September 16^th – 17^th

San Jose, California

Coinciding with the 01SJ Biennial this upcoming September 16–19, ZER01, the 01SJ Biennial producers will present GLOBAL WARNING: Artists, Scientists and Environmental Activism, a two-day symposium that will examine the interconnectedness of ideas and actions, and the current relationships between art, science and ecology.  Over the two full days of the symposium, a group of select artists, scientists and policy-makers, including noted author Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore and internationally renowned environmental artists Gail Wight and Buster Simpson, will present and examine case studies of scientific solutions to environmental issues and collaborative environmental art projects.

Public policy, urban planning, sustainable design and civic cultural development strategies serve as platforms for stimulating community dialogue. Symposium participants will be invited to help advance this cross-disciplinary enterprise through their active involvement in the dialogue.

Leading day one of the symposium, LEONARDO/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology will confront the critical challenges of the 21st century. Morning symposium sessions, highlighting environmental policy, will provide a context for the afternoon’s focus on artistic and scientific environmental practice. The day will start with a high-profile keynote speaker, Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore, (Editor/Author; Professor, Oregon State University: Why It’s Wrong to Wreck the World), followed by Gail Wright, providing an overview of the field of activist environmental art. Afternoon sessions include a discussion of science and public outreach by Dr. Peter Roopnarine of the California Academy of Sciences and a panel discussion moderated by Meredith Tromble (Artist/Author; SFAI Faculty) that places scientists and artists in conversation with one another and encourages open dialogue with the audience.

Day two of GLOBAL WARNING, co-hosted by the City of San Jose Public Art Program and the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, brings to light the role public art and artists can play in environmental activism, informed by urban planning, sustainable design issues and public policy.

The day will begin with feature presentations by the three teams selected to develop designs for the Climate Clock, a landmark public art project that incorporates Silicon Valley’s measurement, data management, and communications technologies to help people understand climate change while encouraging them to continue reducing their carbon footprint. Realized as a site-specific iconic installation the Climate Clock will be to be integrated into the expansion of the San José Diridon Station designated as the California High-Speed Rail Hub. An overview of the Climate Clock Initiative will be presented and complemented by artist team presentations of their design strategies prior to the beginning of their residencies in fall 2010.

Wrapping up the second and final day of the symposium, afternoon sessions will investigate how issues of public policy, urban planning, sustainable design, and civic cultural/economic development strategies can serve as a platform for public art and how public art can stimulate community dialogue about these issues of critical importance.

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Can’t be there in person? No problem. The 01SJ Biennial will be broadcasting the GLOBAL WARNING symposium live via Ustream along with a facilitated discussion using Ustream’s Social Media capabilities. Login with your Twitter of Facebook accounts to join the conversation.

For a full list of participants and daily schedules please visit: 01sj.org.

GLOBAL WARNING is organized by ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, City of San Jose Public Art Program, CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University and LEONARDO/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, with additional support from Montalvo Arts Center.

CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:

What:

GLOBAL WARNING: Artists, Scientists and Environmental Action Symposium

When:

Thursday, 16 September – 9:00AM – 5:00PM

Friday, 17 September – 9:00AM – 4:00PM

Where:

San Jose City Council Chambers, San Jose City Hall

200 East Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95113

Cost:

One Day Ticket – $15

Two Day Ticket – $25

More Information:

http://01sj.org/programs/symposium/

About ZER01: The Art and Technology Network

ZER01, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture, is a platform for the exploration and presentation of work dealing with the critical issues of our time by some of the most creative minds in the world. And, as a result, is Silicon Valley’s best bet for creating a global cultural relevance for the region that mirrors the creativity and innovation for which Silicon Valley is recognized. 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. By creating pathways for both artists and technologists to come together in collaboration and act as catalysts for further technological and artistic advances, ZER01 fulfills a self-proclaimed mission, to stimulate corporate and public interest in the possibilities afforded by intersecting the arts and technology. For more information about ZER01, visit www.zero1.org.

Funding for ZER01’s 01SJ Biennial is provided by:

Visionary Sponsors: Adobe Foundation, Irvine Foundation, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Additional Sponsors: 1st ACT Silicon Valley, Applied Materials, Cisco Systems, Federal Trust Realty/Santana Row, Intacct, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and Target Corporation.

Curatorial Partners include:

Anno Domini, Anjee Helstrup MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, City of San Jose Public Art Program.

Key Partners for the 01SJ Biennial include:

The Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre, CADRE New Media Lab at San Jose State University, California College of the Arts, Canadian Film Centre New Media Lab, Catharine Clark Gallery, Children’s Discovery Museum, City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Jose Public Art Program, Commonwealth Club, Creative Capital, DANM Program-UC Santa Cruz, EMPAC, Euphrat Museum, Eyebeam, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Leonardo, Montalvo Arts Center, MediaLAB Prado, Northern Lights.mn, Rhizome, Streaming Museum, Sundance Film Festival, Swissnex, Team San Jose, The Tech Museum, Natalie and James Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University, Togonon Gallery, San Jose Stage, SF Shorts, SF Fine Art Fair, Tech Shop, White Walls SF, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Cinequest.

ZER01 receives additional support from:

Bank of America, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and individual donors.

In-Kind 01SJ Biennial Sponsors include:

AJA Video Systems, Bauer’s Transportation, The Fairmont-San Jose, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), State Bank of India, Team San Jose, andYourTour.com

Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

When: Sunday, September 19^th

Time: 2pm–4pm

Collecting the Impossible

The history of computer-based art practice goes back to at least the 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at the ICA in London, yet digital art is only now starting to attract the attention of collectors in greater numbers. Digital art milestones such as; Listening Post by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen, the thrilling public spectacles of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and the break-through LED works of Jim Campbell have been collected by a few pioneer institutions and brave individuals, but these works and others like them can be daunting to collectors. They present new and unusual technical, legal, and maintenance obstacles that can inhibit collectors and thus the market and thus support for a whole class of artists.

Prominent collectors, critics, and artists on this panel will explore the historical dynamics of collecting digital art and building an art market for challenging work. They will discuss their personal experiences and professional opinions about the lessons to be learned to effect a robust collecting environment for the kind of remarkable work seen at the 01SJ Biennial and a very few other venues around the world.

Moderator:

Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director/Adjunct Curator, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Collectors:

Jeff Dauber, San Francisco, CA

Dennis Scholl, Miami, FL

Gallerist:

Catharine Clark, Catharine Clark Gallery

Artist:

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Journalist:

Jason Kaufman, The Art Newspaper

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Panelist’s Bios

Catherine Clark

Catherine Clark is is owner and director of the Catharine Clark Gallery established in 1991, initially as Morphos Gallery. Clark was born in 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 team 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, an advisory board member of SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc. and of San Francisco Arts Education Project.

Jeffrey N. Dauber

“I like to find stuff that’s a kick in the teeth,” says Jeffrey Dauber of his cutting edge art collection. With over 200 works by more than 60 international contemporary artists, Dauber’s collection is full of confrontational and challenging paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, photographs, video and new media works. Artists in the collection include: Mickalene Thomas, Travis Somerville, Al Farrow, Hank Willis Thomas, Vik Muniz, Enrique Chagoya, Hung Liu, Barry McGee, Lincoln Schatz, Anthony Discenza, Alan Rath and Tony Oursler, to name but a few.

Dauber, who began collecting art in 1989, works in the high-tech industry and lives in San Francisco.

Jason Kaufman

Jason Edward Kaufman is known for his work as Chief U.S. Correspondent for The Art Newspaper. His criticism and reporting have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications, including museum exhibition catalogues. He currently is a contributing editor to Art + Auction and editor of the on-line blog IN VIEW. (http://blogs.artinfo.com/inview).  A 2000-01 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, he lives and works in New York.  You can visit his IN VIEW culture column at http://blogs.artinfo.com/inview/.

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in an era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

In 2007 a retrospective at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, Autonomous Agents, featured a comprehensive range– from the Roberta Breitmore series (1974-78) to videos from the 1980s and interactive installations that use the Internet and artificial intelligence software. Her influential early ventures into performance and photography are also featured in the current touring exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, organized by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Hershman Leeson is presently at work on a feature-length documentary about the revolutionary feminist art movement.

Secret Agents Private I, The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson was published by The University of California Press in 2005 on the occasion of another retrospective at the Henry Gallery in Seattle. Her three feature films Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada have been part of the Sundance Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival, among others, and have won numerous awards.

Work by Lynn Hershman Leeson is featured in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the William Lehmbruck Museum, the ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Walker Art Center and the University Art Museum, Berkeley, in addition to the celebrated private collections of Donald Hess and Arturo Schwarz, among many others. Commissions include projects for the Tate Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, De Young Museum, Daniel Langois and Stanford University, and Charles Schwab.

Recently honored with grants from Creative Capital and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is also the recipient of a Siemens International Media Arts Award, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, Prix Ars Electronica, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize. In 2004 Stanford University Libraries acquired Hershman Leeson’s working archive.

Hershman Leeson is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis and an A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University.

Richard Rinehart

Richard Rinehart is Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. He has taught digital art studio and theory at UC Berkeley in the Center for New Media and Art Practice departments and has been visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and JFK University. Rinehart sits on the Executive Committee of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media and has served on the Board of Directors for New Langton Arts in San Francisco.

Rinehart also manages research projects in the area of digital culture, including the NEA-funded project, ‘Archiving the Avant Garde’, a national consortium of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order to document and preserve it. Rinehart is a new media artist whose art works, papers, projects, and more can be found at http://www.coyoteyip.com

Dennis Scholl

Dennis Scholl is Vice President / Arts and Miami Program Director for the Knight Foundation, which he joined in 2009.  He is responsible for the foundation’s initiatives in South Florida, including the Knight Arts Challenge and took on an additional role in April 2010 as vice president/arts to develop a national cultural arts program for Knight.

Scholl has had a long involvement in philanthropy in the visual arts. Over the last dozen years, he was the founding chair of the Guggenheim Photography Committee, the Tate Modern American Acquisitions Committee and the Miami Art Museum Collectors Council. All of these groups raised funds and acquired contemporary art for their respective museums.

He has also been a board member of the Aspen Art Museum, the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art and the chair of Locust Projects, an alternative art space.

Scholl has been a contemporary art collector for over 30 years. He is a founder of Betts & Scholl, which makes wine in France, Italy, Australia and Napa Valley. He is also the cultural correspondent for Plum TV, a resort-based television network with eight stations across the U.S. Previously he was a practicing attorney and a C.P.A.

Scholl graduated from Florida International University with a bachelor of business administration and the University of Miami with a juris doctor degree.

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and now comes to Bay Area for West Coast debut

August 1, 2010 – Internationally acclaimed British artist Luke Jerram comes to the Bay Area for the 01SJ Biennial.  As one of the 100 plus 01SJ Biennial artists, Jerram’s  ‘Play Me I’m Yours’ project (http://www.streetpianos.com/) temporarily places 20 tuned and ready to play pianos throughout the city in a variety of public outdoor locations. The pianos will be installed in San Jose on August 29, 2010 and will remain in their public locations throughout the 01SJ (September 16–19).

Making street pianos appear in cities across the world, ‘Play Me I’m Yours’ is an internationally touring artwork by Jerram conceived of in 2008.  Located in parks, squares, bus shelters and train stations, outside galleries, markets and on bridges and ferries, the pianos are for any member of the public to enjoy and claim ownership of.

Reaching an audience of over 1,000,000 people worldwide, Jerram has installed 273 pianos in 11 different cities so far.

As it has moved from city to city, Jerram’s project has been picking up press like a hurricane picks up power over a warm ocean—including such prominent worldwide publications as Vanity Fair, BBC World Service, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, ABC Australia, and NPR —and in the process has become a true art phenomena with broad public appeal.

The 01SJ Biennial is his next stop and the only appearance of the project on the West Coast.

Who plays the pianos and how long they remain is up to each community. Each piano acts as sculptural, musical, blank canvas that becomes a reflection of the communities it is embedded into. Questioning the ownership and rules of public space ‘Play Me I’m Yours’ is a provocation, inviting the public to engage with, activate and take ownership of their urban environment.

01JSpianos contains a map of where all the pianos will be in San Jose. The website is also an online space for the public to upload and share their films photos and stories.

Previous ‘Play Me I’m Yours’ cities include:

• New York 2010>
• London 2010 >
• Bath 2010>
• Barcelona 2010 >
• Bristol 2009 >
• London 2009 >
• Bury St Edmunds 2009 >
• Sydney 2009 >
• Sao Paulo 2008 >

• Birmingham 2008 >

*Luke Jerram will be in the Bay Area and available for interviews August 31st–September 5^th.

More info on Luke Jerram’s artistic practice available at lukejerram.com

More info on the 01SJ artists and events available at – 01sj.org

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Silicon Valley morphs into a playground that doubles as a laboratory in largest event of its kind in North America, September 16-19 in San Jose, CA.

June 23, 2010 San Francisco – Over 100 contemporary artists, musicians, engineers, designers, scientists—as well as data miners and marketers—will completely change the urban landscape of Silicon Valley with their talent and depth of field during the 01SJ Biennial, the nation’s largest biennial dedicated to the nexus of art, technology and digital culture.

Running from September 16 through September 19 in California’s Silicon Valley, this international cast of contemporary creators will display the fruits of their labors during the four days of the Biennial proper. In essence, the 01SJ curatorial team is unleashing the participants on San Jose’s buildings, sidewalks, underpasses, businesses, storefronts, and cultural organizations in order to turn the city into both a playground and laboratory.

Things are expected to get off to an electrifying start at the opening ceremonies when much lauded architect, designer and visual maestro David Rockwell literally wires city hall to its immediate environment and plugs in order for the building to be “played.”

Examples of the 01SJ Biennial’s international array of artists who are also agents of change determined to build viable prototypes of and for new worlds that have implications and applications for business include:

Natalie Jeremijenko – This engineer (and former professor at Yale) and contemporary artist will conduct an “Environmental Flight Clinic” installation that proposes solutions to restore wetlands, defuse the ongoing and alarming amphibian extinction and envision sustainable practices for recreational aviation that could act as a model for the commercial sector as well.

fabric | ch – International consortium bent on creating the world’s first artificial climate  to satisfy the metabolic and physiological requirements of human beings in an environment partially or completely removed from earthly influences: mediated reality, networks and netlag the disruption of the body clock, etc., etc.

Teddy Cruz – An award-winning architectural investigation into new modes of contemporary urbanism stressing mixed use and adaptation of existing structures thus not only making living environments more habitable, but upping ROI.

Kitchen Budapest – Beat Your Mouse Movement turns to data tracking and games in order to motivate the chair bound worker or executive to resist the pull of their sedentary environment. By tracking movements with their mouse and then tracking their steps and comparing the two streams of data, the end game is to generate better numbers through steps than accrued mouse mileage.

Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga: Using light sensors for real time visualizations, Particle Falls will take data from air sensors and turn it into dramatic visuals that illuminate (in this case) air pollution by turning the results into a huge, dramatic projection. Who knows, in the future, signage as we know it could be replaced by intuitive and reactive technology tailored to both individual and collective needs.

Rockwell Group LAB: Plug-In-Play – By networking a variety of reference points—including sidewalks, tables, light posts and recreational outlets—in San Jose City Plaza, designer and architect David Rockwell and his Rockwell Group aim to demonstrate how we can increase personal and public engagement in both our urban and immediate environments. Heightened engagement inevitably leads to heightened productivity.

Transgenic Mosquitoes of California: The Center for PostNatural History is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge relating to the complex interplay between culture, nature and biotechnology. What might selective breeding and genetic engineering engender when dedicated to the eradication of disease caused by mosquitoes?

More artist and installation info at http://www.01sj.org

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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 2008 01SJ Biennial attracted 65,000 visitors and generated $15 million in economic revenue for San Jose. Between biennials–the 3^rd 01SJ Biennial takes place Sept. 15-19, 2010–ZER01 nurtures Silicon Valley’s cultural landscape with events such as the SubZERO Festival, produced in partnership with SoFA, which drew 10,000 people to downtown San Jose.

About ZER01: The Art and Technology Network

ZER01, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture, is a platform for the exploration and presentation of work dealing with the critical issues of our time by some of the most creative minds in the world. And, as a result, is Silicon Valley’s best bet for creating a global cultural relevance for the region that mirrors the creativity and innovation for which Silicon Valley is recognized.  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. By creating pathways for both artists and technologists to come together in collaboration and act as catalysts for further technological and artistic advances, ZER01 fulfills a self-proclaimed mission, to stimulate corporate and public interest in the possibilities afforded by intersecting the arts and technology. For more information about ZER01, visit www.zero1.org.

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Funding for ZER01’s 01SJ Biennial is provided by:

1^st ACT Silicon Valley, Adobe Foundation, Applied Materials, Cisco Systems, Federal Trust Realty/Santana Row, Intacct, James Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and Target Corporation.

Key Partners for the 01SJ Biennial includes:

The Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre, CADRE New Media Lab at San Jose State University, California College of the Arts, Canadian Film Centre New Media Lab, Catharine Clark Gallery, Children’s Discovery Museum, City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Jose Public Art Program, Commonwealth Club, Creative Capital, DANM Program-UC Santa Cruz, EMPAC, Euphrat Museum, Eyebeam, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Leonardo, Montalvo Arts Center, MediaLAB Prado, Northern Lights.mn, Rhizome, Streaming Museum, Sundance Film Festival, Swissnex, Team San Jose, The Tech Museum, Natalie and James Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University, Togonon Gallery, San Jose Stage, SF Shorts, SF Fine Art Fair, Tech Shop, White Walls SF, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley.

ZER01 receives additional support from:

Bank of America, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and individual donors.

In-Kind 01SJ Biennial Sponsors include:

Bauer’s Transportation, The Fairmont-San Jose, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), and YourTour.com

Media Sponsors for the 01SJ Biennial include:

Biennial’s opening ceremonies to be literally electrifying when much lauded architect, designer and visual maestro David Rockwell wires San Jose City Hall to its immediate environment then plugs it in and lets it play

June 10, 2010 San Francisco – ZER01: The Art and Technology Network’s 01SJ Biennial, themed around the idea of asking participants to ‘Build Your Own World’, has announced that its lineup will showcase over 100 artists from 21 countries including two Guggenheim Fellows, Amy Franceschini and Monica Haller.

The Rockwell Group will open the Biennial with Plug-in-Play, an urban scale installation, meaning one that can be seen from far away as a beacon, but experienced and interacted with close up. The idea is to blur the boundaries between the physical and virtual and create connections between people via the “shared moment” … and challenge what a connected city, or a city of the future might look like, by creating a new form of civic engagement.

Plug-n-Play will network a number of objects—some already existing like streetlamps and some (like tables and recreational attractions) placed by design—in San Jose City Hall Plaza and connect them to the building’s exterior via oversized theatrical plugs. Once the switch is thrown, those attending will be able to make the building respond to their actions in real time.

This 3rd 01SJ Biennial will take place September 16-19, 2010, in San Jose, CA., the heart of Silicon Valley. Multi-disciplinary and medium agnostic, this contemporary art festival 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 its inhabitants.

Countries represented at 01SJ include: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Nigeria, Phillipines, Portugal, South America, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK and USA.

Among the artists, engineers, designers, filmmakers, data-miners, architects and non-profit organizations and corporations are:

Amy Franceschini – was awarded the Guggenheim in 2010 in the category of Fine Arts
Monica Haller – was awarded the Guggenheim in 2010 in the category of Photography
Christopher Baker
David Rockwell and Rockwell Group
Rigo23
Blast Theory
Futurefarmers
fabric | ch
Teddy Cruz
Natalie Jeremijenko
Chico MacMurtrie
Luke Jerram
Tim Hawkinson
Grahame Weinbren

For a complete rundown on artists participating in the 01SJ Biennial go to http://01sj.org/art/artists

About ZER01: The Art and Technology Network
ZER01, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture, is a platform for the exploration and presentation of work dealing with the critical issues of our time by some of the most creative minds in the world. And, as a result, is Silicon Valley’s best bet for creating a global cultural relevance for the region that mirrors the creativity and innovation for which Silicon Valley is recognized. 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. By creating pathways for both artists and technologists to come together in collaboration and act as catalysts for further technological and artistic advances, ZER01 fulfills a self-proclaimed mission, to stimulate corporate and public interest in the possibilities afforded by intersecting the arts and technology. For more information about ZER01, visit www.zero1.org.

Funding for ZER01’s 01SJ Biennial is provided by:
1st ACT Silicon Valley, Adobe Foundation, Applied Materials, Cisco Systems, Federal Trust Realty/Santana Row, Intacct, James Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and Target Corporation.

Key Partners for the 01SJ Biennial include:
The Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre, CADRE New Media Lab at San Jose State University, California College of the Arts, Canadian Film Centre New Media Lab, Catharine Clark Gallery, Children’s Discovery Museum, City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Jose Public Art Program, Commonwealth Club, Creative Capital, DANM Program-UC Santa Cruz, EMPAC, Euphrat Museum, Eyebeam, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Leonardo, Montalvo Arts Center, MediaLAB Prado, Northern Lights.mn, Rhizome, Streaming Museum, Sundance Film Festival, Swissnex, Team San Jose, The Tech Museum, Natalie and James Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University, Togonon Gallery, San Jose Stage, SF Shorts, SF Fine Art Fair, Tech Shop, White Walls SF, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley.

ZER01 receives additional support from:
Bank of America, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and individual donors.

In-Kind 01SJ Biennial Sponsors include:
Bauer’s Transportation, The Fairmont-San Jose, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), and YourTour.com

Media Sponsors for the 01SJ Biennial include: 

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International array of recognized artists, designers, engineers, filmmakers, musicians, architects and others representing “digital culture” to converge in Silicon Valley September 16-19 2010.

This upcoming September 16th–19th in California’s Silicon Valley, ZER01: The Art and Technology Network will launch the 3rd 01SJ Biennial. A medium-agnostic contemporary art festival, the 01SJ Biennial focuses on the nexus of art, technology and digital culture.

For the 2010 biennial, 01SJ’s curatorial team, lead by Steve Dietz former curator at the Walker Art Center where he started the New Media Initiatives department, and founder of one of the earliest, museum-based, independent new media programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1992, has brought together a selection of artists and artwork that not only changes the way a city looks, but changes how it responds to the behavior of a city’s inhabitants.

Notes 01SJ Biennial Artistic Director, Dietz, “The 2010 01SJ Biennial will present commissions from some of the world’s most innovative contemporary artists, shaping a fascinating and revealing exploration of how we as individuals can chose to use technology in creative ways, as both producers and consumers. All of the 01SJ Biennial’s commissioned artworks utilize some form of technology, be it experimental, advanced or seemingly simple tools, and address—from a variety of vantage points—the ways and means with which we can build better worlds, including through the utilization of technologically-enhanced capabilities ranging from amorphic robotics, bio-music, locative storytelling, and interactive large-scale signage to more utilitarian tools used to develop an effective and inexpensive microscope or to create an indoor orchard, and even futuristic visions of life as imagined through a multimedia opera, a drive-in theater fashioned out of salvaged cars, and radically re-imagined and responsive architecture.”

Comprised of nationally and internationally recognized contemporary artists, designers, engineers, filmmakers, data miners, architects, non-profit organizations and corporations, the upcoming 01SJ Biennial will include approximately 50 new art commissions, exhibitions, public art installations, street celebrations, live music, film, performances, symposiums, panels, and parallel programs at partner institutions throughout the Bay Area.

In the art biennial tradition, the 01SJ Biennial, with “Build Your Own World” as the Biennial’s central 2010 curatorial theme, will take place in a variety of locations that extend beyond the classic gallery, museum, and cultural spaces, to public and private venues that permeate the landscapes of the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. The focal point of these activities will be housed in the San Jose Convention Center’s 80,000 sq. ft. South Hall and throughout downtown San Jose, turning the heart of Silicon Valley–technology’s creative capitol–into a contemporary art and technology playground.

01SJ Biennial programming is geared around the notion that artists can, and do, act as change-agents through the use of technologies in their work. Whether these technologies are natural resources, simple or advanced tools, they all have the capability to challenge the norm, raise public awareness, encourage curiosity, and influence societal actions and perceptions. At its core, the 01SJ Biennial is about what artists can do at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture to build a better world. Ultimately the 01SJ Biennial reminds us that in a world increasingly dependent on technology it is a misperception to think of the creative influence of contemporary arts as only aesthetically appealing.

The 01SJ Biennial consists of 4 basic sections:

1. Exhibitions: Features Out of the Garage Into the World, presented in San Jose Convention Center’s South Hall, an 80,000 square foot space serving as the 01SJ Biennial’s main exhibition venue. Out of the Garage Into the World includes commissioned Biennial art projects and a series of public workshops; Future Films, featuring a drive-in theater of salvaged cars for daily screenings; plus 01SJ Biennial partner exhibitions and parallel programming in galleries and other cultural venues throughout Silicon Valley and San Francisco
2. Interactive City: 01SJ Biennial projects are located in multiple places throughout the city, and in one manner or another all of the artworks interact with the environs within which the artists have installed them, including dramatic large-scale art commissions by the Rockwell Group and by artist Ken Gregory at San Jose’s City Hall; Participatory Play, think gaming on a city-wide scale permeating the streets, and Biennial and City of San Jose commissioned Public Art Projects in both traditional and unexpected locations
3. Events: Throughout the Biennial, programmed events will include music & performance, AbsoluteZER0 the Biennial’s DIY evening street festival, Green Prix a ZER01 curated eco-conscious transportation rally, as well as ticketed events
4. Ideas Track: Featuring a keynote, symposium, artist talks, a collector’s panel, and lectures.

In summary the 01SJ Biennial will present:

• Over 20 exhibitions, with works by more than 100 artists, including nearly 50 new art commissions by art, design and music luminaries Rockwell Group, Blast Theory, Natalie Jeremijenko, MTAA, Randall Packer, Rigo23, and many others, as well as the North American debut of Luke Jerram’s Play Me project and Chico MacMurtrie’s Amorphic Robots

• A virtual interactive city of more than 20 commissioned projects from cascading waterfalls and interactive city plazas, to outdoor “piano bars” and Still Life with Banquet an epicurean dinner and video memento mori (some events are ticketed)

• Dozens of performances and events by nearly 100 artists, including Future Films in the DIY Empire Drive-In, a SoFA district AbsoluteZER0 evening event, and an all-day eco-locomotion Green Prix with projects that include a mobile park and an electric Porsche

• Keynote speaker, a 2-day symposium, a digital arts collector’s panel, and dozens of artist talks in the Speak Hard lounge located in South Hall

For more detailed information on the 01SJ Biennial, including Biennial schedule, a list of participating artists, history, 01SJ partners, and more visit: http://zero1.org/2010/press-release/2010-lead-release

ZER01: THE ART AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK – 01SJ BIENNIAL PRODUCERS

Central to ZER01’s mission is the belief that the technological innovations emerging from Silicon Valley will not only expand our notions of the boundaries of art, but also illuminate how to become more socially and culturally responsible. Working with some of the most fertile and creative minds from the worlds of art, design, architecture and technology, the 01SJ Biennial provides a forum for transcending traditional boundaries and disciplines, provoking a critical understanding of contemporary culture, and inspiring new ways of looking at—even operating in—the world.

“ZER01 is a 21st century arts non-profit and a catalyst for global cultural relevancy for Silicon Valley,” states Joel Slayton, ZER01’s Executive Director. “ZER01 mirrors the region’s reputation as a world-class center for creativity and innovation, and is the platform in Silicon Valley for artistic experimentation that engages the world.”

Punctuated by the real and conceptual landscapes of San Jose and Silicon Valley—and the premium it puts on talent, creative thinking, intellectual risk taking and unbridled innovation—ZER01 and the Biennial are both humbled and proud to be part of a tradition capable of making such enormous contributions to the cause that is modernity.

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.