By Jack Fischer Exhibitions range from cutting-edge new media to Winslow Homer classics Mercury News Posted on Sun, Jan. 01, 2006 Full article online Every year there are more reasons to get your art fix in the South Bay, even if periodic trips to San Francisco remain advisable. A glance at the mix for 2006: ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge Aug. 7-13 If all goes according to plan, San Francisco will be coming to San Jose for this international gathering of new media artists. The festival is being modeled on Ars Electronica, a well-regarded new media extravaganza in Linz, Austria, which has no counterpart in North America. Curated by new media art guru Steve Dietz, the festival and an attendant symposium for wonkdom is expected to spill out of the San Jose Museum of Art's galleries and throughout the downtown. This should be a good fit of art with Silicon Valley's natural nerdy inclinations.
Jennifer Steinkamp July 1-Oct. 1 at the San Jose Museum of Art SJMA has timed this mid-career survey of the L.A.-based installation artist to be on exhibit during ZeroOne San Jose. Steinkamp's digital projections explore the phenomenology of perception and how our perspectives can be manipulated by virtual technology. Organized by SJMA Senior Curator JoAnne Northrup, the show will be accompanied by a major publication of Steinkamp's work. . . . And keep an eye on: Cherri Lakey and Brian Eder The impresarios behind Anno Domini Gallery, and probably a half-dozen other little acts of art and counter-cultural conscience around San Jose, have moved from their Montgomery Street digs near Diridon station. Now they're at 366 S. First St., in the old Camera One building in the heart of downtown. A hub of activity even when they were on the edge of darkness, they will really be worth watching as they conjure the new space. Full article online http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/special_packages/holiday_guide/13511052.htm |