In two panel discussions, notable cross-disciplinary luminaries explored the role of art as a mechanism for cultural analysis and, in particular, its capacity to address reality and realism in our "post-truth" world. Invited panelists included artists working within the spheres of environmental and social practice, who will take up questions such as: how may aesthetics be used in service of advocacy; how do we relate to one another through the filter of alternative realities; how do artists blur the lines of truth, and to what effect?
