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2 unusual facts about Billy Klüver


Fred Waldhauer

Waldhauer, Billy Klüver and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman collaborated in 1966 organizing 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a series of performances that united artists and engineers.

Klüver

Billy Klüver (1927–2004), American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology


Armory Show

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was officially launched by the engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer and the artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman when they collaborated in 1966 and together organized 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a series of performance art presentations that united artists and engineers.

Robert Whitman

Whitman was one of the co-founders of Experiments in Art and Technology along with engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer and artist Robert Rauschenberg - a project to provide contemporary artists with access to new technology as it developed in research institutions and laboratories.


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