Interview with Steve Dietz
The best way to learn about something is to go to the source. For the 2010 01SJ Biennial, that would be Steve Dietz, ZER01’s artistic curator…
Luke Jerram named ‘Person of the Week’ by ABC World News
Jerram in Times Square, New York. Photograph by Amarynth Sichel
Tonight, Diane Sawyer just named 2010 01SJ Biennial artist Luke Jerram ‘Person of the Week’ on ABC World News.
Currently, street pianos have been placed on the streets of New York. This September, Play Me I’m Yours by Luke Jerram will be presented in San Jose.
Watch the ABC World News video here
And be sure to listen for the mention of San Jose at the end!
More information about the project is available here
Applications now open for the 2011 Kinetica Art Fair
Applications are now open for artists, galleries, curatorial groups and organisations to participate in the UK’s Kinetica Art Fair 2011, dedicated to kinetic, electronic and new media art! The 2011 Kinetica Art Fair will take place from the 3 - 6 of February at Ambika P3, the 14,000 sq ft multi-disciplinary arts venue at 35, Marylebone Rd, London (opposite Madame Taussauds). Apply Here!
The Kinetica Art Fair is produced by Kinetica Museum and is the first of its kind in the UK. It brings together artists, galleries, museums and organisations from around the world that specialise and focus on kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, sound, time-based and interdisciplinary new media art. The fair provides a new international platform for collectors, curators, museums and the public to view, collect and buy artworks in this thriving and rapidly advancing arts sector.
Alongside the Fair there will be a programme of special events, tours, talks, screenings, workshops and performances. These events will involve some of the world’s most eminent leaders in the field of kinetic, electronic and new media art.
In 2010, over 35 galleries and organisations took part with over 150 artists exhibiting. The fair received over 10,000 visitors across 4 days. Over 200 news stories were generated across leading international print and broadcast media, including BBC News, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, New York Times and CNN. There were also over 20,000 web bulletins about the event.
Stephen Vitiello on the High Line in New York
Stephen Vitiello’s new multi-channel sound installation A Bell For Every Minute is a site-specific work commissioned for the High Line in New York City.
For the 01SJ Biennial, Vitiello has curated a midnight concert series by contemporary sound artists that will take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at midnight inside one of San Jose’s historic venues, Trinity Cathedral.
Thursday, September 16
Olivia Block, untitled composition for piano, field recordings, sine waves
Friday, September 17
Steve Roden, Possible Landscape (for Donald Judd)
Saturday, September 18
Stephen Vitiello and Molly Berg, Untitled
Read more about Vitiello’s project curated and produced by Creative Time.
From Creative Time:
The piece will fill the 14th Street Passage, a semi-enclosed tunnel between West 13th and West 14th Streets, with sound recordings of bells taken from all over New York City and beyond. During park hours an individual bell will ring each minute from speakers placed throughout the tunnel, the overtones fading out as the next bell begins. A chorus of the selected bells will play at the top of each hour, filling the space. Sounds range from the iconic rings of the New York Stock Exchange bell, the historic Dreamland bell days after it was discovered in the water off Coney Island, the United Nation’s Peace Bell, and more everyday and personal sounds of bike bells, diner bells, and neighborhood church bells. The sounds will be represented on a physical sound map that identifies the location of each bell, allowing the listener to follow the geographic journey of the recordings
The Creation of a 13-foot Trojan Horse
Trojan Horse. Victoria Scott and Scott Killdal
San Francisco based artists Victoria Scott and Scott Kildall just launched the Kickstarter campaign for Gift Horse – a project for the 01SJ Biennial co-commissioned by the San Jose Museum of Art and ZERO1.
The 13-foot high Trojan Horse will be filled with paper viruses, built by the public in South Hall during Out of the Garage, Into the World workshops between September 4th-14th. On September 18th, it will be part of the Green Prix – a parade of “green” vehicles. Several costumed Greek warriors will push it through the streets of San Jose and into the SJMA. At 4pm on Sept. 18th, Victoria and Scott will “gift” it to the museum.
Check Victoria and Scott’s Kickstarter Campaign and hear them talk about how this 13-foot high horse will be realized. Stay tuned to hear more about when to come out and create your own live virus to fill the Trojan Horse!
Digitalarti New Mobile Applications
One of the creative and leading digital art communities Digitalarti has now launched their New Mobile Applications for iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android phones, BlackBerry phones. Their Free Digitalarti App is great for everyone. You can stay up to date on international digital artworks, with artists, festivals and innovation news, pictures, videos and more. It also allows you to discover the latest digital artists worldwide, check the spotlight on the Artist of the Month.
Artists, you can be the first to answer call for entries and projects from digital art festivals worldwide, and see the latest acquisitions of the digital art acquisition fund: Digital Art Promotion.
San Francisco’s City Centered Festival
ZER01’s Executive Director, Joel Slayton will be a Keynote speaker this Saturday, June 12th for the City Centered Festival Symposium. The City Centered Festival is a free, three-day festival of locative media and urban community in San Francisco. It includes demonstrations and installations in the Tenderloin district, a symposium in the Mission district and community training workshops. Come listen to Joel’s talk on The Nature of Path/Minimal Dislocation and while you are in area check out Urban Remix performance by 01SJ Biennial artist Carl DiSalvo and Jason Freeman, Michael Nitsche.
City Centered Symposium will be:
June 11-12, 2010
at KQED Studios
2601 Mariposa Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Urban Remix will be held at:
The Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street
Performance June 13, 2010
12:30 – 3:00pm
Vote for your favorite Silicon Valley textile pattern!
At SubZER0 this past Friday night, artist Corinne Okada conducted a free digital textile design lab workshop at The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
Now you can select your favorite publicly created textiles submitted to the Fusionwear sv contest. Voting from June 5th to June 11th.
The pattern selected by the public will be integrated into designs shown during the exhibition, Silicon Valley Textiles, Corinne Okada and Colleen Quen that will open during the 01SJ Biennial in September.
Official project site:
http://fusionwearsv.sjquiltmuseum.org/
Brody Condon, Somewhere on the Floor
Brody Condon, Somewhere on the Floor, 2010
Artist Brody Condon will be presenting Level Five, a 3-day live role playing event based on popular self actualization seminars which originated in the West Coast in the early 1970’s, at the 01SJ Biennial in September.
His work Somewhere on the Floor, was just performed in New York, check it out:
In coordination with Saks Fifth Avenue and the PS1 Greater New York Exhibition, Brody Condon was invited to contribute a project to be displayed in the Saks window on 50th St. Brody’s proposal was to film a performance inside Saks itself. To his surprise Saks was familiar with his work and agreed.
The piece, a modification of the Trisha Brown work Accumulation (1971), is a floor-based dance performance based on various seizure-like movements choreographed by Stephen Lichty, who is himself familiar with movement disorders.
Kitchen Budapest is selected for xClinic/Pachube project at the 01SJ Biennial
ZER01 in collaboration with xClinic and Pachube.com posted an open call for proposals to create environmental health projects and lifestyle experiments that make use of Pachube. The selected proposal, Beat Your Mouse Movment by Kitchen Budapest, will be featured as part of the Out of the Garage, Into the World program at the 2010 01SJ Biennial. 
The concept proposed by Kitchen Budapest, Beat Your Mouse Movement, strives to balance the growing hours spent in front of computer screens by offering a playful solution that motivates people to walk in order to get more exercise and become more conscious about their health and city environment. Beat Your Mouse Movement will consist of a web/desktop application called “Mousey” that tracks the mouse pointer and another one called “Steppy” that counts steps–creating a playful competition to literally beat the mouse. By tracking and analyzing this data they can encourage people to go further distances in the real world than in the virtual one. Project contributors include: Irma Földényi, László Kiss, Melinda Sipos, Dávid Dúl and Andi Sztojanovits
During project development, Environmental Health Clinic Director, Natalie Jeremijenko, and the founder of Pachube.com, Usman Haque, will be on hand to provide advice, guidance and consultation on projects.
Congratulations Kitchen Budapest!
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