As a unique artist, outspoken critic, and performer, New York-based Douglas Davis has played an integral role in the evolution of the contemporary electronic arts. For this evening's lecture, Davis offers a new theory of the destiny of the arts in the next century with specific references to the beginnings of video and performance art in the sixties and Web art in the nineties. At the center of his lecture will be references to two radical early works-The Santa Clara Tapes and Two Cities, A Text, Flesh and the Devil-executed in Northern California. As a pioneer video artist, Davis deployed various interactive technologies to question the passivity of television. In 1977 he joined Nam June Paik and Joseph Beuys for the first international satellite telecast by artists, transmitted from Documenta 6. More recently, he advanced upon the World Wide Web with Metabody: The World's First Collaborative Visions of the Beautiful. Among his books are Art and the Future and The Museum Transformed. Davis's lecture promises to be witty, provocative, and brimming with curious prognostications about the art of the future.-Steve Seid