Abstract
This article analyses the encounter of Neo-Avant-garde artists with engineers of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 9 Evenings. Theatre and Engineering (1966) in an Armory in New York. In the process of engineering, the traffic of signals was reinterpreted from information processing to electronic transmission. The 9 Evenings show exemplarily the importance of artists' work, being part of a new ubiquitous worldorder of networking understood as resonance and vibration, signal traffic, feedback and complexity in systems engineering. Hence, the use of media and their performativity should be part of the history of knowledge and of media theory.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Traffic : Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices |
| Editors | Marion Näser-Lather, Christoph Neubert |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Place of Publication | Leiden |
| Publisher | Brill Verlag |
| Publication date | 25.09.2015 |
| Pages | 160-179 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789004299801 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789004298774 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 25.09.2015 |
Research areas and keywords
- 9 Evenings
- Art
- Avant
- Bandoneon
- Bell Labs
- Data traffic
- David Tudor
- Engineering
- Garde
- Media history
- Media theory
- Neo
- Performance
- Signals
- Software
- Theatre and Engineering
- Vochrome
- Digital media
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