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We are able to provide a different kind of voice, which is to bring things together to have a kind of collision of ideas.

Remember him?

Didn't he make your life miserable?

The Wexner Center is committed to most generally supporting and exhibiting contemporary arts.

In 1989, when the Wexner Center for the Arts opened, the building attracted the media attention.

You And we also wanted to talk about a building that was not neutral towards art.

Don't forget, this is about art of the 21st century.

This is what the program was about.

And I think it was very important for us to say, here's another context, painter, sculptor, laser artist, performance artist.

What are you gonna do with it?

That sense of discovery that the building kind of unpeels and I think as different exhibitions are and different performances are conducted in the building the building will change for like the building we'll very much slip into the background We're not terrified of the space anymore, and we're willing to take risks at moving a wall here, doing something that might seem a bit crazy.

We have now been working with the galleries for a good year and a half.

And at the beginning of it, all the talk was about what we aren't going to be able to do in the buildings.

You're not going to able to show drawings, you're not gonna be able show paintings, everything is gonna be overpowered by the architecture.

What's happened is that we have found with each show and with each different exploration, there is tremendous flexibility and possibilities.

Wexner Center for the Arts plays two very important roles, and that is one as a contemporary arts center for the community of central Ohio and as a research center and an exhibition center for The Ohio State University.

Our role is to provide an alternative, a rather bold statement, a different kind of offering that adds to what is already here.

The 450,000 square feet of the Wexner Center houses three galleries, a 3,000 seat auditorium, film theater, television studio, black box performance space, bookstore restaurant, and support offices.

We begin the fall season with Paper Tiger Television, our artists-in-residence for the Media Arts Program.

April Tiger Television is a New York-based media collective that was founded ten years ago.

Originally, their mandate was to produce half-hour, very, very cheap programs that went live over Manhattan Public Access Cable, but what they all share is a kind of the mandate to be very critical and of the dominant mass media.

Our programs deal with critical analysis of the media.

We started out doing just mainly print publications.

The New York Times, Vogue magazine, Sports Illustrated.

It's looking at these publications and doing research into who owns them, what else do they own, why they give you the information that they give.

We've come to include all different aspects of media from film to TV programs.

And we are close to producing almost, we've done about 200 programs since we started in 1981.

30 this way.

I guess we should make it, make it think of... Well, what we're doing is, um... We're making a, we're calling it a dream house.

We're basically setting up an environment for people to come in and watch our programs.

We like to make a sort of friendly, comfortable environment for people come in to relax.

The residency program was established to allow concentrated activity with an artist or artist in the programs of exhibitions or visual arts, media arts and performing arts.

Twyla Tharp was the first of the of the residencies which we have put together under under a special program which provides the time and the facilities the space for artists to new ideas.

The Media Arts Center in particular has two parts.

One is exhibition.

We show film and video two to three nights a week of all genres, all formats.

We also have a burgeoning production facility which we hope will be the site whereby artists of all disciplines who are working in the media arts will be able to come and make new work.

But you don't know.

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These emissions cause over 2,000 cancer deaths a year.

Our nation is littered with over 300,000 hazardous waste sites, which leak poisons into the water supplies of 120 million Americans.

Three out of five Americans live in an area where the air is contaminated beyond federal health standards.

Chances are the air, the water, or the land where you live is endangering the health of you and your family.

In 1986, a law was passed that gives you the right to know if the area in which you live is contaminated by toxic chemicals.

Wouldn't you like to know?

We look for conviction, which takes all kinds of forms.

Conviction of what they're doing and a certain level of integrity, which in a lot of which is necessarily assumed.

We just want to show sincere works, which are sometimes angry, sometimes not, but just works that are engaged with whatever the filmmaker or the video artist's world is, whatever that world is.