CURRENTS 2018, set up views, David Stout and Cory Metcalf, “Interium ”(left); IP Yuk-yiu (heart), “E book of Hungry Ghosts”; and Meridel Rubenstein (proper), “Eden in Iraq: In The Marshes” (all photographs courtesy CURRENTS New Media)
A lot of American Modernism occurred by means of New Mexico with artists experimenting exterior of the confines of the academy. This sense of freedom and play continued via the second half of the twentieth century as artists engaged within the gentle, area, and coloration of the desert setting. These artwork actions are actually codified into historical past, and as we speak artists in New Mexico are nonetheless sharpening modern artwork’s innovative.
Mariannah Amster and Frank Ragano, the founders and administrators of the CURRENTS New Media Pageant and Parallel Studios, arrived in New Mexico in 1989 and 1996 respectively, met each other, and began organizing pop-up showcases that includes video and digital artwork. In 2002, the CURRENTS Pageant debuted on the Heart for Modern Artwork (CCA) in Santa Fe. It comprised eight digital artists, together with Woody and Steina Vasulka, founders of The Kitchen. CURRENTS continued semi-regularly at totally different places: type & idea, Artwork Santa Fe, Shack Obscura (introduced by Klaudia Marr Gallery), and Salon Mar Graff Gallery within the close by village of Tesuque.
Artist Benjamin Vedrenne (proper) and viewers member talk about “Stereopolis” (2019), interactive new media set up
In 2010, CURRENTS and El Museo Cultural shaped a partnership and the competition expanded to indicate the work of fifty artists from throughout america, in addition to 22 native highschool artists. CURRENTS had been working at this scale for 10 consecutive years till 2020, at which level the competition moved completely on-line after which shifted to a hybrid format in 2021. This 12 months, CURRENTS will happen as a full-scale, in-person competition throughout the town of Santa Fe, displaying 75 artists at CURRENTS 826 (their year-round exhibition area), the Santa Fe Fairgrounds, CCA, SITE Santa Fe, and type & idea.
Reflecting on the arc of CURRENTS’s 20-year historical past, Amster and Ragano every have a way of delight for the previous and pleasure concerning the future. As new media artists themselves, they strategy all the pieces with curiosity and try to carry a spirit of openness to Santa Fe by presenting a global array of up to date new media work. And, whereas CURRENTS is a global competition, they really feel strongly that the native communities in New Mexico ought to be those who mainly profit from it.
For instance, there’s an abundance of job alternatives within the space since placing collectively a manufacturing of this dimension requires a sturdy crew of individuals. Reasonably priced tickets, in addition to venues all through the town, additionally profit the neighborhood. However this sense of accessibility can be achieved in the way in which Amster and Ragano design the expertise. “We emphasize the expertise and even when it’s difficult work it nonetheless is in a context that enables individuals to chill out,” says Amster about making the competition inviting to guests coming from any background. Ragano provides, “When individuals are available, in the event that they’ve by no means seen work like this earlier than, they get it. Individuals don’t really feel silly.”
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Mollye Bendell, “Outgrown” (2022), augmented actuality set up
It’s essential that viewers by no means really feel alienated by the works, which isn’t uncommon relating to encountering modern artwork. However this sort of intentional experience-crafting doesn’t occur on the expense of presenting work that challenges the viewer, both. Ragano and Amster are principally desirous about curating a competition that’s visceral, that makes guests “really feel alive.” And typically that form of paintings additionally offers with troublesome themes.
Two artworks stand out as encompassing the ethos of being each accessible and thought-provoking. Artist Younger-min Choi has two experiential works within the competition: “Chordal Distance” (in collaboration with Sylvan Zheng) — a musical set up that requires two viewers to work together with the work to provide music collectively — and “Cloud Mirror” — an interactive video set up that produces a mirrored image of the viewer synced to the viewer’s respiratory — search to attach the viewer again to themselves and to at least one one other by utilizing tech because the automobile for interactivity. For Choi, when presenting technology-based work, the participatory component is of prime significance.Since technological progress has usually favored revenue in any respect prices, she believes that new media artwork has the ability to subvert this by permitting individuals to make their very own that means via interplay.
Younger-min Choi (in collaboration with Sylvan Zheng), “Chordal Distance” (2021), new media set up
In “Acequia Madre” by Albuquerque-based artist Ruben Olguin, viewers are prompted to noticeably think about their relationship to the land they’re on and the human influence on it over the centuries. The work is a multimedia set up comprising adobe bricks and video projections. The video sequence reveals the historical past of water entry within the Santa Fe space and the processes, pure and synthetic, which have altered these waterways.
Additionally on view is Tivon Rice’s video screening “Fashions for Environmental Literacy” (2020), which follows three synthetic intelligence entities educated on totally different language-based datasets (made up of novels, non-fiction books, and studies on local weather change) making their method via totally different digital landscapes. The voiceover narration is offered by AI, which was co-written by Rice. The video itself is gorgeous, however at instances unsettling once you cease to assume that the voice and the phrases are partially robot-generated.
Ruben Olguin, “Acequia Madre” (2022), two-channel video set up
Because the world grows more and more digital with seemingly no time to pause to consider potential penalties, offering a devoted area to come across and query superior expertise via artwork in a snug setting appears important. Artwork may help articulate the human expertise, re-presenting it again to ourselves, in order that we’d discover that means in {our relationships} with one another and our collective actuality. CURRENTS achieves this mission with thoughtfulness, magnificence, and readability, balancing on that innovative between as we speak and our very current future.
The toy drive is now underway. Here is how you can help.
SANTA FE, N.M. — The City of Santa Fe launched its Northern New Mexico Toy Drive last week with the goal of serving around 8,000 children.
According to the city, that is how many children are in-need. Now through Dec. 15, you can drop off donations at several locations (see below).
The toy drive will benefit more than 40 organizations and monetary donations will go toward buying gifts locally.
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Organizers are also hosting an ugly sweater fundraiser Dec. 6 at the Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos. Tickets are $25 and all proceeds will go toward the toy drive.
The Northern New Mexico Toy Drive started 15 years ago with less than 100 children and quickly ballooned into what it is today.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Tru Washington scored 19 points as New Mexico beat Texas Southern 99-68 on Sunday night.
Washington added 10 rebounds and four steals for the Lobos (5-1). Mustapha Amzil scored 18 points, shooting 6 for 15 (2 for 6 from 3-point range) and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line. Filip Borovicanin finished 5 of 6 from the field to finish with 11 points.
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Kavion McClain led the way for the Tigers (0-5) with 15 points and six assists. Jaylen Wysinger added 12 points for Texas Southern. Zaire Hayes finished with 10 points.
New Mexico took the lead with 1:13 remaining in the first half and did not give it up. Washington led their team in scoring with eight points in the first half to help put them up 38-31 at the break. New Mexico extended its lead to 77-48 during the second half, fueled by an 11-0 scoring run. Borovicanin scored a team-high 11 points in the second half as their team closed out the win.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
The city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, has reached a $20 million settlement with the family of a grandmother fatally shot by a police officer last year, according to The Associated Press and local media.
Felipe Hernandez, then working for the Las Cruces Police Department, fatally shot Teresa Gomez, 45, in her car in October 2023. Her family filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city, the police chief, and three members of the police force.
The settlement is the city’s largest agreement in a civil lawsuit, according to CNN affiliate KFOX14. The parties reached a settlement on November 7, according to a court filing. CNN has reached out to the city and an attorney representing the Gomez family for comment.
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“This settlement should be understood as a statement of the City’s profound feeling of loss for the death of Gomez and of the City’s condolences to her family,” the city of Las Cruces said in a news release sent Friday, according to AP.
Hernandez, who was fired from the police department months after the shooting, faces a second-degree murder charge, court records show. He has pleaded not guilty. His trial is scheduled to begin June 2. CNN has reached out to Hernandez’s attorney for comment.
Gomez was sitting in her car when Hernandez accused her and her passenger of trespassing, footage from the officer’s body-worn camera shows. He then shouted commands laced with the F-word at her and threatened to arrest her, “tase” her and make her life “a living hell” if she didn’t comply with his plan to investigate, the footage shows.
After Hernandez approached Gomez on a bicycle as she sat in her car, Gomez told him she had been visiting someone at the address and said she was looking for her misplaced keys, the body-camera footage shows. Gomez and the officer discussed why she and the passenger were parked outside a public housing complex – a place Hernandez said the passenger was not supposed to be. Gomez said multiple times she was unaware of any visitor rules, the video shows.
After Hernandez repeatedly asked Gomez to leave her car, Gomez stood outside it for a while, answering some of the officer’s questions, the video shows. Her passenger was never asked to get out or questioned in a similar way.
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The grandmother eventually found her car keys and, with the officer’s permission, sat back in the driver’s seat, according to the video and the lawsuit.
Half a minute later, she engaged the engine and, with her car door still open, shifted into reverse, pulled back, then put the car into drive, the video shows.
Hernandez shouted “stop!” three times, then fired his gun several times, the video shows.
The lawsuit alleges Gomez presented “no threat of any physical injury to Hernandez or anyone else” and Hernandez “left her to bleed out in her car as he turned away from her gasping body to retrieve his bicycle and flashlight.”
The suit claims Las Cruces “has adopted a de facto policy of indifference to the escalation of encounters between its officers and the public”and it “it allows officers to use deadly force in situations in which there is no threat of great bodily harm or death posed by the subject receiving deadly force.”
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The complaint also alleges city employees disproportionately use excessive force against people of color – like Gomez, who was Hispanic.
Gomez’s sister, Angela Lozano-Gutierrez, previously told CNN the video of her mother’s encounter with Hernandez was “shocking.”
“We may never get the apology we need,” Lozano-Gutierrez said. “We’re just trying to cling to each other, and we just keep telling ourselves: She would want us to continue to live to be happy.”
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