Resistance

Panelists' Biographies

Timothy Corrigan: Professor of English and Director of Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His work in film studies has focused on modern American and international cinema, as well as pedagogy and film. His books include New German Film: The Displaced Image, The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, Writing about Film, A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam, and Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. His most recent book is The Film Experience (co-authored with Patricia White), and he is presently concluding research on a book-length study titled The Essay Film, which examines the films of such filmmakers as Chris Marker, Derek Jarman, and Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Corrigan has taught film at the University of Amsterdam, Temple University, University of Iowa, and at campuses in Tokyo, Rome, Paris, and London.

Peter Decherney: Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on film and media history. He is the author of the book Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American (forthcoming from Columbia University Press) and articles on the emergence of art house movie theaters in the 1920s, the beginning of film studies in the U.S., and multiculturalism in Star Trek, among other subjects. He is working on a new book on the history and future of film copyright.

Alexander Eisenschmidt: Ph.D. Candidate in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. His research investigates the notion of a "potent negativity" in architecture. Before coming to Penn in 2001, Alexander worked as an architect in Leipzig, Germany, and New York City.

Chrissie Iles: Curator at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York since October 1997. Her specializations include film, Minimalist and process-based art of the sixties and seventies, and film and video installation. She is part of the curatorial team formulating the artistic policy of the Whitney Museum. She is a curator of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Her recent publications include The Metaphysician of Media in Gary Hill (Museum Wolfsburg) and Images between Images: Lorna Simpson's Postnarrative Cinema in Lorna Simpson (Phaidon Press).

David James: Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. His teaching and research interests currently focus on avant-garde cinema, East-Asian cinema, film and music, and working-class culture. His films have screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles Film Forum, and Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. David has published Written Within and Without: A Study of Blake's Milton (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1977), Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties (Princeton University Press, 1989), and Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)popular Culture (Verso Books).

Klaus Kertess: Curator and writer. Klaus Kertess founded the Bykert Gallery in New York with John Byers in 1966 and served as director until 1975, representing Chuck Close, Ralph Humphrey, Barry Le Va, Brice Marden, and Dorothea Rockburn, among others. Kertess is a contributing editor to numerous publications and has written on many contemporary artists such as Le Va, John Chamberlain, Robert Irwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Roni Horn. Kertess was the Robert Lehman Curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Southhampton, New York. He was Adjunct Curator of Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art and curated the 1995 Whitney Biennial. In 1998-99, he was Guest Curator for the exhibition Willem de Kooning, Drawing Seeing/Seeing Drawing, at the Drawing Center in New York City, which traveled to the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. In 2000, Kertess curated the traveling exhibition Willem de Kooning: In Process for the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. Kertess has conducted a graduate seminar at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1997, and he lectures and conducts critiques throughout the United States. He is also a published fiction writer.

Barry Le Va: Artist living and working in New York City. He received a BFA-MFA from the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County in 1967. Since the late 1960s, Le Va has been intent on knocking art off its pedestal. He has used broken glass, meat cleavers, wool felt, ball bearings, powdered chalk, cast concrete, paper towels, linseed oil, a typewriter, and a gun, among other things, in his work. Recent shows include: Scrapbooks: Books to Drawings 1998-2003, Cabinet des estampes du Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland; A Survey of Drawings 1966-2003 and Two New Sculptures, Galerie Juerg Judin, Vienna, Austria; Beuys and Le Va: Compare and Contrast, Sonnabend Gallery; 9g WagnerDiagrams ICA Variations, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, and currently, Accumulated Vision: Barry Le Va, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

David Lewis: Faculty member and Director of the Master's in Architecture Department at Parsons School of Design. He is a founding member and partner of Lewis, Tsurumaki and Lewis, a design and research firm located in New York and has taught at Cornell University. Mr. Lewis was recently selected architect in Design Culture Now: National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Greil Marcus: Music critic and cultural historian. Currently residing in Berkeley, Greil Marcus is the author and editor of numerous books including Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music (1975), Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (1991), and In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992 (1993). His new book, Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, will be published in May 2005. He has written columns for Art Forum, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Salon, Esquire, the Village Voice, and other publications and has spoken often at universities and museums in the U.S. and Europe. In 2000 he taught seminars on "Prophecy and the American Voice" at the University of California at Berkeley and at Princeton University, and in 2002 he presented a seminar on "Practical Criticism" at Princeton.

Detlef Mertins: Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches architectural history, theory, and supervises doctoral research. His research focuses on the history and theory of modernism in architecture, art, philosophy, and urbanism. Mertins has published various books and essays including the English edition of Walter Curt Behrendt, The Victory of the New Building Style, The Presence of Mies, and Metropolitan Mutations: The Architecture of Emerging Public Spaces. He has taught at the University of Toronto and was a visiting professor at Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Rice universities.

Christine Poggi: Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage and co-edited (with Lawrence Rainey and Laura Wittman), Futurism: A Reader and Visual Repertory and numerous essays. She is currently completing a book titled Modernity as Trauma: The Cultural Politics of Italian Futurism.

Allen Ruppersberg: Artist living and working in New York City. Ruppersberg's first web-based project presents the contents of The New Five Foot Shelf, a collection of books comprising nearly 800 pages of texts written and compiled by the artist, in addition to photographs of the four walls of the studio he occupied at 611 Broadway in New York City from 1986-2001. It can be seen in Artists' Web Projects with DIA: Beacon. Recent shows include: 100 Artists See God, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, The Arm and Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; and A Walk to Remember, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

Ingrid Schaffner: Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Schaffner is the curator of Accumulated Vision, Barry Le Va. Other exhibitions at ICA include: The Big Nothing, Trials and Turbulence: Pepón Osorio, Sarah McEneaney, Polly Apfelbaum, The Photogenic, and Richard Tuttle, In Parts, 1998-2001. Working independently, she organized Deep Storage, Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art in the 1970s, and Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery. Schaffner's most recent book is Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse at the 1939 World's Fair (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002).

Beverly Semmes: Artist living and working in New York City. She earned an MFA at the Yale School of Art in 1987. Semmes' art examines issues of identity, gender, and female stereotypes, often through apparently standard clothing of distorted size and shape. Latest shows include La Flor del Paraiso, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark; In the O, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York; and Sea Green Petunia, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Robert Storr: Rosalee Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University. He teaches classes in "Art-History-Art" (history in art after history painting), "Fundamental Painting" (Fontana to Ryman and more), "Deformations" (on the contemporary grotesque), and "Art and Situation." His research interests include, 1) contemporary painting, sculpture, and installation, 2) formal and contextual paradigm shifts in international "modernism" 1945-75, 3) dissenting practices in the period of "mainstream" art in America, 4) the uses and abuses of criticism and 5) exhibition-making as a form.

Mark Wasiuta: Lecturer in the Department of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania and is currently visiting from Harvard. He was formerly the Associate Curator of Contemporary Architecture at the Canadian Center for Architecture, where he was the Associate Curator of The American Lawn: The Surface of Everyday Life.

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