Hitting the Books: How Bell Labs jump-started the multimedia art movement
December 19th, 2020 Bell Telephone Labs The modern world would be a pale shade of itself if not for the myriad foundational technologies developed at the Bell Telephone Labs. Its engineers invented the transistor and photovoltaic cell, charge-coupled devices, frickin’ lasers — even Unix and the C++ programming language. Those same engineers also worked with some of the Cold War era’s most influential artists — including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Yvonne Rainer — to create a wholly new style of artistic expression. In his new book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers ...
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