International Symposium on Modernity and Contemporaneity
Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 4-6, 2004

A detailed schedule, with confirmed presenters (including Fredric
Jameson, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri, Rosalind Krauss, and Boris Groys)
for the Pittsburgh symposium "Modernity and Contemporaneity," 4-6
November, is now posted at www.mc.pitt.edu. More details below. The site also includes
summaries of the 22 papers and bios for the presenters. Online
credit-card registration is available on the page Register Now. Details
are provided below.

All registrants will receive passes to the 54th Carnegie International
Exhibit, as well as free entry to The Carnegie Museum of Art during this
three-day period.

If you are interested in attending, please register online soon at
www.mc.pitt.edu. We may have limited on-site resources for
registration, and are currently trying to complete registration packets
for all online registrants. Regular registration is $ 50; student
registration rate is $ 25. If you have further questions, please direct
inquiries to Ms. Renee Abrams at mcsympos@pitt.edu or 412-363-3112. We
are looking forward to seeing you at this event. Nancy Condee
(Director, Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, University of
Pittsburgh)

In early November, the University of Pittsburgh will bring together a
group of the world’s leading scholars and art theorists for a symposium
entitled “Modernity and Contemporaneity: Antinomies of Art and Culture
After the 20th Century.” Among the symposium participants are Fredric
Jameson, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri, Rosalind Krauss, and Boris Groys.
The symposium will challenge the notions of “modern” and “contemporary”
as they relate to both the works in the exhibition and to art and
culture throughout the world. Registration and detailed information,
see: www.mc.pitt.edu. The event is supported with funds
provided by The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Carnegie Endowments, The
Office of the Provost and Office of the Dean of the School of Arts and
Sciences (University of Pittsburgh), with additional sponsorship from
the University Center for International Studies and the Graduate School
of Public and International Affairs.

The symposium, co-organized by Pitt’s Department of History of Art and
Architecture and the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, will be held
in conjunction with the 54th Carnegie International, considered North
America’s leading survey of new art work worldwide. The Carnegie
International, organized this year by curator Laura Hoptman, is known as
a barometer of contemporary artistic directions in the Americas, Europe,
Asia, and elsewhere. Just as “modernism” and “postmodernist” have been
used to describe previous periods and movements in the 20th century, the
time in which we now live is already articulating its own descriptives.
What are they? Where are we now?

Partners in the enterprise are the Carnegie Museum of Art; Warhol
Museum; Mattress Factory; Center for the Arts in Society (Carnegie
Mellon University). The conveners are Terry Smith HAA), Okwui Enwezor
(HAA), and Nancy Condee (Cultural Studies, Slavic). Additional confirmed
participants include Wu Hung (University of Chicago), Geeta Kapur (New
Delhi), Robert Storr (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University),
Sarat Maharaj (Goldsmiths' College, University of London), Iwona
Blazwick (Director, Whitechapel Gallery, London), Nicolas Borriaud
(Co-director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Darby English (University of
Chicago), Gao Minglu (University of Buffalo), Jonathan Hay (Institute
of Fine Arts, New York), James Meyer (Emory University), Helen
Molesworth (Chief Curator, Wexner Center for the Arts), Sylvester
Ogbechie (University of California, Santa Barbara), Nikos Papastergiadis
(Director, Australia Center, University of Melbourne), Colin Richards
(University of Witwatersrand), Suely Rolnick (São Paulo PUC, Brazil),
Monica Amor (Maryland Institute College of Art), McKenzie Wark (New
School University), and Charity
Scribner (MIT, Massachusetts).

We look forward to seeing you at the symposium!