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September Calendar:
Wikis, Water and
Single String Concerts
Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero St. For more
information, call 505/216.7562 or visit sfcomplex.org
In This Issue
Rewriting History
Political Horseraces
Modeling Disease Transmission
Water & Whiskey, Again
Symphony on a Single String
Grants Support the Complex
Sept 10 H20 Symposium
Come Visit Us
Santa Fe Complex is located in the Railyard Art District within
walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza
downtown. While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street
parking lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility.
Don't Like History? Rewrite It.
Wiki Edits I've Known and Loved · September 15, 6:00
We can expect the electoral campaign season to be filled with the
usual rewrites of history, similar to the recent New York Times story
on the changes made to Sarah Palin's wikipedia page the night before
she was introduced as John McCain's running mate. WikiScanner creator
Virgil Griffith (aka Romanpoet) will offer his analysis of the various
ways people and corporations try to rewrite history--or, at least,
their Wikipedia pages--on September 15 at 6:00. Admission is free but
a $5.00 contribution is suggested.
Virgil, a graduate student in computation and neural systems at
Caltech, spends his weekends using "data-mining to make the Internet a
better and more interesting place." He is also a visiting researcher
at the Santa Fe Institute where he studies emergence and innovation in
evolutionary systems and the dynamics of living systems <--more-->
Handicapping the Horseraces
It's human nature: Elections and disinformation go hand-in-hand. We
idealize the competition of ideas and the process of debate while we
listen to the whisper campaigns telling us of the skeletons in the
other candidate's closet.
We can, however, learn what is really going on in this fall's
campaigns with the growing number of tools available to the serious
journalism and the ordinary citizen. Join journalist and journalism
professor Tom Johnson for a three-part workshop at Santa Fe Complex to
learn how you can be your own investigative reporter and get ready for
that special Tuesday in November. <--more-->
New Project at sfX: Modeling Disease Transmissions
Marcus Daniels will give a TechTalk on Wednesday, September 10, at
3:00 pm on disease transmission between deer infected with Bovine
Tuberculosis and cattle in the northern counties of the lower
peninsula of Michigan.
Marcus will discuss his work with USDA and the Michigan Wildlife
Service using an extensive dataset developed by the state of Michigan
that tracks harvested deer down to the square mile. His work also used
an agent-based model simulating the activities of several hundred
thousand deer to predict how disease proliferation might be
controlled. In the model, the deer reproduce, move around a home range
of realistic size, and die, at realistic rates for their age and sex.
This allowed the state to estimate the disease risk to cattle in the
vicinity of the simulated sick deer.
Marcus proposes to expand the original study with additional data that
are now available. Anyone interested in participating in this project
or curious about his earlier work is welcome to attend.
Mixing Whiskey & Water, Again
Water is complex. It defies common sense in its ability to form and
reform. It defies human efforts to corral it into narrow channels. It
challenges our assumptions about development when we forget it's a
scarce resource.
Santa Fe Complex practitioners Paul Paryski and Kim Sorvig propose to
use the resources of Santa Fe Complex to develop an agent-based model
that examines the social and physical dynamics of water in the arid
Southwest. The model will apply complexity science, GIS systems and
agent-based models to the age-old problem of water use. <--more-->
Richard Bassara Concert Kicks Off Occam's Razor Festivities
In the spirit of Occam's Razor, Robert Bassara will offer a symphony
of the solo string on Saturday, September 27 beginning at 7:00 pm.
Bassara, a world traveler, artist, and ethno-musicologist, will play
some of the simplest and most unusual instruments -- with exotic names
like ecktar, birembaud, winged thing, kyi tzi, jaws a phone, breathe
flute, bird flute and ker pe -- in this one-night performance. His
performance is a prologue to the Occam's Razor show, which opens on
October 18th.
Bassara has collected, borrowed, modified, invented, designed,
handcrafted or fabricated all the instruments he plays. He will be
joined by several other musicians in concert as well as the artists
whose work will be displayed in the actual show. The concert is free;
a contribution of $5.00 is suggested. Click here for more information.
SF Complex Receives Two Grants to Support its Programs
JR Henzel, Jr. and the Harnisch Foundation each announced a $5,000
gift to Santa Fe Complex.
JR Henzel, Jr. is a China-based entrepreneur whose grant created the
JR Henzel, Jr. Physical Computing Internship to explore and simplify
the human-machine interface. "It is a certainty that this area is
still in its infancy and worthy of advanced study," Henzel said.
"Investments in our promising youth are the soundest that we can make
in the futures of all generations that will follow us." The Henzel
Internship is held by Dylan Pommer, a 22-year old student the College
of Santa Fe in the Moving Arts department.
Dylan is developing a multi-touch screen interface on a light table
using infrared line lasers and infrared cameras. The live space on the
table is approximately 2.5 feet on a side and the sensors track all
hand (or object) movements in this area, assigning a unique ID to each
discrete object in the area. (Dylan's light table was a hit at
sfComplex's grand opening in June--see the picture above.)
The Harnisch Foundation's $5,000 grant will help Santa Fe Complex
develop its fundraising program, announced foundation president Sue
Ann Harnisch. The grant specifically supports sfComplex's proposal to
design its fundraising program, develop a brand ID to support the
program, and implement the program in web- and print-based media. The
foundation is a NYC-based organization that provides seed funds to
expand their grantees' programs. Our thanks to Ben Goldsmith, a
sfComplex intern, who connected us with the Harnisch Foundation.
Santa Fe Clean Water Forum: Sept. 10
We're breaking from our blender program for a clean water forum on
September 10. Hosted by Watershed Guardians, a branch of WildEarth
Guardians, the organization has launched an outreach effort to engage
New Mexicans in protecting the state's most precious natural resource,
water. The program supports Governor Richardson's initiative to
protect over 5000 river miles using a special designation under the
Clean Water Act.
Come Visit Us
Santa Fe Complex is located in the Railyard Art District within
walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza
downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the project space at 624
Agua Fria and the work space at 632 Agua Fria.
The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-
term use associated with on-going sfComplex projects. The project
space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer Internet
access, working facilities, a coffee lounge and work carrels for
laptop users.
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.
Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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