Artists and engineers collaborated formally through E.A.T. beginning in 1966.

Evidence

17 A related event, conjured up by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver, “9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering,” October 13–23 at the Twenty-Fifth Street Armory, initiated the series of projects that would be known as E.A.T. or Experiments in Art and Technology; participants included John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, David Tudor and Robert Whitman. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1961

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The artists-as-infrastructure theme — Rauschenberg and Klüver building a bridge between art world and engineering world — extends the ‘Grafting & Growth’ piece’s interest in artists as unacknowledged infrastructure builders.