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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Yu Gothic", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Please join us this evening for the second lecture in the Department of Art's 2023/24 Visiting Artist Series. For
this academic year's programming we have invited guests whose creative work and research connect with a broadly defined theme of "listening".</span></p>
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Series Lecture with Steven Kurtz</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Yu Gothic", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> in FAB 249</b></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>About Steve Kurtz</b></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kurtz" id="LPlnk850082" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kurtz" data-loopstyle="linkonly" class="OWAAutoLink">Steve
Kurtz</a> PhD, Professor Emeritus of Art at the State University of New York, is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed art and theater group
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Critical Art Ensemble</a> (CAE). Founded in 1987 by Steven Kurtz and Steve Barnes, CAE is an award-winning collective of artists of various specializations dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, political activism, and critical theory.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For over three decades CAE has produced interventions and provocations that examine questions surrounding information and communication technologies, biotechnologies,
and environmental struggle. 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 The Whitney
Museum and The New Museum in NYC; Documenta, Kassel; The Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.; The ICA, London; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and many others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic"; font-size: 10pt;">Academic Program Manager | Department of Art | College of Fine Arts | Florida State University</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic"; font-size: 10pt;">Fine Arts Building 220 | 530 W. Call Street | Tallahassee, FL 32306-1150</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic"; font-size: 10pt;">850.644.3147 | <a href="mailto:mivory@fsu.edu" title="mivory@fsu.edu" data-loopstyle="linkonly" id="OWA6c06d7b1-5cda-bbae-a5a3-1467dff12398" class="OWAAutoLink">mivory@fsu.edu</a> </span></div>
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