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NYC in late 1960s — a “huge educational experience”

Woody: “There was virtually no structured media education, but everything around us was educational. We would go to a concert of La Monte Young and he would perform by allowing two oscillators to drift. It went on for several hours. You could move your head slightly to hear the standing waves. Automation House had fantastic programs of art, interactive technologies, and early electronic music environments. The whole city was a sort of huge educational experience. There was also Experiments in Art and Technology, which was Billy Kluver’s baby. And there were brain wave concerts by David Rosenboom.”

“A Conversation between Steina and Woody Vašulka, Don Foresta and Christiane Carlut” (1992) in Buffalo Heads, Woody Vašulka & Peter Weibel, eds, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008); link: https://vasulka.org/Kitchen/essays_carlut/K_CarlutConversation_04.html.