The current ubiquity of electronic media within the contemporary visual arts effectively masks a complex history of struggle by artists who often embraced the moving image in rejecting the protocols of both the museum and the marketplace. Now, some three decades later, what lessons -- aesthetic and social -- can we learn from this recent and not-so-recent history? In particular, how has the expanded (and media-friendly) definition of art affected not only the museum but the nature of the work produced by contemporary media artists? April 7 / 9:30 - 11:30 am Moderator: Bruce Jenkins, Curator, Harvard Film Archives Panelists: Sara Diamond, Artistic Director, Banff Centre for the Arts Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist Lev Manovich, artist