Sensing the Future

""Sensing the Future is rich in images . . . providing vivid visual insight into E.A.T.'s fascinating inner workings through the inclusion of film stills, photographs, drawings, diagrams, and event ephemera.""--Maggie Murphy ""ARLIS/NA"" (9/1/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology explores a largely ignored conceptual and material transformation of the arts in the 1960s. Framed by nine performances at the New York Armory in October 1966 and the Pepsi Pavilion at Osaka's Expo '70, it focuses on the imaginative collaborations of engineers, especially Bell Labs's visionary Billy Klüver, with artists, composers, and dancers--among them Tinguely and Rauschenberg, Cage and Tudor, Hay and Rainer. Through the examination of works that grew out of technological innovations and engaged the senses, editors Nancy Perloff and Michelle Kuo conclude that these experiences suggested the 'future of modern society' as 'contingent, shifting, and open-ended'."" --Jann Pasler, Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego ""Clear-eyed and clear-eared insights by scholars at the very top of their topics, and beautifully designed and illustrated with archival treasures from the Getty Research Institute, Sensing the Future is an indispensable document on Experiments in Art and Technology, and on key events of the period in art, music, dance, performance, and everything in-between."" --Douglas Kahn, author of Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts ""This book presents multifaceted scholarly investigations of an organization that was committed to collaborations among artists, engineers, and scientists, but it was also an organization that continued to reinvent itself as it seized new opportunities to change society and the future."" --Julie Martin