GenTerra performance at the New Museum

Please join us:

Thursday, June 20, 2002, 6.30-8.00.pm
GenTerra, a project by Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz da Costa
at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, 583 Broadway, NYC


GenTerra is a performance by Critical Art Ensemble and Carnegie Mellon
University Robotic Art Researcher Beatriz da Costa. Posing as a company
dealing with transgenics - the isolation of one or more genes from one or
more organisms to create another, new organism - GenTerra highlights the
complex relationship between for-profit ventures and the ethical
considerations involved in transgenics research and product development.
GenTerra is a participatory 'theater' made up of a lab tent, four computer
station displaying the company's CD-Rom, and a "bacteria release machine."

This event will take place on the first floor gallery and is free with
Museum admission. ($3 on Thursdays from 6-8pm)

GenTerra is planned in conjunction with Open_Source_Art_Hack on view through
June 30, 2002 in the New Museum's Zenith Media Lounge. For more information
about the exhibition, please visit www.newmuseum.org
<http://www.newmuseum.org> .

If you would like additional information or images for publication, please
do not hesitate to contact me.

All the best,

Lauren Tehan
Public Relations Coordinator
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Tel: (212) 219-1222 x217
Fax: (212) 431-5328
Email: ltehan@newmuseum.org
http://www.newmuseum.org <http://www.newmuseum.org/>

Photo credit: Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz da Costa, Gen Terra (2001).
Performance view from St. Norbert Arts and Culture Center, Winnipeg, Canada.