Experiments in Art and Technology, every mention

Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator Oct 20, 2017 · 30 mentions

• ▶ 0:00 Michelle Kuo So I'll just start by saying 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.
• ▶ 5:57 Michelle Kuo They, they, 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…
• ▶ 8:20 Michelle Kuo Um, and from there, they got momentum even more. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:00 Michelle Kuo Particularly among the avant-garde, among the counterculture, among the very artists that, uh, and some of the engineers that are part of EAT. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 17:43 Michelle Kuo Well, basically what, uh, this is around in 1968, 19 69, um, EAT had been moving around. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 23:04 Michelle Kuo Uh, amazing and fantastic, but then also cataclysmic events for them was when EAT was commissioned to construct and realize the Pepsi Pavilion at the World's Fair in Osaka in 1970. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:40 Michelle Kuo But yeah, Richard Feynman was a member of EAT, so was Robert Irwin, um, so were a lot of physicists, you know, again, was part of this kind of crazy network of people, and what was great was that, uh, there were a lot of, uh, not a lot,… 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 30:49 Michelle Kuo Um, but 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 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 37:58 unnamed speaker So in thinking about, like, the legacy of EAT, who do you think is doing some of the most interesting work in that, you know, kind of intersection of art and technology?
• ▶ 53:35 Michelle Kuo Well, they're both highly specialized and, and that's part of why I think you see this isolation and, and that's precisely, those were precisely the terms that EAT was using back in the sixties as well.