Green Prix

Saturday, September 18 11:00am- 6:00pm
Starting at South Hall

The Green Prix is a parade and all day festival that surrounds sustainable, ecological friendly, and fun modes of transportation—artful “eco-motion.” It is open for EVERYONE: artists, designers, families, schools, and anyone else who has or wants to create a new mode of sustainable transportation. It is your opportunity to create, participate in, and cheer on innovative projects related to eco-themed transportation. So break out your banana-bikes, self-propelled jet packs, soapboxes, and solar cars to come out and strut your stuff in front of a cheering audience. The Green Prix Parade will begin at 11:00 am on Saturday, September 18th. Then the Green Prix Festival will fill South 1st Street with “green” creations, parade projects, family oriented do-it-yourself workshops, open doors to local galleries and music performances. Check out the Parade Route.

The Green Prix is open for public participation and encourages all who want to participate to enter.

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Related Artworks


Image by Sarah Clark

Aeolian Ride

Jessica Findley
The Aeolian Ride (2010) is comprised of 52 suits that inflate when 52 people go for a bike ride. Participation in the ride is free and is open to the public. The spirit of riding a bicycle for the first time is embodied both by those riding and those watching.

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Archipelago

Nova Jiang
Archipelago (2010) seeks to address issues of urban isolation exacerbated by car culture. For this project and workshop, a collection of mobile “desert islands” will be constructed with help from the public.

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Art Bikes

Slimm Buick
Slimm Buick is known as a bicycle advocate, as he was a big part of the early Critical Mass protests, attended the first AIDS ride, and is a former bike messenger.

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CathexiSpin

Elliot Anderon
Altair Musical Interference CathexiSpin harnesses bicycle generated electricity from the energy produced by a group of individuals riding them. CathexiSpin offers mobile spinning classes ready to be deployed in public places at sites where communities can come together.

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Egg and Sperm Ride

Janaki Ranpura
The Egg and Sperm Ride (2010) is a long distance date with destiny. An Egg will be pedaled on a solo ride from Minneapolis, MN to meet up with Sperm Riders in San Jose, CA, for the Green Prix parade.

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LiveOnBike performance featuring El Arbol

Fossil Fool
Fossil Fool will perform LiveOnBike, rocking the mic while pedaling and steering El Arbol, a seven-foot tall three-seater in the form of a tree.

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El Rojo

Adan Avalos
Like the vases of my childhood, El Rojo, modeled after a 1963 Ford, refers to a pivotal corrido(folk song) and the popular 1976 naco film titled La banda del carro rojo (The Red Car Gang). Using my mother’s method, I pieced recycled burlap to form this work.

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Photo Credit: Peter Harris.

Gift Horse

Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott
Gift Horse (2010) is a large-scale sculpture of the mythological Trojan Horse, which will be presented to the San Jose Museum of Art in a public ceremony during the 01SJ Biennial.

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Local Motorgraph (Prototype)

Marksearch
Local Motorgraph For the Green Prix, marksearch will create a prototype of the Local Motorgraph, an interactive community conversation billboard that will be towed by their tandem bike.

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Maria Del Camino

Bruce Tomb, 2010

Maria del Camino is a love poem to the car and an ode to Her demise; an allegorical piece acknowledging our relationship to the car as a social activator, defining our relationship to cities as well as our individual and collective sense of freedom and adventure, while at the same time reinforcing how we are beholden to and idolize the machine.

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OutRun

Garnet Hertz
OutRun, a video game concept car that combines a car-shaped arcade game cabinet with a real world electric vehicle to produce a video game system that actually drives. The windshield of the system features custom software that transforms the real world into an 8-bit video game, enabling the user to have limitless gameplay opportunities while driving.

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Powering Flight: Challenging the Urban Environment

Sol Design Lab/ Bike Zoo
The public is invited to spontaneously DJ with their iPods on the solar powered sound system while their devices and electric vehicles charge.

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Rajaphant

Carl Heiney
Altair Musical Interference Rajaphant is a drivable majestic mechanical elephant on wheels. The body is built around an fully Electric Micro Van and it will raise from a kneeling position to a standing position (2 ft), via an airbag lift mechanism.

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SLO DOG

Bruce Gardner Steve Durie
Geri WittigSlo Dog
The inception of this project was spawned in the repeated visits to and observation of a local 7-Eleven. Specifically, it was the cooking and display of their own brand of hot dogs, sausages, and taquitos, done in a machine known as the hot dog roller grill.

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solarCircus

Tiffany Holmes
solarCircus (2009-2010) is an interdisciplinary platform for eco-dialogue about the future of renewable energy in urban spaces. Inside South Hall, visitors can browse a resource library, hack a solar toy, and experiment with solar cell construction.

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The Golden Gate 1

Jay Nelson
The Golden Gate 1 is an electric camper pod. Encased in a fiberglass shell, the pod is a small light weight camper home on wheels complete with a water tank, toilet, stove, cabinets, fold-down table and convertible bed.

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Unwheeldy

Dave Hershberger

Unwheeldyis a tandem recumbent fixie dicycle. It rolls on two 9-foot diameter bicycle wheels, 6 feet apart, with room for two riders in between. It uses differential drive, in which each rider pedals their own wheel, so the two riders must coordinate their pedaling to maneuver.

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