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RHIZOME NEWS January 8, 2007
E.A.T. Archaeology
The label 'pioneer' gets applied fairly liberally to artists working with
emerging technologies or scientists pursuing aesthetic applications for
their inquiries. This term would be an understatement when it comes to E.A.T
(Experiments in Art and Technology), the organization founded in October of
1966, by Bell Telephone research scientist Billy Kluver. The group
indisputably created the Ur-text for contemporary technology-enabled
performance. Their '9-Evenings: Theater & Engineering,' was a program of
work by 10 artists--including Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Yvonne
Rainer--made in collaboration with a group of 30 engineers and scientists
who tailored then-innovative equipment, such as fiber-optic cameras and
Doppler sonar, to the artists' projects. As legendary as the events have
become, documentation of the performances has been hard to find--until now.
Beginning on February 27th, E.A.T., Artpix, and Microcinema International
will begin releasing a 10-part DVD series that documents each performance
with archival sound recordings and film. The first release will be Robert
Rauschenberg's 'Open Score,' the historic tennis match played using racquets
equipped with portable FM transmitters, which climaxes with infrared video
footage of a crowd swarming the pitch-black court. The second disk in the
series comes out on June 26, but in the meantime, clips on the project's
website offer an interim fix of excavated and lovingly-assembled footage. -
Bill Hanley
http://www.9evenings.org/
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January 8, 2007
E.A.T. Archaeology
The label 'pioneer' gets applied fairly liberally to artists working with emerging technologies or scientists pursuing aesthetic applications for their inquiries. This term would be an understatement when it comes to E.A.T (Experiments in Art and Technology), the organization founded in October of 1966, by Bell Telephone research scientist Billy Kluver. The group indisputably created the Ur-text for contemporary technology-enabled performance. Their '9-Evenings: Theater & Engineering,' was a program of work by 10 artists--including Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Yvonne Rainer--made in collaboration with a group of 30 engineers and scientists who tailored then-innovative equipment, such as fiber-optic cameras and Doppler sonar, to the artists' projects. As legendary as the events have become, documentation of the performances has been hard to find--until now. Beginning on February 27th, E.A.T., Artpix, and Microcinema International will begin releasing a 10-part DVD!
series that documents each performance with archival sound recordings and film. The first release will be Robert Rauschenberg's 'Open Score,' the historic tennis match played using racquets equipped with portable FM transmitters, which climaxes with infrared video footage of a crowd swarming the pitch-black court. The second disk in the series comes out on June 26, but in the meantime, clips on the project's website offer an interim fix of excavated and lovingly-assembled footage. - Bill Hanley
http://www.9evenings.org/
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