Panelists:

Chrissie Iles is the Curator of Film and Video at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She is a curator of the 2004 Whitney Biennial and Into the Light , a major survey exhibition of projective installations from the 1960s and 1970s. Other recent exhibitions include Jack Goldstein: Films and Performance . Iles' published material includes catalogue texts on the work of Sol LeWitt, Jack Goldstein, Marina Abramovic, John Latham and Dan Graham. She is an adjunct Professor at Columbia University.

Robert Storr is the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, where he teaches the history of Modern Art. Prior to this appointment, Storr was senior curator in the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Storr was curator of many notable MOMA exhibitions, including “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting” in the Spring of 2002, and “Projects,” a series of exhibitions from 1991-2000 devoted to the work of contemporary artists. Storr's writings have appeared regularly in Art in America and Grand Street (he is a Contributing Editor to both), Artforum, The Art Journal, Washington Post BookWorld, and other publications.

Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video/performance art. Her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s were essential to the development of contemporary art in many genres -- from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Her most recent work continues to explore the relationship of new digital media to performance. At Documenta IX in 2002, Jonas presented Lines in the Sand: Helen in Egypt , in which the artist revisited the myth of Helen of Troy using ritualized gestures and symbolic objects mixed with live drawing and video. Lines in the Sand was recently performed at The Kitchen in New York City in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art exhibition Joan Jonas: Five Works (December 14, 2003 - March 28, 2004). Jonas has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2000.

Hans Urich Obrist was born in May 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1993, he founded the migratory Museum Robert Walser and began to run the Migrateurs program at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris where he now serves as a curator for contemporary art. Since 2001 has been a professor at IUVA/University of Venice. Most recently, he co-curated Utopia Station at the 2003 Venice Biennale (along with Molly Nesbit and Rirkrit Tiravanja). Obrist's recent publications include: “Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews”, a Pitti Imagine production, published by Charta, edited by Thomas Boutoux, and “Re:CP” by Cedric Price, which Obrist edited.

Moderator:

RoseLee Goldberg , author, art historian and critic, pioneered the study of performance art with her seminal book "Performance Art from Futurism to the Present." A former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at the Kitchen in New York, Goldberg has curated a performance series at MoMA, New York and lectured on the subject of exhibiting historical and contemporary "live art" at Tate Modern, London. She is a regular contributor to Artforum and her books include "Performance Since 1960" and "Laurie Anderson.” She has taught at New York University since 1987. Prior to founding PERFORMA, Ms. Goldberg originated and produced Logic of the Birds , a collaborative multimedia performance by Shirin Neshat and Sussan Deyhim, which premiered at The Lincoln Center Festival in 2002.