Visionary $250,000 and above

Benefactor $100,000 and above

Inspirational $25,000 and above

Dream Builder $10,000 and above

Arts Advocate $5,000 and above

Sustaining $2,500 and above

Creative $2,499 or less

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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Life? (Life to the power of n)—or, life to the power of infinity is a series of exhibitions highlighting the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson that will take place throughout the Bay Area in 2008. Internationally recognized as one of the most influential among San Francisco–based media artists, Hershman Leeson has shaped the history of contemporary art in the Bay Area since the early 1970s.

This collaborative survey of the artist’s past and current projects is a joint effort among local institutions and art collections; it will feature six presentations over the course of the year (see calendar below), individually organized by each participating venue but jointly promoted under the title of Life? (Life to the power of n).

Life? (Life to the power of n) was initiated by SFMOMA and coordinated by Rudolf Frieling, the museum’s curator of media arts. The project is jointly organized by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the de Young Museum, The Hess Collection, New Langton Arts, SFMOMA, and 01SJ A Global Festival of Art on the Edge at the San Jose Museum of Art.

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.

The 2008 01SJ Festival will host Flock - a full evening performance work for saxophone quartet, conceived to directly engage audiences in the composition of music by physically bringing them out of their seats and enfolding them into the creative process. This high tech musical experiment has been garnering media coverage, most recently in an Associate Press news story. Read the AP story. Find out more about Flock.

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.