Presenters

June 8, 2018

Richard Lowenberg

Richard Lowenberg has spent over 40 years creatively integrating understandings and grounded involvements in non-profit organizational development, architecture, environmental/ecosystems design, rural community and networked society planning, and new-media and eco-arts practices.

Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he is the founding director of the 1st-Mile Institute, and of its NM Broadband for All (NM BBFA) and Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations (SARC) Programs.    

Richard was Executive Director of the Davis Community Network in California from 1996-2006, and Programs Director of the Telluride Institute in Colorado from 1984-1996. 

Richard is an artist, designer, writer, tele-community planner, .org director, and eco-cultural activist.  His current, ongoing and broadly encompassing projects are:

- Information Revolutions: a body of writings, performing arts and media works.

-"Ground Truth", eco-tech installation artworks

- Info/Eco: a series of creative works and writings on information, economics and ecology.

-"Eco-Value Scale", sculpture/web artwork, exploring economic value.

- Tele-Community Planning: consulting on rural-urban information societies' development.

-1st-Mile New Mexico Initiative

-Senior Broadband Planner, Design Nine, Inc.

- RADLab: research, arts & demonstration laboratory. 

Media:

Interview at Thoma Foundation (2017) 

Interview with datagarden.org (2011)




Agnes Chavez is a new media artist, educator, and co-director of The PASEO. She collaborates with artists, programmers and youth, combining data visualization, sound and projection art to create participatory experiences for festivals, museums and community spaces.  Her educational STEMarts LAB programs blend art, new media and science, and have been contracted by institutions such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness festival.  She is the founder and developer of SUBE, a multisensory language curriculum for teaching Spanish and English to kids through art, music and games. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the renowned “Educational Innovation in the Americas” (INELAM) award in 2006, and the 2011 New Mexico Women in Technology Award.  

In 2016 she was hired as STEAM coordinator for the Taos Integrated School of the Arts (TISA) where she designs programming for the STEAM Lab@TISA. She has won numerous awards for her sci-art projects including the renowned “Educational Innovation in the Americas” (INELAM) award in 2006, and the New Mexico Women in Technology Award in 2011.

In her art, Chavez experiments with data visualization, sound and projection art to create participatory experiences that explore our relationship with nature and technology. In 2015 she was invited to the Havana Biennial to present the installation Origination Point, along with the STEMarts youth workshop, Projecting Particles. The opening was attended by Senator Tom Udall and a delegation of five US senators to support the US-Cuba relations. Her services include participatory art installations, program design and coordination, consulting and lectures to inspire and inform on sci-art and STEAM initiatives.