The Fillip Review

July 17, 2009 / William Wood introduces a panel discussion with Tom Morton, John O’Brian, and Kristina Lee Podesva with a response to and contextualization of the increasing presence of (and growing resistance to) judgment in contemporary art writing.

This talk was originally presented on February 28, 2009, as part of Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, a forum and month long speaker series organized with Artspeak.

William Wood is an art historian and critic. His current research focusses on contemporary art and its display, the history of conceptual and minimal art of the 1960s and 1970, aesthetics, and
cultural criticism. Since 1984, Wood has published on recent art in journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues as well as held editorial positions with a number of art publications including
C Magazine, Public, Vanguard, and Parachute. Recent catalogue essays and articles have dealt with such artists as Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Mike Kelley, Evan Lee, Ron Terada, and the entity known as the Vancouver School. He teaches art history at the University of British Columbia.