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Please excuse cross postings.

I just received this from a colleague: "Steve Kurtz,
member of the art group Critical Art Ensemble, is due
to be indicted on June 15, and other members of the
group have been subpoenaed in conjunction with the
case. They have a website together, where they are
gathering signatures of support as well as donations
to help with legal fees... These are wonderful
artists, whose works and writings have been part of my
curriculum for at least a decade now, and I've been
honored to exhibit work with them. They add a playful
and intelligent critique to contemporary art
addressing biotechnology. Please help in spreading the
word. http://www.caedefensefund.org/ "

Info about this event can be found at
http://news.yahoo.com

thanks,
Corey Schultz
Stanford University

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"May 25, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FBI ABDUCTS ARTIST, SEIZES ART
Feds Unable to Distinguish Art from Bioterrorism
Grieving Artist Denied Access to Deceased Wife's Body

         DEFENSE  FUND ESTABLISHED - HELP URGENTLY
NEEDED

Steve Kurtz was already suffering from one tragedy
when he called 911
early in the morning to tell them his wife had
suffered a cardiac arrest
and died in her sleep.  The police arrived and,
cranked up on the rhetoric
of the "War on Terror," decided Kurtz's art supplies
were actually
bioterrorism weapons.

Thus began an Orwellian stream of events in which FBI
agents abducted
Kurtz without charges, sealed off his entire block,
and confiscated his
computers, manuscripts, art supplies... and even his
wife's body.

Like the case of Brandon Mayfield, the Muslim lawyer
from Portland
imprisoned for two weeks on the flimsiest of false
evidence, Kurtz's case
amply demonstrates the dangers posed by the USA
PATRIOT Act coupled with
government-nurtured terrorism hysteria.

On May 30, members of the performance art collective
Critical Art Ensemble were subpoenaed by the FBI. The
FBI is planning to indict Steve Kurtz, a member of CAE
before a grand jury on June 15, on unknown charges.
CAE is under investigation for their use of scientific
equipment to produce art projects that question the
relationship between commerce, politics and
biotechnology. Critical Art Ensemble have been
producing performances and theory that merge political
realities with technology and theater since 1987. Thus
far six subpoenas have been issued to: Adele
Henderson, Chair of the Art Department at UB; Andrew
Johnson, Professor of Art at UB; Paul Vanouse,
Professor of Art at UB; Beatriz da Costa, Professor of
Art at UCI; Steven Barnes, FSU; and Dorian Burr."

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