Gallery Talk on Retro-Tech

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Kristen Evangelista, assistant curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, will give a tour of the exhibition Retro-Tech on Thursday, September 16, 2010, at 12:00 p.m.. This tour is free with admission.
Organized In connection with the 2010 01SJ Biennial, Retro-Tech grapples with the technological cult of the new and questions the notion of obsolescence. The exhibition features recent work by an international array of artists, including Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (Puerto Rico), Katya Bonnenfant (Lyon, France), Tim Hawkinson (Los Angeles), Aleksandra Mir (Palermo, Italy), Camille Scherrer (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland), Madeln (Xu Zhen) (Shanghai), and Ricardo Miranda Z��iga (New York) as well as new commissions by San Francisco-based Rebar (Blaine Merker, John Bela, and Matthew Passmore) and Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott (also of San Francisco). Under the thematic umbrella of the 2010 01SJ Biennial, �Build Your Own World,� the artists in Retro-Tech re-purpose and reinterpret technologies of the past and often draw on craft and folk traditions. Retro-Tech explores the tension between primitive and advanced technologies and encourages a longer historical perspective on the 21st-century love of the latest and greatest technology.
Retro-Tech is presented with the support of ZERO1, 1st Act, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The 2010 01SJ Biennial�themed �Build Your Own World��takes place September 16-19, and transforms downtown San Jose into a citywide exhibition featuring hundreds of projects, including 50+ new art commissions, live performances, exhibitions, concerts, film, participatory projects, public art, multimedia opera, public workshops, and much more.

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