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?

E.A.T.: Collaborations in Art and Technology 1960–1976, an exhibition that will contain loans of works of art from E.A.T. history and will be accompanied by historical recreations of E.A.T. performances (forthcoming).