57 Search Results for “santa fe art institute”

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    Greg Sholette and Monika Bravo at Santa Fe Art Institute

    As part of SFAI’s seasonal program, Half Life: Patterns of Change, Greg Sholette and Monika Bravo exhibit two works each in contrasting modes; Sholette works a didactic satirical vein while Bravo shows a lyrical streak. Any visible commonality might lie in the haunting quality of disembodied human presence, but presumably the work fulfills SFAI’s larger mission of promoting art as positive social force, as well as the self-described intention underlying More …

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    Slideshow: Cuban Artist Roberto Diago at Santa Fe Art Institute

    Day before yesterday a friend who spent many years living in Brazil remarked, as I was extracting something from its superfluous wrappers, “In Brazil theyd hand it to you bare.”  Bare. The word struck me for its bald economy, an apt prelude to Roberto Diagos installation at Santa Fe Art Institute. Utopia (2008) salvages materials instantly recognizable as excess packaging, for art of an essentially metaphysical kind. What you see More …

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    Currents New Media Festival in Review

    Currents New Media Festival this year augmented what new media artist Julia Scher has called “appearances in screens” with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences. Nested into the main event at El Museo Cultural was Code and Noise, an independent exhibition that seemed especially well-suited for visitors interested in how appearances in screens may metamorphose into a next situation. I paid three visits to Currents 2016 and consistently found Code More …

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    Santa Fe Minus Thirty Years: An Interview with Cissie Ludlow

    “It’s very hard to tell the difference between the set of Desperate Living and the De Vargas Hotel.” That’s Cissie Ludlow describing the hotel and movie-set subjects she shot thirty years ago in Santa Fe and in Baltimore. She moved to Santa Fe in 1972 while traveling the country in a school bus, and began studying photography in 1976 at the Center for the Eye, located in the basement of the Armory More …

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    IAIA Revitalizes Its Performing Arts Program

    Performing arts education at the Institute of American Arts, dormant for 20 years, has reawakened in this 2014-15 academic year. The institute appointed Daniel Banks, PhD, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performing Arts. The performing arts program has taken shape with three weekday courses offered, and four on weekends. This marks a revival of the program. “Performing arts funding was cut from the IAIA budget in 1995,”  said IAIA Dean Charlene Teters. More …

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    Patronage At Home — Laila Farcas-Ionescu at Santa Fe’s Atelier 55

    In what could become something more than a trend, for the second summer in a row architect and designer Sam Takeuchi is hosting a show in his Santa Fe home for an artist friend — this year, Laila Farcas-Ionescu. Not just a private showing, and not really a pop-up either, it falls somewhere in between a salon gathering and a gallery opening. Call it a salonery. However it ends up, Ionescu is More …

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    Reflections on the Public Space of CURRENTS New Media Festival

    On the surface of CURRENTS new media festival, that’s what there is: surface. Surface flexes the critical joint of a festival full literally of viewing screens. The surfaces receive 2-D projections, but today viewers can walk around wearing Google Glass or other spymaster technology to trick our brains into 3-D seeing. Here’s a new, but old, saw: If I need a joystick to see better, what I see better make me care very deeply, More …

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    Currents 2014 New Media Festival Preview

    Currents: Santa Fe New Media Festival 2014, celebrating its fifth year from June 13-29, is one of the pre-eminent spots to take in the new in new media. This spans what multimedia artists are making and how also they are incorporating some of the most advanced technologies. How such trends between art ideation and technological invention are influencing the made object and the sensorium by which video and new media art is received, More …

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    Godfrey Reggio’s Visitors Return Life to A Legend

    I first met Godfrey Reggio when I was 10 years old. I was fascinated at the time with anything to do with the occult – witches, goblins, true-crime Satanist stories. My mother — infinitely fed up with my poor taste — sat me down to a film called Koyaanisqatsi. I squinted hard, laughed her off, and approached it like one would a long amusement park line – with unbridled hope More …

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    “Endurance” Counseling, “Durational” Art

    SITE Santa Fe presented Always Creative, a retrospective of Linda Mary Montano’s 40-year career. Montano, who lives and works in Saugerties, NY, is best known for Rope Piece, her collaboration with Taiwanese performance artist Tehching Hsieh—in which the artists were tied together by an eight-foot section of rope for one full year from July 4, 1983, to July 3, 1984. (All photos,installation views of Linda Mary Montano’s Always Creative:©Kate Russell, More …

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    Artist-Technologist Re-Animates Extinct Species

    “New media” is actually middle-aged. It’s been half a century since The Kitchen’s debut in New York; Mark Tribe founded Rhizome dot org in 1996. Kitchen co-founders Woody Vasulka and Steina, residing in Santa Fe since the ‘80s, still create, and they host a massive online archive. Currents is an annual festival of international new media art occurring, for the last six years, at El Museo Cultural and other Santa More …

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    The Truthiness Show, Part 3: Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak On Art and More Real Life

    During the months that AdobeAirstream has worked at or virtually near to Minneapolis Institute of Arts to create three podcasts engaging audience responses to the contemporary art show, More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness, life has sometimes tracked eerily close to art. The Boston Marathon bombings occurred while I was editing this third and final show in which Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak reflected that the work by Irish artist More …