PARTICIPANTS
Lawrence Rinder

Lawrence Rinder is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Chief Curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial. His most recent exhibition, BitStreams, co-curated with Debra Singer, presented projects that harness digital media to achieve new dimensions of artistic expression through the transformation of images, space, data, and sound.

Prior to joining the Whitney in 2000 Rinder was founding director of the California College of Arts and Crafts Institute; Curator for Twentieth-Century Art at the University Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley, and Curator of the Matrix program, UC Berkeley.

Rinder is editor of Searchlight : Consciousness at the Millennium (1999), co-editor of In A Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice (1995), and his art criticism has been published in numerous national and international periodicals including Shift, Flash Art, and Artforum.

    Symposium Abstract

Focusing on the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennials and BitStreams, I will discuss the various ways in which I have presented time-based media in museum exhibitions and the public response to these varied approaches.