Syndicate: Shu Lea Cheang: BRANDON/CALL FOR JUROR

[Inke Arns <inke@berlin.snafu.de>]

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:54:05 +0200
From: Shu Lea Cheang <shulea@earthlink.net>
Subject: BRANDON/CALL FOR JURORS


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


BRANDON/BODY OF EVIDENCE
In conjunction with London Transgender Film and Video Festival (October
20-24), the "Body of Evidence" interface curated by Lisa Haskel features
uploads by four London-based  artists, Hans Scheirl, Matthew Fuller, Svar
Simpson and Del LaGrace Volcano. Body of Evidence reviews exhibit of
Brandon/Teena Brandon's rape/murder case and reflects upon broader
institutional regimes of gender classification. During the festival,
BRANDON is rendered as a four channel night time window projection facing
the street at the Lux Gallery, Hoxton Square, London.

BRANDON/WOULD THE JURORS PLEASE STAND UP?    November 17-20, 1999
With the launch of Body of Evidence, BRANDON calls 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. 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 on the Net for an
assigned ONE HOUR trial session. The session will be conducted as a series
of votes on devised QandA forms and issues can be debated over 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).

BRANDON, initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and set up as an open ended narrative
and launched in June 1998, is a Guggenheim Virtual Museum commission that
entails multi-artist, multi-author, multi-institution collaborative web
project.


BRANDON>>>CALL FOR JURORS>>> SUBMIT.COMMIT.SIGN ON.
http://brandon.guggenheim.org


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