Introduction
Billy Klüver, Fred Waldhauer, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman help establish Experiments in Art and Technology, institutionalizing collaboration between artists and engineers. E.A.T. is not an AI art organisation, but its collaborative production model becomes important to subsequent digital, media and experimental technological art.
View full image ↗Rauschenberg and engineer Billy Klüver working on Oracle (1965), documenting collaboration before E.A.T. was founded.
Larry Morris / The New York Times / Redux Pictures; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · Rights remain with the respective holders; reproduction does not imply an open licence
Source · Art and Technology, 1959–98 ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Turning collaboration into an organisation
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Beyond a single event
E.A.T. made artist–engineer collaboration an ongoing organisational practice. Its archive describes a 1980 package of 360 reports, catalogues, newsletters, proposals, lectures and articles distributed to libraries internationally. Collaboration generated an institutional record beyond the resulting artworks.
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An archive across several repositories
Activity records went to the Getty in 1993; film, audio and documentary-production materials concerning 9 Evenings went to the Daniel Langlois Foundation in 2001. Published documents were subsequently digitised. Repositories and media cover different parts of the record; no single page stands for the complete archive.
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Why the paperwork matters
Editorial interpretation: proposals and reports make the organisation, financing and explanation of collaboration researchable. They provide comparative material for contemporary partnerships between artists and AI companies, without establishing identical contracts, rights or distributions of resources.
Section sources: Experiments in Art and Technology (organization)
Sources for this account
E.A.T.’s description of its holdings read; the 360 documents were not individually examined.
This account expands the archive within the cited scope. Historical interpretation is not presented as the original author’s statement or as a proven causal influence. The account and translation are AI-assisted, pending independent human review. Section references identify evidence without claiming independent verification of every historical statement.
Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Art and Technology program/exhibition.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 1966 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1966
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Provenance, translation & verification
Timeline entry #023 · Historical node
Research materials & supplement references · 1
AI Art Genealogy Research Master · p. 9 · 020
Date as recorded: 1966
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