Paul Chan
Paul Chan is an artist and director of National Philistine, an online aesthetic think tank. Chan is a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation new media arts fellow. He is represented in New York City by the Greene Naftali Gallery. His video work is distributed by Video Data Bank and his new media work can be seen at nationalphilistine.com
Chan spent one month (Dec 2002-Jan 2003) in Baghdad as a member of the Iraq Peace Team, a project of Voices in the Wilderness, a Nobel Peace prize nominated group working to end the sanctions against Iraq. The goals of IPT are to rally support for resisting the war (and now occupation) on Iraq and publicize the effects of the ongoing US assault on Iraqi civilians.