ATC Colloquium: Art and Control

• September 18, 2008: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
• Location: Berkeley Art Museum Theater

Activist Artist Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble to speak at UC Berkeley

In May 2004, Artist Steve Kurtz was detained by the FBI and subject to a four year federal investigation for alleged links to bioterrorism, an ordeal widely covered in the press and the subject of a documentary film by Lynn Hershman Leeson.  In his first west coast appearance since his acquittal in May, Steve Kurtz will speak in the Art, Technology, and Culture series organized by UC’s Berkeley Center for New Media on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the Berkeley Art Museum Theater (Kurtz will also speak at the SF Art Institute on Friday Sept 19).

Steve Kurtz is a founding member of the Critical Art Ensemble, a collective that explores the intersections of art, technology, radical politics, and critical theory.  Kurtz will focus on why the police, FBI, corporate lawyers, politicians, church officials, and bureaucrats have attacked or threatened Critical Art Ensemble for acting against the authoritarian tendencies of Western societies and how the violence against cultural resistance has escalated and intensified over the past five years.

UC Berkeley's ATC lectures are free and open to the public.  The box office opens at 6:30 pm, talk begins at 7:30, and will run until 9:00 pm.
Please enter on Durant Street.

For more information visit: http://atc.berkeley.edu/. Email: bcnm@berkeley.edu, phone: 510-642-0635