“Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Revisited” examines and honors E.A.T.’s historic work and explores its influences in contemporary art and technology. E.A.T. was founded in 1966 by engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, to provide artists with access to new technology and to promote collaborations between artists and engineers.

SATURDAY APRIL 5 + SUNDAY APRIL 6, 2008   

BABBIO CENTER, STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
CASTLE POINT ON HUDSON, HOBOKEN NJ.   FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

SPONSORED BY HARVESTWORKS AND THE ART & TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM AT STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
WITH FUNDS FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS AND THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

 
SATURDAY APRIL 5
1 PM OPENING EXHIBITION   "E.A.T. Revisited: Documents and Works." including The Story of E.A.T.: Experiments in Art and Technology, 1960–2001 by Billy Kluver;  two collaborative works of the 1960’s: Floats by Robert Breer, and Silver Clouds by Andy Warhol; and an installation of new work, “transduced objects” by students from Stevens Insitute and Harvestworks, resulting from a workshop based on David Tudor’s Rainforest.
 
3 PM PANEL  “Art and Technology, Historical and Current Perspectives” Panel Discussion moderated by Julie Harrison (Stevens Institute of Technology), with panelists Robert Whitman, John Driscoll, Julie Martin, Steve Bull, Scott Lancaster and Anne Swartz (Savannah College of Art and Design)
 
5:30 PM PERFORMANCE  Cellphonia: Tempo Variable (Cellphonia: Changeable Weather), a surround sound memorial concert for John Cage and David Tudor by Steve Bull and Scot Gresham-Lancaster. Live performance, cellphone calls, transduced objects, and synthetic voices are mixed by the musicians and the ETANNS, or Electronically Trainable Analog Neural Net synthesizer, developed by David Tudor. A Harvestworks Commissioned Work funded by NYSCA.
 
6:30 PM RECEPTION

SUNDAY APRIL 6
1 PM FILM SCREENING  “9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering,” a legendary series of theater, dance, music and performances at the New York 69th Regiment Armory in 1966 by 10 New York artist/engineer collaborations. Films screened include work by Robert Rauchenberg, John Cage, Oyvind Fahlstrom, David Tudor and Robert Whitman. Julie Martin will be present to introduce the films and to answer questions. Tickets: $6.00 general public. Free to students and seniors with ID.

Harvestworks Inc. is a non-profit digital media arts center in New York City. Harvestworks has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, LMCC/ADNY, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the New York State Music Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Argosy Foundation, New York Community Trust, Materials for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the Experimental TV Center Presentation Fund and mediaThe foundation inc. Additional support by Cycling74.

The Art & Technology (ARTC) program in the College of Arts & Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology was formed four years ago as an academic undergraduate art department within an engineering school that promotes the history and administers the education of art as it relates to and interacts with science, technology, humanities and the social sciences. ARTC has also been a conduit for partnerships between artists, engineers, and scientists through our artist-in-residence program. For more information see: www.stevens.edu/cal/art/

For more information please contact:

Julie Harrison
Artist-in Residence, Art & Technology
Morton
Room 208
Phone: 201.216.8583
Fax: 201.216.8245

jharriso@stevens.edu