Hybrid Practices

Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the Long 1960s

Shepherd Steiner editor David Cateforis editor Steven Duval editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:27th Nov '18

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In Hybrid Practices, essays by established and emerging scholars investigate the rich ecology of practices that typified the era of the Cold War. The volume showcases three projects at the forefront of unprecedented collaboration between the arts and new sectors of industrial society in the 1960s and 70s—Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), the Art and Technology Project at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (A&T), and the Artist Placement Group (APG) in the UK. The subjects covered include collaborative projects between artists and scientists, commercial ventures and experiments in intermedia, multidisciplinary undertakings, effacing authorship to activate the spectator, suturing gaps between art and government, and remapping the landscape of everyday life in terms of technological mediation. Among the artists discussed in the volume and of interest to a broad public beyond the art world are Bernd and Hilla Becher, John Cage, Hans Haacke, Robert Irwin, John Latham, Fujiko Nakaya, Carolee Schneemann, James Turrell, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, and Robert Whitman. Prominent engineers and scientists appearing in the book’s pages include Elsa Garmire, Billy Klüver, Frank Malina, Stanley Milgram, and Ed Wortz. This valuable collection aims to introduce readers not only to hybrid work in and as depth, but also to work in and as breadth, across disciplinary practices where the real questions of hybridity are determined.

"The hybrid practices featured in this collection speak to collaboration and participation, between disciplines and between presenters and audiences. They speak to a fluidity of working in and across scientific, artistic, and performance disciplines." * Leonardo *

"...[a] welcome addition to the field of hybrid practices." 

* Espace *
"Specialists interested in inhabiting a range of situated environments from new points of view will find many rewards in Hybrid Practices." * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *
"This book. . . . show[s] how interdisciplinarity allowed each community to reflect and find its place in a changing world. . . .[it] is well edited and allows a relevant understanding of all the case studies." * Technology and Culture *

ISBN: 9780520296596

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm

Weight: 953g

329 pages