Five Juried Exhibitions! 200 Artists from Around the World! One Week in San Jose!
Edgy Products (def.) Artists and designers who are manipulating, hacking, subverting, queering, hijacking, recombining or reformulating the notion of product.
Pimp My Ride by Takehito Etani and David Tinapple. What if the bass sounds streaming out of a car were the drivers’ real-time heartbeat instead of beats of music? Pimp My Ride turns the body/vehicle relationship inside-out by utilizing the HBBB system to amplify the heartbeat of the driver in real-time by interfacing the car audio with a heartbeat sensor.
Sonic Fabric by Alyce Santoro is a textile woven from recycled audiocassette tape that has been recorded with a collage of sounds collected from a wide range of sources, including music, ambient nature and urban noise, spoken word, etc. The material can actually be made audible by running a tape head over its surface.
Feral Robotic Dogs by Natalie Jeremijenko. Feral robotic dogs re-engineered to ‘sniff out’ environmental toxins are turned as packs in parks, playgrounds, and industrial sites.
Bonus Edgy Products! (descriptions and photos on 01sj.org)
