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008			190809s2020 ncu o 00 0 eng d
010			_z 2019023963
020			_a9781478007326
020			_z9781478005957
020			_z9781478006602
020			_z9781478090052
035			_a(OCoLC)1112786759
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aBeck, John, _d1963- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTechnocrats of the Imagination : _bArt, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde / _cJohn Beck and Ryan Bishop.
264		1	_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2020.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2020
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_a1 online resource (240 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aA cultural politics book
500			_a"A cultural politics book."
505	0		_aScience, Art, Democracy -- A Laboratory of Form and Movement: Institutionalizing Emancipatory Technicity at MIT -- The Hands-on Process: Engineering Collaboration at E.A.T. -- Feedback: Expertise, LACMA and the Think Tank -- How to Make the World Work -- Heritage of Our Times.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
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"-- _cProvided by publisher
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aRüstungsindustrie _2gnd
650		7	_aKünstler _2gnd
650		7	_aKooperation _2gnd
650		7	_aTechnology and the arts. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01145276
650		7	_aMilitary-industrial complex. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01021605
650		7	_aArts _xExperimental methods. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00817748
650		7	_aART _xCriticism. _2bisacsh
650		6	_aComplexes militaro-industriels _zÉtats-Unis.
650		6	_aArts _zÉtats-Unis _xMethodes experimentales.
650		6	_aTechnologie et arts _xHistoire _y20e siecle.
650		0	_aMilitary-industrial complex _zUnited States.
650		0	_aArts _zUnited States _xExperimental methods.
650		0	_aTechnology and the arts _xHistory _y20th century.
651		7	_aUSA _2gnd
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aBishop, Ryan, _d1959- _eauthor.
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/73054/
999			_c233242 _d233241