Armory performances

Michelle Kuo explains how Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) brought artists and engineers together to create ambitious works in the 1960s and early 1970s. She describes projects such as the Armory performances, Automation House, and the Pepsi Pavilion, showing how experimentation, technical failures, and institutional tensions shaped their work. The talk considers competing hopes and fears about technology, including its effects on labor, authorship, art, and public life. Kuo connects E.A.T.’s history to present-day art and technology, arguing for public spaces where people can encounter and understand both.