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The issues here are fundamental: freedom of speech, freedom of expression and academic freedom. The case is precedent-setting, and will help determine whether anyone exercising their right to free speech can be criminalized merely for their ideas, in fundamental violation of the United States Constitution.
Review of Lynn Hershman's film "Strange Culture" By Gabriella Giannachi The film tells the story of the case and features Greg Bordowitz, Steve Dietz, Robin Held, Claire Pentecost, and Nato Thomson.
Saying No to the Prosecutor: Why Did Steve Kurtz's Colleagues Refuse to Testify to the Grand Jury? The Buffalo Report, June 20, 2004 By Bruce Jackson FEATURED ESSAY: April 6th, 2005 Reflections on the Case by the US 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?
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.
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."
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