Santa Fe Complex

Jonathan Wolfe, executive director of  the Fractal Foundation and inspiration behind the wildly popular First  Fractals at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, journeys north to demonstrate the power and beauty of his electronic images. Continue Reading »

Dinosaurs have a magical grip on the imaginations of young and old so we begin this blender with the perspective of a paleontologist in the making, six-year-old Ulysses Yarbrough. Uly, as he is known, admits to confusing the Jurassic and Triassic eras upon occasion but he is not confused about his passion for the ancient creatures known to us today only by the fossil remnants they left behind. Continue Reading »

Image: Datasets published in the Linking Open Data community project, from Richard Cyganiak.

UPDATE: Emil Eifrem will offer a TechTalk at 1:00 at the complex on Neo, a high-performance graph database he has developed. The talk will dive into the Neo4j graph database from a software developer’s perspective while looking at some of the pros/cons of working with graph databases in enterprise software development. Admission is free. More information is available in the full article.

The information revolution can seem more like an algal bloom of data overwhelming us as we try to make sense of it all. We’re told it’s all part of a network, as though that makes the millions of web pages and trillions of data points understandable. The word has become part of popular culture, as we network in our jobs and social lives or join virtual communities like MySpace and LinkedIn to expand our physical networks exponentially. What is a network, really? And how do modern networks make sense of the bits of information flowing through them? This industrial strength blender will present an eclectic mix of speakers who will discuss their application of the network data model for various problems in academia and industry.

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We continue the discussion started with the Stereo/Computational blender of March 27 (Jason Ordaz, Pete Rogina, Tim Thomas) and the Holographic Blender of June 25 (Fred Unterseher, Rebecca Deem, August Muth).

Stereographer and Book Artist Georgette Freeman will present her stereo camera and viewing rigs, her stereo card designs, digital stereo imagery, and talk about her experiences as a stereographer and artist.

Fred Unterseher and Rebecca Deem will present new work with colleagues on the development of Digital Holography. The Holography exhibit by Fred, Rebecca and August remains up through July 14th.

Stereographer and Computational Photography enthusiast Pete Rogina of WorldScape Inc. will attend virtually via (stereo?) Webcam.

Los Alamos Visual Analytics (LAVA) is sponsoring and facilitating this series and will be presenting some of the materials on their 3D DLP system at the Complex. LAVA is developing systems for immersive capture and display of objects and scenery with WorldScape and others.

Georgette Freeman: Vaporlock and high gas prices couldn’t stop photographer and book artist Georgette Freeman as she crossed and recrossed the continent this year, in yet another quest for “[q]uestions never dreamed of at home . . . and the answers, well, the answers are, literally out of this world.” Fortunately for Santa Feans, the San Franciso-based Freeman’s 2008 wanderlust found pause in our neighborhood and she’s agreed to continue May’s discussion of stereo and computational photography Continue Reading »

An ongoing discussion that started with Metaphor, Morphometrics, and Category now continues around the pivotal theme of Design. Christina Cogdell, Winner of the 2005 Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology and interactive video-sound artist David Stout will contrast their contemporary work with the historical design trends Cogdell outlines in her research.

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