Index

Abe, Shuya, 265

Abstract art, 32

Adeane, Robert, 192

Adorno, Olga, 93, 120

Adorno, Theodor W., 163

Aerojet, 25, 29, 255

Aerospace industry, 191, 262–263

Aesthetics, 38, 259

AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations), 146

Agostini, Philippe, 205

Ai-Da, 302–303

Albers, Josef, 63

Alcopley, L., 158, 161–162

Aldrin, Edwin “Buzz,” 202

Alfvén, Hannes, 82

Allen, Paul G., 282, 284

Alloway, Lawrence, 92, 148–149, 250

Amalgamated Lithographers of America, 149

Amaya, Mario, 153

American Foundation on Automation and Unemployment, 140–141, 146

“American Sculpture of the Sixties” (exhibition), 193

American Society for Engineering Education, 63

Antin, David, 253

Appropriate technology movement, 151

Arduino, 297–298

Argon lasers, 218

Armory (69th Regiment, New York), 109–110

Armstrong, Neil, 202

Arnheim, Rudolf, 63, 164, 167

Arnold, Matthew, 56

ARP Instruments, 267

Art

abstract, 32

audio-kinetic, 41

auto-destructive, 260

avant-garde, 100

Big Art, 214–215, 227, 246, 295

computer-generated, 141–143, 176, 265, 302

and computer industry, 283

and corporate R&D, 11

culture of, 2–3, 7

digital/new media, 10, 14, 33, 264

and economic growth, 289

electro-kinetic, 8–9, 33, 35, 50, 220

and electronic devices, 7, 11

Art (cont.)

and engineering education, 54, 289

history of, 14

and industry, 4–5, 182–183, 186–187

and innovation, 282

intermedia, 15–16, 33

kinetic, 9, 34, 48–50

monumental, 49

pop, 92, 188, 302

and science, 28, 92, 214, 290

and science education, 14, 139, 288

social diffusion of, 6

support for, 99–100

and technology, 4–6, 17, 76, 135–136, 202, 279–280, 284, 303

video, 264–265

visual, 63–65

“Art and Science—Will There Be a Difference?” (panel), 201

“Art and Technology” (exhibition), 252–259

Art and Technology, Inc., 267

Art-and-technology movement, 6–10, 12–13, 136, 150. See also Experiments in Art and Technology

aesthetic appraisals of, 259–260

areas of activity, 155

attitudes to, 195

attraction of, 198

critiques of, 248, 260–261, 299–300

decline of, 187

and engineers, 262

and function of technology, 12, 292

geography of, 300–301

as global community, 155

goals, 65

interest in, 154

and militarism, 261–262

new directions, 263–264

and politics, 260–261

rationale, 301–302

and science education, 139

waves of, 248–249, 273–276, 284–286, 290–291, 295, 302–303

Art-as-systems, 172

Art construit, 34

“Arte programmata” (exhibition), 51

Artforum, 99, 188

“Art in Cinema” (film series), 83

“Art in Motion” (exhibition), 90–91

Artist-in-residence programs, 299

Artist Placement Group, 192–193

Artists

attitudes toward, 289–291

caricature of, 53–54

and critical attention, 12

and engineers, 2–7, 92, 98–100, 105–106, 136–137, 150, 196–197, 301–302

funding sources, 252, 261

hybrid engineer-artists, 284

and political neutrality, 261

and scientists, 16, 214, 288

sensibility and identity of, 97–99, 172

and technology, 292

“Art 1963: A New Vocabulary” (exhibition), 92

Artscience, 16

Art Workers Coalition, 248

Art x Science x LA, 303

Ascent of Man, The (television series), 158

Aspen Ideas Festival, 289

AT&T, 85–86, 107–108, 111, 118

Audio-kinetic art, 41

Auto-destructive art, 260

Automated typesetting, 140

Automation, 140–141

Automation House, 141, 143, 146, 248

Automotive Marine Products, 124

Avant-garde art, 100

Baez, Joan, 47

Baker, Ruth, 201

Balloons, high-performance, 233

Bannard, Darby, 172

Barnes, Clive, 129–130

Barr, Alfred, 144

Barrett, Syd, 52

Bauhaus, 4–5

Becker, Howard, 13

Bell, Daniel, 11

Bell, Larry, 191

Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs), 33, 84–85, 104. See also Nokia Bell Labs

and computer-generated art, 141–142

and E.A.T., 299

and 9 Evenings, 110–111

and Pepsi Pavilion, 232–233

and telepresence, 118

Bell system, 121

Bennett, Drew, 299

Bense, Max, 175

Benthall, Jonathan, 262

Beranek, Leo L., 167

Berge, Claude, 158

Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 170

Bethe, Hans, 169

Big Art, 214–215, 227, 246, 295

Big Bang radiation, 86

Big Bang Theory, The (television show), 291

Big Science, 213–214, 227, 231, 240, 244

Biorn, Per, 118, 120, 134, 239, 267

Bloch, Erich, 275

Bochner, Mel, 201

Bohm, David, 163

Book of Kells, 189

Boston Harbor light monument, 173–174

Brautigan, Richard, 174–175

Breer, Robert, 88, 91, 206–211, 231

Floats, 206

“Bridging STEM to STEAM” (workshop), 288

Briggs, Asa, 59

Brogan, Jack, 192

Bronowski, Jacob, 158, 167

Brown, John Seely, 282

Brown, Trisha, 267

Astral Convertible (with Rauschenberg), 267

Burchard, John E., 64

Burnham, Jack, 170–174, 180, 206, 214, 250, 252–253, 261

Beyond Modern Sculpture, 170, 172

“System Esthetics,” 170

Burning Man festival, 283

Byars, James Lee, 194

Cage, John, 96–97, 104, 108–109, 115, 118, 124, 141, 144

Variations V, 97

Variations VII, 118–120

Calder, Alexander, 34, 91

The Four Seasons, 91

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 21, 25, 185–186, 199

Canaday, John, 52, 90, 244

Carpenter Center (Harvard), 168

Centerbeam (CAVS project), 276

Center for Advanced Visual Studies. See Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (Stanford), 283

Center for Media Study (SUNY Buffalo), 264

Center for Music Experiment (UC San Diego), 264

Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (UC San Diego), 264

Chandler, John, 220

Chandler, Marilyn B. “Missy,” 193, 226

Chandler, Otis, 193

Chesterton, G. K., 64

Children and Communication project, 269

Childs, Lucinda, 104, 117–118

Vehicle, 117–118

Chowning, John, 283

Christie’s, 302

Chromola, 267

Chrysler Airflow, 206

Citizenfour (documentary), 293

Coker, Cecil, 105, 112

Cold War, 54, 274

Coler, Myron, 163

Collaborations, artist-engineer, 6–8, 13, 51, 90

decline in, 263

exclusion of women, 259

exhibitions, 105–106, 182–183

products of, 302

“Collaborative Projects between Art and Engineering Students” (panel), 148–149

Color organ, 267

Communities, technological, 5–6

Computer-generated art, 141–143, 176, 265, 302

Computer-generated music, 86, 176

“Computer Generated Pictures” (exhibition), 142–143

Computers, digital, 141–142, 172–173, 175–176, 260, 283

Conant, James, 61–62

Concrete poetry, 51

Conrad, Tony, 264

Constructivism, 4

Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 297–298

Coons, Steven, 276

Copley, Alfred L., 158, 161–162

Cotton, Paul, 253

Council for Conscious Existence, 247–248

Cousteau, Jacques, 83

Creativity, 75

Crichton, Michael, 281

Cronkite, Walter, 70

Cross, Lowell, 236

Cultural revolution, 147–151

Cunningham, Merce, 96–97

“Cybernetic Moon Landing Celebration,” 201–202

Cybernetics, 49, 155, 171, 174–175

“Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts” (exhibition), 175–178

“Cyclotron as Seen by . . . , The” (cartoon series), 227

Darcourt, Liljan, 23–27

Davis, Channa, 194

Davis, Douglas M., 149–150

Davis, Gene, 98

Death of the Red Planet (film), 272

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 277

de Ménil, Dominique and John, 107

Denes, Agnes, 252

Denney, Alice, 93

Detroit Industry Murals, 4

Didion, Joan, 249

Digital art, 10, 14

Digital computers, 141–142, 172–173, 175–176, 260, 283

Digital technology, 274

Draper, Charles Stark, 171

Dryer, Ivan, 271–273

Duchamp, Marcel, 5, 34, 87, 91–92, 109, 139, 153, 159, 188

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, 5

In Advance of the Broken Arm, 139

The Large Glass, 5, 91

Nude Descending a Staircase, 109

Duckworth, Marjorie, 28

Dudley, Homer, 117

Dupuy, Jean, 182

Eames, Charles, 169

“Earthrise” photograph, 201

Eastman Kodak, 204

Eco, Umberto, 51

Education, 62. See also Engineering education

art and science, 14, 139, 288

funding for, 286

humanities/liberal arts, 65, 287, 289–290

media arts and technology, 284

STEM, 286–288

STEM to STEAM, 13, 288–291

visual arts, 63–65

Einstein, Albert, 290

Electra Lumidyne International, 41

Electrical engineers, 60–62, 68–69

Electric Circus, 207, 210

Electroencephalograph (EEG), 112

Electro-kinetic art, 220

Electro-kinetic paintings, 8–9, 35, 50

Electro-paintings, 33

Emery, Suzie, 303

Engineer, The (Time-Life book), 66–67, 72

Engineering education, 54–55, 60

and art, 54, 289

changes in, 274–275

and economic competitiveness, 275

enrollments surge, 288

and hiring decline, 263

and humanities, 62–64

STEAM, 288–292

STEM, 286–288

and visual arts, 63–65

Engineers

and art-and-technology movement, 262

and artists, 2–7, 92, 98–100, 105–106, 136–137, 150, 196–197, 301–302

attitudes to, 58, 60, 63, 67, 71, 75, 291

caricature of, 53–54

and creativity, 75

as E.A.T. members, 136–137, 144, 148

electrical, 60–62, 68–69

hybrid engineer-artists, 284

in industry, 71–72, 275

as “invisible technicians,” 12–13

knowledge obsolescence, 68–69

and military systems, 70

and modern technology, 11

recruiting ads for, 73–75

and scientists, 16, 59–60, 70–71

sensibility of, 67–68

as silent actors, 15

and teamwork, 71–73

and technicians, 71

and two cultures problem, 61

university-based, 71

women as, 69–70

Epstein, Jeffrey, 299–300

Eversley, Frederick, 194

Experiments, 8, 90, 104

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), 9, 15, 80, 131–151, 281, 296

and aesthetic judgments, 87, 139

and Automation House, 141, 143, 146, 248

coming-out party, 144–147

competition for collaborative works, 180–182

and cultural revolution, 147–151

E.A.T. (Nokia), 299

E.A.T./L.A., 200–202, 232

engineers as members, 136–137, 144, 148

funding, 136, 143–144, 150, 155

and IBM, 143

and industry, 141, 143–147, 183

and LACMA Art and Technology Program, 196–197

media coverage, 149–150

pairing database, 150

and Pepsi Pavilion, 186–187, 203–212, 214, 227–246, 260–261

and political statements, 134

and printers’ union, 149

Projects Outside Art, 267–269

and social change, 150–151

technology lectures, 149

as transducer, 135

“Explorations” (exhibition), 250

Expo ’58, 205

Expo ’70, 197, 229, 246. See also Pepsi Pavilion

US Pavilion, 197–198, 203–205, 215, 218–219, 225–226

Facebook, 299

Fahlström, Öyvind, 82, 104, 107, 109–110, 120–121

Kisses Sweeter than Wine, 120

Fantasia (film), 49

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 19, 21, 23, 27–29

Ferus Gallery, 188

Feynman, Richard, 186, 193–194, 197, 220, 222, 259

Filipowski, Richard, 168

Finish Fetish, 188–189

Fischinger, Oskar, 49

Five Choreographers in Three Dance Concerts, 104

Flavin, Dan, 261

Florman, Samuel, 66

Flynn, Ralph, 134

Ford, Gerald, 262

Ford Foundation, 168

Forkner, John, 137–138, 215, 220–225, 243–244, 266–267, 297

Forti, Simone, 105, 110, 112, 115, 124, 127, 146

Foster, Richard, 83

Freeman, John Craig, 297

Freeman, Stanton, 210

Frequency modulation synthesis, 283

Friedlander, Gordon D., 259

Fuller, Buckminster, 108, 167, 169, 205

Funding

and artists, 252, 261

and E.A.T., 136, 143–144, 150, 155

for education, 286

government and industry, 280

university research, 275

Futurism, 4

Gaberbocchus Press, 175

Gabo, Naum, 91, 170, 178

Gadney, Reginald, 51–52

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 99, 170, 182

Garmire, Elsa M., 198–203, 207, 232, 234, 271–272

“Ruminations of an Engineer,” 202

General Dynamics, 70

General Electric, 41

General Telephone and Electronics, 73

Gerrard, John, 296

Gesamtkunstwerk, 149, 236

Getty Foundation, 303

Gibson, James J., 164

Gig economy, 287

Ginsberg, Allen, 127

Glaser, Donald, 213

Glenn, John, 140

Glueck, Grace, 136, 196, 250

Goddard, Robert, 20

Gombrich, Ernst, 164

Great Northeast Blackout, 77–78

Great Recession, 286–288

Greenberg, Clement, 189

Greenberg, Daniel, 75

Griffith Observatory, 271

Grooms, Red, 243

Gropius, Walter, 4–5

Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV), 50–51

Gruen, John, 122

Gruppo T, 51

Guggenheim, Daniel, 21

Guggenheim Museum (New York), 25

Guth, Hella, 48

Gutman, Walter K., 107, 132, 144

Haacke, Hans, 137, 173, 261, 293

Condensation Cube, 173, 293

Haldemann, Paul, 216

Haley, Andrew, 40–41

Happenings, 78

Harmon, Leon D., 142, 144

Harrison, Newton, 215

Harvard University, 168

Hay, Alex, 104, 111–114, 126

Grass Field, 111–114

Hay, Deborah, 104–105, 120, 126, 142, 144

Solo, 120

Heilos, Larry, 115

Heterodyne, 80

Hewlett, William, 216

Hewlett-Packard, 69, 216–218, 220

Higgins, Dick, 15, 120

High-energy particle accelerator, 227

Hill, Anthony, 158, 172

Hinkley, Caroline, 201–202

Hirsch, Peter, 117

Hodges, Harold, 88, 94–96, 105, 121

Hopps, Walter, 188, 216

Hubby, Laurence, 216–220, 297

Hughes, Allen, 97

Hultén, Pontus, 82, 88, 90–91, 123, 178–182, 211, 269

Humanists, 2–3

and scientists, 54–55, 61

and STEAM, 291–292

Humanities

education, 65, 287, 289–290

and engineering, 54, 62–65

and science, 28, 62

Huxley, Julian, 28, 55

Huxley, Thomas H., 56

“Hybrid practices,” 3

Hyman, Harris, 182

IBM, 143, 176, 204

Industry

and art, 4–5, 182–183, 186–187

and E.A.T., 141, 143–147, 183

engineers in, 71–72, 275

and university research funding, 275

Inness, George, 4

Innovation, 282

Institute for Contemporary Arts (London), 175

Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 136

Instrumentation Laboratory, 171

Interdisciplinarity, 3, 13

Intermedia art, 15–16, 33

International Academy of Astronautics, 40

“International Exhibition of Modern Art,” 109

International Sculpture Symposium, 192

Internet

advent of, 274

surveillance, 293

Interval Research, 282–284

Irwin, Robert, 192, 194, 196

Ito, Joi, 299–300

“It’s a Small World” (exposition), 205

Japan, 275

Javits, Marian and Jacob, 143–144, 146–147, 193

Jeffries, Carson, 236

Jeremijenko, Natalie, 1–2, 17

Live Wire, 1, 17

Jet-assisted takeoff (JATO) rocket engines, 25

Jobs, Steve, 288

Johns, Jasper, 91–92, 96

Field Painting, 96

Zone, 96

Johnson, Lyndon B., 169

Johnston, Jill, 130–131

Judson Dance Theatre, 96

Julesz, Béla, 142

Kanarek, Mimi, 114

Kaprow, Allan, 78, 98–100, 162, 212

Kelly, Kevin, 283

Kendall, Donald M., 244

Kennedy, John F., 59, 140

Kennedy, Robert F., 153

Kepes, Gyorgy, 9, 37, 63–64, 154–155, 158, 163, 165–174, 178, 201, 220, 247, 249–250, 276–277

The New Landscape in Art and Science, 64

Kheel, Theodore W., 140–141, 144, 146, 180, 245

Kienholz, Ed, 4, 188–189, 191

Back Seat Dodge ’38, 191

The Friendly Grey Computer, 4

Kieronski, Robert, 117, 267

Kinetic art, 9, 34, 48–50

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 153

Kissinger, Henry, 277

Klein, Yves, 159

Klüver, Johan Wilhelm, 81

Klüver, Johan Wilhelm “Billy,” 16, 76, 78–100, 155, 169, 178, 180, 182, 198, 261

“The Artist and Industry” (lecture), 182–183

on artist-engineer collaborations, 125, 146, 197

as art promoter, 90–93

at Bell Labs, 84–86, 92–93

collaborations, 80, 94–97

death, 269–270

and Duchamp, 92

and E.A.T., 9, 15, 80, 87, 131–151, 193, 196, 203, 206–212, 214, 248, 267–269, 281

Klüver, Johan Wilhelm “Billy” (cont.)

education, 81–83

Engineering in Art book proposal, 103–104

family and early life, 81

fundraising efforts, 107

“The Garden Party,” 90

and Garmire, 201

“The Great Northeastern Power Failure,” 78

as heterodyne, 80

and Homage to New York, 88–90, 93–94, 292

“Interface: Artist/Engineer,” 138–139

Kiki’s Paris (with Martin), 269

and Malina, 159–163

The Motion of Electrons in Electric and Magnetic Fields, 82

and 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, 101–103, 110–127

in Paris, 82–83

and Pepsi Pavilion, 227, 229–230, 232–246, 260

and Rainer, 96

and Rauschenberg, 91–92, 94–96, 125–126, 133, 136, 140–141, 143–144, 147, 149, 180, 209, 267, 301

on social change, 151

Stockholm festival, 104, 107–109

and two cultures problem, 87

Knowlton, Kenneth C., 142, 144, 149

Koons, Jeff, 14

Rabbit, 14

Kosugi, Takehisa, 243

Kowalski, Piotr, 192

Kozloff, Max, 261

Krebs, Rockne, 207, 215–220, 244, 253

Day Passage, 216

The Green Hypotenuse, 220

Night Passage, 216, 253

Sculpture Minus Object, 216

Kron, Joan, 91

Kuhn, Thomas S., 75, 170, 214

“Kunst-Licht-Kunst” (exhibition), 52

Kusic, 41

Labels, 16

Langevin, James, 289

Lasergrams, 203

Laserium, 272–273

Lasers, 199, 207–208, 215–218, 271–273

Latham, John, 192

Lazier, John, 218

Leary, Timothy, 138, 169

Leavis, Frank Raymond (F. R.), 58

Lebel, Robert, 92

Leonardo, 9, 20, 52, 154–165, 214, 265–266, 300

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 300

Leslie, Alfred, 84

Lettvin, Jerome, 169

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 15

Lewis, Warren K., 63

Lichtenstein, Roy, 188, 196, 215, 302

Licklider, Joseph C. R., 172

Life Science Library, 66

Light and Space artists, 188, 191–192

Lincoln, Abraham, 290

Lincoln Laboratory, 171–172

Lippard, Lucy, 110, 220

Loeb, Clare, 219–220

Los Angeles, 187–192

Los Angeles Council of Women Artists (LACWA), 259

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 186–188, 194–195, 259

Art + Technology Lab, 295–297

Art and Technology Program, 186–187, 192–198, 215, 226, 246, 249, 253–257, 261, 296–297

Lufkin, James, 61

Lumidyne system, 35–39

“Lumière et Mouvement” (exhibition), 147–148

Lundborg, Greta, 81

Lustig, Alvin, 27

Lyrical abstraction, 30–31

“Machine Art” (exhibition), 178

“Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, The” (exhibition), 178–183, 211

Maeda, John, 288, 290

Make magazine, 287

Maker Media, 287

Malina, Frank J., 8–9, 16, 19–52, 54, 82, 148, 153, 155, 175, 186, 188, 248

and Aerojet, 25, 29, 255

on art and creativity, 23, 25–27, 30, 32, 37–38, 51, 160

as artist, 19–20, 29–33, 47

Away from the Earth, 52

“Can an Economic System Based on the Profit Motive Be Ethical?,” 22

Changing Times, 39

childhood and education, 21–22

commercial interests, 41

as Communist Party member, 22–23

The Cosmos, 37, 43–46, 158

critical attention, 48–49, 52

and Darcourt, 23–27

death, 265

Deep Shadows, 32

and Duckworth, 28

as editor, 162

electro-/electro-kinetic paintings, 33, 35

Entrechats II, 176

experimentation, 33

and FBI, 19, 21, 23, 27–29

first solo show, 31

interests, 23

Jazz, 35

and Kepes, 165–167

and Klüver, 159–163

Leonardo, 9, 20, 52, 154–165, 214, 265–266, 300

lumidynes, 35–39, 41, 91

and Lustig, 27

and Maxwell, 156–158, 161, 164

and Michotte, 41–43

moiré works, 31–33

and “Le Mouvement,” 34–35

Moving Field of Lines, 32

in New York, 40

in Paris, 20, 28

passport issues, 29, 40

patent applications, 39–40

reflectodyne system, 41

as rocketeer, 20–22, 24–25

on science and art, 160–161

on scientific research, 46

and Snow, 55–56

social life, 47–48

string and wire art, 31

at UNESCO, 20, 28–29

US exhibitions, 52

and Wilfred, 38–40, 46

Malina, Roger, 164, 265–266

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 4

Martel, Ralph, 182

Martin, Anthony, 236

Martin, Julie, 198, 204, 269

Kiki’s Paris (with Klüver), 269

Masey, Jack, 197–198, 203–204, 208, 226

Maslow, Abraham, 6, 73

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 63–64, 138, 276–282. See also Lincoln Laboratory

Architecture Machine Group, 277, 280

Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), 9, 154–155, 165–174, 178, 247–248, 276, 278–281

government and industry funding, 280

Media Laboratory, 248, 277–281, 284, 299–300

Mathews, Max, 86, 104, 131–132, 149, 267

Max’s Kansas City, 207–208

Maxwell, Robert, 156–158, 161, 164, 265–266

McCaw, Marion, 39

McDermott, David, 232

McGee, Jim, 105

McLaren, Norman, 48

McLuhan, Marshall, 264

Media arts, 264, 284

Media technologies, 279–280, 284

Mee, Tom, 230

Mefferd, Boyd, 215

Mellis, David, 297–299

Metzger, Gustav, 260

Michotte, Albert, 41–43

Militarism, 261–262

Military systems, 70, 232–233

Minsky, Marvin, 172, 277

MIT. See Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mitchell, Charlie, 218

Moiré effects, 31

Monumental art, 49

Moog, Robert, 97

Moorman, Charlotte, 130, 154

Morris, Robert, 146–147

Morse, Joan “Tiger,” 126

Motorola, 73

“Mouvement, Le” (exhibition), 34, 82, 206

Movie map, 277

Mumma, Gordon, 239

Murdoch, Iris, 163

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 178, 302

Musk, Elon, 291

Myers, Forrest “Frosty,” 207–211, 228, 231

Myra Breckinridge (film), 232

Naimark, Michael, 281, 283

Nakaya, Fujiko, 228–231, 235

Nakaya, Ukichiro, 229

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 25, 201

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 25

National Academy of Engineering, 70

National Academy of Sciences, 290

National Air and Space Museum, 20

National Defense Education Act, 59

National Endowment for the Arts, 99, 150

National Science Foundation, 289

Needham, Joseph, 159

Negroponte, John, 277

Negroponte, Nicholas, 248, 251–252, 274, 276–282, 300

SEEK, 251–252, 277

Network traffic, 1

Newark riots (1967), 151

“New Art” (exhibition), 198, 226

New Combine, 150

“New Experiments in Art and Technology” (exhibition), 297–299

New media art, 10, 14, 33, 264

“New Painting of Common Objects” (exhibition), 188

New York art scene, 30

9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, 101–103, 110–127

and Klüver, 101–103, 110–127

and Rauschenberg, 114–115, 125–126, 131

reactions to, 129–132

technical capital, 133

10th evening, 132–133

Theatre Electronic Environmental Modulator (TEEM), 121–123

Nixon, Richard M., 198, 262

Nokia Bell Labs, 299

Nolan, Jack, 172, 201

Noll, A. Michael, 86, 141–142, 259

Nonfigurative art, 32

Nordenström, Hans, 91

Nove Tendencije movement, 155

Nowlin, Stephen, 185–186, 188

Nuclear technology, 83

O’Doherty, Brian, 133, 160–161

O’Grady, Gerald, 264

Oldenburg, Claes, 92, 195, 201, 206, 215, 226, 253

Giant Ice Bag, 226, 253

Operation Igloo White, 114–115

Oppenheimer, Frank, 159

Oster, Gerald, 158–159, 162

Oulipo, 158

Owens, Larry, 239

Oxman, Neri, 300

Packard, David, 216

Paglen, Trevor, 292–293

Autonomy Cube, 293

Orbital Reflector, 293–295

Untitled (Reaper Drone), 292–293

Paik, Nam June, 87, 97, 154, 265, 274, 297

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), 282

Pan, John, 207–208, 239

Parker, Charlie, 116

Park Place group, 207

Parsons, Jack, 25

Particle accelerator, 227

Pasadena Art Museum, 188

Passive Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite (PAGEOS), 233

Patch boards, 124

Patents, 135, 270

Paxton, Steve, 104–105, 114, 126, 202

Physical Things, 126

Pearce, John, 208–209, 228, 233–234

Pei, I. M., 248

Pelton, Dale, 271

Pentagon Papers, 261

Penzias, Arno Allan, 86

Pepsi Pavilion (Expo ’70), 225

and Bell Labs, 232–233

and E.A.T., 186–187, 203–212, 214, 227–246, 260–261

fog sculpture, 229–231

mirror project, 231–235

Pergamon Press, 156–158, 161

Philco Aeronutronic, 138

Phillips, Ardison, 232

Phillips company, 205–206

Photocells, 97

Photocopying, 265

Photography, 3–4

Physicists, 60

Piene, Otto, 247–248, 276–280

Pierce, John R., 85–87, 90, 104–105, 108, 111, 118, 136, 144, 146, 267

Pink Floyd, 52

Poincaré, Henri, 23

Pollock, Jackson, 98

Pop art, 92, 188, 302

Pop culture, 283

Popper, Frank G., 48, 50, 52, 147

Portapak video cameras, 264

Pottasch, Alan, 205, 211, 234, 236, 243–245

Potter, Ralph K., 33

Powers, John G., 143–144

Preusser, Robert, 64

Prin, Alice, 269

Printing shops, 149

Process vs. product, 7–8, 11

Project Echo, 232–233

Pseudoscopic imaging, 222

Pulsa, 173

Radio, 122

Rainer, Yvonne, 96, 104, 120, 261

At My Body’s House, 96

Carriage Discreteness, 120

Rauschenberg, Robert, 8, 80, 88, 101, 104–105, 107–108, 114–115, 131, 159, 169, 196, 201, 253, 260, 267

Astral Convertible (with Brown), 267

Broadcast, 94

and E.A.T., 133–136, 140–144, 147, 149, 196, 211–212, 281, 296

and Klüver, 91–96, 125–126, 133–136, 140–144, 147, 149, 180, 209, 301

Monogram, 91

Mud-Muse, 253, 260

Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 302

and 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, 114–115, 125–126, 131

Open Score, 114–115

Oracle, 94–96, 144

Soundings, 211

Rawson, Eric, 210

Reagan, Ronald, 247, 275

Real Great Society, 151

Reflectodyne system, 41

Reichardt, Jasia, 175–178

Reinhardt, Adolph, 99

René, Denise, 34, 47, 52, 82

“Responsive Eye, The” (exhibition), 52, 177

Retroreflectors, 222

Rhode Island School of Design, 288

Riley, Bridget, 142

Rivera, Diego, 4

Robinson, Leonard “Robby,” 106, 110, 112, 126–127, 130, 134

Rockefeller, John D., Sr., 141

Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 150

Rockefeller Foundation, 107

Rocket propulsion, 21–22, 24–25

Rose, Barbara, 94, 100, 189, 225, 236

Rosenquist, James, 70, 92

F-111, 70

Ruby lasers, 199

Ruder and Finn, 125–126

Ruff, Bruce, 218

Ruscha, Ed, 188, 201

Rüst, Annina, 296–297

A Piece of the Pie Chart, 296

Saarinen, Eric, 232, 234

Sabol, Audrey, 91

Sampling, 15–16

São Paulo Biennial, 249–250

Sarton, George, 28

Satellites, 294

Schapiro, Meyer, 189

Schjeldahl, G. T., 233

Schjeldahl, G. T., Company, 233–234

Schjeldahl, Peter, 233

Schneemann, Carolee, 133–135, 146, 261

Meat Joy, 133–134

Snows, 134–135

Schneider, Herbert A., 102, 104, 106, 111–112, 115, 117, 122–124, 131, 133

Schöffer, Nicolas, 49–50, 148, 176

Cybernetic Tower, 49–50

Schweber, Seymour, 107, 125, 144

SciArt, 16, 286, 289

Science. See also Engineering education; Engineers

and art, 28, 92, 214, 290

art in science education, 14, 139, 288

Big Science, 213–214, 227, 231, 240, 244

history of, 14

and humanities, 28, 62

of 1960s, 11, 59

and technology, 16

Scientific humanism, 28

Scientists, 2–3, 54–55

and artists, 16, 214, 288

and engineers, 16, 59–60, 70–71

and funding sources, 252

and humanists, 54–55, 61

Scott, Gail, 225

Scriabin, Alexander, 266

Scull, Robert and Ethel, 107

Seawright, James, 303

Segal, George, 92

Seldis, Henry J., 196, 226

Serra, Richard, 260

Shannon, Claude, 173

Shapin, Steven, 12

Sheeler, Charles, 4

Sheridan, Sonia, 265

Shimazu, Takako, 244

Signal strength, 15

Silicon Valley, 282

Skorton, David J., 290

Smith, Barbara T., 199–200, 202

Coffins, 199

Smith, Cyril C., 167

Smith, Tony, 215, 226, 253

Bat Cave, 226, 253

Smithson, Robert, 250, 295

Spiral Jetty, 295

Snow, Charles Percy (C. P.), 2–3, 17, 47–48, 54–62, 66, 75–76, 87, 159, 163, 168, 283, 290

American response to, 59–61

and Leavis, 58

and Malina, 55–56

The New Men, 56, 60

“Strangers and Brothers” series, 56

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, 55, 59, 273

Snowden, Edward, 293

Social practice art, 269

“Software” (exhibition), 250–252

Solanas, Valerie, 153

Solomon, Alan, 93

“Some New Beginnings” (exhibition), 182

Sontag, Susan, 75–76, 127

Soulages, Pierre, 30

Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), 59

SpaceX, 296

Spatiodynamics, 49

Spruch, Grace Marmor, 169–170

Sputnik, 59

Stanford University, 283

Stanton, Frank, 147–148

Static, 16

Stauffacher, Frank, 83

Stella, Frank, 114, 189

STEM education, 286–288

STEM to STEAM/SEAD, 13, 288–292

Stenlund, Sigvard, 233–234

Stereoscope, 222

Stern, Gerd, 207

Steveni, Barbara, 192

Stewart, Martha, 281

Stockholm, proposed festival for art and technology, 104, 107–109

Stratton, Julius, 65, 167–168

Strong, Margaret Rockefeller, 141

Students for a Democratic Society, 140

Studio International, 99

Superconducting Super Collider, 245–246

Surveillance, internet, 293

Sutherland, Ivan, 169

Swedish cinema, 81–82

Systems thinking, 121–122

Takis, Vassilakis, 159

Tatlin, Vladimir, 4

Monument to the Third International, 4

Taylor, Simon Watson, 161

Teamwork, 71–72

Technicians, 71

Technological communities, 5–6

Technology

and art, 4–6, 17, 76, 135–136, 202, 279–280, 284, 303

and art-and-technology movement, 12, 292

attitudes to, 12, 83–84, 139–140, 187, 291

and Cold War, 54

culture of, 2–3

digital, 274

failure of, 148

media, 279–280

of 1960s, 11, 59

and politics, 260

and science, 16

and social change, 151

as subject matter, 4

Teledyne, 253

Telepresence, 118–120

Television, 264–265

Tenney, James, 120, 134, 149

Terman, Frederick, 62, 68

Theatre Electronic Environmental Modulator (TEEM), 121–123

Themerson, Stefan and Franciszka, 175

Thermal interrupters, 35

Third culture, 283

Thomas, David, 205–207, 210–211

Tinguely, Jean, 34, 37, 82, 87–90, 93–94, 101, 118, 148, 159, 176, 182, 292

Homage to New York, 87–90, 93–94, 118, 292

Toche, Jean, 252

Tomkins, Calvin, 101, 140, 208, 225, 233, 243–245, 265

Townes, Charles H., 199

Traducers, 131

Transistors, 95, 122

Tsai, Wen-Ying, 176–178, 180, 250

Cybernetic Sculpture, 177–178

Random Field, 177

Tsutsunaka Plastic Industry Company, 232

Tuchman, Maurice, 9, 186–187, 189–198, 212, 214–216, 222–223, 225–226, 249, 252–262, 296–297

Tudor, David, 104, 109, 115, 117, 122, 130, 207, 236, 239–240

Bandoneon! (A Combine), 115, 126, 130

Turner, Frank T., 180

Turrell, James, 196, 295

Roden Crater, 295

Two cultures, 3, 55–58, 66, 75–76, 87, 168, 290. See also Snow, Charles Percy

Tympanum luminorum, 266

Uber, 287

United Kingdom, 58, 175

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 20, 28

United States Information Agency (USIA), 197, 226

“Unsecured Futures” (exhibition), 302–303

USCO, 207

Utopianism, 7, 10, 87, 152, 174

VanDerBeek, Stan, 97, 149, 169

Van Doren, Mark, 61

Varèse, Edgard, 205

Poème électronique, 205

Vasarely, Victor, 34

Vasulka, Steina and Woody, 264

Verne, Jules, 21

Video art, 264–265

Vietnam War, 261–262

Villmer, Jean, 35

Visual drum, 266

Visual music, 49

Vochrome, 117

von Braun, Wernher, 20

von Kármán, Theodore, 21, 23–25, 40

Voom Voom, 50

WAC Corporal rocket, 25

Waddington, Conrad, 167

Waldhauer, Fred D., 115–117, 131, 133, 143, 207, 232, 239, 267

Walt Disney Corporation, 205

Warhol, Andy, 93, 96, 99, 127, 144, 153, 188, 207, 215, 281, 302

Silver Clouds, 96, 144

Watson, Thomas, Jr., 143

Webb, James, 235

Weber, Ernst, 68

Weibel, Peter, 264

Weinberg, Alvin, 213–214

Wellcome Trust, 289

Wells Fargo, 287

Wheatstone, Charles, 222

Whinnery, John R., 83

Whitehill, Joseph, 69

Whitman, Robert, 105, 118, 123, 131, 138, 144, 201, 207–208, 211, 215, 220–224, 232, 244, 267, 269

Pond, 210

Solid Red Line, 144, 267

Two Holes of Water, 123

Whyte, William H., 65, 71–72

Wiener, Norbert, 173, 176

Wiesner, Jerome, 277

Wiggen, Knut, 104

Wilfred, Thomas, 5, 8, 38–41, 46, 48–49, 162

Aspiration, Opus 145, 39

Clavilux, 5

Lumia, 5, 38–39

Vertical Sequence II, Opus 137, 39

Williams, Guy, 195

Wilson, J. Tuzo, 59

Wilson, Joseph, C., 144

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 86, 169

Wines, James, 100

Wise, Howard, 142, 159, 264

Wodiczko, Krzysztof, 281

Wolfe, Tom, 161, 189

Wolff, Dick, 106, 118

Women

as artists, 265

as engineers, 69–70

exclusion of, 259

Workplace automation, 140

Xenakis, Iannis, 205

Xerox, 73, 282, 284

Yamaha Corporation, 283

Young, Lucy J. and Niels O., 180

Fakir in 3/4 Time, 180

Youngblood, Gene, 234

ZERO, 51