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

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