Ignite the Night Again
| September 15, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
IgniteSF grows to IgniteNM in its return performance at the Complex on September 15 at· 6:00pm as 12 presenters talk about their passion but for only five minutes and with exactly 20 slides to support their presentations. While they talk, their 20 slides automatically advance every 15 secs behind them. It’s quite a challenge for the speakers and it gives the audience an opportunity to learn a little about all sort of interesting topics in one fun night. Read 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. 
Rethinking Causality — as Constraint
| September 3, 2009 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Alicia Juarrero, professor of philosophy emerita at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, offers her views on complexity Thursday, September 3 at 5:00p,m. Widely recognized for her writing and her skills in the classroom, Dr. Juarrero is the author of Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT Press, 1999), and co-editor of Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from North and South, (ISCE Publishing, 2007) and Emergence, Self-Organization and Complexity: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, 2008). In this talk, she rethinks the concept of cause in terms of context-sensitive constraints. Because the received view of causality as forceful impact is eminently unsuitable for complex systems, she argues, a renewed understanding of part-whole and whole-part causes, and of complex systems’ embeddedness in history and the environment, opens up for the complexity scientist. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
Lechuza to the Max
| September 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Native scholar, performer & composer Alan Lechusza joins Santa Fe Complex for the first of two sessions exploring experimental music. This SFMax session will explore Alan’s work as a solo artist and how it bridges contemporary new music with improvised music for all woodwinds. His work creatively incorporates electronics into settings where old compositions gain a “fresh, new perspective” (J. Middleburg: San Francisco, CA). Lechusza continues to present ambitious and different material across the U.S. and Canada. Read more
Carolyn Duo & Alan Lechuza
| September 12, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
This concert performance by the Carolyn Duo will feature excerpts from two large works by composer/performer Alan Lechusza with special guest Dave Wayne (Percussion). Alan Lechusza is quickly becoming one of the country’s top advocates for Native American multi-media art and scholarship. The Carolyn Duo is devoted to producing multi-media art works that blur the constructed lines of artistic demarcation solidified in a post-modern society. Read 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.” Read 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.
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. Read more
