Experiments in Art and Technology Los Angeles records 1969-1975

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Experiments in Art and Technology Los Angeles records 1969-1975

Collection of materials documenting Experiments in Art and Technology Los Angeles, a non-profit organization fostering collaborations between artists and scientists that generally operated independently of the original New York-based E.A.T. The collection offers a survey of proposed and completed projects by the Los Angeles E.A.T. organization.

5.5 linear feet; (4 boxes and 2 flat-file folders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6660882

Getty Research Institute

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Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1970 : Osaka, Japan)

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Saarinen, Eric

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Experiments in Art and Technology (Organization)

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E.A.T., an organization devoted to promoting the interaction of art and technology, was founded in 1966 by Billy Klüver, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman, and Fred Waldhauer after the landmark event "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering." Their intent was to continue the artist/engineer relationship forged during those performances, and to give artists access to materials and technologies that were starting to become commercially available in the mid-1960s. From the description of...

Experiments in Art and Technology Los Angeles (Organization)

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Experiments in Art and Technology was founded in New York in 1966 by Billy Kluver, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman and Fred Waldhaer. Local groups had been organized throughout the world beginning in 1967, and in 1969, regional offices were established in Los Angeles and Tokyo. E.A.T. Los Angeles operated independently of the parent organization, except in the collaborative construction of the Spherical Mirror Dome, exhibited at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. From the description of E...