Events Calendar

Spring Reception, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Professor Meggan Gould, who teaches photography within the Department of Art at UNM and serves as the Associate Dean of Research, is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools—namely, cameras—have been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image—the varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons—questioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series “7 Pictures Remaining,” the artist’s images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a “shadow archive” within the California Museum of Photography (CMP) technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould’s own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.

XR Performance Hack-a-thon

Info Session: Mar 25, 6PM @ Art Bldg (84), Room 304
Workshop Sessions: TBD (Min. 3)
Rehearsal: Apr 19, 2PM @ UNM Art Museum
Performance: Apr 19, 3:30-5:30PM @ UNM Art Museum

This performance workshop is part of an initiative to foster intellectual and artistic exchange in XR (extended reality) studies. We invite you to join a three-week workshop, a collaboration between faculty/students in the Art Department and the Department of Film & Digital Arts at UNM.

The workshop will begin in Week 10 of the semester and will include students from FDMA 491: Blender and ARTS 446/546: The Politics of Performance, along with interested performers from various fields. Interested artist/scholars will collaborate with students in FDMA 491 to create performances that incorporate 3-D rendered objects in virtual reality.

The three-week collaboration will culminate in a public performance. The performance will be streamed online through the Department of Film & Digital Arts platform and presented at the UNM Art Museum.

Attendance is free. Selected participants will commit to at least 3 meetings with collaborators, as well as participation in the final rehearsal and performance, which will take place on Saturday, April 19.

📩 Apply by Mar 24, 12PM: Send portfolio (website or PDF) optional CV to Prof. Szu-Han Ho (szho@unm.edu). Space is limited!

New Mexico Dance Hackathon presents
“The Human Body’s Digital Echo”
An Artist Talk by Kelsey Paschich
Friday April 25 at 5pm at ARTSLab

Kelsey Paschich is a multidisciplinary dance artist originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor of Innovation in Dance at Western Michigan University and currently based in Kalamazoo, MI. She experiments with and creates live digital work that explores the moving body and its relationship to technology. She uses movement as a language that makes transparent the space between dream reality with spontaneity, juxtaposition, the element of surprise and challenges the preconceived understanding of real versus surreal. Her work often utilizes multi-media elements inspired by surrealism as the theoretical conceptual framework.

This event is free and open to the public. New Mexico Dance Hackathon is sponsored by UNM ARTSLab. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

artslab.unm.edu

The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten), written by August Strindberg, premiered in 1907, tells the story of a young student who, after spending the whole night rescuing the wounded in a fire, meets a mysterious man named Hummel. Hummel introduces him to a seemingly bright world of values when he enters an aristocratic house. Once inside, he gradually becomes disillusioned when he finds a reality full of betrayal, illness and ghosts.

Directed by Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez
April 25, 26, and May 1, 2, and 3 at 7:30pm, April 27 at 2:00pm
Rodey Theatre
$15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students

The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten), written by August Strindberg, premiered in 1907, tells the story of a young student who, after spending the whole night rescuing the wounded in a fire, meets a mysterious man named Hummel. Hummel introduces him to a seemingly bright world of values when he enters an aristocratic house. Once inside, he gradually becomes disillusioned when he finds a reality full of betrayal, illness and ghosts. Directed by Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez.

Ghost Sonata
By August Strindberg
Directed by Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez
April 25, 26, and May 1, 2, and 3 at 7:30pm, April 27 at 2:00pm
Rodey Theatre
$15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students