CURRENTS Festival 2024

My project “Vibrance” will be showing at the Currents New Media Festival this year! A bit about it:

“Vibrance” is a conlang, or artlang (a constructed language) working in the tradition of Tolkien and other conlang enthusiasts. Translate English text into Vibrance, a fully color-based language, by typing in a word on the website and hitting the submit button! Also included is “The Color Manifesto,” which speaks to the nature of color and its relationship to culture.

Collaborators:

John Brown, computer programmer

Tim Brown, fabricator

The Currents festival runs from June 14th-June 23rd.

Currents Fundraiser!

For my birthday this year, I am raising money for Currents New Media. I’ve had a wonderful experience this last year being on the Board, and this year’s festival should be even more exciting! Currents is re-committing to local artists for the 2023 festival, with an increased emphasis on performance. There *might* even be an underwater piece at the Chavez Center (🤯). So please consider supporting this fabulous New Mexico Arts organization with me for 2023!

There is a fundraiser on my Facebook page, or you can donate directly to Currents through their website. Or, even consider becoming a Patreon member!

Parallel Studios, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has been producing, curating, and designing small- and large-scale video exhibitions in Santa Fe since 2002. In 2010, we launched CURRENTS NEW MEDIA as an annual, citywide event. The festival brings together the work of established and emerging new media artists, from New Mexico, the United States, and across the world for events showcasing interactive and non-interactive installations, multimedia performances, VR and AR environments, single channel video, animation, experimental documentary, web based/app art forms, robotics and 3D printing. Parallel Studios reaches out to local high and middle school students through its Youth Media Makers Program.

Hynomancy | Live-stream Performance by David Stout, 2020

ecoartspace Fundraising Event and Pop-Up

Fundraiser & Pop-Up Exhibition
Miriam Sagan’s Poetry Yard, Santa Fe

Ana MacArthur, Ahni Rocheleau, Chrissie Orr, Frances Whitehead, Toni Gentilli, Hilary Lorenz

FUNDRAISER EVENT September 30, 4:30-6:30pm

POP-UP EXHIBITION October 1 & 2, 11-5pm (free)

RSVP info@ecoartspace.org

ecoartspace invites you to experience site-works by six ecoartspace artists for our three day pop-up exhibition at member Miriam Sagan‘s private poetry yard in Santa Fe. We will be serving drinks and appetizers, and there will be seating to listen to the artists talk about their work.

Suggested donation is $50-$100 per person

Donations will go toward the printing of two ecoartspace publications; a second edition of our annual exhibition book for 2021, Embodied Forest; and our upcoming 2022, Earthkeepers Handbook.

RSVP for fundraiser by September 28

Can’t make it? Not in New Mexico, please consider making a donation here

Suminagashi Demo

On September 21st Tim and I will be demoing suminagashi as part of the SFCC & IAIA joint open houses. Find us at Santa Fe Community College from 12-2:30 in the 700 block! Lots of other cool events will be happening as well, from tintypes to 3-D printing. See the full schedule here.

black thin suminagashi lines with blue pools of ink

Lending Library of the Invisible

Maternal Mitochondria has been invited to be the featured artists for the month of May at the Southside library branch! Please join us for book arts, snacks, and secret poetry.

INVITATION

Lending Library of the Invisible—a book arts show
Maternal Mitochondria—Miriam Sagan & Isabel Winson-Sagan
Southside Library
6599 Jaguar Drive
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Opening—May 6, 4-6 pm
Show up till May 31, 2022
Artists will be in residence 11 am-1 pm on May 17 and May 24, 2022.

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We hope to see you, even if Southside seems far away!
Come say hi, and help add to our interactive artwork,“What Am I Hiding and What Do I Hope For?,” which asks visitors to hang their own answers on sculptural trees or put them in slot boxes.

There will be grab and go snacks. And you can visit Southside’s Seed Library, bookstore, or even return those overdue books!