Pamela M. Lee is Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History at Stanford University, where she teaches the history, theory and criticism of modern and contemporary art. She is the author of Object to be Destroyed: the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1999); Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (2004); and, most recently Forgetting the Art World (2012), all published by the MIT Press. Her other recent book, New Games (2012, Routledge) serves as the basis for her current research and manuscript, the subject of this workshop, Think Tank Aesthetics.