Randall Packer talks about A Season in Hell

Crawl inside the mind of the creator of this post-apocalyptic vision of America.

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September is a busy month for San Jose!

WITI’s Women and Technology Summit
Growth Café – Business Connections and Technology for Breakthrough Results
September 12-14, 2010 @ The Doubletree Hotel, San José, CA
http://www.witi.com/summit

WITI’s Annual Women and Technology Summit in the Silicon Valley provides you outstanding opportunities to get connected to amazing women from around the world convening in one place at one time. Including the 15th Annual WITI Hall of Fame Awards Dinner!

Register Now!

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Radio Interview with 01SJ Biennial Artists

Mark your calenders. We have several upcoming radio talks with some fantastic 01SJ Biennial Artists.
Here is the schedule. Don’t miss them!

Sunday, July 25th 5-6pm
Future Farmers, Dan Allende and Amy Franceschini speaking on their project Sunshine Still/Speak Hard
Radio KKUP, 91.5fm, A Meeting of the Ways program.

Sunday August 1st
Victoria Scott and Scott Kildall will be speaking about their Gift Horse project
Radio KKUP, 91.5fm, A Meeting of the Ways program.

Sunday August 8th
Janaki Ranpura will be talking about her Egg and Sperm Ride, a 60 day bike ride from Minneapolis to San Jose.
Radio KKUP, 91.5fm, A Meeting of the Ways program.

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Youth Call for Multimedia and Video

Adobe Youth Voices | 01SJ is instituting a  free open call for screen-based media by youths aged 12-18  under the theme “Activate an Idea / Deactivate a Problem.” Participants are asked to produce video or multimedia that addresses a social issue. Entries are due August 23^rd, 2010. Top finalists in the juried competition will be awarded up to $500 in prize money. Please visit our website, or email me at David@zero1.org if you have any questions regarding the submissions.

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Lynn Hershman Leeson awarded the DDAA

Congratulations to Lynn Hershman Leeson on receiving the 2010 d.velop digital art award

San Francisco based artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson, was awarded the d.velop digital art award (ddaa) for 2010.  Given by the Digital Art Museum in Berlin every two years, this award comes with $25,500  as well as a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen. Lynn Hershman Leeson has participating in previous 01SJ Biennials and will be a guest artist at  Collecting the Impossible this year during the 2010 01SJ Biennial.

Congratulations!!

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LevelFive: Call for participants

2010 01SJ Biennial commissions artist Brody Condon to create LevelFive, a 3-day live game performance. Condon is seeking participants for his live role playing event during the Biennial. If you or anyone you know are members of LARP, experimental theater, academic and performance art communities, read the message from the artist and sign up for his mailing list to be involved below:

WHAT: LevelFive is a live role-playing event organized by the artist Brody Condon which is focused on critically exploring self-actualization seminars from the 1970’s. The 3 day physically and psychologically participatory performance will loosely follow the structure of early Large Group Awareness Training sessions like Erhard Seminars Training, but it is not a re-enactment. This open-ended live role-playing environment with up to 75 players will provide a space in which players are free to explore self-actualization issues with varying degrees of personal intensity, but via an alibi or fabricated character. Players from the LARP, experimental theater, academic, and performance art communities are expected to participate.

WHEN AND WHERE: LevelFive will be organized twice:
* At the Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles on September 3-5, 2010 (50 spots)
* At the San Jose Convention Center on September 16-18, 2010, during the 01SJ Biennial (75 spots)

WHO: This performance is created and organized by the artist Brody Condon (www.tmpspace.com). The live game mechanics and management are being developed by the Scandinavian based progressive live game designer Bjarke Pedersen, along with character and workshop development by Tobius Wrigstad and Monica Traxl. The event has been commissioned by the 2010 01SJ Biennial and Machine Project in conjunction with the Hammer Museum residency program in Los Angeles, along with special thanks to Southern Exposure in San Francisco.

MORE INFORMATION: WWW.LVL5.ORG

Please feel free to spread far and wide, and PLEASE sign up
on the website for the mailing list now, as we need to begin reserving spaces soon as space is limited. Information regarding official sign up will arrive in August.

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The Egg and Sperm Ride’s Journey to the 01SJ Biennial

Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride through Panora, IA Supported by Northern Lights, MN and ZER01.

01SJ Biennial artist Janaki Ranpura has begun her fantastic journey of the Egg and Sperm Ride. The Egg & Sperm Ride is a long distance date with destiny. The Egg will be pedaled on a solo ride from Minneapolis, MN to meet up with Sperm Riders in San Jose, CA, for the Green Prix parade. Her bike, the Egg recumbent, can travel long distances with loaded pannier and welded frame. In towns along the route, the Egg Rider will make impromptu shows with people exploring human partnership. Janaki will be posting these shows on to her Egg & Sperm Facebook page. Once it gets to San Jose, the Egg will have its final performance at AbsoluteZERO and then the Sperm Riders will meet up with the Egg for the Green Prix Parade and Festival.

Janaki is currently in Omaha, NE and will soon be moving onto Lincoln, NE in a few days. You can check out her path here. Follow her through the Egg and Sperm Ride blog as she tells about the triumphs and defeats she battles daily trying to make this journey.

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Become a Zoropathian

Two artists, Ken Eklund & Annette Mees, are joining forces with half-hearted peace-movement Zorop to try and start world peace at the 2010 01SJ Biennial on the 17 and the 18th of September. Zorop is rather interesting movement who believe world peace can be established by mapping all the connections between people. They are looking for people with a twinkle in their eye to join us in our grand experiment. You have the chance to become a Zoropathian at one or both days of the event.

They are hosting a gathering, where you can discover more about the story of Zorop and the Biennial project this Sunday 7/11 from 3-5pm at:

The Women’s Building (men also very welcome)
Room A
3543 18th St #8
San Francisco, CA 94110

They’ll provide you with super-simple, user-friendly tech, a quixotic backstory and some fun stuff to play with, you just have to bring your enthusiasm, playfulness and charm. It’s easy, fun and we have a Mexican party bus!

If you are interested in coming on Sunday or even if you can’t but would like to be part of it in September or if you have any questions please drop them a line at: curious@zorop.org

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Sneak Peak of the Green Prix

Here’s a sneak peak of the fantastic line up for the Green Prix on Saturday September 18th, during the 01SJ Biennial? There will be solar cars, Aeolian Riders, Electric Elephants, Monarch Butterfly bike puppets, and so much more! Consisting of a parade and day long festival, the Green Prix will show every type of sustainable transportation you can imagine.

The Green Prix parade is open to public participation!! We’d love to have you bring your creative bikes, skateboards, electric motorcycles or any other funky sustainable vehicles you have sitting in your garage.

Sign Up Here!!

Aeolian Ride, Jessica Findley.

tZero, Electric Auto Association

UnWheeldy, Dave Hershberger

Stanford Solar Car Solstice

Cyclecide

Communtiy Conversation Board by Marksearch

El Rojo by Adan Avalos.

Elvis Bike by Slimm Buick

CathexiSpin, Elliot Anderson

El Arbol, Fossil Fuel

Rajaphant, Carl Heiney

Trojan horse, Victoria Scott and Scott Killdal

Egg and Sperm Ride, Janaki Ranpura

OvertheTop, Steven White

Sol Design Lab/Bike Zoo

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Play Me, I’m Yours: 2010 01SJ Biennial

Touring internationally since 2008, Play Me, I’m Yours is an artwork by UK-based artist Luke Jerram.

To date, Jerram has installed 167 pianos in 8 different cities worldwide. In September 2010, twenty pianos will appear throughout downtown San Jose as part of the 2010 01SJ Biennial. Located in parks, plazas, and paseos, near transit centers and parking lots, the pianos are there for any member of the public to enjoy.

Questioning the ownership and rules of public space Play Me, I’m Yours is about participation and inviting the public to engage with their urban environment.

Stories about Play Me I’m Yours have appeared in the New York Times, London Guardian, Time Out, and more. More information including comments, videos and photos are posted on the project website: www.streetpianos.com.

How to get involved:

• San Jose community members can become temporary caretakers for pianos placed throughout the city. These “piano friends” will be responsible for checking on their piano at least once each day and helping to document its use.
• Local artists, schools, and community groups can apply to paint a piano and make it their own.
• After the Biennial the pianos will be donated to local community groups. Non-profits, schools, and community groups are encouraged to apply to request a free piano.
• In September 2010 during the 01SJ Biennial, a special website—www.01sjpianos.com—will invite everyone to post photos and videos of their piano experiences.

Artist Bio:

Luke Jerram is a multidisciplinary artist whose work challenges citizens to claim their urban space in collaborative and creative ways. www.lukejerram.com

If you are interested in getting involved please contact Denise Bennett at denise@zero1.org

Pictured above: Luke Jerram by Piano. Credit “Photograph by Luke Jerram.”

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