There are numerous reasons May is a great time to be in San Francisco and ArtPadSF is one of them. From May 17 to May 20, over 10,000 art enthusiasts and collectors will return to the iconic Phoenix Hotel for the second edition of ArtPadSF, San Francisco’s only hotel-based art fair. Referred to by art community insiders as “a touch of Art Basel Miami in San Francisco,” ArtPadSF is an unparalleled crossroads for the creative and marketplace for groundbreaking contemporary art. While you are enjoying the intimate scale and unique terrain of ArtPadSF, make sure not to miss ZERO1’s executive director Joel Slayton who is participating in a panel on May 19^th from 5:00-6:00pm. The Urban Canvas: Art and Technology Take Over is a special panel discussion with The Bay Lights, Survival Research Labs and ZERO1. Check it out and the rest of ArtPadSF’s events. Get your tickets now!

ZERO1 officially unveils the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial in New York City on May 2^nd. With press previews this week in New York City followed by San Francisco next week on May 9th, ZERO1 is gearing up to execute one of its most exhilarating Biennials yet! (ZERO1 Biennial Press Previews are generously hosted by Boyd Level in New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco respectively.)

Furthermore, the ZERO1 Biennial website is now live! Stay tuned to find the latest news and happenings as the Biennial gradually takes shape.

Entitled Seeking Silicon Valley, the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial is a dynamic network of more than 100 exhibitions, performances, public art projects and panels that will spread from Silicon Valley throughout the Bay Area and beyond from September 12 through December 8.  

Official Press Release and Text Source: Tim Roseborough, Digital and New Media Artist

“A Puzzling Display“ is a new artist-created online arts and culture game, where registered participants compete and test their arts and culture knowledge. Inspired by the annual “puzzle hunts” hosted by institutions such as MIT and Microsoft, Silicon Valley digital artist Tim Roseborough has created “A Puzzling Display”: an Internet-based set of 20 intelligent and challenging interactive puzzles covering topics such as art history, music, film and culture.

"Change the instruments, and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them." ~ Bruno Latour, 2009

Enjoy an interview with 2012 ZERO1 Biennial co-curator Regina Möller!

Less than six months away, the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial beckons on the horizon! The limelight falls on Co-curator Regina Möller this month. Regina is a German artist and writer based in Berlin; she is the founder of the magazine “regina” and the label “embodiment”. Her cross-disciplinary projects have been shown internationally, and she has been teaching at international Universities and Academies; for example from 2006 through 2008 she was a visiting associate professor in the Visual Arts Program (VAP) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 2009, she is a professor at KiT / NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway).