VEILED HISTORIES - PUBLIC ART CONFERENCE

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July 9 - 13, 1996
Hosted by: San Francisco Art Institute
Conference Organizer: Anna Novakov, Ph.D.

From Anna Novakov, October 3, 1996

• KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - QUOTES
• CONFERENCE PANEL HIGHLIGHTS - Edited by Anna Novakov from original texts by Terri Cohn, Constance Lewallen and Susan Pontious
• MORE FOR PANEL SUMMARIES

  Keynote Speakers:

• Dennis Adams - Artist - New York City
• Agnes Deens - "Eco" Artist
• Suzanne Lacy - Conceptual / performance artist - Oakland, CA - "The Roof is On Fire" -
• Krzysztof Wodiczko - Artist / Professor at MIT
• Victoria Vesna - Artist / teaches at UC Santa Barbara - artist/producer/director of Bodies INCorporated

Richard Kamler spoke about The Search Light Project - Conversations on the Criminal Justice System, An Art Event - an interactive installation scheduled to take place on and around Alcatraz Island from mid-October 1996 through the end of the year.

There was discussion about the Internet as Public Space and as a medium for Art. Victoria Vesna [collaborator on the Bodies INCorporated web site] called the medium elitist but pointed out that at present it was truly a "public space" in which anyone with the skills could create in.