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BIO
Joy Garnett is a painter based in New York. She appropriates news images from the Internet and re-invents them as paintings. Her subject is the apocalyptic-sublime landscape, as well as the digital image itself as cultural artifact in an increasingly technologized world. Her image research has resulted in online documentation projects, most notably The Bomb Project.

Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.

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ironic in view of recent events (CAE):

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Subject: Secrecy News -- 06/09/04
From:"Aftergood, Steven" <saftergood@fas.org>
To:secrecy_news@lists.fas.org
Date:Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:48:04 -0400

SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2004, Issue No. 52
June 9, 2004

**BIODEFENSE: CROSSING THE LINE
**LEGALIZING TORTURE
**MEDIA COVERAGE OF MILITARY COFFINS AT ISSUE IN SENATE
**INTEGRITY OF STATE DEPT TERRORISM REPORT QUESTIONED

BIODEFENSE: CROSSING THE LINE

New government initiatives to promote defenses against
biological weapons threaten to blur the distinction between
defensive and offensive programs, and are placing international
restraints on biological weapons in jeopardy, critics say.

"The rapidity of elaboration of American biodefense programs,
their ambition and administrative aggressiveness, and the
degree to which they push against the prohibitions of the
Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), are startling," wrote
three experts on biological weapons in a new journal article.

"Biodefense Crossing the Line" was authored by Milton Leitenberg
of the University of Maryland's Center for International and
Security Studies, former Ambassador James Leonard, chief
negotiator of the Biological Weapons Convention for the Nixon
administration, and Richard Spertzel, chief U.N. bioweapons
inspector in Iraq after the first Gulf War.

The new essay was first reported by Ian Hoffman in the Oakland
Tribune on June 8.

It will appear in the forthcoming issue of the journal "Politics
and the Life Sciences" (www.politicsandthelifesciences.org) and
is reposted here with permission:

http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/cbw/biodefense.pdf

LEGALIZING TORTURE

Deliberations over the treatment of prisoners in the war on
terrorism may or may not be classified, Bush Administration
officials say, but in either case they will not be officially
disclosed.

But thanks to various media outlets, several such deliberative
documents are being unofficially disclosed, to the
Administration's discredit.

A classified 2003 draft report that takes a relaxed view of the
legal requirements governing prisoners in the "global war on
terrorism" was made available by the Wall Street Journal here:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/military_0604.pdf

A State Department memo on the applicability of the Geneva
Conventions was posted by the New York Times here:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/20040608_DOC.pdf

The refusal to properly disclose this material "is a matter of
grave concern," the Washington Post editorialized today.

Furthermore, "There is no justification, legal or moral, for the
judgments [regarding interrogation techniques] made by Mr.
Bush's political appointees at the Justice and Defense
departments," the Post said.

"Theirs is the logic of criminal regimes, of dictatorships
around the world that sanction torture on grounds of 'national
security'."

See "Legalizing Torture," The Washington Post, June 9:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26602-2004Jun8.html

An unofficial student research paper that nevertheless provides
a useful introduction to the topic is "Terrorists as Enemy
Combatants: An Analysis of How the United States Applies the
Law of Armed Conflict in the Global War on Terrorism" by Maj.
Scott Reid, US Army, Naval War College, February 2004:

http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/reid.pdf

MEDIA COVERAGE OF MILITARY COFFINS AT ISSUE IN SENATE

A pending amendment proposed by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
would direct the Pentagon to devise a protocol that permits
media coverage of the return of coffins of American service
members killed abroad, while ensuring the dignity and
confidentiality of the deceased and their families.

This amendment responds to the recent controversy over the
publication of photos of flag-draped coffins returning to Dover
Air Force Base (on TheMemoryHole.org) and the Pentagon's
refusal to permit further disclosure of similar images.

The proposed amendment to the 2005 defense authorization act
awaits consideration in the Senate next week.

Other noteworthy amendments to the same bill address subjects
such as: a proposal for a pilot program on cryptologic service
training for the intelligence community (Sen. Bob Graham); a
requirement for inspector general reports on the Iraqi National
Congress (Sen. Leahy); reporting requirements on the Pentagon's
detainment of prisoners (Sen. Bingaman); and further reporting
on data-mining programs (Sen. Levin).

The texts of these amendments are excerpted here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2004_cr/defauth-amend.html

INTEGRITY OF STATE DEPT TERRORISM REPORT QUESTIONED

A new report from the Congressional Research Service cautiously
notes that the State Department's annual "Patterns of Global
Terrorism" report suffers from a variety of statistical and
methodological flaws, and that for the first time an errata
sheet to the latest edition will be provided.

The CRS report was first described in the Los Angeles Times
today.

See "The Department of State's Patterns of Global Terrorism
Report: Trends, State Sponsors, and Related Issues" by Raphael
Perl, Congressional Research Service, June 1, 2004:

http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32417.pdf

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) was more blunt about the terrorism
report's defects.

"It appears... that the decline in terrorism reported by the
State Department results from manipulation of the data, not an
actual decline in terrorism incidents," he wrote to Secretary
of State Colin Powell on May 17.

"This manipulation... calls into serious doubt the integrity of
the report," Rep. Waxman wrote. See his letter here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2004_cr/waxman051704.pdf

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Re: more on Steve Kurtz


The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/nyregion/07buffalo.html?pagewanted=all&position=

Use of Bacteria in Art Leads to Federal Inquiry
By DAVID STABA
Published: June 7, 2004

BUFFALO, June 6 - The F.B.I. agents in hazardous-material suits are gone
from Steven Kurtz's house here.

He has buried his wife, Hope, whom Mr. Kurtz, an art professor at the
University of Buffalo, found dead in their home last month. But the
attention of federal investigators, drawn after his wife's death to Mr.
Kurtz and the tools of his unusual means of artistic expression, has not
ended.

Civil liberties advocates and supporters of Mr. Kurtz say the case is a
matter of the authorities' misdirecting post-Sept. 11 investigative zeal
and in the process, trampling First Amendment rights to artistic
expression. Fellow members of his art ensemble, which describes itself as
"dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical
politics and critical theory,'' call it frightening.

On May 11, Mr. Kurtz phoned 911 after waking to find Hope Kurtz, 45, his
wife of 20 years, unresponsive. One of the paramedics who arrived at the
Kurtz home noticed laboratory equipment used in Mr. Kurtz's artwork. That
observation triggered a series of events that led to F.B.I. agents
shuffling through the home in hazardous-material suits and confiscating
the equipment and biological material. They also carted off his books,
personal papers and computer.

The authorities searched the house for two days before announcing that
there was no public health risk and that no toxic material had been found.
Mr. Kurtz was allowed to return home on May 17, and his wife's death was
attributed by the authorities to heart failure.

An F.B.I. spokesman, Paul Moskal, referred all questions to the United
States attorney's office in Buffalo. William J. Hochul Jr., the lead
terrorism prosecutor for the office, declined to comment on the case,
citing Justice Department policy regarding current investigations.

Mr. Kurtz, 46, is not talking to reporters, either. His fellow artists and
his lawyer are speaking on his behalf.

"No one likes the whole force of the whole federal government to come down
around their shoulders," said Mr. Kurtz's lawyer, Paul J. Cambria, who
represented Larry Flynt, the Hustler magazine publisher, in his Supreme
Court case over censorship. "He feels he's being unfairly treated and
would like it all to be over."

But members of the art collective Mr. Kurtz founded, the Critical Art
Ensemble, say it is far from over.

A member of the collective, Beatriz da Costa, an art professor at the
University of California, Irvine, said she was leaving her hotel to attend
an art show in North Adams, Mass., last Sunday when a stranger called out
to her.

"I heard someone say my name," she said. "I turned around and an F.B.I.
agent was there and served me with the subpoena." She was summoned to
appear before a federal grand jury in Buffalo on June 15.

Ensemble members heard reports that F.B.I. agents had questioned museum
curators and administrators at university art departments with connections
to the group. The group produces Web sites, books and touring shows and
orchestrates 1960's-style "happenings," aimed at showing the impact of
technology and its representation on modern life.

"We knew there was an investigation going on - they were talking to people
and they weren't giving him his stuff back," said Steven B. Barnes of
Tallahassee, Fla., another founding member of the group, who was
subpoenaed to testify before the federal grand jury along with Ms. da
Costa. "Those things had nothing to do with public health."

Ms. da Costa said her subpoena indicated the grand jury is looking into
"possession of biological agents."

She said the bacteria E. coli, which can be fatal in some forms and
harmless in others, was used in a Critical Art Ensemble production called
"GenTerra," which looked at genetic engineering of organisms from the
perspective of a fictional corporation.

"I know everything we did was legal," Ms. da Costa said. "We didn't buy it
illegally or make it ourselves. We worked in cooperation with a
microbiology lab in Pittsburgh to create a transgenic E. coli that was
completely harmless." Transgenic cells include genes or DNA transferred by
genetic engineering from a different type of living thing.

The bacteria's benign nature was one of the central themes of the work,
which allowed audience members to expose themselves to the material.

"We were kind of demystifying the whole procedure and trying to alleviate
inappropriate fear of transgenic science and redirect concern toward the
political implications of the research," Mr. Barnes said.

Mr. Kurtz's fellow artists believe federal prosecutors will try to show
that his possession of E. coli and other forms of bacteria - harmless or
not - violated a federal law. The statute they refer to was expanded and
strengthened by the Patriot Act passed after Sept. 11, 2001, and
subsequent anthrax scares in Washington and elsewhere. It prohibits the
possession of "any biological agent, toxin, or delivery system of a type
or in a quantity that, under the circumstances, is not reasonably
justified by a prophylactic, protective, bona fide research, or other
peaceful purpose."

Supporters maintained that the "peaceful purpose" exception should have
snuffed out the investigation well before it got to the grand jury.

"Once they established that nothing in that house was toxic and that he
had no connections to anyone but legitimate artistic and educational
institutions, this should have been dropped," Mr. Barnes said. "Everything
he's ever done has been in the public sphere. There's no secret or private
work. The transgenic bacteria was part of a show that's been traveling
across the country for two years."

A spokesman for the New York Civil Liberties Union said the initial phases
of the Kurtz investigation were handled properly. The group had previously
criticized the Buffalo offices of the United States attorney and the
F.B.I. for their handling of the case of six men from the neighboring city
of Lackawanna who pleaded guilty last year to attending a Qaeda terrorist
training camp in Afghanistan in the summer of 2001.

John Curr III, assistant director of the Buffalo chapter of the civil
liberties union, said of the Kurtz investigation, "Given the set of
circumstances when it happened, I don't think there was an overreaction.
Unless there's some golden nugget of information that they're not sharing,
we feel they're overreacting now.''

"The code even makes a stipulation about a 'peaceful purpose,' '' Mr. Curr
went on. "I don't think anybody could make the argument he was doing
anything that wasn't peaceful.''

Mr. Barnes said: "We're not an activist group. We're what we refer to as
tactical media. We're mainly interested in issues of cultural
representation, how things are represented to the public, and what's the
ideology and the subtext to how something is being represented."

The group's works, many of which can be seen online at
www.critical-art.net, include Web sites and mock newspaper ads touting
fictional biotech companies, and shows in which the audience has the
chance to drink beer containing human DNA.

"That's the essence of the First Amendment," said Mr. Cambria, Mr. Kurtz's
lawyer. "It allows people to be different and express themselves in unique
and creative ways. It's unsettling any time that the government comes down
on someone because of the message they're trying to send or because
they're different, because they're not cookie-cutter individuals in the
eyes of clean-cut, blazer-wearing people. He's to be applauded for his
individuality."

Up until the moment he and Ms. da Costa were served with their subpoenas,
Mr. Barnes said he was confident no reason would be found to prosecute Mr.
Kurtz.

"I was optimistic that when they saw what was going on and talked to
enough people, they were going to realize there was no threat and no
crime," Mr. Barnes said. When he was subpoenaed, he said his reaction was:
" 'They're really going to do this. They're going to push this.' I was
also a little disturbed to realize I was being followed."

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Re: more on Steve Kurtz


one last, from Wired:

Twisted Tale of Art, Death, DNA
By Mark Baard
02:00 AM Jun. 04, 2004 PT

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63637,00.html?tw=rss.TOP