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Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

$30.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Nancy Perloff and Michelle Kuo In the 1960s and '70s, collaborations between artists and engineers led to groundbreaking innovations in multisensory performance art that continue to resonate today.   In 1966, Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, engineers at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, teamed up with artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman to form a nonprofit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). E.A.T.’s debut event, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, integrated…