Getty Research Institute Experiments in Art and Technology for PST 2024
Bell Telephone Laboratories, a scientific research center for the mid-century telecommunications industry, produced much of the foundational technology for the digital age. From its campus just outside of New York City, this institution renowned for inventing the transistor, the laser, information theory, and many computer programming languages also served as a launchpad for artistic experimentation. In 1966, Bell Labs electrical engineer Billy Klüver teamed up with American artist Robert Rauschenberg to form a new non-profit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). From its debut event which integrated groundbreaking technology, art, and theater at the Armory in Manhattan, to its development of a multi-sensory environment for the first international exposition in Asia, the Pepsi Pavilion for Expo ’70 in Osaka, E.A.T. played a critical role in fostering collaboration between leading artists and engineers. Drawing on E.A.T. Records uniquely held at Getty, as well as the archive of live electronics composer and E.A.T. contributor David Tudor and the photographic collection of Harry Shunk and Janos Kender, this exhibition will tell the story of E.A.T. by highlighting the group’s innovations in electronics and audience participation.
https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/grants-awarded/
[…] realization and workshops for Enter / Neural Network +. As part of the PST 2024 initiative, GRI is undertaking an E.A.T. exhibition which might have parallel course work at […]