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Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (2020)

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Technology and art Discipline formation Science and culture Museum curators Scientists Engineers 20th century, late 21st century

The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years. Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art began to be breached. In this book, W. Patrick McCray shows how in this era, artists eagerly collaborated with engineers and scientists to explore new technologies and create visually and sonically compelling multimedia works. This art emerged from corporate laboratories, artists' studios, publishing houses, art galleries, and university campuses. Many of the biggest stars of the art world—Robert Rauschenberg, Yvonne Rainer, Andy Warhol, Carolee Schneemann, and John Cage—participated, but the technologists who contributed essential expertise and aesthetic input often went unrecognized.Coming from diverse personal backgrounds, this roster of engineers and scientists includes Frank J. Malina, the American rocket-pioneer turned kinetic artist who launched the art-science journal Leonardo, and Swedish-born engineer Billy Klüver, who established the group Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T). At schools ranging from MIT to Caltech, engineers engaged with such figures as artist Gyorgy Kepes and celebrity curator Maurice Tuchman. Today, we are in the midst of a new surge of corporate and academic promotion of projects and programs combining art, technology, and science. Making Art Work reveals how artists and technologists have continually constructed new communities in which they exercise imagination, display creative expertise, and pursue commercial innovation.

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Authors & Contributors
Benedictus, Fedde
Kealoha
Sabet, Gamal M.
Alberto López Cuenca
Chih-Yuan Yang
Catts, Oron
Journals
Science
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Social Studies of Science
Nature
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Springer Nature
University of Chicago Press
University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese University Press
Concepts
Scientists
Science and culture
Engineers
Technology and art
Discipline formation
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
People
Humbert, Aloïs
Catts, Oron
Zurr, Ionat
Zinder, Norton D.
Shatkin, Aaron J.
Sarton, George
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Modern
19th century
Places
United States
West Virginia (U.S.)
Hawaii (U.S.)
China
Asia
Taiwan
Institutions
Centro Nacional de las Artes
Musée académique de Genève
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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