Photo Services Department Art and Technology slides 1970-1971

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Photo Services Department Art and Technology slides 1970-1971

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art and Technology Program

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The Art and Technology program was organized by the Modern Art Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). This department was renamed the Twentieth-Century Art Department in 1981, and fifteen years later, in 1996, became the Modern and Contemporary Art Department. In 2005, Modern and Contemporary art were separated into two departments, reflecting the disciplinary distinctions now existing between these two historical periods. The concept for the Art and Technology program was b...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Photographic Services Department.

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Biographical/Historical note Intrigued by the advanced technology used by corporations in Southern California in 1966, Maurice Tuchman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Curator of Modern Art, began to imagine what an artist could create in an industrial environment. The idea of linking art and industry eventually led to the creation of the Art and Technology Program. Tuchman presented his idea to LACMA’s Board of Directors...