My MN grandson and my Utah grandson are both flying out to stay here a week, and attend the ZeroOne Festival in San Jose, CA, with us.



The 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge 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 - well over 100 artworks, performances, screenings, talks, and workshops 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.



2006 was their first time doing the festival, and it was confusing to attend. You can look up my past blog about our family's 2006 experience in the top of this page under "arts". It was confusing yet again for me to understand the schedule this year and all that was available. I am determined tho, and came up with our schedule of what we'll be doing out of all that is available. We do have VIP tickets this time. If you just want to attend a few events, or only the free events, check out their web for the schedule. I'll be blogging about our experience.

Tue June 3rd
(hoping to miss crowds as these exhibits are available before the festival actually begins)
Santana Row umbrella
available 11a-7p dinner on Santana Row
Flying monkeys after dinner cuz best seen at dark
Video 1 & 2
(dear to our hearts since Mark and I went to   Burning Man and saw it there.)

Wed June 4th
Opening Night Ceremonies
8:30p-10:00p San Jose Museum of Art (Superlight)
9p Craig Walsh Art Installation City Hall  
9:30p Portal Wormhole Flythrough

Thu June 5th

Doing all this thu night to hopefully see these when there’s less of a crowd. They’re available also during the weekend. If we miss something, we can catch it at another time.

7p Spectropia

8p Flock

9p Late Fragment

6-12p SubZero block party

Sat June 7
2-10p Target Family Day (we go for 1st couple of hours to hopefully miss the crowds, and be home to rest before biggest performance) Too cool. Check out what they'll be doing.

6-8p Adobe Youth Voices Reception

9:30p-11:30p VIP reception Tech Museum rooftop

Sun June 8
2:30p Rite of Spring

2-6p Future Films
Available during the week, we’ll try to catch some on Sunday.

OPENING NIGHT – some of the stuff

Semaphore challenge

Artist Ben Rubin has devised a new message and installed a new encryption scheme for the Semaphore. The Semaphore will begin transmitting this new encrypted message on June 4, 2008, timed to coincide with the opening of the festival. Whoever is able to solve the puzzle and crack the new code will be honored by Adobe and the City of San Jose.

Incursion
1. An aggressive entrance into foreign territory; a raid or invasion.
2. The act of entering another’s territory or domain
3. The act of entering or running into: homes damaged by the incursion of floodwater
Incursion 37:20:15.71″ N - 121: 53:09.51″ W continues a series of large-scale projection installations by Australian artist Craig Walsh, which occupy specific sites and responding to contrasting environmental contexts. These urban interventions provide surreal visions of organic forms dominating architectural sites and altering their perceived function.
On December 4,1965 the first appearance of the Grateful Dead as the Grateful Dead took place in a house where the San Jose city Council Rotunda now exists. Whilst this event is best known for its mass consumption of LSD, the event also embraced many art forms in a collective search for enlightenment. Of specific interest in relation to new media practice is the exploration of interactive technologies, spatial installations and projection. These events also experimented with possibly the earliest examples of ‘VJ’ s in the form of liquid oil projections, physically controlled to respond to the sound of live music and projected at scale over the musicians.
Incursion 37:20:15.71″ N - 121: 53:09.51″ W embraces traces of this history and re-establishes a psychedelic presence within the current architectural site.

Downtown Mirror
will add a special five-day outdoor evening component on June 4-8th in Fountain Alley, between 1st and 2nd Streets. Downtown Mirror [Airplanes] is a stylized 16mm film of the ubiquitous airplanes that also inhabit the downtown area, screened as a large 40 foot long by 18 foot high projection onto the side of the building that borders the Fountain Alley parking lot. Although the projection is largely silent, Beltran will use innovative audio spotlight technology for sound — viewers in a special spot in Fountain Alley will actually be able to hear the roar of the airplanes flying by.
This installation will join four other elements of Beltran’s Downtown Mirror videos projected in large storefront windows to reflect the immediate physical environment and the heterogeneous demographic and historical atmosphere of the downtown area. Other video projections are located in two storefront windows adjacent to Zanotto’s at The Globe, located at 25 S. 3rd Street, at 38 2nd Street, and in a small storefront window on the Paseo De San Antonio, adjacent to Camera 12 Cinemas.

Gallery
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Urban Observatory
is a nomadic context-responsive space that serves as a vehicle through which the surrounding environment, both near and distant, can be experienced. Composed of an adjustable external structure and an internal adaptable fiberglass and polyester resin screen, the observatory affords an interactive, mediated, and artificial experience of its surroundings. It mimics its immediate context in both form and image, which it uses as a departure point to explore its context through location-based images and video. During the 01SJ Festival, the observatory will allow people to explore San Jose and the Bay Area. Digital video projection on the internal screens produces the mediated experience. This virtual movement through the surrounding environment facilitates the creation of a map and digital file containing an itinerary based upon the experience within the structure, and gives locations and opening times of the specific points of interest chosen. In this way, the observatory promotes a real experience, contrasting the artificial experience with the real and emphasizing the degree to which the perception of cities and their identities is heavily media-dependent and often differs with reality.
The observatory functions for those both within it and those around it. From the exterior, the projection illuminates the surfaces and allows the video and images shown on the interior to be seen. The cable-suspended translucent screens onto which the projection occurs, appear to float within the frame. Similar to Magritte’s The Human Condition, the Urban Observatory functions as a kind of window, however an inverted one that juxtaposes the real with the simulacrum.