International TECHstyle Art Biennale

In 2010, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Texitles will laucj a new signature event at the International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB).

ITAB is a juried exhibition of work by artists mining the expressive
potential of fibre media and engaging new information and communication technologies in their artistic processes, as a medium of artistic expression, and/or in the content of their work. 

Leveraging its location in Silicon Valley, the Museum envisions ITAB serving as the premiere platform for introducing the emerging work of artists exploring the intersection of fibers and technology to the global community that assembles virtually and non-virtually on the occasion of San Jose's  biennial ZeroOne: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge (01SJ).

As fibres, textiles, and the language of textile patterning have achieved wide currency in contemporary art practice often as a means of evoking a collective haptic experience that is both historical and contemporary--ITAB seeks to expose and explore the tensions between and among works by artists using fiber media whose centres of gravity are located in diverse artistic disciplines. We welcome submissions from artists in the fields of architecture, fashion, fiber art, installation art, interior design, new media, painting, sculpture, etc. Artwork demonstrating a keen understanding and mastery of the aesthetic, structural/technical, and semiotic possibilities of fiber and of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies--will become the hallmark of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles International TECHstyle Art Biennial.

Details at http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/ITAB2010.html 

CALENDAR

Submission deadline: MARCH 1, 2010
Notification: APRIL 30, 2010
Accepted work due: JULY 23, 2010
Opening reception: AUGUST 22, 2010
Exhibition closes: AUGUST 17, 2010