From Technophilia to Technophobia

"The Impact of the Vietnam War on the Reception of "Art and Technology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4820307
AutoresAnne Collins Goodyear (Anne Collins Goodyear (curator), National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Victor Building-Suite 4100 MRC 973, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.., autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume41
Fascículo2
Páginas169-173
Data de publicação2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLeonardo (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282
EditoraMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/leon.2008.41.2.169
OpenAlexW2021221725
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas5

Using the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 1971 exhibition "Art and Technology" as a case study, this essay examines a shift in attitude on the part of influential American artists and critics toward collaborations between art and technology from one of optimism in the mid-1960s to one of suspicion in the early 1970s. The Vietnam War dramatically undermined public confidence in the promise of new technology, linking it with corporate support of the war. Ultimately, the discrediting of industry-sponsored technology not only undermined the premises of the LACMA exhibition but also may have contributed to the demise of the larger "art and technology" movement in the United States

Art · Demise · Exhibition · Optimism · Political science · Spanish Civil War · Vietnam War · Visual arts · Art, Technology, and Culture · Artistic and Creative Research · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Law · Psychology