What do
Rockwell Group, video memento mori, artist Rigo23, multimedia opera,
collector Dennis Scholl, robotic sculpture, Adobe Systems Inc., inter-species
food, the sound of climate change, DIY practice, cellist Zoë Keating, complex
biological systems, tomato-based audio emissions, interactive
architectural systems, Zoropathians, and Blast Theory
all have in common?

Answer:

They’re Building New Worlds of Experience
at the
01SJ Biennial

March 2010 – San Jose, CA – ZER01: The Art and Technology Network announces the 01SJ Biennial–“Build Your Own World”, which will take place from September 16-19, 2010, in San Jose, CA., the heart of Silicon Valley. The 3^rd 01SJ Biennial is a multi-disciplinary, medium agnostic contemporary art festival that focuses on the nexus of art, technology and digital culture. Curated by Artistic Director Steve Dietz, the 01SJ Biennial brings together a selection of artwork that not only changes the way a city looks, but changes how it responds to the behavior of a city’s inhabitants.

Comprised of artists, designers, engineers, filmmakers, marketers, data miners, architects, non-profit organizations and corporations, the 01SJ Biennial will present nearly 50 new art commissions, exhibitions, public art, street celebrations, music, film, performances, symposiums, panels, and parallel exhibition programs at partner institutions throughout Silicon Valley and San Francisco during this 4 day Biennial.

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New Grants Totaling $500,000

Add More Wattage to ZER01’s Transformation of SV’s Cultural Landscape

ZER01: The Art and Technology Network is pleased to announce the fourth quarter success of the organization, with the addition of two new Board Members and a combined $500,000 in grant awards. Through the generosity of ZER01’s funders and the organization’s ability to recruit a compelling mix of influential individuals to its board, this end-of-year injection of professional expertise and financial support further boosts the organization’s ability to transform Silicon Valley into a global epicenter for art, technology, and digital culture—in part via the 01SJ Biennial, the first art and technology biennial in North America.

On the funding front, ZER01 has received grants from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for $250,000 and the James Irvine Foundation for $200,000 in addition to $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The Packard grant builds on the foundation’s commitment to invest in innovative people and organizations that trade in big ideas designed to make a unique and lasting contribution while the Irvine and NEA grants underwrite programming for the 2010 01SJ Biennial with the Irvine grant specifically supporting work by California artists.

During a period when securing funding for non-profits has been particularly challenging, this latest series of grants—on the heels of an earlier Knight Foundation grant—is significant because they validate both the organization’s vision and its plans for execution. All three infusions sustain ZER01’s goal to be regionally responsible yet internationally significant.

Shaping the trajectory of the organization is equally critical to ZER01’s success. Two new board members, Franklin Boyd, founder and CEO of Boyd Level art consultancy in New York City, and Victor Friedberg, former Executive Director of Wired’s NextFest whose recent projects include orchestrating the unveiling of Sir Richard Branson’s latest venture – Virgin Galactic – will play important roles in driving engagement with the organization on a broader national level as well as providing strategic insight around marketing and development.

“It is well known that Silicon Valley is the epicenter of technology and entrepreneurial creativity, yet no arts organization or effort exists to bring the two together to reap the rewards of this unique combination,” said Joel Slayton, ZER01’s executive director. “That is, until now. The vote of confidence expressed through these three new grants, and the addition of two stellar individuals to our board, translate into proof positive that we have the wattage needed to continue our quest to achieve ZER01’s audacious and compelling vision.”

About ZER01’s 01SJ Biennial

San Jose-based ZER01 has served as a catalyst and platform for the world’s most innovative artists since 2000. The nonprofit focuses on inspiring creativity at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture.

As producer of the 01SJ Biennial, a multidisciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art and interactive digital media, ZER01 has showcased the work of 350 artists from more than 40 countries using such media as GPS-equipped pigeons, interactive platform shoe devices, mobile phone and surveillance technologies.

A celebrated success in the region, the 01SJ Biennial attracted 65,000 visitors and generated $15 million in economic revenue for San Jose. Between biennials-the 3rd 01SJ Biennial takes place Sept. 15-19, 2010-ZER01 nurtures Silicon Valley’s cultural landscape with events such as the June 2009 SubZERO Festival. Produced in partnership with SoFA, it drew 10,000 people to downtown.

About ZER01: The Art and Technology Network

The Art and Technology Network is an independent 501 c (3) nonprofit whose mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. ZER01 is the producing organization for 01SJ Biennial, North America’s newest and largest multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art, and interactive digital media. For more information about ZER01, visit www.zero1.org.

Here’s how it works: Entrants simply designate the three dial-in codes which they’ve discovered to be the best three for a holiday-oriented sequence, and email them through Dec. 16 to lightfest@zero1.org .

Participants should drop by The 88, 88 E. San Fernando at 2nd, after dusk when the sculpture turns on, and from their cell phone dial 408-287-0128, enter any 3 numbers as well as the * or # signs, followed by 0 (zero), then hang up and watch the show.  Entrants should try several, random 3-digit sequences. Once they have three they like, simply jot them down and email them to be eligible for the prize.

FRIDAY VISUALS:  Contestants, contest-sponsors, and San Jose Public Art Director Barbara Goldstein will be on hand Friday at 5:30 pm for the announcement, and will dial several codes and sequences.

The 88’s light sculpture, called Show Your Stripes, is a three-story array of LED lights which have hundreds of unique designs already programmed, with most of which are unannounced so that people could play with and discover the designs for themselves, as was the intent of the sculpture’s designer.  Unveiled last year during the holiday season, Show Your Stripes has delighted passers-by who dial up the sculpture and change it to their whim.

Only a few of the hundreds of codes have been made public to give examples of how to operate the system, including ‘Falling Snow’ which is code 766, ‘Green & Red Christmas’, which is code *25, ‘Valentines’ which is code *14, and ‘The 88’ which is code *88.   To be fair, the contest judges will NOT include *88 as part of a winning entry since it is the contest-sponsor but may add it to the end for display.

The winning entry that reflects the best holiday-oriented sequence will be selected by Zero1 and The 88, and the prize winner and winning-design will be announced on Dec. 18. The $100 prize certificate may be utilized at any one of the following merchants: Arcadia, Mezcal, Bella Mia, Nazca, Picasso’s, Billy Berks, Azucar, Fourth Street Pizza, Morroco’s, or E&O restaurants, or retailers Chic  Chateau, Soula Power Yoga, Penguin Froyo or A Perfect Finish Wine Bar.

About The 88

At just under 88-meters in height, The 88 is the tallest residential building between San Francisco and Los Angeles and offers stunning, unobstructed views to match.  Its 197 well-appointed 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom homes, most with floor-to-ceiling glass, have been designed with superior appliances, finishes, floor plans and technology-readiness to attract the most discriminating buyers. The 88 is a joint venture of Wilson Meany Sullivan, Stockbridge Real Estate Funds, CIM Group and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency.  For more information, contact the office at The 88 at 408-279-8882 or visit the website, www.the88sj.com.

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Premieres at ZER01’s 2010 01SJ Biennial, 2011 Sundance Film Festival and 2011 Banff Summer Arts Festival

ZER01: The Art & Technology Network in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontiers Initiative and Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre is pleased to announce the winner of the first ever Locative Cinema Commission.  The UK-based art group Blast Theory has been awarded $4,500 for the art commission with an additional $5,000 available for production and residency costs to be undertaken at The Banff New Media Institute, as well as substantial in kind support from The Banff Centre.

‘Locative cinema’ has been conceived as a ‘platform agnostic apparatus’ through which artists can use their location as something both specific and generic in order to share a vision of place.

The 2009 winner of the commission, Blast Theory, is renowned internationally for their use of interactive media in creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that explores the social and political aspects of technology. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, the group most recently created Ulrike and Eamon Compliant, an ambulatory work commissioned for the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Blast Theory’s Locative Cinema work will premiere at the ZER01 01SJ Biennial scheduled to take place in San Jose in September of 2010. This will be followed by exhibition at the 2011 edition of New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival and the 2011 Banff Summer Arts Festival.

Following an international call for submissions put out by three partnering organizations, a multiplicity of artists, works and presentation variations were considered. All were evaluated by the Commission’s jury on an ability to engage people using place as a key element of the experience, via platforms that ranged from cell phones to the black box of the cinema, from mixed reality to street theatre, from GPS to handhelds, from distributed to ambient. Notes Commission jury member and ZER01 Artistic Director Steve Dietz, “Blast Theory is one of the most innovative artist groups in the world working in the overlap of participatory art, virtual worlds, and public space. Their work constantly expands our notion of what a narrative experience can be, and we are thrilled that their next ‘movie’ will be the result of the first ZER01-Banff-Sundance Locative Cinema commission.”

Based in Brighton, UK, Blast Theory has a strong track record of taking major artistic risks based on its belief that true innovation requires it.  Agile and highly responsive to new ideas and opportunities, Blast Theory received a BAFTA nomination for Technological and Social Innovation. “ZER01, Sundance Institute and the Banff New Media Institute all have proven commitment to supporting emerging forms of creative practice,” said Susan Kennard, Director and Executive Producer at The Banff New Media Institute. “We’re excited that this collaboration has inspired Blast Theory to create a dynamic new work that will be exhibited to wide and diverse audiences in San Jose, Park City, and Banff and engage the public in a manner that exemplifies the new and changing ways one can experience art.”

“In this moment, when the entire film industry is undergoing a sea change, it is incredibly important to support artists and filmmakers who are moved to invent new ways of cinematic storytelling that adapt to the new landscape. The work of Blast Theory exemplifies an artistic vision that is located at the crossroads of art, film, and new media technology, and suggests a fresh new direction as our cinematic culture evolves.” said Shari Frilot, Senior Programmer, Sundance Film Festival.

Blast Theory’s commission is based on how strategic intervention of our everyday portable sound devices, like the cell phone and music players, can transform the experience of one’s surroundings. Through the use of an open source phone management system technology that triggers simultaneous calls to participant’s cell phones, the commissioned work will engage participants in a fictional frame of reality, placing participants in a socially constructed, interactive movie as they walk through the city. Closely timed calls to the different participants will build tension and drive the story forward through overheard fragments and brief moments of unscripted interaction. As the narrative reaches its apex, its status as fiction will come into question, leaving participants to ponder Blast Theory’s overarching query: as locative media and city based games develop, in what sense are the participants ‘present’ in their societies?

With the launch of the first Locative Cinema Commission at the ZER01 01SJ Biennial in San Jose during September 2010, followed by New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City and the Summer Arts Festival in Banff in 2011, this collaborative venture will realize it’s foremost goal to generalize the platform of specific places, through artistic imagination and technological tools that provide access to ideas, methods for exchanging new interpretations, and markers that allow people to navigate between mixed reality and hard imagination. In response to the news of their Locative Cinema Commission Blast Theory art group members commented, “To have received the Locative Cinema Commission from three such distinguished partners is a career highlight for us.  It gives us an important opportunity to extend our practice and to create a new work within the context of cinema, narrative and urban space.”

About the Banff New Media Institute

The Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) is an internationally respected arts production and research institute. Fundamental to BNMI is the belief that the creative sector flourishes through collaboration and that the links and tensions across art, technology, science, and research have a critical role to play in describing new ways to see the world, participating in contemporary cultures, and shaping the future. BNMI offers thematic and self-directed artists residencies, partners on research initiatives and provides training, and offers professional development and production support in a multi-disciplinary development environment. For more information on the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre visit: www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/.

About the Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film, held each January in and around Park City, Utah. Presenting dramatic and documentary feature-length films from emerging and established artists, innovative short films, filmmaker forums and panels, live music performances ranging from solo acts to film composer events, cutting-edge media installations, and engaging community and student programs, the Festival brings together the most original storytellers of our time.

Supported by the non-profit Sundance Institute, the Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies, and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Trouble the Water, and Central Station and, through its New Frontier initiative, has brought the cinematic works of media artists including Isaac Julian, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Matthew Barney.

About ZER01: The Art and Technology Network

San Jose-based ZER01 has served as a catalyst and platform for the world’s most innovative artists since 2000. The nonprofit focuses on inspiring creativity at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture. As producer of the 01SJ Biennial, a multidisciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art and interactive digital media, ZER01 has showcased the work of 350 artists from more than 40 countries—using such “media” as GPS-equipped pigeons, interactive platform shoe devices, mobile phone and surveillance technologies. For more information about ZER01, visit www.zero1.org.

For more information on the Locative Cinema Commission: http://zero1.org/01sj/lccall.

ZER01 will be featured in an outdoor Feria del Mariachi—featuring three stages of Mexican regional and traditional music, folk dancing, artisans, Mexican food and more — Sun., Sept. 27, 10 am to 6:30 pm, in Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown San Jose. Thanks to Target, presenting sponsor for the Festival and project sponsor for the ZER01 installations, admission to the Feriá is free this year.
“This collaboration enables the Festival to continue to honor its mission while showcasing unique works of art that incorporate technology in new and thoughtful ways that people of any background can appreciate,” added Marcela Davison Aviles, president and CEO of the Mexican Heritage Corporation that produces the Festival.

Our goal is to present Latino artists working at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture to San José, and bring a vision of the contemporary Mexican village to the Festival,” explained ZER01 Executive Director Joel Slayton. “Marcela and Festival Artistic Director Linda Ronstadt have given ZER01 an exciting opportunity to playfully engage the public and prompt them to experience the world a little differently if only for one day.”

ZER01’s installations at the Feriá include:

• HOMiNG: The work and writings of architect Teddy Cruz, who distilled elements from shantytowns in Tijuana to create a template for redevelopment in suburban communities across the border, inspires this thought-provoking, interactive space called CANCIóN Courtyard & Chavez Mural House. Composed of two structures that create three spaces―a cyber lounge, a house containing a mural about Cesar Chavez, and a courtyard―the structure is the brainchild of Pilar Agüero-Esparza, the highly regarded local artist and arts educator whose work graces the interior of the Biblioteca Latinoamericana Public Library in San Jose, and H. Dionicio Mendoza, a San Jose-based artist whose work has been exhibited around the globe. CANCIóN Courtyard & Chavez Mural House will serve as home base for ZER01’s efforts.

• GAMiNG: Mexican net artist Arcángel Constantini has created a cyberlounge inside the ZER01 home; three computer stations feature video game projects by Mexican artists. Constantini curated/ programmed the cyberlounge for Mexico City’s Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, and has exhibited his performative, sculptural and online work throughout the world.

• SHOCKiNG: Improvising on an old Mexican tradition, Constantini will also audio-electrocute volunteers with his mobile icpiticayotl box. Náhuatl for electricity, Icpiticayotl uses electroshock to involuntarily contract users’ muscles in sync with sound oscillations to establish synaesthesia. Constantini’s artistic experiment is designed to give visitors the same adrenalin rush los señores de los toques have been giving cantina patrons as a chaser to their cerveza for centuries. He says he intends to shock them into experiencing “the underlying electromagnetic nature of the physical universe through visceral exaltation.” Icpiticayotl is harmless, fun and appropriate for all ages.

• REFUNDiNG: Buenos Airean Gustavo Romano brings his “Lost Time Refund Office”—a performance project using actors, computers and other technology to portray the loss, transfer and restoral of time—to the U.S. for the first time. The work was originally launched in Berlin in 2004, and later produced in Singapore, Rostock, Vigo, Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Working in a variety of media, including actions, video, installations and web projects, Romano has won numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship; had solo and other exhibitions at museums around the world—from the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires to the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. He is a director of “Fin del Mundo,”a virtual platform for circulating net art projects, curator of the Virtual Space of the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires, and a featured artist on the Museo Tamayo cyberlounge.

About the San José Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival
The San José Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival, now in its 18th year, has experienced measured growth in terms of attendance and revenue in the past three years and is now the largest festival of its kind in the nation, headquartered in San José (the nation’s tenth largest city) and centrally located in Northern California, which is the fourth largest US Latino consumer market. The Festival annually presents an array of educational workshops, indoor concert events and outdoor music and cultural family activities in downtown San José. Festival revenue supports the Heritage Corporation’s music and dance education programs, which are taught in San Jose public schools, the Mexican Heritage Plaza, Children’s Discovery Museum and local community centers.

About Target
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at more than 1,699 stores nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education. Today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week.

About T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. operation of Deutsche Telekom AG’s Mobile Communications Business, and a wholly owned subsidiary of T-Mobile International, one of the world’s leading companies in mobile communications. By the end of the second quarter of 2009, almost 150 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group — 33.5 million by T-Mobile USA — all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS, the world’s most widely used digital wireless standards. T-Mobile’s innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile among the highest in numerous regions throughout the U.S. in wireless customer care and call quality. For more information, please T-Mobile.com. TMobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG.

About ZER01

San Jose-based ZER01 has served as a catalyst and platform for the world’s most innovative artists since 2000. The nonprofit focuses on inspiring creativity at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture.

As producer of the 01SJ Biennial, a multidisciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art and interactive digital media, ZER01 has showcased the work of 350 artists from more than 40 countries—using such “media” as GPS-equipped pigeons, interactive platform shoe devices, mobile phone and surveillance technologies.

In the process, it attracted 65,000 visitors and generated $15 million in economic revenue for San Jose. Between Biennials—the next is scheduled for Sept. 15-19, 2010—ZER01 nurtures Silicon Valley’s cultural health with events such as the June 2009 SubZERO Festival. Produced in partnership with SoFA, it drew 10,000 people to downtown.

ZER01: The Art and Technology Network will strengthen its biennial arts festival – and its effort to transform Silicon Valley into a global epicenter for art, technology and digital culture – with a $975,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

“ZER01’s compelling programming will help Silicon Valley build the internationally recognizable cultural identity and sense of place critical to its future,” said Dave Mills, Knight Foundation’s San Jose program director.

The grant builds on Knight Foundation’s commitment to place-making, begun with its 2007 investment in the leadership collaborative 1st ACT Silicon Valley, which strengthened the arts and the region’s cultural vibrancy.

ZER01’s vision crystallizes the ambitions of civic, business and cultural leaders who believe San Jose/Silicon Valley requires a distinctive cultural identity that mirrors the region’s character as a center for creativity and innovation. Its programming, such as the 01SJ Biennial, has already elevated the visibility and cultural stature of the region. Many of the works premiered at the Biennial go on to win prestigious international awards and are featured at major museums and festivals around the globe.

ZER01 is also a catalyst that enables the art, business, and cultural sectors to work together to create signature programming. And unlike most Biennial-producing organizations, which focus almost exclusively on bringing the outside in, ZER01 is dedicated to showcasing local strengths while complementing them with outside capabilities. Over 30 arts and culture organizations, both local and international, participate directly in the 01SJ Biennial.

“Silicon Valley is the epicenter of technology and entrepreneurial creativity. Yet no arts organization or effort exists to bring the two together to reap the rewards of this unique combination,” said Joel Slayton, ZER01’s executive director. “This grant enables us to take the organization to the next level and sow the seeds to realize ZER01’s audacious, compelling yet totally achievable vision.”

About ZER01
San Jose-based ZER01 has served as a catalyst and platform for the world’s most innovative artists since 2000. The nonprofit focuses on inspiring creativity at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture.

As producer of the 01SJ Biennial, a multidisciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art and interactive digital media, ZER01 has showcased the work of 350 artists from more than 40 countries-using such -media‖ as GPS-equipped pigeons, interactive platform shoe devices, mobile phone and surveillance technologies.

In the process, it attracted 65,000 visitors and generated $15 million in economic revenue for San Jose. Between biennials-the next is scheduled for Sept. 15-19, 2010-ZER01 nurtures Silicon Valley’s cultural health with events such as the June 2009 SubZERO Festival. Produced in partnership with SoFA, it drew 10,000 people to downtown.

About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects with the potential to create transformational change.

The Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre, ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, and Sundance Institute’s New Frontier initiative today announced the formation of The Locative Cinema Commission, a joint venture to stimulate and showcase the creation of a locative cinema project. The Commission is presently soliciting proposals. The chosen artist or artists will realize their proposed project during a residency at The Banff Centre, to be completed by July 2010. They will also receive a $4,500 (four-thousand five hundred dollar) commissioning fee, related production funds, and will present their work at the 2010 01SJ Biennial from September 15 – 19, the 2011 edition of New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival from January 20-30, and the 2011 Banff Summer Arts Festival.

“ZER01, Sundance Institute and the Banff New Media Institute all have proven commitment to supporting emerging forms of creative practice,” said Susan Kennard, Director and Executive Producer at The Banff New Media Institute. “It is our hope that this collaboration will inspire the creation of a dynamic new work that can be exhibited to wide and diverse audiences in San Jose, Park City, and Banff and excite the public about changing ways to experience art .”

The purpose of this commission is to use ‘locative cinema’ as an apparatus through which artists can share their vision using place in ways that are both specific and generic, or at least transferable. The Commission understands the notion of ‘locative cinema’ as a platform-agnostic apparatus through which artists share their vision of place. Any variation on how to present an artist’s work will be considered, from cell phones to the black box of the cinema, from mixed reality to street theatre, from GPS to handhelds, from distributed to ambient. Proposals will be evaluated on their ability to engage people using place as a key element of the experience. The chosen project will receive a $4,500 commissioning fee a residency in Banff with up to $5,000 in related costs, and technical support from the Banff New Media Institute. Reasonable presentation costs, including necessary travel, will also be covered. The final project will be presented in San Jose, California, Banff, Canada, and Park City, Utah, and therefore must be realizable in those locations.

Proposals will be accepted until August 3, 2009, and must include a conceptual proposal describing the relationship of the project to the place, a technical proposal outlining the basic parameters of the project, and strategies for problem solving during the residency. Other requirements include a budget, list of collaborators, links to examples of related past work, and resumes of key personnel. More information and specific application details are available at http://zero1.org/01sj/LCcall.

About the Banff New Media Institute

The Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) is an internationally respected arts production and research institute. Fundamental to BNMI is the belief that the creative sector flourishes through collaboration and that the links and tensions across art, technology, science, and research have a critical role to play in describing new ways to see the world, participating in contemporary cultures, and shaping the future. BNMI offers thematic and self-directed artists residencies, partners on research initiatives and provides training, and offers professional development and production support in a multi-disciplinary development environment. For more information on the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre visit: www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/.

About the Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film, held each January in and around Park City, Utah. Presenting dramatic and documentary feature-length films from emerging and established artists, innovative short films, filmmaker forums and panels, live music performances ranging from solo acts to film composer events, cutting-edge media installations, and engaging community and student programs, the Festival brings together the most original storytellers of our time.

Supported by the non-profit Sundance Institute, the Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies, and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Trouble the Water, and Central Station and, through its New Frontier initiative, has brought the cinematic works of media artists including Isaac Julian, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Matthew Barney. www.sundance.org/festival.

About ZER01: The Art and Technology Network

The Art and Technology Network is an independent 501 c (3) nonprofit whose mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. ZER01 is the producing organization for 01SJ Biennial, North America’s newest and largest multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art, and interactive digital media. For more information about ZER01, visit www.zero1.org.

For more information on the Locative Cinema Commission: http://zero1.org/01sj/lccall.

ZER01, organizers of 01SJ Biennial, and its partner South FIRST FRIDAYS today announced the second iteration of the street festival SubZERO on June 5 from 6pm to midnight. Originated during the 2008 01SJ Biennial, and coinciding with South First FRIDAY’s, SubZERO offers attendees two stages of entertainment and 100 artists, performers, and musicians on site as they celebrate the indie creative spirit. Festivities will take place in the SoFA District between San Carlos and Reed Streets in downtown San Jose.

At SubZERO, visitors will be able to test-drive a custom low-rider bike, try their hands at stop motion, bear witness to urban yarn-bombing, travel back to the future for a nineties-look at cyber fashion, watch a little subversive TV, listen up for spontaneous acts of percussion, and much more. In addition to the creativity rampant on the street and stages, SoFA galleries will showcase exhibitions that complement the revelries outside. Participating galleries include: Anno Domini, MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Quilts + Textiles, and works/san jose.

Participating artists, performers, musicians, and vendors include: IR pens, Andrew Hedges, Barefoot Coffee, Black and Brown, Chcknfsh, Christina Braun, Dina Ropele, M dot Strange, Fabiola Hanna, Flying Lotus, Gaspo, Jared Aizawa, Nicole Camarillo, Haptic Snaptics, Heart of Chaos, Jason Challis, Jason Chayabyab, Jessica Eastburn, Joel Patrick, John Behrens, John Leanos, Judgement Day, Kedar Reddy, Lydia Greer, Margaretha Anne Haughwout, Mark Resch, Marnia Johnston, Michael Brown, Michela-Rivera Gravage, Michele Langos, Necessary Voodoo, Nora Raggio, Opera San Jose, Pilar Aguero, Rachelle-Ann Palacios, San Jose Yarn Bombers, SHARE San Jose, Shorty Fatz, Steve Durie, STREET SWAG Photo Booth, Tristan Shone, Corinne Okada Takara, Steve Cooley, Derek Scott (aka the Rhythmist), Charles Johnson (aka QORSER), and Jono Kane (aka Noka).

SubZERO is an annual collaboration between ZER01: The Art and Technology Network and the galleries of San Jose’s SoFA District, which present South FIRST FRIDAYS every month throughout the year. For more information on artists and performers visit: www.subzerofestival.com or www.zero1.org/events/subzero. SubZERO sponsors include: San Jose Redevelopment Agency, MetroNews, and Silicon Valley Arts Council, and special thanks goes to Councilman Sam Liccardo’s Office, City of San Jose, District 3.

About South First FRIDAYS
South First FRIDAYS is an eclectic evening of arts and culture in downtown San Jose’s SoFA district, between San Carlos and East Reed Streets. The FIRST FRIDAYS art walk takes place every first Friday of the month from 8pm ’til late. It is free and open to the public. Participating venues include: Anno Domini, Caffé Trieste, KALEID, MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Phantom Galleries, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery, South First Billiards & Lounge, Space 47, and works/san jose. Visit southfirstfridays.com for more information.

About ZER01
ZER01 is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. One of the primary enterprises of ZER01 is the 01SJ Biennial, a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art, and interactive digital media. ZER01 also produces year-round signature programming leading to the 01SJ Biennial that serves to educate and cultivate audiences, build partnerships, and maintain visibility for the organization through lecture series, artist salons, workshops, and family-oriented special events. To find out more about ZER01, visit: zero1.org.

]]> http://zero1.org/2009/press-release/subzero-presented-by-zer01-and-south-first-fridays-returns-to-san-jose/feed 0 http://zero1.org/2009/press-release/zer01-establishes-new-headquarters-and-announces-2010-01sj-biennial http://zero1.org/2009/press-release/zer01-establishes-new-headquarters-and-announces-2010-01sj-biennial#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:13:55 +0000 admin http://zero1.org/?p=2215 SAN JOSE, Calif. (April 22, 2009) - ZER01, organizers of 01SJ Biennial, today announced that it had established new headquarters at St. James Place in downtown San Jose. The new offices, located at 152 N. 3^rd Street, will provide ZER01 with planning headquarters for year-round programming – including the 01SJ Biennial – a place to host visiting artists and encourage its partners to gather and exchange ideas. Plans for the 3rd 01SJ Biennial, including its date, first-ever theme and curatorial model were also unveiled. The theme for the Biennial, slated for September 16-19, 2010, is Build Your Own World.

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” posited Alan Kay. This idea encapsulates the Build Your Own World theme where: The future is not about what’s next; it’s about what we can build to ensure that what’s next matters. How can we, as resourceful, innovative, and knowledgeable local and global citizens build and participate in a desirable future in the face of global climate change, economic meltdown, political instability, and cultural divisiveness?

The 2010 01SJ Biennial is predicated on the notion that as artists, designers, engineers, architects,marketers, corporations and citizens we have the tools to (re)build the world, conceptually and actually, virtually and physically, poorly and better, aesthetically and pragmatically, in both large and small ways. Under the theme “Build Your Own World,” the 3rd 01SJ Biennial will present a broad range of exemplary work, which not only imagines the future (world) but builds it.

The 3rd 01SJ Biennial will take place September 16-19, 2010, throughout San Jose. It is about how powerful ideas and innovative individuals from around the world can make a difference and come together to build a unique, city-wide platform for creative solutions and public engagement. It is about the inspiration needed to build a world we want to live in and are able to live with.

Also new to this year’s Biennial is a curatorial model whose visual arts team is composed of curators from each of the major cultural organizations participating in the Biennial exhibitions program, including the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Amerciana, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, and Anno Domini. This approach draws on the deep expertise of each organization and demonstrates how the 01SJ Biennial can become a catalyst for the exploration of the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture for multiple audiences. Outside curators and additional partnering organizations will work with ZER01 on aspects of the public art, performance, music, and cinema programming to present an extraordinary and unique global, multidisciplinary event.

“The 2010 Biennial is slated to be the most provocative and relevant Biennial that ZER01 has produced yet,” said Steve Dietz, Artistic Director for ZER01. “Beyond the fact that we’ll be presenting new commissions from some of the world’s most creative artists, the theme will shape a fascinating and revealing exploration of how we as individuals can to chose to use technology, as both producers and consumers, in creative ways that make a difference about the future of our society as a whole. And the collaborative curatorial model and extensive partnerships for the 2010 Biennial make it a true community partnership with global impact.”

In its third iteration, the 01SJ Biennial will further position San Jose and Silicon Valley as an international center for arts and culture. With over 45,000 attendees in 2008 – more than attended either Ars Electronica, the foremost event of its kind, which as has been in existence for 30 years, or Miami Basel, which in its seventh year attracted 40,000 – the 01SJ Biennial is emerging as one of the world’s most significant events of its kind. Its phenomenal growth is due in large part to the fact that it is a mirror of the innovation and spirit that define Silicon Valley and provides a unique perspective to the world and a synchronicity with the region where it exists.

ZER01 HQ Contributors
ZER01’s new offices and their design and build-out were made possible through the generous contributions of Design Response, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing the design and construction industries to create or improve Silicon Valley nonprofit facilities at a fraction of market value, and its partners: AP+I Design, Inc., jcaARCHITECTS, TBI Construction and SideMark Contract Furniture. ZER01 also gratefully acknowledges the support of Embarcadero Capital Partners LLC and Orchard Commercial Properties, as well as CADRE Lab for New Media at San Jose State University, a core ZER01 partner.

ABOUT DESIGN RESPONSE
Since its inception in 1992, Design Response has been delivering on its goal of improving environments for nonprofit agencies and schools that serve the most needy in the community as well as the cultural arts. Design Response has completed more than 200 projects for agencies serving the poor, homeless, developmentally disabled, and families and children in crisis throughout Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. Design Response helped make their facilities safe, functional, well designed and, most of all, welcoming. Design Response partners on the ZER01 project include: AP+I Design, Inc., a full-service architectural, planning, and interior design firm; jcaARCHITECTS, a full-service architecture, planning and interiors firm committed to exceptional design and quality in the commercial, civic, and residential sectors and TBI Construction & Construction Management, Inc., a general contractor specializing in teamwork and the negotiated/bid approach to construction. Additional partners on this project include: Allemuir, Dahl Equipment Rentals, Inc.. Dal Tile, Drue Tile Company, Dudley Acoustics, Inc., Heavenly Greens, JEI, Mark Lawrence Interiors, Maharam, Magnum Drywall, One Workplace, Palm, Inc., Preston Homes, Inc., Prouve Furniture, Quality Glass,Inc., Shaw Industries, Inc., SideMark Contract Furniture, Success Factors, Tandus, TISYS Construction, Inc., The Best Electrical Company, Inc., Wilsonart, and Y & D Cabinet Shop.

ABOUT CADRE NEW MEDIA LAB
The CADRE Laboratory for New Media is an interdisciplinary academic and research program dedicated to the experimental use of information technology and art. A theoretical and critical orientation provides a conceptual context in which artistic activities are defined. Faculty and students have participated in the evolution of media technology for over 20 years

ABOUT EMBARCADERO PARTHERS
Embarcadero Capital Partners is a real estate investment and management firm based on the San Francisco peninsula. We invest in dynamic, development-constrained U.S. markets that are known for intellectual capital and a creative business culture. Founded by longtime industry professionals Eric Yopes and John Hamilton, ECP has raised over $600 million of equity capital in three closed-end funds. Investors include leading endowments, foundations, fund-of-fund investors, and family offices.

ABOUT ORCHARD COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES
Orchard Commercial is Silicon Valley’s most comprehensive commercial real estate operations company. We provide property management, leasing, construction, and mechanical services, specializing in high-tech R&D, office, warehouse, and manufacturing facilities.

ABOUT ZER01
ZER01 is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. One of the primary enterprises of ZER01 is the 01SJ Biennial, a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art, and interactive digital media. ZER01 also produces year-round signature programming leading to the 01SJ Biennial that serves to educate and cultivate audiences, build partnerships, and maintain visibility for the organization through lecture series, artist salons, workshops, and family-oriented special events. To find out more about ZER01, visit: zero1.org.

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ZER01 Building Organizational Strength as it Establishes Path to Sustainability

SAN JOSE, CA – January 21, 2008 - ZER01: the Art & Technology Network has announced two significant developments that underscore its transformation from the proof-of-concept stage to a sustainable organization. Doniece Sandoval has been named Chief External Relations Officer, a new position within the organization, and Catharine Clark, owner of Catharine Clark Gallery and Joe Lewis, President of Orchard Commercial, have joined the Board of Directors.

“As ZER01 solidifies its foundation and ensures its long-term viability, it is vital that we maintain this trajectory by adding the talents and expertise of exceptional people to our team,” said Joel Slayton, ZER01 executive director. “We are immensely pleased that these three outstanding individuals have come on board and eagerly look forward to their contributions.”

In her new role as chief external relations officer, Sandoval will orchestrate the marketing and development efforts for the organization. In addition to providing executive leadership and coordination for all activities that promote ZER01, she is charged with increasing awareness and goodwill, fostering financial support, and building community among ZER01’s many and varied constituents.

Sandoval, who was the marketing consultant for ZER01 during the 2^nd 01SJ Biennial, is a serial entrepreneur with experience across a wide range of markets from technology to the visual arts. She has spent nearly two decades building a highly successful career in marketing, branding, and PR working with companies such as Visa USA, The Coca Cola Company, DoubleClick, and Toys ‘R Us among others. Prior to her involvement with ZER01, she was head of marketing at the San Jose Museum of Art where she successfully built a young adult audience and galvanized the marketing efforts of the 2006 inaugural ZER01 Biennial by spearheading the museum’s contribution and fully engaging its resources to drive publicity and community engagement.

ZER01’s two new board members bring a wealth of experience from their professional and philanthropic work in the arts and commercial real estate in support of ZER01’s mission to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture.

Catharine Clark is the owner and director of Catharine Clark Gallery, established in 1991, initially as Morphos Gallery. Clark was born and raised in San Francisco. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1990. She has guest lectured at universities, museums, and other institutions throughout the United States and Canada. Between 1999 and 2002 she co-taught a professional practices course at the San Francisco Art Institute with her husband, the artist, Ray Beldner. In 2006 she authored an essay for and edited the monograph, Ascending Chaos: The Art of Masami Teraoka 1966-2006, published by Chronicle Books. Clark is a member of the San Francisco Art Dealer’s Association, and an advisory board member of SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc. and San Francisco Arts Education Project.

As the head of Orchard Properties, Joe Lewis has built one of the top commercial real estate companies in Silicon Valley. He has nearly 30 years of experience as a broker, manager, developer, and owner. Before joining Orchard, Lewis served in the U.S. Navy as a pilot, leaving in 1980 to join Cornish & Carey Commercial where he served as executive vice president. In 1988, he was elected Silicon Valley’s Investment Broker of the Year and in 1996, became president of Orchard, which he purchased in 2000. Spurred by his commitment to enriching the Silicon Valley community, in 2007 Lewis launched the North First ARTSpace, an alternative art exhibition venue located within a multi-tenant commercial building that showcases the of both emerging and established artists living and working in the Bay Area.

ABOUT ZER01

ZER01: The Art & Technology Network is an independent 501 c (3) nonprofit whose mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. ZER01 is the producing organization for 01SJ Biennial, and since its founding in 2000, has organized a series of salons, panels, and presentations of artwork and invited artists, musicians, and theorists from around the globe to present and discuss their work.

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