Currents New Media

05/27/2026

Featuring more works you’ll encounter this June at CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival!

✤ CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival | June 12 - June 21
✤ El Museo Cultural | 555 Camino de la Familia
✤ Early Bird Tickets end on June 4

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“Listening to the Ether” by Testu Collective is a sound installation using magnetic drum machines and electromagnetic induction to generate rhythmic audio through rotating magnetic fields rather than traditional percussion.

“Twenty Twenty-Five” by Ghazal Majidi .studio is an interactive digital mirror that reconstructs viewers’ reflections using imagery from contemporary airstrikes, confronting the transformation of distant violence into consumable visual data.

“Selected Places to Sit” by Chris Mcdowell is a sculptural series that transforms hand-drawn seating illustrations through AI-generated 3D modeling and printing, celebrating the strange and imperfect interpretations produced by machine learning systems.

“Organising Principles of Experience” by Gabriela Tropia is a film project created in collaboration with an AI model trained on the writings of experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, exploring memory, digital resurrection, and the ethics of recreating artistic legacies through artificial intelligence.

“The Lonely Reef” by The Lonely Reef Crew (Hayden Carey Zeve Cohen .cohen) is a large-scale art car sculpture inspired by deep-sea organisms, transforming an airplane tug into a mobile communal environment designed to inspire wonder and connection at Burning Man.

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Support from           mediaTheFoundation KindWorldFoundation

05/27/2026

05/21/2026

This year, CURRENTS 2026 extends beyond the main exhibition, activating stages, studios, cinemas, and community spaces across Santa Fe.

One of these Offsite Experiences is Team Everything’s CURRENTS 2026 Afterparty at The Marigold Room. An evening of live visuals, immersive sound, and late-night energy bringing together artists, DJs, and digital creators from across New Mexico’s electronic artists.

Sat, June 13
9:30p-1:30a
At
750 N St Francis Dr

✤ Separate tickets required from CURRENTS 2026 Festival admission • Link in bio
✤ The first 50 tickets are $15 + fees. After the first 50 tickets are claimed, admission increases to $20 + fees.

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Featuring:
Bacon
Beeps .mayhall
Feathericci
Wake

Live Video:
Jake Snider
Kyle Evans

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Support from           mediaTheFoundation KindWorldFoundation

05/19/2026

CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival | June 12 - June 21

✤ El Museo Cultural | 555 Camino de la Familia
✤ Early Bird Tickets out now!

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Simulacra Naturae by metaesthetica is a collaborative media installation where brain organoids drive evolving digital ecosystems, generating real-time visuals, sound, sculpture, and living interactions that blur the boundaries between biological and artificial intelligence.

PANOs by Anne Farrell explores the possibilities of digital collage through layered tablet-based compositions that merge acquired imagery, original visuals, and experimental digital processing.

Adversarial Network by Brandon Morse is a multi-channel generative video installation that stages a projected conflict between reclaimed sculptural forms and immersive moving images as a metaphor for sociopolitical tension, resistance, and instability.

Pandemic Portrait by Antoinette Lafarge .lafarge is a procedural artwork inspired by Zoom meetings during the COVID-19 lockdown, transforming virtual windows and domestic backdrops into an evolving portrait of collective isolation and digital intimacy.

Brilliant Pallet by Rev AWL Jones transforms an industrial shipping pallet into an interactive projection environment where sound-reactive light patterns reveal hidden rhythms, symbolic structures, and animistic digital visions.

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Support from           mediaTheFoundation KindWorldFoundation

05/11/2026

A selection of works from this year’s CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival, where artificial life, material transformation, voice, ecology, and collective interaction converge through experimental media practices.

✤ CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival | June 12 - June 21
✤ El Museo Cultural | 555 Camino de la Familia
✤ Early Bird Tickets out now!

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Clay Pillar by Interactive Items .items is an interactive phygital installation where visitors sculpt clay and speak prompts to generate evolving AI imagery in real time, exploring authorship, embodiment, and collective creativity.

SHAPE SHIFT by Alex Olwal is a series of kinetic sculptures that use electromagnetic forces to choreograph magnetic fluid into shifting movements that blur the boundaries between chaos and control, animate and inanimate.

Darwin’s Chorus by Canton Becker + Jeffrey Ventrella transforms artificial life simulation into a playful sonic ecosystem where evolving digital creatures develop songs, mating preferences, and emergent musical “tribes.”

Floral Migas by Victoria DeBlassie laser-cuts colonial imagery into handmade laminated natural materials, weaving together flora, technology, labor, and Portuguese colonial history through intricate symbolic surfaces.

Sounding Clouds by Angelina Eng invites visitors to listen to and vocalize the contours of Santa Fe’s clouds through illuminated photographs and Deep Listening practices that translate shifting skies into collective sound.

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Support from           mediaTheFoundation KindWorldFoundation

05/09/2026

From shifting projections and migratory movement to quantum interaction and dissolving matter, these are a few of the works shaping this year’s CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival

✤ CURRENTS 2026 | June 12 - June 21
✤ At | 555 Camino de la Familia
✤ Early Bird Tickets out now link in bio!

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Quantum Jungle by Robin Baumgarten @.wobbles is an interactive installation of touch-sensitive springs and LEDs that turns complex concepts from quantum physics into a playful, hands-on experience for all ages.

Threaded Light by Jess Lanham @ transforms charcoal and fire-scarred ponderosa pine from the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon burn scar into a haunting projection work that reflects on memory, regeneration, and the shifting meaning of home.

Cluster Ache by Morgan Woolverton @ layers hand-drawn sculptural panels with AI-animated projections, merging traditional mark-making with digital processes to create a shifting animated environment.

Birds In Flight by Julia Daser .daser and Pepi Ng is a kinetic sculpture that visualizes real-time bird migration across the United States, translating invisible aerial movement into a constantly shifting physical experience.

Ephemera by Leffin C uses mist, copper, and condensation to meditate on impermanence, questioning humanity’s desire to leave behind traces that can outlast time and memory.

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Support from           mediaTheFoundation KindWorldFoundation

04/30/2026

Ambient Intelligence gathered artists working within the Maestra, a local network developed by Jordan Timber Snyder that allowed artworks to broadcast data and subscribe to signals from one another.

What one piece detects or generates became available input for another. The result was a space that behaved more like a living system than a gallery—shaped by collective activity, evolving over time, and different on every visit.��Thank you to all of artists, the built system, and everyone who attended!

Artists:
Jerome Morrison + Julian Addams-Wolf
Morgan Barnard
Krista Faist .faist
Rob Gulotta + Sasha Faust
B. Greiner
Eric Heep
Mike Root
Lila Steffan + Matt Rybecky
Owen Schwab .art
Zuyva Sevilla
Jordan Timber Snyder
Sarah Turner
Thomas Vause
Gabe Weisbuch
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This exhibition is presented in partnership with CURRENTS New Media and RELAY Santa Fe. Major support from

03/01/2026

Holophony is a night of focused listening and live performances with the Wave Field Synthesis array
Thurs, March 19th 7pm-10pm Relay Santa Fe | 2873 All Trades Rd. Unit B

Featuring:
Luna Galassini
Palmerie .sound
Sky Civilian
Eric Heep

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This performance is presented as part of the public programming for Orchestrated Systems, organized in partnership with CURRENTS  and RELAY Santa Fe .santafe

Major support from 

02/26/2026

Orchestrated Systems Artist Spotlight: Maddy Weaver and Charles Tuttle 🌐

Maddy Weaver and Charles Tuttle are multidisciplinary artists who met while working at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Together, they blend their backgrounds in technology, sculpture, and sound design to create immersive, kinetic installations. Maddy and Charles’s experience in electrical and mechanical engineering allow them to reimagine everyday objects as instruments of sound and light. Their collaborative work emphasizes sustainability by repurposing discarded materials into new, expressive forms, challenging audiences to see the hidden potential in e-waste.

“Reclaimed Orchestra ” by Weaver + Tuttle will be on view:
March 7th-March 28th

Opening: Saturday, March 7th 6pm-9pm @ 2873 All Trades Rd Unit B

Orchestrated Systems is a new exhibition presented in partnership with  and .santafe

Major support from 

02/23/2026

Upcoming Workshop!

Intro to Algorithmic Programming with Max/MSP Workshop, led by Eric Heep , extends ideas into practice. This (free!) workshop is an introduction to the world of electronic sound using the Max/MSP software and aims to provide a high level understanding of algorithmic programming. We’ll be covering basic digital audio concepts such as sound synthesis, sampling, distortion, and how to spatialize sound across multiple speakers.

This is a beginner-friendly workshop. We ask participants to bring a laptop and mouse to follow along. Light snacks and beverages will be provided!

March 11th 6pm-8pm
RELAY Santa Fe, 2873 All Trades Rd Unit B, Santa Fe, NM 87507

RSVP REQUIRED: link in bio!

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This workshop is presented as part of the public programming for Orchestrated Systems, organized in partnership with CURRENTS and RELAY Santa Fe .santafe

Major support from