The Art That the U.S. Department of Justice Doesn't Want You to See

[queerbychoice]

Did you catch the story a few weeks back about federal prosecutors charging an art professor with bioterrorism for creating an art project involving bacteria that the federal investigators acknowledged were completely harmless? How about the follow-up explaining how the fact that they persisted in filing charges even after determining that the bacteria were harmless may be motivated by the political subversiveness of the art?

Well, here's the art made by the group of artists working on that project. The specific project that the investigators confiscated obviously isn't included, but there's plenty of other worthwhile politically subversive art there for you to look at.

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[boyfunk.livejournal.com]

YES! And I couldn't believe that my art professors at SUNY Cortland hadn't heard about it since they work for the same college "franchise." Buffalo is one of the schools I am looking at for grad school as well, now it seems the department will be gutted.

I have come to the conclusion that Bush supporters/supporters of the "War on Terror" are intellectually and emotionally dead inside; their blood replaced by oil, their brains and hearts by adding machines and bank books--to blindly support such Orwellian measures there can be no other explanation.

I am putting together weekly events at Cortland this fall under the moniker "Indie Media Club" (drawing on the happenings of the 60's) and I intend to invite the CAE to speak and present their work. I have the feeling my school may be less than supportive of the idea. We'll see what happens.