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Steve Kurtz (US)
Critical Art Ensemble, Carnegie Mellon University
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Kurtz is a member of the artist group Critical Art Ensemble and Assistant Professor of Art at the Carnegie Mellon University. His areas of focus are contemporary art history and theory as well as poststudio practices. Kurtz received an B.A. in Sociology in 1981 and an M.A. in Social Thought & Sociological Theory in 1983, both from the University of North Texas. As a student Kurtz together with Steve Barnes began a collaboration to make low-tech videos for which they used the signature Critical Art Ensemble. One year later, in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble transfored into a broad-based artist and activist collective. In 1990 Kurtz received a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the Florida State University. His appointments included Associate Faculty, Goddard College (1993/94) and Graduate Faculty, Vermont College (1992/94).
Participations
Virtual Bodies, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, UK (1994)
Consuming Radio, Florida New Forms Project, Orlando, US (1994)
The Crash Show, Threadwaxing Space, NYC, US (1994)
Electronic Civil Disobedience, Printed Matter at Dia, NYC, US (1994)
The Book of Love, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (1994)
Body Count, The National Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (1995)
Second Biennial of Video and Electronic Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile (1995)
Apocalypse and Utopia, Kansas City Art Institute, US (1995)
Body Count, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (1995)
Body Count, Champ Libré, International Video and Electronic Art Exhibition, Montreal, Canada (1995)
Diseases of Consciousness / Net Work, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada (1996)
The Cyborg Project, Next Five Minutes, Rotterdam / Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1996)
Publications
 The Electronic Disturbance (Autonomedia, 1994)
Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas (Autonomedia, 1995)
List of selected articles
Online
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www-art.cfa.cmu.edu/kurtz
Critical Art Ensemble
http://www.critical-art.net
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