ART ON SCREEN: E.A.T. and John Cage’s Variations VII

Presented in conjunction with 2nd Story’s exhibition Camila Galaz: Diskette // Rosette, this FREE special program is a collaboration between 2nd Story, the University of Kentucky College of Design, and The Kentucky Theatre. Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was founded in 1966 to foster collaborations between artists, engineers, and scientists, and to explore how emerging technologies could open new possibilities for creative practice. Its landmark project, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, brought ten artists—including John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman—together with more than thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories for a series of experimental performances at the Armory in New York. The program will feature a 30-minute documentary about 9 Evenings, with a focus on John Cage’s performance Variations VII, during which he drew sounds from