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http://dx.doi.org/10.17703/JCCT.2019.5.4.79

Collaboration between Artists and Engineers: 'Experiments in Art and Technology' Group  

Lim, Shan (Dept. of Curatorial Studies, Dongduk Women's Univ)
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The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology / v.5, no.4, 2019 , pp. 79-85 More about this Journal
Abstract
'Experiments in Art and Technology' Group was established in the mid-20th century, and then developed the larger interdisciplinary experiments into the range of art world and its outside field. The motive power of group's activities was the collaboration between artists and engineers traversing the boundary between old different disciplinary conventions. E.A.T was officially launched in 1967 by the engineers Billy $Kl{\ddot{u}}ver$ and Fred Waldhauer and the artists Robert Raushenberg and Robert Whitman. They performed various possibility of material, technology, and engineering available to contemporary art. By reflecting the function of art and technology in society, eventually they developed the methodology of new aesthetics which had organic relationship with contemporary world. In this sense, this research have its academic significance. This paper firstly examined the socio-cultural context of emerging the E.A.T. group as a representative model for convergent practice, and verified the fact that the collaboration between artists and engineers had produced the expansion of artistic expression as well as new relationship among art, engineering, and society by considering E.A.T's various projects. Therefore, I will refer the E.A.T. group as an exemplary model for concrete method of collaboration that contemporary discourses about convergence need.
Keywords
Experiments in Art and Technology Group; Billy $Kl{\ddot{u}}ver$; Nine Evenings; Pepsi-Cola Pavillion;
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