September 14 FUSE: conversation presents Red76

Sep 10 2007

September 14 FUSE: conversation presents Red76 (http://cadre.sjsu.edu/fuse) live at SJ city hall and simulcast in Ars Virtua (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/6/77/48). Please join us FridaySeptember 14th at 7pm in our Seventh Eye “auditorium.”FUSE: collaboration connects Silicon Valley companies and fine arts students from the CADRE Laboratory in unorthodox partnerships with artists that inspire new forms of technology-based production and experience. Through cross-discipline collaborations, the residency-model provides an arena for addressing some of the most pertinent issues of our time including, but not limited to, concerns of globalization, sustainability, censorship, human rights, social responsibility, human centered design and a focus on the next generation.

Red 76
Begun in January of 2000 in Portland, Oregon, Red76 is the moniker for collaboratively based projects conceived, most often, by Sam Gould, and fleshed out by a group of like minded folks usually consisting, but not limited to; Khris Soden, Zefrey Throwell, Paige Saez, Colin Beattie, Jen Rhoads, Laura Baldwin, and many others. Red76 has initiated projects, large and small, that have been realized in Portland, North American, and Internationally. The guiding constructs thread between many of these initiatives being the facilitation of discussion, thought and action within public space, as well as the examination of what that space can be, and where that space may reside at any given time. http://www.red76.com/

Ars Virtua has been invited to partner with FUSE: a CADRE-Montalvo Artist Research Residency in cooperation with ZERO1 to develop a new work for Second Life based around a focus on social practices. FUSE will commission Red 76 to carry out a project that would be developed or incubated in Second Life and then presented in the physical world at 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge. Red 76’s socially engaged artistic practice will provide critical insight to the social networks that are specific to Second Life and an unorthodox approach to
investigating such spheres.

FUSE: conversation is hosted by the City of San José Public Art Program and is in collaboration with ZERO1.

“The uniqueness of FUSE is in the rich collaborative possibilities between CADRE, Montalvo and Silicon Valley corporations, it is an incredible opportunity to incubate literally, new forms of creativity and methods of innovation.‚Äù — Joel Slayton