Jul
24
2008
| July 30, 2008 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
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 »
Jul
08
2008
| July 9, 2008 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
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 »
Jun
19
2008

It was a grand opening, indeed, as 500 people packed Santa Fe Complex’s new home at 632 Agua Fria last Saturday, June 14. From 4:00 to 7:00, it was an SRO crowd, spilling out into grounds to enjoy the cool breeze as the evening progressed. At 7:00, the audience settled in for a one-hour Noisefold performance and lingered into the evening to savor the experience long after the lights went down on the live show.
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Jun
16
2008
Morphology, Metaphor and Category
Ralph Chapman, Tiha von Ghyczy, Thomas P. Caudell,
Steve Smith
Wednesday, June 18, 6-8 PM
Blenders are a Wednesday night feature at Santa Fe Complex, located at 632 Agua Fria St. Entrance is on Romero St. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served; donations to defray their costs are welcome.
Numbers are metaphor: they describe the world in an abstract manner that implies their object. They can tell us how much something weighs, how tall its is or how fast it is going. Or, they can delve deeper into their objects and help us understand them in an almost intuitive way. Continue Reading »
Jun
14
2008
The grand opening of Santa Fe Complex begins today at 4:00 with an open house until 6:30. There will be a brief discussion of the complex’s mission at 6:30 followed by a live performance by Noisefold, the interactive audio-visual performance group. We are located at 632 Agua Fria between St. Francis and Guadalupe. There is no street parking on Agua Fria so folloow the signs to Romero Street and parking at the rear of the complex. For more information, click here. Click the map below for a close-up view of the streets.
