Curators Statement

13th International Symposium on Electronic Art Exhibition @ South Hall

Themes:

1. Interactive City
2. City Center, Call Center and Checkout
3. Pacific Rim
4. Community Domain
5. Transvergence
6. Edgy Products
7. Container Culture
8. Media Lounge
9. Global Youth Lounge

South Hall is the main exhibition venue for the 13th Annual International Symposium on Electronic Art and ZeroOne San Jose. It is an impressive outdoor tent structure that encompasses 80,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, located behind the Convention Center in downtown San Jose. Here the juried exhibitions for the themes of Pacific Rim, Community Domain, Transvergence, and Edgy Products are installed, as well as the Container Culture exhibition, the Global Youth Lounge, the Media Lounge, and the “City Center,” “Call Center,” and Checkout areas for the Interactive City theme.

The Pacific Rim theme and the related Container Culture exhibition examine the political and economic space of the Pacific Rim and explore the region as a dynamic site for innovation and creativity framed by issues of economic globalization, isolationist nationalism, regional integrations and environmental change. Community Domain artists create platforms for different, self-defining and emergent publics to “tell their stories,” both as individuals and as a member of their community, through digital and locative media. Transvergence presents projects that are transdisciplinary in nature and not only produce new projects and experiences but also inflect how a discipline comes to newly understand itself and modify its practices while retaining its core competencies. The Interactive City projects take place throughout the streets of San Jose, but many of them have a “home base,” in the City Center, Call Center, and Checkout areas. Edgy Products are products that manipulate, hack, subvert, hijack, or reformulate the notion of product.

Except for Container Culture, which was curated by curators in 8 different port cities as part of the Curatorial Working Group of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit, the artworks in South Hall were selected by international juries of more than 200 artists, theorists, and researchers who chose from more than 1800 submissions submitted to ISEA2006.

The exhibition space includes two lounge areas. The Global Youth Lounge is the activity hub for Community Youth & Family Media Programs.The Media Lounge is dedicated to network-based artworks and a live feed from the ISEA2006 Symposium and ISEA re:mote. City Center and the Call Center and are two portals where visitors can access specific elements of artworks happening throughout San Jose. There is also a Checkout and information area for some Interactive City projects.Comerica Bank is the lead sponsor of South Hall. Major support is also provided by Cisco Systems and Barco.

Comerica Bank is the lead sponsor of South Hall. Major support is also provided by Cisco Systems and BarcoAbstract Machine – Douglas Edric StanleyApocrypha – Michelle Glaser, Victor Gentile, Patrizia Washer, Paul Watt, and Stewart Washer

• Amy And Klara – Marc Bohlen
• Blue States – Mark Pesce, John Tonkin
• BodyDaemon – Carlos Castellanos
• BIOTEKNICA LABORATORY REMIX – Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey
• C5 Quest for Success – C5
• Cellular Noise Maker – Ben Hooker / Shona Kitchen
• Cellphonia: San Jose – Stephen Bull, Scot Gresham-Lancaster and Tim Perkis
• Cloud Shape Classifier – Douglas Bagnall
• Corporate Sabotage – Kok-Chian Leong
• DEFENDEX – ESPGX – Mark David Hosale and John Thompson
• Desire Management – Noam Toran
• Drift Relay – D. Jean Hester, Brian House, Kanarinka, Sarah Pace, Savic Rasovic, Christina Ray, Morgan Schwartz, Lee Walton
• Ethermapping – Zita Joyce
• Filmmaking Robot – Douglas Bagnall
• Free Network, Visible Network – Diego Diaz and Clara Boj Tovar
• Glance – Guillermo Galindo, Gustavo Vazquez
• Global Collaborative Visual Mapping Arhcive – George Legrady
• Ho Fatso – Rania Ho
• Homes – Taraneh Hemami, Mohsen Emami-Nouri
• How Stuff is Made – Natalie Jeremijenko, Chris Dierks, Jesse Arnold, Robert Twomey
• 1-5 Passing Lane – CPR (Christiane Robbins)
• Interrogating the Invisible – Ian Clothier
• Loca – Drew Hemment, Mika Raento, John Evans, Theo Humphries
• – RASTER Pte Ltd (Vladimir Todorovic, Goran Andrejin) and IERC
• MILK Project – Esther Polak and Ieva Auzina
• Mr. Jones Watches – Crispin Jones
• Murmur – Shawn Micallef, Gabe Sawhney, Ana Serrano
• Nocturne – Colin Ives
• Obsession – Pia Tikka, Rasmus Vuori, and Joonas Juutilainen
• Other[wize] – Jenny Fraser
• Palabras – Sharon Daniel
• Paper Cup Telephone Network – Matthew Biederman, Adam Hyde, Lotte Meijer
• PI – Fabian Winkler
• Pigeon Blog – Beatriz da Costa with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto
• Pimp My Heart – Takehito Etani and David Tinapple
• PlaceSite – Damon McCormick, Sean Savage, Parker Thompson, Andrew Hoag
• Particles of Interest – Diane Ludin and Ricardo Dominguez
• Playas Homeland Mirage – Jack Stenner, Yauger Williams and Andruid Kerne
• San Jose Instant Film Festival – Andrea Moed
• San Jose Voices – Daniel Jolliffe
• Situated Digital Archeology – James Morgan, Mike Weisert, Ethan Miller, Aaron Siegel, Johnathan Brilliant
• Sonic Fabric – Alyce Santoro
• Soundbike – Jessica Thompson
• Tactical Sound Garden – Mark Shepard
• The New West – Ludica
• TRANSCODED NATURETripwire – Tad Hirsch
• Uncle Tasman – Natalie Robertson
• Untitled Media – Ian Gwilt
• URBANtells – James Rouvelle, Joe Reinsel, Steve Bradley
• Vortex – Kok-Chian Leong
• ZeroOne to the Globe – The World to San Jose – Jon Winet, Dale MacDonald, Scott Minneman, Craig Dietrich
• Abstract Machine – Douglas Edric Stanley
• Apocrypha – Michelle Glaser, Victor Gentile, Patrizia Washer, Paul Watt, and Stewart Washer
• Amy And Klara – Marc Bohlen
• Blue States – Mark Pesce, John Tonkin
• BodyDaemon – Carlos Castellanos
• BIOTEKNICA LABORATORY REMIX – Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey
• C5 Quest for Success – C5
• Cellular Noise Maker – Ben Hooker / Shona Kitchen
• Cellphonia: San Jose – Stephen Bull, Scot Gresham-Lancaster and Tim Perkis
• Cloud Shape Classifier – Douglas Bagnall
• Corporate Sabotage – Kok-Chian Leong
• DEFENDEX – ESPGX – Mark David Hosale and John Thompson
• Desire Management – Noam Toran
• Drift Relay – D. Jean Hester, Brian House, Kanarinka, Sarah Pace, Savic Rasovic, Christina Ray, Morgan Schwartz, Lee Walton
• Ethermapping – Zita Joyce
• Filmmaking Robot – Douglas Bagnall
• Free Network, Visible Network – Diego Diaz and Clara Boj Tovar
• Glance – Guillermo Galindo, Gustavo Vazquez
• Global Collaborative Visual Mapping Arhcive – George Legrady
• Ho Fatso – Rania Ho
• Homes – Taraneh Hemami, Mohsen Emami-Nouri
• How Stuff is Made – Natalie Jeremijenko, Chris Dierks, Jesse Arnold, Robert Twomey
• 1-5 Passing Lane – CPR (Christiane Robbins)
• Interrogating the Invisible – Ian Clothier
• Loca – Drew Hemment, Mika Raento, John Evans, Theo Humphries
• MILK Project – Esther Polak and Ieva Auzina
• Mr. Jones Watches – Crispin Jones
• Murmur – Shawn Micallef, Gabe Sawhney, Ana Serrano
• Nocturne – Colin Ives
• Obsession – Pia Tikka, Rasmus Vuori, and Joonas Juutilainen
• Other[wize] – Jenny Fraser
• Palabras – Sharon Daniel
• Paper Cup Telephone Network – Matthew Biederman, Adam Hyde, Lotte Meijer
• PI – Fabian Winkler
• Pigeon Blog – Beatriz da Costa with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto
• Pimp My Heart – Takehito Etani and David Tinapple
• PlaceSite – Damon McCormick, Sean Savage Particles of Interest – Diane Ludin and Ricardo Dominguez
• Playas Homeland Mirage – Jack Stenner, Yauger Williams and Andruid Kerne
• San Jose Instant Film Festival – Andrea Moed
• San Jose Voices – Daniel Jolliffe
• Situated Digital Archeology – James Morgan, Mike Weisert, Ethan Miller, Aaron Siegel, Johnathan Brilliant
• Sonic Fabric – Alyce Santoro
• Soundbike – Jessica Thompson
• Tactical Sound Garden – Mark Shepard
• The New West – Ludica
• TRANSCODED NATURE- RASTER Pte Ltd (Vladimir Todorovic, Goran Andrejin) and IERC
• Tripwire – Tad Hirsch
• Uncle Tasman – Natalie Robertson
• Untitled Media – Ian Gwilt
• URBANtells – James Rouvelle, Joe Reinsel, Steve Bradley
• Vortex – Kok-Chian Leong
• ZeroOne to the Globe – The World to San Jose – Jon Winet, Dale MacDonald, Scott Minneman, Craig Dietrich