Welcome to ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006) AUGUST 7-13, 2006
Over the second week of August, all of downtown San Jose -- self-proclaimed capital of California's Silicon Valley -- was transformed into an exhibition venue for electronic and new media art. This was the inaugural ZeroOne art festival, timed to coincide with the 13th annual symposium of the ISEA (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts), an organization founded in the Netherlands in 1990 to foster "interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science, and emerging technologies."
Artists, Technologists, Media Theorists, Curators and Hundreds of Others Turn Out at San Jose City Hall for Presentation
SAN JOSE, CA (August 11, 2006) – Two prestigious, first-time awards were handed out this week at the opening ceremonies of ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. Held this week in conjunction with the 13th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, ZeroOne San Jose showcases the work of approximately 200 artists from 24 countries.
Lynn Hershman Leeson received the first ZeroOne San Jose "Innovation that Matters Award," sponsored by IBM. The award of $7,500 acknowledges her career work. Some of Hershman’s work is in the Edge Conditions show at the San Jose Museum of Art.
Luther Thie and Eyal Fried received the first ZeroOne San Jose "Emerging Artist Award," sponsored by Adobe. The $5,000 award is for Acclair, which is currently showing in the City Hall Rotunda.
The jury for the Emerging Artists Award consisted of Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Deborah Lawler-Dormer, Director of the Moving Image Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, and Adriane Wortzel, a leading new media artist based in New York.
The members of the jury were "convinced by the attention to detail in both the conceptual development and implementation of Acclair's corporate identity; the project's level of criticality with regard to issues of data processing and security, and its transgressive qualities, which, in their 'perversity,' reflect on the interconnection of security, marketing, and consumerism in our world of increasing dataveillance."
The jury also awarded Honorary Mention awards to PigeonBlog by Beatriz da Costa with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto and SimVeillance by Katharine Isbister and Rainey Straus (on view through November 26 at the San Jose Museum of Art).
A "People's Choice Award," sponsored by the City of San Jose, was awarded on Saturday to Julian Bleecker for wifi.ArtCache. Voters cast their ballot via text message on a mobile phone: text “PC” + the Artwork Code listed in the Metro insert to 47647. There is no charge to vote, but text-messaging rates do apply. The People’s Choice Award is $2,500 cash.
Glenn Lovell. Lights, camera . . . interaction. Festival Presents Cinema 'On the Edge' that Demands More from the Audience Than Simply Eating Popcorn, San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2006. link
"You meet a squirrel—he wants you to do karaoke. A South African artist wants to turn your skateboard into a musical instrument. What is going on? It's the ZeroOne festival, and it's a full-scale art attack on San Jose." Click here for full story.
Welcome to the ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 ticketing and room reservations page.
Tickets can be purchased in person at the California Theatre, 345 S 1st St, San Jose, 95113 - (408) 295-9600, Symphony Silicon Valley, 467 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 - (408) 286-2600 and Parkside Hall, 180 Park Ave. San Jose, CA 95113 - (408) 792-4194
If you have questions you can also contact our box office manager at 408-286-2600 (don't be confused that it gets you to the Symphony Box Office - we are very fortunate to have them as one of our festival partners).
Click here to purchase exhibition and event tickets
The ZeroOne San Jose Festival will transform San Jose into the North American epicenter for the intersection of art and digital culture by showcasing the world's most innovative contemporary artists. ZeroOne San Jose is artists making art and using technology as a tool to do so. It is not technology for technology's sake. ZeroOne San Jose is a multi-dimensional, startling and brilliant audience event - with exhibits, live cinema, performances, workshops, and youth activities. All are one-of-a-kind, many never-before, only-here experiences. Here are some details about what you will find at ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge.
ZeroOne San Jose: A Festival of Art on the Edge wants you to come and experience the amazing, awe-inspiring, sometimes irreverent, totally incredible vista of the most innovative contemporary artists in the world. Read through this festival sampler, and click on any of the artists mentioned to learn more.
The familiar city-scape will become a new terrain where you can glimpse recorded images and secrets (Secrets, JD Beltran), carry a balloon with a surveillance camera and become a new map-maker in visual terms (Flying Tails, Jenny Marketou and Katie Salen), explore the afterlife, the most virtual of all worlds - a space beyond the compass of the human mind (MISSION ETERNITY, etoy.CORPORATION), watch nocturnal animals captured by video "traps" and see what happens on urban streets after dark (Nocturne, Colin Ives). At the ZeroOne San Jose Global Festival of Art on the Edge anything seems possible - an artist generates images using cosmic sounds to drive shifting shapes and colors (D-K San Jose, Akira Hasegawa); a blimp flies overhead - a rolling party with skateboarders glides past offering you the chance to put on headsets to listen in and join (Fete Mobile, Marc Tuters), and paper cups on a string can still be telephones (Paper Cup Telephone Network, Matthew Biederman, Adam Hyde, and Lotte Meijer).
From early afternoon till early morning, there will be a choice of events from electronic music to interactive theater to the "bandwidth stand" to night culture in the local clubs. Some highlights:
Ryoji Ikeda, C4I and commissioned North American premiere
C4I is both a concert and a film that uses data as its material and theme, highlighting the ways in which data shapes our understanding of the world. Video images of landscapes are progressively abstracted into a language of data. Facts, figures and diagrams are used in a montage with dazzling graphic impact. The text excerpts elegantly punctuate the on-screen projections. Blurring the lines between nature, science and philosophy, the work subtly and hypnotically suggests the convergence of the real and the virtual. The soundtrack synchronises perfectly with the graphical and video images to create a piece of undeniable power and beauty.
Monday, August 7, 8:00 pm California Theater
Builders Association, Super Vision
"The Builders Association is itself an innovator in multimedia theatre, using video, animation, sampled sounds and god-knows-what sorts of computerized gizmos to produce gorgeous illusions." — Village Voice
The Obie Award-winning performance company The Builders Association (Alladeen) and digital design studio dbox reveal a society in which "dataveillance" goes beyond anything Orwell ever imagined. Dive into this fresh, funny, and often disturbing combination of cutting-edge computer-generated animation, new video techniques, electronic music, and live performance. Super Vision probes three absorbing, intertwining, and all too-close-to-home stories drawn from the datasphere that explore the dangerous minefield of lives reduced to data.
Thurs-Fri, August 10-11, 7:30 pm Sat., August 12, 3:00 pm California Theater
Troika Ranch, 16(R)evolutions
"The primary effect is vivid abstract images, black through every shade of gray to white - broken stripes, horizontal and vertical; calligraphic ribbons; thin-lined sketches of structures that look like futuristic architectural renderings. The dancers, on a large stage, perform on and in front of these projected patterns, sometimes casting black or white shadows; the stripes and lines on their bodies are so crisp that they look like flowing costumes. As they move, their bodies create fluxes in the field, strange and fascinating humanoid shapes mirroring their movements." - New York Times
Sat.-Sun., August 12-13, 3:00 pm San Jose Repertory Theater
Adobe Systems Incorporated stepped forward as the first major corporate Visionary Sponsor of ZeroOne San Jose and will support the Emerging Artist Award. Through a grant, Adobe is also enabling the Festival Education Programs that will engage youth worldwide in the creation and exhibition of projects during the festival and throughout the year.
For Adobe, ZeroOne San Jose illustrates the innovation and creativity that drives Silicon Valley. It's about people using technology and digital tools to express themselves, to communicate their views on our society and to engage others in this exploration.
This celebration of the intersection of art and technology belongs in Silicon Valley and is a strategic opportunity for San Jose to become a true creative community.
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium.
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