Light Up the Night at the Complex
June 26, 2009 by complextalk · Leave a Comment
| July 3, 2009 | ||
| 8:23 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
| July 4, 2009 | ||
| 8:23 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
| July 5, 2009 | ||
| 8:23 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
| July 10, 2009 | ||
| 8:22 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
| July 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:22 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
| July 12, 2009 | ||
| 8:22 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
Projected Light Illuminates the Night
at Santa Fe Complex Beginning July 3
Summer@The Complex™ continues at sunset on July 3 with Projected Light™, a drive-in theater for the 21st century, when eight artists project their creations in sound and video on the interior and exterior walls of the Complex. The event’s new kind of fireworks continue through the weekend on the 4th and 5 and end on the weekend of July 10-12.
This show, conceived and curated by Woody Vasulka and Orlando Leibovitz, features new multi-channel video work by acclaimed Santa Fe artist Steina and other internationally-recognized video artists. Projections begin at sunset each night when the facade of the Complex building will be illuminated by computer modeled moving images. It is funded in art by the Santa Fe Arts Commission. Read more
Manipulated Image: Live performance by Rand and Rudy, Plus Videos by Miller and O’Finn
June 25, 2009 by complextalk · 1 Comment
| June 26, 2009 | ||
| 8:30 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
New media artist and VJ, Peter Rand, will be showing recent sound films and performing live with special guest Paul Rudy on June 26th at the complex. Screenings will include Dennis H. Miller’s fascinating abstract animations with his musical compositions, and New York artist, Donald O’Finn’s “feverishly edited encyclopedically strange video collages.” Read more
Making Room for Peace
June 22, 2009 by complextalk · Leave a Comment
| June 24, 2009 | ||
| 1:30 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
An invitation to a completely new concept in peace: Spaces For Peace, a landscape, punctuated by beautiful glass walls, (laminated glass, developed for earthquake and hurricane prone areas) a material that transmits, refracts and plays with light, layered glass, which is digitally inscribed with writings by authors communicating the ethos of peace, the philosophy and logic of active-nonviolence, and ways of life beyond racism. Read more
Live Cinema with Potter-Belmar
May 13, 2009 by complextalk · 1 Comment
| May 29, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Live Cinema with Potter-Belmar Labs: Join us for an evening of Live Cinema Performance, experimental videos, and discussion with Potter-Belmar Labs.
Potter-Belmar Labs is Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, collaborating artists since 1999, with internationally exhibited, prize-winning work, in live cinema performance , single-channel video, and installation art. Their latest short, Double Thunder, won Honorable Mention at its debut at the 2009 Fargo Film Festival. Read more
Siftables and More with David Merrill
April 27, 2009 by complextalk · Comments Off
| May 11, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
David Merrill, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at MIT, modestly says his research interests revolve around expanding human capabilities with technological tools that take advantage of our existing skills. In practice, that becomes Siftables, an evolutionary and revolutionary expansion of the building blocks we all used as toddlers to learn how to build relations and structures among objects. Read more
IgniteSF
April 27, 2009 by complextalk · Comments Off
| April 29, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The Ignite movement comes to Santa Fe on April 29 with Warholesque fame for anyone wanting to discuss their work in technology & computer science — or anything else on their minds. The hitch? Fame is compressed into a 5 minute video presentation with 20 slides rotating automatically every 15 seconds. If you can meet the challenge, Ignite is for you. Read more
Vasulkas Come to Manipulated Image
April 8, 2009 by complextalk · Comments Off
| April 24, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Video icons, and long time Santa Feans, Steina and Woody Vasulka will present their work at the next Manipulated Image, at the Santa Fe Complex, including live interactive video by Steina. Get a glimpse of history from the people that made it, as they give their insights and reflections on the significant moments in the chronicles of video art, and point the way to the future. (Visit the Vasulka archives for more information on Woody and Steina.) Read more
Rethink Public Art:
Art, Community and Peace in a Complex World
April 7, 2009 by complextalk · 1 Comment
| April 9, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Jack Becker, co-founder and executive director of Forecast Public Art, publishers of Public Art Review, will join Anne “Ahni” Rocheleau, founder and director of Spaces for Peace, and Erica Behrens, director of the New York office of Franz Mayer of Munich, on Thursday, April 9 at 6:00 pm for a panel discussion about rethinking the role of public art in connecting art, community and peace in a complex society. Read more
A Return to Artifical Intelligence
April 3, 2009 by complextalk · Comments Off
| April 7, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
In recent years, more and more researchers think it is the time to return to the original goal of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), that is, to build “thinking machines” that are as intelligent as human beings. To distinguish this kind of work from the conventional “AI research”, which has turned to specific problems in special domains, this emerging community calls itself “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI). Dr. Pei Wang, an associate professor at Temple University, will briefly describe this field in non-technical language at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, April 7, at the Complex. Read more
Society of Composers
April 1, 2009 by complextalk · Comments Off
| April 3, 2009 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
The 2009 Annual Conference of the Society of Composers will hold three sessions at Santa Fe Complex on Friday, April 3. The society is “dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music.” The conference will be held in conjunction with the 13th Annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, and will be hosted by the College of Santa Fe’s Contemporary Music Program and its director, Steven Paxton. Read more
