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‘Freedom of expression’ shown in illegal art
By Teresa Dickert
Opinion Editor
Inside two quite ordinary Chicago buildings on Milwaukee Avenue are rooms full of extraordinary visual and video media. From Jan. 25 through Feb. 21, the city of Chicago has the honors of holding the Illegal Art traveling art show, which started in New York, and will next tour through the great city of San Francisco.
On Jan. 25, the opening of the show, a press conference was held with Kembrew McLeod, a University of Iowa professor who has trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression." At that press conference, McLeod announced his intention to sue AT&T for using the phrase he rightly owns the trademark to. (For more information on this, see the press release at www.kembrew.com.)
Video screenings occurred on Feb. 7 and 8. The showing of movies and mash-ups included an hour-long documentary titled Spin, which was composed of hours upon hours of unauthorized satellite footage. Spin focused mainly from the 1992 United States presidential election. From Pat Robertson’s bantering of "homos" to Al Gore learning how to avoid abortion questions, filmmaker Brian Springer captured the behind-the-scenes of politicians and newscasters to create an unreal depiction of media reality.
This past weekend, a panel debate organized in conjunction with The Public Square Panel, presented a debate about privacy, piracy, and intellectual property and the public domain. The debate featured a variety of artists and intellectualists including Lawrence Lessig, a professor of Law at Stanford Law School who recently represented Eric Eldred in the Supreme Court case Eldred v. Ashcroft, and Jonathan Tasini, the President of the National Writers Union, labor journalist, activist for creators’ rights, and the lead plaintiff in Tasini, et.al. v. The New York Times, et. al.
The show runs until Friday, so hurry and catch it! (San Francisco is more than a short drive away.) Or check out the website www.illegalart.org for examples of these amazing pieces of work.
