Experience Art on the Edge at the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival, June 4-8

01SJ will feature transformative and provocative new works from world-renowned artists and performers at the cross-section of contemporary art, technology, and culture. The five-day Festival will incorporate exhibitions, films, concerts, performances, happenings, and nightlife occurring throughout downtown San Jose’s parks, public streets, museums, theaters, and clubs.

01SJ is North America’s newest and largest festival of digital arts, and a great deal more. From a hip-hop, multi-media meditation on Antarctica to robot art, from conversations with artificial intelligence to operatic performances of Google headlines about the environment, from avant-garde cinema to new musical forms – more than 100 projects will be featured at 01SJ. Festival organizers expect it to be a perspective-altering experience that entertains, enlightens, educates, and involves attendees in a new understanding of our changing world.

Artists whose works will be showcased include: Cory Arcangel, Jim Campbell, Bruce Charlesworth, Daryl Cloran, Paul DeMarinis, DJ Spooky AKA Paul D. Miller, Anita Doron, Toni Dove, R. Luke DuBois, Kota Ezawa, Daniel Faust, Free Soil (Amy Franceschini, Corrine Matesich, Nis Romer, Stijn Schiffeleers, Adam Wight), Jason Freeman, Genevieve Grieves, Mateo Guez, David Haines, Joyce Hinterding, Shih Chieh Huang, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jane Marsching, Jennifer + Kevin McCoy, Mongrel (Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, Matsuko Yokokoji), Adam Nash, Ed Osborn, Qiu Zhijie, Red 76 (Sam Gould), Favianna Rodriguez, Rova, Eddo Stern, Lían Amaris Sifuentes, Piotr Szyhalski, Terreform (Mitchell Joachim), Rubén Ortiz Torres, Craig Walsh, Marina Zurkow.

The Festival is produced by ZER01 and is affiliated with the City of San Jose, Montalvo Arts Center - Artist Residency, San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose State University - CADRE Laboratory for New Media, the Tech Museum of Innovation, and Camera 12. Many of the works featured at the festival will be exhibited at museums and art galleries throughout the city’s downtown area during the summer months of 2008.

Major Festival Attractions
A small sampling of the attractions, exhibitions and performances scheduled include:

DJ Spooky, Terra Nova: The Antarctic Suite
Paul D. Miller, AKA DJ Spooky, the New York-based hip-hop recording and multi-media artist, will present his next major work. The Antarctic Suite will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. It transforms Miller’s encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass.

On-the-Edge Block Party
On Friday, June 6, from 6 p.m. until midnight, the various arts museums and galleries who are partnering with ZER01 will collaborate to create a block party happening of contemporary music, street performances, gustatory eats, and interactive, on-the-edge art installations with more than 100 artists participating throughout the evening.

Future Films
The future of film is eclectic. Future Films will present a broad range of innovative works in the realm of the moving image, from the second installment of Toni Dove’s heralded interactive sci-fi trilogy, Spectropia, to Late Fragment, a multi-narrative film from the Canadian Film Center, which recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

Third Rotunda Lighting Project
World-renowned Australian artist Craig Walsh ha been commissioned to create the third City Hall Rotunda lighting for ZER01. Walsh is primarily interested in hybrid, site-specific projects and the exploration of alternative contexts for contemporary art. At the first Biennial 01SJ festival, Akira Hasegawa presented the first Rotunda lighting, Digital Kakejiku. Camille Utterback’s interactive Abundance project was presented in September 2007.

Homouroboros
Unveiled at Burning Man last year, this spinning zoetrope portrays a half-ape, half-man creature swinging from branch to branch of a stylized tree, while being force-fed an apple from a serpentine arm and hand. The steel and aluminum sculpture is 24’ tall with the circle the ape creatures make at 28’ in diameter. It’s guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser.

Tickets
Tickets to the festival are available at [link] Museum passes, which provide access to the major exhibitions, are $15; Day passes are $75 and Festival passes are $125. Early bird specials – 20% discount or 2fer ticket offers are available now through April 21.

ABOUT ZER01
ZER01 is an independent nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to conduct a biennial festival in Silicon Valley that offers attendees compelling experiences made possible at the intersection of art and digital culture. ZER01 is the producing organization for 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge.