Good Panel at Cooper Union Friday
For all you NYC Sivacracy readers:
Panel Discussion on the current state of art censorshipFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th
7 PM; THE COOPER UNION GREAT HALLAcclaimed by the New York Times, New York Post, and the New York Daily News, "A Knock at the Door..." is a multi-venue exhibition that puts the audience in the position of the authorities. When is artistic expression un-American? When is it art? And when is it dangerous?
This event is free and open to the public.
Presented by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Curated by Seth Cameron, Creative Director of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
www.lmcc.net/knockContinue reading to see the list of speakers and moderator.
Gregory Green
Since the mid-1980's Gregory Green has created artworks addressing the evolution of various strategies for empowerment, which consider the use of violence, alternatives to violence and the accessibility to information and technology as vehicles for social or political change. Green is perhaps best known for his sculptures that are mechanically complete and potentially functional terrorist bombs and missiles, or that provide the information to make large quantities of LSD, and the controversies that surrounded their exhibition.�
http://www.feigencontemporary.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=32&show=home
Barbara Nitke
Barbara Nitke is a New York City artist dedicated to exploring issues of sexual relationship and desire through photography. Nitke is currently a co-plaintiff with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom in challenging John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America, and the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA), which regulates free speech on the Internet. www.barbaranitke.com
Naeem Mohaimen
Naeem Mohaiemen is a filmmaker and digital-media activist specializing in Political Islam.� He is Director of VISIBLE, an arts collective that looks at issues of migration and national identity.� VISIBLE created the DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA, a film trilogy and multimedia installation that humanizes the faces of "disappeared" Muslims since 9/11. shobak.org
disappearedinamerica.org muslimsorheretics.org
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar. He is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). He is an assistant professor of Culture and Communication at New York University.
Moderator: Andras Szanto
At Columbia's National Arts Journalism Program, which Sz�nt� joined in 1997, he oversaw a fellowship program with an alumni network of more than one hundred and fifty professional arts journalists. He co-edited ARTicles, NAJP's award-winning journal, and directed numerous research ventures, including two assessments of national trends in arts coverage and surveys of critics active in three arts disciplines. Dr. Sz�nt� organized a series of influential seminars and symposia at Columbia, including the "Who Owns Culture?" conference on cultural property and patrimony disputes, "The New Gatekeepers" conference on free expression in the arts, the "Who Pays for the Arts?" conference on arts funding, the "Arts & Minds" symposium on cultural diplomacy, and, most recently, "Measuring the Muse," a conference on findings from the frontlines of arts-policy research.