Sharing is Sexy Radio! Saturday at Cream at 1:30PM!

Join us at Cream Coffee Shop in San Diego on Saturday, April 26th at 1:30pm for our second show of Sharing is Sexy Radio!

The amazing folks over at Neighborhood Public Radio have invited us to do 4 radio shows as part of the American Life series. They’ll be broadcast from their website, http://neighborhoodpublicradio.org , on 103.9 FM and at the Whitney Biennial in New York City, so check us out in one of those places!

For our 4 shows, we’ll be talking about the various parts of our project: queer, open source, porn, collective. Last week we talked about the question of queer and what queer means to us and how we can think of a queer politics.

Listen to the first show here, with music by J Bird, Nicky Click and Jenna Riot:

http://conceptualart.dreamhosters.com/npr/archives/229

Cream is at 4496 Park Blvd, (between Meade Ave & Mission Ave), San Diego, CA 92116

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Posted at 2pm on 04/25/08 | no comments | Filed Under: collective, newyork, opensource, porn, queer, radio, sandiego

Charges Against Steve Kurtz Dropped

This is amazingly good news. Come to Groundwork Books at UCSD on Tuesday the 29th at 7:30pm to see Strange Culture, the story of Bio-Artist Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble and how the US government tried to persecute him for creating home genetic testing kits for GMO foods.

Reposted from rhizome.org:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2008

JUDGE DISMISSES MAIL FRAUD CASE AGAINST BIO-ARTIST KURTZ

Buffalo, NY–A process that has taken nearly four years may be coming to an end. On Monday, April 21, Federal Judge Richard J. Arcara ruled to dismiss the indictment against University at Buffalo Professor of Visual Studies Dr. Steven Kurtz.

In June 2004, Professor Kurtz was charged with two counts of mail fraud and two counts of wire fraud stemming from an exchange of $256 worth of harmless bacteria with Dr. Robert Ferrell, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Dr. Kurtz planned to use the bacteria in an educational art exhibit about biotechnology with his award-winning art and theater collective, read on

Posted at 7pm on 04/24/08 | no comments | Filed Under: art, bioart, biotech, freedomofspeech, politics, repression, sandiego