"Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Revisited"
Saturday April 5 + Sunday April 6, 2008
Babbio Atrium (River and 6th Street),
Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken (see directions below).
FREE and open to the public
"Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Revisited" examines and honors E.A.T.'s historic work and explores its influences in contemporary art and technology. E.A.T. was founded in 1966 by engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, to provide artists with access to new technology and to promote collaborations between artists and engineers.
Sponsored by Harvestworks and the Art & Technology program at Stevens Institute of Technology, with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Schedule
Saturday April 5, 2008
1:00 pm Opening Exhibiton "E.A.T. Revisted: Documents and Works"
The Story of E.A.T.: Experiments in Art and Technology, 1960-2001 by Billy Kluver; two collaborative works of the 1960's: Floats by Robert Breer, Silver Clouds by Andy Warhol; and an installation of new work, "transduced objects", by students from Stevens Institute and Harvestworks, resulting from a workshop based on David Tudor's Rainforest.
3:00 pm "Art and Technology, Historical and Current Perspectives" Panel discussion moderated by Julie Harrison (Stevens Institute of Technology), with panelists Robert Whitman, John Driscoll, Julie Martin, Steve Bull, Scott Lancaster and Anne Swartz (Savannah College of Art and Design).
5:30 pm Cellphonia: Tempo Variable (Cellphonia: Changeable Weather), a surround sound memorial concert for John Cage and David Tudor by Steve Bull and Scot Gresham-Lancaster. Live performance, cellphone calls, transduced objects, and synthetic voices are mixed by the musicians and the ETANNS, or Electronically Trainable Analog Neural Net synthesizer, developed by David Tudor. A Harvestworks Commissioned Work funded by NYSCA.
6:30 pm Reception
April 6, 2008
1:00 Film Screening: "9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering," a legendary series of theater, dance, music and performances at the New York 69th Regiment Armory in 1966 by 10 New York artist/engineer collaborations. Film screened include work by Robert Rauchenberg, John Cage, Öyvind (Note option u shift o) Fahlström, David Tudor and Robert Whitman.
Julie Martin will be present to introduce the films and to answer questions.
Tickets: $6.00 general public. Free to students and seniors with ID. |
