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“So they actually came under a lot of flack. I mean, there are articles actually written in Artforum as well as elsewhere that essentially accused EAT of being complicit with you know, the military and taking that as far as you might even go.”

“Yes, I'll probably never live to see the day when someone doesn't say my kid could do that.”

“EAT claimed later that it was because, ah, the performance festival didn't want to give, they didn't like the idea that the artist would give so much agency to the engineers and that they would kind of be this freewheeling thing.”

“For example, in Rauschenberg's performance piece, to make a long story short, one of the technologies they got and used was infrared, and at the time, infrared was a classified military technology. They ended up getting infrared cameras from a Japanese supplie…”

“Rauschenberg's piece basically set up, in this huge cavernous expanse of the armory, a tennis match. But it wasn't a regular tennis match. He set up a tennis court. He had the artist Frank Stella, who at the time was actually taking tennis lessons from a tenni…”

“One of the projects they did was actually convert A bunch of really experimental film pieces, two video, and then do the first cable broadcast of artists, television programming pretty much of all time, and this was in 1970, 71.”

“They tested it in LA but they created a 180 degree hemispherical mirror dome that was inflated, made out of inflated mylar essentially, which was the same technology that was being used for the first telecommunication satellites.”

“Pepsi replaced all of these experimental sort of John Cage slash David Tudor composed soundtracks with It's a Small World.”

“Richard Feynman was a member of EAT, so was Robert Irwin so were a lot of physicists”

“Centre Pompidou is a very funny building. Again, to make a long story short it's a very weird piece of architecture, but it acts like a Faraday cage. So it was blocking all signal.”

“So the artist Robert Whitman kind of spearheaded this project, and again, part of this is about with these new tools of communication, How can we explore democratizing communication and networks of communication? So they had this idea to set up, ah, multiple s…”

“They explored telex communication with, they set up telex stations for adults on the occasion of another project In, ah, Ahmedabad, India, in Stockholm, in Tokyo, in New York, in LA, and they were Having people ask questions about what they thought the future …”

“Experiments in Art and Technology was a group that was founded in 1966 by the artist Robert Rauschenberg, by an engineer named Billy Kluver, who was a research scientist at Bell Labs.”

“It involved over 40 engineers and artists, and it was this performance series that took place in New York in at the Armory, which was a huge cavernous space, and basically to get, to make the performance, what became the performance pieces, they paired artists…”

“The Armory was suggested as a venue because they wanted to test out literally physical scale, and in the Armory there are echo times of up to five seconds.”

“And so at their peak by around 1970, they had nearly 5000 members.”

“To artists, but then to go to IEEE, which was the, you know, engineering society, they had a, Hans Hacke had a booth, was manning a booth there and handing out flyers.”

“Of course, the first night, the rackets didn't work, so they were, or the lights, the trigger for the lights didn't work, so they were actually manually turning off the lights. You know, sort of jerry-rigging or, you know, retroactively, you know, making the p…”

“Tang Lee actually was really one of the first works that Kluver, the EAT engineer, they collaborated on a piece that was basically a kinetic sculpture That destroyed itself in the Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden in of course, it didn't really, it sort of…”