PROGRAMS


September 12-December 8, 2012
ZERO1 Garage
Dead Drops (2010 - present) is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls,...

September 12-December 8, 2012
Silicon Valley
ArtHERE (2012) is a new initiative and online platform for crowd-sourced urban revitalization through the matching of art and place. Seeking a test...




October 7, 2012
Presented by Headlands Center for the Arts
Workers Leaving the GooglePlex investigates a top secret, marginalized class of workers at Google's international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. Andrew Norman Wilson's film documents...


September 12, 2012 - February 2013
300 S. 1st Street
The project is an interactive pavilion that will engage the public through sight and sound. The person experiencing the project will move through a “net” of sensors...
September 15, 2012
Children's Discovery Museum
Collaborating with maker Rick Schertle, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose is seeking young makers and their families to join us in lighting up the night sky by building mechanical lanterns...
September 8 - October 28, 2012
Catharine Clark Gallery
September 8 - November 12, 2012
Eli Ridgway Art Gallery
System Operations is a program of new works in video curated by Kenneth White for the Eli Ridgway Gallery in cooperation with the Zero1 Biennial. The program will run continuously during regular...





September 15
ZERO1 Garage
September 27- 30, 2012
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Phyllis Wattis Theater
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir is a film that unfolds uniquely with each screening. The overarching narrative remains constant: we...




September 7 - October 13, 2012
Works/San Jose
The golden era of the arcades is long gone and the revival of the 90s a distant memory. It’s now up to the people to reclaim the space. The arcade was more than a...

October 3, 2012
Kadist Art Foundation
Initiated in 2005, Kennedy Browne is the collaborative practice of Gareth Kennedy (b.1979) and Sarah Browne (b. 1981). Recent solo exhibitions include How...

Through Dec 8, 2012
ZERO1 Urban Screen
News from Nowhere (2011) begins with contemplating the social function and role of art. Initially proposed by two artists, Kyungwon Moon & Joonho...
November 2
Southern Exposure
In conjunction with the ZERO1 Biennial’s performance series 9 Evenings, Lucky Dragons will perform their live score and multi-channel video work, written for four Bay Area flute players and a...

August 17, 2012 - October 20, 2012
MACLA
Marcos Ramírez ERRE will create a series of wood structures that will represent the demographic distribution of ethnic groups in Silicon Valley and the surrounding...




September 13, 2012
300 S. 1st street
When: Thursday, September 13th at 7pm
September 18, 2012
swissnex San Francisco
Presented by swissnex San Francisco
Artists, researchers, and engineers are all driven by an innate curiosity to explore, experiment, and play. By sharing...

October 11, 2012
Presented by Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts
Local Report 2012 is an international media and telecommunications work in which Robert Whitman will use live reports from approximately ninety participants in cities...
June 16, 2012 - Sept 16, 2012
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
From a low-rider rickshaw to work made by “Dreamers,” undocumented youth who are fighting to gain legal status, Chico and Chang examines the...


September 12-December 8, 2012
Gore Park, San Jose
According to the city’s official website, San Jose boasts an average of more than 300 sunny days per year. So why don’t we see more solar panels designed into our...
November 17 - December 19, 2012
SOMArts Cultural Center
The Come Out & Play SF Festival, a forum for new types of public games and play, expands in 2012 to include a ...

September 19 - October 19, 2012
SPUR Urban Center Gallery
The initial thought that often comes to mind upon hearing the word “Silicon Valley” is that of tech booms and electronic empires. However, Silicon Valley offers...
August 8, 2012
Computer History Museum
August 8, 2012
Presented by the Computer History Museum
Doodles are the fun, surprising and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries and the lives...

Through Dec 8, 2012
ZERO1 Urban Screen
The Sigh of Fukushima, 2012, Three-channel video with sound, 9 min 30 sec.
The Sigh of Fukushima documents the artist and a Japanese...

December 8, 2012
2:00pm-3:00pm
ZERO1 Garage
The Future of Silicon Valley - A panel discussion featuring Jake Dunagan from Institute for the Future, ZERO1's Executive Director ...

September 12, 2012
The Tech Museum


October 19-28, 2012
A World Premiere Collaboration between Jim Campbell and Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Acclaimed San Francisco electronic artist Jim...





September 13-15, 2012
300 S. 1st Street Parking Lot
Streetscapes are the largest component of the public realm of many cities, but the majority of that space is dedicated to moving and storing vehicles. At the same time...




September 13 - October 22, 2012
2nd Ural Industrial Biennial
And TechShop San Jose
Valley to Valley, is a collaboration of artists, art historians, and social scientists exploring the similarities and differences between the sister cities San José,...
September 17, 2012
ATC: UC Berkeley's Center for New Media
Lecture: Ryan and Trevor Oakes
Monday, September 17, 2012 7:30 PM
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Co-presented by the Art, Technology and...
September 15, 2012
Bay Area Glass Institute
Silicon Valley is known as a place for new and emergent technology. One thing that drives this development is the community’s overarching culture of exchange that...





September 14-16, 2012
SoFA District
The Seeking Shelter Design Challenge invites youth to creatively re-imagine the bus shelter. How can bus shelters encourage community interaction and serve...







July 29 - October 14, 2012
Montalvo Arts Center
The Silicon Valley—and, more broadly, the California Bay Area—has a rich and underexplored history of technological innovation, one that has driven transformations...

September 12-December 8, 2012
Silicon Valley
ZERO1 is commissioning Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA to design a printed Biennial map that will layer future scenarios of Silicon Valley onto a...





September 13-16, 2012
SoFA District
Public social space is all around us and permanently changing. iLounge offers a temporary social stage to create a temporary community for a minute, a hour or...



September 12-October 12, 2012
eBay Inc Headquarters
Before Us is the Salesman’s House (2012) is a large-scale projection on the entry façade of eBay Inc.’s north campus. The generative, live software system is, in the artist’s own...

October 2012 - April 2013
Palo Alto Art Center
Palo Alto-based interdisciplinary artist Mel Day and Jeanne C. Finley will present a two-channel media-and surround-sound installation that...

September 13, 2012
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
How does twenty-first-century technology dissolve and expand such a quintessentially nineteenth-century institution as the educational museum? How can the...
November 9, 2012 - January 15, 2013
Performance Art Institute
Creativity, innovation, and evolution are the hallmarks of the Silicon Valley, a world leader in technological breakthroughs that often bring progress and societal...


November 3, 2012–February 3, 2013
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
One of the most important international media artists to emerge in the 1990s, Mexican-born artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer explores the intersection of architecture,...





August 18, 2012 - January 13, 2013
San Jose Museum of Art
Ranu Mukherjee's Beta Space exhibition 'Telling Fortunes' includes an audio installation by sound designer Mike Maurillo set in a simulated park space in the enclosed...




September 12-October 6, 2012
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
Brothers and collaborators, Ryan and Trevor Oakes create detailed drawings which mimic both the details and the shape of human vision. Using a system of their own invention, the Oakes...
August 7 – October 14, 2012
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Presented by the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
International...





September 21-22, 2012
San Jose Taiko
San Jose Taiko (SJT) presents its annual home season production at the School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. Three performances: Friday Sept 21 at...
October 19, 2012
Performance Art Institute
Conceptual artist duo Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert present The Artist is Elsewhere, an evening of remote-access performances. The event will take place...
Seoul, South Korea
Seoul, South Korea
The 7th edition ‘Spell on You’ proposes to explore the overpowering influence of a spell, encapsulated in the song ‘I Put a Spell on You’ by Scream’ Jay Hawkins, an...





September 12, 2012 for long term display.
The Tech Museum
Zigelbaum + Coelho will be creating a new work for permanent exhibition at the Tech Museum in San Jose to debut with the ZERO1 Biennial. It will be an amorphous,...





September 14, 2012
SoFA District
Lemonopoly is a real-world lemon-sharing game where you can trade real lemons from real local lemon trees. We are proud to launch Lemonopoly at the ZERO1 Biennial...
November 15, 2012
ZERO1 Garage
Art/Technology: In Conversation
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Premieres September 13 at 9pm
ZERO1 Urban Screen
By Means Of A Sigh (2008) is a video installation allowing the viewers to interact with giant sized video images projected in a public space. Two faces...
November 1, 2012
ZERO1 Garage
Lunchtime Meditation at the ZERO1 Garage
Thursday November 1, 2012
12:00pm-1:...



September 12-December 8, 2012
Silicon Valley
The collective proposes to establish an onsite installation for exhibition at the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial with parallel components at the...
September 14 & 15, 2012
SoFA District
(from San Carlos to Reed street)
Join us in re-imagining San Jose’s SoFA District to look and feel how people imagine Silicon Valley to be. (e)MERGE* is...
September 13-16, 2012
ZERO1 Garage
ARTIST TALK SCHEDULE:
Thursday 13th
12:00pm: Maurice Benayoun, Gambiologia (Fred Paulino,...

Sept 12, 2012
ZERO1 Garage
Wednesday September 12, 2012
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September 13, 2012
ZERO1 Garage
Thursday, September 13, 2012
ZERO1 Biennial Opening Party and Opening Performance
by Nelly Ben Hayoun and...
September 12-December 8, 2012
Opening Events Sept 12-16
Extended Hours
Under the thematic Seeking Silicon Valley, the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial proposes that...

December 8, 2012
5:00pm-7:00pm
ZERO1 Garage
Come down to the ZERO1 Garage and be part of an afternoon of panel discussions re-imagining the idea and the place of Silicon Valley, and then stick around as we host...
December 1, 2012
ZERO1 Garage
ZERO1 Biennial Workshop
Homemade Apps: Designing for Autism
How might our...
December 13, 2012
Performance Art Institute
“Women, Art, and Technology: An Uneasy Access?” is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, “Future Imagined: What Next?” part of the ZERO1 2012 Biennial....

October 2012
Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, Terminal B
The Wired Wilderness Project creates a structure for an artist-in-residency program in partnership with the scientific communities of the San Jose region. Creatively interpreting...



September 12-December 8, 2012
SoFA District
Sky-Fi (2012) is a suspended streetscape installation enveloping the core of downtown San Jose’s SoFA district. A collaborative project between architect...


September 12-December 8, 2012
California Theater Courtyard
Datagrove thrives on information from its urban environment. It renders invisible data and atmospheric phenomena into variable intensities of light and sound...

December 8, 2012
3:30pm to 5:00pm
ZERO1 Garage
The City from the Valley: What the Bay Area’s private bus network reveals about the way we work and live - A panel discussion featuring Eric...

November 8, 2012
Montalvo Arts Center
California-based artist Nina Waisman presents Body Envelope, an interactive sound installation and evening of performance at Montalvo’s historic Villa.
Body Envelope...

September 13-15, 2012
300 S. 1st Street Parking Lot
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