Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1967
E.A.T. Holds Its Press Launch at Rauschenberg’s Studio
Following its first meeting in November 1966, EAT held its press launch at co-founder Robert Rauschenberg’s Manhattan studio. The meeting was attended by a variety of artists and engineers (from IBM and Bell Labs). EAT would go on to play an instrumental role in popularizing computer art and promoting technology and art, building upon their seminal 1966 exhibition, 9 Evenings.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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- Ideas
- collaboration, Technology and Art
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Works
- Art and Technology, Meeting
- Exhibitions
- 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering
- Organisations
- Bell Labs, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), IBM
- Places
- Manhattan, New York
Related moments
- 1966 · Experiments in Art and Technology Founded with EAT News
- 1966 · 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering at the 69th Regiment Armory
- 1967 · Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I) by Leon Harmon and Ken Knowlton
Echoes across time
- 1988 · First International Symposium on Electronic Art (FISEA) Held in Utrecht
- 2006 · Daito MANABE launches Rhizomatiks
- 1985 · MIT Media Lab Opened by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner
Le Random editorials
Le Random podcast
- Dr. Nancy Perloff on Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) — listen with transcript on Le Random (12 Sep 2024, 48 min). Title mentions: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt II (1960s) with Michael Spalter — listen with transcript on Le Random (21 Sep 2023, 77 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify