“Interventions and Provocations: Thirty Years of Critical Art Ensemble”. A lecture by Steve Kurtz

Steve Kurtz (b. 1958) PhD, Professor Emeritus of Art at the State University of New York, is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed art and theater group Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The collective has performed and produced a wide variety of projects for an international audience at diverse venues ranging from the street, to the museum, to the internet, and has been invited to produce projects at many of the world’s leading cultural institutions, including the Whitney Museum and the New Museum, NYC; Documenta, Kassel; the Corcoran Museum, Washington DC; the ICA, London; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and the Natural History Museum, London. In addition, the collective has written eight books on the intersections of art, new media, and political economy, including The Electronic Disturbance (1994); Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media (2001); Marching Plague: Germ Warfare & Global Public Health (2006); and Aesthetics, Necropolitics, and Environmental Struggle (2018).