CenterbeamLaser-projected images on moving steam screens, solar-tracked holograms, a 144-foot water prism and helium-lifted sky sculptures are some of the features of "Centerbeam," a kinetic performing group work exhibited at documenta 6in Kessel, Germany (1977) and on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (1978). Its production involved the participation of 22 artists at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies—as well as science and engineering consultants. These illustrations, essays, and biographical profiles of the contributors provide a history of the work, documenting the unusual collaborative process that brought it into being. |
Contents
Contributions | 5 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 13 |
An Aqueduct to the 21st Century | 27 |
CenterbeamKassel | 37 |
CenterbeamD C | 45 |
Poem | 52 |
Laser and MusicSound Lines | 72 |
Solar Tracking of Holograms | 79 |
Technology for | 90 |
Centerbeam Artists documenta 6 | 96 |
16 | 119 |
71 | 125 |
Common terms and phrases
Advanced Visual Studies angle appear Appointments Art Museum artists audience beam become Born Boston building Burgess Cambridge Center for Advanced changing Chicago collaboration Collection College color communication Contribution to Centerbeam directed Director documenta drawing Education Electrical elements Elizabeth Goldring energy engineers environment environmental environmental art Exhibitions expression Fellow flowers flying forms Gallery Germany glass Grand Rapids Graphic Group Gyorgy Kepes holograms holographic human Icarus imagery included individual installation Institute of Technology International Italy Kassel laser laser projections light Mall Massachu Massachusetts Institute materials Michigan mirror moving Museum night Nishan Bichajian C.A.V.S./M.I.T. Otto Piene Park partial list participation Paul Earls Paul Matisse performances photograph piece play produce Professor projections Providence reflected Research School Science scientists sculpture setts sky events Smithsonian solar sound space Star steam structure technical tion tracking University Video Washington water prism York
Bibliographic information
| Title | Centerbeam Mit Press |
| Author | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Visual Studies |
| Editors | Otto Piene, Elizabeth Goldring |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | MIT Press, 1980 |
| ISBN | 0262660474, 9780262660471 |
| Length | 131 pages |
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