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geSpecial EventsEvents are free unless otherwise noted.Opening CeremoniesWednesday, September 19, 7:00 – 8:00pmThe Albuquerque Museum of Art & HistoryAmphitheater & LobbyCelebrate the opening day of the ISEA2012 conferencewith welcoming comments from organizers and dignitaries,introductions from ISEA2012 theme and focus area leaders,poetry by Hakim Bellamy, Albuquerque’s Poet Laureate andLatin American music by Chuy Martínez and Oti Ruiz. Emcee’dby Arturo Sandoval. A short reception in the lobby follows,generously catered by Slate Street Café, cash bar.Old Town & Downtown Main OpeningsThursday, September 20, 5:00 – 8:00pmThe main ISEA2012 exhibition features over 100 artists from16 countries. It is based at The Albuquerque Museum of Art &History and 516 ARTS, with five satellite venues (see page 49).Old Town: 5:00pm – 7:00pmThe Albuquerque Museum of Art & HistoryNew Mexico Museum of Natural History & ScienceDowntown: 6:00pm – 8:00pm516 ARTS, Richard Levy Gallery & Alvarado Urban FarmPlus KiMo Theatre GallerySalsa Dance Party: Son Como SonWednesday, September 19, 8:30pm – 10:00pmThe Albuquerque Museum of Art & History AmphitheaterThe Outpost Performance Space presents a salsa dance partydirectly following the ISEA2012 Opening Ceremonies, featuringAlbuquerque’s #1 Salsa band, Son Como Son. Led by renownedtrombonist, vocalist, composer, arranger and percussionist,Cesar Bauvallet, the 9-piece Son Como Son has been playingoriginal salsa, Cuban style, since 1993. They’ve performedthroughout New Mexico as well as at the Telluride Jazz Festivaland beyond. It’s a party! Don’t miss it!Meeting Minds Tech LoungeWednesday – Friday, Sept. 19-21, 12:00pm – 6:00pmWelcome Reception: Wednesday, Sept. 19, 5:30pm – 7:00pmHotel Albuquerque: Potters RoomTickets: $10 for registrants & the general public at the door orin advance from 505-268-0044 or www.outpostspace.org6Page 6: right above: Bruce Shapiro, Sisyphus IV, on view at the New Mexico Museumof Natural History & Science; right below: Galactic Nanostructures. Page 7: rightabove: Harrod Blank, Camera Van; right below: DNA Fire Dance Company.The Meeting Minds Tech Lounge is the perfect place to take abreak and enjoy networking with other ISEA2012 participants.Exhibitors—includng Intel Corporation, the Center for IntegratedNanotechnology at Sandia National Laboratory, Ideum andRhinoCorps—offer displays and demos highlighting techinnovations, includng Rhino’s Simajin. Also look for IntellectBooks and their wide variety of items for sale.

Late-Night LoungesSeptember 20, 21 & 22, 10:00pm – 2:00amHotel Andaluz: Club Ibiza & Rooftop LoungeHotel Albuquerque: Q BarThe Bio-ethics of Beer (BeB), by The UNM Social MediaWorkgroup with Gabriel Melcher and Sarah Lewison, is a socialgame-based experience designed for the ISEA2012 Late NightLounges and other bars and clubs during the symposium.Participants follow an unfolding narrative sent via cell phonewhile earning points towards local beer and other beverages.www.ecobrew.orgISEA2012 GalaFriday, September 21, 6:30pm – 10:00pmAnderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon MuseumThe ISEA2012 Gala features performances, a balloon glow, livemusic by Le Chat Lunatique, food and festivities. Performancesinclude Myth and Infrastructure by Miwa Matreyek, usingprojection animation to create a fantastical world (8pm &9pm); Tweets in Space by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern,an interactive piece in which Twitter messages are sent byparticipants worldwide to an exoplanet 20 light years away(8:30pm); a found footage projection happening by BasementFilms; and the Roustabout Arts Collective, a group ofcircus performers. Opening reception for the Mexican SpaceCollective.Downtown Block PartySunday, September 23, 4:00pm – 9:00pmCentral Avenue between 4th & 6th Streets516 ARTS presents the Downtown Block Party during the IntelEducation Day. The general public is invited to this free, outdoorcelebration, which features artworks focusing on the conferencesub-theme of Transportation and fun for all ages. The programsinclude hands-on interactive DIY demos, performances,projections, illuminated projects and kinetic sculptures. Musicand dance happen throughout the event. Featured workincludes: Symphony 505, in which lowrider cars from the DownLow Car Club become the instruments of a new music anddance work; Harrod Blank’s Camera Van which includes morethan 2,500 cameras; Remote Desert Exploration Vehicle byMiguel Palma from Portugal, a converted former military vehiclethat explores desert surroundings during the day and returnsto urban areas to project the desert imagery on buildings atnight; Fire on the bus, YO!, a fire dance on top of the convertedNew Mexi-Bus that houses a DJ; Circus Electrique withThe Chuppers Electric Ensemble plus Milche de la Maquina,Albuquerque Boys Choir and members of Blackout Theatre;Raven Chacon’s Totem of the Total Siren, utilizing custom-builtelectronics instruments; DJ Memetric from Toronto uses HipHop to connect the dots between styles, sounds and peopleon the dance floor; and much more! See separate brochureabout the Downtown Block Party for details on the over 30 artistprojected presented.Tickets: Free for ISEA2012 registrants, $25 for the generalpublic at the door or in advance at www.isea2012.orgResidencies OpeningSaturday, September 22, 4:30pm – 7:30pmRainosek Gallery, UNM Architecture Buildingduring UNM area events (see page 35)7

PerformancesEvents are free unless otherwise noted.See additional performances on pages 40-41.Constructive InterferenceThursday, September 20, 9:00am – 5:00pmHotel Albuquerque: ChapelConstructive Interference is a hybrid artwork that questions theboundaries between installation and performance, instrumentand environment, system and situation. Artists David Fodeland Paco Proano use the notion of constructive interference,a concept rooted in wave dynamics, as a metaphor for theprocess of collaboration itself, and as a way of exposingindividual and collective modes of experience and perception.The artwork tracks the movement of multiple visitors, translatingthose actions into audible and visible feedback. The soundsand the images react to one other, and to the audience, whocollectively create the ongoing experience.A Booper Symphony for Machine WildernessThursday, September 20, 4:30pm – 5:30pmHotel Albuquerque: Franciscan BallroomNegativland founding member Mark Hosler will perform live andsolo for the first time ever in his 32 years of making music. Usinga performance set-up built around homemade, one-of-a-kind,electronic noise making devices (including two of Negativland’sfamous “Boopers”), Hosler creates a musical soundscapeperformance with devices that are intentionally unstable analogfeedback boxes, creating a non-linear, dynamic, “living” systemof sound.Ursonate ProjectThursday, September 20, 4:15pm – 5:15pmNatural History Museum: Dyna TheaterDavid Moss: HyperglyphyxFriday, September 21, 4:15pm – 5:00pm& 5:30pm – 6:15pmNatural History Museum: PlanetariumThis performance of Ursonate by Dada/Intermedia artist KurtSchwitters (1887-1948) merges two distinct approaches.Kristen Loree gives a tour de force performance of thecomplete text, set against a backdrop of 1260 projections byJack Ox. The digital syllables derived from Ox’s visualizationmove simultaneously with the sound. Her original 800 squarepainting is a meta-phorical mapping from Schwitters’ originalcomposition and performance. Introduced in this performanceis the VJDJ artist, Jane daPain, creating electronically collagedviews of the performers and an improvised cadenza with Loree.The Outpost Performance Space presents David Moss, one ofthe most innovative singers and performers in contemporarymusic. Hyperglyphyx is a solo performance on the edges oftechnology featuring voice, electronics, objects and stories,featuring warped words, found songs, phased phonemes andscrambled texts from Wittgenstein, Cage and Calvino.TICKETS: 4:15 Show: Free for registrants. Tickets for generalpublic $10 at the door if space available. 5:30pm Show: $10 forgeneral public available from Outpost (505-268-0044) or at thedoor. Admission free to registrants if space available.Frozen Music Ensemble: 24-Hour PerformanceSaturday, Sept. 22, 4:30pm – Sunday, Sept. 23, 4:30pmDuck Pond, UNM Main CampusFrozen Music Ensemble is a unique vehicle for the developmentand implementation of a novel kind of extended electroacousticmusic presentation. Each performance is a kind of acoustical“tuning” or redrawing of the existing aural landscape throughdirect sound generation and amplification. Its members, GustavoMatamoros, David Dunn and Rene Barge, use new and customdesigned audio technology to engage audiences in activations ofspaces that promote an aural perception of the world.8

NoiseFold: Wilderness MachineSunday, September 23, 2:00pm – 2:50pmThe Box Performance SpaceWorking at the confluence of digital algorithmic processesand instrumental improvisation, NoiseFold creates a powerfulcinematic experience as an immersive audio-visual formblending noise, ambient sound and experimental music. InWilderness Machine, Cory Metcalf and David Stout construct ateaming, chattering synthetic ecology that pulsates and humswith peculiar bio-mimetic interactions. The performers interactwith semi-autonomous visual forms to grow and sculpt the soniccontent of the performance.CorpusElectricSunday, September 23, 4:15pm & 5:00pmThe Box Performance SpaceCorpusElectric is a techfashionperformance for IntelEducation Day created througha collaboration between MediaArts students from New MexicoHighlands University, theTaos Runway Vigilantes andstudents from the ISEA2012Visiting Artists TeachingProgram produced by 516ARTS. Workshops were heldin Taos and Las Vegas, NewMexico, where participantsintegrated technology intowearable costumes and accessories, multimedia backdrops andlighting. The project is lead by artists Megan Jacobs, MiriamLanger, Stacy Romero, Nina Silfverburg and Tatyana de Pavloff.Made possible in part by Intel.TICKETS: Free for registrants, 5:00pm show open to the public,if space available, $10 tickets at the doorIdris Goodwin: Instant MessagesSunday, September 23, 7:00pm – 7:45pmTricklock Performance LaboratoryHip Hop playwright, poet, essayist and performer Idris Goodwinhas engaged Albuquerque teens in National Hispanic CulturalCenter’s Voces program and Tricklock Company’s Manoa Projectto create Instant Messages, a performance piece developedfrom evocative, inspiring and humorous conversations found onTwitter and social networking sites. He theatrically transformsand performs some of these “digital dialogues” together withstudent participants and members of Tricklock Company. Madepossible in part by Intel.Symphony 505Sunday, September 23, 6:30pmParking lot at 6 th St. & Central Ave., during Downtown Block Party516 ARTS presents Symphony 505 by composer ChristopherMarianetti and dancer/choreographer Mary Margaret Moore,who create a ‘symphony’ in which lowrider cars from the DownLow Car Club become the instruments of a new music anddance work. As music emanates from the cars’ internal soundsystems, the cars become like a vehicular orchestra, each carsonically projecting a different part of the whole composition.The drivers maneuver their ‘instruments’ in a spatialchoreography. At the end of the work, the audience is able toplay or DJ the cars. Made possible in part by the AlbuquerqueCommunity Foundation.Laurie Anderson: DIRTDAY!Sunday, September 23, 9:00pmKiMo TheatreAMP Concerts presentsthe legendary LaurieAnderson, icon of theelectronic art and musicworld, performing hernew show at ISEA2012.DIRTDAY! looks atpolitics, theories ofevolution, families,history and animals ina riotous and soulfulcollection of songs andstories. The third and last in her series of solo story works, whichincludes Happiness and The End of the Moon, DIRTDAY! is theculmination of Anderson’s ground-breaking work in this genre.Tickets: $40, available at www.ampconcerts.org9

ISEA2012 ThemesMachine WildernessRe-envisioning Art, Technology and NatureThe title for the overall ISEA2012 project is Machine Wilderness. As part of a region of rapid growthalongside wide expanses of open land, New Mexico presents a microcosm of this theme. ISEA2012:Machine Wilderness presents artists’ and technologists’ ideas for a more humane interaction betweentechnology and environment, in which “machines” can take many forms to support and sustain life onEarth. The project focuses on creative solutions for how technology and the natural world can coexist.The term “Machine Wilderness” was originally coined by cultural geographer Ronald Horvath in the 1960sto describe the transformation of the landscape of the American Southwest caused by the automobile.For ISEA2012, the term “Machine Wilderness” is being reclaimed to represent the potential for humans,animals and machines to coexist in a positive, sustainable future. ISEA2012 featured artists, presentersand organizations seek to define wilderness and our place in it in the 21 st century.10

SUB-THEMESPower: GridlockedFlip a switch and the lights come on. Flush a toilet andwaste disappears. Swipe a card and money is transferred.Sophisticated yet often invisible grids of power sustaincontemporary life throughout the farthest reaches of our world,providing electricity, gas, water, sewage, finances, materials,transportation, communication and more. Rolling blackouts,economic fallout, climate change and natural disasters testthe viability of this interconnected system of dependence. TheGridlocked theme aims to provide a multi-layered exposé of thestructures and infrastructures of power, and make visible theirorigins, mechanisms, consequences and alternatives. Featuredprograms explore power in its simplest manifestations as well asits complex hold on global society.Creative Economies: EconotopiasFrom the local to the global, the Econotopias theme engagesa critical dialogue around the challenges and excessivedemands of the global marketplace and its impact on everydaylife. It explores the future of creative economies as driversof possibility in diverse communities and environments andthrough new technologies. By bringing local and internationalartists, engineers, economists, labor specialists and communityorganizers together, Econotopias focuses on the need for moresustainable social and production practices through programson topics such as open-source ideologies, the gift economy,micro-credit, the culture industry and global outsourcing.Transportation: DynamobilitiesThe once simple task of moving from point A to point Bhas become a minefield of choices and consequences. TheDynamobilities theme features artworks and presentations thatask questions about and offer possible solutions to the issueof 21 st century mobility. Featured projects include new devicesfor moving through space, mobile media that depend on theuser’s movement through space, projects examining the powerneeded for mobility and question the need for speed, as wellas theoretical presentations addressing the mobility of people,goods and ideas.Wildlife: Trans-Species HabitatsCoyotes, bears, peregrine falcons, many charismatic megaspeciesare making cities their homes. Bees, bats and othersmaller animals are suffering disease and perhaps speciescollapse. Plant and animal communities are failing due to thecontrol of natural cycles such as flood or fire to accommodatesettled human development. However, humans are copyinganimal adaptations and replicating complex natural systems insustainable design from Velcro to storm water infiltration. TheTrans-Species Habitats theme showcases work that re-imaginesthe city as a viable space for the integration of overlappingspecies flowing in patterns and spatial organizations.The Cosmos: Radical CosmologiesThe Radical Cosmologies theme gazes at the universe andquestions our place in it. It explores a wide range of creativeperspectives and practices around the cultural, scientific andphilosophical possibilities of contemporary astronomy. Thistheme incorporates various forms of media, written word,performance and installation, as well as workshops, communitybasedactions, lectures and online projects to offer viewers freshinterpretations and experiences of cultural myths, indigenoushistories and contemporary science.FOCUS AREASLatin American ForumThe Rio Grande River creates a natural conduit between theU.S. and Mexico. The path it follows has created a geographical,cultural and linguistic bridge between Latin America and theUnited States both historically and in the present day, providinga unique context for collaboration and the exchange of ideaswith Latin America. The ISEA2012 Latin American Forumshowcases some of the recent and historical production ofLatin American digital culture, critical theory and media arts,highlighting fresh contributions from south of the border.STEMArts Education ProgramThe ISEA2012 Education Program focuses on STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering & Math) education through Art. Itcenters around the Intel Education Day of the conference, andincludes outreach activities such as the STEMArts Competitionand the Downtown Block Party presented with CreativeAlbuquerque and highlighting the Transportation theme, theVisiting Artists Teaching Program, a curriculum for teachers,and an artist-scientist residency with Intel. The programdemonstrates innovative ways for the arts to improve STEMeducation, with a special focus on culturally diverse students.Lead sponsorship from Intel Corporation.Left: Michael P. Berman, Gila Wilderness11

Keynotes & Featured PanelsSee daily schedule for descriptions.Mark HoslerKeynote: Mark HoslerAdventures in Illegal Art:Creative Media Resistence and NegativlandWednesday, September 19, 11:00am – 12:30pmAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomKeynote: Rick PrelingerAccelerating Networks, Broken NetworksWednesday, September 19, 3:00pm – 4:00pmAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomRick Prelingerfeatured panel:ExtinctionGordon Knox, Matthew Moore & Clare PateyThursday, September 20, 9:00am – 10:15amHotel Albuquerque: Franciscan Ballroomkeynote: Roger MalinaBig Data, New Senses and the Avatar as Other in CosmologyThursday, September 20, 3:00pm – 4:00pmNatural History Museum: Dyna TheaterScott Kildallkeynote PANEl:Econotopias: Imagining Possible FuturesThrough the Creative EconomyTed Howard, Jaromil & Caroline Woolard, moderated by Stephanie RothenbergFriday, September 21, 11:00am – 12:30pmAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomCaroline WoolardNancy Marie Mithlofeatured PANEl:What We Learned: The Changing Landscape of Curatorial PracticesIrene Hofmann, Nancy Marie Mithlo & Dannys Montes de Oca Moredamoderated by Andrew ConnorsFriday, September 21, 1:00pm – 2:30pmAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events Roomkeynote: Fritz HaegAnimal EstatesFriday, September 21, 3:00pm – 4:00pmAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomFeatured panel:Conversation with Brazilian Artists and CuratorsPriscila Arantes, Giselle Beiguelman & Simone OsthoffSaturday, September 22, 9:00am – 10:15amNational Hispanic Cultural Center: Ballroom, Education Building12

Tahir Hemphill Laurie Anderson Chip Lord Scott Snibbe Coco FuscoFeatured panel:Technotopia: The Colonization of the Body as the Ultimate FrontierCoco Fusco, Miguel Gandert, Vicki Gaubeca, Manuel Montoya& Adriana Ramirez de ArellanoSaturday, September 22, 10:45am – 12:45pmNational Hispanic Cultural Center: Ballroom, Education Buildingkeynote:Ariane Koek and Dr. Ken WessonSunday, September 23, 10:30am – 12:00pmKiMo Theatrefeatured panel:Digital DivideSandra Begay-Campbell, Tameka Huff & Henry Raelmoderated by Juan AbeytaSunday, September 23, 12:30pm – 1:45pmAlbuquerque Main Librarykeynote: Scott SnibbeExploring the Universe through Interactive ArtSunday, September 23, 2:15pm – 3:15pmKiMo Theatrefeatured TALK: Chip LordAnt Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule] 1970- 2008Monday, September 24, 9:00am – 10:00amKiMo Theatrekeynote:Conversation with Laurie Anderson and Tom LeeserMonday, September 24, 11:00am – 12:00pmKiMo Theatrefeatured screening/Q&A: Andrew GarrisonTrash DanceMonday, September 24, 12:30pm – 1:45pmKiMo Theatrefeatured Panel:Hip Hop & TechnologyTahir Hemphill & Kwende Kefentse, moderated by Hakim BellamyMonday, September 24, 2:00pm – 3:15pmKiMo Theatre13

Wednesday, September 19Albuquerque Old Town146:53am – sunriseDawn Opening516 ARTSThe Dawn Opening of the Wai project from New Zealand will beled by Dr. Te Huirangi Waikerepuru. Maori traditional protocolwill be observed, where the tapu (sacredness) of the spaceis made noa, allowing people to enter. Morning tea is thenshared, signifying the noa state of the space. Dr. Waikerepuru isrecognized in New Zealand for his contribution to Te Reo (Maorilanguage), and the radio spectrum leading to Maori Radio, whichsubsequently led to Maori Television. Growing up, he was taughttraditional, pre-European knowledge handed down by oraltradition.8:00am – 5:00pmRegistrationAlbuquerque Museum: Lobby9:00am – 5:00pmLooped Screening:ISEA2012 Experimental Films: On the edgeAlbuquerque Museum: AuditoriumIn this selection of experimental films, filmmakers stretch thelimits of form, subject and technology. From various cameratechniques and postproduction experiments, to appropriatingfootage from Google Street View, these works live in the edge ofcontemporary filmmaking.Filmmakers: Trish Adams, Stephen Ausherman, Peter Bill & BruceBennett, Peter Bill & Anna Kaneko, Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox,Gair Dunlop, Linda Duvall, Brian Evans, Hans Gindlesberger, VolkerKuchelmeister, Stephen Pope, Sergio Romero & Jim Scott9:30am – 10:45amPanel:The Societal Implications of Energy AbundanceAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomWe live in a time when we need to consider that many thingspreviously thought impossible might indeed be possible,and that these changes profoundly affect what we can dotechnologically, and how we live as individuals in humansociety. Humanity is achieving at a quickening pace its deepestglimpses and understandings yet into the innermost workings ofthe universe, and with it the potential by which to tap into newenergy sources to produce a benign, cheap and inexhaustiblepower production paradigm. This panel will investigate theimplications of this possibility.Presenters: Thomas Bowels, Russell Brito, Tom Goslin, MichaelShaw, Steve Suddarth & Scott M. Tyson9:30am – 10:45amPanel:Tools for Collaborative Research in ComplexEcosystemsNatural History Museum: Sandia RoomNew media is a way to connect diverse communities seekingsolutions to the global collapse we are experiencing. Theunsustainability of our current environmental, economic, socialand cultural practices reveals the extent to which our siloedapproaches have failed. Each affected ecosystem represents anentangled web in which many different types of knowledge havea specific role to play. We will address the need to create bridgesfor the different communities directly affected by the emergenceof new problems but lacking a productive communicationinterface. We will present novel design methodologies forparticipatory, problem oriented research projects, and ways inwhich digital communication technologies can articulate andmodify dialogues.Presenters: Jaromil, Angelika Hilbeck, Aviva Rahmani,Juanita Schlaepfer & Eugenio Tisselli11:00am – 12:30pmKeynote talk: Mark HoslerAdventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistanceand NegativlandAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomIs Negativland a “band”? Media hoaxers?Activists? Musicians? Filmmakers? Decidefor yourself in this presentation that uses filmsand stories to illustrate some of Negativland’screative projects, hoaxes, pranks and “culturejamming.” Their work spans media literacy,audio and visual collage, creative activism in a media saturatedmulti-national world, file sharing, intellectual property issues,evolving notions of art and ownership and law in the digital age.12:00pm – 6:00pmMeeting Minds Tech LoungeHotel Albuquerque: Potters Room1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel: Scale – Time – Complexity:Engaging, Entangling and Communicating EcologyAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomThis project questions how we engage with our ecology. Thepanel is framed within an acknowledgment of scale, time andcomplexity as an entry point into a conversation about our localecology and the universe beyond. The panelists aim to initiatea dialogue by situating the discussion around their own art and

design research practices. These practices have emerged fromlocal investigations into ecological issues that evolved into twooverlapping research clusters, art and ecology, and design andinnovation for sustainability, at AUT University in Auckland, NewZealand.Presenters: Andrew Denton, Nigel Jamieson & Stephen Reay1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel: Eco-Art + the Evolving Landscape of Socialand Situated PracticesNatural History Museum: Sandia RoomDuring the second half of the 20th century, a growing number ofartists produced work with an ecological dimension, includingsuch luminaries as: Hans Haacke, The Harrisons, and MierleLaderman-Ukeles to name a few. This panel focuses on thecomplex triad of eco-art, situated practices— those modes ofengagement that are ordered by the conceptual and physicalcontingencies that arise from the specific conditions of theirsite of production, display or distribution and social practices—varied forms of community engagement, participatoryintervention and project-based public work that embracedemocratic processes and inspire progressive social, culturaland environmental change.Presenters: Eve-Andrée Laramee & Linda Weintraubmoderated by Patricia Olynyk3:00pm – 4:00pmKeynote Talk: Rick PrelingerAccelerating Networks, Broken NetworksAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomRick Prelinger is an archivist, writer, filmmakerand outsider librarian. He speaks about ourdependency on the networks that connect us.He says, “The networks offering power, water,mobility, commodities and communication haveturned into a drunken spiderweb full of brokenconnections. All of us depend on networks that are growingunreliable. Identifying the utopian kernel that once resonated inour minds as these networks accelerated, is a starting place forexamining nodes in emergent networks and our connectivity.”4:00pm – 6:45pmWorkshop: Activate!Natural History Museum: Multipurpose RoomCome learn how to make games with Activate! In this workshop,you’ll learn the secrets of how game designers make games,from prototype to playtest. We’ll take you through the steps froma “physical prototype” to a fully playable digital game, startingyou on the path to becoming a game designer. We’ll use GameSalad, a free game-making tool to introduce game programmingconcepts.Presenters: Colleen Macklin & John Sharp4:15pm – 5:15pmWorkshop: ARIS – Place Based Mobile GameExplora: Multipurpose RoomIn this design jam, youth and conference attendees will begin bysharing local stories and media, and then use ARIS to abstractthose stories into place-based designed experiences deliveredvia smartphone in and around the city.Presenter: Chris Holden4:15pm – 5:30pmPanel: Synaptic Scenarios for Ecological EnvironmentsNatural History Museum: Sandia RoomThis panel is about how artists and scientists can collaboratewith cognitive scientists to address environmental issues.By exploring the relationship between cognitive psychologyand environmental science, public engagement can requirecontroversy and an opening up of scientific debates. However,this level of engagement also requires that we gain a morefundamental understanding of our bodily-sense of place withinthe ecological environment and its complex systems.Presenters: Ellen K. Levy, Angelika Hilbeck, Alison HawthorneDeming, Patricia Olynyk, Nicole Ottiger & Jill Scott5:30pm – 7:00pmwelcome reception: Meeting Minds Tech LoungeHotel Albuquerque: Potters Room7:00pm – 8:00pmISEA2012 Opening Ceremonies & ReceptionAlbuquerque Museum: Amphitheater & LobbyFollowed by reception in the lobby, 8:00pm – 8:30pm.See page 6.8:30pm – 10:00pmSalsa Dance Party: Son Como SonThe Albuquerque Museum of Art & History AmphitheaterSee page 6.10:00pm – 2:00amLate Night LoungeHotel Andaluz: Club Ibiza & Rooftop LoungeHotel Albuquerque: Q Bar15

Thursday, September 20Albuquerque Old Town8:00am – 5:00pmRegistrationAlbuquerque Museum: Lobby9:00am - 5:00pmLooped Screening: Currents @ ISEA2012Albuquerque Museum: Gem TheaterFor ISEA2012, Currents 2012 is represented with a looped singlechannel screening. Curated by Parallel Studios, Currents: SantaFe International Media Festival explores the role of technologyand the diverse applications of new media in the arts. Thisyear’s festival showcases single channel video, video andsound installation, interactive new media, animation, computermodulated sculpture, multimedia performance, experimentaland interactive documentary video, Digital Dome projection, artgaming and art web.9:00am – 5:00pmPerformance: Constructive InterferenceHotel Albuquerque: ChapelSee page 8.9:00am – 9:15amTalk: A Short and Superfluous Guide to Your NewNew Media ArtHarwood Art Center: Dining RoomProgrammer/Technologist Ed Dambik will discuss observations,misunderstandings, pitfalls, the occasional blank stare andsuccesses experienced by a programmer/technologist who wentfrom working as a control system programmer in high energyphysics at Fermilab to assisting and collaborating with artistswith technology as part of the Advanced Visualization Lab atIndiana University.9:00am – 10:00amTalk: Curating Getting Off the PlanetNatural History Museum: PlanetariumPatricia Watts will share her journey developing a unique spacerelated residency and exhibition project in New Mexico. She willpresent proposals for projects statewide including sites nearTruth or Consequences and White Sands Recreation Area, aswell as additional space related artists’ work. Watts’ interest inthis thematic is to find ways to expand human consciousnessfrom a macro perspective exploring our place in the universe,and how getting off the planet in our thinking can influence whatit means to be here now on planet earth. Getting Off the Planet isa multi-year project co-curated by Jenée Misraje and developedin partnership with the Santa Fe Art Institute.Presenter: Patricia Watts9:00am – 10:15ampanel: Radical Cosmologies: Conversations onCulture, Technology and ResearchAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomViralnet.net explores the cultural, educational and creativepossibilities of what a Radical Cosmology could look like.Visitors to the resource room at The Albuquerque Museumwill be able to explore the site’s artist projects, essays andinterviews. Tom Leeser will conduct a dialogue with leadingartists and visual strategists, exploring the question: What is aRadical Cosmology and what does it look like? The participantsare part of the Viralnet.net Radical Cosmologies project. Theirresearch and creative practices pursue cultural critiquesof geography, astronomy, mapping, neuroscience and thepossibility of life beyond our universe.Presenters: Matt Coolidge, Dan Goods, Tom Jennings, Eve-AndréeLaramee, Charles Lindsey, Nina Waismanmoderated by Tom Leeser9:00am – 10:15amPanel:Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations (SARC)Natural History Museum: Multipurpose RoomFundamental to SARC is the precept that science-artcollaborations should be of mutual benefit to the furtherance ofboth the arts and the sciences, and to their positive implicationsfor society. SARC is initiating a pilot series of professional artists’collaborations with Los Alamos National Labs and SandiaNational Laboratories research teams. Santa Fe Institute (SFI)has invited the artists and Lab collaborators for working grouppresentations, discussions and interactions with SFI scientists.Santa Fe Complex, the Bradbury Museum and other partners areproviding public presentation and discussion opportunities.Presenters: Richard Lowenberg, Jack Ox & SARC artists16

9:00am – 10:15amFeatured Panel: ExtinctionHotel Albuquerque: Franciscan BallroomArtists Clare Patey (London) and Matt Moore(Phoenix) along with ASU Art Museum DirectorGordon Knox discuss a new collaborativeexhibition and initiative that exploresfundamental changes occurring during ourlifetimes and potential means of dealing withsuch changes culturally. Patey and Moore’s collaborationincludes an exhibition, Rare Earth, at the ASU Art Museum,an event, Feast on the Street, that brings people togetheraround a half-mile long dining table in downtown Phoenixand a symposium that brings diverse perspectives, includingscientific and artistic, to bear on fundamental questions andissues of permanent change that occurs as a natural part ofevolution. ASU Art Museum’s Knox moderates the discussionwithin the context of the evolving role of the museum in societyfrom archive to agent of social change. Sponsored by ASU ArtMuseum.Presenters: Gordon Knox, Matthew Moore & Clare Patey9:00am – 10:15amWorkshop: The Free Store ProjectHotel Albuquerque: Turquoise RoomThe Free Store Project explores the viability of creatingsustainable long-term food redistribution networks. Movingwell beyond traditional models of corporate responsibility andcharitable ‘gift giving’. The Free Store project investigates how‘unlikely’ relationships between the commercial and creative/social sector can produce projects that create sustained andproductive innovation that benefits all parties. The Free Storeworkshop for ISEA 2012 will reflect on the New Zealand FreeStore projects, throwing some radical economics into the mixthe workshop will investigate grass roots ways communitiescan address the growing disparity between the commercialimperatives that drive food waste and the dilemma of foodsecurity.Presenter: Kim Paton9:00am – 10:30amPanel: Making Sense of DataHotel Albuquerque: Weavers RoomThe panel presents an inside-view of pioneering contemporarypublic art projects from Australia, England, Hong Kong,the United Arab Emirates and the USA that transform ourunderstanding of our lived environments through evocative andsensate uses of data. The focus on sensation is an intentionaland explicit strategy used by the panellists to break data outof the confines of the screen and into our grounded, embodiedenvironments. The projects presented also reveal how cogentlythe creative arts are contributing to global conversations aboutclimate change and sustainability.Presenters: Robert Ferry, Julie Freeman, Scott Hessels, GeoHomsy, Elizabeth Monoian & Vicki Sowry9:00am – 12:45pmWorkshop: Agitating Algae: Physical Computingand Bioluminescent DisplaysExplora: Multipurpose RoomThis workshop will introduce participants to bioluminescentdinoflagellates—marine dwelling, single-celled algae thatemit light upon physical agitation. Using Arduino and simplephysical computing arrangements, we will explore variousways to connect the inorganic with the organic, in our caseusing digital micro-controllers, motors, and bioluminescentalgae. Additionally, participants will learn about bioluminescentdinoflagellates in nature, how to grow them at home, and will beoffered their own packet of bioluminescent algae to take home.This workshop will be informal and casual, focusing on creativityand exploration rather than on developing engineering knowhow.Presenter: Tyler Fox9:30am – 9:45amTalk: Memory Is No Object: Photography asPerformance of LandscapeHarwood Art Center: Dining RoomThe performance of photography is not limited to the creationof artifacts for future reference. It also functions as aninstantaneous reality check or proofing of the body relating toan image or landscape. For many visitors to areas designatedas wilderness or art contexts, imaging is the prime experientialaction, not simply documentation of some other experience.While thousands of photographs of a specific site like ElCapitan or the Mona Lisa are readily available online, we arestill compelled to make our own. With digital technology, it isincreasingly common for an individual to make hundreds ofphotographs in a single day. The making of digital photographsis now essential to a personal sense of reality and experience;the act of photographing carries cultural significance in excessof any images produced in the process.Presenter: Daniel Tankersley17

1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel: Worlds Imagining EcologiesHarwood Art Center: Dining RoomThe panel describes a range of transdisciplinary strategiesand projects for the visualization and sonification of complexecologies through a variety of forms (such as mobile apps, FullDome environments or urban screens) to manifest informationharvested from the environment - from bodies in landscapes tothe body as landscape.Presenters: Mike Phillips, Jill Scott, Chris Speed & Paul Thomas1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel: Public Art Design Competition FinalistsHotel Albuquerque: Turquoise RoomThe City of Albuquerque Public Art Program launched a call for amajor work of public art in conjuncion with ISEA2012. Applicantssubmitted proposals from around the globe. This panel featuresthe finalists, whose models are on veiw at the KiMo Theatre ArtGallery in Downtown Albuquerque.Presenters: Paula Castillo, Josh Lopez-Binder, Julian Priest,Thomas Strich, Jared Winchester + Cory Greenfield & CaseyCrawmer of Entropic Industries, moderated by Sherri Brueggemann1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel: Issues in Information Technologies andEngineering at UNMHotel Albuquerque: Weavers RoomThe University of New Mexico has a long history of innovationin data and computer engineering including human-computerinteraction, complex data structure applications, computerscience education and has some of the highest rankingcomputing and engineering programs in the country. Thispanel highlights some of the recent research and infrastructureprojects of the UNM IT, Computer Science and Engineeringprograms and opens a discussion about future challenges.Panelists to be announced.1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel: Hey Human! What Should We Do Now?Natural History Museum: Multipurpose RoomHow do you think we, the electronic artists, could and/or shouldcontribute to the health of our environment? Do you have ideasand projects to propose? Do you have a working model thatcould be replicated? Each panelist is expected to contributeto the reflection, debate and promotion of projects and actionsregarding our environment and our responsibility as human beingsin trying to heal the deep wounds we can see all around us.Presenters: Andrés Burbano, Nina Czegledy, Ricardo Dal Farra& Roger Malina1:15pm – 2:30pmPerformance: Project AnalemmaNatural History Museum: PlanetariumWhy does the universe behave like it does? Is it acting outits own drama regardless of the audience? Or does the merepresence of an audience forcibly choreograph the show in frontof them in dynamic ways? Project Analemma has sent its crewto the furthest reaches of space to answer these questions,and they have come back with surprising answers. Joinproject director, Dr. Patrick Alexandre, and the crew members,Alan Rosseter (physicist) and Ryan (photographer), to hearthem discuss their latest mission, showcase unprecedentedphotographs, and explore the exciting implications that couldchange the nature of reality.Performer: Colby Sempek3:00pm – 4:00pmKeynote Talk: Roger MalinaBig Data, New Senses and the Avatar as Other inCosmologyNatural History Museum: Dyna TheaterAstronomy is in a period of epistemologicaland ontological crisis. We now think that mostof the universe is “dark’, dark matter and darkenergy, and emits no light of any kind. I willdiscuss the history of astronomy as a scienceand its symbiotic relationship with technology.Many aspects of the universe cannot be known about until theright technology is invented; we augment, extend and developnew senses. An epistemological revolution is under way withthe arrival with the era of “big data’ with the exponential growthof available data. This terrain has been rich for art-sciencecollaborations and a number of astronomers have collaboratedwith artists. If we are badly designed to understand the universe,as a species we have developed ever more sophisticated‘avatars’, our scientific instruments, with whom we work toovercome the deficiencies of our own cognitive systems. As anastrophysicist and an art-science researcher, I will bring to bearmy own professional background in cosmology to unpack someof the underlying issues.4:15pm – 4:30pmTalk: Stories of Wood, Trees, People and DNAAlong a Jalan JatiHarwood Art Center: Dining RoomShannon Lee Castleman will discuss her role in the MigrantEcologies Project, an interdisciplinary collaboration about thememories of wood, trees and people. The project, as initially19

Thursday, September 20Albuquerque Old Townconceptualized and lead by Lucy Davis, combines artistic,scientific, ecological and public educational objectives thatcan be negotiated through this singular research project. JalanJati (or Teak Road) traces the historic, material and poeticjourneys of a teak bed, found in Singapore, back to the locationin Southeast Asia where the original trees may have grown.Jalan Jati brings together cross-cultural natural histories, microand macro arboreal influences as well as DNA timber trackingtechnology.Presenter: Shannon Lee Castleman4:15pm – 4:40pmPaper: Square Kilometre Array – Looking for God:Art in the Age of Big DataAlbuquerque Museum: AuditoriumThe SKA-LFG project is a live, real-time, 3D, graphical responseto real-time observations from deep space. It combines science,technology, new media and metaphysics within a time basedart form linking three distinct perceptions of time: cosmic,computational and human perceptual time. Through this joiningof aesthetics, contemporary astronomy and theories of humanperception and cognition, SKA-LFG explores narratives ofthe sublime through computational simulation, dramaturgicalnarrative forms, interactive digital media and virtual realitysystems.Presenter: Nigel Jamieson4:15pm – 4:40pmPaper: The New American PastoralHotel Albuquerque: Turquoise RoomThis presentation is about a pedagogical experiment involvingstudents in the digital arts, landscape architecture andarchitecture, and the conclusion they reached in response to thecountry’s “largest green development,” The South Waterfront inPortland, Oregon. In the fall of 2009, an Intel sponsored studiocalled The Machine in the Garden: Rethinking Urban Gardensin the 21st Century examined the current movement of “green”urbanism. This speculative studio concluded that “green” wassynonymous with Marx’s pastoral — that in its clear, simplenomenclature, conceals the unresolved tensions and conflictsthat, like the pastoral, it harbors.Presenter: Colin Ives4:15pm – 4:40pmPaper: Paid UsershipNatural History Museum: Multipurpose RoomRemuneration for labor or user-generated content on the web isbased on gifteconomies, debt economies and mostly, attentioneconomics (visibility). In attempting to understand the linkbetween new forms of virtual labor and virtual money, mightwe need to look at them not only from actions of ‘visibility’ butfrom the perspective of obligation, debt and remuneration? If weremit our rights of privacy and right to remuneration, how canwe create other systems of negotiation and payment? Will we allneed to survive off of our freemium activities in order to generatemore content to contribute to the critical mass?Presenter: Renée Ridgway4:15pm – 5:15pmPerformance: Ursonate ProjectNatural History Museum: Dyna TheaterSee page 8.4:30pm – 5:30pmPerformance:A Booper Symphony for Machine WildernessHotel Albuquerque: Franciscan BallroomSee page 8.4:45pm – 5:00pmTalk: Tuning in and Spacing Out: The Art and Scienceof the Presentness of SoundHotel Albuquerque: Weavers RoomThis talk addresses artistic and scientific research onphenomena that lie outside direct human experience. Soundis invaluable for understanding these spaces, for experiencinga form of “presentness” or a heightened state of awarenessin them. Tuning in and spacing out to the presentness ofsound becomes a method for creating an expanded, systemicconsciousness. This is key to cultivating sustainable attitudestoward the environment and to developing interdisciplinarysolutions to global ecological problems.Presenter: Edward Shanken & Yolande Harris4:50pm – 5:15pmPaper: The Invisible PresentHotel Albuquerque: Turquoise RoomHow can the anthropogenic effects of climate change andthe more invisible shifts in basic scientific local and globalatmospheric conditions be translated into viable chunks ofmore digestible knowledge? How can trans-disciplinary artand science teams collaborate to discuss issues like publicdenial and social responsibility? Through presenter Jill Scott’scase-study, she offers a set of media proposals that helps toeducate the public about the scale of the problem and effects onmolecular level climate science cycles.20

5:15pm – 5:30pmPaper: Techno-IntuitionHotel Albuquerque: Weavers RoomTechno-Intuition embraces the combined roles of mental,physical and technological processes in building relationshipsto one’s environment through sound. Such relationships areoften profoundly bound up with technology, raising questionsas to how instruments enable as well as inhibit certain forms ofknowledge. In response, Techno-Intuition recognizes parallelsbetween technological methods of making the inaudibleaudible and more esoteric techniques for revealing aspectsof the unconscious through listening. Using examples frompractitioners, including the author, who actively research thearea between technology, intuition and the sonic environment,Techno-Intuition explores a sustainable and sensitive approachto instrument development and artistic production.Presenter: Yolande Harris6:00pm – 8:00pmRECEPTION: ISEA2012 Public Art Design CompetitionFinalists’ ExhibitionKiMo Theatre GalleryPresented by the City of Albuquerue Public Art Urban EnhancemntProgram.Thursday, September 20, 7:00pm – 12:00amDance Party: ¡GlobalQik! Kick-Off PartyNational Hispanic Cultural CenterDon’t miss ¡GlobalQik!, the ¡Globalquerque! kick-off danceparty with music and DJ sets from EarthRise SoundSystem,D-Numbers and Zenova, plus 3D video mapping and theSennheiser Silent Disco.INFO: www.globbalquerque.com10:00pm – 2:00amLate Night LoungeHotel Andaluz: Club Ibiza & Rooftop LoungeHotel Albuquerque, Q BarThursday, September 20, 5-7pm & 6-8pmOPENING RECEPTIONS: ISEA2012: Machine WildernessMulti-Site ExhibitionCelebrate the opening of the main ISEA2012 exhibitionat the two main venues, 516 ARTS and The AlbuquerqueMuseum of Art & History, as well as 3 of the satellite venues(see page 49). The exhibition includes over 100 artistsfrom 16 countries. The opening starts in Old Town withconcurrent receptions 5-7pm at The Albuquerque Museumof Art & History and the New Mexico Museum of NaturalHistory & Science. Downtown receptions are 6-8pm at 516ARTS, Richard Levy Gallery and the Alvarado Urban Farm.Live music at The Albuquerque Museum by CK Barlow. DJSebby Frescoe at 516 ARTS, with food generously providedby Anatolia Doner Kebab Restaurant, Elia’s Mexican Kitchenand Farm & Table.Left: Jud Yalkut & Nam June Paik, Video Synthesizer and “TV Cello” Collectibles,courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, oniew at The AlbuquerqueMuseum of Art & History.Above: D-Numbers, performing at ¡GlobalQik! Dance Party & ¡Globalquerque!Robert Drummond, District, on view at Richard Levy Gallery21

Thursday, September 20Thursday Artist TalksFor descriptions, visit www.isea2012.orgAlbuquerque Museum: Auditorium4:50pm Lynn Cazabon & Neal McDonald: JunkspaceHotel Albuquerque: Fireplace Room9:00am9:25am9:50amRobbert de Goede: A Moment in WireframePaul Hertz: Trees, Boids, NoiseMichael Borowski:Making Space: Objects of Interdependence10:40 Lea Donnan: The Whispering Gallery, ReimaginingGlobal Structures of Decay12:00pm Eileen Reynolds:Stop Motion Animation in Singapore12:25pm Daniel Tankersley: National Parking12:50pm Timothy Weaver: From Life to Afterlife Cinema1:15pm1:40pm2:30pm2:05pmSarah Zimmer: Mobile PanoptiCAMJesse Seay: Red Rubber BandsRob Ray: Into the Wild: Creating, Powering andMaintaining Elctronic Art in the Great OutdoorsScott Kildall: Grant BotHotel Albuquerque: Sandia Room9:00am9:25am9:50amRomy Achtiuv: Embodied Algorithms: On Mobilityand Transience as Structural MetaphorsPeter Beyls: Interaction in Hybrid SpacesKrista Caballero: Mapping Meaning10:40am Yuan-Yi Fan: Form of Resonance12:00pm Hilary Harp:Dream Machines: Automating Psychedelia12:25pm Nick Hwang: Social Structure [Construction no. 1]12:50pm Ellen Pearlman: Myths of Creation and Destruction1:15pmPascale Weber: Immemorial-Rew1:40pmCaroline Blaker:Twitterscapes - Pursuing Art in Data2:05pmBrit Bunkley: Digital Apocalypse (Always Look onthe Bright Side of Life)2:30pmGavin Starks:The Utterance of a Cosmological Model4:00pmJoseph DeLappe: Mapping the Solar: AugmentedBike Ride as Performance Intervention22Above: Rubén Ortiz-Torres, High ‘n’ Low, on view at The Albuquerque Museum ofArt & History.4:25pmMargaret Dolinsky: Facing Experience: A Painter’sBrush in Cyber-Surrealism

Friday, September 21Albuquerque Old Town8:00am – 5:00pmRegistrationAlbuquerque Museum: Lobby9:00am – 5:00pmLooped Screening: ISEA2012 Documentary Films:Observation and InterventionsAlbuquerque Museum: Gem TheaterThis selection of contemporary documentary films contrastsurban and rural experience and presents various interventionsthat challenge this dichotomy and offers alternative modes ofliving in a rapidly changing environment.Filmmakers: Drew Browning and Annette Barbier, Kathy High, ErinHudson, Marie-Michéle Jasmin-Bèlisle, Andrea Polli and MelissaRamos9:00am – 5:00pmLooped Screening: ISEA2012 Animated Films:Visions and FantasiesExplora: TheaterThis selection of new animations highlights both manual anddigital modes of production as well as hybrid forms. Thefilms cover a variety of themes and subjects, from examiningcontemporary issues of international deforestation to fantasticalvisions of our futures on other planets.Filmmakers: Gregory Bennett, Cynthia Brinich-Langlois & JosephMougel, Lucy Davis, Reese Inman, Anne Morgan Spalter, Chia YuChen9:00am – 9:25amPaper: Info/EcoAlbuquerque Museum: AuditoriumInfo/Eco is an essay attempting to provoke consideration of thenew ‘information economy’ within an integrated, whole-systemsunderstanding of ‘ecological economics’ and the resultingopportunities for creative development of a ‘cultural ecology.’Presenter: Richard Lowenberg9:00am – 9:25amPaper: Investment Without Term: A RadicalEconomy For Daily PracticeExplora: Multipurpose RoomWith the widespread employment of algorithmic trading inthe stock market, the acceleration of economic time and itsdisassociation from “lived” time proves a necessary site fordiscourse. The model of an investment that does not entail anexpected return – reliant on investment’s etymological contextas the “act of putting on” and “surrounding” – allows oneinhabitation or presence without the calculation of discretetime. I situate this critique within Jacques Derrida’s Given Timeand Alain Badiou’s politics of “subtraction,” suggesting newmedia art (re)opens the field of desire to think and practice suchinvestment without term: a conceptualization of an economy oftime apart from the time and speed of the economic.Presenter: Kei Kreutler9:00am – 10:15amWorkshop: Ornamental Cactus Design(Cactus Grafting)Natural History Museum: Sandia RoomOrnamental Cactus Design is a hands-on workshop for learningsimple cactus grafting techniques. We will create our own plantsculpture to take home. Cactus grafting, or cutting and pastingtwo different species of cacti is a common way to propagatethe plant. This method is also used for making Moon Cactus- ornamental mini plants you can easily find in garden storesand flower markets. They are mass-produced, short lived, andare designed to look like flowers. We will discuss the history,ethics and aesthetics of this design to come up with our uniqueversions of it.Presenter: Soyo Lee9:00am – 11:00amWorkshop: Taxi Takes on the World Part INatural History Museum: Multipurpose RoomThis workshop will feature a presentation of The Taxi Takeson the World, followed by a hands-on workshop of citizenjournalism. Participants will be divided into groups of journalistsand shooters, which will hit the streets of Albuquerque togetherto film their conversations with a driver inside taxis. This footagewill be screened at the second session on September 24, whichwill also provide training for another group of participants to pairup for training to shoot. All of the footage collected during andafter these workshops will be used in the global online project.Presenter: Vandana Sood-Giddings9:30am – 9:55amPaper: Examining a Machine’s Future’s AssociatedCost: Cultural & Environmental Resource ExtractionAlbuquerque Museum: AuditoriumThe entire globe is experiencing a devastating loss of speciesand ancient cultures that is tied to humankind’s collective growthand technological march forward. The strength of the visual artslies both in its potential to communicate across cultures andin the ability of objects to physically illustrate and theoreticallyilluminate often hidden processes, connections and costs.Presenter: Daniel Richmond23

Friday, September 21Albuquerque Old Town9:30am – 9:55amPaper: T/Act: Participatory Media Design for SocialEmpowermentAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomThis paper presents research into the social effects of acollaborative participatory design process with selectedindividuals who have severe physical disabilities. This processencourages and enables creative expression by the participantsbeyond their everyday norms. They are able to control mediasuch as audio and video through custom made bespokeinterfaces, which they help to design and develop. Can adisruption of institutionalised conditioning according to class,education, gender and physical abilities be orchestrated bycareful design and presentation of interactive artworks? Can thenew media artwork become a culturally significant tool for socialempowerment leading to long lasting changes for the individualsinvolved?Presenter: Andy Best-Dunkley10:00am – 10:25amPaper: Games for Liberation: Strategies forEducation Toward Critical Consciousness ThroughPlayAlbuquerque Museum: AuditoriumGames for learning are often oriented towards normative schoolcurricula and do not engage players beyond simple rewardsystems, but there are other ways to think about play thatare deeper, more robust, and more meaningful. As potentialsites for critically-minded, open-ended play, alternate realitygames float in discursive space between game and not-game,creating environments for meaningful play that transcend currentframeworks of education through games and create the potentialfor truly liberating play. This paper lays the foundation for thepraxis of games for liberation, building from contemporaryresearch and theory from fields in both games and education.Presenter: Cayden Mak10:00am – 10:25amTalk: Cover Fire: A Survey of BlackoutsExplora: Multipurpose RoomThe word ‘curfew’ originated from ‘couvre-feu’, a French termthat means ‘cover fire’. Historically, as early as the 11th centuryin Europe, curfew was enforced through the use of warning bellswhich signified the time to put out all fires, thereby blacking outthe village. The blackout created a form of security in whichthe inability to see ensured the inability to move, especially onmoonless nights. This presentation will explore the blackout as aform, function, and concept. From pre-industrial night, tangentswill be taken to electrical failure, the bottom of the ocean, globalblack spots, solitary confinement, and death.Presenter: Carrie Hott11:00am – 12:30pmKeynote Panel: Econotopias: Imagining PossibleFutures Through the Creative EconomyAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomThe “creative economy” is an evolving concept,capturing the effects of intellectual capital as itinterfaces with the arts, culture, business andtechnology. The speakers on this featured panelexplore the topic through diverse perspectives.OurGoods.org co-founder Caroline Woolardtalks about the problems and possibilities ofnon-monetary exchange while Denis Roio,a.k.a. Jaromil, a software developer, artist andactivist illustrates the technical and politicalaspects connected to Bitcoin, an experimentaldigital currency that uses peer-to-peertechnology to bypass central authority. Ted Howard, listed asone of “25 visionaries who are changing your world” in theUtne Reader, will discuss his role in the Evergreen Cooperativesof Cleveland, Ohio, an innovative model of community wealthbuilding and sustainability.10:00am – 10:25amPaper: The Wilderness at HomeAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomIn this paper I suggest that we need a complex, fractal-likeintermingling of the wilderness and city in both real andvirtual space in order to create a sustainable future for humanbeings on the earth. I discuss Mrs. Squandertime, a persistentsimulation/stimulation of the slow alpha state that is conjuredby watching nature without purpose, as an example of such anintermingling.Presenter: Josephine Anstey12:00pm – 6:00pmMeeting Minds Tech LoungeHotel Albuquerque: Potters Room24

1:00pm – 2:30pmFeatured Panel: What We Learned: The ChangingLandscape of Curatorial PracticesAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomAs the role of the artist in society changes inresponse to global trends, communicationsand markets, how has the curatorial processaltered? Have biennials, premised on themobility of people, goods and ideas as aninherent good, served their purpose? Paneliststake on the culture industry, audiences and themarket in a discussion of the problematics ofcontemporary curation. Excessive demandsof the global marketplace and nostalgic ideasof “art for the people” test both artist andaudience. What We Learned charts how thesetensions emerge and what critical players are doing in response.Co-presented with The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History.Panelists are Irene Hofmann, Director, SITE Santa Fe; NancyMarie Mithlo, Associate Professor of Art History and AmericanIndian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and specialguest Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, Curator of the 2012Havana Biennial, moderated by Andrew Connors, Curator of Art,The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History.1:05pm – 1:30pmPaper: From Mechanical Turk to LocalCommunities: How A Shift in Economies Transformedthe Alternative Olympic GamesAlbuquerque Museum: AuditoriumIn 2008 I crowd sourced an Olympics-style competition amongmembers of the Amazon.com Mechanical Turk virtual workforce,the Mechanical Olympics. At an ISEA round table discussionin Belfast in 2009 I met a curator from Cornerhouse who tookan interest in the project. Subsequently, it was recreated inManchester, UK for the Abandon Normal Devices festival in2010. A discussion of the project returns to ISEA in regards tothe ways in which it changed during its transformation from oneeconomic infrastructure, Mturk.com, to another, the Legacy TrustUK, UK National Lottery/Big Lottery Fund.Presenter: Xtine Burrough1:05pm – 1:30pmPaper: How to Generate PR for an EphemeralAward and Exhibition SystemExplora: Multipurpose RoomTerminal (www.terminal.apsu.org) is a space sponsored by theDepartment of Art and the Center of Excellence in the CreativeArts at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. Its missionis to showcase and examine internet and new media art.Annually, Terminal gives out four $500 awards for the creation ofnew internet artworks. Since its founding in 2007, Terminal hashad difficulty building an audience, both inside and outside ofthe art world. This paper will explore the difficulties in generatingPR for an ephemeral award and exhibition system and strategiesto get important work the attention it deserves.Presenter: Barry Jones1:05pm – 1:30pmPaper: In the Beginning or…: The Cosmic StoriesWe Tell And Their ImplicationsHotel Albuquerque: Weavers RoomWhat are the stories we tell today about the origin(s) andstructure(s) of the cosmos? Is there a connection betweencosmological models and the socio-political landscape in whichthey emerge and continue to be told? Do these stories affectour relationship to this planet and one another and if so, how?Must we be locked into a system of a singular master narrativein describing the cosmos, or can we imagine the possibility ofthe coexistence of narratives that are seemingly incongruous butallow us to embrace the complexity of information available?Presenter: Sheila Pinkel1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel: The Provincial and the Providential:Buffalo as WildernessHarwood Art Center: Dining RoomBuffalo, NY presents a canvas for potential radical change,radically revised futures, radically alternative systems and mostimportantly, cultural practices that exist outside of any conceptof the conventional market. This panel features practitioners andtheorists based in Buffalo, whose work concerns the intersectionof environmental, economic, cultural and technological factorsin the revitalization and redefinition of the city in which they live.Panelists will sketch their forays into Buffalo’s wilderness, anddiscuss how their recent projects respond to and shape the city.Presenters: Jordan Dalton, Liz Flyntz, Cayden Mak & Anna Scimemoderated by Paul Lloyd Sargent25

Friday, September 21Albuquerque Old Town1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel: The Matter of TechnologyHotel Albuquerque: Turquoise RoomWith the onset of cloud computing and the increasing ubiquityof our technology we are increasingly consuming electricity andnatural resources, with the relationship between our gigabytes ofstorage and our carbon footprints easily overlooked. Is the cloudthe green alternative or a dark storm brewing? With avatars inSecond Life generating a carbon footprint up to three times thatof an individual in the developing world then perhaps it’s timeto take a closer look at The Matter of Technology. The panelconvenes artists, technologists and activists to present theirpractices and consider our complex relationship with technology.Presenters: Tara Baoth Mooney, Ruth Catlow, Claire Cote, AnnaKeleher & PLAND, moderated by Anita McKeown1:15pm – 2:30pmWorkshop: Alternative Art Economies: Economicsin the 4th DimensionNatural History Museum: Sandia RoomIn mathematics, the Klein bottle is a non-orientable manifold thatlives in four dimensions, a continuous surface of which neitherinside nor outside can be consistently defined. Economics in the4th Dimension uses the Klein bottle as metaphor for describingthe internal and external transformations necessary to movetowards a different set of economic relationships. The workshopwill include an interactive exercise related to terms of theSolidarity Economy alongside an activity on Threeing, a modeldeveloped by pioneering video artist and cybernetic theoristPaul Ryan to assist artists and others in understanding groupdynamics and building sustainable collectives.Presenter: Erin Marie Sickler1:40pm – 2:05pmPaper: Cascading Memorials: Urbanization andClimate Change in San Diego and BeyondAlbuquerque Museum: AuditoriumCascading Memorials (www.ruthwallen.net/cascade) offersa public space to mourn the devastatingly rapid changes toterrestrial environments due to the combined effects of climatechange and urbanization. Memorials to specific sites aredesigned to capture the viewer’s attention, ignite curiosity andprovide questions for reflection. This grief over the immensityof our losses can inform the design of technologies and buildsocio-political institutions that insure sustainable futures whereall species may flourish.Presenter: Ruth Wallen2:15pm – 2:40pmPaper: R.I.P.: A Case Study in FacilitatingMulti-Disciplinary CollaborationExplora: Multipurpose RoomThis paper explores the themes of recycling pervasivemedia, intervening in planned obsolescence and practicingtechnological sustainability (R.I.P.) in the context of an eventheld by the same name during the summer of 2011 at the BanffCenter of the Arts. R.I.P., the workshop, was an event organizedby Katherine Moriwaki, Jonah Brucker-Cohen and SusanKennard which brought together a multi-disciplinary group ofartists, thinkers and municipal workers to focus on reclaiming“good garbage” from waste facilities and integrating it into newpublic installations in urban space.Presenter: Katharine Moriwaki3:00pm – 4:00pmKeynote Talk: Fritz HaegAnimal EstatesAlbuquerque Museum: Special Events RoomFritz Haeg’s work has includededible gardens, public dances,educational environments,animal architecture, domesticgatherings, urban parades,temporary encampments,documentary videos,publications, exhibitions,websites and occasionallybuildings for people. For theTrans-Species Habitats theme,he will speak on his Animal Estates project, a housing initiativefor native animals in cities around the world, which debuted atthe 2008 Whitney Biennial.4:05pm – 4:30pmPaper: The Ordinary (R)evolutionary Needsof the PeopleExplora: Multipurpose RoomIn the mid-sixties, an experimental student program at SanFrancisco State College put community organizing andeveryday life at the center of education. Students worked incity neighborhoods, learning about economic and social forcesaffecting others, and developing creative actions. Moneywas effectively diverted from the college/state to sites offcampus. The program’s students saw themselves as part of arevolutionary process. Poised at the historical transition betweenindustrial and biopolitical production, and between hippie culture26

Friday, September 21Albuquerque Old TownFriday Artist TalksFor descriptions, visit www.isea2012.orgHarwood Art Center: Dining Room10:20am12:40pm2:35pm5:20pmLaura Curry: The AgreementChris Galanis: Donkey Walking: InterspeciesCollaboration and the Re-Wilding of GraduateSchoolMeridith Hoy: Eco-LocativeDawn Roe: The Tree Alone9:50am10:10am10:40am12:25pmTerry Flaxton: The Cinematographer’s Eye, theAcademic’s Mind and the Artist’s IntuitionJordan Geiger: MagnitudesDataIRJ: Ian Coronado, Jefferson Goolsby, RezaSafavi: Live Interactive Cinema Performance &CompositionPeggy Keilman: Wildlife: Near and FarHotel Albuquerque: Fireplace Room9:00am9:25am9:50am10:10am10:40amRuth West: Blending Participatory Culture andUrban Ecology: Experiments in CollaborativeImaging for Urban Forest MonitoringAndrea Williams: Soundwalks and Urban SoundEcologyJared Winchester: Forecasting Design:Architecture Defined by Entropic ProcessesDoo-Sung Yoo: Part Human, Part Animal, PartMachineJody Zellen: From Net Art to Mobile Art12:50pm1:15pm1:40pm2:05pm2:30pm4:00pmShawn Lawson: Computational SublimeRachel Mayeri: Primate CinemaJennifer Parker: OpenLab: Art + AstrophysicsMarco Pinter: Object Permanence: Using Graphicsand Robotics to Explore Visual CognitionBart Woodstrup: Climate Control: WeatherDamage Modification ProgramNina Yankowitz: Truth or Consequences / A GlobalWarming Interactive Game4:25pm Shiloh Ashley: Disorientalism Collaboration -The Food’s Group’s Maiden Voyage12:00pmPeter Anders: Inspiration and Influence: Learningfrom an Online Peer-Juried Design Competition4:50pmSilvana Carotenuto: Female Kosmos: An Archive ofNatural Elements12:25pm12:50pmBrian Davis: I Don’t Care About the Avant Garde,I Only Care About YouPaul Jacobs: The Art With ConversationHotel Albuquerque: Weaver’s Room1:35pmJonah Brucker-Cohen: Hacking The School Yard:Scrapyard Challenge Junior Maker Kits1:15pm Terri Lindbloom: Nobody Will Hurt You1:40pm Will Luers: Constructing “Film of Sound”2:05pm Victoria Moulder: Babylonia, 2012Natural History Museum: Sandia Room10:20amPauline Jennings: Double Vision IntermediaPerformance2:30pm4:00pmAnat Pollack: “objet petit a” SeriesShawn Decker: Sound, Steam, Sun and Motion:Recent Public Art ProjectsHotel Albuquerque: Turquoise Room12:00pm12:40pm4:00pmAnnette Barbier: Subtractions (and Additions)Haein Kang: Null PointKristin Stransky Mallinger: Bone Machine: Bodiesand Tech9:00am9:25am10:00amSean Clute: Audiovisual PerformanceGrisha Coleman: actionstation2.5 – The DesertMarina Zurkow: Gila 2.0: Warding Off the Wolf4:25pm4:50pmNina Waisman: Moving Logic: ChoreographingThought in a World of Physical ComputingLinda Weintraub: Hear All About It: Publication ofFirst Eco Art TextbookHotel Albuquerque: Sandia Room9:00amXtine Burrough: Browser Poems4:55pmAnnina Rüst & Amy Alexander: The Secret Nightlifeof Solar Cells9:25amMeredith Drum & Rachel Stevens: Feral City: ARand Significant Otherness28

ISEA2012 GalaFriday, September 23, 6:30pm – 10:00pmAnderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon MuseumLe Chat LunatiqueAlbuquerque’s Le Chat Lunatique describes themselves as,“an addictive genre we call ‘filthy, mangy jazz.’ Le Jazz Hot ofDjango Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli are our north star....we use that beacon to navigate through a wide range of genres,blending Western swing, classical, reggae and doo-wop.”Mexican Space CollectiveInstallation reception for theartists, including Juan José DíazInfante, Marcela Armas, ArcangelConstantini, Gilberto Esparza, IvanPuig and Hugo Solis.Imploding Recycled Plastic DependableEvoking the spectors of Paul Sharits, Elias Romero, AndyWarhol and Stan Vanderbeek’s Movie-Drome, Basement Films’multiprojector happenings revisit a pre-digital moment in time,eclipsing the tyranny of ones and zeros.Balloon Glow7:00pm – 7:30pmMyth and Infrastructure8:00pm & 9:00pmMyth and Infrastructure is a multi-media, live performance usingprojected animation. As Miwa Matreyek walks behind the screen,her shadow becomes an integral part of the fantastical worldshe has created, traversing oceanscapes and cityscapes as sheconjures magical scenes with light and shadow.Tweets in Space8:30pmDuring a live, interactive performance, Scott Kildall and NathanielStern will send Twitter messages from participants worldwidetowards an exoplanet 20 light years away that can supportextraterrestrial life.Roustabout Arts Collective9:00pm – 10:00pmCheck out circus wanderers who perform whirling fire, spinningPoi, spiraling hoops and more!Catering by Slate Street Café29

Saturday, September 22Natonal Hispanic Cultural Center8:00am – 5:00pmRegistrationNational Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC):Education Building Lobby8:45am – 9:00amISEA2012 Latin American Forum IntroductionNHCC: Ballroom, Education Building9:00am – 5:00pmLooped Screening: Low LivesNHCC: Classroom 123, Education BuildingThis looped program during the ISEA2012 Latin American Forumfeatures a selection of videos from the Low Lives networkedperformance series, curated by Jorge Rojas, Founding Directorof Low Lives. The program includes performance videos fromover 30 international artists as they were streamed live. Thethemes they address are widely varied, but they all exploreaspects of human and social makeup, and our relationship withtechnology. Artists include Annie Abrahams, Lukas Avendaño,Tzitzi Barrantes, Profesor Bazuco, Black & Jones, The EmergeCollective, Tutu-Marambá, Kristin Lucas, Marisol Salanova, RosaSanchez & Alain Baumann, Second Front, and Martin Zet amongothers. www.lowlives.netCurated by Jorge Rojas9:00am – 9:25amPaper: Research 360 Interaction and Virtual RealityEnvironment, Analysis of Interaction Models andFunctional Prototyping MethodologyNHCC: Classroom 122-124, Education BuildingThe research explores how the use of technology platformsenables the ownership and development of fields of interactionand interface design, the development of different virtualreality environments was planned, so it allowed a glimpse ofhow the analysis for formal and digital structure today is notonly happening by the ratio of feedback, but by the interface,gesture and control supported in virtual media spaces. Research360 poses the evolution into a new type of environments ofsynesthetic character. To examine these hypotheses in theresearch there were a series of prototypes that corroborate andrethink some of the ideas these parameters were developedunder functional prototyping methodology, which is describedbriefly at the end of the document.Presenter: Mario Valencia9:00am – 10:15amPanel: Mapping with Balloons and KitesNHCC: Classroom 125, Education BuildingRegarding the history of technology in Latin America oneremarkable fact is related to the first pioneers of balloons andlighter-than-air devices in Brazil, that is the inspiration for thispanel. Panelists include Bruno Vianna, Rodrigo Minelli, AndresBurbano and Danny Bazo. The moderator of this panel isLucas Bambozzi who is the head of Arte.Mov Festival in Brazil.Sponsored in part by Instituto Cervantes.Presenters: Lucas Bambozzi, Danny Bazo, Andrés Burbano, FelipeFonseca, Rodrigo Minelli & Bruno Vianna9:00am – 10:15amFeatured Panel: Brazilian Artists and CuratorsNHCC: Education Center Ballroom, Education BuildingThis talk features women artists and curatorsfrom Brazil. Giselle Beiguelman (PhD inHistory from the University of São Paulo) andcurator Priscila Arantes (Adjunct Directorof the Museum of Image and Sound in SãoPaulo), mediated by Simone Osthoff (AssociateProfessor of Critical Studies in the School of Visual Arts at thePennsylvania State University) speak on the international artscene, offering the public a chance to see dynamic dialoguesabout contemporary media art from first-hand experiences.9:00am –12:00pmWorkshop: Portables DevicesNHCC: Classroom 129, Education BuildingPortables is a curatorial project which arises as an emergencyto make visible the artistic practices that involve appropriation,reuse and development of tools and techniques emerged fromthe information technology and communication as well as togenerate collective experiences between artists, researchersand the community at large. People can then exchange opinionsto determine relationships and distinctions between devicesgenerated by this industry and currently developed by artistsand researchers. The workshop will include portable devicesand a curatorial presentation of an exhibition held at the NationalMuseum of Fine Arts in Chile and a cognitive mapping session.Presenter: Ignacio Nieto30

Latin American Forum9:30am – 9:45amTalk: Sauti ya Wakulima: Using Mobile Phones toStrengthen the Social Context of Rural Agriculture inTanzaniaNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education BuildingThe e-agriculture project Sauti ya wakulima means “thevoice of the farmers” in Swahili. The latest scientific findingsacknowledge that in order to find a sustainable way ofproducing food in the future, it will be necessary to understandagriculture as a complex system which, besides economicand ecological factors, also includes the social context of ruralfarming communities. Sauti ya wakulima adopts this visionby establishing an open and participative research process,in which a group of farmers living near Bagamoyo, Tanzania,uses smartphones and a web platform to document theirenvironment, and thus create a collaborative knowledge base.Presenter: Eugenio Tisselli9:30am – 9:55amPaper: Learning from the Land: Experimentswith American AgricultureNHCC: Classroom 122-124, Education BuildingThis presentation will explore site-specific work lead byPhoenix-based desert ArtLAB. Informed by history and nativeecology, the interdisciplinary team engaged local residents indialectic, performative, ecological interventions in urban desertspace. Participants engage the environment, confronting theecological and social realities of place, through the plantingof the autochthonous prickly pear cactus. Desert ArtLAB hasorchestrated the planting of over 150 cactai throughout Phoenix.Monitored over the course of a year, the cactai reveal theidiosyncrasies of place, politics and identity.Presenters: April Bojorquez & Matthew Garcia10:00am – 10:15amTalk: De Ondas Y AbejasNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education BuildingAugmented reality is a way of both altering the visible andrevealing the invisible. It offers new opportunities for artisticexploration through virtual interventions in real space. Mediaartist Silvia Ruzanka presents recent work that investigates therelationship between machine/technology and nature throughthe lens of augmented reality. Using technologies includingcellphones, telegraphs, and tiny stereoscopic projections, theseprojects explore invisible phenomena ranging from Spiritualismto bee colony collapse disorder.Presenter: Silvia Ruzanka10:05am – 10:30amPaper: Language and Magic: An ArchaeologicalApproach to Tania Candiani’s WorkNHCC: Classroom 122-124, Education BuildingAlthough misconstrued and permanently opposed to scientificmeans, magic operates inherently in the technological. TaniaCandiani’s Organum is an artwork that aims to propitiatethis magical experience within an artistic enunciation; at thesame time, it fosters a discussion on the sonorous dimensionof language. Organum shifts between systems and forms ofexperience; being an artifact that resembles a musical organ, itoffers language as mechanic sound and thus creates a magicalexperience to speech. It also participates to a broader, historicalrelationship with musical organs as discursive objects, revealingsymbolic relations between today and previous forms ofunderstanding technology.Presenters: Rodrigo Guzman & Mariana Perez Bobadilla10:45am – 11:00amPaper:Medios de Comunicacion Cultural IndependientesEscaner Cultural y Comunidad Abierta ACTNHCC: Classroom 122-124, Education BuildingOpen Community Arts, Science and Technology is a spaceand a resource for the diffusion, formation and analysis of thedaily themes and practical uses related to art and new media.Our objective is to gather and collaborate using tools with alarge quantity and quality of relevant information gathered andsupported by the community. Creating a shared space forcontent and relationship development for individuals interestedin the intersections of not only art and science, but alsoscience, philosophy, the environment and the correspondingresponsibilities that new media presents our society. Housing acommunity comprised of artists, theorists, educators, managers,engineers, researchers, programmers, sociologists and/or anyperson involved with the mentioned roles.Presenter: Yto Aranda10:45am – 11:45amPanel: Latin America and CyberneticsNHCC: Bank of America Theater, Performing Arts BuildingIn different countries in Latin America there can be identifiedimportant contributions to the history of cybernetics, but thereare no clear intellectual efforts to explore if those contributionshave been interconnected. Speakers include Eden Medina(Indiana University Bloomington) on applied cybernetics inChile in the 1970s, Susana Quintanilla (Departamento deInvestigaciones Educativas del CINVESTAV) on her researchon the Mexican scientist Arturo Rosenblueth, Eduardo Bayro31

Saturday, September 22National Hispanic Cultural CenterCorrochano (CINVESTAV Guadalajara) on his current advancedresearch on cybernetics and robotics, and Pablo Colapinto(UC Santa Barbara) on his research about the first Art andCybernetics exhibition in Argentina in the 1970s. Sponsored byDoctorado en Diseño y Creación and Universidad de Caldas.Presenters: Eduardo Bayro Corochano, Andrés Burbano, PabloColapinto, Eden Medina & Susana Quintanilla10:45am – 12:45pmFeatured Panel: Technotopia: The Colonization ofthe Body as the Ultimate FrontierNHCC: Education Center Ballroom, Education BuildingUnder the sign of “The Body as a ColonizedSpace,” Coco Fusco (Performance Artist andProfessor, Parsons New School of Design),Miguel Gandert (Professor, Director of the UNMInterdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Program),Vicki Gaubeca (Director, ACLU RegionalCenter for Border Rights), Manuel Montoya (Professor, GlobalStructures, UNM Anderson School of Management) and AdrianaRamírez de Arellano (Professor, UNM Anthropology Department,Women Studies and IFDM Programs) join minds, lenses andmethodologies to de-construct, denounce and reclaim the useof technologies to problematize the Southwestern border ofthe United States, not merely as an epistemic or aesthetic site,but in its incarnation as a no-man’s land where late capitalismand empire merge, unleashing a techno-liberal assault upon thesurplus of discardable bodies. Sponsored in part by the UNMInterdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Program.11:05am – 11:30amPaper: Gambirarra and the Prototyping PerspectiveNHCC: Classroom 122-124, Education BuildingPresenter: Gabriel Menotti11:15am – 11:45amTalk: Kosmica MexicoNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education BuildingKosmica brings together earth-bound artists, astronomers,performers, space explorers and musicians from Mexico, theUK, France, Germany and the US, and is programmed by theartist Nahum Mantra and The Arts Catalyst (UK) in partnershipwith the Laboratorio Arte Alameda, INBA (Mexico). For its firstedition in Mexico City on 27 September, KOSMICA will see over15 participants actively working in cultural and artistic aspects ofspace exploration. Urban stargazing, cosmic music, zero gravitydance, armchair space exploration, science fiction and DIYrocket science collide in a unique event that cannot be missed.Presenters: Nahum Mantra & Nicola Triscott1:00pm – 2:00pmWorkshop: Radio Chigüiro: Public BroadcastNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education BuildingRadio Chigüiro was a social platform for the distribution ofLafayette, Indiana’s “glocal” culture. It operated as a communityradio, exploring youth practices associated with parties, livemusic shows, and free radio workshops by using a web site asa medium for contact, production and participation. Using basiccomputers, participants will learn to produce their own radioprograms. The objective of the workshop is to instruct in easyand free resources for audio recording, editing and broadcasting.Presenter: Esteban Garcia-Bravo1:15pm – 2:30pmWorkshop: Mapping with Balloons and KitesNHCC: Classroom 125, Education BuildingRegarding the history of technology in Latin America oneremarkable fact is related to the first pioneers of balloons andlighter-than-air devices in Brazil, that is the inspiration for thispanel. Panelists include Bruno Vianna, Rodrigo Minelli, AndresBurbano and Danny Bazo. The moderator of this panel isLucas Bambozzi who is the head of Arte.Mov Festival in Brazil.Sponsored in part by Instituto Cervantes.Presenters: Danny Bazo & Bruno Vianna1:15pm – 2:30pmPanel:Open Laboratories, Laboratorios AbiertosNHCC: Education Center Ballroom, Education BuildingRepresentatives from open labs in Latin American countriesshare their experiences and teach workshops, including: “OpenSolar Circuits” taught by Leslie Garcia from Tijuana, Mexico,and “TAG” taught by Gabriel Zea from Bogotá, Colombia, aworkshop about tagging objects in public spaces. There will beother contributions to the panel by Felipe Cesar Londoño fromUniversidad de Caldas in Colombia and Ricardo Dal Farra fromUniversidad de Tres de Febrero in Argentina.Presenters: Felipe Cesar Londoño, Ricardo Dal Farra, FelipeFonseca, Leslie Garcia, Gabriel Zea & Camilo Martinez1:15pm – 2:30pmWorkshop: WaiNHCC: Classroom 122-124, Education BuildingHumanity and Earth are at an important juncture: the intersectionof past unsustainable approaches to environment and thepotential for a sustainable future. An important factor in theseissues is listening to the voice of indigenous people on thesubject of environment. It is quite clear that the West will not by32

Latin American Forumits own means resolve climate change issues. Dr Te HuirangiWaikerepuru, a highly respected Mori Kaumatua (elder) fromAotearoa New Zealand will lead a session based aroundindigenous concepts of Wai – water or flow.Presenter: Ian Clothier2:45pm – 3:45pmWorkshop: Water - Testing, Purification andCreating Art Workshop/Special ActivityNHCC: Classroom 122-124, Education BuildingWith our purified water, we will tend to the plants at our siteand talk about a variety of ways to save on the water we usefor gardening. We will then explore the use of water in art,through two projects based on water. In the first project, we willdraw pictures with water on paper, and then make the imagesvisible by adding ink to the water. In the second project, we willmix water with sand to make molds that depict machinery ortechnology. In this interplay between art, nature and machine,we will use a natural element (sand) to illustrate technology.Presenter: Marybeth Howe2:45pm – 3:45pmTalk: Navajo Code Talkers and TechnologyNHCC: Education Center Ballroom, Education BuildingThe Latin American Forum at ISEA2012 is proud to host BillToledo, Navajo Code Talker. The history of Native AmericanCode Talkers remains as one of the most complex andintriguing interactions between indigenous communities andthe geopolitical challenges that characterized the XX century.This conversation with Bill Toledo is not only an opportunity toengage with his personal history and the context of his workas a code talker, but is also an opportunity to explore topicsrelated to the nature of language, code and computation. Thispresentation highlights the renovation of the discourse aboutLatin American understanding with the richness of the NativeAmerican Cultures.Presenters: Bill Toledo, Andrés Burbano & Esteban Garcia-Bravo3:00pm – 3:20pmPaper: Can the Arts Help Save the World?Artists and the EnvironmentNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education BuildingThe electronic arts could become a powerful tool of awarenessand transformation in times of ecological threats. Can theelectronic arts help to save the world? As an outcome of theBALANCE-UNBALANCE conference, a large project involvingartists with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centrehumanitarian organization is being developed. The conferencesbrought together artists, scientists, economists, philosophers,politicians, sociologists, engineers, managers and policyexperts with the intent of engendering consciousness andcreating lasting intellectual working partnerships in solving ourglobal environmental crisis. Using art as a catalyst, these twoconferences explored intersections between nature, art, science,technology and society. Do you want to know more or eventuallyjoin us? The project will be introduced during this presentation,when full information will be available and our next steps will bepresented.Presenter: Ricardo Dal Farra3:15pm – 3:25pmTalk: Post-dystopia: Language, Sound andMachinesNHCC: Classroom 125, Education BuildingPost-dystopia: Language, sound and machines is a largerresearch/creative project that I have been developing after mystudy of Samuel Beckett’s work in electronic media; my interestsin contemporary-news-organizations as data-build-structuresthat do the inventory of our time; language in four of its forms:as communication tool, as data [spoken and/or written data],as pure sound, and as a social construction; and my interest onwhat I call the collapse of the Mexican Nation/State and the riseof [i]legitimized violence: the domestication of violence and howmedia is crucial in legitimizing both.Presenter: Luz Maria Sanchez Cardona3:25pm – 3:45pmPaper: Digital AnthropophagyNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education BuildingPresenter: Vanessa Ramos Velazquez4:15pm – 4:40pmPaper: On the Bridge Between Bolivia andComputersNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education BuildingiAuthor was released to create interactive textbooks, but ithas great potential for art books. I will discuss the mediaand interactive features on the iBook that enhance an artist’sability to tell their story, for example: video; music; voice-over;interactive Keynote presentations, which can have hot spots thatlink to other slides and individual objects that can move; links tosections of the book, or to web page and the ability to zoom intoan image, The iBookcan be a compelling, inexpensive format topresent artists’ work and catalogs.Presenter: Lucia Grossberger Morales33

Saturday, September 22Natonal Hispanic Cultural Center4:50pm – 5:15pmPaper: Unfolding and Unwinding: A Perspective onGenerative NarrativeNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education BuildingInteraction with aesthetic artifacts produced by computationalsystems depends on processes of simulation that complementand expand human sensorial modalities but that arefundamentally intellectual processes. Therefore, anticipation, thevalidation of simulations and the violation of expectations, mayplay a significant role in the creation of narratives or of narrativelike experiences by humans. This paper proposes an approachto how the creation of narrative can be understood in the contextof performance or interactive generative systems, in an attemptto study the perspective variable, originally proposed by EspenAarseth in his study of ergodic texts.Presenter: Miguel CarvalhaisSaturday Artist TalksFor descriptions, visit www.isea2012.orgNHCC: Bank of America Theater, Performing Arts Building9:00am9:45amIvan Puig & Andrés Padilla Domene: SEFT-1Miguel Palma: Desert Exploration Vehicle10:30am Agnes Chavez & Alessandro Saccoia: (x)trees1:15pm2:15pm3:00pm3:15pm3:30pmMarcela Armas, Gilberto Esparza, ArcangelConstantini, Ivan Puig & Juan Jose Díaz Infante:Mexican Space CollectiveJoana Moll: Texas BorderAlexander Glandien: ZONEBruno Vianna: Ionic Satellite FountainJorge Rojas: Low LivesNHCC: Classroom 120-121, Education Building9:00amCarlos Rosas: I Think I Got IKEA’d Project:If Loss Could Weigh10:30am Fred Paulino, Lucas Mafra & Paulo ‘The Goose’Pessoa: Gambiologia ProjectNHCC: Common Area, Education Building9:00am9:25am9:50amJosephine Anstey: Improving ConsciousnessEd Osborn: Albedo ProspectTatsuo Unemi: An Automatic Evolutionary Art10:10am Joanna Cheung: Chance + Participation = Magic10:40am Lyn Goeringer: Site Unseen: The Everyday and EMF11:05am Sander Veenhof12:00pm Matthew Hawthorn: The Pathetic Landscape12:25pm Jan Mun: BeeSpace: Audio Observation12:50pm Martin Rieser: Secret Garden1:15pm2:05pm2:30pm2:55pm3:20pmSara Schnadt: Invented LandscapesRon Bull: (re) Shaping and (re) ArticulatingTraditional EconomyWilliam Wilson: eyeDazzler ProjectTiffany Holmes: Eco-Visualization: Using Art andTechnology to Promote Environmental StewardshipAndreas Maria Jacobs: 11 Ways to Escape theSymbolic Field (E-Poetry performance)34

Sunday, September 23Downtown Albuquerque8:00am – 5:00pmRegistration516 ARTS9:00am – 10:00amSTEMArts RoundtableAlbuquerque Main Library(Intel Education Day scholarship recipients required to attend andcheck in for the day.)This roundtable discussion will explore how to incorporateSTEM + Art into schools. Most agree that we need moreinterdisciplinary approaches and art-based methodologies inSTEM education, and the ISEA2012 conference will surely fuelthat desire. But how do we make that happen when we return toour classrooms and encounter the challenges of limited budgetsand administrative support? Educators are invited to comeexplore solutions with educators who are pioneering thrivingSTEM + Art programs.Presenters: Anita McKeown, Karin Moulton & Marie Reynamoderated by Scott Laidlaw9:00am – 9:20amTalk: Research Gizmology Workshop:Making Kinetic SculpturesWarehouse 508Artist Steve Storz will speak and show images about the kineticsculpture workshop he gave at Taos Academy with kids whobuilt machines conjured from their imaginations. Using lowvoltage electronics and light duty power tools kids made: arobot with lighted top hat and rotating claw hand, a surplus LosAlamos Labs test device with electronic flowers growing out of it,a Paranormal Activity Imager, an Energy Portal with hand carvedwooden gears and a Political Ping Pong sculpture using air topush a ‘president’ between rivaling parties and lots more. Thesculptures are marvelous examples of the synergy that comesfrom combining STEM plus Art concepts.9:00am – 9:25amPaper: Media Arts in Support of Science EducationOFFCenterThis presentation examines the role of media arts in thedevelopment of interactive learning environments for science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Collaborative,interdisciplinary teams of artists, technologists and scientistsdeveloped novel interactive learning projects that educatethe public on fundamental science (STEM) disciplines. Fiveinteractive educational applications were designed basedon the leading art and design concepts with a focus on userengagement, interactive design, and aesthetics principles. Wedescribe the role of art in the development of these projectsand examine how artists can cross-disciplinary borders tocollaborate in the development of innovative educational STEMlearning applications.Presenters: Julieta Aguilera & Dana Tsapikova9:00am – 10:00amWorkshop: Brain-sightHotel Andaluz: Majoraca RoomDr. Ken Wesson, S.T.R.E.A.M. educational consultant andneuroscientist, will discuss and demonstrate how we createimages in the mind’s eye. Recent experiments have shown thatthe sense of touch is as important as vision is in learning andprocessing information. Haptics is a relatively new field of study,which suggests that engaging more of the human senses in theclassroom, not only will we deepen learning, but students learnfaster and recall will be easier if we merge what we traditionallydescribe as unrelated sensory modalities. The protectivefunctions of human skin are obvious, but our skin also has amore subtle learning purpose. “The power of the mind to createimages is what art is all about.” Workshop open to youth andadults.9:00am – 10:00amWorkshop: WaiTricklock Performance LaboratoryHumanity and Earth are at an important juncture: the intersectionof past unsustainable approaches to environment and thepotential for a sustainable future. An important factor in theseissues is listening to the voice of Indigenous people on thesubject of environment. It is quite clear that the West will not byits own means resolve climate change issues. Dr Te HuirangiWaikerepuru, a highly respected Maori Kaumatua (elder) fromAotearoa, New Zealand will lead this session based aroundIndigenous concepts of Wai (water or flow). Workshop open toyouth and adults.Presenters: Ian Clothier & Dr. Te Huirangi Waikerepuru9:30am – 9:45amTalk: Making the Wild our Territory?Warehouse 508Dienke Nauta, from the ISEA2012 Visiting Artists TeachingProgram, will discuss her workshop Territories! InteractiveInstallations in the Wild, in which students at Taos Academyused a variety of materials to translate personal stories intooutdoor installations that respond to wind, water and sunlight.36

Intel Education Day9:50am – 10:10amWarehouse 508Talk: Instant MessagesHip Hop playwright Idris Goodwin, from the ISEA2012 VisitingArtists Teaching Program, will discuss his process of workingteens in NHCC’s Voces program and Tricklock Company’sManoa Project in gathering evocative conversations foundon social networking sites to create theatrically present these“digital dialogues.”10:00am – 10:20amTalk: OneBeat ProjectOFFCenterOneBeat is a new international cultural exchange that celebratesthe transformative power of the arts through the creation oforiginal, inventive music and people-to-people diplomacy.This year and next, around 30 exceptional young musiciansfrom around the world will come together to write, produceand perform new music. The group will also lead engagementevents with local youth, and develop strategies for using musicto make a positive impact on our local and global communities.OneBeat is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State Bureauof Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), and is produced byFound Sound Nation.Presenter: Christopher Marianetti10:15am – 10:25amTalk: CorpusElectric Collective: The Making of aResponsive Technology Fashion PerformanceWarehouse 508Join a discussion with members from the CorpusElectricCollective (CEC), as they discuss the creation of reactivegarments for an interactive fashion performance, created aspart of the ISEA2012 Visiting Artists Teaching Program. TheCEC—comprised of New Mexico Highlands Media Arts facultyand students, members of the Taos Runway Vigilantes andhigh school students from the Taos and Las Vegas STEMartsworkshops—will discuss the process of creating technologicallyinfused garments that change colors and respond to sound andlight.Presenters: Megan Jacobs, Miriam Langer & Nina Silfverberg10:30am – 12:00pmKeynote Talk: Ariane Koek and Dr. Ken WessonKiMo TheatreThrough a humorous, dynamic and multisensorypresentation format, neuroscientist andS.T.R.E.A.M. educational consultant Dr. KennethWesson offers educators the understanding andthe tools needed to move beyond STEM, towarda creative, integrated and interdisciplinary learningmodel. Ariane Koek is arts director and founderof the Collide@Cern Artist Residency programat CERN, the world’s largest particle physicslaboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. She believesthat artists and scientists are the perfect partners, and togethercan create new ways of looking and knowing about our world.12:00pm – 12:10pmTalk: AROS (Augmented Reality for Open Space)Warehouse 508Augmented Reality in Open Spaces (AROS), a workshop andmural for the ISEA2012 Visiting Artists Teaching Program,explores culture and creative technologies in the open spaces ofAlbuquerque by working with local youth to create a mural thatlinks to content on the web via Argon, an Augmented Realitybrowser. Students worked with Culturally Situated Design Tools(CSDTs) to learn standards-based math and computing, as theysimulated designs that were combined to produce an outdoormural for the Wells Park Railrunner Mural Project launched forISEA2012. The experience of interacting with the mural throughtouchscreen, camera-enabled mobile devices, blends virtual andphysical spaces and results in a greater appreciation for STEMlearning, culture and art.Presenters: Nettrice Gaskins & Laurie Marion12:00pm – 1:45pmTalk: Wai: Understanding Maori and IndigenousConcepts of WaterOFFCenterDr. Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, a highly respected Maori Kaumatua(elder) from Aotearoa, New Zealand will give this talk onIndigenous concepts of Wai – water or flow, which is the subjectof the workshop earlier in the day (see page 36), and the artinstallation in the ISEA2012 exhibition at 516 ARTS.37

Sunday, September 23Downtown Albuquerque12:15pm – 12:30pmTalk: Myth and InfrastructureWarehouse 508This talk is about Myth and Infrastructure, a multi-media, liveperformance using projected animation. As the artist walksbehind the screen, her shadow becomes an integral part of afantastical world. She traverses oceanscapes and cityscapes asshe conjures magical scenes with light and shadow.Presenter: Miwa Matreyek12:30pm – 1:45pmFeatured Panel: Digital DivideAlbuquerque Main LibraryStudies have shown that minority communitiesare less likely to have access to technologicallyadvanced resources. Created by deeply ingrainedsocial and economic disparities, this “digitaldivide” has already led to underrepresentation ofminorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) fields, with the consequence that these studentsmay be less prepared to compete and participate in the 21stcentury workforce. This panel discussion addresses issues oftechnological accessibility within minority communities, andproposes ways to make technology culturally relevant. Panelistsare Sandra Begay-Campbell of Sandia National Laboratories,where she leads Sandia’s technical efforts to assist NativeAmerican tribes with their renewable energy developments;Tameka Huff of Sandia National Laboratories, where she workson knowledge management systems that are integral to helpingorganizations retain knowledge; Henry Rael, a communityentrepreneur and organizer who works on issues of poverty,nutritional health issues, educational under-achievement andgang activity; and moderator Juan Abeyta, who has worked for40 years with under-represented minorities in STEM fields.12:30pm – 1:45pmPanel: Catalysing Transdisciplinary CreativeTechnology Innovation For Real Social ChangeThe Box Performance SpaceSMARTlab will present a number of practices and projects thatuse creative technology innovation within educational (earlylearning to post-grad) and research contexts. Founded nearlytwenty years ago at the BBC/Open University, the SMARTlab’smission is to bring together teams of artists, scholars,technologists and policy makers to share a commitment tocreative technology innovation for real social change. SMARTlabfocuses on innovations in special needs education and lifelonglearning: inventing new interfaces and learning models usingcreative tools and creative engagement strategies to addressthe different learning styles of all learners, with all levels ofintellectual and physical ability, across cultures and languages.Presenters: Steve Benton, Tara Baoth-Mooney & Anita McKeown12:30pm – 1:45pmScreening / Q & A: AutomorphosisKiMo TheatreJoin documentary filmmaker and art car artist Harrod Blank for ascreening and Q&A. Blank is the co-founder of ArtCar Fest, oneof the largest annual art car gatherings in the country, held everySeptember in the San Francisco Bay Area. His most recent filmAutomorphosis looks into the minds and hearts of an inspiringcollection of eccentrics, visionaries and just plain folks who havetransformed their autos into artworks.12:30pm – 1:45pmWorkshop: Voice and Technology:A Spoon is TechnologyTricklock Performance LaboratoryParticipants discuss and experience ideas of technology andnon-technology; voice and objects; black boxes and out-ofthe-boxes.David Moss, considered one of the most innovativesingers and performers in contemporary music, says, “Considerthis: a spoon is technology; your vocal chords are technology; asong is technology…technology is transfer of power.” Presentedby The Outpost Performance Space. Workshop open to youthand adults.1:15pm – 1:30pmTalk: Hear by the River: Reflections ofAlbuquerqueConvention Center, by east entrance to Kiva AuditoriumWorking Classroom presents a talk with artist Mark Anderson,who will discuss Hear by the River, a digital mural that depictsthe many characters and communities that give Albuquerque itsunique flavor. The mural was commissioned as part of the 2012New Mexico Centennial Celebration. Created in collaboration withWorking Classroom, The School of the Art Institute of Chicagoand the National Museum of Mexican Art, this matrix video wallis a joining of a strong mural tradition in Albuquerque and newdigital storytelling techniques.2:00pm – 2:50pmPerformance: NoiseFold: Wilderness MachineThe Box Performance SpaceSee page 8.Performers: David Stout & Cory Metcalf38

Intel Education Day2:15pm - 3:15pmKeynote Talk: Scott SnibbeExploring the Universe through Interactive ArtKiMo TheatreScott Snibbe will present selections from twentyyears of interactive art, music, exhibits andentertainment, mining themes from science andcinema to produce unabashedly entertainingand poetic re-interpretations of our universe,including his recent work creating the first app album withBjörk on Biophilia, and interactive exhibits created for JamesCameron’s movie Avatar. He will discuss the educational andsocietal benefits of interactivity; and the joys, challenges andresearch involved in the creation and distribution of interactiveart as an artist/entrepreneur. Scott Snibbe’s artwork is in thecollections of major museums, and his large-scale interactiveprojects have been incorporated into concert tours, Olympics,science museums, airports and other major public spaces andevents.3:15 – 3:30pmSTEMArts Competition Awards PresentationKiMo Theatre6 th to 12 th grade students in New Mexico are featured atISEA2012 with their entries to the STEMArts Competition:“Design Your Future,” presented by 516 ARTS and sponsored byIntel. The winners receive prizes and awards. This competitionbrings STEM+Art concepts directly to our schools around NewMexico.3:15pm – 4:00pmPanel: Artists’ Autonomous TransportInfrastructuresThe Box Performance SpaceThis panel, inspired by the autonomous train projects such asLos Ferronautas (the Railnauts) (Mexico) and HeHe (France)seeks to examine the way in which artists might take on ‘big’infrastructures such as personal transportation. The Railnautsquestion the ideology of progress, instead exploring the twopoles of the social experience of technology, utility and disuse.Their SEFT-1 rail module is currently exploring abandonedrailway tracks in Mexico and Ecuador and is heading for ISEA.HeHe’s mischievous public art interventions include theirongoing ‘Train Project’, criticizing the car as the only option forautonomous transport and proposing personal rail travel as atemporary, imaginary prototype, building individual rail vehiclesfor different cities around the world, including Istanbul, San Jose,New York, Paris and most recently Manchester. The panel alsoinvestigates the dream of alternative air transport (airships) asa slower, more sustainable method of transport breaking thedeadlock of incessant air travel.Presenters: Rob La Frenais, Andrés Padilla Domene, Ivan Puig &Nicola Triscott3:15pm - 5:30pmForum: ISEA2012 Education ForumHotel Andaluz: Majoraca RoomThe workshop brings together academics, researchers andeducators to discuss the latest developments of policyresearch, evaluate the role of educational research, as well asexisting educational business strategies, financial modelingand risk management. It is essential to keep in mind that inaddition to the long term benefits of education the successfulfuture resolution of current problems will greatly influence theperspectives and potential of tomorrow’s leaders. This workshopstrongly encourages interaction between participants interestedin the changes of economic dimensions of education. Thesummary outcome of the workshop is to be published in theLeonardo Education Almanacs Series on Education.Presenters: Nina Czegledy, Andrea Polli, Julianne Pierce, ChaoukiAbdallah, Patricia Olynyk, Ross Harley, Ricardo Dal Farra, SusannaSulic, Shaurya Kumar, Felipe C. Londoño, Cheryl Wassenaar,Ian Clothier, Suzanne Anker, Claudio Rivera-Seguel, & JanineRanderson3:30pm – 4:00pmTalk: Media Literacy ProjectAlbuquerque Main LibraryFor twenty years the Media Literacy Project has been creatingprograms and campaigns that ensure our communities canaccess, analyze and create media. This interactive multimediapresentation will provide an introduction to media literacy, sharesuccess stories of media production for community engagement,and offer best practices for curriculum development. The firsttwenty participants will receive Media Literacy Toolbox, a DVDwith over 100 media examples that can be used in organizationsand classrooms alike.Presenters: Hakim Bellamy, Jessica Collins & Andrea QuijadaISEA2012 STEMArts CurriculumVisit the Resource Station at The Albuquerque Museum andthe website www.stemarts.com/isea2012/curriculum to explorethis exciting 21 st century learning tool. The content is organizedaround the personal stories of featured ISEA2012 artists witha focus on STEM, creativity and innovation. Our web 2.0 toolscompile an array of STEM + Arts activities and resources,harnessing the collective knowledge available online.39

Sunday, September 23Downtown AlbuquerqueISEA2012 Downtown Block Party4:00pm – 9:00pmCentral Avenue between 4 th & 6 th Streets4:00pm – 5:45pmWorkshop: SolarCircusOFFCenter516 ARTS presents theDowntown Block Partyduring the Intel EducationDay. The general publicis invited to this free,outdoor celebration,which features artworksfocusing on the conferencesub-theme ofDynamobilities and fun forall ages (see page 7). Seeseparate brochure aboutthe Downtown Block Partyfor details on the over 30artists’ projects presented.SolarCircus (2009-2012) is an interdisciplinary platform for ecodialogueabout the future of renewable energy. At ISEA2012,SolarCircus will take the form of a fun, hands-on workshop. Theworkshop facilitator, Tiffany Holmes, will introduce participantsto the mysteries and potentials of solar power in the first 15minutes. All participants build a solar toy from a kit and then“hack” it to create a one-of-a-kind kinetic sculpture. Workshopopen to youth and adults.4:15pm & 5:00pm (2 shows)Performance: CorpusElectric Tech-Fashion ShowTricklock Performance LaboratorySee page 9.Performers: Johnny Alvarez, Daniela de Angeli, Mary Basler, NickCassados, Gabe Garcia, Elizabeth Gomez, Miriam Langer, DaniaLoya, Stephanie Marcus, Tatyana de Pavloff, Stacy Romero,Shanoa Leigh Rosby, Nina Silfverberg, Deanna Threadgill, MatthewThreadgill, Daisy Trudell, Siah Trudell, Tara Trudell & ShawnaYambire4:15pm – 5:30pmPanel: Preserving Indigenous Cultures in the DigitalAge of GlobalizationAlbuquerque Main LibraryAlthough distinct phenomena, technology in the digital age andglobalization have advanced in tandem, bringing benefits tomany population sectors at the expense of others. Chief amongthe losers in this scenario are indigenous cultural communitieswhose lives are not organized around the information age, andin some cases may not have fully entered or embraced theindustrial age. Other communities are ‘up to date’ but have lostor are threatened with loss of their unique heritage or identityas forces of technology and globalization overwhelm them. Thispanel will examine the issues and discuss the remedies.Presenters: Robert K. Hitchcock, Beverly Singer, Arturo Sandoval& Joseph A. Tainter4:15pm – 5:30pmPanel:Motion and Power Between the Physical and VirtualThe Box Performance SpaceMuch of new media work explores some interaction betweenthe real and the virtual worlds. Some of this work may requirethe viewer to balance conflicting messages coming fromdifferent parts of the brain, and challenge the perception of whatis real and what is virtual. Other works utilize virtual partnersor doppelgangers, which both react to and create reactionsin live performers, which may be dancers, actors or roboticstructures. The panelists span the areas of dance performance,theatrical performance, robotic installation and interactive mediainstallations, and will discuss how their work intersects thesequestions of technology and perception.Presenters: Danny Bazo, Miwa Matreyek, Marco Pinter,Scott Snibbe & Lisa Wymore4:45pm – 6:00pmPanel: Valley of the SunflowersWarehouse 508This public art project in Phoenix is a model S.T.E.A.M. (Science,Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) education project thatbrings together beautification of vacant urban land in downtownPhoenix with an educational project engaging PhoenixBioscience High School students who are growing a two-acrefield of sunflowers to harvest to produce biofuel for a hybridbiofuel/solar vehicle they are designing. This presentation issponsored by Arizona State University Art Museum.Presenters: Greg Esser & project participants40Above: Michael Flynn, Electrolysis Detonator

Intel Education Day6:00pm – 6:30pmPerformance: Music for Flesh IIThe Box Performance SpaceMusic for Flesh II (MFII) by Marco Dunnarumma is an interactivemusic performance for an enhanced body. By enabling acomputer to sense and interact with the sound of human muscletissues, the work approaches the biological body as a meansfor computational artistry. Muscle contractions and blood flowproduce low frequency sound waves. The neural and biologicalsignals that drive the performer’s actions become analogousexpressive matter, emerging as a tangible haunting soundscape.Made possible by an Alt-w award from New Media, Scotland.6:15pm – 7:00pmTalk/DEMO: Sonic Fabric:The Universe is Made of SoundWarehouse 508Using high-tech, hand-held recording devices, studentsfrom Amy Biehl High School take sonic samples from theirenvironment, and analyze and manipulate them to createintricate collages of sound. ISEA2012 Visiting Artist ProgramTeacher Alyce Santoro is an interdisciplinary artist and inventorof Sonic Fabric, a textile woven from 50% polyester threadand 50% audiocassette tape recorded with collages of sound.Produced in partnership with OFFCenter Community ArtsProject. Made possible by The FUNd at Albuquerque CommunityFoundation and Intel.6:30pmPerformance: Symphony 505Parking lot at 6 th Street and Central AvenueSee page 9.6:40pm – 7:10pmPerformance: 4Hands iPhoneThe Box Performance SpaceAdam Parkinson and Atau Tanaka exploit a commonlyavailable consumer electronics device, the Apple iPhone,as an expressive, gestural musical instrument. A live duo,gestural music performance, running Pure Data on iPhones,transforms this object of music consumption into an expressivevisceral musical instrument that captures performer gesture.With sensors, signal processing, synthesis and sound outputembodied on one device, it is a self-contained digital musicalinstrument for the performance of post-laptop music.7:20pm – 7:50pmPerformance: DMTThe Box Performance Space7:15pm – 8:00pmPerformance: Instant MessagesTricklock Performance LaboratorySee page 9.DMT is Marco Donnarumma, Christos Michalakos and AtauTanaka, a trio of visceral electronic musicians that interfacecorporeal gesture and physical gesture with pulsing electronicnoise. Based in Edinburgh and London, the performers aresoloists coming together to form a trio that is greater than thesum of its parts. DonnaRumma plays the Xth Sense biosphysicalmuscle contraction sensor system to sonify the performer’sbody. Tanaka runs granular synthesis algorithms on the iPhone,with one in each hand. Drummer Michalakos creates feedbacklooks to electronics from his drums. Together they create a wallof sound that is live technological thrill.related event9:00pmPerformance: Laurie Anderson: DIRTDAY!KiMo Theatre, presented by AMP ConcertsSee page 9.10:00am – 6:00pmOutdoor Festival: Albuquerque Mini Maker FaireAlbuquerque Civic PlazaIn conjunction with the ISEA2012 Downtown Block Party, theAlbuquerque Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly showcaseof invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebrationof the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show whatthey are making and share what they are learning. Makersrange from tech enthusiasts to crafters, educators, tinkerers,hobbyists, engineers, artists, science clubs, students, authorsand commercial exhibitors of all ages and backgrounds. MakerFaire’s mission is to entertain, inform, connect and inspirethousands of Makers and aspiring Makers. The AlbuquerqueMini Maker Faire is independently organized and operated underlicense from O’Reilly Media, Inc., and made possible in part byIntel.TICKETS: Avaiable at www.albuquerque-minimakerfaire.com41

Monday, September 24Downtown Albuquerque8:00am – 3:00pmRegistration516 ARTS9:00am – 9:25amPaper: Shifting Paradigms: Towards anAuditory CultureHotel Andaluz: Majoraca RoomThe global ecological crisis has become a catalyst forinterdisciplinary collaborations at a time when a shift in thinkingis urgently required. World leaders are now looking towardsthe validity and possibilities of creative methodologies as toolsfor change. This paper explores the role of auditory culturein a sustainable future and introduces the Sonic EcologiesFramework, a multi-platform methodology proposed toinitiate cultural change through sound. This evolving model isimplemented by the artist, acting as an agent of change spiralingbetween contextualised theory and practice. This researchintroduces the five stages of the model with examples fromprojects recently implemented in Australia.Presenter: Leah Barclay9:00am – 9:25amPaper: Pedal PowerTricklock Performance LaboratoryThis paper explores ideas of mobility and power using the casestudy Pedalpower for Bybrua, commissioned for Stavanger2008 Capital of Culture. Three pedal powered generators weremade available to the community of Pedersgata. During daylighthours these devices were located in a number of public sites andsituations, at night the stored energy was released as part of apedestrian lighting system installed beneath the city road bridgein Bybrua. This paper will focus on the only mobile generator,“Bridgit”, so called for its capacity to offer transit from one sideof the bridge to the other.Presenter: Justin Carter9:00am – 10:00amFeatured Speaker: Chip LordAnt Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule] 1970-2008KiMo TheatreChip Lord’s talk presents several recent projectsand includes a historical introduction to theradical art and architecture group Ant Farm,1968 – 1978. In 1970, Ant Farm travelled crosscountryin a “Media Van” shooting video andnetworking with other artists. Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [TimeCapsule], an interactive sculpture made in 2008, invites users toleave a “donation” to a digital Time Capsule, and also functionsas a small video theater, showing works made in 1970. Thisongoing project migrates across time and space and intersectswith new ubiquitous technologies. Lord is an American digitalmedia artist currently teaching at University of California SantaCruz. He is best known for his part in the Ant Farm Collectiveand the creation of Cadillac Ranch. Sponsored by ASU ArtMuseum and the Desert Initiative.9:00am – 10:15amWorkshop: Multispecies and Urban Spaces:AR and Place-based LearningHotel Andaluz: Valencia RoomMultispecies and Urban Spaces is a series of interactive walkingtours made possible by an augmented reality (AR) browserfor iPhone/iPad developed by Phoenix Toews. The works (inprogress) make visible social, political and ecological historiesof multispecies relations in urban spaces. Presenters will explainthe tours, and then discuss researching local spaces and hiddenhistories, and developing technical, aesthetic and conceptualpossibilities for an AR, GPS enabled platform, including waysof structuring an active, meaningful experience for the user.In groups, participants will design one section of an AR tourregarding human/animal entanglements around Albuquerque.Presenters: Meredith Drum, Rachel Stevens & Phoenix Toews9:00am – 10:15amWorkshop: Open Broad BandWarehouse 508The U.S. is falling ever further behind other nations with regardto broadband development and its related social, environmental,educational and economic opportunities. The opportunity isat hand for communities, institutions and business partners totake shared responsibility for fulfilling the promise of becomingcontent-rich, economically vital, quality-of-life enhancing,broadband-based ‘information societies’. This workshop will42

highlight open broadband initiatives in New Mexico, and willinvolve the audience in a general discussion of open networking.Presenter: Richard Lowenberg9:30am –10:45amPanel:University Technology During a Budget CrisisAlbuquerque Main LibraryToday’s tough economic times are adversely affecting fundingin higher education. Especially hard hit are traditionallyunderfunded fields where costly technologies are used. Inthis panel, educators with backgrounds in music, art, architecture,and engineering discuss ways forward under thesecircumstances. The common tools for the panelists are: usingcheap and repurposed materials;, using freeware, DIY booksand websites, and collaborative cross-disciplinary research.The panel explores how to cultivate the correct mindset for this“doing more, spending less” approach, creating with these tools,the educational philosophy behind their use, and embracingfinancial challenges as a spur to creative problem-solving.Presenters: Dr. Linda Antas & Aaron Stutterheimmoderated by J. Neil Lawley11:00am – 12:00pmKeynote:Conversation with Laurie Anderson & Tom LeeserKiMo TheatreLaurie Anderson is a renowned performanceartist, composer and musician, who is a pioneerin electronic music and has invented severaldevices that she has used in her recordings andperformance art shows. As a former artist-inresidencewith NASA, she has a long history ofexploring the intersection of art and science.Anderson will speak in conversation with TomLeeser, co-leader for Radical Cosmologies themeand Program Director, Art & Technology in theSchool of Art, California Institute of the Arts. Presented by 516ARTS in partnership with AMP Concerts.12:30pm – 1:45pmScreening / Q&A: Trash DanceKiMo TheatreSometimes inspiration can be found in unexpected places.Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbagetrucks, and in the men and women who pick up our trash.Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she joins citysanitation workers on their daily routs to listen, learn anduntimely to convene them to collaborate in a unique danceperformance. Hard working, often carrying a second job, theirlives are already full with work, family and dreams of their own.But some step forward, and after months of rehearsal, twodozen trash collectors and their trucks perform an extraordinaryspectacle. On an abandoned airport runway in Austin, Texas,thousands of people show up to see how a garbage truck can“dance.” Join filmmaker Andrew Garrison in person.1:15pm – 1:40pmTalk: Internet Wilderness:Creating the ISEA2012 WebsiteWarehouse 508Presenters: Chris Butzen & Andrew McConville1:15pm – 2:15pmTalk: Burning Man Art Vehicles, Art Carsand the Camera VanHotel Andaluz: Valencia RoomHarrod Blank will present a visual history ofArt Cars at the Burning Man festival, discusinghow and why these vehicles have evolved frompersonal totems into large scale fantasies onwheels called mutant vehicles. Over the years,Burning Man has inspired folks to bring more “wow” factor,larger scale interactive works featuring cutting edge technologyintegrated into virtually all expression such as contemporary artinstallations, sculptures, theme camps and especially mutantvehicles. Blank will also highlight and introduce Doc Atomic, anAlbuquerque nuclear scientist and visionary art car artist, alongwith other art car artists from New Mexico.43

Monday, September 24Downtown Albuquerque1:15pm – 2:30pmWorkshop: Innovation and IP: Getting What You Wantout of Your SparkTricklock Performance LaboratoryTinkering around with materials can lead to unintendedconsequences. Sometimes, the result is worth pursuingcommercially. This workshop explores the pathways that novelinventions can take as they meander (or explode!) out into thewider world. This workshop will explore cases of productsdeveloped from academic or artistic research. Bring your storiesof your brushes with the commercial world, and we’ll collectivelyconsider platforms such as Kickstarter, blogs, Etsy and more.We will also get into the basics of patenting and trademarking,and debate the value of intellectual property protection.Presenter: Jennifer Leary1:15pm – 3:15pmWorkshop: Taxi Takes on the World, Part 2Hotel Andaluz: Catalina RoomThis is a continuation from the workshop on Friday, September21 (see page 23). The footage from Part 1 will be screenedduring this second session. This workshop will also providetraining for another group of participants to pair up for trainingto shoot. All of the footage collected during and after theseworkshops will be used in the global online project.Presenter: Vandana Sood-Giddings2:00pm – 3:15pmFeatured Panel: Hip Hop & TechnologyKiMo TheatreSince its emergence in the mid 1970s, Hip Hopculture and music have been transformed bytechnological innovations. Through the researchof Tahir Hemphill, creator of The Hip HopWord Count: A Searchable Rap Almanac, anethnographic database built from the lyrics ofover 40,000 Hip Hop songs, users can analyzeand track this evolving language. KwendeKefentse’s focus on urbanization has led himto explore parallels between the emergence of Hip Hop cultureand the built environment on a global scale. the discussion ismoderated by Albuquerque’s Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy.monday Artist TalksFor descriptions, visit www.isea2012.orgThe Box Performance Space9:00am9:25am9:50am10:30amDan Collins: Atlas of the Rio GrandeDon Sinclair: Trail Portraits: Santa FeJohn Taylor Wallace: Public Art Object as Vehiclefor CommunicationFrederick Ostrenko: Transmodal Journeys: DigitalAdventures in the Physical World12:15pm Joyce Cutler-Shaw: Of Water and the RiverMeditations on the Rio Grande12:40pm Dennis Summers: The ArkHotel Andaluz: Catalina Room9:25am9:50amLeah Barclay: Transient Landscapes: Sound MirrorsMiu Ling Lam: Time Axis10:15am Sheila Pinkel: “In the Beginning” or...: The CosmicStories We Tell and Their Implications12:15pm Anthony Anella: Land Ethics and Aesthetics12:40pm Beth Ferguson: Creative Risk Taking: Public Art andEcological DesignHotel Andaluz: Majoraca Room9:50amAngus Forbes: Fluid Automata10:15am Claudia Kleefeld: Patterns of Nature: The Spiral andInterconnectedness12:15pm Ana MacArthur: Mallart Solaire1:10pm1:35pmClaudia X. Valdes: SensoriumWilloh S. Weiland: Forever NOWHotel Andaluz: Valencia Room12:15pm Catherine Harris: Fabrication: ModularFood/Water Survival12:40pm Xárene Eskandar: Architectural Organ I / Skin3:15pmConference concludesRailrunner train to Santa Fe for Santa Fe DayRailrunner train departs from Downtown Albuquerque at4:26pm, 5:34pm and 6:48pm.44

OLD TOWN - MUSEUM CAMPUSAlbuquerque Museum2000 Mountain Road NWExplora1701 Mountain Road NWNatural History Museum1801 Mountain Road NWHarwood Art Center1114 7th Street NWHotel Albuquerque800 Rio Grande Boulevard NWRio Grande Inn, Best Western1015 Rio Grande Boulevard NWBUS STOPSBus lane (roundabout)in front of Albuquerque MuseumBack of lot on 7th & CopperDOWNTOWN516 ARTS516 Central Avenue SWAlbuquerque Main Library501 Copper Avenue NWAlvarado Urban Farm103 Silver Avenue SWKiMo Theatre423 Central Avenue NWThe Box Performance Space114 Gold Avenue SWOFFCenter808 Park Avenue SWRichard Levy Gallery514 Central Avenue SWWarehouse 508508 1st Street NWTricklock Performance Laboratory110 Gold Avenue SWHotel Andaluz125 2nd Street NWHotel Blue717 Central Avenue NWUNM CAMPUSUNM Art MuseumPopejoy HallRainosek GalleryArchitecture BuildingGeorge Pearl HallTamarind Institute2500 Central Avenue SEARTS Lab1601 Central Avenue NESommers GalleryArt Building, 2nd floorBALLOON MUSEUMNHCCThe Anderson - AbruzzoAlbuquerque InternationalBalloon Museum9201 Balloon Museum Drive NENational HispanicCultural Center1701 4th Street SW45

OLD TOWN - MUSEUM CAMPUSHOTELS1Albuquerque Museum2000 Mountain Road NW5Hotel Albuquerque800 Rio Grande Boulevard NW2Explora1701 Mountain Road NW6Rio Grande Inn, Best Western1015 Rio Grande Boulevard NW3Natural History Museum1801 Mountain Road NWBUS STOPS4Harwood Art Center1114 7th Street NW7Bus lane (roundabout)in front of Albuquerque MuseumFood Trucks46

DOWNTOWN891011121314516 ARTS516 Central Avenue SWAlbuquerque Main Library501 Copper Avenue NWAlvarado Urban Farm103 Silver Avenue SWKiMo Theatre423 Central Avenue NWThe Box Performance Space114 Gold Avenue SWOFFCenter808 Park Avenue SWRichard Levy Gallery514 Central Avenue SW1516Warehouse 508508 1st Street NWTricklock Performance Laboratory110 Gold Avenue SWHOTELS1718Hotel Andaluz125 2nd Street NWHotel Blue717 Central Avenue NWBUS STOPS19Back of lot on 7th & CopperFood Trucks47

ISEA2012 Official Conference & Exhibition Venues516 ARTS516 Central Avenue SW, Downtown Albuquerque505-242-1445, www.516arts.orgOpen Tue – Sat, 12-5pmExtended hours: 9/21–9/24, 9am-7pm & 9/23, 9am-9pmExhibition on view September 20 – January 6Albuquerque Main Library501 Copper Avenue NW, Downtown Albuquerque505-768-5141, http://library.cabq.gov/mainlibraryThe Albuquerque Museum of Art & History2000 Mountain Road NW, Old Town, Albuquerque505-243-7255, www.albuquerquemuseum.orgOpen Tue-Sun, 9am-5pmExhibition on view September 20 – January 6Alvarado Urban Farm101 Silver Avenue SW, Downtown Albuquerquewww.alvaradourbanfarm.comExhibition on view September 20 – January 6Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque InternationalBalloon Museum9201 Balloon Museum Drive NE505-768-6020, www.cabq.gov/balloonOpen Tue – Sun, 9am-5pmExhibition on view September 20 – January 6The Box Performance Space100 Gold Avenue SW, Downtown Albuquerquewww.theboxabq.comConvention Center401 2 nd Street NW, Downtown Albuquerquewww.albuquerquecc.com¡Explora!1701 Mountain Road NW, Old Town, Albuquerque505-224-8300, www.explora.usHarwood Art Centerof Escuela del Sol Montessori1114 7 th Street NW, Old Town/Downtown Albuquerque505-242-6367, www.harwoordartcenter.orgHotel Albuquerque800 Rio Grande Boulevard NW, Old Town, Albuquerque505-843-6300, www.hotelabq.comHotel Andaluz125 2 nd Street NW, Downtown Albuquerque505-242-9090, www.hotelandaluz.comKiMo Theatre & Gallery423 Central Avenue NW, Downtown Albuquerque505-768-3522, www.cabq.gov/kimoNational Hispanic CUltural CenterDomenici Education Building & Performing Art Building1701 4 th Street SW, Albuquerque505-246-2261, www.nhccnm.orgNew Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science1801 Mountain Road NW, Old Town, Albuquerque505-841-2800, www.nmnaturalhistory.orgExhibition on view September 20 – January 6OFFCenter Community Arts Project808 Park Avenue SW, Downtown Albuquerque505-247-1172, www.offcenterarts.orgRainosek GalleryUNM School of Architecture & PlanningThe University of New Mexico Main Campus, George Pearl Hall505-277-0111, http://saap.unm.eduOpen Mon – Fri, 9am-5:30pmExhibition on view Sepetmber 10 – October 26Richard Levy Gallery514 Central Avenue SW, Downtown Albuquerque505-766-9888, www.levygallery.comOpen Mon – Sat, 11am-4pmExhibition on view September 13 – October 12Tricklock Performance Laboratory110 Gold Avenue SW, Downtown Albuquerque505-254-8393, www.tricklock.comWarehouse 508508 1 st Street NW, Downtown Albuquerque505-296-2738, http://warehouse508.org49

ISEA2012 is organized and produced by 516 ARTS, an independent, nonprofit community organization, inpartnership with The University of New Mexico and The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History. The mission of 516ARTS is to forge connections between art and audiences, and our vision is to be an active partner in developing thecultural landscape of Albuquerque and New Mexico. Our values are inquiry, diversity, collaboration and accessibility.516 ARTS offers programs that inspire curiosity, dialogue, risk-taking and creative experimentation, showcasing amix of established, emerging, local, national and international artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds.ISEA2012 SteEring CommitteeSherri Brueggemann, Manager, City of AlbuquerquePublic Art & Urban Enhancement ProgramTeresa Buscemi, 516 ARTS Program CoordinatorRegina Chavez, Executive Director, Creative AlbuquerqueAndrew Connors, Curator of Art, The Albuquerque Museum of Art & HistoryAndrea Polli, Associate Professor, UNM College of Fine Arts & School of EngineeringShelle Sanchez, Director of Education, National Hispanic Cultural CenterSuzanne Sbarge, Executive Director, 516 ARTSISEA2012 Theme & Focus Day LeadersAndres Burbano, Focus Day Leader, Latin American ForumAgnes Chavez & Anita McKeown, Focus Day Leaders, Education ProgramCatherine P. Harris, Theme Leader, Wildlife: Trans-Species HabitatsLea Rekow & Tom Leeser, Theme Leaders, The Cosmos: Radical CosmologiesStephanie Rothenberg, Theme Leader, Creative Economies: EconotopiasErin Elder, Nina Elder & Nancy Zastudil, Theme Leaders, Power: GridlockedAndrea Polli, Theme Leader, Transportation: DynamobilitiesISEA2012 Consultants & Lead VolunteersAndrea Polli, Artistic Director, The University of New MexicoAgnes Chavez, Education Program Director, Sube, Inc.Nicholas Chiarella, Education Program Coordinator, 516 ARTS & NHCC, AmeriCorps& Santa Fe Coordinator, Santa Fe University of Art & DesignDavid Chickey, Masumi Shibata & Tim Edeker, Book Designers, Radius BooksSusan Crow, Development Associate, 516 ARTSRichard Lowenberg, Co-Director, Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations (SARC)& Santa Fe LiaisonJulia Mandeville, Downtown Block Party Co-CoordinatorAndrew McConville, Chris Butzen, Bryan Cera, Nathaniel Stern & Lisa Moline,Website Team, The University of Wisconsin MilwaukeeAnita McKeown Education Program Consultant CATALYST Manager SMARTlab, UCDJenny McMath, Conference Coordinator/Project Manager, Kesselman-Jones Inc.Jack Ox, Co-Director, Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations (SARC)Stacy Romero, AmeriCorps Intern, CorpusElectric projectMarta S. Weber, ISEA2012 Fundraising Chair, 516 ARTS Board of DirectorsNancy Zastudil, Taos Coordinator, PLAND516 arts donor & patron membersNorty & Summers KalishmanPeggy KeilmanRichard Levy GalleryJohn & Jamie LewingerNew Mexico OrthopaedicsRick Rennie & Sandy HillNancy SalemJim Scott & Sara DouglasDr. Mark Unverzagt & Laura FashingDavid Vogel & Marietta Patricia LeisDr. Marta WeberClint WellsWells Park Neighborhood AssociationProgram designed by Suzanne Sbarge • Printed by Starline Priniting516 ARTS Board of DirectorsArturo Sandoval, ChairSuzanne Sbarge, President/FounderDavid Vogel, Vice PresidentJuan Abeyta, TreasurerPerry Bendicksen, SecretaryDr. Marta Weber, Fundraising ChairClint Wells516 ARTS Advisory BoardHakim BellamyMichael BermanSherri BrueggemannChristopher BurmeisterDavid CampbellAndrew ConnorsDebi DodgeMiguel GandertLisa GillIdris GoodwinTom GuralnickStephanie HainsfurtherNorty KalishmanJane Kennedy516 ARTS StaffSuzanne Sbarge, Executive DirectorISEA2012 Executive ProducerRhiannon Mercer, Assistant DirectorISEA2012 Exhibition CoordinatorTeresa Buscemi, Program CoordinatorISEA2012 Assistant Director, CommunicationsCoordinator & Block Party Co-CoordinatorClaude Smith, Education CoordinatorISEA2012 Exhibition CoordinatorJamie Ho, ISEA2012 Coordination Intern, UNMClayton Olsen, Intern, Amy Beihl High SchoolCeline Gordon, Intern, Barnard College516 ARTS ConsultantsArif KhanJohn LewingerWendy LewisDanny LopezChristopher MeadElsa MenéndezMelody MockHenry RaelMary Anne ReddingRick RennieAugustine RomeroNancy SalemRob StrellJanice Fowler, BookkeeperKathy Garrett, AccountantLisa Gill, Literary Arts CoordinatorJane Kennedy, Development AssociateKesselman-Jones, Inc., Conference CoordinatorsKeith Lee, PreparatorMelody Mock, Website DesignerJulie Ruth, Loka Creative, Design Support50ISEA International Board of DirectorsJulianne Pierce, ChairPeter Anders, SecretaryWim Van der Plas, TreasurerSue Gollifer, Director of International HeadquartersISEA2012 is part of a series that started in 1988 and is overseen by the ISEAInternational foundation (www.isea-web.org). The International Symposiaon Electronic Art have become the most important academic gathering onelectronic art world-wide and aim at bringing together the worlds of art andscience. ISEA is a nomadic event. The next editions are ISEA2013 in Sydney,Australia (www.isea2013.org) and ISEA2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

digital culture since 1993http://www.neural.itSupportmajor SupportRichard J. BerryMayoradditional SupportVisitwww.newmexico.orgharpofoundationNetherlandsConsulatecontributing partnersISEA2012 AlbuquErquE :MAchInE WIldErnESSRe-envisioning Art, Technology and Natureexhibition catalogpublished by Radius BooksISEA2012.orgrAdIuSbookS.orgmedia partnersSpecial ThanksThe University of New MexicoOffice of the Provost, Provost Chaouki AbdallahFormer Provost Suzanne OrtegaSchool of Architecture, Dean Geraldine Forbes& Exhibition Coordinator Katya CrawfordAnderson School of Management, Dean Doug BrownCenter for Advanced Research ComputingCollege of Arts & Sciences, Dean Mark PecenySchool of Engineering, Dean Catalin RomanCollege of Fine Arts, Dean Kymberly PinderFormer Dean Jim LinnellInterdisciplinary Film & Digital MediaLatin American & Iberian InstituteThe City of AlbuquerqueRichard J. Berry, MayorRob Perry, Chief Operating OfficerBeatriz Rivera, Director, Cultural ServicesCity Councilors:Trudy Jones, President, District 8Debbie O’Malley, Vice President, District 2Ken Sanchez, District 1Isaac Benton, District 3Brad Winter, District 4Dan Lewis, District 5Rey Garduño, District 6Michael D. Cook, District 7Don Harris, District 9Bernalillo CountyCounty Commissioners:Michelle Lujan Grisham, District 1Art De La Cruz, District 2Maggie Hart Stebbins, District 3Michael Wiener, District 4Wayne Johnson, District 5Tom Zdunek, County ManagerVince Murphy, Deputy County Manager,Community ServicesMayling Armijo, Director, Economic Development& Cultural ServicesPlease see www.isea2012.org for additional supporters, including many general individuals, volunteers and businesses.51

ISEA2012 Schedule SummaryMain Conference in Albuquerque:Wednesday, September 19:Conference activities at Old Town venues (9am-5:30pm)Meeting Minds Tech Fair at Hotel Albuquerque (12-6pm), Reception (5:30-7pm)Opening Ceremonies at The Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater (7-8pm)Reception in lobby of The Albuquerque Museum (8-8:30pm)Salsa concert at The Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater (8:30-10pm)Late Night Lounge at Hotel Andaluz (10pm-2am)Thursday, September 20:Conference activities at Old Town sites (9am-5:30pm)Meeting Minds Tech Fair at Hotel Albuquerque (12-6pm)Public exhibition opening for main ISEA2012 exhibition:The Albuquerque Museum & Old Town venues (5-7pm)516 ARTS & Downtown venues (6-8pm)¡GlobalQik! Dance Party at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (7pm-12am)Late Night Lounge Hotel Andaluz (10pm-2am)Friday, September 21:Conference activities at Old Town sites (9am-5:30pm)Meeting Minds Tech Fair at Hotel Albuquerque (12-6pm)Gala at Balloon Museum with balloon glow & performances (6:30-10pm)Late Night Lounges at Hotel Albuquerque & Hotel Andaluz (10pm-2am)Saturday, September 22:Latin American Forum at National Hispanic Cultural Center (9am-5:30pm)UNM Art Museum open house & UNM area events (4:30-7:30pm)¡Globalquerque! Celebration of World Music & Culture (6pm-midnight)Late Night Lounge Hotel Andaluz (10pm-2am)Sunday, September 23:Intel Education Day at Downtown Albuquerque venuesDowntown Block Party highlighting theme of Transportation (4-9pm)Maker’s Faire on Civic Plaza (10am-8pm)Laurie Anderson concert at the KiMo Theatre (9pm)Late Night Lounges at Hotel Albuquerque & Hotel Andaluz (10pm-2am)Monday, September 24:Conference activities in Downtown Albuquerque venues (9am-3pm)Rail Runner train to Santa Fe (4:26pm, 5:34pm & 6:48pm)Reception & Tour at SITE Santa Fe (6:30-9pm)Tuesday, September 25: Santa Fe DayExhibits at IAIA Digital Dome and GPS-based sound walk (9am-noon)SARC Residency Artists panel at Santa Fe University of Art & Design (1:30-3:30pm)Self-guided tour of Downtown and Railyard galleries & sites (1-5pm)Exhibits at Santa Fe University of Art & Design & Santa Fe Art Institute (1-5pm)Thursday, September 27: Taos DayUNM Taos exhibits & presentations (9am-noon)Symposium at UNM Taos Architecture Department (9am-1pm)Earthship Biotecture tours (12-4pm)“Taos Day” closing concert at KTAOS Solar Center (4pm on)