Game Thing
Make your Monday a little better by ending it with some after-school, after-work games. We have a growing selection of board games and card games that you’ll dig. Or. bring your own and introduce other gamers to your favorite games. Let your friends know and we’ll see you on Monday!
Open gaming starts at 6:00 and new games start as late as 9:00!. The Game Thing will be happening every Monday at the Santa Fe Complex.
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Ghosts in Armour
`Ghosts in Armour’ at the Santa Fe Complex
An Immersive exhibition exploring a declining industry
The Santa Fe Complex is proud to announce that to celebrate its 4th anniversary it will
be hosting a unique virtual exhibition showcasing the international art project, ‘Ghosts in Armour’. more…
CineMusic Experience
Students of the Intro to Reason and Live class at Santa Fe Community College will take the stage for “CineMusic Experience”, a multi-media, audio-visual performance held from 8-10 p.m., Friday, May 18, 2012 at Santa Fe Complex, 1807 Second Street, Suite 107 (behind Backroad Pizza). more…
AIGA New Mexico 4th Annual Showdown Awards and Exhibition
Please join us for a celebration and showdown of New Mexico design hosted by AIGA NM, the professional association for design. This year is the 4th Annual Showdown Spectacular with Awards, an Exhibition, and silent auction on May 5th, at the SF Complex starting at 5pm. This event is by invitation only. For tickets and more information, please visit aiganmshowdown.org, email rsvp@newmexico.aiga.org, or call Robert at 505.471.6699 more…
artTech: Casey Anderson
artTech is a monthly telepresent inquiry into art and technology hosted by Center for Integrative Research and Exhibition.
Casey Anderson is an artist working in a number of media, including composition, improvisation, electronic music, saxophone, text, and installations. more…
VisionFest Workshop
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DOME2012: Video Art in the Digital Dome
DOME2012, a two-day immersive video experience featuring the world premier of new experimental video art in the Digital Dome @ IAIA. The opening reception will take place at IAIA on Friday, April 13, 5pm to 8pm. The show continues on Saturday, April 14, 5pm to 8pm. The event is free and open to the public. more…
Dark Matter: A lecture with Ian Shoemaker
CIRE presents Dark Matter: A lecture with Ian Shoemaker. more…
Counterpoint
Counterpoint, a one-night musical and visual collaborative performance will be presented at the Santa Fe Complex Friday, March 23rd at 7:00 p.m. The Chatter Chamber Ensemble will perform Steve Reich’s Different Trains and Arnold Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night. Each composition will be accompanied by the world premier of a video commissioned by the Santa Fe Complex for the performance.
Santa Fe TechFri: Lean Startup Thinking with Michael Bernstein
LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGIES TODAY
The idea of applying lean manufacturing methods to software and web development projects and “Lean Startups” (as coined by Eric Ries) is one that has taken hold in much of the startup world, and its lessons can be applied to other projects and startups as well. At this month’s Santa Fe Tech Friday, we’ll explore “Lean Methodologies” and how they might apply to your startup or project. more…
The Art of Systems Biology & Nanoscience
Research in advanced microscopy, nanoscale engineering and computer simulations creates beautiful images as well as new knowledge. You are invited to explore some of the newest and most fascinating images during a two-day public celebration at 333 Montenzuma Annex in the rail yard area of Santa Fe on March 30 and 31. more…
artTech: Kelly Monico
CIRE presents artTech, a monthly telepresent inquiry into art and technology hosted at the Santa Fe Complex.
Kelly Monico will give a lecture and presentation on her recent video art which focuses on the intersection between ethnography, humor, repetition and the female celebrity. more…
Sarah Ann Phillips and Eric Glick Rieman
An evening of music and performance with Sarah Ann Phillips and Eric Glick Rieman, hosted by CIRE.
Behind the Scenes: STORM at CCA
STORM is a collaboration between Theater Grottesco and the Out-of-Context Orchestra
Location: Munoz-Waxman Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail
Join us for a Behind-the-scenes look at STORM, the new collaboration between Theater Grottesco and the Out of Context Orchestra.
TechTalk: Venture Acceleration fund
The LANS Venture Acceleration Fund (VAF) and the other programs from Northern New Mexico Connect provide great opportunities for entreprenuers with potential tech ventures. Learn more about LANS Venture Acceleration Fund (VAF) opportunities and other programs, and hear from Santa Fe Complex founder – and Simtable co-founder – Stephen Guerin about his experience with the program. more…
artTech: Jordan Bartee
artTech is a monthly telepresent inquiry into art and technology hosted by CIRE at the Santa Fe Complex.
For our inaugural lecture of the series we are pleased to bring Jordan Bartee to the Santa Fe Complex via a video call. He will give a lecture on Object Oriented Ontology, followed by a performance of his work.
$5 suggested donation. No one will be turned away!
Media Hive: Frank Rose
“Media Hive”: A COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP / PERFORMANCE AT SANTA FE COMPLEX
Santa Fe Complex hosts another installment of the monthly workshop / performance event Media Hive. Media Hive happens at Santa Fe Complex on the third Saturday of each month. The workshop and performance this month will feature local musician and monome activist Watson, AKA Frank Rose. more…
Tech Friday: Roger O’Brian
ARE YOU READY TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR?
The New Mexico Tech Council and Santa Fe Complex are pleased to announce a new lunchtime talk series: Tech Friday. The fourth Friday of the month is dedicated to Startups, and we’ll start off with serial startup pro Roger O’Brien asking, perhaps, the most important question of all: Are you ready to be an entrepreneur?
Do you have the skills, styles and values to be a successful entrepreneur? Our speaker, Roger O’Brien shares his 30+ years experiences with entrepreneurs – the good and the bad – an provides 10 key traits that are critical.
LUNCH ORDERS
Want to order lunch? Preorder and we’ll have things ready for you at the session.
For more information and to pre-register, please visit Eventbrite.
MediaHive: Jason Goodyear
Santa Fe Complex hosts another installment of the monthly workshop / performance event Media Hive. This month’s workshop will feature Jason Goodyear giving a one-hour presentation on controlling video projection using Ableton Live music software. The performance will include a DJ/VJ performance by DJ Magic Tofu and PRETTYLITTLEPAW, video by Mara Leader, and more.
The Five12 Lab : Interactive Sequencing & Sampling
Media Hive: with Brian Mayhall
Piper Leigh and Tres Chicas: Reading and Panel Discussion
Tres Chicas Books (run by local poets Renee Gregorio, Joan Logghe, and Miriam Sagan) will host a reading followed by conversation.
Piper Leigh will read from her recently published Tres Chicas book, “my thin-skinned wandering” as part of the installation comprised of fabric, projected image, and transparent layers. Following the reading, Tres Chicas will join Piper Leigh in a conversation about “Making a book: livelihood, collaboration and community.” more…
Kim Sorvig: the BeautyWay Hypothesis
Why did humans evolve a sense of environmental beauty? And what does it have to do with our survival?
Conventional aesthetic theories struggle to define what beauty is ‘in’: in places, people or things; in the mind of the beholder; in an ideal or divine template.
The Beautyway Hypothesis is a new theory of environmental aesthetics. Rather than ask what things have beauty, it asks why humans evolved a sense of environmental beauty – what survival value it might have to respond to environments as attractive. more…
Blogshop Weekend
Need a marketing tool that you control? Love to write? Wish you had a quick and inexpensive website that you can update?
Join this month’s Weekend Blogshop and have your blog/website up by Monday!
Combining the art of writing + the technology of the internet, Blogshop is a 6-hour, 2-day interactive, hands-on, weekend blogging workshop. You will purchase a hosting package (through Hostgator), install WordPress on your self-hosted site, and learn the WordPress interface. IT professionals are on hand to help you through the process. more…
NNMC Annual Celebration
Northern New Mexico Connect and Partner Organizations cordially invite you to attend our
ANNUAL CELEBRATION EVENT
Join us to celebrate northern New Mexico’s ever expanding entrepreneurial community! Come meet other entrepreneurs and explore the many resources available to assist your business.
This is a complimentary event. Please RSVP to Gail Gordon at gail@rdcnm.org or 505.428.7763 to ensure adequate catering.
PARKING INFO
Parking at the Santa Fe Complex is limited. Please park at the Sanbusco Market Center or the public parking structure at the Santa Fe Railyard and enjoy the short walk to the Complex. A map of parking locations is available at nnmconnect.net.
Peter Beyls: Music as Complex Emergent Behavior
Peter Beyls, Belgian artist, composer and systems creator, while visiting UNM for one week, will give a special presentation/talk at the Santa Fe Complex, on Sunday Nov. 6th, at 4:00 pm.
Peter’s presentation will focus on the exploration of emergence – the spontaneous synthesis of complex functionality from the specification of simple beginnings. Generative systems based on emergence include cellular automata and distributed agents-based interactive systems. Most of Peter’s work is underpinned by interdisciplinary thinking; it borrows heavily from examples in nature, biology and cognitive science. more…
TEDxSFCC Meetup
The team who brought you TEDxSFCC is bringing you a Meetup where we will be showing a couple of TED videos, discussing ideas and networking. Start your week and month the right way by attending this meetup. It will be at 6pm, Sunday Nov. 6th at the Santa Fe Complex. Hope to see you there!
Image Processing with Mathematica®
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
Registration: 9:30–10am (Seats are limited, so register today)
Seminar & Workshop: 10am–2:30pm (Break with light refreshments provided)
Our featured speaker will demonstrate image processing solutions in Mathematica, including:
• Integrated Workflow: one platform for prototyping, validation, and development
• Automation by Design: from algorithm and parameter selection to user interface design
• Most Complete Functionality: segmentation, registration, feature detection, filtering, and more
• Scalable Performance: integrated support for CPU and GPU parallel computing
• Computable Documents: share your analysis in interactive format with CDF
For more details, visit: wolfram.com/events/image-processing-2011
AIGA Workshop: Creative Synthesis
AIGA NEW MEXICO WORKSHOP SERIES
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Join the AIGA New Mexico chapter for an important round table talk. Creative Synthesis is an open discussion concerning the direction of our chapter. There is great momentum right now and we want to generate ideas to further our development and presence in New Mexico.
The goal of the workshop is to focus on several topics concerning future events, student membership/involvement, and professional collaboration. Each of these topics will be explored in depth and we’d love your feedback as a creative professional/student living and working in New Mexico.
This workshop is open to the public. Come be part of the synthesis as we’d love to hear your voice.
Price: Free and open to the public.
What to Bring: Notepad, pen, note taking device, or just you!
Registration: At the door
RSVP: rsvp@newmexico.aiga.org
AIGA Workshop: Experiments in Typography and Image Making
Join the AIGA New Mexico chapter for a fun collaborative group project! We’ll take the entire workshop to study and experiment with typography through a different “lens.” We’ll be using digital imagery to build a type form. The end result is a secret, but you will be an integral part of building the form. Pretty conceptual? Indeed it is. There will be coffee and some light snacks to keep us charged through the activity.
This workshop is open to the public and no formal design training is required!
The goal of the workshop is to focus on composition and color, the two visual concepts that are integral to all aspects of design. The image will be posted online and sold as posters, for a very small printing fee!
Come be part of the collaboration and our light and fun exercise. Oh, and bring a friend!
Workshop: Experiments in Typography and Image Making
Date: Saturday, September 24th
Time: 9:00am – 12:00noon
Price: Free and Open to the Public. Pricing for poster/postcards will be determined
What to Bring: A digital camera and your camera cable
Registration: At the door
WedTech with Robert Geist: “Real-Time Modeling and Rendering of Natural Phenomena”
Professor Robert Geist
Clemson University, School of Computing
Modeling and rendering natural phenomena, which includes all components of biophysical ecology, atmospherics, photon transport, and air and water flow, remains a challenging area for computer graphics research. The recent development of new, highly parallel computational models, coupled with dramatic performance improvements in GPU-based execution platforms, has brought real-time modeling and rendering within reach. The talk will focus on the natural synergy between GPU-based computing and the so-called lattice-Boltzmann methods for solutions to PDEs.
Examples will include photon transport for global illumination and modeling and rendering of atmospheric clouds, forest ecosystems, and ocean waves.
Bring a ‘brown bag’ lunch.
TEDxABQ Simulcast
TEDxSFCC will broadcast a free live simulcast of the full TEDxABQ event. TEDxABQ is a full day of inspiring speakers from the region and beyond. Please visit TEDxABQ to learn about this year’s speakers.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out, in 1984, as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
The event is free, but seating is limited and will fill up. Please reserve a ticket at TEDxSFCC.Eventbrite.com
Stay informed: Facebook.com/TEDxSFCC
Palovista Ranch Writers Residency: Reading and Panel Discussion
Join the 2011 writers-in-residence for a reading and conversation about their work. The Palovista Ranch residency, located on the 1,920-acre ranch outside of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, seeks to foster community among young innovative writers, and to promote a mode of critical exchange that privileges writing/speaking to and with, rather than about. more…
World Listening Day
Santa Fe Complex will be hosting a free event associated with the second annual World Listening Day. World Listening Day is a day set aside each year to encourage people to listen to and learn about their world. The first World Listening Day was co-organized in 2010 by the World Listening Project and Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. It is a true worldwide event with hundreds of organizations and individuals taking part all around the world. more…
Charles Eisenstein: “Sacred Economics” Book Launch and Talk
Virtual Dinner Guest Project: Inaugural Event
Please join us for the inaugural Virtual Dinner Guest event between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Come observe and discuss the start of a global initiative in grassroots citizen-diplomacy. The event is free and open to the public. more…
MiM: Music is Medicine Project Review
Wouldn’t it be great if owning music was not only guaranteed affordable for all, but also helped to preserve the rain forest, feed the hungry, and save the whales? Wouldn’t it be great if musicians could be paid fairly, too? MiM: Music is Medicine, is using social media and digital commerce to turn this vision into reality. more…
SwarmFest 2011
Swarmfest is the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group, and represents an opportunity for individuals engaged in agent-based modeling and complex systems analysis to present their work and engage in lively discussions with others with diverse, but similar, interests. more…
Rio Grande SIGGRAPH Meetup
The Rio Grande ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts its biannual face-to-face meetup in Santa Fe. And our friends from the Rio Grande IGDA and New Mexico Post Alliance are invited too. Have you got clips, games, reels or other content you’ve produced and would like to share? Bring it along!
Rio Grande SIGGRAPH is dedicated to the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. more…
New Mexico Digital Media Forum
A special program of “currents” Santa Fe International New Media Festival at the Santa Fe Complex.
See the “currents” exhibitions at El Museo Cultural in the Railyard, before and after the Forum. www.currents2011.com
Digital media is a growing and pervasive part of our evolving networked Information Society. Digital media and film are also key sectors of New Mexico’s economy, and of the Santa Fe regional “Creative Economy”. more…
Re-mindful App — Random Apps of Kindness presentation
Haj Khalsa of Random Apps of Kindness will present an iPhone app in progress. Re-mindful sends a daily mindfulness related reminder, and allows sharing on Twitter and Facebook.
VPython: 3D Programming for Ordinary Mortals
Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood, Professors of Physics Emeriti, North Carolina State University
VPython is a programming environment that enables even novices to write programs that produce navigable real-time 3D animations as a side-effect of computations.. VPython is based on the Python programming language (http://python.org) which has a large user community. Like Python, VPython is open source freeware available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh (http://vpython.org). more…
WedTech: Artist Talk — Marcia Lyons and Woody Vasulka: RED
LOCATION: David Richard Contemporary, 130 Lincoln Avenue, Suite D
Marcia Lyons and Woody Vasulka will discuss their works, installed as part of “RED (Force Fields)” an immersive exhibition at David Richard Contemporary. Marcia’s piece is a data- and viewer-driven interpretation of live seismic data. Woody has re-installed “Noise Fields” a seminal work from 1974. more…
App Development Challenge Weekend
MIX and City of Santa Fe: The App Development Challenge
On May 19th, the starting gun will be fired when the Mobile Apps Challenge categories and prizes are announced (hint: think nightlife, mapping). There will be two freestyle categories: one, for apps which have already been in development; the other will be for new apps of any kind, the only limit is the developers’ imagination. Before May 19th, submit ideas for apps to be developed at http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=4c68
Then beginning on May 21st, the Weekend Mobile Apps Jam will take place at the Santa Fe Complex. We’ll have key people in the industry discussing how to get funded, doing great design for technology, and making mobile games. more…
Book Tour Event: Steven Kotler
Think you know dog? Think again.
Do dogs believe in God? Do they have mystical experiences? Science has taught us some pretty curious things about four-legged companions lately and the answers to these questions are just the beginning. In the past 30 years, researchers have turned much of what we thought we knew about dogs on its head, along the way upending quite a few assumptions about our own species as well. For example, think humans domesticated wolves? Think again: they may have domesticated us. Think human morality is a neat trick? It now appears that our dogs taught it to us. These topics and others, as Steven Kotler, co-founder of the Rancho de Chihuahua dog sanctuary and author of A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life takes us on a wild tour of the far frontiers of canine research. For more about the speaker: more…
Gridfest: A Monome Music Festival
Gridfest. In the spirit of collaboration, as it is exemplified by artistic endeavor, the monome community is once again organizing a large scale event showcasing the broad spectrum of talent of monome users. Artists from around North America will be attending and performing in a series of concerts and workshops to be held at Corazon and Santa Fe Complex. more…
Innovator’s Forum: How not to get hacked: simple tasks for a business owner
What would a hacker want with your site? What would a hacker do to your site if they got in? And how can you, a non-techie business owner, prevent hackers from doing damage to your site, your reputation, and your finances should they break into your site?
Oban Lambie is the owner of Brownrice Internet, one of New Mexico’s largest web hosting, server, and programming businesses. more…
The Virtual Dinner Guest Project
Eric Maddox, Terra Obscura Films
What if the evening news was replaced with the evening conversation? What
if each of us had a personal investment in just a few of the lives behind
the regular news headlines?
Virtual Dinner Guest represents a practical answer to these questions.
At 6pm Friday, April 8th, The Santa Fe Complex will host a demonstration
of technologies to be used in the The Virtual Dinner Guest Project, an
education and advocacy-oriented international video-conferencing and
multimedia venture of Santa Fe-based production company, Terra Obscura
Films, in collaboration with The Santa Fe Complex. more…
“The Theory of Complexity in Cuba: history of a difference”
Dr. Antonio Correa Iglesias
The first complexity study center was established in Havana a decade ago. Today, there are 10 such centers stretching across the island. Dr. Antonio Correa Iglesias, president of the Havana Complexity Cátedra, will talk about the history of ideas in Cuba, and the fact that the study of complexity has created a space for autonomy, self-management, visibility, difference and resistance. more…
Community Homesteading Potluck
photo by Tamara Iwaseczko
Grow, Raise, Cook, Preserve.
Teach, Learn, Mentor, Share.
The Santa Fe Complex and Home Grown New Mexico are hosting the first monthly Community Homesteading Potluck Gathering.
The potluck is an opportunity to meet fellow gardeners in your neighborhood and around the city. Come learn from your peers and from our guest speakers. Come if you are a novice, an expert, or anything in between.
Bring a dish to share with the group. Please provide your own utensils. A suggested donation of $5 supports Home Grown New Mexico.
For more information, visit http://homegrownnewmexico.org/
