POLAR IDENTITY
AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
Can’t make it to downtown San Jose? Join us virtually at SWITCH.SJSU.EDU. We will have LIVE Streaming of the opening! Watch First Friday Live starting around 8 on Friday August 7 at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/works-live.
For live First Fridays go to : http://www.southfirstfridays.com/live-stream featured live streams will be from Anno Domini, KALEID Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and WORKS/ San Jose. There will also be a lightly moderated chat available to talk to other art patrons and perhaps even some on site.
Global climate change has far reaching ramifications, and as a result the world as we know it will not be the world of 100 or perhaps even 10 years. Armed with an awareness of how our actions impact the environment, how will this affect our ideas about who we are? This was the question posed by CADRE New Media Lab at San Jose State University in an open call to artists earlier this summer.
From entries all over the world, six finalists were chosen. Leading artist Andrea Polli, seen at 01SJ 2008, will be exhibiting her work Sonic Antarctica We are also excited to feature the work Markers and 100,000-year journey by Xavier Cortada. Other works exploring the poles include Jerome Gueneau and Catherine Rannou, Phil Boissonnet, Andrea Juan, and Erika Blumenfeld. The jurors for the exhibit include surveillance artist Hasan Elahi, new media artist Robin Lasser and writer/curator Annick Bureaud.
SPONSORS: Zero1.org, SWITCH.sjsu.edu, CADRE New Media Lab, WORKS San Jose.
Exhibition details:
OPENING:
August 7, 2009, during South First Friday Art Walk
7pm-11pm.
Location: WORKS/SJ 451 S. First St. , San Jose, CA 95113
www.workssanjose.org
live http://www.southfirstfridays.com/live-stream
ARTIST CHAT: with French artist Phil Boissonnet and see his work CP Toms.
AUGUST 9TH: POLAR IDENTITY Family day. Bring your family in for an art workshop on Polar Identity. See SWITCH.SJSU.EDU or workssanjose.org
ONGOING: All art POLAR IDENITITY will also be exhibited virtually at SWITCH.SJSU.EDU
SEPTEMBER: Panel on Polar Identity and Global Warming. If you are interested in being on the panel please contact us at switch.sjsu.edu
CLOSING:
September 11, 2009, 7pm
WORKS/San Jose
451 S. 1st St., San Jose, CA 95113
Further questions please contact:
Danielle Siembieda
dsiembieda@wildmail.com