"Media Art in the New Millennium"

Dr. Michael Rush, Director of the Rose Art Museum gave a talk on the period best defined in Art History as Conceptualism. This period ranges from the 1960s to today. Such artists as Nam June Paik, Chantal Ackerman, Robert Wilson, Jim Campbell and the Fluxus movement were included in Dr. Rush's talk about Media Art.

The key element that distinguishes Media Art or Conceptual Art from traditional art is the emotion that an artist can create. They allow the spectator to enter an alternative way of feeling, viewing, and thinking by inviting and even seducing people into places of change from the automated or habitual way of life that people are accustomed to.

This invitation or seduction is a way of engaging people. Another important point Rush spoke about was the cleverness of artists in their capability of displacing perception and creating the feeling of disruption, this in itself is art.