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UNM's Social Media Workshop Lights Up Downtown

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The Game of Life, 114 Gold SW in Albuquerque

Through December, and after sunset, the public can visit five locations in downtown Albuquerque where local artists have created light-based artworks.  These temporary installations are sponsored by the City of Albuquerque's City Bright program.  One of them, entitled The Game of Life and located at 114 Gold SW, was designed and built by the University of New Mexico's Social Media Workshop.  This team of undergrad and grad students from a variety of departments is led by Andrea Polli, UNM professor of both Art and Engineering, and she joined us to talk about the Workshop's new installation.

Andrea talks about the students of the Social Media Workshop who helped create The Game of Life in this more complete version of the interview.

andrea_interview_long_version_final.mp3

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.