The Projecting Particles Collective visited the Taos Day School 5th and 6th grade classrooms to deliver a three day immersive workshop that combined particle physics, native science and projection art. Students explored the origins of the universe and created animated Petroglyph-Feynam Diagram Hybrids projected onto a tipi. Best student animations from the workshop will be projected on to the tipi at The PASEO festival through a live painting session curated by Tagtool founder, OMAI. Through an inter-school collaboration, lead students…

A STEMarts Youth Workshop in the Classroom. Paseo artist Cristopher Cichocki will work with 6th grade classroom at Taos Charter School in collaboration with the Taos Land Trust to elevate their connection to the environment through artistic and scientific investigations beyond the surface of everyday perception. The objective is to open a discussion that bridges the ecological past and future of the region. Students will explore the Taos wetlands through the critical lens of both science and art. Perspectives from…

Paseo artist collective and Tagtool founder, OMAI, will work with the 6th grade students from the Taos Integrated School of the Arts. These students have been working with Tagtool for the past two years and now they will have the opportunity to meet the artist/developers of this exciting projection tool and master their skills.

This event is tailored to UNM Digital Media students. Artists from the Victoria Vesna collective, Martina Fröschl and Glenn Bristol, will visit Peter Walker’s Creative Media classroom at Taos High for an artist talk and demo. They will share their unique blend of science, animation and interactive projection techniques used to raise consciousness about the underwater pollution that threatens the biodiversity of our most precious and life-giving resource: the oceans of the world.

This event is for Taos middle school and high school students. Participating classrooms from all of Taos County with close to 300 students will be transported to the Space Cloud for a sneak preview of the magnificent award winning pavilion designed by three young architects from Madrid Spain. Students will get to meet the designers along with other Paseo artists that have installations in the Space Cloud to talk and demo the science and technology behind the art. Students will…

A performance for the youth of Taos. A Modern Dance performance piece based on exploration of theoretical astrophysics. The performance attempts to visualize stellar dynamic, galaxy formation and evolution, and scientific concepts such as Emergence Theory and Chaos Theory. The performers will use fabric to demonstrate the dramatic paradox qualities of the universe while allowing the performer to demonstrate the fragile qualities of being an individual human. Audience participation elements create a fully interactive performance piece. Inspired though collaboration with…

This workshop is by invitation only. Reilly Donovan is a new media artist and experience designer working with emerging technology to produce interactive installations, virtual reality artworks, augmented reality exhibits, and mixed reality experiences. He will be leading a Tilt Brush Virtual Reality painting workshop with a small group of local master artists to expose them to this exciting new painting tool. Participating artists will be invited to do a live Tilt Brush painting for the festival. Watch a YouTube video…

Artist CHiKA is a Japanese-born New York-based artist and an improvisational visual artist in the underground experimental audiovisual scene in New York. Her work creates what she describes as the symphony of light.  She will give a talk and demo to a group of local artists and teachers that are interested in learning about how to create projection art through VJ software techniques. CHiKA will show examples of projection art, demo the software and share resources to get students started…