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.

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The Five12 Lab : Interactive Sequencing & Sampling

Five12 president and software developer Jim Coker will lead a one day workshop on interactive music sequencing and sampling on Friday January 6th at the Santa Fe Complex. A variety of sampling and sequencing techniques will be covered, including: sample slicing, beat programming, looping, resampling and granulation. The workshop is free and open to anyone interested.  The day will be organized as a series of short demonstrations followed by hands-on lab sessions. more…

Media Hive: with Brian Mayhall

Santa Fe Complex is proud to announce the launch of Media Hive, a collaborative workshop / performance happening at Santa Fe Complex on the third Saturday of each month. Media Hive is intended to be a forum for those interested in sharing information and experience related to media and interdisciplinary arts, as well as a venue where people are encouraged to take chances and experiment in artistic creation and performance. The first Media Hive will feature invited guest Brian Mayhall of D Numbers. more…

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!

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