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Online January 12 Carol Stakenas , Online moderator Creative Time and Thundergulch , will host a series of roundtable discussions with leading artist, curators and new technology experts about the evolving nature of cultural production and the artistic use of new technologies. Beginning Online Feb. 23 Patrick Moore, Sarah Schulman , Online moderators Loss Within Loss, edited by novelist and essayist Edmund White, is the catalyst for this panel discussion devoted to the impact of AIDS on the arts. Looking back on the artistic experimentalism and freedom of the late seventies, the panel considers the collapse of this fertile field after the onset of the epidemic. Online March 13 Online moderator TBA Contemporary debates over free expression only rarely progresses beyond the superficial soundbites and hyperbolic rhetoric. Civil libertarians repeat vulnerable First Amendment cliches while politicians dwell on the presumed evils of violence on television, sex on the internet, or vulgar entertainment in general.