The avant-garde’s technical infrastructure was supplied by corporate engineers like Bell’s Klüver

Evidence

Two weeks later, the Bell engineer and avant-garde techie-supreme Billy Klüver (then married to Olga Adorno) wrote to the Voice, enumerating several acts of theft, sabotage, and harassment committed against the festival, implicitly blaming the AACI protestors, whom he called “sickening.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 571

Categorization

• QUESTION: Klüver’s Bell Labs day job flowed directly into the avant-garde — worth tracing how corporate R&D quietly subsidized the downtown scene, a concrete material condition for invention density.