Santa Fe Open Coffee Club
The Santa Fe Open Coffee Club invites anyone interested in startups in New Mexico to meet at the Santa Fe Complex for informal networking with developers, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, and other interested parties. The Open Coffee Club, part of a worldwide network begun originally in the U.K., was created as a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet. For more information about the local club, click here.
Location:
Santa Fe Complex
632 Agua Fria
Santa Fe NM
Admission: Free
KSFR Radio Café | March 22, 2010
Santa Fe Radio Café–Interview with Elaine Bearer
Mary-Charlotte Domandi | March 22, 2010
Mary-Charlotte Domandi interviews Elaine Bearer, one of the key organizers for the “Art and Science of Systems Biology” event scheduled for March 26-27 at the Santa Fe Complex. more…
Eric Glick Rieman – Prepared Rhodes
Performing on a variety of instruments, including the prepared/extended Rhodes electric piano, as well as piano, melodica, celeste, Waterphone, and toy piano, SF Bay Area composer/improviser Eric Glick Rieman performs improvised and previously structured music. He writes for piano and for ensembles, and his work for the prepared and extended Rhodes piano is featured in this performance. more…
Santa Fe New Mexican | March 19, 2010
NM Artists, Scientists and Computer Programmers Collaborate on Immersive Videos
Staci Matlock | March 19, 2010
Imagine how fun science homework would be if you could, say, project a digital galaxy around your bedroom, navigate through it like Star Trek’s Hikaru Sulu using your cell phone as the control, and then blast a meteor, virtually, into a planet to see what happens. more…
SantaFe.com | March 17, 2010
The Art and Science of Systems Biology
Arts & Culture | March 17, 2010
Santa Fe Complex will host “The Art and Science of Systems Biology” a two-day public event scheduled for March 26 and 27, at 632 Agua Fria from 4:30 pm on Friday through 9 pm on Saturday. more…
Santa Fe Complex Awarded NSF Grant
The Santa Fe Complex is part of the New Mexico “brain trust,” along with the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts, awarded $597,220 in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Partnership for Innovation program.
The grant will fund the development of the hardware and software that make it possible to use “fulldome immersive environments”–such as the LodeStar planetarium at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science–to help people visualize, simulate, or experientially comprehend a wide range of information. more…
Manipulated Image #11
“For Action’s Sake”
1st Anniversary Celebration
Featuring 15 Video Artists from 10 Countries, Online Performances from Hamburg and Sweden, and Performances by 12 Local Artists
The first anniversary show of Manipulated Image, For Action’s Sake, considers the confluence of art and politics. Direct and indirect references are made to the role of mass media in the present, and its relationship to Machiavellian and Fascistic politics. For Action’s Sake contrasts autotelic individuals with those driven by external influences such as power and comfort, who in the end are left unfulfilled and alienated. more…
Pasatiempo Features Manipulated Image
Manipulated Image at the Complex captures the cover story of the March 12 issue of Pasatiempo, the arts and entertainment magazine of the Santa Fe New Mexican. The issue, available on newsstands now, previews the first anniversary of the show, titled “For Action’s Sake,” which is curated by Santa Fe video artist Alysse Stepanian.
New Mexico Business Weekly | March 12, 2010
Techies Take Immersive Dome Experience to New Frontiers
Megan Kamrick | March 12, 2010
It’s not quite the holodeck from “Star Trek,” but it’s definitely a step in that direction.
A statewide consortium has landed a National Science Foundation grant to develop digital media technologies that will create fully immersive environments. more…
Projects
Offering
The Santa Fe Complex draws on the creativity of scientists, technologists, and artists to solve complex problems to meet business, government, and social needs. Combining talents across disciplines, the Complex has helped the City of Santa Fe model escape routes for its citizens in the event of forest fires, the city of Venice plan canal traffic to minimize the wakes that damage the city’s architecture, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health identify the movement of troubled youths through their social services network.
The Complex delivers project work on a consulting basis. We are located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a renowned center of research in complexity science, an interdisciplinary approach to solving complex problems.
We have access to some of the best hands-on talent available in complexity science today and can put together teams with expertise in the latest technologies, sophisticated modeling capability, and experience in visualization techniques that allow complex problem to be tackled in new ways.
How We Work
Much of the talent of the Complex comes from a growing contingent of scientists, technologists and artists who choose not to be employed full-time, but to work on a project basis as part of a team tackling interesting problems.
Some of our projects originate with the Complex, through the connections of our talent pool, but we are also open to collaborating on projects that originate outside the Complex community. If you have a project underway or even an idea for a project, but need additional resources to field the right team, we’re open to discussion.
Sample Projects
Explore some of our recent projects, read about the expertise of our people, then contact Stephen Guerin, founder and project director, to discuss how the Complex might help with your needs.
NM Business Weekly Cites Simtable Award
In a report on the $100,000 award granted Simtable by Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New Mexico Business Weekly quoted Santa Fe Complex founder Stephen Guerin, who said the grant allows Simtable to “move research developed at the Santa Fe Complex out of a lab environment and into the market for real world validation.”
The article went on to explain that the fund provides seed money to “help northern New Mexico businesses with connections to LANL technology or expertise to further develop their products or services for commercialization.” more…
New Mexico Business Weekly | March 9, 2010
Simtable, SW Bio Fuels Win LANL Funds
March 9, 2010
Los Alamos National Laboratory selected two companies, Simtable and Southwest Bio Fuels, as awardees for $100,000 grants from the lab’s Venture Acceleration Fund. more…
Simtable Wins $100,000 VAF Award
Simtable, a company that got its start at the Santa Fe Complex, has been selected as the recipient of a $100,000 award from the Los Alamos National Security, LLC Venture Acceleration Fund.
Chip Garner and Stephen Guerin shed new light on wildfire modeling. Photo Credit: Bill Stengel
Simtable is a technology developed for wildfire training, incident command, and community outreach that combines hardware and software to create simulations on sand. more…
Public Mental Health – Tracking Clients through the System
Situation
San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth & Their Families (DCYF) needed to understand the movement of their clients through the services and among the various providers in the public mental health system. With a mission to ensure that young people become healthy, productive, and valued community members, the department needed to understand the impact of client demographics and clinical characteristics on outcomes. more…
Canal Traffic Simulation – City of Venice
Situation
Photo Credit: Kyle H. Miller
The City of Venice needed to revamp operations on its canal system to reduce traffic noise and minimize the serious architectural damage to the city’s structures caused by wakes in the canal system. As part of the CIVITAS Initiative, a project sponsored by the European Union, the investigators wanted to identify solutions that would lead to more sustainable, clean, and energy-efficient urban transport. more…
The Improvising Composer
The Improvising Composer project is an all-day event devoted to digital music and the software used to create it. The day begins with workshops in interactive audio software featuring composers Martin Back, James Brody, William Fowler Collins, J.A. Deane, Philip Mantione and Christian Pincock. more…
Visualization Challenge Winners on Display at Complex
Five winners of the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge are on display at the Santa Fe Complex following the the Art & Science of Systems Biology which took place March 26-27.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science, this competition honors extraordinary photographs, illustration, videos, and graphics that reveal intricate details of life and the world around us—down to the smallest scale. more…
