9 Introducci N 01010 Art And Technological



Introduction

Over the past decade, the world on contemporary art has experienced the beginnings of a tectonic shift: digital Technology has arrived as a component on everyday life and contemporary art on a global scale. Artists are adopting new technologies in the studio, deploying them in the gallery inhabiting them through the Internet, and making artwork that reflects our technologysaturated society in a stunning range of ways. Museums struggle to keep up, as audiences too, are changed by the presence on technology in their lives. Distances shrink under the pressure of the Internet, cell phones and e-mail. Attention spans flit nervously from message to message, channel to channel, am site to site. Neither art, nor those who make it, show it, and look at it can ever be the sameagain. This situation is the subject of 010101 Art in Technological Times.



International in scope, 010101 takes place o the Internet and at SFMOMA itself, inhabiting both virtual and real architectures. It survey range of video practices, sculpture, desig projects, computer-driven installations, drawings and paintings, plus new art works commissioned for the gallery and the Internet. It alsooffers an Internet site for dialogue public programs, background information on the show, and access to the online artworks themselves. 010101 has been organized by SFMOMA and presented by Intel Corporation

We encourage you to explore the 010101 site and the interface design, which has been conceived in conjunction with the gallery presentation as an integral part of the 010101 xhibition byPerimetre-Flux. Please read the User Guide to learn how to navigate through the site, and for new information about each section you encounter; information provided in the User Guide changes from area to area. We encourage you to check out the online art projects, to contribute actively to the online dialogues, and to experience the unique 'SiteStreaming" tours. The 010101 site will envolve and growcontinually, including a major expansion on March 3rd when the SFMOMa gallery exhibition opens (and continue through July 8, 2001).

010101: Art in Technological Times was organized by SFMOMA curators Aaron Betsky Bishop, Kathleen Forde, John Weber, and Benjamin Weil. As part of Intel's presentation of 010101, the online component of the exhibition will be on wiew at www.artmuseum.net, an Internet-baseMuseum gallery presented by Intel, and the Museum's Web site www.sfmoma.org.










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SFMOMA on the Go

SFMOMA Presents Farreaching Exploration Of Art In Technological Times Unprecedented Exhibition Will Exist Both On Site And Online

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), in collaboration with Intel Corporation, will launch 010101: Art in Technological Times. This ambitious andthoughtprovoking exhibition will comprise five Webbased commissions accessible online beginning January 1; from March 3 through July 8, 2001, over two dozen installations, video works, sound pieces and digital projects, as well as examples of more traditional media, will be on view in the SFMOMA galleries. 010101 charts recent and commissioned work by some 35 contemporary artists, architects anddesigners—from North America, Europe and Asia—who are responding to a world altered by the increasing presence of digital media and technology.


The online component of the exhibition will be accessible at www.sfmoma.org/010101, the 010101 Web site will continue to expand with areas for live arts, special events, dialogue, interpretive materials and archiving of onsite programs.

"This groundbreakingproject is not just a show of 'art about technology' or 'hightech art and design,'" notes SFMOMA Director David A. Ross. "Rather, it will present artists, architects and designers whose work is carried out selfconsciously in the shadow of the digital age, which is bringing new ideas and working processes to the studio, introducing new exhibition practices to the gallery and offering radically new...