{"product_id":"sensing-the-future-experiments-in-art-and-technology-e-a-t","title":"Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the 1960s and '70s, collaborations between artists and engineers led to groundbreaking innovations in multisensory performance art that continue to resonate today.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1966, Billy Kl?ver and Fred Waldhauer, engineers at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, teamed up with artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman to form a nonprofit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). E.A.T.'s debut event, \u003ci\u003e9 Evenings: Theatre \u0026amp; Engineering, \u003c\/i\u003e integrated art, theater, and groundbreaking technology in a series of performances at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. Its second major event, the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, presented a multisensory environment for the first world exposition held in Asia. At these events, and in the hundreds of collaborations E.A.T. facilitated in between, the participants--including John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, and David Tudor--imagined innovative ways for art and science to intersect and enrich society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSensing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of these collaborations between artists and engineers and how they led to new installations and technology-based artworks. Through the examination of films, photographs, diagrams, and artists' records from the E.A.T. archive at the Getty Research Institute, this volume provides a new perspective on multimedia art in the 1960s and '70s and highlights the ways E.A.T. pushed the role of the artist beyond the traditional art world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center from September 10, 2024, to February 23, 2025.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy Perloff is curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Michelle Kuo is chief curator at large and publisher at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Getty Research Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900847952146,"sku":"9781606069233","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a4efcdac-6b3b-4532-8b4d-e72db9b80db1.jpg?v=1738399989","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sensing-the-future-experiments-in-art-and-technology-e-a-t","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}