colloquium /Joel Slayton
The C5 Landscape Initiative and the ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose
In 2001, C5 initiated a series of projects involving mapping, navigation and search of the landscape using GIS (Geographic Information Systems). The projects are designed to take place over 5 years and are an extension of C5's exploration into data visualization systems as art. The Landscape Initiative examines the changing conception of the Landscape as we move from the aesthetics of representation to those of information visualization and interface. Joel Slayton is the President and Founder of C5 Corporation. C5 Corporation specializes in cultural production informed by the blurred boundaries of research, art and business practice. Joel Slayton will present and discuss their ongoing artwork, the C5 Landscape Initiative.
SJSU is host of the ISEA2006 (International Symposium on Electronic Arts) which will serve as a launch pad for ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. ZeroOne is intended as an on-going biennale program that establishes San Jose and SJSU as the preeminent center for creativity and innovation in North America. SJSU is one of eight co-sponsors of ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose along with the Tech Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Montalvo Lucas Residency Program, Cultural Initiatives of Silicon Valley, City of San Jose, San Jose Convention and Business Bureau and ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network.
The ISEA2006 Symposium brings together 3,000 of the premiere digital arts practitioners and theorists representing 50 countries for a week of presentations, events, exhibitions - and debate. Over 50,000 will attend one of the related programs. There are 4 themes shared by the Symposium and Festival: Interactive City, Community Domain, Pacific Rim, and Transvergence. Hundreds of projects will be exhibited and dozens of papers selected by international juries will be presented at the Symposium and ZeroOne Festival, along with an extensive program of events and performances. As Chair of ISEA2006/ZeroOne, Joel Slayton will present and discuss plans for this upcoming event.
Bio
Joel Slayton is an artist, writer and researcher. He a professor at San Jose State University where he is Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design. CADRE is dedicated to development of experimental applications involving information technology and art established in 1984. Joel Slayton is the Executive Editor of SWITCH, 
http://switch.sjsu.edu CADRE’s on-line journal of new media discourse and practice. Initiated in1995, SWITCH has presented 19 volumes that have addressed themes such as Network Culture, Artificial Life, Art and the Military, Sound Culture, Cyber-feminism, Art as Network, Art as Database, New Media Art Centers, Social/Networks Collaborative Models , and Social Computing. Joel Slayton serves on the Board of Directors of Leonardo/ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology) and is Chair of the Leonardo-MIT Press Book Series. Professor Slayton is Academic Chair for the ISEA 2006 Symposia/ZeroOne San Jose International Art Festival. Professor Slayton’s research explores social software, cooperation models and network ontology. Papers include Social Software; Entailment Mesh, The Re=Purpose of Information, and The Ontology of Organization as System.
Joel Slayton’s artworks have been featured in exhibitions internationally. He was an invited artist and speaker at the 2003 Second International Art Biennial-Buenos Aires. Considered a pioneer in the field of art and technology his artworks engage a wide a range of new media technology involving information mapping, networks and visualization. Joel Slayton was an original member of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT in the mid 1970’s, has received a National Endowment for the Arts award and was selected for the Xerox Parc Pair Artists in Residence Program.
Joel Slayton is President and founder of C5 Corporation. C5 is a hybrid form of authorship intersecting research, corporate culture and artistic enterprise. C5 research explores issues of visualization involving large data sets and social networks. Begun in 1996, C5 projects have been featured at the Walker Art Center, the Cantor Center for the Arts, Transmediale, Ars Electronica, The New Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, ACM Siggraph, ASU Center for Creative Inquiry and at AUT in New Zealand. Current projects involve data visualization and interaction with the landscape using GPS. His current project involves mapping and navigation systems based on expeditions to 10 high altitude volcanoes on the Pacific Rim Fire. This project premiers in May of 2005 at San Francisco Camerwork.
Other works by Joel Slayton include large-scale media performance and conceptual art projects including the DoWhatDo, Conduits, The Chemistry of Fear, Landscape Painting as Counter Surveillance of Area 51, Rocket Launch at Panamint Wash and The Wedding Game. Joel Slayton’s robotic works have been exhibited at the Krannert Museum of Art and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was selected for participation in Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology co-curated by San Jose Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Links
http://www.c5corp.com
http://cadre.sjsu.edu
http://switch.sjsu.edu
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu