August 28 - September 19, 2010 Citywide, San Jose, 152 N. 3rd Street, Suite 210, San Jose, CA 95113 Tel: (408)9161010 Web:01sj.org/2010
Exhibition content: Yung-Ta Chang?s outdoor sound installation
The theme of the 2010 01SJ Biennial is ?Build Your Own World."For the two weeks prior to the Biennial, from August 28 to September 19, ZER01 in collaboration with partners from around the world is inviting independent artists, designers, architects, engineers, programmers, and corporate and academic research programs to publicly work in San Jose's "South Hall" to create projects for exhibition, performance, provocation, and interaction, which build on the dynamic histories of garage hacking and citizen science to imagine not just what's next but to ensure that what's next matters. "Out of the Garage, Into the World"takes as its overarching theme "Build your own world". Its methodology is rooted in the ethos of garage hacking and what might be allied?neighbourhood science"? creating and inventing for the
common good.
The future is not about what's next; it's about what we can build to ensure what next matters are. How can we, as resourceful, innovative, and knowledgeable local and global citizens build and participate in a desirable future in the face of global climate change, economic meltdown, political instability, and cultural divisiveness? The 2010 01SJ Biennial is predicated on the notion that as artists, designers, engineers, architects, 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. It is about how powerful ideas and innovative individuals from around the world
can make a difference and come together to build a unique, citywide platform for creative solutions and public engagement. It is about the inspiration needed to build a world we want to live in and are able to live with.
?Sound, Wavy Flow?is the first outdoor public sound installation that has never been made before by Taiwanese artist Yung-Ta Chang. The work is inspired from the public signal and LED information board around us. This work consists of a customized LED device and radio module that can receive the radio signal and visualizes the waveform via LED. The LED device spun and caused the Persistence of vision. When people walk close to this work, radio will switch on automatically between different channels depending on distances. The glitch-liked sound may create new words or new songs.