Transvergence goes beyond the disciplinary. And while not unique, artists, academics, advocates, and entrepreneurs of Northern California have been exemplary instigators of a remarkable twinning of parallel and divergent histories, from the steps of the Free Speech Movement to the garage doors of Silicon Valley; from open source inspired systems such as the Internet and Unix to the home of non-disclosure agreements and “vulture capitalism”; from one of the most globally diverse populations in the United States to one of the most economically stratified; from the apotheosis of lifestyle to the netherworld of the edge city; from communitarian to libertarian politics; from hacker to entrepreneur. Yet even if it is binary-encoded programming that has fueled much of this explosion, there is a growing realization that the binaries of culture—us / them, good / bad, free / market—are not solutions. At least not sustainable ones. To what extent can we think of transvergence as a vector away from these divides, modeling practices across the domains of culture, creativity, academia, and entrepreneurship to dream up a responsible future?

The following projects have been selected in the Transvergence theme. Click here for more information about the projects or on a project title or artist name.

This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals to submit proposals for exhibition of interactive art work and projects reflecting on the thematic of the transvergence.