Sarah Bennet-Davidson. “Touch Dress.” Silk, fleece insulation, conductive thread, ESP-32 microcontroller, speakers, vvvv gamma, INA sound samples, 2023.

From Merce Cunningham to Creative Computation: Media Artist Sarah Bennett-Davidson Shares Her Journey

Sarah Bennet-Davidson is a media-based artist in New Mexico. She is currently a graduate student here at The University of New Mexico, enrolled in the MFA program in Electronic Art & Technology, and has been taking vvvv classes with The NODE Institute since 2022. vvvvv is a visual-first live programming environment for the .NET ecosystems. Bennet-Davidson was a recipient of a Summer Season ’24 scholarship with the NODE Institute for the vvvv Intermediates classes. Its language, VL, combines metaphors known from dataflow, functional and object-oriented programming.

Bennet-Davidson is teaching Electronic Art to students and working at UNM ARTSLab, which focuses on art/tech research. She started out being interested in experimental dance and choreography. The concepts behind algorithmic body movements captivated her, and after she saw a pieced by Merce Cunningham called “Biped” (1999), at Lincoln Center in New York City, which sparked her interest in generative large-scale projects.

She said she is excited to be at UNM and has also recently been selected to participate this spring as an artist in a competitive collaborative lithography course at Tamarind Institute. There she will be collaborating with Tamarind printmakers-in-training to create three print editions and using vvvv to create imagery for it.

We are excited to see what Sarah Bennet-Davidson does next!

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29mar(mar 29)3:00 PM16jun(jun 16)5:00 PMFeaturedExtant Erosions: MFA Thesis by Emma Ressel1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104

16may(may 16)10:00 AM30aug(aug 30)4:00 PMFeaturedTamarind Exhibitions - Fritz Scholder: 1974-19842500 Central Ave SE

25jun(jun 25)8:30 AM29(jun 29)9:00 PMFeaturedNM Double Bass Workshop203 Cornell Dr, Albuquerque, NM 87131

Event Details

The New Mexico Double Bass Workshop will be host to many amazing double bass faculty to lead masterclasses, chamber ensembles, jazz courses, and a double bass orchestra (among other activities) during the days of June 25th-June 29th 2025 at the UNM Center For The Arts!

Our faculty/guest artists currently include Paul Ellison, Joe Ferris, Jack Hanan, Frank Murry, Art Sheinberg, Marco Retana, and Tobias Vigneau. This event is sponsored in part by Robertson’s Violin Shop and UNM’s double bass professor, Albert Laszlo (and his wonderfully supportive wife, Patricia Wood), among other donors. Also featuring a lunch time performance by the Tracey Whitney Trio.

This workshop is open to double bassists of all ages and skill levels, with activities for all! No auditions required; placements will be made using a questionnaire at registration designed to gauge appropriate placements based on skill and interests.

Official registration is now open, click here to secure your spot!

Costs:
Registration Fee: $100 per participant (need-based scholarships available!).
Optional Dorm Fee: $200 flat (double)/$273 flat (single) per participant.
Optional Parking Pass: $21 per car for full week

*Participants ages 12 years and older may stay in the dorms June 24th-June 30th; for participants planning to stay in the dorms, registration/dorm payments must be made by May 23rd, 2025.

*For best consideration of chamber ensemble placement, registration should be completed by June 1st, 2025. Group classes, as well as a jazz workshop class, will be available for those who do not participate in a classical chamber ensemble.

Time

jun 25 (wednesday) 8:30am - jun 29 (sunday) 9:00pm

Location

UNM Center for the Arts

203 Cornell Dr, Albuquerque, NM 87131

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