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San Jose Museum of Art

July 22 - February 7, 2011

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110 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113
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Retro-Tech Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, Vagamundo: A Migrant's Tale, 2002, Courtesy of the artist
In connection with the 2010 01SJ Biennial, the San Jose Museum of Art will present an exhibition that grapples with the technological cult of the new and questions the notion of obsolescence. Retro-Tech, on view July 22, 2010, through February 6, 2011, will feature 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 Zúñiga (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 Tim Hawkinson, Aerial Mobile, 1998, Collection of Peter Norton
Retro-Tech Scott Kildall & Victoria Scott, Yellow Submarine from “No Matter,” 2008, Courtesy of the artists