Future of Art Topic of Teleconference

A bi-coastal teleconference on the future of contemporary art will be held today in UCLA’s Dickson Auditorium. Co-sponsored by UCLA and Columbia University, “Redefining the Avant-Garde: Beyond Originality and Reference” will feature dialogue between panels of artists, critics and scholars in Los Angeles and New York, simultaneously linked by telecommunications technology.

Henry Hopkins of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation will moderate the event in Los Angeles, where scheduled panelists are San Francisco critic Maria Porges, CalArts Arts Dean Thomas Lawson, and artist and writer Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.

Scheduled for the New York panel are critics Donald Kuspit and Thomas McEvilley, writer Margarita Tupitsyn, and artists/writers Peter Halley, Adrian Piper and Lucio Pozzi. Douglas Davis, an artist, critic and UCLA professor who organized the teleconference, will moderate.

The free event begins in Los Angeles at 4 p.m. Information: (213) 206-0206.