Strange Culture Screenings in NYC

CINEMA VILLAGE
22 East 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
212.924.3363

Starts on 10/5/2007 and Runs Only 2 Weeks Until 10/19!

SPECIAL SCREENING
OCTOBER 5, 2007
7:00 PM
A Discussion and Q&A with Brooke Singer of Steve Kurtz’s Defense Fund will follow this special screening.

WATCH TRAILER:
http://www.strangeculture.net/media/qthi-strangeculture.mov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNO1ANHIQs

The surreal legal nightmare of internationally acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife, Hope, died in her sleep of heart failure. Police arrived, became suspicious of Kurtz’s art, and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected bioterrorist, as dozens of agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impounded his computers, manuscripts, books, cat, and even his wife’s body. Today Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, former Chair of the Genetics Department at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, await a trial date.

“Probably the best and certainly the most urgent film in Sundance 2007’s Frontier section.” –Dennis Lim, INDIEWIRE

“Younger filmmakers should be looking to Hershman Leeson for lessons on how to reinvent old forms while at the same time telling an urgently topical story. The director not only breaks the fourth wall, she reduces it to plaster dust.” –John Anderson, VARIETY

Add comment Datestamp: September 29th, 2007

ASLA 2007 Student Awards

Project Statement for (In)Security

(In)Security explores a new design vocabulary in direct response to the climate of fear and paranoia that currently drives the program and aesthetic of much contemporary urban design. The project addresses the current and future state of security in and around the Wall Street financial district, creating viable security alternatives while simultaneously questioning our nation’s current philosophy that security = freedom.

Add comment Datestamp: September 28th, 2007

Which door should I choose?

Funny Restroom Signs

One of my students showed me this today. Light icon humor with a sprinkle of gender stereotyping.

More here and here

Add comment Datestamp: September 27th, 2007

Verizon agrees to allow abortion rights advocacy txts

From Boing Boing

If there were ever a perfect example of why America needs wireless network neutrality, this is it. And FWIW, I’d feel the same way if the messages in question were anti-abortion.

Verizon Wireless last week rejected a request last week from the abortion rights group NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) to send txts over the Verizon network to subscribers who chose to receive them.

Add comment Datestamp: September 27th, 2007

SUPERFUND365 MARKS THE 4TH ANNIVERSARY OF SUPERFUND GONE BROKE

WEEK THREE — Superfund365 — PUT THE SUPER BACK INTO SUPERFUND

The Superfund365 weekly email recap is suspended this week to commemorate the 4th YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUPERFUND’S TRUST FUND GONE BROKE. The following is a bit of background (when? why? what?) followed by a few really simple actions you can take to make sure this day does not pass unnoticed.

Pleaese, read on!

Add comment Datestamp: September 25th, 2007

Topsy-Turvy Bus National Tour

About

Add comment Datestamp: September 24th, 2007

I am off to The FM Ferry Experiment Now

The FM Ferry Experiment

I am joining NeuroTransmitter at 3pm today aboard the FM Ferry (aka Staten Island Ferry). I will talk about my 800 Steps Apart video short (collaboration with Brian Rigney Hubbard), the now infamous Deutsche Bank building in Lower Manhattan and the EPA… Tune in or check back on their website for the archive.

Ahoy!

Add comment Datestamp: September 21st, 2007

Dulce Pinzón

Superheroes

Add comment Datestamp: September 17th, 2007

ShiftSpace

What is ShiftSpace?

ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web. ShiftSpace provides tools for artists, designers, architects, activists, developers, students, researchers, and hobbyists to create online contexts built in and on top of websites.

Add comment Datestamp: September 17th, 2007

An Atlas

At LACE
AN ATLAS: an exhibition of radical cartography / organized by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat.

September 26 – November 18, 2007
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, September 26, 7-9pm

An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of artists working with “radical cartography”—a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change. The 10 participating artists, architects, and collectives take on issues from globalization to garbage and explore the map’s role as a political agent. The exhibition and accompanying catalog contribute to a growing cultural movement that cuts across

Participating artists are:

An Architektur
The Center for Urban Pedagogy
Ashley Hunt
Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R
Pedro Lasch
Lize Mogel
Trevor Paglen & John Emerson
Brooke Singer
Jane Tsong
Unnayan

Add comment Datestamp: September 14th, 2007