Joyce Hinterding Taps into a Sea of Energy

Artist Joyce Hinterding’s Black Canyon and Earth Field , in collaboration with David Haines, will be presented at the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge. For the Superlight exhibition at the festival, Haines and Hinterding will install a new work, consisting of rows of tables with patterns of graphite that act as antennas. Electromagnetic information in the environment is picked up by these unusual antennae and transmitted through an audio interface, while a filmic sequence projects onto the far wall, relaying a failed oil mining ghost town in the Australian outback.

This work continues to deepen a long investigation into the pervasiveness of electro-magnetic activity for Hinterding; her unusual antennas become sculptures in their own right, as well as vehicles to help us comprehend the “sea of energy” all around us. A poetic conversation with Hinterding about her artistic investigation can be found here.

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SJMA Show — Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon

Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon is showing at the San Jose Museum of Art now through Oct. 19. This exhibit is curated in conjunction with the 2nd San Jose Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge to be held June 4-8, 2008 and the 01SJ Biennial exhibition Superlight, also at the San Jose Museum of Art:

” It is this fascination with the imagery of machines working for and against man that drives “Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon,” a new exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. Sprawling across most of the museum’s second floor, the installation deals with a wide range of human reaction to artificial life, from the dark to the whimsical.”

Where: San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St.
When: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays
Through: Oct. 19
Admission: $8 adults, $5 seniors and students, $2 off with San Jose Library card, free for museum members and children under 6.
Information: (408) 271-6840, www.sjmusart.org

via San Jose Mercury News

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CALIFORNIA-based, EMERGING Artist Commissions

It’s not too late to participate in the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge (June 4-8, 2008)
http://01SJ.org
Call online at: http://01sj.org/?p=492

With support from the James Irvine Foundation, ZERO1 is seeking to commission the new presentation of two works for the 01SJ Festival by emerging, California-based artists.

The commissions are $5,000 each with $500 for travel and lodging expenses.

The work can be in any media in visual arts, performing arts, moving image, and interactive arts.

Projects will be juried based on the goals of “Intersections,” an Irvine-supported commissioning program by ZERO1 to support emerging California artists in the creation of new work that uses technology to create transformative experiences with an emphasis on works that intersect with a particular place or community and engage audiences in innovative ways. See http://01sj.org/?page_id=34 for more information about Intersections.

Projects can take place / be sited anywhere within the downtown core of San Jose, although some preference will be given to nodal areas of the 01SJ Festival:

• Circle of Palms
• Chavez Plaza (especially Saturday, June 7)
• SOFA district along 1st St. (especially Subzero, Friday night, June 6)
• the Passeos between Chavez Plaza and San Jose State University
• San Jose City Hall
• San Jose State University near the San Jose Public Library

More information about other programs of the 01SJ Festival can be found at http://01sj.org

Other areas, including indoor sites will be considered, but all projects must obtain any necessary permits and permissions (with the help of ZERO1).

To submit a proposal email the following information with INTERSECTIONS in the subject header to intersections[at]yproductions[dot]com

• Brief statement about the project and its relation to Intersections
• Detailed description of the project including rough installation and site diagrams and / or performance plans
• Budget
• CV or bio or link
• Links to online examples of no more than 5 past works

Artists must live and work in California and be considered “emerging.” The definition of an emerging artist is contextual. ZERO1 seeks to support those artists who have significant potential yet who are under-recognized and have not received acknowledgment as established creators from fellow artists and other arts professionals. Examples of recognition and acknowledgment include exhibitions, reviews, commissions, performances, grant awards, residencies, fellowships, publications and productions. Factors such as race, gender and geography can play a role in determining whether or not an artist is emerging. The term emerging refers to artistic development, professional accomplishment and recognition, not to stylistic evolution within an artist’s work.

Submissions are due via email only by 10:00 pm PST on Friday, May 9.

The commissions will be selected by Monday May 12. Projects must be installed by midnight, Wednesday, June 3 and be on site through Sunday June 8 or be performed sometime June 4-8, 2008.

Further information and questions: intersections[at]yproductions[dot]com

Call online at: http://01sj.org/?p=492

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bulbo, San Jose: DIY Media Strategies from the Border, Tue. April 15 5PM

bulbo, San Jose: DIY Media Strategies from the Border is in conjunction with the 2nd San José Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge to be held June 4-8, 2008, is made possible by the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery in cooperation with the FUSE:_cadre/montalvo artist research residency initiative, and will feature residency outcomes by members of the bulbo collective.

Artist talk: April 15, from 5 – 6 pm in SJSU’s Art Building, Room 133, with reception to follow

bulbo produces collaborative public art projects that explore cultural and artistic issues as they intersect with the day-to-day rhythms of life. Each of bulbo’s projects allow people who would normally not pursue an art practice to take part in a creative process in an entertaining and non-prejudicial format. bulbo’s perspective on broadcasting has naturally led them to intervene artistically in the growing “do it yourself” area of media broadcast.

For bulbo, San Jose: DIY Media Strategies from the Border bulbo lead a week-long workshop, sharing their experience in media production with youth working with CommUniverCity, STAND, and SNI at the McKinley Neighborhood Center. During the workshop a permanent digital media outlet was created. The youth will use the media outlet to learn how to use video to tell their stories, concerns, and ideas about how to change and shape their community. bulbo’s exhibition in the Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University will act as a platform to showcase the stories of the youth, and through a video response mechanism will create a direct link between SJSU and the youth who live in the Five Wounds/ Brookwood Terrace neighborhood. The hope is that the work done at the neighborhood media station will help the neighborhood realize two goals that were developed with CommUniverCity: to provide opportunities to youth that offer an alternative to gang activity, and to create and foster a college-going culture in the neighborhood.

bulbo’s principal members are José Luis Figueroa, Lorena Fuentes, Sebastián Díaz, Miguel Alvarez, Juan Navarrete, Paola Rodríguez, David Figueroa, Blanca Espana, Aracely Blancarte, and Omar Foglio. bulbo is supported by Galatea Audiovisual, an innovative communications agency localized around the Mexico-US border that is run by artists producing and managing creative ideas.

The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery
San Jose State University
School of Art & Design
Art Building 116
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0089

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ZER01 Invites the World To Experience Art on the Edge at 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival

Ice Queen: Glacial Retreat Dress Tent , Installed at Mt. Shasta, CA .
Photograph: 48 inch W x 40 inch H Lightjet print by Robin Lasser + Adrienne Pao, copyright 2008.

via artdaily

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R. Luke DuBois and Michael Joaquin Grey in Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008

R. Luke DuBois will present Fashionably Late for the Relationship in the 01SJ Biennial Superlight exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art. He will be collaborating with Michael Joaquin Grey for the upcoming Yuri’s Night Bay Area: The Rave for Space at NASA:

The piece will be a “meditation on space with “computational cinema” from Michael Joaquin Grey and R. Luke DuBois .”

Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008:
2PM–2AM Saturday 12 April 2008
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

via CDM

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Adam Nash : Babelswarm

Adam Nash (left), whose Ways to Wave will be presented as part of the 01SJ Biennial exhibition Superlight, has collaborated on Babelswarm, an interactive sculpture in the 3D virtual world of Second Life based on the mythical Tower of Babel.

“Nash says an … attraction [of the work] is how [it] evolves as visitors make their contributions. ‘We’ll be watching it to see what emerges and how it grows,’ he says of Babelswarm. “There isn’t any point when it’s finished … Part of the enjoyment of working in this medium is the constant joy and surprise of seeing how these things behave when you let them loose in this environment.’”

via The Sydney Morning Herald

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New Media Arts and The Law

California Lawyers for the Arts Education Program
New Media Arts and The Law
The intersection of art, science, and technology has resulted in a creative boom in contemporary art and an emergent area of the Law.

California Lawyers for the Arts is pleased to present a conversation between Emily A. Berger, Intellectual Property Fellow with Electronic Frontier Foundation, Joel Slayton, Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, and Eric Steuer, Creative Commons Creative Director, exploring the ways copyright laws are implicated in new media art and the challenges artists face in this evolving area of the law and is co-sponsored by Bay Area Glass Institute, Community School of Art and Music, Phantom Galleries, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Viet Arts.

Topics for discussion may include derivative works, best practices, defensible positions, reproduction and public display rights and the Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing, streaming, fair use, and their views on whether current copyright laws are promoting or stifling creativity and the direction in which they feel the law is or should evolve.

Friday, April 18th, 2008
The Kirsch Conference Center, 60 South Market Street, Tenth Floor, San Jose

Registration 6:30 – 7:00 pm
Presentation 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Q&A 8:30 – 9:00 pm

C.L.A. members $ 10.00
Members of Sponsoring Organizations $10.00
Non-members $ 20.00
Free with NEW membership

Please per-register for this program where you can submit your question to the panel and choose to pay at the door or via PayPal.
click here to pre-register!

For more information please contact
Mary Ellen or Erin at sanjose@calawyersforthearts.org
(408) 998-2787 X216

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Marketing today is often little more than the equivalent of shouting on a street corner.

When you shout, people tune you out. In a culture saturated with messages screamed from every direction, using superlatives such as “best,” “number one,” “superior,” “leading,” “favorite,” “more,” “great,” and so on, it’s no wonder people have evolved highly sensitive and effective BS indicators. That’s why we’ve taken to whispering.

If you’re new to 01SJ then you’ll probably shrug this posting off. But if you’re a repeat Festival fan, then you’ll have noticed that our visual brand has changed radically from the inaugural Festival’s look-and-feel. The pigeon was laid to rest and a cutting-edge, digerati style embraced. For that we have artist, Shona Kitchen, and leading San Jose-based branding agency, Liquid, to thank.

Shona created the core visual graphic of a hip and techno-centric city, San Jose, the host site of the Festival. As reflected in her design, 01SJ and San Jose share a vibrant synchronicity that reflects innovation, creativity, technology, and a sense of dynamism. Liquid added intensity to her design by infusing color, adjusting scale and adding the human factor evoking a Minority Report feeling. It’s subtle yet clever. Understated yet distinctive.

As we head into the last few weeks of preparation for the Festival, you’ll begin to see more of their combined creativity sprinkled across the landscape of print and online mediums. We hope it will inspire you to experience art on the edge!

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Kota Ezawa at ATC

Kota Ezawa will present three new works in Superlight at the San Jose Museum of Art. He will be presenting his work Monday April 7th at The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium:

“Since its commercial emergence in the 1930s, animation in the United States was treated as a category of cartoons. Even animation that found its audience outside of the mainstream made use of stereotypical cartoon attributes such as narrativity and caricature. American artists Robert Breer and Lawrence Jordan were exceptions, producing bodies of work that investigate animation as a visual language outside the cartoon tradition. Today, thanks to consumer video and animation software, a growing number of artists in the US and elsewhere are reimagining animation as an art form on par with other contemporary art practices.

Kota Ezawa has produced his own animations since 2000. Coming out of studies in Fine Art programs in Europe and the US, his animations deal with abstraction and mediated perceptions of reality through reconstructions of existing films and videos. In this lecture, Ezawa will present his work in the context of 20th Century avant-garde animation.”

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of the Berkeley Center for New Media announces:

Text, Slides and Videotapes
Kota Ezawa, Artist,
California College of the Arts

Monday, Apr 7, 7:30-9:00pm
Location: 160 Kroeber Hall
ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.

via ATC

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