Carolyn Loeb: Central Michigan University. Author of Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Current research interests: redevelopment in Berlin; public sculpture; social housing; civic space. Contact information: phone: 989-774-3427; email: Carolyn.Loeb@cmich.edu Fred Lonidier: U.C. San Diego. Areas of research, activist interest: Photo/text installation documentary artworks for, by and about class struggle. Recent activities: RE:UNION C/S, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego & Tea Party, Oakland 2007. (forthcoming). Recent or upcoming works: *"N.A.F.T.A. Returns to Tijuana/Regresa a Tijuana," truck-trailer traveling exhibit to the maquiladora zones, 2003: two long panels. As my part in the Insite_05 Transborder Archive, I have produced an archive box with my photography of labor struggles on both sides of the border. And some early photography of mine: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/BPP_photos.htm. Critical attention: Mary Warner Marien, "The New Social Documentary," Photography: a cultural history, Abrams, NYC 2002. Grant Kester, Conversation Pieces: Dialogical Encounters in Modern Art, "Chapter Five: Community and Communicability," UC Press 2003. Contact information: (858) 534-2524 wk; flonidier@ucsd.edu; UCSD Visual Arts, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla CA 92093-0084. Henrik Lebuhn: is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), where he teaches Urban Studies. He is a co-editor for the German journal PROKLA and online editor for www.linksnet.de. His research areas include labor, migration, and socio-spatial conflicts in global cities, entrepreneurial urban politics, and urban social movements. Recent articles have appeared in Left Curve, Monthly Review, Neues Deutschland, PROKLA and WOZ. His monograph "Stadt in Bewegung" (City in Movement) looks at micro-conflicts over the privatization of public urban space in Berlin and Los Angeles and is forthcoming with the German publisher "Westfälisches Dampfboot" (June 2008). More info at http://lebuhn.in-berlin.de Barbara McCloskey: University of Pittsburgh. Recent works: “Dialectic at a Standstill: East German Socialist Realism of the Stalin Era,” in Art of the Two Germanys during the Cold War (forthcoming: Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008); "The Face of Socialism: George Grosz and José Carlos Mariátegui's Amauta," Third Text (forthcoming 2008); with co-author Fred Evans, "Sixties Redux?: Kutlug Ataman's Provocation at the 2004/05 Carnegie International" in Kunst und Politik (forthcoming 2008). Contact information: 104 Frick Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; 412-648-2417. Angela Miller: Washington University. Recent or upcoming works: “Eyes Wide Open,” in Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick, eds., Caught by Politics: German Exiles and American Visual Culture in the 1930s and 1940s, forthcoming 2006; with co-authors, American Encounters: The Arts and Cultural Identity, Prentice Hall, forthcoming 2006; “Death and Resurrection in an Artist’s Studio,” American Art, forthcoming March 2006. Research interests: 20th century American art, Art between the Wars in Europe and the U.S.
Bob Paris: lives in Richmond, Virginia, and works as Assistant Professor in Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. In 2006, he first exhibited Disturbance, a sprawling series of video installations that excavate the ghostly remains of the 1992 Los Angeles riots to consider spectacle, social disaster and historical erasure. His current project is The War Show, an experimental documentary that explores the manipulation and distancing of American TV war propaganda. Some of his perspectives and preoccupations can be found in his pictorial essays on surfingthespectacle.com, a political/ art/ culture/ history site created to draw his students into greater engagement with their mediated world. Therese Quinn: is an Assistant Professor of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches and directs the BFA with Emphasis in Art Education Program, which prepares undergraduates for certification. Her most recent publications are “Out of Cite, Out of Mind: Social Justice and Art Education,” in the Journal for Social Theory in Art Education, and “Exhibits Through the ‘Other Eye’: How Popular Education Can Help Us Make Museums that Push,” in the Journal of Museum Education. With William Ayers, she co-edits the Teachers College Press series, Teaching for Social Justice. Her blog, The Other Eyes, addresses issues of access and equality in public cultural spaces, including schools and museums. <http://therese-othereye.blogspot.com/>; tquinn@saic.edu
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STEVE KURTZ CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES
Dr. Steven Kurtz, a Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY at Buffalo and cofounder of the award-winning art and theater group Critical Art Ensemble, has been cleared of all charges of mail and wire fraud. On April 21, Federal Judge Richard J. Arcara dismissed the government’s entire indictment against Dr. Kurtz as “insufficient on its face.” This means that even if the actions alleged in the indictment (which the judge must accept as “fact”) were true, they would not constitute a crime. For more information and extensive documentation, including the Judge’s dismissal, please visit:
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