Thursday March 13
4:00 pm
Location: Quintero Lab Theatre, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
FREE ADMISSION
Information and reservations: 713-743-5749 or send us an email.

Especially for University of Houston and Rice University students! Adventures in Illegal Art is a film lecture/presentation with Mark Hosler of Negativland. If you are you interested in media-literacy; want to know more about creative and humorous anti-corporate art/activism; interested in challenging the roles of advertising and corporate power in our lives; opinionated about intellectual property issues; and want to be involved in the evolution of art, law, and resistance in a media saturated multi-national world then reserve your space now!

And be sure to check out the fifth annual Media Archeology Festival presented by Aurora Picture Show, April 17-19. Featuring events at DiverseWorks Art Space, the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, and Rice University, the three-day festival is supported in part by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at University of Houston and 91.7 KTRU-FM (Rice University Radio). Curated by Aurora Artistic Director Andrea Grover and New York musician/curator Nick Hallett, this year's festival is titled Media Archeology: Live and Televised and features multimedia artists who incorporate audio/visual technology with live performance.

For more information and advance tickets, please visit www.aurorapictureshow.org.  

Mark Hosler is a founding member of the group Negativland. Since 1980 Negativland have been creating records, video, radio and live performance using appropriated sound, image and text. Taken mostly from corporately owned mass culture, Negativland re-arranges these bits and pieces to make them say things they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural opposition and "culture jamming" (a term coined by Negativland in 1984), they have been sued twice for copyright infringement and have, since 1991, been aggressively and publicly involved in advocating a significant reform of this nations copyright laws. As a member of Negativland Mark has written essays and articles for numerous publications and has lectured at universities throughout the world.