Kuo: Rauschenberg used classified military infrared cameras in a 1966 performance
Michelle Kuo · Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator · Oct 20, 2017 · at 7:28
Artforum editor Michelle Kuo discusses the 1966 '9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering' performance series organized by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
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“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 supplier, and so at one part of the performance was turning all the lights off, And in the dark then training these infrared cameras on hundreds of performers that assembled on the floor of the armory.”
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