UPDATE:
April 22, 2008
+JUDGE
DISMISSES MAIL FRAUD CASE AGAINST BIO-ARTIST KURTZ
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THE MOTION TO DISMISS
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+ DR. ROBERT FERRELL GIVEN MINIMUM
SENTENCE
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BULLET-PROOF ARGUMENT
For the brief explanation of the argument, see Pages
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case.
+ RENOWNED SCIENTIST SPEAKS OUT
ON KURTZ CASE
+
UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS DECLARE SUPPORT
FOR DR. KURTZ
FEATURED NEWS:
Strange
Culture: Q&A with Lynn
Hershman-Leeson, Steve Kurtz, & Lucia Sommer
Alternative Film Guide, March 31, 2008
By Andre Soares
Terrorizing the Artists in the USA
The Huffington Post, June 14, 2007
By Michael Simmons
Kurtz Case Provides View of Big Brother
The Buffalo News, February 27, 2008
By Donn Esmonde
Judge Questions Basis for Charges
Against Art Professor
WBFO 01.29.08
Interview
with Dr. Dianne Raeke Ferrell about her husband's
plea deal
WBFO 10.29.07
Interview with Dr. Steve Kurtz
WBFO 09.07.2007
Supporters Say Artist's Prosecution
is About Expression, Not Bioterrorism
The Huffington Post
By William Fisher
The
artist on trial for owning a Petri dish [PDF]
The London Daily Telegraph
By Lynn Hershman Leeson
Strange
Culture
The Nation
By Patricia J. Williams
Scientist
tied to Kurtz case pleads guilty
Buffalo News
By Dan Herbeck
Artist says his prosecution is persecution
The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon
By Bob Keefer
FEATURED ESSAY: April 6th, 2005
Reflections on the Case by the U.S. Justice Department against Steven Kurtz and Robert Ferrell
by Claire Pentecost
Many people have asked us why the Justice Department is pursuing this case.
Meaning, when the Buffalo Health Department affirmed that there was nothing dangerous in the Kurtz home and that Hope Kurtz died of natural causes, when the FBI saw that the possession of scientific equipment and materials in Kurtz's home studio was completely consistent with his practice as an artist and that his practice has a long, public and institutionally validated record, then, why didn't they drop the case? When it became clear even through the Grand Jury investigation that this was not a case of bioterrorism, why did they pursue it? Couldn't they see that this is art?
Read the full essay |
LECTURES
by STEVE KURTZ & RELATED EVENTS
Professor Kurtz will be giving lectures and presenting work by Critical
Art Ensemble in the coming months.
2008
Jan 24
Rochester, NY
University of Rochester
Jan 25
Rochester, NY
Screening of Strange Culture
George Eastman House
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Lucia Sommer
Feb 7
Fairfax VA
George Mason University
Feb 19
Pittsburgh, PA
Carnegie Mellon University
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Lucia Sommer
March 10
Oberlin, Ohio
Screening of Strange Culture
Oberlin College
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Lucia Sommer
March 20
Tallahassee, FL
Florida State University
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Steve Barnes
March 20
Gainesville, FL
Screening of Strange Culture
Harn Museum of Art
University of Florida
March 21
Gainesville, FL
University of Florida
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Steve Barnes
March 22
Tallahassee, FL
Screening of Strange Culture
Tallahassee Film Society
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Steve Barnes
March 29
Ann Arbor, MI
Screening of Strange Culture
AA Film Festival
University of Michigan
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Lucia Sommer
April 4
Troy, NY
Benefit Screening of Strange Culture
RPI BioArt Initiative & Sanctuary for Independent Media
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Lucia Sommer
See Past Lectures
UPCOMING FUNDRAISERS
April 4
Troy, New York
Benefit Screening of Strange Culture
RPI BioArt Initiative & the Sanctuary for Independent Media
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Lucia Sommer
SCREENINGS OF STRANGE CULTURE
February 18
Champaign-Urbana
School of Art & Design
University of Illinois
March 20
Gainesville, FL
Screening of Strange Culture
Harn Museum of Art
University of Florida
March 22
Tallahassee, FL
Screening of Strange Culture
Tallahassee Film Society
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Steve Barnes
April 4
Troy, NY
Benefit Screening of Strange Culture
RPI BioArt Initiative & Sanctuary for Independent Media
Q&A with Steve Kurtz & Lucia Sommer
View Past Events
Contact us to set up an event in your area:
organize @ caedefensefund.org
Quote:
"I am absolutely astonished... based on what I have read and understand, Professor Kurtz has been working with totally innocuous organisms...
I am dismayed by what appears to me to be yet one more instance in which knowledgeable persons in the field of bioterrorism are not being brought in and consulted to ascertain what might be real problems and what are purely spurious problems."
D. A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H.
Senior advisor of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
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