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[Annick Bureaud]

OLATS NEWS 005 - E – 02/09/2002

1 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : E.A.T - Experiments in Art and Technology,
by Sylvie Lacerte, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html



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1 - Pioneers & Pathbreakers : E.A.T - Experiments in Art and Technology,
by Sylvie Lacerte, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

Any writtings about E.A.T. starts the same way : by recalling the date
of the foundation of the organisation. For Pioneers & Pathbreakers,
Sylvie Lacerte makes no exception. She writes : in November 1966, the
ingeniers Billy Klüver, Fred Waldhauer and the artists Robert
Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman founded E.A.T., Experiments in Art and Technology.

Sounding like a "Once upon a time", it reflects the place occupied by
E.A.T. in the contemporary art history, as a symbol of the collaboration
between artists and ingeniers, but also its mythical aspect that is
largely due to the fact that most of its accomplishments have been
temporary and ephemeral works, that it participated to some of the major
and seminal exhibitions of the second half of the 20th Century, and also
because the documentation is scaterred.

In this notice, Sylvie Lacerte recalls the intellectual approach and
groundings of E.A.T. and details its artistics achievements. So that
E.A.T. becomes less mythical but always a symbol and moreover an example.


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