The ZERO1 Garage hosts the ZERO1 Biennial exhibition, an international showcase of work at the nexus of art and technology. The Garage serves as the organization’s new 10,000-square-foot bricks and mortar home, a year-round center for cross-disciplinary exploration that honors the garage-workshop roots of such Silicon Valley pioneers as William Hewlett, David Packard, Google and others.
We began collaborating with each artist to define an exhibition system that could encompass the wide array of works. We proposed an open, transparent and organic system of display. Analogous to the tech world’s open source platforms, wherein information sharing and discourse are encouraged, and attune to ZERO1’s mission, the space is defined by light, ephemeral, suspended translucent screens. The screens playfully meander and direct visitors into deep view corridors, frame works and often create intimate pockets for particular works. Art may be viewed from multiple vantages while simultaneously being layered and read along with the other works. This layering of art begins to create new meanings and interpretations of the works, resonating with ZERO1’s mission that art can create positive discourse among artists, patrons and fellows, fostering new collaborations, new creations and new innovation.
American Institute of Architects Award for Interior Architecture
“It was a huge opportunity for ZERO1 to work with renown architect Christopher Haas on the interior design concept of the for the opening of the new ZERO1 Garage in San Jose which created an exciting and appropriate platform for the Biennial exhibition.”
-Joel Slayton, Executive Director, ZERO1
