8/7/2009 to 9/11/2009
When:	8/7/2009
Where:	The Works Gallery 451 S. First Street San Jose, California  95113

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WORKS/ San Jose
451 South First Street,
San José, CA 95113
www.workssanjose.orgWork and articles also exhibited virtually SWITCH Journal for Art and Technology, http://switch.sjsu.edu/v26

 

OPENING:

August 7, 2009, during South First Friday Art Walk, 7pm-11pm
Meet Artist Phil Boissonnet

CLOSING:

 

September 11, 2009, 7pm
Meet Artist Xavier Cortada

Workshops and Panels TBA

 

Further questions please contact:

 

Danielle Siembieda
dsiembieda@wildmail.com

 

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Global climate change has far reaching ramifications, the world as we know it will not be the world of 100 or perhaps even 10 years. Armed with a “new” awareness of how our actions impact the environment, how will this effect our ideas of ourselves? Polar Identity challenges us to take on a new perspective, one that can be both pragmatic and optimistic what is the fallout from new trade routes and passage through a once ice-blocked mass. How will these changes affect cartography, international relations, Easternization, religion, communications, etc. The new perspective upends the world, but what does it mean for the Southern hemisphere?

 

 

EXHIBITION SPONSORS

The exhibition will be online on the SWITCH Online Journal as well as The Works Gallery in San Jose, California . This will connected with the CADRE New Media Lab from San Jose State University and the San Jose Zero One Festival on the Edge.

 

SWITCH

SWITCH is the new media art journal of the Computers in Art, Design, Research, and Education (CADRE) Laboratory for New Media of the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University. Published since 1995, SWITCH is one of the earliest online journals focusing on art and technology. The mission of SWITCH aims to critically evaluate developments in art and technology with community, research and openness.

SWITCH is interested in fostering a critical viewpoint on issues and developments in the complex, and sometimes opaque crossovers between art and technology through practice, research, outreach, and participation.

CADRE

The CADRE Laboratory for New Media is an interdisciplinary academic and research program dedicated to the experimental use of information technology and art. A theoretical and critical orientation provides a conceptual context in which artistic activities are defined. Faculty and students have participated in the evolution of media technology for over 20 years.

01SJ

An independent nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to conduct a biennial festival that will offer attendees compelling experiences made possible at the intersection of art and digital culture. ZER01 is the producing organization for 01SJ: A global festival of art on the edge.