Patent Pending at the ZERO1 Garage

September 28 - December 20, 2013

Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv’s installation, Text Rain, is included in ZERO1’s fall exhibition, Patent Pending.

Patent Pending, is a group exhibition that uses patents as a starting point to investigate the relationship between artists, ownership, and invention. Patent Pending features artworks by contemporary artists that have either resulted from, or led to, a patent that the artist has either received a patent for or is patent pending. Participating artists are Maggie Orth, Catherine Richards, Phil Ross, Daniel Rozin, Scott Snibbe, and Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv.

As inventors and innovators, artists change the way we look at and interact with the world. Like the entrepreneurs and inventors who have defined Silicon Valley, many artists have patented interfaces, processes, and creations with broad uses beyond their art practice. Patent Pending continues ZERO1’s exploration of the relationship between artists and invention and goes behind the artist’s experiences navigating the patent system to reveal the complexities of owning and sharing ideas in contemporary times. Patent Pending was inspired, in part, by the change in U.S. patent law that went into effect on March 16, 2013 and repositioned the United States patent filing system from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system, as well as in response to plans to open a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Silicon Valley. Throughout the exhibition, as a means to explore the role of patents in creative communities, ZERO1 will bring together the arts, entrepreneur, and legal communities in dialogue around what the changes to the U.S. patent system mean for inventions and inventors in Silicon Valley and beyond.

For more information about additional programming in conjunction with the exhibition please visit ZERO1’s website.

Related:

Projects

  1. Text Rain, for Phæno

Bibliography

  1. Lee, Edward. “Camille Utterback and the Techology of Interactive Art.” Huffington Post, “Arts and Culture” section, September 4, 2010.
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News

  1. Video Interview with Smithsonian Magazine
  2. Watch This! at The Smithsonian American Art Museum
  3. Tracing Time/Marking Movement at the Frist Center for Visual Arts
  4. On the Edge 2012 features Text Rain in Norwegian Lighthouse
  5. “Camille Utterback and the Technology of Interactive Art” on The Huffington Post
  6. Collider 2: Camille Utterback at Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio
  7. Contemporary Art Center of Virginia Exhibition
  8. Text Rain on NPR’s Morning Edition

Other

  1. Carvalhais, Miguel. Artifical Aesthetics: Creative Practices in Computational Art and Design. Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
  2. Piper, Andrew. Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL and London.
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