[FRIAM] law and order

[peter]

Right on Peggy / Ray glad you got the point

For your power users conversion project the model is

1. What are the Base - Peaking targets for replacement energy taking all 
factors into account and that includes usage
2. How does this affect the location transmission targets and how can 
this altered to match 1

3. Communicate between systems and put the rubber on the road

I have spent years in the power industry and the deep dark secret is 
that operation efficiency for the entire industry is


Production at power plant - 25 / 40 %
Transmission Line efficiency = 15 / 45%
Power distribution use off of main transmission to user = 10 / 30 %

Each one percent improvement nationwide relates to about  $25B

So if the plants, the transmission lines and the distribution system 
were smart like law and orders outlines ( which is already possible with 
todays technology ) think of the humongous possibilities especially if 
tax and financial incentives are included in the targets.


Here is a fun future outline http://www.ideapete.com/AATG.html that we 
are making into a promo movie to illustrate all the above, maybe we 
should talk


( : ( : pete

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[FRIAM] Fwd: sfComplex Event: Vasulka Concludes Conversation with the Machine

[Don Begley]

Woody's first presentation was most enjoyable. He'll move toward his  
vision of art and present-day computer technology on Sept. 3.


-d-

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Date: August 29, 2008 10:35:10 AM MDT
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Subject: sfComplex Event: Vasulka Concludes Conversation with the  
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Woody Vasulka concludes 2-part talk September 3

Dialogue with
the Machine

Wednesday, September 3 · 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero St.
Admission is free. Donations welcome

For more information, contact Don Begley at 505/216.7562 or visit  
sfcomplex.org




Woody Vasulka concludes his conversations on the changing  
relationship between art and technology next Wednesday, September 3  
at 6:00 pm at Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria St.


Each of those decades represents a distinct phase in the evolution  
of that relationship, says Vasulka. "It has been a dialogue with the  
machine that began in the political environment of the 60s with a  
time of continual interaction within an art community," he explains.  
He explains, "We were looking for images that were not derived from  
the world in this earlier work. It was a generation of continual  
interaction between technology and art where we were learning,  
demonstrating, and building in a community of with a network of  
interests."


That almost communal time of social and artisitc experimentation  
faded as computer-generated graphics overwhelmed art with  
hyhperrealistic images and an emphasis on the technical rather than  
the artistic elements of creativity.


As "the idea of realism slowly came to dominate art in the digital  
era," Woody says, "the image itself took the dominant function and  
the contextual information lost its importance." As a result, art  
became dominated by computer needs like resolution and color spaces  
rather than the artist's vision.


The irrepressible artist believes the hyperrealistic phase is  
fading. He offers his "Dialogue with the Machine," which is how  
Vasulka refers to his coming talks at Santa Fe Complex, as a return  
to a more collaborative and experimental community.


In fact, he says that technology will expand the artist's horizons.  
Asking "is it the tool that limits you?," Vasulka calls the computer  
a variation machine that will let artists leap beyond historic  
constraints. In the 70s, he says, artists asked, "What happens  
between the frames?" and "Why 24 frames per second and not 1000?"  
Today, with the variation machine, they can begin to answer those  
questions and more.


Thw process has begun, according to Woody. Santa Fe artists like  
Corey Metcalf and David Stout, he says, are heirs to the Vasulka  
traditions. They show that modern digital processes, once again,  
allow a reinterpretation of sound and sight.



Woody pioneered video art in the late 1960s. Born in Brno, now in  
the Czech Republic, he trained as an engineer before studying  
television and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in  
Prague. He met his wife, Steina Vasulka, in the early 1960s and  
moved to New York City in 1965, where he worked as a multiscreen  
film editor, experimenting with electronic sounds and stroboscopic  
lights while pioneering the showing of video art at the Whitney  
Museum. Woody collaborated with Don MacArthur and Jeffrey Schier in  
1976 to build a computer controlled personal imaging facility called  
The Digital Image Articulator. The Vasulkas have been based in Santa  
Fe since 1980. More information is available at http://vasulka.org/index.html

Come Visit Us

Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and  
within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the  
plaza downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the conference area  
at 624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria.


The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short- 
term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project  
space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working  
facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels.


While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking  
lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is  
an old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway.  
Follow it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into  
the parking lot for 632.


Here's a map to our location, a representative shot showing the  
Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For  
more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.


Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501

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