For seven consecutive days, nearly 200 juried artists from around the world will be converging on the Silicon Valley to showcase some of the most innovative, astounding art ever seen or experienced. It's ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge and ISEA2006 Symposium.

Check out the video feeds showing the Zero One Festival on the Streets of San Jose.

New Zealanders attending include Douglas Bagnall and Lissa Mitchell, Danny Butt & Natalie Robertson, Ian Clothier, Adam Hyde, Zita Joyce, Trudy Lane, Caroline McCaw and Angela Main and Rachael Rakena.

Image: Call by Germaine KohFor seven consecutive days, nearly 200 juried artists from around the world will be converging on the Silicon Valley to showcase some of the most innovative, astounding art ever seen or experienced. It's ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge and ISEA2006 Symposium.

Check out the video feeds showing the Zero One Festival on the Streets of San Jose.

New Zealanders attending include Douglas Bagnall and Lissa Mitchell, Danny Butt & Natalie Robertson, Ian Clothier, Adam Hyde, Zita Joyce, Trudy Lane, Caroline McCaw and Angela Main and Rachael Rakena.

Image: Call by Germaine KohFrom August 7-13, ZeroOne San Jose will transform the entire city into the North American epicenter for the intersection of art and digital culture. It is a multi-dimensional, startling and brilliant event featuring exhibits, live cinema, performances, workshops, and youth activities. All are one-of-a-kind, many never-before, only-here experiences.

The most progressive artists, cultural producers, media theorists, and curators from around the world will be gathering in the cradle of innovative thinking - Silicon Valley - to share and discuss the latest ideas and practices involving new media and contemporary art.

This year, San Jose, California has the distinction of hosting the 13th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2006) August 7-13, coinciding with the inauguration of ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. ZeroOne San Jose is launching as a milestone festival and is expected to be held biennially.

The Symposium and Festival will play host to the unveiling of an 80,000 square foot exhibition for contemporary artworks as well as providing the site for a city-wide installation of 38 interactive projects, 8 shipping containers of curated works from countries along the Pacific Rim. The symposium includes presentations by 70 artists including keynote address by renowned Raqs Media Collective from New Delhi, India.

Joel Slayton and Steve Dietz, Co-Chairs and Directors of ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 collaborated on a new model for Symposium presentations and participation, which will allow the public to join the discussions online both before and during the Symposium. This innovative structure is designed to enable lively, free conversations across disciplines, ideologies, and philosophical frame-works. As many as 3000 attendees from 50 countries are anticipated in San Jose with more participating online from remote locations.

Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies. ISEA 2006 in San Jose has four strands - Pacific Rim, Community Domain, Interactive City and Transvergence.

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