Weisman Art Museum curator Diane Mullin offers an in-depth consideration of the complex historical and philosophical underpinnings of Polish-born Piotr Szyhalski’s provocative multimedia project “Labor Camp.”
via mnartists.org
ZERO1 has commissioned Szyhalski to present his Leaflet Project at 01SJ.
etoy’s Mission Eternity premiered at the 1st Biennial 01SJ Festival (ZeroOne San Jose) in conjunction with ISEA2006. If you missed it there, it is appearing Saturday at the ARCO Fair in Madrid.
Saturday, February 16, 2008 (19:00) ARCO / Madrid
etoy’s MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS (a white cargo container at the entrance to ARCO pavilion 14) is where the art group etoy calls and reactivates a dead pioneer of the information age: Timothy Leary. He is the first MISSION ETERNITY TEST PILOT to enter the multiuser sarcophagus, and again the pioneer: other pilots will follow him. In
Madrid, 8g of Leary’s mortal remains will be integrated into his updated TERMINUS. This plug-shaped capsule stores the ashes of the MISSION ETERNITY PILOT after cremation and links it to digital remains such as personal data, voice samples, images, a post-mortem activity plan and more.
The ceremony is public and accompanied by 4 etoy.AGENTS and a live act
by TIM & PUMA MIMI from Zurich. http://www.myspace.com/timandpumamimi
Background to the etoy.ART-INVASION 2.0
http://www.etoy.com/blog/archive/2008/02/10/etoy-art-invasion-2-0.html
Updates from Madrid
http://www.etoy.com/blog/archive/2008/02/15/etoy-at-arco-08.html
Madrid local information:
MISSION ETERNITY, winner of the award VIDA 10.0, can be visited at
Fundación Telefónica’s booth (GC.B2) and at Fundación Telefónica EXT.1
(Entrance of ARCO Pavilion 14)
A number of artists, who will produce new work for the 01SJ Biennial: Superlight, exhibited work in the exhibition Networked Nature in New York last winter.
“New York artist Shih-Chieh Huang’s inflatable installation, Din-Don I, is inspired by everyday household electronic devices and his studies of physical computing and robotics. In this ingenious exploration of organic systems, he creates a dynamic circulation of electricity and air: a living micro-environment.”
Networked Nature via Chelsea Art Galleries
In 2007, Genevieve Grieves was awarded the Xstra Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award for her work Picturing the Old People, which will be presented as part of the 01SJ Biennial: Superlight at the San Jose Museum of Art.
The selection committee described Picturing the Old People as “an exquisite and thoughtful exploration by a contemporary Koori of the ways Aboriginal people were portrayed in the past”. The committee said about this work by Grieves: “This year’s winner has raised the bar for Aboriginal artists working in new media.”
Life? (Life to the power of n)—or, life to the power of infinity is a series of exhibitions highlighting the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson that will take place throughout the Bay Area in 2008. Internationally recognized as one of the most influential among San Francisco–based media artists, Hershman Leeson has shaped the history of contemporary art in the Bay Area since the early 1970s.
This collaborative survey of the artist’s past and current projects is a joint effort among local institutions and art collections; it will feature six presentations over the course of the year (see calendar below), individually organized by each participating venue but jointly promoted under the title of Life? (Life to the power of n).
Life? (Life to the power of n) was initiated by SFMOMA and coordinated by Rudolf Frieling, the museum’s curator of media arts. The project is jointly organized by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the de Young Museum, The Hess Collection, New Langton Arts, SFMOMA, and 01SJ A Global Festival of Art on the Edge at the San Jose Museum of Art.
Common denominators among the individual presentations are the artist’s reconfiguration of historic and archival material, as well as her incorporation of user participation through new online platforms such as Second Life. Life? (Life to the power of n) proposes that there is not just one “real life” and one “virtual life,” but potentially endless manifestations of life and art that combine and mutate into hybrid forms of exhibition display, performance, online communities, interactive interfaces, user-generated content, and public screenings.
As they become available, exhibition materials from each project in Life? (Life to the power of n) will be digitally relocated to a site in Second Life (URL to be announced), which will eventually become the content and record for a “meta-archive,” facilitating deeper analysis, active investigation, and social exploration of the work. Updates on the project and Second Life access information will be posted at www.life-n.net. More information about Hershman Leeson can be found at the artist’s website: www.lynnhershman.com.
In conjunction with Life? (Life to the power of n), a new monograph on the work of Hershman Leeson will be co-published by Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, and bitforms gallery, New York, in partnership with The Hess Collection (release date and details to be announced).
Ars Virtua & The CADRE Laboratory for New Media will host a workshop on open source alternatives to the Second Life(TM) grid, in conjunction with the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge.
This two hour workshop provides an overview of open-source, third-party virtual-world server technology based on Second Life(TM), and the opportunities afforded to artists and experimenters who are now able to cheaply host tailored synthetic spaces.
The first hour will be devoted to a brief overview of Second Life and the “OpenMetaverse” initiatives (libsl, opensim, etc.) Bennett Goble of Ars Virtua will discuss features and show demos of the most popular alternatives (OpenSim, OpenLife & realXtend), their qualities, strengths etc.
We will consider the issues surrounding installation, maintenance and function of the OpenSim server and will be connecting participants through third-party clients and through modifications of the Linden Lab Second Life client.
During this session participants will have an opportunity to look at code, and to consider the space as a place for artistic experimentation and collaboration. Special consideration will be given to coding within the environment and control afforded by building and running servers.
We will also discuss the relative merits of running sims on cloud systems (such as Amazon’s EC2/S3) and instantiating a foothold sim for further experimentation.
For more information see Aldon Hyne’s ‘An idiot’s guide to OpenSim.’ (http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/2956)
“Typically, people running OpenSim set up a grid, similar to the Main Grid, the Teen Grid or the Beta Grids that Linden Lab runs.” – Aldon Hynes
The workshop will be held from noon – 2 p.m. Friday June 6 in room 237 of the art building on SJSU campus. This workshop is free and open to the public.
for more information contact gallery -at- arsvirtua.com
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Bennett Goble is a synthetic world junkie, new media artist and info-addict that spends 12+ hours a day overviewing dual computer monitors with his independently operating eyes. He is heavily involved within the digital world Second Life, working on coding, design, and art projects.
Ars Virtua is a new media center and gallery located in the synthetic worlds. It leverages the tension between 3-D rendered game space and terrestrial reality, between simulated and simulation. AV has active initiatives in Second Life, World of Warcraft and in the open source simulator space. Ars Virtua is sponsored by the CADRE Laboratory for New Media.
The 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge is North America’s newest and largest festival of digital arts, and a great deal more. Festival organizers expect it to be a perspective-altering experience that entertains, enlightens, educates and involves attendees in a new understanding of our changing world.
http://arsvirtua.com
http://01sj.org/
The 2008 01SJ Festival will host Flock – a full evening performance work for saxophone quartet, conceived to directly engage audiences in the composition of music by physically bringing them out of their seats and enfolding them into the creative process. This high tech musical experiment has been garnering media coverage, most recently in an Associate Press news story. Read the AP story. Find out more about Flock.
Camille Utterback
Large scale projection
Commissioned by ZERO1 with support from the City of San Jose and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency
San Jose City Hall Rotunda and Plaza
September 28 – October 6, 2007
Orchard Art Space
May 2, 2008
Abundance is a temporary public artwork created specifically for the San Jose City Hall Rotunda and Plaza. The artwork is a dynamic, abstract animation approximately 80′ wide x 60′ tall, projected on the west side of the City Hall Rotunda. Abundance changes and evolves based on pedestrian movement in the Plaza.
Unlike Utterback’s previous room-scale installations, which focused on individual’s gestures and trajectories, Abundance responds to larger pedestrian patterns such as groups of people coming together and dispersing. The work also reacts to the building’s architecture. Projected graphic elements bounce or change when they hit physical elements in the building’s facade.
The fluid, organic imagery of Utterback’s creates a subtle subversion of the bold geometry of Richard Meier’s edifice. And by providing a way for participants to temporarily inscribe their movements on the facade of City Hall, Abundance personalizes the site, altering participants’ sense of ownership and belonging to a place that is already theirs as a public civic space.
We are excited that Craig Walsh will be doing the City Hall Rotunda projection during 01SJ in June for his first public art commission in the United States. He recently won the People’s Choice Award for Nuit Blanche in Toronto. Below is a brief clip.
Jason Freeman, whose participatory, interactive performance Flock will be performed at 01SJ in June 2008 along with Bay Area experimental jazz quartet Rova, has just received a Networked_Music_Review Commission for “Flou” with Andrew Beck, Xiang Cao, Mark Godfrey, Jagadeeswaran Jayaprakash, Al Matthews, Rachel Ponder, Alex Rae, and Sriram Viswanathan
http://turbulence.org/works/flou/.
“Flou” (pronounced “flew”) is not exactly a game; you do fly a ship through space, but you cannot shoot anything, score points, or win or lose. The focus, rather, is on the soundtrack: as you navigate through a 3D world and zoom through objects in space, you add loops and apply effects to an ever-evolving musical mix. You can also design your own worlds to fly through and share them with other “Flou” users.
“Flou” is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for Networked_Music_Review. It was made possible with funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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