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This article by Barry Threw and Scott Moore was published online at Palladium Magazine on November 21, 2025 and will also feature in our Winter 2025 print edition PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige. Subscribe now to receive your copy of our latest edition. In 1966, Billy Klüver stood before an audience at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. Behind him, Robert Rauschenberg’s Oracle emitted electronic sounds that pulsed with artificial life. Surrounding them, a chorus of nine other artists and thirty engineers from Bell Labs had assembled “9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering”, the first performance to wield the quiet magic of Doppler sonar, video projection, and wireless sound transmission. It was a show that the art world had never witnessed, and that would mark the beginning of Klüver’s now renowned Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). Klüver understood the significance of the venue he chose. Half a century earlier, the same venue had hosted the 1913 International Exhibition o

Cathedrals and the Silicon Soul Once a sanctuary for art and invention, Silicon Valley has become co-opted by bureaucracy and disbelief. Its renewal depends on restoring faith in creation itself. Nov 18, 2025 48 7 Share Peter Moore (attributed)/John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s Variations V during a television taping in 1966 This article by Barry Threw and Scott Moore was published online at Palladium Magazine on November 21, 2025 and will also feature in our Winter 2025 print edition PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige. Subscribe now to receive your copy of our latest edition. In 1966, Billy Klüver

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