ZERO1 (nonprofit)

ZERO1

ZERO1: The Art and Technology Network
Founded 2000
Founder Andy Cunningham
Location
Mission ZERO1 is where art meets technology to shape the future.
Website zero1.org

ZERO1: The Art and Technology Network is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring creativity at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture. The organization convenes artists and technologists, presents their collaborative efforts, sponsors artistic initiatives and exhibits the resulting work to the public. ZERO1 is the producer of 01SJ Biennial, a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art and interactive digital media.

ZERO1:

History

ZERO1: The Art and Technology Network was founded in 2000[1] by Andy Cunningham, then CEO of Cunningham Communication, to encourage creativity at the intersection of art and technology and to organize a major biennial celebrating this creative intersection. Inspiration for the organization came from Cunningham’s work in 1994 and 1995 on the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles.

Since its public launch, ZERO1 has hosted salons, panels, and presentations of artwork, as well as invited artists, musicians, and theorists from the Bay Area, and around the globe to discuss and exhibit their work. The following are highlights from two of the most significant milestones in the organization’s history:

2006 1st 01SJ Biennial/ISEA2006 Symposium

The inaugural Biennial held in conjunction with the International Society for Electronic Arts brought over 20,000 people to San Jose to celebrate seven days of art and interactivity. The festival featured 250 art installations representing 40 countries generating more than $9 million in new economic activity for the city of San Jose; it yielded nearly 100 media stories including a full-page spread in the Sunday New York Times,[2] and established itself as North America’s newest and largest digital arts biennial. The role of ZERO1, as a facilitator for other organizations, was clearly evidenced through the combination of exhibitions and events that featured works cutting across the performing arts, cinema, visual arts, public art, music, literary arts and any number of hybrid projects.

2008 2nd 01SJ Biennial Global Festival of Art on the Edge

From June 4–8 over 25,000 attendees, visiting 100 art installations, 25+ performances, workshops and public talks by over 100 artists from more than a dozen countries at exhibitions held at cultural institutions throughout downtown San Jose attended the biennial; students from seven continents participated in a global youth digital arts initiative/exhibition designed to enable them examine critical community issues, share their views, and take action; the biennial commissioned over 19 new works, of which three were the result of a FUSE: CADRE/Montalvo Artist Research Residency Initiative, and supported an additional 29 projects at levels ranging from $500 to $75,000[3][4][5]

2010 3rd 01SJ Biennial Build Your Own World

Held September 16–19, 2010, ZERO1's third biennial focused on "artists, designers, engineers, architects, marketers, corporations and citizens we have the tools to (re)build the world, conceptually and actually, virtually and physically, poorly and better, aesthetically and pragmatically, in both large and small ways."[6][7]

2012 4th 01SJ Biennial Seeking Silicon Valley

The fourth biennial was a four month exhibition held September 12 - December 8, 2012. Over 150 artists from 13 countries exhibited, and the event included 51 temporary art projects (30 of which were original).[8]

The Bay Lights

ZERO1 is the official fiscal sponsor of The Bay Lights project, considered to be the world's largest LED light sculpture that illuminates the western span of the Bay Bridge in the San Francisco Bay. Ben Davis of World Picture Ideas, who conceptualized the project, discovered the artist, Leo Villareal, at the 2010 01SJ Biennial.[9]

References

  1. ↑ ZERO1 History. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  2. ↑ New York Times, August 6, 2006. At ZeroOne Paintings Are So Last Century. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2008. 01SJ lends high-tech San Jose an artsy air. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2008. A festival grows in San Jose. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ Silicon Valley Watcher, April 15, 2008. Hipsters: Do You Know The Way To San Jose's Zero One Digital Arts Festival? Our Very Own SXSW…. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ 2010 01SJ Biennial. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  7. ↑ Metro News, 2009. Zero Effect. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  8. ↑ ZERO1 2012 Biennial. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  9. ↑ Facts About The Bay Lights. Retrieved May 20, 2013.

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