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Schedule
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2004
  
  
REGISTRATION
9:00–9:15 a.m. 
9:15–9:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Thomas Crow, Director, Getty Research Institute 
SESSION 1: GEOMETRY AND ABSTRACTION 
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. 
Towards Organic Degeneration: Gego and Eva Hesse
Monica Amor, Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art
  1960/1970: Constructivist Experience and Tropicalism in the Work of Antonio Dias
  Sonia Salzstein, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  
  For a Systemic Ruination of the System
  Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University
Respondent: George Baker, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
 
BREAK
  11:00 a.m.–11:30 p.m.
  During the break, there will be a continuous screening of Ivan Cardosos HO (1979, 13 min., color and black-and-white)
  SESSION 2: PARTICIPATION AND COLLABORATION 
  11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. 
  
    Bricolage/Open Works/"Do-It-Yourself" Practices
    Anna Dezueze, Research Fellow, University of Manchester, England 
    
    The Geography of Geometry: Abstraction, Interaction, and Multinationalism, 1957–1966
    Valerie Hillings, Curatorial Assistant, Guggenheim Museum, New York
    
    Lucy Lippard in Argentina
    Julia Bryan Wilson, Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design
  
  Respondent: Richard Meyer,  Associate Professor of Art History, University of Southern California
  
  
  BREAK
  1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
    During the break, there will be a screening of films by Robert Breer
  SESSION 3: MOVEMENT AND EPHEMERALITY
  3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. 
  
Way Beyond Geometry: Video, Minimalism, and Pedagogy
    Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University 
    
    Magnetic Fields: Communication and Kinetic Art
    Pamela Lee, Professor of Art History, Stanford University
    
      The Esthetics of the Precarious
      Paolo Herkenhoff, Director, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    
  Respondent: Elizabeth Kotz, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities