive, Web applications is a significant challenge requiring mastery of multiple technologies. The Complex’s own Prof. West hosts a hands-on seminar for anyone with basic programming and web skill who wants to develop that mastery. From March 30 – April 3. Read more
Manipulated Image March, 2009
| March 27, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Mark your calendar for the second Manipulated Image screening at the Complex, on Friday, March 27, at 7:30pm. This event will feature videos by Benton C. Bainbridge, Susanna Carlisle, Matt Marello, David Stout and Cory Metcalf. Read more
Drumming for Hope
| March 28, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
A Japanese drumming ensemble and a prison outreach group are collaborating on a presentation to show how community can come together to support each other. Smokin’ Bachi Taiko returns to the Complex after its performance in the Occam’s Razor opening, joined by Help Other People Evolve through Honest Open Willing Self-Evaluation (HOPE-HOWSE ) to offer a night of music and education at Santa Fe Complex on Saturday, March 28, at 7:00pm. Suggested donation is $15. Refreshments and designer earplugs provided. Read more
The Structure of Paintings
| March 25, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Artworks and the emotions they create can be mapped mathematically, according to artist, architect, sculptor, musician — and mathematician — Michael Leyton. On Wednesday, March 25, he discusses “The Generative Structure of Paintings” at Santa Fe Complex beginning at 6:30pm. He’ll also give a talk at the Center for Nonlinear Systems in Los Alamos on Thursday, the 26th, about the “Generative Theory of Shape.” Read more
Morphing Polymer Clay
| March 20, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Tory Hughes has been working in polymer clay and mixed media for 35 years. She leads an exploration of malleable polymer material that can demonstrate geometry and topology, recreate turquoise and ivory, show atmospheric circulation, decorate your earlobes, and bake in your toaster oven. Tory’s unique pioneering approach to this medium, and to creative action itself, have made her a popular educator as well as artist. Please join us and explore this medium for yourself! Read more
Defending from anthrax:
Cell membrane channels and drug design
| March 17, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The bacterium Bacillus anthracis causes the disease anthrax, the Sixth Plague mentioned in Exodus. Dr. Ekaterina Nestorovich, a research fellow at the laboratory of physical and structural biology at the National Institutes of Health, is looking at openings on the surface of a host target cell that could lead to drugs that block the action of anthrax toxins. She discusses this work in the March q-bio lecture at the Complex. Read more
Can’t Find Your 404?
| March 13, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Missing web pages (pages that return the “404 Page Not Found” error) are part of the browsing experience. So too are pages whose owners failed to renew their domain and whose old URIs now have unexpected content. As the web grows and users multiply, the missing page problem becomes more common. Michael L. Nelson, an associate professor of computer science at Old Dominion University, is working to solve this problem and offers his thoughts during Frito Friday on March 13. Read more
Experimental Video Screening Series
These monthly screenings feature experimental short videos by artists that explore the innovative use of technology and software to manipulate image. Artists will discuss the way they digitally transform images to achieve their personal vision. MI’s creator, Program Director, and Curator is multimedia artist Alysse Stepanian.
For more details go to MI’s official website: http://manipulatedimage.com
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Chambers Music at SFMax
| March 13, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Tristan Chambers is an electronics engineer and a computer hacker who interests himself in the use of technology both in art and science. Taking ideas from his experience designing and building scientific research instruments like digital beam forming scatterometeres and atmospheric research laser control systems, he integrates found objects and home brewed software to express the signals and phenomena of nature and mathematics in audible fluctuations and schematical works of art. Read more
What Would Margaret Mead Say?
| March 6, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Cultural anthropology is more than the study of aboriginal peoples. Architecture is about more than buildings and cities. Software development is more than programming. Software developers need a deeper grounding in design and a better understanding of other disciplines if they are to improve the current state of the practice. This Frito Friday will include a talk by David West and Jenny Quillien on how cultural anthropology and other disciplines can improve software design. Read more
