SF Alliance Hosts Business Development Workshop

September 29, 2009
5:30 pmto7:00 pm

The Santa Fe Alliance is proud to have Drew Tulchin, Managing Partner of Social Enterprise Associates present a workshop concerning new, emerging business entities and structures: B Corporations, L3C and stock options for charities. Scheduled for Tuesday, September 29, from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Santa Fe Complex, this is the third in a series of business development workshops sponsored by the New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund for the Santa Fe Alliance. more…

Intern Project Pays Off

Six interns from Worcester Polytechnic Institute worked at the Complex last spring to determine the feasibility of a Santa Fe Project Center for WPI at the Complex. Their work was successful and the newly announced Santa Fe Center will join WPI’s 13 other global project centers as a location for applied research in the WPI engineering program. Details are on the WPI website.

Graphic Arts Triple Play

September 19, 2009
9:00 amto12:30 pm

Join Maggie Macnab, Joel Nakamura and John Langdon on Saturday, September 19 from 9:00am to 12:30pm for a half-day seminar that explores the fascinating relevance of symbolism to effective and engaging visual communications. Seen from the unique angles of decoding design, visual myth and the found symbol, this experiential event will educate attendees on symbolic influence in graphic design, illustration and lettering from three experts who use it regularly. Attendees will also have an opportunity to start personal projects to complete outside the seminar. more…

Ignite the Night Again

September 15, 2009
6:00 pmto8:00 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. more…

Carolyn Duo & Alan Lechuza

September 12, 2009
8:00 pmto10:00 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. more…

Lechuza to the Max

September 11, 2009
8:00 pmto10:00 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. more…

Launching a Social Learning Vision

September 10, 2009
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

Santa Fe-based Veezyon Corporation introduces its social learning platform in an informal event at Santa Fe Complex on September 10 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. The consumer Internet company partners with universities, institutions and organizations to produce professionally edited, knowledge-based rich media content. Veezyon’s social learning platform supports partners’ content with cutting edge, web-based productivity and collaboration tools to enhance users’ online research and learning experience. more…

Audio Explorations of Contemporary Music

September 9, 2009
6:00 pmto8:00 pm
September 23, 2009
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

LAST NIGHT: Santa Cruz, NM composer and musical scholar James Brody ends his series of musical investigations of the work of eight contemporary composers: Iannis Xenakis, Franz Kamin, Milton Babbitt, Brian Ferneyhough, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Igor Stravinsky and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Brody will mentor an extensive audience discussion and use technology to represent the music visually during these sessions.
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Rethinking Causality — as Constraint

September 3, 2009
5:00 pmto7:00 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. more…