4th Annual Digital Media Summit sponsored by HTC

This Friday and Saturday in Las Cruces!

HTC Digital Media Advisory

 4^th Annual Digital Media Summit sponsored by HTC.

 The HTC presents its 4^th annual Digital Media Summit in conjunction with the NMSU Creative Media Institute (CMI) showcase of projects and media facilities on Friday, December 3, 2010 at CMI.

 This year, we are very excited about holding the Summit at the Creative Media Institute on the NMSU campus.  This allows us to conduct our discussions in the environment where digital media products are created and produced.  Discussions will revolve around taking stock of current resources, i dentifying opportunities, and setting goals for digital media work in southern New Mexico.  Six workshop sessions will focus on animation, gaming, entertainment, production management, marketing & visibility and recording, mixing & editing.  Demonstrations will include CMI's motion capture facility, the only THX multi-soundtrack mixing stage in New Mexico, and motion control techniques.  There will also be a showcase of faculty and student projects.  The event will be followed by a reception at the Sonoma Ranch Sunset Grill for Summit participants, HTC members and friends, hosted by the HTC.

You can register for this event at :  http://summitsouth.eventbrite.com --it is free to all

 For more information contact Richard Majestic, rmajestic@msn.com (575) 521-0018.

 We welcome members of SIGGRAPH who will participate in the Summit and attend the Rio Grande SIGGRAPH Chapter semi-annual membership meeting at the Dona Ana Community College – East Mesa campus on Saturday, December 4, 2010.

 At the Rio Grande ACM SIGGRAPH meeting special workshops offered:

 ·        Canon USA will be bringing the latest DSLR cameras and present on shooting HD video and production workflow.

 ·        Microsoft will be presenting game and application development for their new Windows Phone 7 platform.

 ·        And, of course, attendants will learn more about the Rio Grande ACM SIGGRAPH, and attend a special address from industry pioneer Alvy Ray Smith, an NMSU alumnus and cofounder of Pixar Animation Studios.

 To register for this event, visit http://siggraphsouth.eventbrite.com/

 For more information contact Matthew Byrnes at mbyrnes@nmsu.edu or 527-7573; or visit the Rio Grande ACM SIGGRAPH Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=166192065528

@ARTSLab MONDAY, 11/29 @ 4pm, "Tuning In and Spacing Out..."

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Dear Colleagues,

Please mark your calendar to see Eddie Shanken and Yolande Harris collaboratively present: 

"Tuning In and Spacing Out: the Art and Science of the Presentness of Sound"

Sponsored by the Electronic Arts program in Art & Art History.

WHEN: Monday, November 29th, 4pm

WHERE: ARTS Lab Garage,  131 Pine St. NE

Directions at: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html

FREE and open to the public.

Eddie Shanken

Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is Universitair Docent in New Media, University of Amsterdam, and a member of the Media Art History faculty at the Donau University in Krems, Austria. He was formerly Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University and Professor of Art History and Media Theory at Savannah College of Art and Design. Recent and forthcoming publications include essays on art and technology in the 1960s, information aesthetics, interactivity and agency, and the cultural implications of cybernetics, robotics, and biotechnology. He edited Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003). His second book, Art and Electronic Media was published by Phaidon Press in 2009.

Yolande Harris

Yolande Harris is a composer and artist based in Amsterdam, engaged with sound and image in environment and architectural space. Her current research/practice considers the musical potential of sound worlds outside the human hearing range, through underwater bioacoustics and the sonification of data. In 2009 Yolande was awarded a national artist stipend from the Netherlands Funds for Visual Arts. Her work has been presented internationally, including MACBA (Barcelona), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, NIMk (Amsterdam), V2 (Rotterdam), ISEA Singapore, UCLA, Villa Croce Genova. Significant artist residencies include the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), STEIM (Amsterdam), Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht), Metronom (Barcelona). She held an Artistic Fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and was Lecturer in Interaction Design at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Her publications include "Inside-Out Instrument" (Contemporary Music Review 2006) and "The Building as Instrument" (Cambridge Scholars Press 2007). 

CXV

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Assistant Professor, Electronic Arts

Department of Art & Art History

MSC04 2560

1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

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cell:     505-227-1086

Executive Director, NM Technology Council

"Growing Tech Business in New Mexico"
http://www.nmtechcouncil.org
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twitter: @nmtechcouncil
office:  (505) 903-6884

Digital Media in Las Cruces (12/3-4)

Las Cruces will see back-to-back digital media events the weekend of December 3rd as the High Tech Consortium of Southern New Mexico holds its 4th annual Digital Media Summit on Friday December 3rd, followed by New Mexico's "Rio Grande ACM SIGGRAPH" Chapter and their "Winter in Las Cruces" event on December 4th.

There's a great deal of exciting activity going on in the southern part of the state -- and this is a great opportunity for us all to meet each other and get involved.

4TH ANNUAL DIGITAL MEDIA SUMMIT (12/3)

The HTC presents its 4th annual Digital Media Summit in conjunction with the NMSU Creative Media Institute (CMI) showcase of projects and media facilities on Friday, December 3, 2010 at CMI.

This year, we are very excited about holding the Summit at the Creative Media Institute on the NMSU campus. This allows us to conduct our discussions in the environment where digital media products are created and produced. Discussions will revolve around taking stock of current resources, identifying opportunities, and setting goals for digital media work in southern New Mexico. Six workshop sessions will focus on animation, gaming, entertainment, production management, marketing & visibility and recording, mixing & editing. Demonstrations will include CMI’s motion capture facility, the only THX multi-soundtrack mixing stage in New Mexico, and motion control techniques. There will also be a showcase of faculty and student projects. The event will be followed by a reception at the Sonoma Ranch Sunset Grill for Summit participants, HTC members and friends.

We welcome members of SIGGRAPH who will participate in the Summit and attend the Rio Grande SIGGRAPH Chapter semi-annual membership meeting at the Dona Ana Community College – East Mesa campus on Saturday, December 4, 2010.

For more information contact Richard Majestic, rmajestic@msn.com(575) 521-0018. Also visit: http://www.htcnm.com/press.php#183

WINTER IN LAS CRUCES (12/4)

Hosted by Creative Media Technology at the Doña Ana Community College
Saturday, December 4th @ 11:00am
Come down to Las Cruces for a great opportunity to have fun and network face-to-face with other folks you usually see on a video screen.

Join us for our special December face to face event to learn more about the Rio Grande ACM/SIGGRAPH and a special address from industry pioneer Alvy Ray Smith.

Be sure to come down the day before for the Creative Media Institute presentations and Digital Media Summit and some pre-holiday cheer at the Sunset Grill social mixer!

More information and registration at:  http://siggraphsouth.eventbrite.com/

Support the NM Film Industry Doc!

From Brent Morris...

Mary Pickford in The Pueblo Legend (D.W. Griffith, 1912)

The New Mexico Film Industry Documentary could use a little help!

Dear Colleagues, Film Friends, Film Makers, Workers and Interested Parties,

Myself and others in the New Mexico film industry are working hard, and largely for free, to put together a compelling documentary that will demonstrate to others what we already know --

That New Mexico has developed a film, television and media industry worth keeping.  

I am fortunate to have been employed for over twenty years in the entertainment industry.  I don't like asking for handouts or charity.  I like to pay people for their work.  However, I feel at this time it's imperative we complete this film and thus I'm sending this email to you.  

We have launched a fundraiser on Kickstarter to raise $5,000.  As of today, we're at $1,750.  If the balance isn't raised by December 5th, we forego all funds pledged so far.

These funds will be put to good use, covering expenses such as fuel and meals as we travel the state, hard drives and media for acquisition on High Def cameras, licensing clips and still photos, music, post production, and other essential ingredients to making a professional quality film.  

A little background ---

Since Thomas Edison's company filmed "Indian Day School" in 1897, motion pictures have been shot in New Mexico. The geography and landscape, coupled with famed light, attracted and inspired filmmakers for generations.  It used to be a place you went to shoot Westerns.

That's changed.  Progressive film production tax credits and no-interest loan programs were enacted.  Hollywood took quick notice, productions flocked to the Land of Enchantment.  Economic impact grew from $36 million in 2004 to over $800 million in 2009. Today the industry employs over 3,000 people directly and many more indirectly.  Production dollars from outside the state trickle through our economy and multiply as they're spent on supplies, hotel rooms and equipment -- not to mention homes, cars and college tuitions.  The industry has also created more opportunity for independent filmmakers and young people to realize a career in a creative environment.   

Now, in the current political and economic climate, the incentives that fueled this boom are under increasing scrutiny.   Some lawmakers feel they should be capped or done away with entirely.  By documenting the current state of the industry in New Mexico we want to put a human face on a political controversy and show what these incentives have reaped here.

A sample of what we have obtained so far --

Interviews with Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart"), Virginia Madsen ("Scoundrels"), Wes Studi ("Avatar"); producers Alton Walpole ("Book of Eli"), Stewart Lyons ("Breaking Bad") and Kenneth Topalsky ("Scoundrels"); director Lawrence Blume ("Tiger Eyes"), film office director Lisa Strout, historian John Armijo, writer/director Mark Medoff ("Children of a Lesser God"), director George Burdeau ("The Native Americans")… and we are just getting started.  

We are profiling film workers, students and media educators from Santa Fe to Las Cruces, post production companies, performers and indies, while showcasing some of the most spectacular locations on the planet. 

We aim to complete our project by January's legislative session where we will present our film to those who will decide the future of our film programs.  

PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION.   

YOUR TEN DOLLAR PLEDGE BUYS A DOWNLOAD OF THE FILM.  

A TWENTY DOLLAR PLEDGE BUYS A DVD.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/916865824/new-mexico-film-industry-documentary?ref=search

Also click here Facebook to sign up as a friend on our fan page New Mexico Film Industry Documentary to spread the word.  We are posting clips and trailers there all the time.

Thank you so much for your time and consideration -- and please feel free to forward to anyone you think might find this of interest.

Brent Morris

Producer/Director

Indieproduction, LLC

www.indieproduction.com

505-903-9802

Notions of Time (12/3-4) @ Santa Fe Complex

 

The event of the season for science and art will be held December 3rd and 4th at the Santa Fe Complex.

 

NOTIONS OF TIME

 

There are many concepts of time in science and in different cultures,” said Orlando Leibovitz, event curator. “Is our perception of time an illusion? What is the present moment? Did the Big Bang create time? Notions of Time asks these and other questions intellectually, visually and musically.”

 

Friday evening will feature a performance of the haunting Quartet for the End of Time, composed and originally performed by Olivier Messiaen and three other French prisoners of war in a German camp in WWII. It will be performed by the Chatter Chamber Ensemble. A screening of the groundbreaking film Koyaanisqatsi, produced and directed by Santa Fean Godfrey Reggio will follow the quartet.

 

On Saturday, December 4th, original thinkers will present ten minute talks on time in physics, philosophy, Jungian psychology, the creative process, fiction, Buddhism, Native American culture and other subjects. Videos and photographs that illustrate different aspects of time will be projected. The event concludes Saturday evening with musical performances by the Contemporary Music Department of Santa Fe University of Art and Design and a second screening of Koyaanisqatsi.

 

Admission for Friday night: Front row Sponsors seating $50; General admission $20. Reservations recommended – http://notionsdec2010.eventbrite.com/

 

Saturday: $15. Saturday talks only are free to students with ID.

 

Further information:
http://therestisnoise.com/2004/04/quartet_for_the_2.html
http://chatterchamber.org/index.html
http://koyaanisqatsi.org/

 

Schedule of events:

 

Friday December 3

 

6:00 PM Performance:  Quartet For The End Of Time

Composed by Olivier Messiaen

 

Performed by James Shields, clarinet, David Felberg, violin, Dana Winograd, cello;

 

Members of both the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and “Chatter,” A Chamber Ensemble.

 

Guest Appearance by New York-based Conor Hanik, piano.

 

Quartet For The End Of Time was composed by Messiaen in a German POW camp in 1940. It was first performed January 15, 1941, for an audience of German military personal and French POWs. The work was created to convey the composer’s mystical Catholic notion of eternity and the end of time.

 

 

8:00 PM Film Screening: Koyaanisqatsi

 

Koyaanisqatsi, Produced and directed by Santa Fean Godfrey Reggio, with music by Phillip Glass, presents an original visual notion of time. The title is a Hopi word meaning “life out of balance.” This film makes extensive use of slow motion and time lapse cinematography,

 

Throughout December 3 & 4

 

Video art

• Origin, by Daniel Lee
• Re/trato by Oscar Muñoz
• The End by Agnieszka Pokrywka

Photographic Images by Harold Edgerton, © MIT 2010 Courtesy MIT Museums

 

 

Saturday, December 4

 

Ten Minute Talks: Notions of Time 1:00 PM 

• Time in Native American Culture – N. Scott Momaday, Author
• No Clocks In Nirvana - Eric Kolvig PhD, Buddhist Teacher
• Time in the Physical World – Robert Eisenstein, Director, Santa Fe Alliance for Science
• Q & A 10 minutes
• Zeno’s Paradox – Paul Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, UNM
• Time in Music, Peter Pesic, Tutor and Musician-in-Residence, St John’s College
• Time in Physics – George Johnson, Author and New York Times Science Writer
• Q & A 10 minutes
• Jung, Synchronicity and Time – Anne-Lise Cohen, Jungian Analyst
• Is Time Like a Flowing River? The Phenomenology of Time-Consciousness – Phil Bartok, Tutor, St John’s College
• Time Travel in Fiction – Guillermo Bleichmar, Tutor, Saint John’s College
• Q & A 10 minutes
• Perception of Time in the Flow State – Victoria Hughes, Artist, Teacher, Author
• Time and Complexity – Stephen Guerin, Founder, Santa Fe Complex
• Q & A 10 minutes

 

5:30 PM Music

 

Performance by ensembles of the Contemporary Music Program at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design

• Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, directed by Jenny DeBouzek
• Faculty Ensemble, “Chorale with Alleluias,”composition by Steve Paxton
• Percussion Ensemble, directed by Angela Gabriel and Jim Goulden

7:30 PM second showing of Koyaanisqatsi

 

 

Videos shown throughout the day and evening

 

 

 

Trifecta+ is BACK with 'SEND'

One of our more prolific -- and relentlessly high quality -- local production teams is back with a new short film, "SEND." Be sure to check it out, and share with your friends and connections!

Albuquerque-based production company Trifecta+ Entertainment is proud to announce that its newest short film, 'SEND,' is now available to view online.  'SEND' was written and directed by Scott Milder and stars Amelia Ampuero, with lighting by Corey Weintraub and makeup effects by Mary Holyoke.

Go to Trifecta+'s Vimeo page, http://vimeo.com/trifectaplus, to see the film.

Immersive Generative Art: Dr Woohoo at SFComplex tonight at 7p!

From the SF Complex Discuss list:

http://theimmersives.com/2010/11/11/the-immersives-dr-woohoo-the-santa-fe-complex/

The Immersives / Dr. Woohoo @ the Santa Fe Complex
One Night Only!
Friday, November 12, 2010
7-9pm
Map
The Santa Fe Complex is located within walking distance of the last stop (Santa Fe Depot) for the Railrunner in Santa Fe.Railrunner schedule (arrives @ the Santa Fe Depot @ 6:00, 7:05pm and 8:12pm and leaves @ 6:26, 8:20 and 9:30pm)

Immersive Art + Architecture + Machine Vision
What happens when you combine art + architecture together with machine vision? Can an immersive experience be ethereal on the one hand, but a little ominous on the other? For his latest installation, Dr. Woohoo has created a reactive conceptual space that defies the laws of gravity, embraces the impossible in terms of how a building can be sculpted that includes a cast of surprises.

About The Immersives
The Immersives seamlessly merge art + design + architecture + technology together to create immersive experiences for art,museum and commercial installations.

As the lead of a technologically innovative consortium of New Mexico based small businesses, The Immersives proposal for anEnhanced Machine Vision Project has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2011 New Mexico Small Business Assistance Leveraged Program. Working closely with Sandia National Laboratories Augmented Reality and Computer Vision Labs, The Immersives will be working with: Venture Realty Group; Lumenscapes for Dome integration; Unterseher Holography Consulting for Holography integration; and Klein AI for Artificial Intelligence integration.

The installation at the Santa Fe Complex will be a sneak peak of an early proto-type hinting at what is possible when you combine Art + Architecture + Machine Vision together.

About the Santa Fe Complex
The Santa Fe Complex draws on the creativity of scientists, technologists, and artists to solve complex problems to meet business, government, and social needs. Combining expertise across disciplines, the Complex has helped the City of Santa Fe model escape routes for its citizens in the event of forest fires, the city of Venice plan canal traffic to minimize the wakes that damage the city's architecture, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health identify the movement of troubled youths through their social services network.

The mission of the Complex is to create a collaborative workspace that fosters applied complexity science through interdisciplinary education, outreach, and development of innovative technologies to address real-world problems, enable social cooperation, and create economic opportunities.

The Complex is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a renowned center of research in complexity science, an interdisciplinary approach to solving complex problems. Santa Fe has also long been famous as a center for the traditional arts and is now becoming a hotbed of innovative forms of artistic expression resulting from the crossover between art and technology.