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We took NoraPetran.Bandcamp.com to the Playstation in Cedar Rapids for her birthday. I never want to grow up. Ever…

Friends are the most important thing in the world to me, and yesterday was Nora Petran’s birthday. She is my friend, and I hope she is yours too. She plays some of the most beautiful music I have ever known…

I am fortunate to have a variety of fun friends and a great fiancé (we prefer the term Pre-Wife). These kind souls have come down to my little green room at Public Space One to let me photograph them. Surprisingly this is the first…

Sandbox is a little corner of the web that is dedicated to Iowa City artists working to engage the public in an interactive environment. Who is Curt Oren? What are his dreams? His nightmares? Watch the video to find out!

I’ve been taking photographs since 14 or so. It all started with photos of my friends skateboarding and then evolved into shooting live music and a handful of weddings. The fine folks of Public Space One were nice enough to select me for the Free Studio Residency program. My aim during my residency is to…

Hi, I’m Curt Oren, the current Free Radical Artist-in-Residence for Public Space One. Want to know a little bit about me and the residency? Just watch the following…

Didn’t want to make a big deal out of this. Seems like people we’re getting tired of all the big news I had. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOz5Tx7DloU

My new album is officially available for your ears to hear. I’d like to thank all the people who helped me make this record. The musicians who took what I wrote down and made it better: Ryan Smith, Jonathan Birdsall, Curt Oren, Peter Gillette, Zach Spindler, Jayna Andersen, and Riley Cook. ps·z for the space […]

I know what you are thinking, “If Dana T wasn’t making art, and only reflecting and other new age nonsense, he still must have had a lot of free time. What the heck was he doing?” This animated video will help give you an idea of how I sometimes spend my free time.

“abbr. relation” will be my second EP. It is a mini-concept album in a couple dimensions. As the title perhaps more obviously indicates, the four songs cover the span of a relationship in a highly truncated manner.  Even with a limited run time of about fourteen minutes, the record possesses a surprising amount of diversity […]

Please view the following video for a very MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT from Dana T regarding the PS·Z FREE STUDIO RESIDENCY, his retirement, and the immediate future of all of the above!!!

Yes, I personally know what it is like to be retired at a very early age. However, the human experience is not just to experience but also to be experienced. For this reason I decided to make a short documentary film so that I could see my retirement from multiple perspectives. The deep reflection period […]