Billy Klüver
Billy Kluver with a battery-powered neon letter he created for Jasper Johns’s Field Painting (1964).
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Born 1927
Died 2004
Billy Klüver grew up in Sweden and moved to the US in 1954. He was an electrical engineer who lectured widely at universities, a researcher at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, and collaborated with artists on works of art incorporating new technologies, an interest that culminated in his co-founding in 1966, with Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman and Fred Waldhauer, of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), an initiative that fostered the collaboration between artists and scientists.
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Member of institution(s): Bell Laboratories
Part of collective(s): E.A.T.(Experiments in Art and Technology)
Exhibitions organized: 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
Billy Klüver grew up in Sweden and moved to the US in 1954. He was an electrical engineer who lectured widely at universities, a researcher at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, and collaborated with artists on works of art incorporating new technologies, an interest that culminated in his co-founding in 1966, with Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman and Fred Waldhauer, of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), an initiative that fostered the collaboration between artists and scientists.
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Billy Kluver with a battery-powered neon letter he created for Jasper Johns’s Field Painting (1964).
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