Flux and Feedback

LASER Talks: Flux and Feedback with Artists Kirsten Angerbauer, Zuvya Sevilla and Alyce Santoro

Join artists Kirsten Angerbauer, Zuvya Sevilla and Alyce Santoro as they explore the translation of energy—sound, light, heat, and particles—through new media, installation, and experiential sculpture. During this talk, Kirsten, Zuvya and Alyce will discuss how their overlapping creative practices naturally mirror and amplify the world around us. Together, they will reveal how perceptual experiences can shed light on complex energetic systems and environmental phenomena.

Biographies:

Kirsten Angerbauer (she/they) is a queer, interdisciplinary artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico whose practice encompasses large-scale steel sculptures, site-specific installations, sound art, and new media processes. Kirsten’s work lies at the intersection of digital and analog worlds, and speaks to themes of self-identity, perception vs. reality, queer expression, and resonant frequencies of matter and of the self. Angerbauer has participated in notable solo and group exhibitions across the country, including Currents New Media Festival 2022 and 2023, True/False Film Festival 2020, and Temporary Installations Made for the Environment, 2019. Kirsten has given artist talks to art and architecture students, taught design fabrication workshops and classes, and works full-time as director of the Fabrication Lab at UNM School of Architecture and Planning.

Zuyva Sevilla (zuyvasevilla.com) is a semi-sentient collection of atoms feebly trying to understand everything around them. As an interdisciplinary artist, his work aims to compose, collect and culminate in an interpretation for the inherent chaos of the universe, inspired by everything from the proto-scientific to the metaphysical. Methods within digital fabrication, sculpture and physical computing are key research tools.

Alyce Santoro is an interdisciplinary artist and former scientist. As a biologist and scientific illustrator, she set out three decades ago to understand and make visible the ineffable wonders of science and nature. Devising ways to convey the sublime, record the obscure, experiment with chance, and collaborate with physical forces has raised questions that lead directly into philosophical realms: Can sensations of marvel, reverence, and awe, though unquantifiable, constitute valid forms of data? Where does observer end and observed begin? Alluding to the quantum energies that underpin material forms, Santoro has collected sound-samples, layered them into dense collages, recorded the resulting compositions onto cassette tape, and woven the tape into a literal Sonic Fabric. To demonstrate how sound vibrates air she built a Rubens Tube that brings the audible to light in flame. The 2D and audio-video works in her Down To Earth series combine imagery from vintage science textbooks with visuals of Earth as seen from space, inviting contemplation of humanity’s precious terrestrial home in a vast cosmos. More of Santoro’s multimedia explorations into the inherent entanglements between self and other, human and nature, looker and seen, listener and heard can be found at ALYCESANTORO.COM.

In conjunction with the exhibition Woven Skies: SciArt from Air to the Cosmos, SciArt Santa Fe is hosting a series of these presentations called ‘LASERs’. LASER stands for Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous and take place around the world in more than 40 institutions in 4 continents. SciArt Santa Fe represents New Mexico in this prestigious international Leonardo Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology initiative. Woven Skies LASERs feature exhibiting New Mexico artists and sciart experts from across the state.

Presented in coordination with Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology (ISAST); the University of New Mexico (UNM), College of Fine Arts; sponsored by Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI), and supported in part by New Mexico Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Featured Artists in Woven Skies: Established and emerging artists from across the state using a variety of traditional and experimental media featured are: Kirsten Angerbauer, Colin Barker, Fiona Bell, Paul Biagi, Natalie Christensen, Shirley Crow, Jim Eyre, Marianne Hornbuckle, Susan Latham, Andrea Polli, Alyce Santoro, Zuyva Sevilla, Joan Stango, Dora Tass and Isabel Winson-Sagan.

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