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On November 18, join author and historian W. Patrick McCray in conversation with science scholar Michele Pridmore-Brown to discuss his new book Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture.
This book looks at the collaborations between artists, engineers, and scientists from the 1950s to the present and explores how new creative cultures were built and maintained.
"In Making Art Work, W. Patrick McCray asks why and how American artists and engineers collaborated to produce this kind of technological art in the 1960s and 1970s. In our current moment, so obviously marked by the American government's failure to deploy scientific expertise against a pandemic, and by demonstrations against white supremacy and police brutality larger than those of the 1960s, this book also provokes additional questions. Of what did technological art make people aware? Could it in fact contribute to solving social problems like hunger, homelessness, and war? How did patriarchy and white supremacy shape this art and the awareness it produced? What roles did women and people of color play in constructing and contesting it?"
- Peter Sachs Collopy, the Los Angeles Review of Books
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On November 18, join author and historian W. Patrick McCray in conversation with science scholar Michele Pridmore-Brown to discuss his new book Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture.
This book looks at the collaborations between artists, engineers, and scientists from the 1950s to the present and explores how new creative cultures were built and maintained.
"In Making Art Work, W. Patrick McCray asks why and how American artists and engineers collaborated to produce this kind of technological art in the 1960s and 1970s. In our current moment, so obviously marked by the American government's failure to deploy scientific expertise against a pandemic, and by demonstrations against white supremacy and police brutality larger than those of the 1960s, this book also provokes additional questions. Of what did technological art make people aware? Could it in fact contribute to solving social problems like hunger, homelessness, and war? How did patriarchy and white supremacy shape this art and the awareness it produced? What roles did women and people of color play in constructing and contesting it?"
- Peter Sachs Collopy, the Los Angeles Review of Books
https://grayarea.org/event/making-art-work/
On November 18, join author and historian W. Patrick McCray in conversation with science scholar Michele Pridmore-Brown to discuss his new book Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture.
This book looks at the collaborations between artists, engineers, and scientists from the 1950s to the present and explores how new creative cultures were built and maintained.
"In Making Art Work, W. Patrick McCray asks why and how American artists and engineers collaborated to produce this kind of technological art in the 1960s and 1970s. In our current moment, so obviously marked by the American government's failure to deploy scientific expertise against a pandemic, and by demonstrations against white supremacy and police brutality larger than those of the 1960s, this book also provokes additional questions. Of what did technological art make people aware? Could it in fact contribute to solving social problems like hunger, homelessness, and war? How did patriarchy and white supremacy shape this art and the awareness it produced? What roles did women and people of color play in constructing and contesting it?"
- Peter Sachs Collopy, the Los Angeles Review of Books
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On November 18, join author and historian W. Patrick McCray in conversation with science scholar Michele Pridmore-Brown to discuss his new book Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture.
This book looks at the collaborations between artists, engineers, and scientists from the 1950s to the present and explores how new creative cultures were built and maintained.
"In Making Art Work, W. Patrick McCray asks why and how American artists and engineers collaborated to produce this kind of technological art in the 1960s and 1970s. In our current moment, so obviously marked by the American government's failure to deploy scientific expertise against a pandemic, and by demonstrations against white supremacy and police brutality larger than those of the 1960s, this book also provokes additional questions. Of what did technological art make people aware? Could it in fact contribute to solving social problems like hunger, homelessness, and war? How did patriarchy and white supremacy shape this art and the awareness it produced? What roles did women and people of color play in constructing and contesting it?"
- Peter Sachs Collopy, the Los Angeles Review of Books
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