Paul Guzzardo: "Iterations of Interface"
Secret/The Josephine Baker FBI File
Tuesday, January 17 - Thursday, March 9, 2006
Public Reception: Tuesday, January 24, 6-8 p.m.
"Secret/The Josephine Baker FBI Files" film and discussion, Tuesday, February 7, 7 p.m.*
Gallery Talk by Paul Guzzardo: Wednesday, February 8, noon.
Performance by DJ Z Cosic and VJ Leon Lamont: Thursday, February 9, 6-8 p.m.

“Secret”, multi-media installation

In collaboration with WIU students, Paul Guzzardo makes art and theatre out of a 1950's surveillance data bank. Multi-media installations demonstrate an innovative approach to experiencing new media. The once secret, now public, FBI files of stage personality Josephine Baker and her relationship with J. Edgar Hoover and radio personality Walter Winchell are activated for visitors to wear, map and dance with. The exhibition and planned theatrical performances of Guzzardo's Secret are held in conjunction with the one-hundredth anniversary of Josephine Baker's birth.

Additional work by Paul Guzzardo can be viewed at www.mediaarts.org/.

*Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 7 p.m. in the Gallery:
Screening of the film documentary, "Secret/The Josephine Baker FBI Files" (Approximate time duration of the film: 25 min.) Discussion/questions with Paul Guzzardo following the film screening. This program is co-sponsored by the University Art Gallery and the McDonough County NAACP.

The performance by DJ Z Cosic and VJ Leon Lamont is co-sponsored by the University Art Gallery, the Visiting Lectures Committee and the Council on Student Activities Funds.