Free Soil’s F.R.U.I.T

Free Soil will present Free Soil Bus Tours in the 01SJ Biennial Superlight exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art. They recently designed and exhibited F.R.U.I.T.:

“Art collective Free Soil (including Futurefarmers founder Amy Franceschini) created F.R.U.I.T., custom wrappers that wax poetic on the resources and transportation needed to supply the pieces of fruit they lovingly envelop. It’s the behind-the-scenes story of your food so you can better understand all the miles it’s traveled and all the energy it’s taken and all the people who have groped it before it’s landed in your hands. So let this be a reminder of what a jet-setting life your fruit has had and how much you should really wash that apple before you put it in your mouth ha… ”

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Kota Ezawa at Met

Kota Ezawa, whose new work will be exhibited in Superlight at the San Jose Museum of Art, has work in Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art April 8 – October 19, 2008.

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Niche

Daniel Faust will present a new Untitled series, 2007/08, as part of the 01SJ Biennial Superlight exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art .

Niche
David Edwards
Jay Cantor
110 Photographs by Daniel Faust
Niche tells the story of an artist who meets a scientist and through the encounter makes a hypothesis: If the artist became a stem cell and then divided into a neuron, would he discover the meaning of intelligence? David Edwards and Jay Cantor introduce a new fiction genre—the novel catalogue—to coincide with the opening of the new art and design innovation center in Paris, Le Laboratoire. In the novel catalogue, the process through which creators create matters as much as the works catalogue fictionalizes the creative process of an exhibition season which opens with the that result from the creation. The novel artistic outcome of an experiment between Fabrice Hyber, a French artist, and Robert Langer of MIT. Available from Harvard University Press.

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Joyce Hinterding’s Aeriology at AV Fest

Joyce Hinterding and David Haines present a new piece, Black Canyon and Earth Field in the 01SJ Biennial Superlight exhibtion.

Hinterding’s Aeriologoy was recently present at the AV Festival 08.
Aeriology could be described in terms of a project for an unfolding of the ethereal. Twenty kilometers of copper wire wrap the Reg Vardy Gallery to form an energy gatherer, one where form in the nature of a coil expands the possibilities for an art concerned with lines, flows and folds. These harmonising coils reveal unseen activity through sympathetic amplification.

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Lightness Ruhls

“Lightness isn’t stupidity. … It’s actually a philosophical and aesthetic viewpoint, deeply serious, and has a kind of wisdom – stepping back to be able to laugh at horrible things even as you’re experiencing them.”

Sarah Ruhl in John Lahr, “Surreal Life: The Plays of Sarah Ruhl,” The New Yorker, March 17, 2008, p. 80.

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Remix: June 3, 2008

Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age :: June 3, 2008 :: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

A Three day symposium and festival of new media and art will be hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. This event is timed to link with 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, so come spend the week in the Bay Area and be part of the biggest explosion of new media art in the nation.

The symposium runs from June 1-3, 2008.

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A Tour of Second Life with Adam Nash

Artist Adam Nash’s Ways to Wave will be presented at the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge. For the Superlight exhibition at the festival, Nash is developing an immersive audiovisual virtual sculpture in Second Life that uses a beautiful realworld physical controller.

Take a tour of this much-discussed cultural phenomenon with Australia’s first artists in residence in Second Life - new media artist, composer, programmer, performer and writer Adam Nash and graphic designer, web developer and new media artist Chris Dodds.

Adam Nash and collaborator Chris Dodds will be giving a tour of their work Thursday, 27 March 2008, 6pm, at the Screen Pit.

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The Tech identifies four virtual exhibits that will live in the real museum world

The Tech Museum of Innovation, a 01SJ partner organization, announced the first four winners of its virtual exhibit design competition in The Tech in Second Life®, also known as The Tech Virtual. The winning virtual exhibits have been selected to be built and physically installed in the “real world” Tech Museum, and will be unveiled in conjunction with the 01SJ Global Festival of Arts on the Edge in June. The new exhibits will be the first in a new Gallery at The Tech focused on the theme of the science and technology underpinnings of art, film and music.

The first four winning exhibits to be incorporated into the physical museum include:

• Artist-in-Residence: The Painter — An interactive view of the evolution of a painting over time
• Musical Chairs — A musical carousel where each seat represents different instruments in an orchestra
• Wikisonic — A three dimensional music box where viewers set the “pins” corresponding to the placement of notes on a staff; and
• Connecting Point: Hole in (Virtual) Space — A real life/Second Life portal through which visitors on both sides can collaborate in a variety of games

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Vapor at Southern Exposure

Jordan Geiger’s Day for Night, part of Who’s On First? / What’s On Second? is a “robotic exoskeleton that slowly alters the space in which it is installed.” It will premiere at the 01SJ Festival in June. Friday, March 14, Geiger has co-curated with Alison Sant the exhibition Vapor at Southern Exposure.

The show will feature a survey of new art, architecture and design that takes our declining air quality as the subject matter, medium and metaphor for creative work. Often inspired by forms of activism, the works react to the sources of climate change through the use of technologies – sensors, databases, and communications equipment – that are only recently accessible outside a lab. In this sense, the show’s title also refers to the growing means by which this art is being produced, in addition to the ubiquity of greenhouse gases and other air conditions that serve as this art’s medium. Vapor proposes new ways of modeling, testing and finding solutions to the problems of air quality and greenhouse gas emissions.

Work by Amy Balkin, Futurefarmers, Natalie Jeremijenko, The Living, Preemptive Media, and Urban Atmospherics.

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Szyhalski: We are working all the time

Piotr Szyahlski’s Leaflet Project will be presented as part of the 01SJ Biennial Superlight exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art as well as in public space during the Festival, June 4-8.

The Leaflet Project grows out of Szyhalski’s overarching “Labor Camp” project, which Weisman Art Museum curator Diane Mullin writes about in T(his) story has no end (or, we work all the time).

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