The Whitney Museum of American Art. (Newswire).

The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the 113 artists and collaborative teams to be exhibited at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, It thereby promises to be the largest since 1982. The chief curator of the 2002 Biennial is Lawrence Rinder, who developed the exhibition along with three of his Whitney colleagues. Rinder notes that the exhibition not only aims to cover artists exploring the freedoms provided by new technologies, but that it also looks to those expressing a resurgent interest in traditional media. Artists to be included among those that work in photography, film, video or new media configurations of these categories, are: filmmaker Ken Jacobs; photographer Vera Lutter; sound and image artist Christian Marclay; photographer Collier Schorr; photographer, filmmaker and video artist Lorna Simpson; and video artist Christian Jankowski. Aided by a partnership with the Public Art Fund, the Biennial will also move outdoors to Central Park and feature five major artist's projects covering sculptural a nd performance-related work.