Presenters
Andrew
Boyd
was a pioneer of viral activism and one of the driving forces
behind Billionaires for Bush (or Gore) and the Million Billionaire
March. He founded, and for several years directed, the arts and
action program at United for a Fair Economy. He is currently an
adjunct professor at NYU and presents/performs around the country.
His writing has appeared in the Nation, the Village Voice and
several anthologies on recent social movements. Andrew is also
the author of The Activist Cookbook, a source book on creative
direct action, as well as several books of political humor published
by W. W. Norton.
Elayne
C. Bryn, Esq., practices copyright and intellectual property
law in Philadelphia. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from
the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and her law degree from
Villanova Law School. She is a member of the Intellectual Property
Committee of the American Bar Association. In her private practice,
she advises companies and individuals on matters concerning intellectual
property protection. She has particular experience and interest
in protecting the ideas and works of artists involved in the creative
arts. Ms Bryn is an active member of the Philadelphia Volunteer
Lawyers for the Arts and has lectured at workshops for documentary
filmmakers and fine artists.
Michael
Coard, Esq., is an attorney with his own practice in Philadelphia.
He also teaches a course called Hip Hop 101 at Temple University
and hosts "The Radio Courtroom" on WHAT 1340-AM. He is a member
of the ACLU, National Lawyers Guild and NCOBRA, a national organization
for reparations. He received his law degree from the Ohio State
University College of Law in 1985, and was a double major in Political
Science and English at Cheney University.
Kevin
Fitzgerald was born to a West Indian mother and Irish-American
father in New York in the early 1970's, and has been DJ'ing since
the age of 14. He co-hosts a popular radio show on KPFK 90.7 FM,
in Los Angeles and is a founding organizer of The Center for Hip-Hop
Education. Shortly after being awarded a scholarship to the University
of California's film program, Kevin started seriously researching
and documenting hip-hop. Shooting for Freestyle began with equipment
and supplies he gained access to through his classes. A long time
student of natural medicine, Kevin's philosophy is to tell stories
that reveal and bravely explore the nature of community: both
its lines of fracture and its prospects for healing.
Jesse
Goldstein is a philadelphia based artist who works out of
Space1026, a collectively run artist studio and gallery. His art
focuses on exploring propaganda and political symbolism through
simulation and artifice. He tries to exploit the latent ideological
underpinnings that pervade both state sanctioned imagery as well
as popular culture. All that means is that he tries to make somewhat
absurdist and silly "political" posters to be pasted up all over
the city.
Theodore
A. Harris is a collagist, poet, muralist, born in New York
City in 1966 and reared in Philadelphia, PA. He has been an artist
with Mural Arts Program since 1983. His poetry, visual art, essays
and interviews have appeared in various publications such as Real
News, North Philly Matters, The Hammer, AWOL, Cal Literary Arts
Magazine, and African American Review. He uses collage as a form
to pin the political tale on the donkey, or elephant (or corrupt
tiger, as the case may be). His work is fundamentally about consciousness
raising and telling about peopleÕs struggles world wide against
oppression and exploitation.
Marjorie
Heins directs the Free
Expression Policy Project, a think tank on artistic and intellectual
freedom. She is the author, most recently, of "The Progress of
Science and Useful Arts": Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual
Freedom, a policy report published by FEPP. She directed the American
Civil Liberties Union's Arts Censorship Project from 1991-98,
where she worked on a number of free-expression and copyright
cases. In the 1980s she was a staff attorney at the Civil Liberties
Union of Massachusetts and chief of the Civil Rights Division
of the Massachusetts Attorney General's office. She graduated
from Harvard Law School in 1978.
Michael
Hernandez de Luna has been creating and designing fake postage
stamps for 9 years this day. He is the co-author of the publication
The Stamp & Postal History of Michael Thompson & Michael Hernandz
de Luna on Bad Press Books. please see (badpressbooks.com) For
the last 2 years, he has been working under the watchful eye of
the Federal Government's Postal branch in a official postal investigation.
He lives in Chicago.
Todd
Hickey is the co-founder of the Hip Hop Film Festival. East
Coast born and raised, he earned a degree in Radio-Television-Film
from Temple University in Philadelphia, before moving to Los Angeles
with nothing but a backpack, enthusiasm, some raw talent. A week
later Todd met Director Spike Jonze, and soon became his Assistant,
providing him the opportunity to develop into a skilled and resourceful
storyteller. Todd has considerable experience as a writer, director,
cinematographer, producer and creative consultant.
Mark
Hosler is a founding member of the group Negativland. Since
1980 Negativland has created records, video, radio and live performance
using appropriated sound, image and text. Taken mostly from corporately
owned mass culture, Negativland re-arranges these bits and pieces
to make them say things they never intended to. In doing this
kind of "culture jamming" (a term coined by Negativland in 1984),
the group has been sued twice for copyright infringement and has,
since 1991, been aggressively and publicly involved in advocating
a significant reform of this nations copyright laws. As a member
of Negativland Mark has written essays and articles on these issues
and lectured broadly in the U.S. and abroad.
Chris
Jay Hoofnagle is associate director of the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC), where he concentrates on
governmental and commercial privacy issues. He is the author of
Protecting the Fundamental Student Right to Privacy (Campus Privacy
Review, 2003), The EFOIA Amendments of 1996, and Consumer Privacy
in the E-Commerce Marketplace 2002. He has testified before Congress
on privacy and Social Security Numbers, identity theft, and the
Fair Credit Reporting Act, and before the Judicial Conference
of the U.S. on public records and privacy. He is widely quoted
in the media regarding privacy and civil liberties.
Jed
Horovitz grew up inside Los Angeles as an outsider to the
'biz'. In an attempt to work his way back 'inside', he attended
the NYU film school where he developed a passion for documentaries.
He worked as editor for Oscar winner Pierre Gaisseau, the Cousteau
Society and the Playboy Channel before receiving a grant from
the California Council of the Arts to document storytellers Frances
Clarke Sayers and Richard Chase. After a stint working on low
budget features, he went to UCLA's Anderson School of Business,
and later launched Video Pipeline, Inc. which pioneered the streaming
of movie previews at retail sites on the Internet and therein
lies the tale of "Willful Infringement" that took him back to
his movie-making roots.
Matt
Jackson is Assistant Professor of Communications at Penn State
University, where he teaches telecommunications regulation and
policy, copyright, communications law, management, and broadcast/cable
programming. His research focuses on the evolution of copyright
law and its impact on communication networks and free speech.
He is vice-chair of the Law and Policy division of the International
Communication Association and his article "One Step Forward, Two
Steps Back" was selected as one of the top intellectual property
law articles of 2002. Previously he worked in commercial and public
radio, and founded his own music management agency, Fervent Music.
Tyler
Jacobsen is a video and performance artist/electronic musician
who works in conjunction with the media arts collective, Conglomco.org.
Jacobsen's work has been shown extensively in the past six months
across the US, the UK, and Europe. His musical work with experimental
synth-pop groups Denim and Diamonds, and A Roman Scandal, as well
as art rockers, .Trail of Dead, has called the attention of such
publications as UK's NME. Tyler is currently living and working
in Troy, NY while finishing his MFA in Electronic Art at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.
Albo
Jeavons has been sticking it to "The Man" as an artist and
activist since the early 80's. His subvertisements are archived
on the Advertisers Anonymous site: www.adanon.org. Recent mischief
includes The DisneyHole Project
and the drug-war propaganda site www.theanti-drug.com. He even
jammed The Illegal Art Show by setting up his own exhibition at
the new Crapper Fine Arts Gallery (in the bathroom at Wooden Shoe
Books, 508 S. 5th St.).
Eric
Joselyn has lived in the declining (declined) industrial center
of Philadelphia for the past sevevteen years. He lives and teaches
art in Olney. The arc of his political work in PA strethes from
curbsides, campus, communities, classrooms and lamp-posts. His
is not a life dedicated to perfecting his art but to turning this
society over. heÕs pulled this stuff together in the hope of giving
others encouragement and ideas for developing and deploying propaganda
with effect.
Nathan
Martin is an electronic artist, interaction designer, theoretician
and programmer. He received the John L Porter Award twice while
earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University
with a concentration in Electronic and Robotic Arts (1999). In
1997, Nathan formed an interdisciplinary arts and technology group
known as The Carbon Defense League (CDL). His writings have appeared
in several books and magazines since 1999. He received a Graduate
Fellowship to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY where
he currently resides and participates as a member of the Troy
Tactical Media Lab. His MFA will be completed in May 2004.
Carrie
McLaren is the editor of Stay
Free! magazine and a freelance web and graphic designer. She
also teaches media literacy and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Alec
Meltzer was a co-founder of the Independent Media Center of
Philadelphia, organized to provide an alternative media outlet
during the2000 Republican National Convention. Since that time,
Alec has gone on to help found Media Tank, a leading local and
national media education and policy reform non-profit group. Alec
lives in Philadelphia and is a freelance graphic designer and
Web developer whose work can be seen on sites such as Clean
Air Council and Spiral Q
Puppet Theater.
Ewuare
Osayande is a Philadelphia-based activist and author. His
books include Gangsta Rap is Dead and So the Spoken Word WonÕt
Be Broken. Trevor Parham, a Berkeley native, is a junior majoring
in Digital Video at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been
working with various independent hip hop artists in both California
and New York for the past three years, creating music videos,
designing promotional media, and advocating greater youth participation
in independent media creation. He hopes to use his experience
in multimedia and hip hop to diversify the ideologies within mainstream
media.
David
G. Post is currently Professor of Law at Temple University
Law School, where he teaches copyright law, patents, and the law
of cyberspace. Prior to joining the Temple faculty, he practiced
law at the Washington, DC law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering,
taught at Georgetown Law Center, and worked as a law clerk for
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (at both the US Appeals Court and the Supreme
Court). He has published widely on intellectual property and the
law of cyberspace, and is co-author of the recently-published
casebook on "Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in
the Internet Age". His writings can be found at: www.davidpost.com.
Donyale
Yvette Hooper-Reavis, Esq. is a founding partner of Elam Reavis,
LLP, an entertainment boutique law firm specializing in intellectual
property, music, and digital technology transactions. Reavis earned
her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1999,
where she also received a Masters, cum laude, in Government Administration.
In addition to her legal work, she serves as a political campaign
consultant and is the founder and President of the youth-based
media arts organization, kaPow! inc., which provides alternative
learning strategies for urban youth. ReavisÕ passion for the arts
has been a lifelong commitment.
Carrie
Russell is Copyright Specialist for the American Library AssociationÕs
Office for Information Technology Policy. Her responsibilities
include copyright policy, research and education, and fair use
advocacy. Since her appointment to the OITP in July 1999, she
launched numerous copyright education projects for the Association
including e-mail tutorials on copyright basics, and licensing,
and a distance education copyright course for practicing librarians.
She has given numerous copyright workshops and fair use advocacy
presentations across the country, and writes a monthly column
for The School Library Journal.
Gigi
B. Sohn is the President and Co-Founder of Public Knowledge,
a nonprofit organization that addresses the public's stake in
the convergence of communications policy and intellectual property
law. Previously she served as Project Specialist in the Ford FoundationÕs
Media, Arts and Culture unit; and Executive Director of the Media
Access Project, a Washington, DC based public interest telecommunications
law firm. Gigi was appointed to the "Gore Commission" in October
1997, and was selected that same year by the American Lawyer magazine
as one of the leading public sector lawyers in the country under
the age of 45.
Carly
Stasko is an artist, activist, educator and self-titled "imaginator."
She is a graduate of the University of Toronto in Semiotics and
works as a producer at CBC Newsworld's political debate show counterSpin.
She publishes a 'zine titled "uncool" and has had her writing
and art published in magazines such as The Utne Reader and Canadian
Dimensions Magazine; and she serves on the board for THIS Magazine,
a Canadian magazine of culture and politics. She leads media literacy
workshops in high schools and universities to promote critical
thinking, confidence and civics.
Termite
TV Collective is a group of video artists, including filmmakers
Mike Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty, who create alternative
media for Television and the web.
Kristin
Thomson is a community organizer, social policy researcher,
entrepreneur and musician. From 1989 to 1992 Kristin was an action
organizer for the National Organization for Women. She left NOW
to co-run Simple Machines, an independent record label until 1998.
In 2001, Kristin graduated with a Masters in Public Policy from
the University of Delaware. Currently, she manages research projects
for the FMC and works for the DC-based government relations firm
Bracy Tucker Brown.
Jacques-Jean
Tiziou is a freelance photographer based in Philadelphia.
Most of his work consists of documentary style portraiture, but
his interests vary. He has been working exclusively in digital
format since last November, and his most recent project was photographing
the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Dante
Toza is a freelance radio journalist who regularly produces
pieces for nationally syndicated programs like Free Speech Radio
News and Pacifica Network's Peace Watch. She was responsible for
volunteer training and program production at KPFT Houston. From
the studio of Radio Volta, she is now training independent radio
journalists in Philadelphia.
Siva
Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian, media scholar and author
of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property
and How it Threatens Creativity (2001) and The Anarchist
in the Library: How Peer-to-Peer Networks are Transforming Politics,
Culture, and Information (2004). Vaidhyanathan is a frequent
contributor on media and cultural issues for periodicals such
as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine,
MSNBC.com, Salon.com and The Nation. After five years as a professional
journalist, he earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University
of Texas at Austin. He is currently director of the undergraduate
program in Communication Studies in the department of Culture
and Communication at New York University.
