Julie Perini '00 is an artist who works in a variety of time-based media including video, film, live performance, and installation. She creates site-specific events and collaborative projects which are unapologetically playful and conceptually compact. Her work frequently investigates questions about the politics of everyday life, performance and mediation, and public and private space. Perini will discuss and screen the results from her recent performance-video-mail project, Experiments in Immediacy, an exploration of the concept of "immediacy" in this mediated culture. She will also talk about her involvement with the highly publicized federal investigation of Steven Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble while a graduate student at the University of Buffalo. Kurtz is an artist mistakenly suspected of being a bio-terrorist. Perini's current work on the concept of immediacy seeks to disrupt the easy assumptions about mediated culture and social distance in a digital context. Her recent project, Experiments in Immediacy, examines and critiques social formation through the explicit use of digital media. Experiments in Immediacy was a covert operation that wed old media with new - the mail with digital video. This project investigated a paradoxical set of questions: what are immediate experiences, how can we catch them on videotape, and what would be an immediate way to share them? To explore these questions, Julie created a series of videos documenting private immediate moments. In her search for immediacy Julie broke various social norms, engaged in public antics, left the camera on while doing post-party clean-up, spent time with wild creatures at the zoo, and much, much more. Inspired by the Do-It-Yourself ethos of the independent music scene, she then produced DVDs and distributed them through the mail on a monthly basis to a community of subscribers, thereby creating direct, personal connections with each viewer.