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“9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering” was a series of performances presented by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) in October 1966 at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver organized the project, which provided ten selected artists the opportunity to collaborate with thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories. The artists and engineers worked together across a period of ten months to create performances incorporating new technology. Artists included John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Beginning in 1996, E.A.T. undertook a film preservation and presentation project to make ten films that reconstructed each of the artists’ performances as faithfully as the film and sound material from the 1966 performances permitted. Each film also includes a documentary section featuring interviews with the artists and engineers, along with additional material. The series of ten individual artist films will be presented at Anthology across five screenings, each with an introduction by Julie Martin and Morgan Griffin, and with a special panel discussion to follow the final Sunday screening.
All ten films are directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam and Julie Martin, and edited by Barbro Schultz Lundestam, Julie Martin, and Ken Weissman, and were produced, from 1996-2013, by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin for Experiments in Art and Technology.