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ISEA2006 Symposium of Electronic Art and the ZeroOne San Jose Global Festival of Art
August 7-13, 2006
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WORKSHOPS:
Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 7 and 8
WETWARE HACKERS A Series of Hands-On How-To Workshops on Biotech Art and Wet Lab Procedures.
When: Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 7 + 8; 10 AM – 5 PM Where: Garage Building near Parkside Hall, 180 W San Carlos St., San Jose
Presented by: Beatriz da Costa and Tau-Mu Yi/UC Irvine; and Natalie Jeremijenko/UC San Diego, with Oron Catts/Univ. of Western Australia; and Paul Vanouse/SUNY Buffalo.
EVENTS:
PigeonBlog, Beatriz da Costa/UC Irvine with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 8 - 10, 8:00 - 8:15 p.m.
Location: Fairmont Plaza
PigeonBlog provides an alternative way to participate in environmental air pollution data gathering. The project equips urban homing pigeons with GPS enabled electronic air pollution sensing devices capable of sending real-time location based air pollution and image data to an online mapping/blogging environment. http://01sj.org/content/view/810/52/
http://www.pigeonblog.mapyourcity.net
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SPECFLIC, Adriene Jenik/UC San Diego Wednesday, Aug. 9, 9:30PM - midnight Location: Martin Luther King, Jr. branch San Jose Public Library, 4th & San Fernando Ticket Price: FREE and open to the public Performance Duration: ongoing during that time period (2.5 hours)
SPECFLIC 2.0 is a performative media event set in 2030. Taking place in and around the Martin Luther King, Jr. Main Public Library, San Jose, CA http://www.sjlibrary.org, SPECFLIC is distributed cinema; a "story-event" created by layering different media forms (including large projections on iconic public buildings, cell phone cameras & SMS, live performance and radio). http://01sj.org/content/view/401/49/
http://www.specflic.net
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Strange Culture Work-in-Progress Lynn Hershman Leeson
Day: Friday, August 11
Time: 06:00 p.m.
Location: Camera 12
Ticket Price: $20.00
UC ARTISTS in EXHIBITION:
Jennifer Steinkamp at the San Jose Museum of Art
Saturday, July 1, 2006 through Sunday, October 1, 2006 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Jennifer Steinkamp’s colorful digital projections envelop museum visitors in a three-dimensional sensory experience. Steinkamp, a Los Angeles-based installation artist, works with 3-D animation in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and phenomenological perception. This exhibition offers a comprehensive view of this important artist’s work beginning in 1993. Steinkamp has exhibited both nationally and internationally, but never before has a group of her works been shown together. Influenced by the work of Oscar Fischinger, Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman, Hollis Frampton, and others, Steinkamp uses visual illusions to generate a dialogue about the nature of cognitive experience and the psychophysical limitations of human perception. Her manipulation of images exposes the shift between objective and virtual points of view, thereby encouraging viewers to contemplate perceptual and philosophical notions of the real. http://www.sanjosemuseumofart.org/content/exhibitions/upcoming/exhibition_info.phtml?itemID=268
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also at the San Jose Museum of Art . . .
Saturday, June 3, 2006 through Sunday, November 26, 2006 Edge Conditions Part I: June 3, 2006 – November 26, 2006 Part II: July 29, 2006 – November 26, 2006
Edge Conditions features the work of over a dozen artists whose digital art is among the most exciting and challenging contemporary art being created today. An “edge condition” can be considered a situation that occurs only at an extreme operating parameter. Edge conditions are the boundaries between art and technology, between human and machine, between concept and instantiation, between what is known and the experimental. Most importantly, edge conditions define new possibilities or, like edge cities, reveal conditions that have already emerged.
Includes work by C5 (Brett Stalbaum/UC San Diego), The Analogous Landscape (Mt. Shasta, Mt. Fuji), 2005; work by Ken Goldberg/UC Berkeley; and DiNA, by UC Davis emeritus professor Lynn Hershman Leeson.
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NextNew2006: Art and Technology San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Exhibition: August 8 – September 16, 2006 Reception & Performance: August 12, 2006
San Jose, CA –The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is proud to present the second annual NextNew. This year, we have asked five well-established Bay Area new media artists to each choose a “next new” artistic talent on the horizon. NextNew2006: Art and Technology will feature the technology-based work of international artists including Ken Goldberg/UC Berkeley and Ed Osborn/UC Santa Cruz, who all accepted our invitation to provide a visionary look at what the next new trends, movements, and/or ideas will be through the work of five emerging artists. Those “next new” artists are Nate Boyce, Elise Irving, Daniel Massey, Joe McKay, and Stephanie Syjuco. http://01sj.org/content/view/620/168/
http://www.sjica.org/ ---
CADRE ex_XX :: post
CADRE's 20 years of positioning within new media arts culture and 20 years of research in computers in art bring together for the first time twenty-one artists who have come out of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media. Lisa Jevbratt/UC Santa Barbara, is one of CADRE's alumni who will be part of the artworks exhibited, and that showcase a wide range of use of technology in conceptual artworks. http://www.cadrexxx.com
AFFILIATED ISEA EXHIBITIONS:
Catharine Clark Gallery August 3 ˆ September 2, 2006 Ed Osborn/UC Santa Cruz and Nina Katchadourian/UC San Diego alumnus Since 1995 Catharine Clark Gallery has been situated in the Union Square area of downtown San Francisco, California. The gallery program, which began in 1991 as Morphos Gallery, presents the work of local, national and international emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. A wide range of media is included in the gallery stores with an emphasis on content driven work that challenges both the traditional use of materials and formal aesthetics.
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slippage.net July 15 - August 31, 2006
Curator: Nanette Wylde
Slippage is an exhibition of net.art curated by Nanette Wylde. Sites selected for Slippage explore and expose relationships between intention, perception, control, experience, behavior, memory, knowing and the unexpected. Ultimately these works reveal fragilities and instabilities in the phenomena of meaning. Slippage exists in the grey areas of language and social interaction. It is the realm of the in-between-the place of disjunction, expectations, covert meanderings, and the processes and residue of questioning minds.
Artists include Lisa Hutton/UC San Diego alum, with Mez Breeze; Krista Connerly; Juliet Davis; Paula Levine; Jess Loseby, et al.; UBERMORGEN.COM; and Jody Zellen. http://slippage.net/
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“Autoturista” Daniel Massey
NextNew. Receptions: Tuesday August 8 and Saturday August 12, 6pm-12midnight
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 560 S. First Street
The border souvenir is unique in lacking a grounding sense of place. Rather, it evidences varied cultural, socioeconomic, dangerous, and mundane circulations. “Autoturista” is an attempted reconstruction of this impossible grounding sense of place. Made of visual, tangible, and sonic artifacts from the Mexicali/Calexico border crossing, “Autoturista” takes form as an endlessly recursive traversal in which origin and destination fuse.
ARTIST PRESENTATIONS:
Wednesday, August 9, 1:25-1:45pm
Robert Nideffer/UC Irvine
The unexceptional.net
Abstract: A mystical realist journey catalyzed by a series of interconnected events related to sexual infidelity, political conspiracy, and spiritual transformation. The project draws on the traditions of comics, graphic novels and computer games in order to create an environment that crosses boundaries between pop culture, fine art, and social critique. unexceptional.net incorporates an extensive database infrastructure for storing and delivering game-state data via Weblogs, GPS enabled mobile phones, and a 3D game clients.
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Thursday, Aug. 10, 4:25-4:45pm George Legrady/UC Santa Barbara
Making Visible the Invisible: The City as a Data Exchange Center New Venture Hall-Tech Museum
George Legrady will discuss the conceptual and technical realization of a data visualization project Making Visible the Invisible, commissioned by the Seattle Public Lilbrary.
The installation consists of animated visualizations on 6 plasma screens located on a glass wall horizontally behind the librarians' main information desk in the Mixing Chamber, a large open public space dedicated to online computer research. The 6 screens feature visualization generated by custom designed statistical and algorithmic software that map the flow of data received from the library's Information Technology center. The project focuses on data flow and the library as a data exchange center where the circulation of books can be made visible and expressed statistically.
PANEL PARTICIPATION:
Sat. August 12, 10 - 12 pm
Community Domain Session 2, Parkside Hall
Sharon Daniel/UC Santa Cruz
Public Secrets: information and social knowledge
http://01sj.org/content/view/501/144/
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Sat. August 12, 10 - 11 am
Panel: New Venture Hall-Tech Museum
Wetware Hackers Discussed, Natalie Jeremijenko/UC San diego and Beatriz da Costa/UC Irvine , with Paul Vanouse (US), and Oron Catts (AU)
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Sat. August 12, 11 - 12 pm
Panel: Soundculture, Ed Osborn/UC Santa Cruz, with Shawn Decker, and Nigel Helyer (AU)
POSTER SESSIONS:
Unnatural Selection Elliot Anderson/UC Santa Cruz
alternative Energy, wind power, solar power, geothermal power, alternative energy technology, energy, fossil fuel, networks
http://01sj.org/content/view/583/145/
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Processing.org Casey Reas/UC Los Angeles, with Ben Fry, Francis Li Transvergence
http://01sj.org/content/view/581/145/
UC ARTWORKS AND PROJECTS @ South Hall -> Aug. 13:
Palabras, Sharon Daniel/UC Santa Cruz with Michael Dale, Carlos Trilnick, Cecilia Velasquez Traut, El Envion at Villa Tranquilas and Fundacion Crear Vale la Pena in Buenos Aires
An interactive exhibition of videos created in a series of workshops at cultural centers in two impoverished shantytowns in Buenos Aires and in an ISEA “organization-based” workshop in San Jose. http://01sj.org/content/view/358/49/
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Bounce // San Jose Irene Chien, Ken Goldberg, Jane McGonigal, Greg Niemeyer and Jeff Tang, UC Berkeley
Bounce is a non-competitive conversation game in which two people separated by at least 20 years of age connect by phone and answer a series of AI-supported questions about life experiences that they have in common, such as, “What is something you BOTH think has changed for the better in the last 20 years?” http://01sj.org/content/view/356/49/
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Brett Stalbaum/UC San Diego is a member of C5
The C5 Quest for Success is an urban game about testing the analysis, management, and decision skills necessary for success in Silicon Valley. The goal of the game is locate the C5 Corporation Mobile Office through a process of navigating through pre-defined geo-cached sites where location clues are revealed. On each of three evenings the winner has an opportunity to pitch their proposal to an individual who can change their destiny and provide a golden opportunity: an Artist Residency at the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program at the Montalvo Arts Center.
http://01sj.org/content/view/418/49/
http://art.berkeley.edu/bounce/play/
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Feral Robotic Dogs (FRD) Natalie Jeremijenko/UC San Diego
Feral robotics is an open source robotics project designed to enable distributed and co-located teams of lay participants to 'upgrade' low-end commercially available toys with chemical sensing equipment, additional microprocessor hardware to enable environmental data collection and coordinated flock (or pack) behavior. The adapted robots 'sniff out' environmental toxins, that is, they follow concentration gradients of toxins sensed by their dog's noses. Not dissimilar to popular robot wars events, this project instead involves the release of 'packs' of feral robotic dogs that are designed and modified for release on sites of community interest, including public parks, school grounds and industrial sites. This creates mediagenic events, coverage, and discussion on contaminants in the local environments. http://01sj.org/content/view/248/49/
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Global Collaborative Visual Mapping Archive George Legrady, Angus Forbes, Zachary Davis, Nicole Starosielski, all /UC Santa Barbara
Global Collaborative Visual Mapping Archive (GCVMA) consists of a dynamically growing archive of cell phone transmitted images with metadata contributed by participants from anywhere within the reach of cellular transmission and reception in the world. The project’s aim is to heighlight individual to community, or local to global participation through cellphone transmission technology. The community of participants create a visual archive of images without spatial-geographical boundaries, submitting contributions from the private space of their living room, to the public space of Times Square, to any wilderness area that may have cellular transmission. http://01sj.org/content/view/57/49/
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How Stuff Is Made Natalie Jeremijenko, Chris Dierks, Jesse Arnold, Robert Twomey
Encyclopedia entries are wiki-based visual essays that document the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products. Entries are produced by college and high school students under the guidance of university faculty and teachers who ensure high standards of evidence for student work (appropriate citations, accurate quotations, etc). Students solicit the cooperation of local industry, visit their production facilities and document their labor conditions, non-proprietary manufacturing processes and the environmental effects of these practices. http://www.howstuffismade.org/
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Park View Hotel
(the sudden appearance of an embedded system), 2006
Ashok Sukumaran/UC Los Angeles alum
Plaza de Cesar Chavez and the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose Park View Hotel provides focused optical communications between the Park and the Fairmont Hotel, neighbors in downtown San Jose. Using devices mounted in the park, the audience can "light up" interior hotel spaces in their line-of-sight. In response, these interiors leak out their properties : onto the exterior of the building, onto other "properties" public and private, and into the park below.
This work was developed in collaboration with Sun Microsystems Inc., Menlo Park, using SunSPOT (tm) embedded technology, and is a residency project commissioned by ZeroOne San Jose and the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at the Montalvo Arts Center. ---
Particles of Interest: Tales from the Matter Markets Ricardo Dominguez/UC San Diego with Diane Ludin
Particles of Interest: Tales from the Matter Markets will be a 3 stage event project for ISEA 2006: stage one, an on-line Open Particle Patenting System; stage two, a Particle Tale installation to be constructed in San Jose, California; stage three, Trans_patent campaign in collaboration with invited artist, artists groups, scientist, activist and stock traders around the planet. http://01sj.org/content/view/169/49/
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PI Fabian Winkler/UC Los Angeles alum
PI (personal interpreters) is a set of small robotic devices, which deconstruct TV broadcasts' audio signals. The robots interpret the regular audio signal as control code and translate it into abstract rhythmic sounds using the actual TV set as resonant body. In this translation process they create surprising image/sound relationships, challenging the audience to watch well-known TV content in novel ways. "Courtesy Mirko Mayer Gallery, Cologne"
http://01sj.org/content/view/265/49/
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PigeonBlog Beatriz da Costa, Cina Hazegh, Kevin Ponto, all UC Irvine
PigeonBlog provides an alternative way to participate in environmental air pollution data gathering. The project equips urban homing pigeons with GPS enabled electronic air pollution sensing devices capable of sending real-time location based air pollution and image data to an online mapping/blogging environment. PigeonBlog is being developed in conjunction with Preemptive Media's AIR project.
http://01sj.org/content/view/159/49/
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SVEN: Surveillance Video Entertainment Network (aka AI to the People)
Amy Alexander/UC San Diego, with Jesse Gilbert, Wojciech Kosma, Vincent Rabaud, Nikhil Rasiwasia
SVEN is a system consisting of a camera, monitor, two computers, and custom software, that can be set up in public places - especially in situations where a CCTV monitor might be expected.
http://01sj.org/content/view/371/49/
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enCODe: Osman Khan and John Houck
enCODe is a projection of virtual fish on the café’s table tops. Using machine vision algorithms the fish avoid objects on the table (including hands and arms). The fish “swim” between projections via a network of networked computers. Each fish s also able to carry a message which is uploaded by visitors from a website and is released into the virtual pond when fish are trapped. Thus the project becomes both a fun interaction that takes advantage of natural activity over tabletops and a communal bulletin board recording thoughts and reflections occurring during the event.
Link: http://www.osmankhan.com/c4f3/worksamples.html
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Screens Exposing Employed Narratives (SEEN)
Artworks - Community Domain artworks
Osman Khan and Omar Khan
SCREEN looks at the heated issue of globalization by posing a single question “what is the fruit of your labor?” to 3 communities sharing San Jose’s labor needs. These include the tech savvy workers of silicon valley, the undocumented workers (migrant workers from Mexico, Vietnam, etc) engaged in menial tasks in San Jose and the virtual community of outsourced tech workers in India. Their responses are displayed in random sequence back to the general public on a head-height mirror-backed infrared LED screen whose content is visible only through the digital capture devices (cameras, DVcams etc.) used by the audience.
The relationship that binds three disparate communities, Silicon Valley Tech workers, undocumented migrant workers and outsourced Indian tech workers is their labor. Their reliance on the city’s economy to fulfill their work needs is clear but their motivations for this mutual engagement are less obvious. What do people see as the purpose of their work? Is it the acquisition of wealth? Luxury? Class? Self-improvement? Subsistence? Is it a means or an end? Commodified labor through globalization has allowed an unprecedented population to engage in the global market place. The results are both exploitative and liberating. A cost saving strategy for employers and a means for upward mobility for the outsourced worker.
Not judging the nature of the work that people do the project will survey the different communities to get a response to the rhetorical question: “what is the fruit of your labor?”. Will it be possible to tell the difference between the communities through their responses or will they all be similarly idealistic and ambitious. The project will solicit these communities through a variety of information gathering techniques including web, email and community engagement. Their responses will be put into a database and projected onto a specially designed screen.
The project proposes to place mirror backed infrared (IR) screens around the festival venues (for example in Cesar Chavez Plaza). IR is invisible to both the naked eye and normal film based cameras – however electronic CCD apparatus are able to capture this spectrum, thereby allowing the signage to be seen and captured by digital cameras, video cameras, phone cams, and the like. It is only through digital apparatus that these messages can be read. The screen is proportioned and mounted so that it reflects only the viewer’s head. When the viewer shoots a picture to reveal the message his/her head and the camera also appear in it. The resulting picture/video, a personal artwork, shows the participant, the means of production (camera) and the responses in a revealing relationship. What was hidden from your view, the other’s thoughts and motivations, is revealed through the technical device. You become witness in the most personal way to this exchange.
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