the Committee for Public Safety
The Committee for Public Safety was a group of perhaps fifty artists who produced a couple of hundred events between 1990-1998. A show might be a poetry reading or performance or music by locals or visitors. It might be a radio event. Shows might be in coffee shops, bars, nightclubs, or theaters. There was a good amount of combining art forms. Doug Jablin, a KUNV DJ and the CPS Executive Producer, included video as a regular element within shows. It meant that nearly all the CPS events were recorded and are now available for viewing online.
There were no dues or membership cards. In the time-honored tradition, if someone suggested a way to improve our work, they were immediately offered executive authority to do that.
1995 Tony Bondi’s Soundhouse video
video by Doug Jablin
Bondi is introducing the band Tippy Elvis
Images of CPS events taken by Keith Haubrich
Events involving Anthony Bondi and Doug Jablin
October 1990 - September 91 "Difficult Listening" (a creative radio show on KUNV)
September 1991 - August 95 "Virtual Radio" (a creative radio show on KUNV)
January 1993 - April 93 Produced Benway Bop "Club Virtuals" 1-3
July 1993 - Jan 1994 Weekly "Club Virtuals" at Café Rainbow
October 1993 "Club Virtual" at the Cave
Feb 1994 Contributed at Huntridge Quake Benefit
March 1994 Produced Metropolis Asylum
March 1994 Contributed at "LSD" Rick Hooper's "Cyberdelic Suburban Lounge"
May 1994 Summerlin Theater production of "Club Virtual"
July 1994 Promoted Las Vegas Lollapalooza Poetry Slam
July 1994 "Entropy Made Easy" (magazine)
July 1994 Produced Café Copioh "Virtual Video Cabaret" I
September 1994 "Club Symbiosis" I at Enigma
November 1994 Produced "Church of the Sub Genius" event at Café Copioh
December 1994 Co-Promoted John Emmons Benefit
January - June 1995 "Mr. Bondi's Soundhouse" at the Double Down and Fremont Street Reggae and Blues
March 1995 Produced Café Copioh "Virtual Video Cabaret" II
June 1995 Promoted Boiled in Lead and Tippy Elvis at Mad Dog and Englishmen
June 1995 Produced "Dionysis' Garden" at the Main Studio
July 1995 "Return of Club Virtual" at Café Copioh
June - August 1995 Curation and opening of the permanent Double Down
Installation and "Mr. Bondi's Soundhouse" 7
August 95 - Present Produced "Radiolucent" (a creative radio show on KUNV)
September 1995 Promoted Citizen Alert Benefit at Fremont Street
September 1995 "Electronic Café: Las Vegas" at the Flamingo Library
October 1995 "Mr. Bondi Soundhouse" 9 at Fremont Street
October 1995 Promoted Ringling Sisters on tour at Café Copioh
March 1996 Produced Café Copioh "Virtual Video Cabaret" III
June 1996 Promoted Gary Singh's "Washing Machine Warm" at the Attic
June 1996 "Virtual Video Mixing Extravaganza" at Utopia
August 1996 "Club Symbiosis" II at Café Enigma
September 1997 Monk Magazine installation at Burning Man
October 1996 "Mr. Bondi's Soundhouse" 9 at Fremont Street
October 1996 Promoted Test Department and Sheep on Drugs at Utopia
January 1997 Promoted Cota at Enigma (a San Francisco band)
January - June 1997 Visual Supervision at Utopia
August 1995 Anthony Bondi Curator for "Summer in the City" at Reed Whipple
September 1997 "Gamble" Installation at Burning Man
October 1997 Participation at Artist and Architect show
February 1998 Burning Man 97 Café Tour of Las Vegas
Double Down Saloon murals
Featuring murals by John Emmons, Greg Higgins, K.d. Matheson, Mike Romano, and Magda Seitz.
