A five-minute video based on Port Huron Project 4: We Are Also Responsible, is currently showing on MTV’s giant high-definition video screen in Times Square on the East side of Broadway, between 44th and 45th Streets. The video plays at the top of the hour several times each day. Click here for the schedule. Thanks to CREATIVE TIME for setting this up!

Federal government involved in raids on protesters

Glenn Greenwald

NYC Agrees to Pay 52 Antiwar Protesters $2 Million

The City of New York has agreed to pay $2 million to a group of fifty-two protesters who were swept up in a mass arrest during a peaceful antiwar protest outside the headquarters of the Carlyle Group in 2003. We speak with the lead plaintiff in the case, Sarah Kunstler.

An illuminated nanoscript by Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez and Diane Ludin for iPod nano video presentation created for the *particle group* project installation at: http://gallery.calit2.net

By Eduardo Navas

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Atkinson Hall
University of California, San Diego

August 6 to October 3, 2008
Closing Reception: October 2 at 6 to 8 PM

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I always have a vague yet persistent feeling of uneasiness when it comes to mobile and locative media art: a sense of play and liberty coupled with a tragic consciousness of locative media's capitalist blood ties. The politics and economics of mobile locative art have been partially addressed in issue 7 of .dpi , “Hard Mobility”, on mobility and hacking, 1 but can be further illustrated here by relatively well known projects that make use of Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled cellphones and PDAs to transform cities into sites of play. These projects include the various works of Blast Theory 2 and the likes of Urban Tapestries 3 by Proboscis, 4 which all clearly show how blurry the lines can become between artistic practice, academic research and corporate interests. Various military-industrial-entertainment complexes are part of today's reality and determine the terms of our contemporary constructions of utopia.

Installations by Adriene Jenik and *particle group*

gallery@calit2
Atkinson Hall
University of California, San Diego
http://gallery.calit2.net/
Map & Directions: http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net/directions/

August 6 to October 3, 2008
Closing Reception: October 2 at 6 to 8 PM

Hours:
August 6 through September 19:Wednesday - Friday: 11AM - 5PM
September 22 through October 3:

Port Huron Project 5: The Liberation of Our People

WHAT: Public reenactment of a 1969 speech by Angela Davis, performed by Aleta Hayes

WHEN: Saturday, August 2, 2008. DJ set by Youth Radio at 5:00 PM, speech at 6:00 PM

WHERE: DeFremery Park AKA Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland, CA

By Christopher Knight, Times Art Critic
July 25, 2008

http://www.latimes.com/theguide/art/la-et-galleries25-2008jul25,0,321940...

Early Saturday evening, Providence, R.I.-based artist Mark Tribe orchestrated a reenactment of a 1971 speech by Chicano labor activist César Chávez protesting the Vietnam War. On the South Lawn of Exposition Park, midway between the Natural History Museum and the Coliseum, a call went out for "organized and disciplined nonviolent action," aimed squarely at those "seeking [their] manhood in affluence and war."

Artists re-create seminal events from the turbulent decade for Port Huron Project.

By Diane Haithman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2008
On May 2, 1971, about 200 uniformed police surrounded the perimeter of
Exposition Park while 30-odd plainclothes officers circulated through the
crowd as farm labor

leader César Chávez delivered a brief but impassioned speech decrying the