This Pacific Standard Time project examines the creative output of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a unique mid-20th-century organization that fostered collaborations between leading artists and engineers. Utilizing the Getty Research Institute’s E.A.T. archive—the most extensive of its kind—the project addresses the following questions: How did E.A.T. facilitate interest in new technology among artists? What was E.A.T.’s role in launching artists into new media? And what impact did E.A.T. have on the careers of its mostly young participants?

The exhibition Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), organized by Getty Research Institute curator Nancy Perloff, contains loans of works of art from E.A.T. history and is accompanied by historical recreations of E.A.T. performances.