Camille Utterback, whose interactive Abundance, pictured at right, was commissioned by ZERO1 and projected on the San Jose City Hall Rotunda in September, will install a version of her classic Text Rain as permanent installation in the Fontana Public library opening in April.
Sundance recently announced their listing of upcoming events at the New Frontier on Main – Sundance’s newest venue, which showcases moving-image installations, live performances, microcinema screenings, new media technology, and includes the Rabbit Hole, a DJ lounge cafe. Of the 15 projects being presented, more than half are by artists who will either be showcased at the 2008 01SJ Festival or who’s work was shown at the 2006 festival. The artists include: Cory Arcangel, Jim Campbell, Graffiti Research Lab, Paul Miller AKA DJ Spooky, Stephanie Rothenberg, Jennifer Steinkamp, Eddo Stern, Marina Zurkow, To find out more about the New Frontier go to sundance.org.
As creative director for 01SJ, Steve Dietz is in demand. Earlier this year, he was invited to Australia by The Visual Arts Board of the Australian Council to meet artists as part of the Board’s international media arts strategy. Dietz, considered a seminal figure in American curation of new media arts took advantage of this invitation to explore the wealth of creative talent in Australia. Realtime, D/Lux/Media Arts and Performance Space collaborated with the Visual Arts Board to hold an open discussion between Dietz, Sydney artists and curators at Carriageworks. The conversation focused principally, even relentlessly, on the status of technology in media arts. A transcript of the meeting, including discussion of the runme.org software art site and the Guggenheim vairable media initiative, can be read at realtimearts.net
On Friday, the Hewlett Foundation hosted a mini-symposium sponsored by ZERO1 partner Montalvo Art Center on Brazil’s “Cultural Hotspots” program.
The panel was moderated by Gordon Knox, Artistic Director at Montalvo and included Claudio Pardo, Brazil’s Digital Culture Minister, John Perry Barlow, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lawrence Lessig, founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, Gilberto Gil, Brazil’s Minister of Culture, Mike Smith, Hewlett’s Education Director, Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, Joel Slayton, founder of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University, and Moy Eng, Director of the Performing Arts program at Hewlett.
For a report on the event see Steve Cisler’s blog.
The Tech Museum of Innovation, located in Silicon Valley, has just launched a major new exhibit-creation initiative using the 3D virtual world called Second Life. In other words, you’ve been invited to help revolutionize how the museum’s content is conceptualized, prototyped and turned into reality.
To participate, try out the museum’s new open source exhibit platform, and model new projects in Second Life. There’s a theme – “Art, Film & Music,” and even some great tools and resources to help you build your dream exhibit. The best part of all, is that your vision may be selected to become a real life exhibit. Rewards are being provided for winning selections. For more information on how to participate go to thetechvirtual.org. And if you’re already in Second Life, be sure to search for The Tech to enjoy the virtual museum.
The Marlon Riggs prize, named after the late gay African-American filmmaker to honor “courage and innovation” by a BayArea artist, was bestowed upon Lynn Hershman Leeson by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle for her latest feature, “Strange Culture.”
Strange Culture, which premiered at the inaugural 01SJ festival in 2006, has also been selected to open both the 2007 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and the documentary section of the Berlin International Film Festival. The film features Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, Chronicles of Narnia), Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brochovich), Thomas Jay Ryan (Henry Fool, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride, My Dinner with Andre); Original score by The Residents.
Strange Culture details the surreal legal nightmare of artist and University at Buffalo professor Dr. Steven Kurtz. Dr. Kurtz was illegally detained and accused by the U.S. government of “bioterrorism” in 2004 after police became suspicious of common science materials used in his internationally exhibited art practice. He now awaits trial on charges of “mail fraud” – charges which carry the possibility of a 20-year jail term under the USA PATRIOT Act. Since the ongoing nature of the case prevents Dr. Kurtz from discussing its details, Hershman Leeson has enlisted actors to dramatize parts of the story, skillfully interweaving dialogue with news footage, animation, interviews, testimonials, and footage of Kurtz himself.
WATCH THE TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNO1ANHIQs
Presented at the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention on June 3rd, in Las Vegas, NV, the award, which celebrates the most successful, innovative and exciting public art projects in the United States, is granted by The Public Art Network (PAN), whose artist jurors this year, Larry Kirkland and Miwon Kwon, chose 40 projects out of over 300 entries. This Recognition Award is the only award presented in America for public art projects, one Hasegawa has won,for his first installation in the United States.
Digital Kakejiku was invented by Akira Hasegawa 12 years ago. Using knowledge gained through years of working in film, video, television and cyber graphics, he invented a sensitizing machine that projects computer generated abstract images of such brilliance and vibrancy onto architecture and natural surroundings, that it has been recognized as a new category of art by the Japanese government. Information about Digital Kakejiku, D-K Live and Akira Hasegawa now appears in high school science text books.
Starting in 2002, exhibitions at such sites as the three major medieval castles in Japan, Kanazawa Castle, Kumamoto Castle, Osaka Castle; important contemporary museums, The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Miyagi Prefectural Art Museum, POLA Museum Annex; sacred ancient shrines and temples, Daijyouji Temple, Ketataisha Shrine, Kinken Shrine, Koyasan Temple, Nata Temple; as well as, cityscapes in Tokyo for the opening of the Roppongi Hills Shopping & Hotel Complex and on the water at the charming fishing village of Shinminato, have been witnessed by millions.
More than 36 D-K Live installations have taken place all over the world. These include, working under the auspices of UNESCO, for “New Year’s Eve at the Acropolis” in Athens, December 31, 2004 – January 1, 2005, and on the Shiretoko Peninsula on Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island, in 2004. Hasegawa’s work has opened several art events: China International Art Festival in Shanghai at Yuyuan Garden; Singapore International Arts Festival, and kicked off ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, August 8-13, 2006 by turning the new, Richard Meier designed City Hall into “a Kaleidoscope at Night”, during the conference.
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