And on that note, proposals for the workshops and micro-grants are starting to roll in. The workshop call ends on February 15th, and the micro-grants on March 8th, so you still have time to send in proposals!

Please see the open calls page here for more information on  the current 01SJ Biennial open calls.

Climate Clock Finalist Teams:

Wired Wilderness Greenmeme: Freya Bardell, Brian Howe and Brent Bucknum

Huey-Dewey-Louie Climate Clock (an homage to the film Silent Running): Usaman Haque and Robert Davis

Organograph: Chico Macmurtrie, Geo Homsy, Bill Washabaugh and Gideon Shapiro

Macla Conceptual Landscapes: recent work by Castillo and Mariana Garibay

First Fridays in the SoFA District downtown San Jose is back! For the 5^th year in a row galleries will be open late for everyone to enjoy, and it is FREE! The Art Walk starts at 8pm and goes as long as the crowds stay active. The next First Friday is February 5, 2010. Come visit Anno Domini, MACLA, the Kaleid Gallery, Works San Jose, and many many more.

Check out more details here: http://www.southfirstfridays.com/

Are you a fashion designer, high tech designer, or an artist who has designs up your sleeve just waiting to get out? Then pour your talent into the inaugural Red Cross Wearable Art competition. The American Red Cross Silicon Valley Chapter is inviting artists to create wearable art that surrounds the “theme of emergency preparedness prevention and response for a show of art with a life-saving message.”

Designer Applications and Design Sketches or Design Plans are due February 19, 2010. Finalists will receive amazing perks including having their design presented at the Hero’s Celebration at the Santa Clara Marriott on May 8th.  The designers will also receive two tickets to the black-tie event and the finalist’s creations will walk the runways during San Francisco and San Jose Fashion weeks.

Find more details at these websites. Good Luck!

http://www.siliconvalley-redcross.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=426:wearable-art-competition&catid=164:heroes-celebration&Itemid=331

http://wearableartdesign.blogspot.com/2010/01/design-competition-wearable-art-with.html

I recently had the chance to go on a “hard hat” tour of the new terminal that is still being built at the Norm Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport. Within the new terminal the San José Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program (OCA)  is managing a changing art and technology public art program to commission artwork that will reflect the character of the Silicon Valley and provide an engaging introduction to the region. As part of this program, ZER01 has been invited to curate two large display cabinets. We are treating these as “Cabinets of Curiosity” or wunderkammern, which will include “small wonders” at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture.

One cabinet will be curated by ZER01 with a collection of projects that tie together art, technology, and the Bay Area. The display case will be designed by local designer Shona Kitchen and will contain works by mostly local artists, with a few national and international artists included as well.

The second cabinet will be a commissioned project by the Seattle-based, multidisciplinary artist collective SuttonBeresCuller. They will transform the display case and it’s intersecting column into a literal cabinet of curiosities using components drawn from the materials and technologies that have made Silicon Valley what it is today such as computer chips and parts.

The cabinets are located in the non-ticketed area between the ticketing lobby and arrivals, and will be installed in May 2010 and remain on view for a period of two years—be sure to check them out once the new terminal opens!

http://zero1.org/01sj/opencalls

We’ve also added pages to the website that share more information related to AbsoluteZER0, Green Prix, and Out of the Garage, Into the World–three exciting programs that offer widespread opportunities for participation during the 01SJ Biennial.

You can read more about the open calls here and please be sure to download the pdf files posted on each open call page for additional details.

Todd and Jeff were in town just long enough to scout materials,  take a few measurements, and start thinking big. Both Todd and Jeff are working on advanced degrees from the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  More about them:

Todd is an artist, musician, and filmmaker who is currently working on the feature-length film FLOOD TIDE. FLOOD TIDE is an experimental narrative film that was shot amidst the artist Swoon’s 2008 Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project http://www.switchbacksea.org/, in which seven homespun boats were built and crewed by an eclectic group of artists and performers. The primary cast includes the bands Dark Dark Dark and Fall Harbor, members of which were actual crew on the homespun boats. The bands will be collaborating to write, perform and record the film’s musical score.

Jeff Stark is an artist, journalist, and the editor of Nonsense NYC, a weekly email list and discriminating resource for independent art and senseless culture in New York City. He has also conceived of and directed several street events, such the Idiotarod races in New York, and wrote and directed IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations, a theatrical production that was staged within the New York City subway system.

Taking place December 12-13, Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice is a multimedia dance, theater and projected video program comprised of two performances created by choreographer, dancer and video artist Catherine Galasso. She combines the ephemeral qualities of performance with the illusive permanence of film and video in order to create cutting-edge and provocative narratives.

Her first piece, Simmer, a solo dance performance by Galasso, is a homage to Galasso’s father, composer Michael Galasso. Michael Galasso composed scores for several high profile plays and films, garnered a César for Best Original Score for the highly celebrated film Seraphine, and have appeared in many venues including the Guggenheim museums of New York and Bilbao. Michael Galasso passed away in 2009. The second piece, Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice is a critical, virtual journey through the psyche of Roy Sullivan—the real-life person who purportedly holds the world record for being struck by lightning: seven times. The work, featuring choreography by Galasso for four dancers, covers Sullivan’s many tribulations through elliptical narrative, humor and movement.

Enjoy!

For tickets and more program information, visit sffs.org <http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=8,38,271&pageid=1408>