subRosa is a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers who combine art, activism, and radical politics to explore and critique the intersections of digital information and bio-technologies in women’s bodies, lives, and work. Founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in October, 1998.
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2008
U-Gen-A-Chix performance, “Raw Symbiosis: Animals_Nature_Culture,” 14th International Festival of Contemporary Arts -- City of Women, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 13.
Look! Listen! A Week With|Out Women artist residency (at WHW’s Galerija Nova) & performance (at Student Center Club, Teater &TD), Zagreb, Croatia, May 31–June 8.
2007
Love is Strong as Death: a Convivial Feast, “Pathogeographies (or, other people’s baggage),” Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, July 6.
2006
Yes Species v2., in collaboration with James Pei-Mun Tsang, “Cyberfem. Feminisms on the Electronic Landscape,” Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló (EACC), Spain, October 20.
Love is Strong as Death: a Convivial Feast, “In Transit: from Object to Site,” David Winton Bell Gallery and Department of Visual Art, Brown University, Providence, RI, September 15.
2005
Express Choice, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, November 7.
International Markets of Flesh v2., in collaboration with Carolina Loyola-Garcia, “Arte Nuevo InteractivA’05,” Patio Central del Centro Cultural Olimpio, Mérida, Mexico, June 25 (catalog).
Yes Species, in collaboration with James Tsang, “Intersex 1-0-1 Festival,” Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, June 17 (catalog).
Epidermic! DIY Cell Lab, “YOUGenics3,” Betty Rymer Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, February 18.
2004
Biopower! A Walking Tour of U of I Biotech, “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 28.
2003
U-Gen-A-Chix, “YOUGenics2: Exploring the Social Implications of Genetic Technologies,” Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Oct. 2.
International Markets of Flesh, “XI International Performance Art Festival: Out of Focus,” ExTeresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, July 11.
2002
The Sex and Gender Education Show, “Hardware, Software, Wetware & Women,” St. Mary’s College of Maryland, December.
Biopower Unlimited!, “23rd Annual New Media & Art Festival,” Bowling Green State University, Ohio, October.
US Grade AAA Premium Eggs, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, April.
2001
Becoming Autonomous Zones poster action, “OBN Very Cyberfeminist International” poster exhibition, Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 13.
Expo EmmaGenics, “Intermediale Festival: Art Happens!,” Mainz, Germany, March.
2000
Sex & Gender in the Biotech Century, “Digital Secrets,” Arizona State University,Tempe, Arizona, November.
1999
Does She or Doesn’t She? (Cheaper by the Dozen), Carnegie Mellon University campus, Pittsburgh, PA, September.
Intervention & leaflet distribution with free lemonade, “Race for the Cure,” Pittsburgh, PA, May 9.
cellular muTations, “Next Five Minutes 3,” Amsterdam, March.
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2008
Out-Rage-Us Joy installation in “The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics,” curated by Berin Golonu, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, March 29-June 29 (catalog).
Cell Track: Mapping the Appropriation of Life Materials [v.3] installation, “Deliciously Disposable Earth,” curated by Carolina Loyola-Garcia, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Jan. 17–Feb 22.
2007
Vulva De/ReConstructa video screened as part of "Raw Tactics of the Subversive Body," Pittsburgh Filmmakers, September 8 and Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY September 20.
Ephemera from Love is Strong as Death: A Convivial Feast was shown in "Women Artists: Then and Now," Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, June 2–30.
Documentation & ephemera from Expo Emmagenics was shown in "Corporate Art Expo 07," curated by Shane Montgomery at The Lab, San Francisco, March 30–April 28.
2006
Ephemera from Love Is Strong as Death: A Convivial Feast was shown in “Propagation” show at Polvo, Chicago, Oct 13-Nov 4.
2005
“Arte Nuevo InteractivA’05,” (printed matter, performance artifacts), Centro Cultural Olimpio, Mérida, Mexico, June 16–July 30 (catalog).
Can You See Us Now? ¿Ya Nos Pueden Ver? [clothing tag map] installation, “Thought Crimes: The Art of Subversion,” Diverse Works, Houston, TX, April 1–May 28.
2004–05
Can You See Us Now? ¿Ya Nos Pueden Ver? installation, “The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, May–April (catalog).
Cell Track: Mapping the Appropriation of Life Materials [v.2] installation, “YOUGenics3,” Betty Rymer Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 4–Feb. 5.
2004
Cell Track: Mapping the Appropriation of Life Materials installation, “Bio-Difference: The Political Ecology,” Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Univ. of Western Australia, Sept. 12–Oct. 3.
“Mapping_Part_II” (maps), Mess Hall, Chicago, fall.
2003
“YOUGenics2: Exploring the Social Implications of Genetic Technologies” (printed matter, videos, web site), Southwest Missouri State Univ. Art and Design Gallery, Springfield, Oct. 3–31.
2002
“Art + Activism” (printed matter, web site), Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, Nov. 12–Dec. 14
“Aller Anfang” (printed matter, web site), Museum füer Voelkerkunde, Vienna, Austria, April–October (catalog).
“Unmediated Vision : Art : Technology : Culture” (printed matter, web site, videos), Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, Jan. 26–March. 24.
2001
“Knowing Bodies Exhibition” (drawings, performance ephemera, printed matter), St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg, Canada, April.
2000
Knowing Bodies installation with sculpture, printed matter, video & web site, “Fusion! Artists in a Research Setting,” Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 22–Sept. 29.
“Die Verletzte Diva” (drawings, video), Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, April–July (catalog).
2000–02
Vulva De/ReConstructa video screened at Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Nevada State University, Reno; and in Los Angeles; and Singapore.
1998
Maintenance Performance, “Work and Culture,” Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria, May (catalog).
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2005
“Violencia sin Cuerpos,” <http://www.carceldeamor.net/vsc/>, net.art accompaniment to Carcel de Amor, Museuo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, March 13, Madrid, Spain.
“Nuevas Geografías,” <http://www.laberintos.org/>, Mexico.
2004–03
subRosa videos included in on-line Globalization show, displayed at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti, Romania, March 5– April 30; Bergen Electronic Arts Centre, Norway, March 5–28; New Media Art Festival, Bangkok, March 20–28; Now Music Streaming Festival, Berlin, April 7; Version04: Invisible Networks, Chicago, April 16–May 1; PEAM 2004, Pescara, Italy May 19–23; BASICS Festival, Salzburg, Austria, May 8–16; Vi Salon Y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital, Havana, June 21–24; International Festival of New Film and New Media, Croatia June 26–July 2; public_space_festival, Yerewan, Armenia, July 23–August3; West Coast Numusic & Electronic Arts Festival, Stavanger, Norway, Aug. 17–22; Biennale of Electronic Art, Perth, Australia, Sept. 7–Nov. 17.
2002
“Spread the Word: Text and Art,” <http://www.get-carded.net/>, USA.
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2006
subRosa, James Pei-Mun Tsang, Yes Species! 2nd Edition; English & Spanish (Chicago and Pittsburgh: Sabrosa Books).
2005
subRosa, James Pei-Mun Tsang, Yes Species! English & German (Chicago and Pittsburgh: Sabrosa Books).
2002
Maria Fernandez, Faith Wilding, Michelle M. Wright, eds., Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices! (New York: Autonomedia).
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2008
“International Market of Flash: Mapping Flows of Human Organs and Tissues,” illustrated article by subRosa in Frakcija Performing Arts Journal, Issue 43-44, Jon McKenzie and Lane Hall, eds (Center for Drama Art, Zagreb).
"Common Knowledge and Political Love," illustrated article by subRosa, Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, eds (MIT Press).
2007
“Feminist Activist Art, a Roundtable Forum, August 24-21, 2005,” NWSA Journal , Spring 2007
subRosa, “Can You See Us Now? ¿Ya Nos Pueden Ver?,” artist project pages in The Object of Labor: Critical Perspectives on Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production, Joan Livingstone and John Ploof, eds (MIT Press and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press).
2004
subRosa, “In Their Own Words,” NYFA Current—Biweekly Arts News, Nov. 10 <http://www.nyfa.org/archive_detail_c.asp?id=272&fid=6&sid=17&date=11/10/2004>.
subRosa, “Tactical Performance and The Interventionists,” The Creative Capital Channel<http://channel.creative-capital.org/medium_article_4.html>.
2003
subRosa, “Collaborations,” M/E/A/N/I/N/G/S 02 (artkrush.com website, winter, no longer on line).
subRosa, “Tactical Cyberfeminism: An Art and Technology of Social Relations” <http://www.artwomen.org/cyberfems/subrosa/index.htm>.
subRosa, “Stolen Rhetoric,” Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies (New York: Autonomedia and Delhi: sarai.net). Article reprint in English.
2002
subRosa, “Gestohlene Rhetorik: Die Aneignung der Wahl durch die ART Industrien” [Stolen Rhetoric: The Appropriation of Choice by ART Industries], Kunstforum International, Jan.–March, Volume 158.
2001
ProActiva, 2-color poster, edition of 1000 (produced in collaboration with participants in Knowing Bodies residency, Winnipeg)
subRosa, “Economies of ART,” n.paradoxa, Vol.8, July, 2001 (London: KT Press, 4 pgs, with illustrations).
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2005
Cultures of Eugenics, 24-page pamphlet, revised 3rd edition, unlimited edition (produced for Express Choice).
Epidermic! DIY Cell Lab; approx 5 minutes, video documentary of subRosa performance.
2004
Cultures of Eugenics, 24-page pamphlet, revised 2nd edition, unlimited edition (produced for Cell Track v.2 installation).
Can You See Us Now? ¿Ya Nos Pueden Ver?, folded broadside, edition of 10,000 (produced for distribution with installation of same title).
Cell Track <www.refugia.net/celltrack>, web site (produced for Cell Track: Mapping the Appropriation of Life Materials)
Can You See Us Now? <www.canuseeusnow.refugia.net>, web site (produced for Can You See Us Now? ¿Ya Nos Pueden Ver?)
2003
Cultures of Eugenics, 24-page pamphlet, unlimited edition (produced for U-Gen-A-Chix)
Cultures of Eugenics, 7 min Quicktime Movie (produced for U-Gen-A-Chix)
subRosa web site <www.cyberfeminism.net>, site re launching.
2002
Cultures of Technology, folded broadside, edition of 1000 (produced for Biopower Unlimited!)
Biopower Unlimited! <www.cyberfeminism.net/biopower>, web site and interactive profiler (produced for performance of same title)
Biotech Sex & Gender Workbook, revised 2nd edition, 32-page spiral-bound workbook (produced for The Sex and Gender Education Show)
2001
Economies of ART, 4-page pamphlet, edition of 1000 (reprinted from n.paradoxa)
Welcome to Expo EmmaGenics, 12-page pamphlet, edition of 500 (produced for Expo EmmaGenics)
Knowing Bodies; Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century; Expo Emmagenics; approx 15 minutes, video documentary of subRosa performances.
2000
Biotech Sex & Gender Workbook, 32-page spiral-bound workbook (produced for Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century).
Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century <www.cyberfeminism.net/SexGenEd>, web site (produced for performance of same title).
Vulva De/ReConstructa, 10 min video.
SmartMom <www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fwild/> web site project.
1999
@SecondOpinion 2: Does She or Doesn't She, 1-color folded broadside, edition of 1000.
@SecondOpinion, 6-page 2-color newsletter, edition of 1000.
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2008
Pecha Kucha Presentation, Design Pittsburgh, October 20.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 17.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Tocka Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia, June 19.
Visiting Artist Discussion, Press to Exit, Skopje, June 18.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Academy of the Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia, June 2.
Visiting Artist Presentation, California College of the Arts, March 26.
Visiting Artist Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, March 24.
Visiting Artist Presentation, Penn State University, February 19.
2007
Visiting Artist Presentation & DVD Screening, Phillips Museum, Rothman Gallery, Franklin & Marshall College, November 2.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Millersville University, November 1.
Visiting Artist Lecture, “Cyberfeminism Unplugged: subRosa's Site-uational Performances” at the Ben Maltz Gallery Speaker Series, Otis Art Institute, March 8.
2006
Panelist, “Creativity in Collective,” Alliance of Artist Communities annual conference, Pittsburgh, November 11.
Panelists, “Taking Action: right(s) in/to the health and body,” Performance Studies International conference, “PSi #12 Performing Rights,” London, June 16.
Panelists, “Critical Issues in Bio Art,” 4th European Biannual Conference of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA), Amsterdam, June 14.
2005
Visiting Artist Lecture, Syracuse University, November 7.
2004
Panelists, “Feminist Activist Art: Themes for an NWSA Journal Special Issue.” National Women’s Studies Association conference, Milwaukee, June 18.
Panelists, “Infecting the Sick Society: Performance as Virus,” Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 28.
Lecture, “Art, Activism, And Biotechnology” Contemporary Arts Centre, North Adams, MA.
Panel presentation: “The Politics of Bio-Art,” Bio-Difference Conference, Perth, Australia, Sept. 11.
Presentation of subRosa work to undergraduate seminar, University of Pittsburgh, PA, Feb. 26.
Panel presentation, “Cyberfeminism and Biotechnology,” SymbioticA lab, Perth, Australia, January.
Panel presentation, “Matrixial Technologies,” National University of Singapore, January.
Panel presentation, “Art, Activism, and Biotechnology,” University of Illinois, Urbana, March.
2003
Presentation of subRosa projects, “Matrixial Technologies,” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, November.
Presentation, “subRosa: Tactical Cyberfeminism,” De Paul University, Chicago, IL, Nov. 6.
Booklaunch for Domain Errors!Cyberfeminist Practices, 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Bluestockings Bookstore, New York City, November.
Panelists, “YOUGenics2: discussion with the artists,” Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Oct. 2.
Panelist, “The Integrated Circuit? Embodiment, Difference, Resistance,” Version>03 Digital Arts Convergence: Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 29. (Note: this panel and affiliated workshop were part of an international series of Tactical Media Labs for Next 5 Minutes:4 : International Festival of Tactical Media).
Presentation, “Art, Science & Activism,” State University of New York, Fredonia, March 12.
Lecture, “Art Meets Bio-Science: Methodology and Ethics of Interdisciplinary Work,” University Scholars Programme Seminar, National University of Singapore, January.
Lecture, “Art, Activism, Biotechnology,” LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore. January.
2002
Lecture, “Cyberfeminism + Tactical Media Practice, introducing subRosa” Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, Nov. 12.
Keynote presentation, “Biopower & Cultures of Technology: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Labor, Technology, and Knowledge Production,” Bowling Green State University, OH, Oct. 19.
Presentation of subRosa work to undergraduate art classes at Bowling Green State University, OH, Oct. 19.
Presentation of subRosa projects, “Cyberfeminism and Tactical Media Practice,” Institute for Culture and Society (annual symposium of the Marxist Literary Group, an allied organization of the Modern Language Association), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, June.
Presentation, “Sexless and Incorrigible: Reproductive Medicine, Population Politics, and Eugenics” (presented in German), at “Sofa-talk Instead of Podium-lecture, Series for Critical Young People,” WIRR, Vienna, Austria. Sponsored by the Green Party Cultural Ministry of Austria, May.
Panelist, Critical Research Forum hosted by the Women’s Center and the ICS Transnational Research Cluster, Bowling Green State University, OH, April.
Presentation, “Hardware, Software, Wetware and Women,” The Third Annual Women’s Studies Colloquium at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary, MD, March.
Presentation of subRosa work to undergraduate art classes at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary, MD, March.
Panelist, “Crossing [Digital] Boundaries: A Digital Media Symposium,” State University of New York, Buffalo, April.
Panel presentation, “Tactical Cyberfeminism: An Art and Technology of Social Relations,” at “Developing a Tactical Language: Relevant Approaches to Aesthetics and Everyday Life,” Version>02 Digital Arts Convergence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March.
Presentation of subRosa work to undergraduate seminar, Bowling Green State University, OH, April.
Panelists, Critical Research Forum hosted by the Women’s Center and the ICS Transnational Research Cluster, Bowling Green State University, OH, April.
2001
Performance/Presentation “The Art of Data Maintenance,” at Welcome to the Revolution, Institute for Theory of Design and Art at Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland, November.
“Cyberfeminist Art and Activism: subRosa,” paper and panel for Female Takeover, ARS Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, September.
Presentation, “Bioventure,” at the International Sculpture Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June.
Panelists, Cyberfeminism, 7th Performance Studies International Conference, Mainz, Germany, March.
Presentation, “Resistant Cultural Practice in the Biotech Century,” as panelists for “High Tech Touch,” Women’s Caucus for Art Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, February.
Presentation, “Performing Reproduction,” College Art Association Biotech art panel, Chicago, February.
2000
Presentation, “Performing Reproduction, Performative Sites Symposium, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA, October.
Presentation, “Cyberfeminism and Art,” Internationale Frauen Universitat, Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany, August.
1999
“Women, Health, and Biotechnology,” interdisciplinary public forum organized by subRosa and presented twice. Panelists examined methods, ethics, representations and the personal implications of biotechnologies. Carlow College, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April & September.
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2008
"Gestation - A Collaborative Performance Arts Workshop," presented by subRosa & sponsored by the Faculty of Communication & Media Arts, New York University Skopje, June 10–19.
2003
“Matrixial Technologies,” workshop led by subRosa and Margaret Tan, Version>03 Digital Arts Convergence: Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 29.
“Cloning Cultures,” workshop led by subRosa for design, art & fashion students as part of “Art + Biology Talks,” LaSalle-SIA College of Arts, Singapore, Jan. 10 & 13.
2001
“Knowing Bodies Seminar,” residency and collaborative quiltmaking with artists & health care practitioners, St. Norberts Art Centre, Winnipeg, Canada, April 14.
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2005
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, “Brave New Art: Artists take on corporations and the government in ‘Thought Crimes,’” Houston Press, May 12 <http://houstonpress.com/issues/2005-05-12/culture/art.html>.
Burgstaller, Rosemarie, “Interview with subRosa,” Skug magazine, Austria.
Groupe de recherche en arts médiatiques (GRAM) eds, Art & Biotechnologies (Montreal: Presses de l’Université du Québec). (supplementary CD-ROM includes work by subRosa).
2004
Demos, T.J., "The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere"; Mass Moca The Free Library, November, 1. <http://www.thefreelibrary.com/"The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere"; Mass Moca-a0125918102>
Thacker, Eugene, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (Boston: MIT Press). (includes commentary and images from subRosa projects).
Bordowitz, Gregg, “Tactics Inside and Out: Critical Art Ensemble” Artforum, September.
Rosler, Martha, “Out of the Vox: Art’s Activist Potential,” Artforum, September.
Cotter, Holland, “Critic’s Notebook: Hometown of Utopia and Dissent,” The New York Times, July 23. (review of “The Interventionists” discusses subRosa work).
2003
Greenwald, Dara. Review of Domain Errors, Clamor, Nov.
Griffis, Ryan, “Domain Errors: a book review” , published online at <http://www.discordia.us/scoop/special/eadobbs/index0a73.html?eaid=61> and on the Nettime, Faces, Rhizome, and Undercurrents listservs.
Griffis, Ryan, “Tandem Surfing Part 3: SubRosa,” interview, Next 5 Minutes 4 Reader, (Amsterdam: Next Five Minutes Organization) pp. 100–110.
Stalbaum, Brett, “Interview with subRosa,” online journal Switch.
Sulaiman, Masraihan, radio interview with subRosa broadcast on Passion 99.5, Singapore, Jan. 15.
2002
Thompson, Nato, “A Museum of Lies,” Parkett No 66 (London).
“subRosa,” Debats No. 76, (Valencia, Spain: Institucion Alfons el Magnanim).
2000
“Sex and Gender Ed Show,” on CD-ROM, Digital Secrets, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
“Fusion: Art in A Research Environment” on CD-ROM, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, PA.
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1998-2008
Fellows, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University.
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2006
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts: Fellowship in Visual Arts, New Genres.
2005
Follow-up project support, Creative Capital Foundation, New York, NY.
2004
Faculty research grant, Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA.
Follow-up project support, Creative Capital Foundation, New York, NY.
2003
Special Opportunity Funding, Creative Capital Foundation, New York, NY.
2002
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts: Fellowship in Visual Arts, New Genres.
Creative Capital Foundation, Artist Grant: Emerging Fields, NY.
2001
Expo Emmagenics, Performance Commission, Art Happens! Intermediale, Mainz, Germany.
2000
Sex and Gender Ed in the Biotech Century, Performance Commission, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
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Last updated November 6, 2008.