Experiments in Art and Technology Los Angeles records, 1969-1975.

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Experiments in Art and Technology Los Angeles (Organization). Experiments in Art and Technology Los Angeles records, 1969-1975.

Experiments in Art and Technology Los Angeles records, 1969-1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84548204

E.A.T. and like organizations formed as artists, architects, and social visionaries perceived the creative possibilities of lasers, sound technologies, optical instruments, new plastics, and computers. The collection offers a survey of the projects the Los Angeles E.A.T. organization proposed and completed in pursuit of its stated mission to foster collaborations between artists and scientists, make new technologies available to artists, and educate children in the creative possibilities of science. The first project, installed at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, was fabrication of a .001 inch thick metalized malanex with sixty-four gores to create a perfect 2/3 sphere that was 90 feet high. When inflated to maximum pressure, an almost perfect spherical mirror surface was formed, causing a complex of virtual and inverted images to appear in mid-air and on the dome's surface. The collection documents this project with a 16 mm film by Eric Saarinen, photographs, brochures, and correspondence. Other documented endeavors include an art and technology conference at the University of Southern California, a mobile unit program to allow school children to play with computers and audio-visual equipment, a film series about science, a computer game in which participants designed a new community, a conference about innovations in architecture and urban planning, and a service that matched artists with scientists of like interests.

5.5 linear feet (4 boxes, 2 flat files)

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