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It should be a great night tomorrow night
(Wed) at http://www.sfcomplex.org. Woody
Vasulka will open his month-long retropective show at 6p and will be followed at
8p by a performance by Missoula Oblongata billed as "the romance of
vaudeville, the adrenaline of punk,
and the playfulness of the Children's
Television Workshop".
Details below. Please come on out!
-Steve
Complex News §
August 10, 2008
Week of August 11
Brings Dance, Art, Theater,
Mathematical Music to the
Complex
Samantha Giron, Woody Vasulka, Missoula Oblongata
Head Full Week
Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero
St.
For more information, contact Don Begley at
505/216.7562 or visit sfcomplex.org
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| Greetings! |
Next week is an exciting week for us at Santa Fe
Complex. In addition to our regular Wednesday night blender,
we are honored to host two groups that came to us through
our town's rich network of artists & scientists. Both --
Samantha Giron on Monday night and Missoula Oblongata
on Wednesday night -- are last-minute scheduling
opportunities that we are fortunate to have. They also
epitomize the spirit of Santa Fe Complex in our quest to
create and explore connections across science, technology
and art. We hope to see you there and to see you at the
other events this week at the complex.
-don
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Samantha
Giron Dance Project will be presenting work from two
distinct shows on Monday,
August 11 at 8:00: a premiere entitled Quickly
Going Somewhere and Back,
and two excerpts from Women
and War,
called Fire
Diary
and Interrogations.
Women
and War
explores the human experience of war from different
perspectives than those typically presented to us. War is
usually focused on men who play the heroic roles of killing,
being killed, being captured and tortured. Physical bravery
is shown as a male trait.
Quickly
Going Somewhere and Back
represents a new approach for Samantha Giron Dance Project.
When Christianson and Giron were invited to perform at San
Francisco's COLLABORATION Festival, they set out to
co-create a dance and music performance. Christianson wrote
the score first and provided Giron with some imagery and
narrative context. Giron then set to work responding to the
score. Since then, the two have continued to adapt their own
contributions to the performance. Christianson performs his
original violin score on stage in Quickly
Going Somewhere and Back.
The
performance is free though contributions to support the tour
are appreciated.For more information, visit the Santa Fe
Complex web site.
Samantha Giron Dance Project's web site is here.
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Woody Vasulka Offers a
Retrospective
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 Pioneering digital artist Woody Vasulka
brings a retrospective exhibit and three work sessions to
the complex in August and September. His show opens on Wednesday, August 13 at
5:00; his workshops will follow through the next
month.
The retrospective revisits a generation of
"continual interaction within an art community," according
to Woody, which was lost as "the idea of realism slowly came
to dominate art in the digital era." Vasulka believes the
hyperrealistic phase is fading once again and offers this
exhibit as a bridge between the earlier period it represents
and modern trends.
Woody pioneered video art in the
late 1960s. Born in Brno, now in the Czech Republic, he
trained as an engineer before studying television and film
production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He
met his wife, Steina Vasulka, in the early 1960s and moved
to New York City in 1965, where he worked as a multiscreen
film editor, experimenting with electronic sounds and
stroboscopic lights while pioneering the showing of video
art at the Whitney Museum. Woody collaborated with Don
MacArthur and Jeffrey Schier in 1976 to build a computer
controlled personal imaging facility called The Digital
Image Articulator. The Vasulkas have been based in Santa Fe
since 1980. More information is available at their website.
Details will be posted
on the complex website in the
next few days. |
The romance of
vaudeville, the adrenaline of punk,
and the playfulness
of the Children's Television Workshop
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 Missoula Oblongata is coming, Meow Wolf is
moving, the Process held firm and Santa Fe Complex is ready.
The three-person theater company's visit was in
danger when Meow Wolf had to move. Christian Hagy of The
Process stepped in to sponsor the show, turning to Santa Fe
Complex for a venue at Meow Wolf's suggestion.
Thanks
to their work and Missoula Oblongata's support, the show
goes on. They'll alight in Santa Fe Wednesday night, August 13 at
8:00, after its Monday night show in Ft. Worth and
before moving on to Phoenix, Tucson, LA, San Francisco and
points beyond. Long-time friends Donna Sellinger, Madeline
ffitch and Sarah Lowry are the core of the company, which
travels light to perform in any venue with electricity and
space. St. Louis Magazine says they have the "romance of
vaudeville, the adrenaline of punk, and the playfulness of
the Children's Television Workshop;" Thanks to the efforts
of many supporters, Santa Fe will get a chance to taste this
eclectic mixture.
The performance is free though
contributions to support the tour are appreciated. For more
information, visit: Santa Fe
Complex, Meow Wolf or Missoula
Oblongata | |
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Santa Fe
Complex is a nonprofit, community studio creating
connections in science, technology and art. Our studio
stands on three core activities:
Collaboration
to address real-world problems, encourage cooperation
and create economic opportunities in applied
complexity, urban planning and simulation, and
computational arts.
Communication with local,
national and international communities about our work
in Santa Fe and elsewhere. Whether it's a live
feed or published reports, we broadcast our work - and
the role Santa Fe plays in this important effort - to
all interested parties.
Education through the
principle of learning-by-doing in active projects that
lets students be part of, and contribute to, their
project team. We offer formal classes, scientific and
technology lectures, and
internships.
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Music Is Mathematics.
Or, Was that Mathematics Is Music?
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Mathematician Jack Douthett and music theorist
John Clough wrote the book on music theory and
mathematics, so to speak, in their 2008 publication
titled, curiously enough, Music Theory and
Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and
Transformations. Douthett visits Santa Fe
Complex on Thursday
night, August 14 at 6:00 to review the theory
of maximally even sets, an algebraic structure
initially designed to model musical scales and chords,
with an emphasis on visualization. For more
information, click here. |
| WedTechs Reborn & Expanded
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We're reviving and expanding a community
tradition that existed before Santa Fe Complex was
born: the Wednesday afternoon tech talk on matters
complex. Each Wednesday we'll open the Complex to a
community forum on the Internet, 3D- and agent-based
modeling or any other topics that pique the interest
of technology experts and novices alike. The sessions
run from 1:00 to 3:00 at sfX, 632 Agua Fria. Lunch is
available for a $7.00 contribution to defray
costs.
WedTech's technical talk tradition will
continue as well. This Wednesday, August 13 at
1:00, we'll be joined by Larry Kilham entitled
Original Thinking,
Innovation and Imagination in the Complex
World. Larry is an entrepreneur and engineer
with three patents to his name and an IR-100 award
(developer of one of the 100 most significant
technical products in 1986) for his work in optical
and video
processing.
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| On tap at the
complex . . . |
| Sharpening the Artistic
Vision |
All other things being equal, the
simplest solution is the best, or so said William Oakham
back in the 14th century. Somehow, that became Occam's Razor
and set the standard for evaluating scientific explanations
and theories.
Albert Einstein saw the risk of
excessive simplicity, though, and countered by saying,
"Things should be as simple as possible but not
simpler."
What does that have to do with Santa Fe Complex's
first juried art show? It's up to the artists, who can
explain their ideas here. We'll be
happy with a cabinet of curiosities, a science fair, an art
exposition, and a three-ring circus of brilliant and fun
interpretations of the wisdom of Messrs. Oakham and
Einstein. For more information, click here. Entry
concepts are due September 2; the opening date is October
18. |
Come Visit Us
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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 or click here. |
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Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe
Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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