[CupcakeKleidoscope] CUPCAKE KALEIDOSCOPE # 20 5/16/03
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CUPCAKE KALEIDOSCOPE # 20 5/16/03
Newsletter from Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ists]
Publisher & Executive Editor - joseph and donna
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
NUDE MODELS AT PHILADELPHIA ART COLLEGE JOIN UNION
NOMAD UPDATE
EXPERIENCE THE BRONX
PERFORMANCE WEEKEND @ THE POINT MAY 16 & 17
THE LOVE AND FEAR EXPERIENCE
CARY PEPPERMINT'S CONDUCTOR NUMBER 14 VERSION 4.0
BRUCKNER BLVD ART & ANTIQUE DISTRICT – SPRING FAIR
SALON DE BRONX – OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2003
WANDA RAIMUNDI-ORTIZ presents RICAN-STRUCTION @ EXIT ART
WILL WE LOSE THE 8-HOUR WORK DAY?…
WIRED TO THE BRAIN OF A RAT, A ROBOT TAKES ON THE WORLD
FREE MARKET AL-QAEDA: NEOLIBERALISM & THE VIOLENCE IT DOES
IT'S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE
99 BOTTLES OF BEER - IN CODE
COMPUTER PAINTER
THE OTHER F*WORD
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM
"==", AN EXHIBITION OF THESIS WORK
HOW TO SELL YOUR ARTWORK
Q&A: ANITA RODDICK'S KIND OF REVOLUTION
MATH AS AN INTERSTELLAR LANGUAGE
CONGRESS MAY GIVE ARTISTS, AUTHORS BREAK ON TAXES
PERFORMANCE FOR THE VOICED BODY
ARE ALIENS HIDING THEIR MESSAGES?
POEM - KENTUCKY FRIED KANT - by Lewis Lacook
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NUDE MODELS AT PHILADELPHIA ART COLLEGE JOIN UNION
Complaining of low pay, cold rooms and air laden with paint fumes and
charcoal dust, models who pose nude at a Philadelphia art school
voted to join a union.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/business/5_8_03models.html
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NOMAD UPDATE
Avid bikers, we very much enjoyed cycling through The Bronx with
Borough President Aldofo Carrion, Jr. Off to an early start on Fri
May 9, 2003, we raced up to The Edgar Allen Poe Cottage near Fordham
Road on the Grand Concourse. We managed to arrive in about
20minutes from our starting point of 3rd Ave & 138th St., and were
able to greet our fellow bikers a few minutes before the 7am start
time. We met lots of good folks while riding back down the Concourse
for our 7:45am power breakfast. Fortunately, I saw able to scout out
lots of new Bronx destinations for us. Fordham Road appears to be a
great place to shop & what caught my eye was the womens' department
at Dr Jays' Usually, Dr Jays stores do not have womens' wear,
now Joseph & I can enjoy one stop shopping, and The Bronx, as we
outfit ourselves in our hippest, hopping styles for big men by Sean
John, and whatever I find, maybe JLo. We noticed the beautiful
architecture along the Grand Course and were pleasantly surprised by
a bike path, that will lead to a destination we will discover on our
next trip. Borough President Aldofo Carrion, Jr is an avid cyclist
as well and was awarded a citation from Transportation Alternatives.
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EXPERIENCE THE BRONX
DON'T MISS!!…PERFORMANCE ART WEEKEND IN THE BRONX
Friday May 16 & Saturday May 17 @ THE POINT 8PM Start Time
JOIN US AT OUR SP[RING] CLEAN[SING] SHOW
Featuring new performances, introducing new cor[porat]e [per]form
[ance] art[ist], and eagerly anticipating YOU….meet Naa Koshie
Mills, as she will be joining us in two new pieces, Balance and
2103. Also, guest performer, Richard Olson will be
presenting "Totally Improvised."
AND for those of you who missed our show at The Evergreene Cultural
Centre in Vancouver, we welcome you to THE RETURN OF THE CULT OF THE
COR[PORAT]E [PER]FORM[ANCE] ART[ISTS] CLEAN[SING] RITUAL
Mark your calendars and tell all of your friends. This weekend -
Fri May 16 & Sat May 17 is PERFORMANCE ART WEEKEND IN THE BRONX.
Each night, starting at 8pm, will be an evening to feast on dance,
song, music, & audience participation. Our Friday night opening will
include a wine & cheese reception, immediately following the
performances, hosted @ The POINT. Saturday's closing performances
will kick off with a reception for The POINT's staff art exhibit,
currently being shown in the atrium @ The POINT.
The Point (www.thepoint.org) is located @ 940 Garrison Avenue and
convenient to reach by subway. Take the 6 train to Hunts Point
Avenue. Walk under the Bruckner Expressway (right in front of you
when you exit the train station onto Hunts Point Avenue) and make a
right turn at the first light onto Garrison Avenue. THE POINT is on
the corner of Garrison and Manida Street (the first street on your
left walking on Garrison).
Tickets are 12$ and 15$ at the door
For advanced ticket purchases go to www.corporatepa.com or call 718-
292-9427
For more info, please contact donna at corporatepa.com or call 646-279-
2309
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THE LOVE AND FEAR EXPERIENCE
The POINT Live From The Edge Theater presents THE LOVE AND FEAR
EXPERIENCE directed by Dennis Darkeem, on Fri May 23 @ 8pm and Sat
May 24 @ 3pm & 8pm. Returning with a unique and captivating event,
THE LOVE AND FEAR EXPERIENCE, explores the internal battle that so
many artists/performers struggle to overcome. This work is about
artists/performers and for the artist/performer in all of us. This
multimedia experience is a blend of modern dance, film, sound
effects, dramatics, art, music, and poetry with performers from all
around New York.
Tickets are $12 general and $5 students/seniors
Call 718-542-4139 or go to www.thepoint.org
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CARY PEPPERMINT'S CONDUCTOR NUMBER 14 VERSION 4.0
The Bronx River Art Center located @ 1087 E Tremont Ave. presents
Cary Peppermint's Conductor Number 14 Version 4.0, the latest in his
ongoing series of performances, beginning Sat May 24, 3 to 6pm and
continuing until June 14. PEPPERPMINT'S Conductor performances deal
directly and brazenly with issues of mediation by incorporating live
video/surveillance technology that requires viewers to observe in
simultaneity the actual performance event and the real time (live)
approximation of that event. In Conductor performances, Peppermint
engages multiple technologies to deliver his own discourse of spoken
language and techno music that he terms "Technolectures". Through
both high and low technologies including halogen work-lamps, laptop
computers, and even a ukulele, Peppermint questions the effectiveness
and potential of the "live" performer.
The Bronx River Art Center is located
1087 East Tremont Ave., Bronx, NY 10460
718 589.5819 phone
718 860-8303 fax
www.bronxriverart.org
Gallery Hours M-F 3 - 6:30pm & Saturday Noon to 5pm
Directions: Take the #2 or 5 to West Farms Square/East Tremont. Walk
one block east to Bronx Street.
Bus: #s B9, 21, 36, 40, 42, Q44 to East Tremont and Boston Road
Car: Bruckner Expressway to Sheridan Expressway and exit at East
Tremont Ave. left at stoplight one block to East Tremont, left one
block to Bronx St., or Cross Bronx Expressway to Rosedale Ave. exit.
Left onto Rosedale Ave to Tremont Ave., left onto Tremont Ave, four
blocks to West Farms Square.
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BRUCKNER BLVD ART & ANTIQUES DISTRICT – SPRING FAIR
SATURDAY May 31, 2003
Join the art & antiques district along the Bruckner Blvd, between
Willis and Alexander Avenues, as they celebrate spring in The Bronx.
On Sat 5-31-03* from 10am to 5pm local artists & antique dealers will
open their establishments, exhibit their fine collectibles, and
invite all to walk along the Bruckner Blvd, which will be closed to
traffic during this spring fair, to experience antiquing and art
collecting in The Bronx.
*Rain Date Sat June 7, 2003
Vendors are also welcome.
For more info please contact Evonn Stapleton, SOBRO 718-292-3113
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WANDA RAIMUNDI-ORTIZ presents RICAN-STRUCTION @ EXIT ART
Ortiz's work addresses stereotypes and the process of
transformation. She presents "RICAN-STRUCTION" an on site pseudo-
beauty salon where she will conduct "makeovers" on men and women to
transform them into what she sees as stereotypical Puerto Rican
looks.
Raimundi-Ortiz lives and works in The Bronx. Her work has been
featured in Grammy Fest 2003 at The Bronx Museum of Art, MTV, Urban
Latino Magazine, The POINT, The Bronx Museum of Art Performance Lab
Series in conjunction with Pepatian, and BAAD! ASS Women's Festival.
The show is on until May 31st at Exit Art 475 W.36th street/10th Ave.
Rican-Structions (makeovers with a Puerto Rican aesthetic) are
performed every Saturday from 2-6pm. All are invited to participate
and become a part of Exit Art's great event.
For more info, please visit www.exitart.org
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SALON DE BRONX – OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2003,
2-5pm, STORAGE ART SPACE
An exhibition of artists living & working in The Bronx. May 31-June
21, 2003
Storage Art Space is located @ 61 Bruckner Blvd in The South Bronx.
Directions: #6 subway to 138th & 3rd Ave, first stop in The Bronx,
Walk south on Alexander Ave, under the expressway to Bruckner Blvd.
Walk east (left) on Bruckner Blvd. ½ block before the McDonald's.
By Car: FDR north to exit 18, Willis Ave Bridge. Stay right for
Bruckner Blvd. Get in left lane. Left @ light onto Bruckner Blvd,
just past McDonald's
For more info, please visit www.storageartspace.org or call 917-902-
9754
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"WILL WE LOSE THE 8-HOUR WORK DAY? CONGRESS CONSIDERS 80-HOUR WEEKS
WHILE LABOR DEPARTMENT GUTS OVERTIME RULES"
Jon Bekken, May 2003 Industrial Worker
The Bush administration proposed new regulations March 27 that would
deny
overtime pay protections to millions of U.S. workers. The proposed
rules
would enable employers to reclassify many workers as managers,
administrative or professional employees -categories exempted from
FLSA protections including the requirement to pay time and a half for
work after 40 hours.
Meanwhile, a House subcommitee has approved legislation that would
enable employers to replace overtime pay with compensatory time off
(at the employers' convenience, of course). HR 1119 is now headed to
the full Education and Workforce Committee. The Senate is considering
a parallel bill, S. 317, which would also replace the current 40 hour
standard with an 80-hour two week standard…
http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?
sid=03/05/13/1313250&mode=nested
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WIRED TO THE BRAIN OF A RAT, A ROBOT TAKES ON THE WORLD
Georgia Tech researchers have created a hybrid mechanical/biological
robot controlled by the neural activity of rat brain cells grown in a
dish. The neural signals are analyzed by a computer that looks for
patterns emitted by the brain cells and then translates those
patterns into robotic...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1961&m=4905
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THE FREE MARKET AL-QAEDA: NEOLIBERALISM AND THE VIOLENCE IT DOES
[Editor's note - neoliberalism is more popularly known as neo-
conservative]
Some observations inspired by David Bollier's "Silent Theft: the
Private
Plunder of Our Common Wealth" by Richard W. Behan | posted.04.24.03 |
Can a society whose culture is so given over to excessive
commercialization
ever function as a deliberative democracy? Can the public find and
develop
its own sovereign voice, or has its character been so transformed by
commercial media...that public life will forever be a stunted thing?
--David Bollier, p. 148 in Silent Theft
David Bollier's important and stimulating book describes a stealthy
but cumulatively violent attack on public life in America.
The things we hold and share in common -- our culture and public
knowledge; public services; public spaces; public lands -- are the
things that define us as the American people.
Slowly, silently, but deliberately, they are becoming private assets
and services, private spaces, and proprietary knowledge, to be turned
not to public benefit but to corporate profit. Much that was once
public and free has been captured and commercialized, turning the
vibrant body politic increasingly into a mundane body economic.
This is not happening by chance. It results from a small group
of "free-market" ideologues who set out 40 years ago consciously to
achieve precisely this state of affairs, investing hundreds of
millions of dollars to advance their ideology. Known today
as "neoliberalism," it is now global in its reach, assaulting in like
manner societies around the world. We have on our hands a worldly,
Free-Market Al-Qaeda, indulging in violence that is neither physical
nor as spectacular as that of its fanatically religious counterpart,
but it may be far more consequential.
Mr. Bollier's book is not a radical critique of all private property
and enterprise. It is a fresh and reasoned assertion that something
precious will be lost when property and enterprise are all private.
And we are headed inexorably in that direction.
Mr. Bollier introduces the notion of the "gift economy." The original
relationship of humans to their biophysical environment functioned
that way. Gifts from nature were parceled out as gifts among the
members of the group, clan, or tribe, all of which engendered senses
of caring and mutual respect in the community -- and respect for the
community -- as well as a spiritual relationship with nature.
The gift economy yet exists in the nurturing of children and aging
parents; neighbors helping neighbors; volunteerism of any stripe;
free access to undeveloped public land; blood donation; aiding the
unfortunate and the poor; freely shared scientific research;
charities; the Linux operating system; public libraries; and a shared
attraction, perhaps approaching the spiritual, for the national parks
and other federal lands. The gift economy gives meaning to the human
experience and to our lives as social creatures, and it builds a
vibrant body politic.
The advent of specialized labor necessitated exchange, and that led
to markets. Markets function when self-interested individuals strike
bargains between "willing sellers and willing buyers." But kindness,
giving, cooperation and community are unnecessary, and here is the
origin of Mr. Bollier's concern.
The just and vibrant society exhibits both gift and market economies,
Mr. Bollier asserts, but his book describes the
accelerating "enclosure of the commons," the ongoing private seizure
of public assets, services, and values, and the "marketizing" of them.
The market seems to be intruding everywhere. Advertising in public
schools. The patenting of life forms. Public sports arenas renamed
for corporate sponsors. The disappearance of Thanksgiving in a
cyclone of Christmas promotions (and pre-school children asking
department-store Santas for brand-name toys). Mailboxes (physical and
electronic) crammed with junk mail. Proposals to privatize Medicare
and Social Security. Et cetera.
"The central role of market forces in American life," Mr. Bollier
exclaims, "is not as distressing as their ubiquity and reach."
In the public policy arena, enclosure appears as privatization
schemes, deregulation programs, various forms of "marketizing,"
public agencies "partnering" with corporate providers, and the
growing imposition of user's
fees for public services.
This sounds familiar and contemporary because it defines our national
political momentum, and essentially of both parties. The momentum is
not by accident; it is the result of a deliberate, richly financed
campaign to shift public policy sharply to the right.
Dating at least to the publication of Milton Friedman's book
Capitalism and Freedom in 1962, a messianic conviction has taken hold
in some quarters that governments suppress individual freedom and
markets maximize it. The idea dates from the late 1800s, and that's
why the movement to advance it is known as neoliberalism -- but the
referent word here is "liberty" (as in "libertarian"). Neoliberalism
has nothing to do with progressive political thinking: it is
archconservative to the core.
The conviction is held so strongly by 12 right-wing philanthropic
foundations that they set out in the 1960s and in concert to overturn
a century's accumulation of progressive public policy. Convinced the
nation was drifting into socialism, they sought wherever possible to
replace government mechanisms of "command and control" with "market
solutions."
The foundations are the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the
Carthage Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Charles G. Koch,
David H. Koch and Claude R. Lambe charitable foundations, the Phillip
M. McKenna Foundation, the JM Foundation, the John M. Olin
Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Foundation, the Sarah Scaife
Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.1
In a beautifully orchestrated program, these foundations -- we could
call them the Diligent Dozen -- spent hundreds of millions of dollars
to advance and emplace the neoliberal agenda, creating what has been
called an "hegemony of market theology."
How successful have they been?
The most conspicuous and powerful beneficiaries of this effort are
the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the
Cato Institute, all in the nation's capital, and all funded by the
Diligent Dozen -- since 1985 alone, with more than $88 million. These
three think tanks have crafted or influenced virtually the entire
programs of both domestic and foreign policy for the George W. Bush
Administration. President Bush's brother, Jeb, serves on the Board of
Trustees of the Heritage Foundation. Vice President Cheney's wife,
Dr. Lynn Cheney, is a senior staffer at the American Enterprise
Institute, and 20 other AEI staffers now serve in the Bush
Administration. The Cato Institute, the champion of privatizing
Social Security, was proud to include on its board of directors Mr.
Kenneth Lay, the personal and corporate patron of Governor and
President Bush, and the sometime CEO of the Enron Corporation.
Across the country are hundreds of other neoliberal organizations, a
comprehensive interlocking network, funded by the Diligent Dozen.
They focus on a wide range of policy matters, including the federal
lands.
The American Recreation Coalition, apparently, provided the lobbying
muscle for the controversial Recreation Fee Demonstration Program in
1996, but the ideology and a continued trumpeting of support come
straight out of the Diligent Dozen -- and in particular, two
organizations in its neoliberal network far from Washington DC.
One of these, The Thoreau Institute, directed by Mr. Randal O'Toole,
has received more than $200,000 from three of the foundations since
1997. Mr. O'Toole could be called the ideological father of Fee Demo.
For years he
has been preaching the theology of the market, sermonizing
rhapsodically about the virtue of recreation user fees on the federal
lands.
The other organization, funded by nine of the Diligent Dozen, is the
Political Economy Research Center of Bozeman, Montana. It has been
granted,
since 1985, more than $4 million. The champion of "free market
environmentalism," this is the group that aggressively advocates
privatizing the federal lands -- for the bizarre and absurd reason
that they "lose money."
The various receipts collected do indeed fall short of annual
appropriations, as PERC claims. That can be seen as "losing money,"
however, only by assigning a profit objective for the federal lands,
and then doing some Arthur Anderson bookkeeping. (In this case,
failing to account for externalized benefits.)
Since Yellowstone National Park was created 131 years ago, the
statutory objectives for the federal lands have been exactly
otherwise than profit, and for appropriations to be unmatched by
income is fully anticipated in any public enterprise. By the logic of
the Political Economy Research Center, public libraries "lose money,"
too -- and so for that matter does the Department of Defense.
The fundamental premise of neoliberalism is that free markets ensure
efficiency in resource allocation and management. But the "free
market" so cherished by neoliberals and so conceptualized by Adam
Smith 200 years ago has long since vanished. Markets are no longer
driven by the free bargaining of willing participants, but by
policy: frequently by public policy achieved through corporate
lobbying, and always by corporate policy, if only in administered
prices. Only the truly devout or the tragically deluded will deny the
reality of corporate-dominated markets -- which have themselves
become mechanisms of "command and control."
Neoliberalism either doesn't see or doesn't care that "marketizing,"
and privatizing, means corporatizing. Common property becomes not
just private, but corporate property. And deregulation favors
corporate interests by definition. So the policy tools of
neoliberalism encourage and expand the corporate domination of
markets, and there is no better example of the result than the social
disaster of the Enron Corporation.
Mr. Terry Anderson, PERC's director and co-author of its
privatization report, seems unable to comprehend the federal lands as
anything but commercial enterprises that should turn a profit.2 This
is not simple myopia, and it is not peculiar to Mr. Anderson.
Discounting and disdaining public life is an insufferable and elitist
characteristic of neoliberalism, but if a free and democratic society
wishes to create and sustain a system of national parks, say, with
public financing for public enjoyment, it can, should, and will do
so. Attacking their success is to attack the free and democratic
society, so only those fully confident in their religious convictions
about markets will attempt it. Mr. Anderson is sufficiently confident
to offer his service as an advisor on public lands to the Bush
Administration, where his urge to privatize the parks is warmly
appreciated.
Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton reads from the same neoliberal
page as Mr. Anderson. She has undertaken what appears to be an
incremental privatization of the National Park Service, beginning
with its personnel. Secretary Norton proposes to eliminate almost
three-fourths of the full time positions in the Park Service,
shifting them to the private sector. That's a start, but Mr.
Anderson's colleague at PERC, Mr. Donald Leal, is candid about the
ultimate neoliberal objective. He suggests in print cutting the
National Park Service appropriations eventually to zero.3
Neoliberalism is the positive force pushing the market into every
sphere of public agency and concern. And by no means is it limited to
the United States.Susan George describes how neoliberalism has become
global in fact,4 so to characterize it as a secular Al-Qaeda is not
to exaggerate.
The Al-Qaeda is an international sect of religious fanatics bringing
enlightenment to the infidels, and doing violence routinely in the
name of righteous ideology.
Neoliberalism encompasses an international sect of ideological
fanatics, too. The success of the 12 US foundations was matched in
the United Kingdom by the Adam Smith Institute, and privatization,
deregulation, and the manic stimulation of global "free trade" are
pursued by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and
neoliberal governments around the world. Arundhati Roy describes in
her graceful book the socially disastrous results in India.5
Neoliberalism also does violence routinely, in the name of righteous
ideology, but not to buildings, ships, or airplanes. Neoliberalism
does violence to public life, to "publicness."
Publicness takes many forms. Community is one. Assets enjoyed in
common are the essence of community, whether we speak of the Boston
Commons; Missoula's Carousel; a public library; a state university; a
community theater group; or the national parks. When such things are
privatized, corporate commerce gains and community is diminished.
Democracy is another, perhaps ultimate form of publicness. As the
empowerment of people to govern themselves freely, as they and they
alone
see fit, it should be sacrosanct. It is not.
Much has been written about the corporate purchase of the U.S.
government with campaign contributions. More has been written about
the corporate stranglehold on governments globally via the World
Trade Organization. Democracy around the world is under corporate
assault, and everywhere the attack draws strength from neoliberal
dogma and initiatives.
These initiatives -- marketizing, privatizing, deregulating -- are
not as sudden, dramatic, and terrifying as airplanes crashing into
buildings, but over time the violence they do is far greater -- to
the commons, to community, to democracy.
Do we want our public life to be forever a stunted thing? Do we want
it to
disappear?
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IT'S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID
If even Greenspan and Bush's own appointees think this is the wrong
time for tax cuts, why is the president in favor of them? Because he
believes social programs should not exist.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15902
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GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE
The Bush administration's embrace of a philosophy we might dub
Populist
Social Darwinism creeps into American life and culture.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15889
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99 BOTTLES OF BEER - IN CODE
Just for fun…
http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/
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COMPUTER PAINTER
How Artist/Professor Harold Cohen taught a computer to paint.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/adRedirect.php?id=2&m=4905
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THE OTHER 'F' WORD
It's time to say it in polite company, the U.S. has turned into a
fascist
state.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15867
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GENETIC ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM
An ongoing conference series reveals how biotech giants like Monsanto
are
trying to gain control of the world's food supply, and keep the
global South poor.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/
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"==", AN EXHIBITION OF THESIS WORK
May 28 - June 6
MFA Design & Technology Exhibition 2003
Parsons School of Design
Parsons School of Design proudly presents "==", an exhibition of
thesis work from the renowned MFA program in Design &
Technology. "==" is an exhibition where design and technology
converge. Video installations, documentaries, soundscapes,
animations, interactive narratives, multimedia educational tools,
game design, narrative shorts, wireless applications, experimental
multimedia, and physical computing make MFADT a place where the
creative process and digital tools transform ideas into reality.
Opening reception
Wednesday May 28, 6-8pm
Arnold & Sheila Aronson Galleries
66 Fifth Avenue and
Gallery at 2 West 13
2 West 13th Street
Gallery Hours Mon.- Fri. 9-9 & Sat & Sun. 9-6
Exhibition closes at noon on the final day
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HOW TO SELL YOUR ARTWORK
SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2003 (2-4 pm)
Panel Discussion at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Also including: Ben Goldman, Elena Paul (Volunteer Lawyers for the
Arts), Carmela Rea (Carmela Rea Fine Arts), Eleanor Williams (Mixed
Greens, Inc.), and Erin Donnelly (LMCC)
General Admission: $15 / LMCC Members: $7
One Wall Street Court, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
212.219.9401
http://www.lmcc.net/ServicesandResources/Prof_Dev_Series/Upcoming_Work
shops/PDS
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Q&A: ANITA RODDICK'S KIND OF REVOLUTION
The former CEO of the Body Shop and lifelong advocate of corporate
responsibility says the route to global revolution is ... kindness.
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COUNTING ON DISTANT WORLDS: MATH AS AN INTERSTELLAR LANGUAGE
We cannot count on the universality of mathematics for interstellar
communication, says Physicist and philosopher Sundar Sarukkai of
National Institute of Advanced Studies in India. He suggests that
mathematics on other worlds may differ considerably from ours. "If we
begin with the assumption...
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CONGRESS MAY GIVE ARTISTS, AUTHORS BREAK ON TAXES
By Tom Herman
Wall Street Journal - May 7, 2003
Congress is moving closer to approving a juicy new tax break for many
authors and artists.
Under current law, writers, artists, composers and scholars who
donate their
own works to charity typically can deduct only the cost of their raw
materials. But under a bill approved recently by the Senate, those
donors
would be able to deduct the fair-market value of their works, not
merely the
cost.
If the bill becomes law, "it would open the floodgates for gifts from
artists and authors" to museums, libraries and other qualified
charities,
says Victoria B. Bjorklund, a partner at law firm Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett
in New York. Because of the restrictive current law, "there's been a
real
dearth of donations by artists," says Ms. Bjorklund, who also is head
of the
American Bar Association tax section's Committee on Exempt
Organizations.
Once Congress finishes tinkering with the bill, President Bush is
expected
to sign it because it includes additional charitable-giving
incentives and
other items high on his wish list. Among them is one that would allow
taxpayers who claim the "standard" deduction (a flat amount based on
filing
status) to deduct limited amounts of charitable contributions this
year and
in 2004. Under current law, donors can't deduct a penny unless they
itemize
their deductions. This change would have widespread impact since
nearly
two-thirds of all taxpayers typically choose the standard deduction,
instead
of itemizing. The Senate bill was approved by a vote of 95 to 5.
"Increasing incentives for charitable giving remains a high priority
for the
president," an administration official says.
In the House, among the strongest supporters of the provision
affecting
artists and writers is Rep. Amo Houghton, a New York Republican who
heads
the Ways and Means Committee's subcommittee on oversight. "Artists
would be
more inclined to give their works to public museums and libraries if
there
were a fair financial incentive for them to do so," Rep. Houghton
says.
"This would be of tremendous benefit to the public."
Naturally, though, the new legislation has lots of fine print,
including
some highly important limitations crafted in the hope of preventing
abuses.
For starters, this change would be effective only for contributions
made
after the president signs the bill into law. Thus, would-be donors
shouldn't
donate any of their own works right now. Instead, sit on your hands
and wait
to make sure the bill becomes law.
Figuring out precisely what kinds of donations would qualify for this
generous new treatment could be very tricky. For example, it's
unclear from
the Senate bill's wording whether gifts would include not only
finished
artworks and books but also notes, letters and memoranda. If so, this
bill
could appropriately be renamed the Packrats Relief Act of 2003.
Some New York lawyers and congressional staffers think it probably
does
cover notes, letters and other similar items. However, it remains to
be seen
whether Congress will clarify the scope of the provision, or merely
pass the
buck to the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service to write
regulations.
Under the Senate bill, there are several requirements that must be
met in
order to qualify. First, whatever you donate must have been created
by you
at least 18 months before the date you contributed it. Second, you
would
need to get a professional appraisal of whatever you donate, to
determine
the fair-market value, and attach a copy to your tax return. Third,
your
donation would have to go to a public charity or certain limited
types of
private foundations. Fourth, the use of your donation would have to
be
related to that organization's charitable purpose or function. An
example
would be an artist donating his painting to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art
in New York.
Additional fine print is designed to make sure this deduction is
available
only to true professionals, not rank amateurs who paint for fun in
their
garage or who churn out mountains of unpublished and unsold prose
that had
been relegated to their attic.
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PERFORMANCE FOR THE VOICED BODY
Lynn Book's Voicelab and Dixon Place present:
Open Mouths for Hungry Ears
innovative performance for the voiced body
featuring original work by:
Colin Bridges Sujin Lee
Mary T. Converse Narani O'Shaughnessy
&
Vox Risk Holler
the worlds first performance art chorus
conducted by Lynn Book
Dixon Place @ HERE, 145 Sixth Ave.
tuesday, May 20, 7 - 8:30 pm
tickets: $15 or TDF, $12 adv, $10 students, srs.
reservations: 2 1 2 - 6 4 7 - 0 2 0 2
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ARE ALIENS HIDING THEIR MESSAGES?
Two physicists have come up with an intriguing solution to the Fermi
paradox (If we are not alone in the Universe, why have we never
picked up signals from an extraterrestrial civilization?). They
suggest a way in which aliens could send messages to each other
across space that not only...
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POEM - KENTUCKY FRIED KANT
By Lewis Lacook
To stare at a blank teal screen
as my palm pilot arms itself
against an insurgance of birds
is to revenge the outpouring inward
of quarks and fissures, a viscous
human thought, in which one can
slide one's fingers around at will,
especially fighting a sliver of hangover
over some crumbs of comfort. You
must have replaced the batteries in
the seasons, or bought an AC
and surge protector for them, because
they glow:
and this noon, just waking, a bit
fried with human thought, I'm
golden brown and crispy, orange
with suffocation, all the rage:
its quite popularly corroborative.
Overseas, soldiers shrink-wrap
this new and familiar war, stickerprice
for retail some dumb pride in
destruction. But I don't
feel like a liberator;
my categorical imperitive isn't
as iterative as a while loop
nested in shifts of conditional
branches. One could go white
with stolen art. So I crack
these shells, unscoop their
potential into a glass
of worcestshire or tabasco:
gulp down a pungeant slide
as trees tassle the sky, channel
the wind, over these hardened graves
of human thought.
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