LEADER 04965oam 2200589I 450 001 9910433251503321 005 20240424230439.0 010 $a1-4780-0732-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478007326 035 $a(CKB)4100000010159862 035 $a(OCoLC)1112786759 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse83398 035 $a1136615505 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6034259 035 $a(DE-B1597)554715 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478007326 035 $a(ScCtBLL)8487accc-9c37-4dbb-8ec1-7007cc35ee56 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29219 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010159862 100 $a20200117d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTechnocrats of the imagination $eart, technology, and the military-industrial avant-garde /$fJohn Beck, Ryan Bishop 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press Books,$d[2020] 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource) 225 0 $aA Cultural Politics Book 300 $a"A cultural politics book." 311 $a1-4780-0660-9 311 $a1-4780-0595-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aScience, 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. 330 $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"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aTechnology and the arts$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArts$zUnited States$xExperimental methods 606 $aMilitary-industrial complex$zUnited States 615 0$aTechnology and the arts$xHistory 615 0$aArts$xExperimental methods. 615 0$aMilitary-industrial complex 676 $a700.1050973 676 $a700.1050973 700 $aBeck$b John$f1963-$0978185 702 $aBishop$b Ryan$f1959- 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 801 2$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910433251503321 996 $aTechnocrats of the imagination$92229155 997 $aUNINA