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Multimedia and performance artist Robert Whitman, whose incendiary Happenings lit up the downtown New York art scene of the 1960s, died at his home in Warwick, New York, on January 19.

Whitman was a pioneer of the early performance art events known as Happenings and collaborated with Robert Rauschenberg and others on technologically ambitious projects

Robert Whitman, a central figure in the realms of performance and multimedia art, passed away at the age of 88.............

Robert Whitman, a Happenings artist and a cofounder of Experiments in Art and Technology, has died at 88.

Artificial intelligence art is any form of digital art created or enhanced with AI tools, including images, video, and audio compositions, or music. It is fundamentally different from digital art, which draws from digital technology in the artistic process and dates back to the 1960s, even as it’s most often associated with the 1980s.

For his current exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in New York, Fred Eversley has produced a new body of sculptures that realize ideas initially explored by the artist in writing some fifty years ago. The “Cylindrical Lenses,” which consist of six vertically-oriented structures measuring between seven and nine feet tall, mark the first time that Eversley has made free-standing, floor-based works in resin—a material that has been intrinsic to his practice since the very beginnin...

Robert Barry looks back at the work of Experiments in Art and Technology from art pavilions to discos with its veteran director