Centerbook : the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the evolution of art-science-technology at MIT / Elizabeth Goldring and Ellen Sebring.

Main entry:

Goldring, Elizabeth, creator.

Title & Author:

Centerbook : the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the evolution of art-science-technology at MIT / Elizabeth Goldring and Ellen Sebring.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : SA+P Press, School of Architecture + Planning : The MIT Press ; Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, [2019]

Description:

361 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-347) and index.
The interview by Joan Bridgham -- Founding and the directors -- Art in the environment: Education at CAVS -- In celebration of collaboration -- The social climate at CAVS -- Exhibitions: The artist as curator -- Artansitions: Symposia and conferences -- Sky aart -- Genome Work at CAVS -- Afterword by Gediminas Urbonas.

Summary:

In 1967, in a time of student unrest, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did the unexpected: it established the first academic center for research and collaboration in art, science, and technology. The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) brought artists to the MIT campus with radical expressions of a rapidly evolving technological era. The brainchild of founding director Gyorgy Kepes, CAVS sought to repair the distance between practitioners of art and engineering within the halls of MIT. "The scientist may be an extra brain to the artist, and the engineer may be an extra arm to the artist, whereas the artist can be an extra eye to the scientist and engineer," wrote long-time director Otto Piene in Centerbeam, a 1978 book about CAVS. As a breeder of new art forms and future-oriented artistic education, CAVS became a pioneering model for the art, technology and media labs that proliferated worldwide. This first comprehensive history of CAVS presents an inside view, told through personal accounts, exhibit documentation, and groundbreaking artwork. The book chronicles, in vivid visual narrative and testimony by those who were there, the birth and flowering of a unique research node dedicated to multiple interactions of art, science, technology and environment

ISBN:

9780998117058 (hardcover)
0998117056 (hardcover)

Subject:

Art and science Massachusetts.
Art et sciences Massachusetts.
Art and science.
Massachusetts.

Form/genre:

works of art.
illustrated books.
Informational works.
Illustrated works.
Art.
Œuvres d'art.
Documents d'information.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Sebring, Ellen, creator.
Durant, John, author of the foreword.
Brigham, Joan, interviewer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307345
Call No.: BIB 252834
Status: Available

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