EAT Net & Tribute to Billy Kluver at National Gallery of Art

In a message dated 2004:02:18 03:15:55 PM, rpacker@... writes:

>"The Story of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and
>Technology): A Tribute to Billy Klüver"
>
>A dialogue between Randall Packer and Julie Martin
>
>Sunday, March 7, 2:00 pm
>
>National Gallery of Art
>East Building Auditorium
>Washington, DC
>
>With the passing of scientist Billy Klüver last
>month, an important chapter came to an end in the
>history of art and technology. On Sunday, March
>7, at 2:00 p.m. in the East Building Auditorium
>of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
>media artist Randall Packer, joined by Klüver's
>widow and long-time collaborator Julie Martin,
>will discuss the numerous achievements of Billy
>Klüver and E.A.T (Experiments in Art and
>Technology). They will explore his pioneering
>embrace of collaboration between artist and
>engineer, encouraging both a new role for the
>scientist in the advancement of social issues and
>new approaches to technology. Klüver collaborated
>on seminal works by such artists as Jean
>Tinguely, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg,
>Jasper Johns, John Cage, and Robert Whitman, many
>of whom are in the Gallery's collection. The
>presentation will also feature a screening of the
>film Open Score, showcasing Robert Rauschenberg's
>collaborative performance work included in "9
>Evenings of Theater and Engineering," which led
>to the formation of E.A.T. in 1966.
>
>The lecture is free and open to the public.
>
>For additional information on the Billy Klüver tribute and E.A.T.:
>
>E.A.T. NET : http://www.eatnet.org
>
>
>National Gallery of Art (what's new) :
>
>http://www.nga.gov/highlights/highlite.htm

Nearly 20-some yrs ago, my father had a book on EAT and Kluver that I
loved readin' and lookin' at.
So all this remains in my fond memories...& history-obsessed brainies...

---
Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk]

"The whole world of musics and instruments lives around us....I am
interested in a 'transethnic,' a planetary music." - Lou Harrison ("...Europe is a
region he called Northwest Asia...")
The power of education & culture to transcend social and political
differences is still largely untapped...

Ars sine scientia nihil est. Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione.