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December 2004
Freedom of Information Hits New Heights
In an effort to highlight policy debates between secrecy and issues of
openness in government, noted conceptual artist Jenny Holzer projected
a selection of classified documents onto Gelman Library Nov. 1. These
documents, which were obtained by GW’s National Security Archive
through the Freedom of Information Act, included content on Iraq and terrorism
from 1981 to 2001. Holzer has displayed documents in public spaces around
the world.
“Jenny Holzer does for the digital age what a nail and broadsheet
used to do, for example, when Martin Luther pounded his theses onto the
church door,” said Thomas Blanton, the archive’s director.
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