The article discusses the significant collaboration between artists and engineers at Bell Telephone Laboratories during the mid-1960s, exemplified by the Experiments in Art and Technology initiative. Julia Martin highlights how artists like Robert Whitman leveraged technology to achieve artistic objectives. It also emphasizes Billy Kluver’s perspective on collaboration, where neither artists nor engineers should take on the full identity of the other but rather benefit from their unique skills. The piece raises questions about the relevance of similar partnerships today, particularly in the context of emerging technologies like AI.
The fundamental thing is what the artist wants to do, and then, finding the technology to make it possible. Julia Martin on artist-engineer collaboration.
For Kluver, it was not about the artist becoming a bit of an engineer or the engineer becoming a bit of an artist, but rather, that the key lay in the collaboration itself.
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