Collection Summary
The Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Collection consists of over 500 documents that explore the activities of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) from 1962 to 1986. Included are reports, project descriptions, technical drawings, correspondence, invitations, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, reprints of articles, and photocopies of press clippings.
Founded in 1966 by Billy Klüver, Fred Waldhauer, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, E.A.T. was a non-profit group established to encourage and facilitate collaborations between artists and engineers. Julie Martin joined the E.A.T. staff in 1967 and today serves as director of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). With Klüver, Martin’s late husband, and art historian Barbara Rose, Julie Martin coedited the book Pavilion (E. P. Dutton, 1972) that documents the Pepsi Pavilion, which was designed and built by E.A.T. for Expo ’70 in Osaka. Martin also collaborated with Klüver on numerous articles on art and technology.
Status
Finding aid forthcoming
Access
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