Projected Light @ the sfComplex

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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.

Steina is well-known to the Santa Fe community. She explores the use of sound in creating and altering video signals and the orchestration of video in an installation context. She is creating new work for Projected Light. Her work is a must-see for any follower of electronic media.

Tokyo-native Hisao Ihara joins Steina from his home in New York City. His work explores the intricate overlay of time and visual perception within immersive video environments. He works in animation, live action video, video performance and hybrid digital media.

Michael Bielicky and Kamila B. Richter’s work, “Falling Times” is a real-time news translation machine presenting permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times to visually represent the heavy InfoPollution surrounding us. With the help of an computer algorithm, the combination, amount, size and speed of the objects is permanently changing and the image is never the same.

Albuquerque-based James Coker’s works include the development and expansion of the development of music composition software, landscape photography, regular participation in ensemble-based improvised music performances, and the cinematography, editing and development of custom processing algorithms for a variety of music-video and video-art projects. He first visited the Complex in February, 2009, for the SFMax electronic music series.

Also based in Albuquerque, Dr. Woohoo, aka Drew Trujillo, is programming a path from computer code back to the natural world. He creates his art by combining the intelligence of algorithms and the creative expressiveness of organic media with behaviors found in natural systems.

Susanna Carlisle returns to the Complex after her March, 2009 show in the Manipulated Image series. She portrays the body in motion as a repository of human experience. Encoded within the structures of bones, muscles, and cells are messages of physical response to intellectual and emotional evolution. Using tools of technology, her goal is to make the inner state visible; to reveal it in its raw, vulnerable, subjective states of being.

Marianna Amster focuses on the flexibility and layered quality of perception. Though the work is often abstract, it uses metaphor to give form to emotion and to discuss the relativity of meaning. Her current video series — Laws of the Universe — uses the physics of objects in reaction to unique environments to illustrate aspects of human psychology. They are, in a sense, photographs of places that do not exist.

The Complex is a collaborative of highly skilled and dedicated volunteers with backgrounds in art, science, education, public policy and technology. Projects that cross aesthetic, artistic, technical, scientific and socio-economic boundaries emerge from this unusual mix. The Complex promotes both community building and economic development in the Santa Fe region for the City of Santa Fe. It is a hothouse for innovation, addressing many challenges communities face at this time, while encouraging unique and entirely original works that combine computer modeling, interactive elements, electro-acoustic and computer music, video projections, and holography.

Because the Complex has an educational component to its mission, many of these works educate and inform the public about new frontiers in art, science, technology and our evolving world. The audience is encouraged to participate during all the public events, enhancing residents’ and visitors’ involvement in Santa Fe’s cultural originality.

Come, participate and be amazed!

Showtimes
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

Location
Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza downtown. We’re housed in two facilities, the conference area at 624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria.

The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels.

While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking lot for 632.

Here’s a map to our location, a representative shot showing the Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632: For more information, call 505/216.7562.

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Lia’s Ars Electronica 2007 Live Performance

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Ars Electronica 2007 Live Performance from Lia on Vimeo.

More goodies from Lia: Strange Things Happen & PhiLia01.

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iPhone art apps: Joshua Davis, Lia & Golan Levin

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Joshua Davis: Reflect

When I was in Toronto, I had the privilege to hang out with my good friend Josh and he showed me this beautiful app he had created for the iPhone. It’s simply brilliant and based on the caliber of artists migrating to the platform, it would be great if Apple added an Art section to their store.

“Work with shapes and colors from artist/technologist Joshua Davis to design your own works of art and view them in a reflective kaleidoscopic.

Reflect is an entertainment, art application based on Davis’ creative method: Dynamic Abstraction.”



Lia: PhiLia 01
(by Lia, 2009)
Is about artistic harmony, expressed through interactive generative movement, sound, form and color. Create your own personal art work by experimenting in a playful way.




Golan Levin: Yellowtail

Yellowtail on iPhone from Lee Byron on Vimeo.

Lee Byron, a student of Golan Levin, recently ported Golan’s Yellowtail to the iPhone. For the details on how he went about it, check out his article here.

It’s important to mention that the last two iPhone apps were developed with openFrameworks. ;)

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Buy your own Personal Jésus, today!

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For an unlimited time only, you can buy your own personal Jésus from the Six Million Dollar Dan here.

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Björk, live @ the Opera Royal House

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Just because Björk is so wonderful…

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The Six Million Dollar Dan++;

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Absolut Quartet
Fabio Carrera, Marie, Ralph Hauwert and I had the privilege of hanging out with the Six Million Dollar Dan, aka Dan Paluska, who is a hyper-talented artist and roboticist who received both his BS and Master’sDegrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

ToteMobile
Totemobile is a robotic sculpture that initially appears as a life-sized representation of the culturally iconic 1965 Citroën DS automobile. In performance, this familiar figure is visually exploded, subverted and elaborated through various levels of abstraction until it reaches its final form: an organic 18-meter-tall totem pole. Upon reaching its full height, the work blooms with light, in the form of multiple organically-inspired inflatable sculptures suggesting the final maturation of an enormous biological organism. The work has just completed a three month exhibition in Citroën’s flagship showroom at 42 Champs-Élysées in Paris, where it enjoyed its world premiere in November 2007.

The Totemobile is powered by electric linear actuators controlled by an Allen-Bradley industrial control system. The machine is equipped with multiple emergency stops and four state-of-the-art industrial safety laser shields wired directly into the emergency stop system. This emergency system halts all machine movement, should a member of the audience get closer to the work than is safely advisable. Totemobile and its safety and control systems were Veritas inspected for public display in France.

The Allen-Bradley computer system keeps track of the machines’ every location by monitoring more than 100 sensors. These sensors assure each component follows a precise unfolding and regathering of all of the mechanical and sculptural elements in this 42-degree of freedom artwork during its five-and-a-half minute ascent and one-and-a-half minute descent.

The initial form of the robotic sculpture is deceptively simple, and belies the existence of nearly 50 interdependent machines of varying aesthetic and functional purpose. As the sculpture opens and rises, these metal and inflatable machines give voice to varying modes of mobile abstraction, which develop throughout the growth and final “blooming” of the full, 18-meter tall work.

As the familiar structure visually decomposes into its constituent geometric parts, each part becomes a more organic version of the original, and eventually lends its decomposing body to support the life of the new organism it harbors. This automobile’s point of natural transcendence lies in its inflatable airbags: in protecting and distancing its unforgiving synthetic body from us, the inflatable provides a point of direct contact with biological frailty. This point of contact provides the “crack”, which harbors the germ of the unassailable automobile’s biological aspirations. The Citroën becomes fertile ground, which this growing inflatable seed covertly consumes, co-opts and subverts for its own needs – the new thriving body yielding where required to insure the viability of its new-found skeleton, the comfortable and utilitarian form of the Citroën DS leaving its pedestrian servitude and stretching to achieve the organic beauty and flexibility more subtly suggested in its original architecture.

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A moment with Marvin Minsky…

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Marvin Minsky

Minsky: Setting up his Mac for the teleconference.

On May 27th at the James A. Little Theater in Santa Fe, Marvin Minsky gave a presentation on The Computer, the Brain, and the Internet, teleconferencing in from his office at MIT. While exploring the quest to understand intelligence and consciousness, somewhere between the size of the brain and Darwinian evolution a wonderful and unscripted event happens. If you are familiar with Minsky, there is no doubt you will have read countless accolades about his beautiful mind… but it’s his smile and the gleam in his eyes that wins me over. A low-quality clip is below…

Marvin Minsky from dr woohoo on Vimeo.

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just a heads up… here’s my new phone number: +1.505.967.9635

woohoo!

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FrankenCircuit: Santa Fe Complex: 06/13 7pm

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Photo: love not fear

Don’t miss the huge fundraising party for the Santa Fe Complex featuring FrankenCircuit, an enormous collaborative multimedia installation of kinetic, sound and light sculpture, and video projection all activated at the stroke of 9:00pm by a FrankenSwitch pulled by founder Stephen Guerin.  Conceived by Philip Mantione and featuring work by Martin Back, James Brody, Tristan Chambers, Walter Gordy, Victoria Hughes, David McPherson, Simon Mehalek, Zevin Polzin, Frank Rolla, Alysse Stepanian, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Dr. Woohoo. Plus music and spoken word performances by Vince Kadlubek, Flamingo Pink!, and Ismael Retzinski among others.

DATE: Saturday, June 13, 2009
TIME: Performances start at 7:00 pm / FrankenCircuit activation at 9:00 pm
COST:  $25, $20 students/seniors

THIS IS A ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT and TICKETS ARE LIMITED!!
PURCHASE TICKETS ON-LINE:  http://FrankenCircuit.eventbrite.com

Santa Fe Complex
632 Agua Fria
Santa Fe, NM  87501
(enter from Romero Street)

CONTACTS:
505-216-7562
505-466-4832
sfcomplex.org

COMPLETE DETAILS AT:    http://www.philipmantione.com/frankencircuit.html

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The Computer, the Brain, and the Internet

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Ginger Richardson Santa Fe Institute

The Computer, the Brain, and the Internet

The quest to understand intelligence and consciousness remains one of the greatest scientific challenges of our age. In an effort to explain the brain, scientists have turned historically to computers, both as a tool for studying the brain and mind, and as a model for how the brain might work. We now live in the age of distributed data and computers, and the internet has emerged as a giant cobweb of communication among computers and their users. Some now suggest that the internet is our best current model for the brain, and thought is nothing but a form of search in the space of ideas. As we move towards more advanced technology, the brain, the computer, and the internet are progressively merging, and our identities and insights are assuming a radically new form. In this series of talks and discussions we shall explore this new hybrid world and its implications for the intellectual future of our species.

Host: David Krakauer, Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Speakers:
Marvin Minsky, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gerald Edelman, Director, The Neurosciences Institute; Professor at The Scripps Research Institute and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology

Via Stephen Guerin.

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