The Aesthetics of Collaboration: Complicity and Conversion at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Blakinger, John R.
Date published
2016
Abstract
This essay uses new archival sources to reconstruct the aesthetics – and ethics – of collaboration at Gyorgy Kepes’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT during the Cold War. Exploring how the Center's artistic ambitions became entangled with military agendas, this essay reveals two contradictory models of interdisciplinary exchange – one based on complicity, the other based on conversion – and examines the conflicts that arose from this double bind.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
25
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
Collection