Fall 2011 Events

29 November 2011, 6:00 pm, Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum

Michelle Kuo (Artforum)

Test Sites: Experiments in Art and Technology

Michelle Kuo’s talk is drawn from her extensive research on the relationship between art, technology, and corporate research and development — as specifically realized in the organization Experiments in Art and Technology. Known as E.A.T., the group was founded in 1966 by Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman, and Bell Laboratories engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer to facilitate collaborations between artists and engineers. E.A.T. posed art as a specific type of research, a model of experimentation and production parallel to engineering, invention, and nonlinear systems. Its ambitious scale and structure provided the possibility of alternate, unforeseen paths — leading beyond the increasing foreclosure of key aesthetic strategies in the postwar period, but also allowing for the exploration of systems already in place for technocratic expansion and control.

Michelle Kuo is editor-in-chief of Artforum. From 2005 to 2007, she was the Wyeth Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.

This lecture is part of the six-part series "Art and Technology" organized by Joyce Tsai and Kerry Oliver-Smith. For a full description of the series, see the poster here. 

• This event is free and open to the public
• Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Yulee Fund)

• For more information, contact  joyce.tsai@ufl.edu or kos@ufl.edu

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