For Immediate Release For Further Information Contact:
September 1, 2005 Berman Museum of Art 610-409-3500, or College Communications, 610-409-3300

ARTISTIC APPROPRIATION IN THE AGE OF LITIGATION
IS TOPIC FOR A DAY OF ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS AND WORKSHOPS

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - “Begging, Borrowing and. . . . Stealing? - Artistic Appropriation in the Age of Litigation” is the topic of a day of roundtable discussions and workshops to be held Nov. 8 on the Ursinus College campus.
Renowned experts in the areas of copyright and intellectual property law; visual artists and writers; curators; and librarians will serve as panelists for this newsworthy topic. The conference will be held in Olin Auditorium on the Ursinus campus, and will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (2001), National Public Radio commentator, and Director of Communication Studies at New York University, will open the day’s program with a keynote address. A cultural historian and media scholar, he has also written for American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. The Chronicle of Higher Education called him “one of the best-known scholars of intellectual property and its role in contemporary culture.” His new book, The Anarchist in the Library was released in May.
In an age given over increasingly to litigation, the conventions of artistic appropriation are adopted with ever more risk by practicing artists, despite the fact that these conventions are time-honored within the histories of art, literature, music, and film, among others. This day-long conference will explore the complexities, ambiguities, ambivalences, and outright disagreements that occur where art-making, law-making, and the determination of what constitutes fair use and free expression meet in the world of artistic and creative “borrowing.”
Pre-registration is required, for which a nominal fee will be charged. For more information, contact Susan Shifrin, Associate Director of Education at the Berman Museum of Art, (610) 409-3500.
This program is supported in part through the Ursinus College Arts & Lectures program. Exhibitions and programs at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art are also funded in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Ursinus College, founded in 1869, is a highly selective, nationally ranked, independent, coeducational liberal arts college, located on a scenic, wooded, 168-acre campus, 28 miles from Center City Philadelphia. Known for quality programs in the arts and sciences, it is one of only 8 percent of U.S. colleges to possess a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.


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PANELISTS
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Nathalie Anderson, poet, Swarthmore College

Robert Clarida, partner, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, New York

Theodore Harris, muralist and collagist

Marjorie Heins, attorney and Coordinator, Free Expression Policy Project,
William J. Brennan Center for Justice

Carrie McLaren, Organizer, "Illegal Art," Editor, StayFree Magazine

Kathy Schulz, Assoc. General Counsel, New York University

Greg Scranton, digital media artist, Ursinus College

Peggy Seiden, Director of Libraries, Swarthmore College

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Director, Communication Studies program, New York
University

Evan Baird Towle, Visual and Digital Resources Librarian, Philadelphia
Museum of Art Library, Slide Library & Archives







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Boxed Lunch Preference:
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Turkey Sandwich 

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Grilled Veggies Sandwich 



Registration Fees (payment must be received before registration is finalized and lunch is ordered – deadline for receipt of payment is October 30):

Student: $5
Professional/Non-Student: $10

This event is free to all Ursinus College Students, Faculty, and Staff. You will not need to pre-register, however, please be prepared to show a valid Ursinus College ID.


Please make checks payable to Berman Museum of Art
Mail to:
Berman Museum of Art
601 E. Main St. Collegeville, PA l9426
Attention: Sue Calvin