Film screening: Colossus: The Forbin Project
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMBrendan Tracey introduces Colossus: The Forbin Project. The ultimate computer creates the ultimate terror in this chillingly real sci-fi suspense thriller. When electronics genius Charles Forbin creates a massive computer complex that is capable of independently regulating the national defense of the United States, it appears that no enemy will ever be able to penetrate […]
Closing Concert and Tech Demonstration- Chagall – Advaita
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMChagall uses a motion capture suit as a full-body musical instrument. Advaita is the coming together of the human and the digital. The real and the virtual. In Advaita live music, technology, visuals, and movement work together in harmony as all artistic elements are controlled by one thing: the performer’s body.
Carolyn Porco Keynote: Cassini to Saturn:Â The Journey, the Legacy, the Future
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMDario Robleto introduces Carolyn Porco's Keynote: Cassini to Saturn: The Journey, the Legacy, the Future. Thirty-two years ago, the United States and Europe joined together to undertake a mission to the outer solar system. It was named Cassini and called for a 7-year trek across the solar system and entry into orbit around the planet […]
Panel Discussion: Will space limit human performance?
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMDavid Krakauer introduces our panel discussion: Will space limit human performance? With the Artemis mission on the horizon and Elon Musk’s insistence on crewed Martian missions by 2030, considering how humans might live in space is at the forefront of our global collective mind. But what is required of those intrepid volunteers to flourish in […]
Concert: Theremin Virtuoso Rob Schwimmer
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMMichael Garfield introduces Theremin Virtuoso Rob Schwimmer. Rob Schwimmer is a composer-pianist, thereminist, vocalist and Haken Continuum player who has performed and recorded throughout the world. Praised by The New York Times for his "Virtuosity, magic, and humor" Rob has just completed his long awaited 2nd solo CD "Heart Of Hearing" for theremin, Haken Continuum […]
Book Signing: Ian Tregillis
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMSigning The Alchemy Wars Trilogy: The Mechanical, The Rising, and The Liberation.
Why we search for life on Mars: A view from the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMCaitlin McShea introduces Nina Lanza's lecture: Why we search for life on Mars: A view from the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers. Mars has long captured our imaginations as a potential home for past, present, and future life. Current tools now allow for these questions to be addressed scientifically. Notably, there are two NASA-led rovers, dubbed […]
Jorge Almazan: Emergent Tokyo – Speculations on the Spontaneous Space City
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMAnthony Eagan introduces Jorge Almazan's lecture: Emergent Tokyo - Speculations on the Spontaneous Space City. Discussions about cities in space revolve around visions of massive megastructures and artificial habitats that master hostile environments to shelter human life. But can these highly machinic settlements truly accommodate earthlings’ emotional, messy, and unpredictable lives? Can a city in space combine […]
Book Signing: Peter Swirski
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMFrom Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution
Panel Discussion: The Complex Space of Political Economies
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMFrom rising inequality and the impacts of geopolitical conflict, to the immense challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, we are in a period where new thinking about human systems has become essential. Now, in the early part of the 21st century, we are at a time of political and social change that […]
Day two opening remarks and introductions
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMOpening remarks and introductions by David Krakauer - Santa Fe Institute President.
Dark Matter Dance Party with DJ Astrofreq
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMDark Matter Dance Party with DJ Astrofreq and bar by Altar Spirits
Outdoor Concert: Lindy Vision
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMJoin us on the SITE Prow for Lindy Vision! For Albuquerque, New Mexico new wave/synth-pop band Lindy Vision, family casts a shadow over everything. Lindy Vision is a Black Native (Jicarilla Apache) sister band formed in Albuquerque, NM by Dorothy Cuylear (lead vocals/keys/lyrics/drum machine), Natasha Cuylear (lead/rhythm guitar/backup vocals/drum machine), and former member Carla Cuylear […]
Film screening: Ikarie XB-1
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMIn the year 2163, the starship Ikarie XB-1 (Ikarus XB-1) is sent to the mysterious "White Planet" orbiting the star Alpha Centauri. Travelling at near-light speed, the journey takes around 28 months for the astronauts, although the effects of relativity mean that 15 years will have elapsed on Earth by the time they reach their destination. […]
The Cassandra Syndrome, or, How Not to be a Futurologist
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMIan Tregillis introduces Peter Swirski's lecture: The Cassandra Syndrome, or, How Not to be a Futurologist. From the game of polo to cloning, from Hugo Gernsback to Stanislaw Lem, from predictions of future past to snapshots of contemporary reality, Peter Swirski will take science fiction at face value and evaluate its claims to being a […]
Book Signing: Melanie Mitchell
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMSigning Complexity: A Guided Tour and Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Panel Discussion: When will we need a Theory of Intelligence?
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMJessica Flack introduces our panel discussion: When will we need a Theory of Intelligence? Machine learning algorithms have been surprisingly successful at performing tasks that we assumed required high levels of intelligence, such as predicting protein folding (AlphaFold), as well as creative expressions like poetry with language prediction models (GPT-3). Do those successes imply that […]
How to Find Life Anywhere: The Universal Rules of Life
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMSara Walker introduces Chris Kempes's lecture: How to Find Life Anywhere: The Universal Rules of Life. In our search for life beyond Earth we are confronted with a broad set of questions that challenge our basic understanding of biology: How different could life be in terms of what it is made of? How different might […]
Book Signing: Caleb Scharf
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMSigning The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm.
Panel Discussion: Life and its Objects
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMChris Kempes introduces the panel discussion: Life and its Objects. The desire to know whether or not we’re alone in the universe is by no means a new obsession. For instance, the Voyager Mission – with its two data probes, various spectrometers, and a golden love letter to alien life – launched 46 years ago. […]
Tristan Duke: Speculative Vision
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMBrandee Caoba introduces a lecture by Tristan Duke: Speculative Vision. Holographic drawings… A camera with a lens made from ice…  A photograph developed by extremophile bacteria… Artist and inventor Tristan Duke will share some of his unique projects, the thinking behind them, and the radical new perspectives they offer. Exploring themes of deep time, technology, […]
Book signing James Gleick
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMSigning Chaos and Time Travel.
Panel Discussion: Complex Conceptions of Time
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMFor InterPlanetary’s opening panel discussion, David Krakauer will lead a discussion between Ted Chiang, James Gleick, and David Wolpert on Complex Time, and representations of time: How time is encoded, described, represented, modeled and observed.After providing a brief introduction to some of the representational dichotomies of time – (1) fundamental vs. emergent time and (2) […]
Opening remarks and introductions
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMOpening remarks and introductions by David Krakauer - Santa Fe Institute President.
*CANCELED* Cultural Preservation in an Age of Appropriation
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMA roundtable discussion by the Projecting Particles (I=Universe) Team about Indigenous cultural values and Western values, their intersections, their distinctions, and how cultures can be shared widely without loss. This roundtable discussion will be followed by story-telling sessions in the tipi, between Steven Tamayo and Steven Goldfarb, while Marcus Dominger live projects images onto the […]
*CANCELED* InterPlanetary Constitutional Convention
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMWhat considerations should we take when writing a constitution for a newly established InterPlanetary settlement? What can we learn from the constitutions governing nations on Earth? Following on the heels of a closed meeting on the same subject, this panel will discuss what should be included in an adaptable governing document for a future settlement […]
*CANCELED* (I=)UNIVERSE
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMMilagro Middle School has been invited to participate in a unique interdisciplinary and intercultural exploration of the universe as part of the Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Festival. (I=)UNIVERSE is a STEMarts Lab production in collaboration with multiple departments at SFPS, including Art, Science, Technology, and Native American Student Services. Under the guidance of artist/educator Agnes […]
*CANCELED* Intelligent Systems Panel
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMThis panel will be on the topic of Intelligent Systems & Cognitive Design.
*CANCELED* Astrobiology & Life Detection Panel
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, Santa Fe, NMA panel discussion on life detection investigations deployed place today, what those technologies are seeking, what information we're receiving, and what it all means. This panel is partially supported by the National Science Foundation.