Art Crime 5: Fair Use

Saturday, Feb 2, 2008
China 1 Antique Lounge
50 Ave. B at 4th St.
21+ Free, Doors: 9PM
www.theoryevents.com

First Thing's First, your DJ's for the evening:

Upstairs on street level, 100 dBs and Theory newcomer Scallywag will be tag teaming to drop the best hip-hop, reggae, soul and funk that you've never heard from 10pm-close.

Downstairs, after an opening two hours of deep house and breaks from our very own house-sassin Nefarious, It's Overture and their Monster Squad cohort Massive G will drop an unrelenting 5-hour set blending house, pop and hip-hop into something we can't quite describe, but can't stop shaking our asses to. Cop the sneak preview mp3 at The Theory Events Media Page.

So what's up with the title?

ARTCRIME5: FAIR USE will be a celebration of fair use in art and music with two floors of fair-using DJs, multiple digital installations of fair use art and mobs of clubgoers ready to make some fair use of one another.

Fair use is the legal defense for works of art that use copyrighted material in order to drive progress in the arts. In today's remixed, mashed, chopped and screwed artistic culture, some of the most exciting works of art and music use parts of prior works juxtaposed with one another as building blocks for entirely new works, and still other exciting artworks reference prior works by parody or criticism. The possibilities are only as large as the imaginations of the artists and the breadth of human experience to date. Does that get you a bit hot and bothered too?

What About The Art Submissions?

We'll be accepting still and video art that either employs fair use or is fair-use themed for inclusion in the installations through Wednesday, January 30 at 8pm, and this is a hard deadline. We will finalize the installations at 8:15pm that night. There will be no extensions.Submissions should be hi-res image or movie files, preferably jpegs and mpegs, with still art captioned in-image with artist's name and the work's title. If you do not caption your works, you will only receive artist attribution on program sheets displayed throughout the venue, organized in order of appearance. Unless otherwise specified by the artist, submissions will be used for digital display only and for one night only, Saturday February 2nd, and will not be used by Theory Events or The Venue for any other purposes. All submissions should be e-mailed to theoryeventsnyc@gmail.com.

Please specify whether you'd allow us to show your art for promotional purposes on theoryevents.com in your submission e-mail. If you don't say anything about other uses, then we won't make other use of it. If you let us use your art on our website, it will be attributed and shown to at least hundreds of people. In-image captioning is strongly recommended for works that you will allow us to show online. Some early submissions will be preview posted on the theory events website, with permission of course. We'll also be hosting zero-commission print and merch sales at our merch table, noted above, so tell us if you can bring some reasonably-sized (under 2 feet square, as a rule of thumb) works that you'd like us to put on sale for you.Because of the theme, we're cutting all restrictions on number of submissions. If you think your work might be appropriate but aren't sure, send it in!

If you'd like to learn more about fair use, help us hone the pamphlet we'll have at the merch table by asking us all them tricky questions.

2008 is going to be a big year, and we're going to do our best to keep you entertained throughout!

Cheers,
Sam Cohen
Theory Events