Experiments in Art and Technology Revisited to be held at Stevens, April 5-6
Exhibition, panel, performance and films to examine collaborations between artists and engineers
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the Art & Technology Program at Stevens Institute of Technology announce a weekend of events entitled “Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) Revisited,” to examine and honor E.A.T.’s historic work in promoting collaborations between artists and engineers, and explore its influences on contemporary art and technology. The weekend includes an exhibition, panel discussion, sound performance and film screening. All events take place at Stevens Institute of Technology’s Babbio Center, located at River and 6 th Streets in Hoboken, N.J., and are free and open to the public. For travel directions, see http://www.stevens.edu/sit/maps/public_transport.cfm.
The events begin on Saturday, April 5, at 2:00 p.m. with the opening of the exhibition, “E.A.T. Revisited: Documents and Works.” Included is an installation of photographic documentation, The Story of E.A.T.: Experiments in Art and Technology, 1960–2001 by Billy Klüver; a selection of classic works: Floats by Robert Breer and Silver Clouds by Andy Warhol; and an installation of new works, “Transduced Objects,” created in a workshop inspired by David Tudor’s “Rainforest,” taught by John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein to artists and students from both Stevens Institute and Harvestworks. “E.A.T. Revisited: Documents and Works” will continue through April 27, 2008.
Following at 3:00 p.m. is a panel discussion, “ Art and Technology, Historical and Current Perspectives,” with panelists Robert Whitman, Julie Martin, John Driscoll, Steve Bull, Scot Gresham-Lancaster and Anne Swartz (Savannah College of Art and Design), moderated by Julie Harrison (Stevens Institute of Technology).
At 5:30 p.m. is a performance by Steve Bull and Scot Gresham-Lancaster called Cellphonia: Tempo Variable (Cellphonia: Changeable Weather), a surround sound memorial concert for John Cage and David Tudor in which live performance, cellphone calls, transduced objects, and synthetic voices are mixed by the musicians and the neural synthesis ETANN, or electronically trainable analog neural net, developed by Forrest Warthman and Scot Gresham-Lancaster for David Tudor.
There will be a reception following at 6:15 to meet the artists, panelists, and organizers.
On Sunday April 6, beginning at 1:00 p.m., screenings of films from “9 Evenings: Theater & Engineering,” include Robert Rauschenberg’s Open Score; John Cage’s Variations VII; Öyvind Fahlström’s Kisses Sweeter than Wine and a work-in-progress on David Tudor’s Bandoneon!. Producer Julie Martin and director Barbro Schultz Lundestam, will be present to introduce the films and answer questions. Suggested donation for this event, to benefit the “9 Evenings” film series, is $5.00 at the door, free to children, students and seniors.
About Harvestworks
Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Its goals are to create an environment where artists can make work inspired by and achieved with electronic media; to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work by presenting and disseminating the finished works; to advance the art community’s and the public’s agenda for the use of technology in art; and to bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts for collaborations in the use of electronic media. For more information see: www.harvestworks.org
About the Art & Technology (ARTC) Program at Stevens
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 and technology. ARTC, loosely modeled after E.A.T., has also been a conduit for partnerships between artists, engineers, and scientists through its artist-in-residence program. For more information see: www.stevens.edu/cal/art
“Experiments in Art and Technology Revisited” is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the College of Arts & Letters at Stevens and by mediaThe foundation inc.About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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