We are excited that Craig Walsh will be doing the City Hall Rotunda projection during 01SJ in June for his first public art commission in the United States. He recently won the People's Choice Award for Nuit Blanche in Toronto. Below is a brief clip.

Camille Utterback

Large scale projection

Commissioned by ZERO1 with support from the City of San Jose and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency

San Jose City Hall Rotunda and Plaza

September 28 - October 6, 2007

Orchard Art Space

May 2, 2008

Abundance is a temporary public artwork created specifically for the San Jose City Hall Rotunda and Plaza. The artwork is a dynamic, abstract animation approximately 80' wide x 60' tall, projected on the west side of the City Hall Rotunda. Abundance changes and evolves based on pedestrian movement in the Plaza.

Unlike Utterback's previous room-scale installations, which focused on individual's gestures and trajectories, Abundance responds to larger pedestrian patterns such as groups of people coming together and dispersing. The work also reacts to the building's architecture. Projected graphic elements bounce or change when they hit physical elements in the building's facade.

Ars Virtua & The CADRE Laboratory for New Media will host a workshop on open source alternatives to the Second Life(TM) grid, in conjunction with the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge.

This two hour workshop provides an overview of open-source, third-party virtual-world server technology based on Second Life(TM), and the opportunities afforded to artists and experimenters who are now able to cheaply host tailored synthetic spaces.

The first hour will be devoted to a brief overview of Second Life and the "OpenMetaverse" initiatives (libsl, opensim, etc.) Bennett Goble of Ars Virtua will discuss features and show demos of the most popular alternatives (OpenSim, OpenLife & realXtend), their qualities, strengths etc.

We will consider the issues surrounding installation, maintenance and function of the OpenSim server and will be connecting participants through third-party clients and through modifications of the Linden Lab Second Life client.

In 2007, Genevieve Grieves was awarded the Xstra Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award for her work Picturing the Old People, which will be presented as part of the 01SJ Biennial: Superlight at the San Jose Museum of Art.

The selection committee described Picturing the Old People as "an exquisite and thoughtful exploration by a contemporary Koori of the ways Aboriginal people were portrayed in the past". The committee said about this work by Grieves: "This year's winner has raised the bar for Aboriginal artists working in new media."

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A number of artists, who will produce new work for the 01SJ Biennial: Superlight, exhibited work in the exhibition Networked Nature in New York last winter.

"New York artist Shih-Chieh Huang’s inflatable installation, Din-Don I, is inspired by everyday household electronic devices and his studies of physical computing and robotics. In this ingenious exploration of organic systems, he creates a dynamic circulation of electricity and air: a living micro-environment."

Networked Nature via Chelsea Art Galleries