Innovators Forum Comes to the Complex
| April 21, 2009 | ||
| 2:30 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
One of the greatest challenges in bringing an innovative idea to market is finding the right, high-impact people to be part of your start-up team. Todd Hand, managing partner at Talent Capital Group, a venture-backed executive search firm founded in Boston with offices in New Mexico, brings over 15 years of experience in this area to the Innovators Forum at the Complex on Tuesday, April 22 at 2:30 pm. This event is free and refreshments will be provided. Register by contacting Gail Gordon at gail@rdcnm.org, or 505-820-1226. For more information about Innovators’ Forum, or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Kim Sherwood at 505-665-1305, or ksherwood@lanl.gov. more…
DinoMax: J.A. Deane Comes to SFMax
| April 17, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
SFMax meets certain Fridays at the Complex to discuss methods and software used to create interactive audio and video. This week features a presentation by Dino (J.A. Deane), who has appeared on a diverse range of recordings, from Ike & Tina Turner to Brian Eno and John Zorn. He will be giving a demonstration of his current “live sampling” touring rig which is a combination of Ableton Live and Steim’s LiSa on a MacBook. A great opportunity to gain some insights into performing live sampling & live electronics from someone who has been doing it since before it had a category. more…
Santa Fe Complex at MIT
Two Santa Fe Complex practitioners, Fabio Carrera and Stephen Guerin, visited MIT this week for a presentation on agent-based modeling entitled ‘Agent-based City Knowledge with Ambient Computing.’ They discussed recent applications of agent-based GIS simulations to urban systems in the Spatial Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems class in MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. more…
Cafe Scientifique: Fossil Fuels and Managing CO2
| April 16, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
About half of the man-made CO2 emissions to the atmosphere in the United States come from burning oil products like gasoline. Another third comes from burning coal and the remainder comes from natural gas. To solve the climate problem, we have to either stop producing CO2 or figure out how to store it. Cafe Scientifique will explore the options for storing it and how that buys time for alternative energy solutions. more…
Canary in a Coal Mine
| April 10, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
When Andrew Edwards and Sarah Cote proposed an art show of cross-disciplinary works by students at the College of Santa Fe, they called their event Canary in a Coal Mine in a nod to the uncertain status of their school, the College of Santa Fe, and the proverbial role of canaries as harbingers of bad times. This student-organized event of cross-disciplinary works starts at 7:00pm this Friday, April 10. more…
Rethink Public Art:
Art, Community and Peace in a Complex World
| April 9, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Jack Becker, co-founder and executive director of Forecast Public Art, publishers of Public Art Review, will join Anne “Ahni” Rocheleau, founder and director of Spaces for Peace, and Erica Behrens, director of the New York office of Franz Mayer of Munich, on Thursday, April 9 at 6:00 pm for a panel discussion about rethinking the role of public art in connecting art, community and peace in a complex society. more…
A Return to Artifical Intelligence
| April 7, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
In recent years, more and more researchers think it is the time to return to the original goal of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), that is, to build “thinking machines” that are as intelligent as human beings. To distinguish this kind of work from the conventional “AI research”, which has turned to specific problems in special domains, this emerging community calls itself “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI). Dr. Pei Wang, an associate professor at Temple University, will briefly describe this field in non-technical language at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, April 7, at the Complex. more…
Society of Composers
| April 3, 2009 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
The 2009 Annual Conference of the Society of Composers will hold three sessions at Santa Fe Complex on Friday, April 3. The society is “dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music.” The conference will be held in conjunction with the 13th Annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, and will be hosted by the College of Santa Fe’s Contemporary Music Program and its director, Steven Paxton. more…
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. more…
