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- 020 __ |a 9781478005957 |q (hardcover)
- 020 __ |a 9781478006602 |q (paperback)
- 020 __ |z 9781478007326 |q (ebook)
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- 050 00 |a NX180.T4 |b B43 2020
- 082 00 |a 700.1/050973 |2 23
- 100 1_ |a Beck, John, |d 1963- |e author.
- 245 10 |a Technocrats of the imagination : |b art, technology, and the military-industrial avant-garde / |c John Beck and Ryan Bishop.
- 264 _1 |a Durham : |b Duke University Press Books, |c 2020.
- 300 __ |a viii, 229 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm.
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 336 __ |a still image |b sti |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 490 0_ |a A cultural politics book
- 500 __ |a "A cultural politics book."
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a Science, Art, Democracy -- A Laboratory of Form and Movement: Institutionalizing Emancipatory Technicity at MIT -- The Hands-on Approach: Engineering Collaboration at E.A.T. -- Feedback: Expertise, LACMA and the Think-Tank -- How to Make the World Work -- Heritage of Our Times.
- 520 __ |a "TECHNOCRATS OF THE IMAGINATION traces the rise of collaborative art and technology labs in the U.S. from WWII to the present. Ryan Bishop and John Beck reveal the intertwined histories of the avant-garde art movement and the military-industrial complex, showing how radical pedagogical practices traveled from Germany's Bauhaus movement to the U.S. art world and interacted with government-funded military research and development in university laboratories. During the 1960s both media labs and studio labs leaned heavily on methods of interdisciplinary collaboration and the power of American modernity to model new modes of social organization. The book's chapters take up MIT's Center for Art, Science, and Technology, Bell Labs's E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) Salon, and Los Angeles Museum of Art's Art + Technology Program. Their interconnected history illuminates how much of contemporary media culture and aesthetics depends on the historical relationship between military, corporate, and university actors. In light of revived interest in Black Mountain College and other 1960s art and technology labs, this book draws important connections between the contemporary art world and the militarized lab model of research that has dominated the sciences since the 1950s. The authors situate the rise of collaborative art and technology projects in the 1960s within John Dewey's ideology of scientific democracy, showing how leading thinkers from the Bauhaus movement in Germany immigrated to the U.S. and brought with them a Deweyan model for collaborative and interdisciplinary art and technology research. Over the course of the decade, the U.S. government increased funding to scientific research at university and private laboratories. Beck and Bishop investigate how various art and technology projects incorporated the collaborative and innovative interdisciplinarity of the avant-garde art movement with the corporate funding structure driven by the U.S. government's military and technoscientific interests. Finally, the authors consider the legacy of 1960s art and technology projects. During the 1970s and 80s, defense R&D funding was less motivated by a Cold War corporate state, and was instead restructured according to an entrepreneurial and neoliberal model. At the same time, funding in the art world also became increasingly financialized and globalized. Today's art and technology work happens collaboratively not because of an intellectual commitment to interdisciplinarity, but because of the precarity of the contemporary labor market. This book will interest students and scholars in art history and theory, media studies, history of technology, American studies, cultural studies, and critical university studies"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a Technology and the arts |x History |y 20th century.
- 650 _0 |a Arts |z United States |x Experimental methods.
- 650 _0 |a Military-industrial complex |z United States.
- 700 1_ |a Bishop, Ryan, |d 1959- |e author.
- 776 08 |i Online version: |a Beck, John, 1963- |t Technocrats of the imagination |d Durham : Duke University Press Books, 2020. |z 9781478007326 |w (DLC) 2019023963
- 830 _0 |a Cultural politics book.