Renowned individuals from the international art community will participate in a two week-long virtual discussion, "Museums of Tomorrow: An Internet Conference", October 6-19, 2003, which will take place on the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum website and will be moderated by Maurice Berger, Senior Fellow, The Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New School University.
"We are very pleased to host this exciting conference as it will provide an open forum for the art community to discuss one of its most pressing and important issues: the future of the art museum," said Barbara Buhler Lynes, The Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Reseach Center.
Given the increasing commercial as well as global-direction of culture, the future of the museum as we now know it is it no longer certain. Scholars, artists, and curators will discuss and debate the future of the art museum in this Internet conference. Participants will explore a range of issues about the viability, relevance, effectiveness, responsibility, and role of the museum in an ever-changing world. The interchange of ideas will be on-going during the two-week period of the conference, because the discussion will be active and available on the internet 24 hours a day.
"This online event will allow museum professionals from all over the world, as well as the interested public, to enter a significant and productive dialogue about the future of their discipline," commented Maurice Berger. "The museum will have an opportunity to examine itself in light of the complex challenges-of audience, cultural relevance, and funding-that it faces in the 21st Century."
The public will be able to access the conference at any time and will be invited to ask questions and offer commentary via a special e-mail address. Supporting pages posted on the website will allow visitors to acquire information, bibliographic references, and participant biographies. And while the discussions will be viewable by the public, a password will be required to post to the discussion.
The online conference will be accessible on the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum website: http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/center/onlinesymposium. The technical aspects of the site are created by the Santa Fe based Web design firm Panorama Point (hyperlink http://www.panoramapoint.com), which also created the Museum's website.
Barbara Buhler Lynes is the Curator at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and The Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center. She has published numerous books and articles on O'Keeffe and American Modernism.
Maurice Berger is a Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School University, New York and Curator of The Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has authored numerous books on the issues of modern art, culture, gender, and race, and his essays have appeared in many journals and newspapers.
The list of participants is attached.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which opened July 17, 1997, is dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of Georgia O'Keeffe and to the study and interpretation of American Modernism (1890-present). The 13,000 square-foot Museum houses a permanent collection of more than 130 works by O'Keeffe. From July through October, the Museum is open seven days per week. November through June, it is closed on Wednesday. Museum hours are 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily; Friday evenings until 8 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors over 60, free for children 17 and under and students with i.d. Fridays, free 5-8 p.m. $4 for New Mexico residents with i.d. For visitor information, call 505.946.1017. Visit our website, www.okeeffemuseum.org
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Online Symposium Participants
Prof. Alexander AlberroSchool of Art & Art HistoryUniversity of Florida
Bruce AltshulerDirectorProgram in Museum StudiesNew York University
Maxwell AndersonExecutive DirectorArt Museum Network
Prof. George BakerDepartment of Art HistoryUniversity of California, Los AngelesEditor, October Magazine
Stefano BasilicoCurator, University Art CollectionNew School UniversityAdjunct Curator of Contemporary ArtMilwaukee Art Museum
Maurice Berger, ModeratoSenior FellowVera List Center for Art and PoliticsNew School University
Jonathan BinstockCurator of Contemporary ArtCorocoran Gallery of Art
Dan CameronCuratorThe New Museum of Contemporary Art
Prof. Karen Mary DavalosChicano Studies DepartmentLoyola Marymount University
Donna De SalvoSenior CuratorTate Modern
Prof. Carol DuncanSchool of Contemporary Arts, Visual ArtsRamapo College of New Jersey
Prof. Mark Alice DurantVisual Arts DepartmentUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
Prof. Darby EnglishDepartment of Art HistoryUniversity of Chicago
Andrea FraserArtist
Thelma Golden Chief CuratorThe Studio Museum in Harlem
Prof. Jennifer GonzalezHistory of Art & Visual CultureUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Chrissie Iles Curator of Film and VideoWhitney Museum of American Art
Mary KellyArtist
George G. KingDirectorGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum
Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimbletTisch School of the ArtsNew York University
Prof. Miwon KwonDepartment of Art HistoryUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Raina Lampkins-FielderAssociate DirectorHelena Rubinstein Chair of EducationWhitney Museum of American Art
Prof. Simon Leung Department of Studio ArtUniversity of California, Irvine
Therese LichtensteinIndependent Scholar and Curator
Barbara Buhler LynesThe Emily Fisher Landau DirectorGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum Research CenterCuratorGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum
Olu OguibeDepartment of Art & Art HistoryInstitute for African American StudiesUniversity of Connecticut
Prof. Donald PreziosiArt History and Visual Culture StudiesUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Joan Rosenbaum Helen Goldsmith Menschel DirectorThe Jewish Museum
David Ross DirectorBeacon Art Projects
Edward RothsteinCultural Critic at LargeThe New York Times
Ingrid SchaffnerSenior CuratorInstitute of Contemporary ArtUniversity of Pennsylvania
Charles Stainback DirectorSITE Santa Fe
Ann TemkinThe Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern and Contemporary ArtPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Prof. Michele WallaceEnglish Department, Women's Studies and Afro-American PoeticsCity College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center
Prof. Alan WallachArt and Art History and American StudiesCollege of William and Mary
Sylvia YountMargaret and Terry Stent Curator of American ArtHigh Museum of Art
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