Manipulated Image: Work from Four Continents and Virtual Second Life
| August 28, 2009 | ||
| 8:30 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
Featuring mobile phone video and indie-animations by Russian collective, Selfburning, videos and interactive Flash web art by Kelly Monico, experimental video by local Andrew Edwards, Moroccan Mohamed Ezoubeiri’s visual slices of life, Fabio Scacchioli’s philosophical experiments based on the function of language, and relationship of object and image, and a virtual tour of Second Life with surprise animations by an artist from Amsterdam. more…
Cell Phone Throwdown
| August 27, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The Northern New Mexico Chapter of NMTC invites you to our third Beer and Gear event, where we will be hosting a throwdown between four of the hottest smartphones on the market. Refereed by our very own Jimmy Armijo, we will hear a comprehensive comparison of the functions and features of each device and the vendors that support them. Time will be allotted at the end of the program for questions from the audience. more…
Re:porter on re:MAKE IT!
Santa Fe Reporter writer John Photos faced down Christian Ristow’s robotic warriors during his visit to re:MAKE IT! and emerged unscathed from the event, though with his own views on human vulnerability in the face of steel and iron: “very soft and fleshy,” in his words, as well as the other exhibits in Santa Fe’s first celebration of the make culture. His review is in the August 19 edition of the Reporter, available here. 
Journal North Reviews re:MAKE IT!
Vince Kong, staff writer for The Albuquerque Journal, visited re:MAKE IT! on Saturday, August 8 and recorded his impressions on the front page of the Journal North edition the next day. Calling it “heady stuff”, Kong highlighted the varied exhibits and the artists who created them. That included the plutonium countdown clock of Tristan Chambers; the Manipulatrix and Subjugator robots, built by Christian Ristow, and their “Robot Food,”
built by Meow Wolf’s Corvas Brinkerhoff; event organizer David Enoch’s Black Hole, built with plexiglass from the famous Black Hole in Los Alamos; and Oakland-based artist Alex Potts resonant gourds. more…
Instead of buying something, re-make it!
| August 7, 2009 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
| August 8, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
| August 9, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Santa Fe Complex celebrates the spirit of the DIY (Do it Yourself) culture in re:Make It!, a three day festival at of installations, music and workshops showcasing innovative uses of custom built, re-purposed or recycled technology. Twenty-two collaborators create a panoply of artwork through environments and performances that reflect self reliance, innovation, collaboration, and community participation from August 7 to August 9. more…
Design Beyond Human Capabilities
| August 6, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Dr. Richard Gabriel visits the Complex to discuss his work at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University on building ultra-largescale systems. He received the 2004 AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award for innovations not only on fundamental issues in programming languages and software design but also on the interaction between computer science and other disciplines, notably architecture and poetry. An accomplished musician, poet and author, Richard will surely extend his comments to a variety of topics. more…
It’s Unanimous
The Santa Fe New Mexican joined the interest in re:MAKE IT! in Pasatiempo, its weekly magazine of arts, entertainment & culture. Calling Santa Fe Complex a “volunteer-based nonprofit where creativity and innovation don’t so much collide as conspire” and “the epicenter of Santa Fe’s aboveground tech-geek DIY movement”, the magazine featured re:MAKE: IT! in its August 7-13 issue. As the page 12 article says, “Curators David Enoch and Dena Aquilina have assembled a broad spectrum of scientists and artists working in audio and visual mediums to create a highly interactive showcase of installations and smaller works.” more…
Journal North on re:MAKE IT!
The Albuquerque Journal North profiled this weekend’s DIY festival at the Complex in an August 3 story by Kathaleen Roberts. Quoting organizer David Enoch, the article says re:MAKE IT! is “like a 21st-century fair with a lot of cutting-edge art [with] people using technology in interesting and new ways.”
Click here for the full story.
SFMUG Short Movie Festival ‘09
| August 1, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
This is the 3rd Annual SFMUG Short Movie Festival. Over the last two years we have grown to be one of the most rewarding festivals for the short movie genre. At the SMF08, the Audience Choice award went to a fourteen year old filmmaker and we had many young filmmakers submit their films. SFMUG SMF seeks to reward the short moviemaker to encourage them to continue growing in their craft. Prizes worth over $1800, including BorisFX’s Final Effects Complete $895 (http://www.borisfx.com/final_cut_pro/fecfxplug/); Stone Design’s Create $149, iMagintor $ 49, Videator $ 49, PhotoToWeb $69, PStll $69, SliceAndDice $49, TimeEqualsMoney $49, StampInStone $49, FontSight $19 & Global Warmth $19 (http://www.stone.com); Mariner Software’s Montage $139 & Contour $45, and Boinx Software’s iStopMotion Express $99. more…
