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Published online 4 June 2008 | Nature 453, 707 (2008) | doi:10.1038/453707a
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The four-year fight for biological art
Steven Kurtz, an art professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, was cleared in April of wire and mail fraud charges, four years after the FBI seized art supplies from his home that included laboratory equipment and bacterial cultures. Kurtz is a founding member of the Critical Art Ensemble, which recently exhibited an installation called Immolation at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, UK, showing the effects of incendiary weapons on samples of human skin.
How does it feel now the court case is finally over?
It's really kind of odd. You would think that I would be feeling light as a feather and dancing down the street.
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