Manipulated Image #11

March 12, 2010
6:30 pmto11:00 pm

“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. Read more

Manipulated Image #9: “GUTTURAL!”

December 18, 2009
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

Hey-Yeun Jang of New York City and Martin Back of Santa Fe offer a special presentation and discussion for Manipulated Image #9: GUTTERAL! that includes their work as well as the work of Wilfried Agricola deCologne (Germany), Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), and Paulo R. C. Barros (Brazil). It is not necessarily the grating quality of the sound that makes these works guttural, but the restless audacity of the artists to breech the boundaries of the agreeable, the proper, and the familiar.
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Instead of buying something, re-make it!

August 7, 2009
5:00 pmto10:00 pm
August 8, 2009
12:00 pmto10:00 pm
August 9, 2009
12:00 pmto9:00 pm

Santa Fe Complex celebrates the spirit of the DIY (Do it Yourself) culture in re:Make It!, a three day festival at of installations, music and workshops showcasing innovative uses of custom built, re-purposed or recycled technology. Twenty-two collaborators create a panoply of artwork through environments and performances that reflect self reliance, innovation, collaboration, and community participation from August 7 to August 9. Read more