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The best work occurred when engineers and artists were allowed to pursue their specialties rather than work poorly in between them.

The Laboratory and the Artist Lucas Gelfond · April 30, 2026 John Beck and Ryan Bishop | Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde | Duke University Press | March 2020 | 240 Pages In 1966, ten thousand people attended “9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering,” a now-forgotten collaboration between Bell Labs engineers and New York art world heavyweights. The pairings were colorful and bizarre. Robert Rauschenberg, for example, staged a tennis match with rackets wired to cut the lights in the auditorium each time a ball was hit, amplifying the so

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