Art & Tech
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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BETWEEN THE NOSE
DR. FUNG KAI HUNG
CURIOSITY
TECHNICANLITY
9 EVENINGS
10 ARTISTS 30 ENGINEERS
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erhaps the most influential event joining art and technology in the 1960s, 9 evenings was held in October 1966 in New York.
Spearheaded by artist Robert Rauschenberg and engineer Billy Klüver, a total audience of some 10,000 witnessed performances by ten artists collaborating with thirty engineers.
In the technical development of their work, the ten artists, John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Oyvind Fählstrom, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman benefited from 8500 engineering hours, worth an estimated $150,000, provided mostly by Klüver and his colleagues at Bell Laboratories.
Fahlstrom’s work, Kisses Sweeter than Wine (top), a biting satire on the war in Viet Nam, incorporated a giant spinning head of President Lyndon Johnson, an anti-missile missile, and undulating tentacles made of bubbles. It was during the process of organizing 9 evenings that the foundation, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was initiated.
During the late 1960s, twenty-eight E.A.T. chapters were established throughout the US in order to make, in Klüver’s words, ‘materials, technology and engineering available to any contemporary artist.’ [1]
erhaps the most influential event joining art and technology in the 1960s, 9 evenings was held in October 1966 in New York.
Spearheaded by artist Robert Rauschenberg and engineer Billy Klüver, a total audience of some 10,000 witnessed performances by ten artists collaborating with thirty engineers.
In the technical development of their work, the ten artists, John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Oyvind Fählstrom, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman benefited from 8500 engineering hours, worth an estimated $150,000, provided mostly by Klüver and his colleagues at Bell Laboratories.
Fahlstrom’s work, Kisses Sweeter than Wine (top), a biting satire on the war in Viet Nam, incorporated a giant spinning head of President Lyndon Johnson, an anti-missile missile, and undulating tentacles made of bubbles. It was during the process of organizing 9 evenings that the foundation, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was initiated.
During the late 1960s, twenty-eight E.A.T. chapters were established throughout the US in order to make, in Klüver’s words, ‘materials, technology and engineering available to any contemporary artist.’ [1]
SILVER CLOUD
ANDY WARHOL & BILLY KLUVER
Silver Clouds is a simple concept: 150 human-sized, metallic balloons floating around in a big room. They aren’t tied down, flowing through air currents created by strategically placed fans. It’s interactive, visitors of the exhibit are allowed to “play with the clouds” whether it be hugging, poking, or smacking. You can lie on the floor or run through the exhibit. You’re free to do whatever you want to feel a part of the exhibit. “It’s all about getting to interact with Andy Warhol when you would never get a chance to otherwise,” said Artisphere spokesperson Annalisa Meyer.
