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!!

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.

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.

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

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.”

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