NEW YORK.- Not for Sale: New Media and Sound will discuss how artists today use new media and sound to inform their works. What kind of a role does integration of media and technology play in creating new forms of artistic production? How does innovation in technological tools impact the landscape of performance and visual arts history? A distinguished panel of artists, critics and curators will discuss the history of new media as it relates to research, development and presentations of visual arts performance.

Panelists: Christoph Cox, Philosopher and Critic; Ron Kuivila, Artist and Composer; Elizabeth LeCompte, Theater Director of the Wooster Group; Christian Marclay, Artist.

April 21, 2005 6:30 – 8 PM. Reception to follow. Einstein Auditorium, New York University - 34 Stuyvesant Street, NYC. Between 3rd and 2nd Avenue at 9th Street.

As the third installment in the PERFORMA’s NOT FOR SALE series, NOT FOR SALE: New Media and Sound will offer an in depth view into contemporary developments in performance. In conjunction with New York University’s Department of Art and Art Professions and Humanities Council, PERFORMA presents NOT FOR SALE: New Media and Sound as a dynamic continuation of the discussion on performance and its relationship to the museum, gallery, and collector, which has begun last April with “Not for Sale: Conserving and Collecting Ephemeral Artwork in the 21st Century.” Panelists Chrissie Iles, Robert Storr and Joan Jonas elaborated on the paradox of capturing radical and ephemeral ideas for historical record as well as a broader debate regarding how museums and galleries conserve this work. In November, “Not For Sale: Artists’ View” featured panelist Marina Abramovic, Tania Bruguera, Klaus Ottmann, and Debra Singer, who actively discussed the changing role of the modern museum as lively cultural center shaping artists’ ideas about performance.