Description
Clear-eyed and clear-eared insights by scholars at the very top of their topics, and beautifully designed and illustrated with archival treasures from the Getty Research Institute, Sensing the Future is an indispensable document on Experiments in Art and Technology, and on key events of the period in art, music, dance, performance, and everything in-between.
- Douglas Kahn, author of Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
This book presents multifaceted scholarly investigations of an organization that was committed to collaborations among artists, engineers, and scientists, but it was also an organization that continued to reinvent itself as it seized new opportunities to change society and the future. - Julie Martin
Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology explores a largely ignored conceptual and material transformation of the arts in the 1960s. Framed by nine performances at the New York Armory in October 1966 and the Pepsi Pavilion at Osaka's Expo '70, it focuses on the imaginative collaborations of engineers, especially Bell Labs's visionary Billy Kluver, with artists, composers, and dancers-among them Tinguely and Rauschenberg, Cage and Tudor, Hay and Rainer. Through the examination of works that grew out of technological innovations and engaged the senses, editors Nancy Perloff and Michelle Kuo conclude that these experiences suggested the "future of modern society" as "contingent, shifting, and open-ended." - Jann Pasler, Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego
About the Author
Nancy Perloff is curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute. Michelle Kuo is Chief Curator at Large and Publisher at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Book Information
ISBN 9781606069233
Author Nancy Perloff
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Getty Research Institute,U.S.
Publisher Getty Trust Publications