Artists Carroll Dunham, Joan Jonas, and Mira Schor discuss the sense of generational consciousness at the outset of their careers and today. How did artistic generations cohere several decades ago? Does being part of a particular generation mean the same meaning at the outset of an artist's career as it does after one is established? How does writing or teaching undermine or reinforce the sense of belonging to a particular artistic generation? Moderated by Brian Sholis.

Carroll Dunham is a New York-based artist and critic. He has held dozens of solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including a midcareer survey organized by the New Museum in 2002. His writing appears regularly in Artforum.

Joan Jonas is a New York-based artist. Her films, videos, performances, and works in other media have been exhibited internationally since the late 1960s. She was the subject of retrospective exhibitions at the Queens Museum in New York (2003), at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst in Berlin (2001), and at the Galerie der Stadt in Stuttgart (2000), among other venues, and in the last year participated in the Bienale de São
Paolo, the Yokohama Triennial, and the Sydney Biennial.

Mira Schor is a New York-based artist and critic. Her paintings and other artworks have been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. She teaches in the MFA programs at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her criticism was awarded the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in 1999, and she is currently working on a collection of her own writings on art and culture (for Duke University Press) and editing a volume of Jack Tworkov's writing (for Yale University Press), both of which will appear later this year.

Brian Sholis is a freelance writer and editor who regularly contributes to Artforum, where he is Artforum.com Editor at Large.