SAN JOSE, California (October 14, 2010)— The San Jose Museum of Art’s new after-hours series “ArtRage” will continue on Thursday, November 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. Visitors are invited to stop by after work to enjoy indie art experiences, music, specialty cocktails (cash bar), and social networking. Entertainment will include live music by So Timeless and a glow performance by Nocturnal Sunshine. Activities include a photo booth and an LED light art-making project, inspired by the current exhibition Leo Villareal. Guests will also experience Juicecycle (2010). Created by San Francisco design firm Rebar, the Juicecycle is eco-friendly, urban-farm equipment powered by bicycles. Guests will ride the Juicecycle to juice local fruit for their own cocktails. Artists from Rebar will be on hand to discuss the project. Food will be available for purchase at Café Too! Admission is $5. Tickets are available at the door.
ArtRage guests are encouraged to bring their mobile devices for a Twitter treasure hunt. The evening will also include a demonstration of Liveshare by Cooliris, a free social networking app for the iPhone or Android that allows guests instantly to share their cell phone photos of the event with other attendees, streaming live at the Museum and on SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.
Admission to ArtRage includes all galleries and exhibitions, including the acclaimed exhibition Leo Villareal, which features the mesmerizing, computer driven light installations by that artist. DJ James Healy has created a musical soundscape to accompany the exhibition; visitors may download the soundtrack for free from SJMA’s iTunes channel and listen on their iPod or other mp3 player while they enjoy the exhibition. The soundtrack is also accessible at the Museum on smartphones via SJMA’s free wifi connection.
Juicecycle was commissioned by the San Jose Museum of Art for the current exhibition Retro-Tech. Rebar, an interdisciplinary design studio based in San Francisco, envisions sustainable urban farming for the 21st century. Inspired by the “localvore” movement, Rebar’s Juicecycle is a mobile machine for harvesting and juicing local produce. People on bicycles hitched to the Juicecycle generate its operating power. Rebar artists are Blaine Merker, John Bela, and Matthew Passmore.
Also on view are the exhibitions The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention, Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection, Vital Signs: New Media from the Permanent Collection.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
The San Jose Museum of Art is located at 110 South Market Street in downtown San Jose, California. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 408-271-2787 or visit www.SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.
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Leo Villareal is sponsored by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation, and Bank of America. Retro-Tech is organized by the San Jose Museum of Art in conjunction with the 2010 01SJ Biennial. It is presented with the support of ZERO1, 1st Act, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Vital Signs is sponsored by Doris and Alan Burgess and Peter Lipman. Degrees of Separation is sponsored by McManis Faulkner.
Programs at the San Jose Museum of Art are generously supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, by operating support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the James Irvine Foundation; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; the Adobe Foundation; and the Koret Foundation; the MetLife Foundation; and a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose.