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April 11, 2024

“Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project” to screen at Miami Web Fest May 2, 2024

“Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project” (16:22) will screen at Miami Web Fest

Thursday, May 2, 2024 as part of Screening Block #1
10:00 am to 12:30 pm
NYFA, 420 Lincoln Rd., #300, Screening Room 321
Miami Beach, FL
Tickets are here.

Where innovation meets the unthinkable!

In 1995, Dr. Joseph Bonuso, Ph.D. (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs), announced that he, along with 150 computer scientists and attorneys specializing in artificial intelligence, had developed a solution to the crisis of American jurisprudence, They were poised to radically revamp the entire judicial system using a distributed program running on a set of super computers that could deliberate on evidence and render swift, unassailable equal justice for all, putting judges in the back seat and relegating juries to history.

This is the tenth film in the oral history series “Joey Skaggs Satire and Art Activism oral history series“.

February 3, 2024February 10, 2024

“Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project” to screen in two film festivals in Feb, 2024

San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF IndieFest): Thursday, February 8-18, 2024. Online for 10 days. Tickets are here.

New Jersey Film Festival, Spring 2024: Friday, February 9, 2024. In-Person at 7 PM in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ AND Online for 24 Hours. Tickets are here.

Anita LaBelle has penned an insightful review of the film for New Jersey Stage Magazine.

Reminder: “Joey Skaggs: Celebrity Sperm Bank” will be streaming free until May 31, 2023 at the Pérez Art Museum Miami Exhibition, Perpetual Motion, Curated by Barbara London.

December 1, 2023December 15, 2023

Pérez Art Museum Miami Exhibition, Perpetual Motion, Curated by Barbara London Starts Dec. 6

The short film “Joey Skaggs: Celebrity Sperm Bank” is one of ten featured videos in Perpetual Motion, foundational media art curator Barbara London’s first streaming-on-demand exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami. Perpetual Motion explores how technological change, mass media, and the universality of moving images impact the dynamic activity of contemporary video artists.

Running December 6, 2023 through May 31, 2024, the films in this exhibition will be available free for streaming on PAMMTV (registration required) where viewers around the world can access cutting-edge video art through their web browsers, mobile phones, tablets, or Apple TV.

Other participating artists include Kamari Carter, Richard Garet, Bang Geul Han, Cornelia Parker, Wong Ping, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Aki Sasamoto, Federico Solmi, and Claudix Vanesix.

September 27, 2023December 15, 2023

“Joey Skaggs: Celebrity Sperm Bank” Nominated by Burbank Film Festival

“Joey Skaggs: Celebrity Sperm Bank”, which screened at the Burbank International Film Festival on Sunday, September 24, was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. This is the story told by Joey himself of his (a.k.a. Giuseppe Scaggolini’s) 1976 celebrity sperm bank auction which goes awry when the sperm is stolen.

The film will also screen at The NewsFest International Film and Writers Festival in LA and the Baltimore Next Media WebFest in Baltimore in early November. Dates & times TBA.

More info about the whole oral history series is here: https://joeyskaggs.com/videos/oral-histories