Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time
April 22 and 23
Digital Art and Culture Symposium

Tuesday & Wednesday, April 22 & 23, 2003

MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23 Street (at Lexington Avenue)

Free and open to the public.
Registration required: [email protected]
For information/schedule of events, please visit or call 212.592.2582.

An in-depth exploration of digital art practice today. Panel discussions on media art look at the role of artists as programmers, new uses of space, theory of aesthetics, narrative and sound.

Organized by Bruce Wands, Director, and Renee Schacht, Assistant Director, New York Digital Salon; and Barbara London, Associate Curator and Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art, Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the School of Visual Arts.

Tuesday April 22

10:30am      Welcome by Bruce Wands
History of the New York Digital Salon

launch webcast


11:00am      Roger Malina, Keynote speaker
launch webcast


12:00pm      Theory and Aesthetics of New Media
launch webcast

     Moderator: Christiane Paul
     Panelists:
     Alex Galloway
     Jon Ippolito
     Lev Manovich

1:30pm      Lunch break

3:00pm      About Space: Installation, Interaction and Media
launch webcast

     Moderator: Kathy Brew
     Panelists:
     Perry Hoberman
     Bernhard Leitner
     David Rokeby

Wednesday, April 23

10:00am      The Artist as Programmer
launch webcast

     Moderator: John F. Simon, Jr.
     Panelists:
     Andy Deck
     Pamela Jennings
     Maciej Wisnewski

11:30am      The Museum and Art Gallery in the 21st Century
launch webcast

     Moderator: Barbara London
     Panelists:
     Gregor Muir
     Magda Sawon
     Benjamin Weil

1:00pm      Lunch break

2:30pm      The New Narrative
launch webcast

     Moderator: Laurence Kardish
     Panelists:
     Mary Ellen Carroll
     Lynn Hershman
     Grahame Weinbren
     Carrie Mae Weems

4:00pm      New Media Performance and Music
launch webcast

     Moderator: Christina Yang
     Panelists:
     Ricardo Dominguez
     Carsten Nicolai
     Pauline Oliveros
     Atau Tanaka
     Kasper Toeplitz

5:30pm      Dinner break

8:00pm      An Evening with New Media Curators
     Moderator: Bruce Wands
     Joel Chadabe
     Jon Ippolito
     Lev Manovich
     Gregor Muir
     Christiane Paul
     Benjamin Weil