Julia Meltzer and Liz Canner (Los Angeles, Boston)
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		Julia Meltzer's and Liz Canner's collaborative videos, "Three Strikes/ The Injustice System," State of Emergency: Inside the LAPD," center around police violence in Los Angeles.
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		Tewodross Melchishua (Washington, DC)
Tewodross Melchishua
		A commitment to destroying stereotypes and myths about people of color, and specifically people of African descent is the inspiration behind the animator, filmmaker, producer and visual artist Tewodross Melchishua (pronounced tayh-drose mell-kay-shoo-ah). His work also reflects his concern for young people, especially children and the negative images they are bombarded with through mainstream media. Tewodross was born in Washington, DC and has been drawing cartoons since he was a child. As a self-taught animator, he created stop motion animation as early as ten years old. A graduate of Morgan State University, he received a B.A. Degree in Art and Photographic Media. He also completed his MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts, at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
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		Voices UnBroken (Bronx)
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		Voices UnBroken provides poetry and writing experiences to young people as a way "to facilitate a healing of self-worth and a transformation in life-path decisions." Workshops focus on reaching youth living in institutionalized settings such as prisons, correctional facilities, and homeless shelters but also work with youth in public schools and community centers. "The goal is to have young people care about their lives, understand the society that has shaped them and become active in the struggle for social justice."
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		Katharina Weingartner (New York)
Katharina Weingartner
		In 2000 Katharina Weingartner directed "Too Soon for Sorry," which explores the cultural and economic conditions behind the prison industrial complex through a look at four US prisons. Desire and fear, adventure and greed, control and revenge have created not only a highly sophisticated form of oppression with 2 million people behind bars but a deadly mix for a whole generation of African Americans and Latinos.

		Pia Lindman and Angel Nevarez (New York)
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		Pia Lindman is a Finnish-born New York based artist. Her primary interests are human negotiations of structures of power. Her latest works are among others the performance/installations Public Sauna at P.S.1. and Fallow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In progress is a series of videos of sports arenas in New York. She has made work in countries such as: Japan, East and West Europe, Russia and the Nordic countries. Angel Nevarez is a New York based artist and is currently a participant of The Whitney Independent Study Program. His work involves the use of photography, sound, and video. Critical models of representation and identity formation are central to his art practice. Besides individual projects, Nevarez collaborates with other artists. E.g., Com_muni_port, is a pirate radio project currently in progress with New York based artist Valerie Tevere.
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		Jayce Salloum (Vancouver)
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		Jayce Salloum's video "Everything and Nothing" is the first part of a continuous piece named "Untitled," an intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara, an ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter, in her Paris dorm room after her release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation center (S. Lebanon), where she was detained for 10 years, 6 of which she spent in isolation.
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		Witness (New York)
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		WITNESS is a human rights program that attracts the eyes of the world and inspires those who see - to act. WITNESS strengthens local activists by giving them video cameras and field training. Today, WITNESS unleashes an arsenal of computers, imaging and editing software, satellite phones and email in the struggle for justice. The lasting impression of the Rodney King beating and the riots that ensued showed the emotional power of the visual: the videotaped images gave the incident impact and immediacy that words could not. Today, WITNESS has worked with over 150 WITNESS partner groups from 50 countries to use video to overcome political, economic, and physical barriers, and to expose human rights abuses to the world via television, grassroots advocacy, and internet broadcasting.
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		Jenny Perlin (Brooklyn)
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		Jenny Perlin studied film and cultural studies at Brown University and completed her MFA in film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also participated in the International Studio Program and a residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy. Perlin's projects focus on issues of misunderstanding, falsification, detritus, and documentary reconstruction. She is currently creating "Perseverance," a multi-part investigation into cultural and social histories of self-help in the U.S, based on a 1915 book of the same title.

		Deborah Kelly (Sydney)
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		Deborah Kelly has been making socially engaged artwork since 1983. Her projects address discourses of local and momentary histories and seek to intervene in representations of place and privilege. Recent projects have included "Boat-people.org," graphic civil disobedience on refugees, mass actions on Aboriginal land rights, and the award-winning public art collaboration with Tina Fiveash "Hey, Hetero!," which was shown in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Wellington, and will appear in Berlin in 2002. She has given public lectures and workshops around Australia and in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Ottawa.
		more info about Deborah Kelly

		Goddy Leye (Amsterdam/Douala)
Goddy Leye
		Goddy Leye is an Amsterdam based video and installation artist from Cameroon whose recent work addresses issues of violence in the information age. He has exhibited extensively in Africa, Europe, the United States and Cuba.
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		Jenny Polak (Brooklyn)
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		Jenny Polak comes from England and often uses art to address immigration issues. She is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work takes architectural drawing as a starting-point. Her most recent work is "Hard Place," a web-based art work completed for a Digital Artist Residency at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, which uses architectural rendering to reconstruct the experiences of immigrants detained by the INS. Polak has participated in many group shows, including "Rubies and Rebels: British Jewish Women Artists" at the Barbican Gallery and elsewhere in England; Public Notice at Exit Art, NY; and shows at SUNY Purchase and Wesleyan University. Her public art includes two projects of the RepoHistory collective in NY: "Civil Disturbances," which placed artist-designed street signs at sites in NY, and "Circulation," artists' post-cards for web and snail-mailngs; and artists’ poster projects such as "Maximum Security Democracy." She has degrees in architecture from Cambridge University and in Art from St. Martins School of Art in London and SVA in New York.
		more info about Jenny Polak

		Picture Projects (New York City)
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		Picture Projects, a NYC-based collaborative founded in 1995, creates documentaries using new media technologies. Our team works with other artists, photographers, journalists, filmmakers and academicians to tackle major contemporary social concerns. Picture Project's most recent project, 360degrees.org grew out of our concern about the growing numbers of incarcerated Americans. We've spent three years researching the criminal justice system, working with advisors, and scholars, securing funding and interviewing inmates, victims and family members, judges, lawyers and corrections officers. The site continues to expand with stories, dynamic data exercises, resources and online dialogue.
		more info about Picture Projects

		Trebor Scholz (Berlin/Brooklyn)
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		As an East Berlin born, Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist, Scholz studied new media in London (Slade School of Art) and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1998. Online and off, his work is focused on integrating traditional and new media creating situations of debate, and community organization around issues of economic inequality, borders, nationalism, and indifference towards global events. The internet, museums and galleries, universities and the street are all contexts for his work. Scholz exhibits, lectures, and curates programs in Europe and the Americas. In co-production with Banff Centre for the Arts, Trebor Scholz will create "The Time In Between," a web-based work centering around issues of memory in relation to the war in Kosovo/a. His work is included in this year's Sao Paolo Bienial.
		more info about Trebor Scholz

		Emily Jacir (Bethlehem/Queens)
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		Emily Jacir is an artist who lives between New York and Palestine."Memorial to 418 Palestinian Villages which were Destroyed, Depopulated and Occupied by Israel in 1948" was made in the spring of 2001. For 2 months, she opened her studio to anyone who wanted to volunteer to work on the Memorial.Over 140 people passed through my studio and sewed with her. The majority of them she had never met before. They came as lawyers, bankers, filmmakers, dentists, consultants, musicians, playwrights, artists, human rights activists, teachers, etc. They came as Palestinians (some of whom come from these villages), as Israelis (who grew up on the remains of these villages) and people from a multitude of countries.
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		NO ONE IS ILLEGAL (Germany)
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		No One Is Illegal is a broad-based movement whose members tackle the "fortress mentality" of European governments in matters relating to immigration.
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		Horit Herman Peled (Tel Aviv)
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		Horit Herman Peled is an artist and theorist who resides in Tel Aviv and teaches art and digital culture in the Art Department, Talpiyot College, Tel Aviv, and at the Art Institute, Oranim College, Kiryat Tivon, Israel. Recent projects and exhibitions include: “Chained Displacements - Ground Zero for Terror” (internet work), CTHEORY Multimedia, issue 3, April 2002; “ Gaza Checkpoint”, an on-going internet project; “Blessed Be He Who Did Not Make Me A Woman,” a multimedia performance and lecture, Harvard Law School, February 1998.
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