9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering (Experiments in Art and Technology)

Excerpt from 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, A Series of 10 Documentary Films Directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam Produced by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin Original footage by Alfons Schilling ca. 1995–2007 In 1966, Swedish electrical engineer Billy Klüver and American visual artist Robert Rauschenberg gathered 10 avant-garde artists and 30 Bell Labs engineers to participate in a collaborative, multidisciplinary project combining new technologies with theatre, dance, and music. The event, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, took place at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York from October 13–22, 1966. More than 10,000 people attended the performances. The event led to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology the following month. These clips are part of the Getty Research Institute exhibition Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), on view at the Getty Center from September 10, 2024 through February 23, 2025. Learn more at getty.edu/sensing_the_future The complete footage of 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, A Series of 10 Documentary Films is available for researchers at the Getty Research Institute (accession number 2023.M.37): primo.getty.edu/GRI:GETTY_ALMA21123876310001551