Body of Evidence: October 20 - 24, 1999

In conjunction with London Transgender Film and Video Festival (October
20-24), the "Body of Evidence" interface of the BRANDON project
(http://brandon.guggenheim.org) has been curated by Lisa Haskel and
features new contributions by four London-based artists, Hans Scheirl,
Matthew Fuller, Svar Simpson and Del LaGrace Volcano. "Body of Evidence"
takes as its point of departure issues in Brandon/Teena Brandon's
rape/murder case and reflects upon broader institutional regimes of
gender classification. During the festival, the BRANDON project will be
rendered as a four channel night time window projection facing the
street at the Lux Gallery, Hoxton Square, London.

Would the Jurors Please Stand Up?: November 17-20, 1999

With the launch of "Body of Evidence," BRANDON announces a call for
jurors to participate in "ONLINE VIRTUAL COURT: An Experiment on Joint
Decision Making and Conflict Resolution on the Net." On trial are cases
of sexual assaults that blur the distinctions between male/female gender
and actual/virtual space. Presented by Society for Old and New Media in
association with the Guggenheim Museum, the virtual court sessions will
be held publicly at Theatrum Anatomicum, De Waag, Amsterdam and on the
Net at http://brandon.guggenheim.org. Each Net trial session consists of
8 JURORS and a moderator. The jurors will be pre-selected after
completing a stress level test (provided by the Gender Identity Clinic)
and are required to study the documented cases that make up the trial.
Jurors will be expected to log on and off the Net for an assigned ONE
HOUR trial session. The session will be conducted as a series of votes
on preformatted question and answer forms. Issues will also be debated
over scheduled SWEAT OUT sessions. Legal council for the project:
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School), Jennifer Mnookin (University of
Virginia Law School), Kendall Thomas (Columbia Law School) and B.M.J.van
Klink (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant).

SUBMIT. COMMIT. SIGN ON AS JURORS. http://brandon.guggenheim.org

BRANDON, set up as an open ended narrative and launched in June 1998, is
a Guggenheim Virtual Museum commission that entails multi-artist,
multi-author, and multi-institutional collaboration both on and off the
Web. The work will continue to be updated and presented in a variety of
forms around selected special events and academic forums.