Recording Artists

Artists in their own words from the Getty Research Institute archives

Season 3 – Experiments in Art and Technology

Artists and engineers discover the creative potential of new technologies

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Season 3—Experiments in Art and Technology

What can happen when you introduce scientists to art and artists to science?

In season three of Recording Artists, artist and futurist Ahmed Best examines the groundbreaking art-science organization Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). Through the stories of E.A.T.’s co-founders, artist Robert Rauschenberg and Bell Labs engineer Billy Klüver, as well as artist Fujiko Nakaya, who continues to make technology-inflected artworks, this season investigates how artists and engineers collaborated to explore the creative potential of new technologies. Learn about this innovative group through audio from Getty’s archives and commentary by contemporary artists, scientists, and art historians. Coming October 8, 2024.

Season 2 – Intimate Addresses

Exploring the bonds between artists and their colleagues, collaborators, friends, and lovers

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Season 2—Intimate Addresses

Hear artists explore, in their own words, their work and their relationships, both personal and professional.

In season two of Recording Artists, titled Intimate Addresses, host Tess Taylor dives into the lives of six artists. From personal letters pulled from Getty’s archives, discover more about artists you’ve probably heard of like Frida Kahlo and meet some who might be less familiar like Benjamin Patterson. Listen as they collaborate, fight for justice, ask for money, work through pain, and affirm their resilience. Anna Deavere Smith reads the letters, and contemporary artists and art historians join the conversation. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

Season 1 – Radical Women

What it meant—and still means—to be a woman and an artist

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Season 1—Recording Artists: Radical Women

What was it like to be a woman making art during the feminist and civil rights movements?

In this season of Recording Artists, host Helen Molesworth delves into the lives and careers of six women artists spanning several generations. Hear them describe, in their own words, their work, relationships, and feelings about the ongoing march of feminism. Contemporary artists and art historians join the conversation, offering their own perspectives on the recordings and exploring what it meant—and still means—to be a woman and an artist. This podcast is based on interviews from the 1960s and ’70s by Cindy Nemser and Barbara Rose, drawn from the archives of the Getty Research Institute.

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