The international conference, Innovation, Substance, Vision — The Future of Art, was held at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan in 2003 and hosted by the Foundation for the Advancement of Art.
The speakers at the one-day conference were:
* Jan Koenderink, a vision scientist from the Netherlands and author of Color for the Sciences and Solid Shape
* David Kelley, a Washington-D.C.-based philosopher and author of The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception and many other works
* Martine Vaugel, a sculptor from France whose works can be found in Japan’s Hakone and Utsi Guch ga Hara Open Air Museums, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the New Tate Modern Museum
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Michael Newberry, a California-based painter whose works are in private collections around the world
* Stephen Hicks, a Canadian-American philosopher based in Illinois, who both gave a lecture and served as master of ceremonies.
A five-minute preview of the conference is viewable here, and the full video of the conference is available for purchase.