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“IN 2006, NORTHERN LIGHTS.MN founder, president, and artistic director, Steve Dietz, helped organize the first Zer01 SJ biennial, a seven day festival of art highlighting the theme of “the interactive city,” which took place in San Jose, California. The event was a huge success, featuring the work of more than 250 artists representing over 40 different countries and drawing in excess of $9 million dollars in revenue for the city. The problem? The activities ended at 2 a.m. every night, and like a whiskey-jonesing bar-goer just diving into his second wind, Dietz wanted still more.
“Four years of idea-percolating and 18 months of practical planning later, Dietz has turned his a.m. arts bender dream into reality. On June 4 and 5, Northern Lights.mn, a “roving, collaborative, interactive media” nonprofit art agency, will host Northern Spark: A Nuit Blanche, the Twin Cities’ first ever all-night outdoor art festival.“
Read the rest of Regan Smith’s preview of Northern Lights’ all-night arts festival, Northern Spark: Nuit Blanche, featuring dusk-to-dawn interactive art happenings throughout the Twin Cities, with work by more than 100 artists and organizations, on June 4 & 5.
via mnartists.org
Become the protagonist in an urban cell phone led adventure through the streets of Minneapolis. Blast Theory’s A Machine to See With will play out on the streets of Minneapolis April 15-19, 2011.
I hesitate to reveal too many specific details about the work because I want to avoid spoilers. This is an artwork that you must experience yourself.
Blast Theory, A Machine to See With
Midnight concerts
Olivia Block, midnight concert, Trinity Cathedral, 2010 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA. Photo: Everett Taasevigen, from unpublished proofs of 01SJ image catalog designed by Matthew Rezac.
Midnight concerts
Olivia Block, Steve Roden, Stephen Vitiello, Molly Berg, midnight concert, Trinity Cathedral, 2010 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA. Photos: Everett Taasevigen, from unpublished proofs of 01SJ image catalog designed by Matthew Rezac.
One of my favorite moments – there were many – during the 2010 01SJ Biennial was visiting Trinity Cathedral at the end of each day, at midnight, to hear a series of concerts curated by Stephen Vitiello by himself, Molly Berg, Olivia Block, and Steve Roden. Fortunately, Stephen recorded the sessions, and they are now available on “Moss” via 12K.
As the liner notes tell it:
The world's first skyscraper was proposed by British architect Charles Burton in 1851. via Gizmag
“Design fiction . . . creates material artifacts that force conversations and suspend one’s disbelief in what is possible. It’s a way of imagining a different kind of world by outlining the contours, rendering the artifacts as story props, then using them to imagine.”–Julian Bleecker
For its first year, Public Address, our blog about experimenting with art in the public sphere, was a collaboration with Forecast Public Art, publisher of Public Art Review since 1989 and one of the premiere public art organizations in the country. Recently Forecast’s pioneering efforts were rewarded with grants from both the NEA and the Warhol Foundation to fund an online version of PAR, and that is where they will be focusing their energies online for the foreseeable future. It has been and honor and a pleasure working with Jack Becker, Melinda Hobbs Childs, Kaitlin Frick, and Nichole Goodwell, and we wish them all the best with their ongoing efforts and look forward to working with them again on Northern Spark and other efforts.
On a personal note, I recently completed a 6-year stint with another pioneering organizations ZER01, as the founding Artistic Director of the 01SJ Biennial in 2006 and again in 2008 and 2010. It has been an incredible run, and I will miss my colleagues and friends on the West Coast dearly, but I also look forward to directing my efforts full time as Founder, President and Artistic Director of Northern Lights.mn.
And I am especially pleased Jaime Austin, who was the Assistant Curator for the 2010 01SJ Biennial and is now Curator and Director of Programs for ZER01, has agreed to become the West Coast Editor for Public Address. She will be writing about and finding writers about art in public on the West Coast of the United States. Look for her byline soon.
Thank you Forecast! Welcome Jaime!
steve “mediachef”
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
Both versions of the Egg bike, cross-country (right) and San Jose Green Prix (left)
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
Sperm racers prepare to depart for the 01SJ Biennial Green Prix
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
Sperm riders circle Egg during Green Prix parade
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
Sperm escorting Egg
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
More Sperm circling
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
Author as Sperm
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
An earlier version of the Sperm helmt at Art-a-Whirl
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
Janaki Ranpura transcribing stories for an earlier version of Egg and Sperm ride at Art-a-Whirl
Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride
Janaki Ranpura, artist talk, Out of the Garage Into the World, 01SJ Biennial
by Stephen R. Miller
The Egg and the Sperm are a matter of prosaic beginnings. They meet in passion, lust, happiness, joy; in individuals coupled to each other. They can meet through violence; they can be frozen and shipped like cargo. Are they commodities sans soul? The conversation rapidly evokes larger questions. “Manhood’s repose of If,” as Herman Melville says in Moby Dick, is shaken by the subject. Adding to this existential ambivalence, the egg and sperm reference not only life but after life; Marilynne Robinson writes in Gilead: “We participate in Being without Remainder.” T.S. Eliot reminds us that the egg and sperm’s passage, the passage of a journey, is also the passage of time: “To arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” (Little Gidding)
"A Woman and Her Islands - Nova Jiang’s “Archipelagos” Project at the 01SJ Biennial" by Patrick Lydon via Artshift
“But the islands aren’t just a personal refuge for Jiang; they represent feelings that each of us have from time to time, and by the artist’s design, they call for us to address these issues with interaction. Each asymmetrically shaped mobile island is fitted with it’s very own sand dune, out of which stick pens, and corked glass bottles with empty papers inside.”
"Hello world, goodbye San Jose," from Christopher Baker, offscript, 300 Santana Row, San Jose, CA Today's question - What is your dream for the future? Commissioned by ZER01 for the 01SJ Biennial
I’m heading home after an amazing 01SJ Biennial. What should I see on the way?
San Jose, California, is the 10th largest city in the United States. Surprisingly, it is not necessarily on everyone’s top 10 list of places to visit. If, however, you have even a passing interest in contemporary art, in particular the ways it intersects with contemporary (digital) culture and technology, San Jose is the place to be for the next two weeks.
Admittedly, as the current Artistic Director of the 01SJ Biennial I may not be an entirely unbiased voice in this matter, but let me share 10 reasons you should come to San Jose for 01SJ, September 16-19, and see at least some of 100 art installations, 46 commissioned works, 9 exhibitions, 20 workshops, 12 public artworks, 4 urban games, 1 drive-in movie theater, a nighttime street fair, a green prix of eco-locomotion, an epicurean multi-media dinner, a requiem mass for fossil fuels, audio ballerinas and robotic sitars, musical performances, operas, and more.
What
LevelFive is a live role-playing event organized by the artist Brody Condon, which is focused on critically exploring self-actualization seminars from the 1970s. The 3 day physically and psychologically participatory performance will loosely follow the structure of early Large Group Awareness Training sessions like Erhard Seminars Training, but it is not a re-enactment.
Michael Silverberg, "Creating Digital Worlds of the Future, Fast Company, September 2010
via Fast Company
I’ll be writing a full preview of the upcoming 01SJ Biennial this week, but this “urban nest” (via Alias Arts) reminds me of the central role that Madrid-based architect Angel Borrego Cubero’s scaffolding design for Out of the Garage, Into the World sets the stage for a different way of thinking about the “exhibition.” More.
Luzinterruptus - "little birds inhabiting scaffolding'
Some images of Angel’s design from the 01SJ publication (designed by Matthew Rezac).
Join Futurefarmers on Saturday for part of their residency “A People without a Voice Cannot Be Hear.”
Just some of the dozens of artists you would be meeting and interviewing: Blast Theory, Brody Condon, Teddy Cruz, Amy Franceschini, Monica Haller, Natalie Jeremijenko, Zoe Keating, Chico MacMurtrie, Miguel Palma, Rigo 23, Stephen Vitiello.
For the 2010 01SJ Biennial ZER01 is collaborating with SF Shorts: San Francisco International Festival of Short Films to issue an open call for 5-minute shorts interpreting the theme Build Your Own World that were shot using a cell phone, flip video camcorder, or other mobile media device. You can interpret this theme literally or figuratively, seriously or humorously to envision how mobile technology can contribute to positive social change. Selected films will be featured at both SF Shorts and the 2010 01SJ Biennial and cash prize is available for top selection.
Proposals for the workshops and micro-grants are starting to roll in. The workshop call ends on February 15th, and the micro-grants on March 8th, so you still have time to send in proposals. New calls will be posted soon. See here for more information on the current 01SJ Biennial open calls.
Last Sunday, ON SAN FERNANDO, Arcangel Constantini "activated" Brendan Rawson of 1stACT, DJ Tommy Aguilar, and artist Pilar Aguero-Esparza with his electro-shock art, which ZER01 presented at the Mariachi Festival. Propose your own activation project on San Fernando.
Adriene Jenik, SPECFLIC 2.0, part of the 1st 01SJ Biennial, 2006, San Jose Public Library, San Fernando and 4th St.
San Jose Public Art and ZER01 invite artists to submit qualifications and letters of interest to install temporary artworks on the San Fernando Street corridor in Downtown San Jose. These artworks will be installed in June 2010, be a feature of the 3rd 01SJ Biennial (September 15-19, 2010) and will be continue their display through October 2010.
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