The Aesthetics of Collaboration: Complicity and Conversion at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies

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 contra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John R. Blakinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tate 2016-06-01
Series:Tate Papers
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MIT
Online Access:http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/25/aesthetics-of-collaboration