BioArt New York
Introductory Meeting
Tuesday, Dec. 1st, 6:30 pm
11th Street Bar, back room (510 E. 11th St, btwn A & B)
The first meeting of BioArt NY will be next week! We want to get things rolling as soon as we can, and at the end of the meeting we're going to try to go ahead and get smaller groups organized to work on specific projects. We have a couple in mind to start things off with, and we'll all develop others as things progress. But if you have ideas that are fleshed out enough that you want to begin on them right away, let us know before the meeting and we'll arrange time for you to present them.
I hope you can all make it. Feel free to bring friends or colleagues - but please let us know if you're coming, and whether you're bringing anyone, as the bar would like a rough head count.
Mowgli + Eric
More information: http://groups.google.com/group/bioart-ny/
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Eric Forman is a New York based artist whose work focuses on responsive installations and robotic sculpture. Most of this is presented in the context of fine art, but some is functional design, including kinetic and occasionally subversive architectural interventions. Recent investigations include interactive timeshifting of projected video and sculptural hybrids of organic and synthetic forms. Eric is currently an Adjunct Professor in the graduate Digital+Media department at RISD and Design & Technology at Parsons the New School for Design. He has also taught or is a guest critic at Columbia University Architecture, NYU, Pratt, and MICA. He received his Masters in 2002 from ITP at Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), and his B.A. from Vassar College in 1995 where he developed his own interdisciplinary program called The Philosophical Ramifications of Computer Technology. Eric also runs Klank Studios, a technology consultancy and shared art studio providing over 20 years of experience with new media, and is the co-founder of BioArt New York, a collective pairing artists and scientists.
The 11th St Bar is 'tucked away' -- BECAUSE IT DOESN'T BELONG THERE. The 11st Bar's 'cozy back room' -- where they have their live amplified music SHARES A COMMON WALL WITH A RESIDENCE.... they're not supposed to.
How'd they get there then? Well, they committed FELONY FRAUD in their Public Assembly Permit, and lied on their NYS Liquor application. They were found by two Judges to be "ILLEGALLY ZONED" and ORDERED TO CLOSE.
So, why are they still there?
Corruption of course. And the back room...the resident on the other side of that raw-brick wall has lived there for 22 yrs........ yet, the 11th St Bar, a veritable public nuisance did not even have a Cert. of Occupancy for 12 yrs.
Hmm.. how'd all this happen? Do you think the fact the DA Robert Morgenthau had his re-election fund raiser parties at the sister bar (the Ear Inn--directly used in the fraud), owned by the same owners had anything to do with it? Or the fact that the Community Board is compromised by having a Bronx DA (ALEXANDRA MILITANO) chairing 7 committees, including zoning and SLA...and saw the documents of fraud, AND KNOWS THE BAR WAS FOUND BY LAW TO BE ILLEGALLY ZONED-- TWICE! -- AND STILL -- never put the Bar on the Public Agenda for comment -- as they're supposed to before AUTOMATICALLY APPROVING RENEWAL OF THEIR LIQUOR LICENSE, as it has always done with this public nuisance.
OH - By the way -- the Office of Professional Discipline concurs -- and sent the municipal engineers of DOB for criminal investigation.... so what happened... well, the DOI is part of the CITY corruption..... not to mention that the NYSLA investigator John Watts, who, after his investigation said he was going to recommend revocation of the 11th St Bar's liquor license..... then became a deponent against the most directly impacted victim of the bar... yes.. that's right... the POLICE PROTECT THE 11TH ST BAR, AND HAVE CONSPIRED WITH THE BAR, AND WITH THE DA HAVE RETALIATED against the most impacted victim of this public nuisance.
As testimony to the character of these people, the private engineer (Paul Hinkley) and Steve Salvesan of RIP Construction Consultants who committed the felony fraud with Bob Perl of Tower Brokerage (who owns the building)... well, Hinkley's in federal prison for 10 yrs because he apparently likes little girls. . . . . .. YET, he's still reaping the benefits of the felony fraud he committed to force the 11th St. Bar into existence.
any penny you spend in this public nuisance harms the person on the other side of the back-room wall, who has already been harmed enough by this criminal enterprise.
This bar is criminal, and it is it by law, a public nuisance.
Got ethics? skip this one, you'